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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country: Working in the Woods
ISBN: 9780874176773 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of the massive relief effort of Roosevelt's New Deal, the CCC was created in 1933 to give young men an opportunity to work and make money to help families devastated by the Great Depression, and to participate in forest and conservation projects across the country. In Arizona, thousands of young men, many of them from the industrial Northeast, served in the state's CCC forest camps. Arizona's Mogollon Rim is a spectacular expanse of cliffs that slices through half the state, stretching from Sedona eastward to New Mexico. Along with the White Mountains, it includes the largest contiguous...
Part of the massive relief effort of Roosevelt's New Deal, the CCC was created in 1933 to give young men an opportunity to work and make money to help...
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141,98 |
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Crooked River Country: Wranglers, Rogues, and Barons
ISBN: 9780874222937 / Angielski / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crooked River Country is a sweeping account of north central Oregon's thrilling history, primarily the years between 1800 and 1950. Bordered by intimidating natural barriers, the rough country and harsh winters produced equally hardy inhabitants. Legends include Billy Chinook, Chief Paulina, Elisha Barnes, James M. Blakely, Newt Williamson, James J. Hill, Johnnie Hudspeth, and Les Schwab. In the early 1800s, only Native Americans, fur trappers, military expeditions, and missionaries roamed the forbidding setting, but after mid-century, pioneer families discovered lush pastures nestled in the...
Crooked River Country is a sweeping account of north central Oregon's thrilling history, primarily the years between 1800 and 1950. Bordered by intimi...
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96,15 |
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The War against the New Deal
ISBN: 9780875802725 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text addresses a central paradox in American governance: the rise of a national security state coincided with a relatively weak federal structure. It argues that on the political home front World War II represented the victory of the warfare state over the nascent New Deal welfare state.
This text addresses a central paradox in American governance: the rise of a national security state coincided with a relatively weak federal structure...
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185,60 |
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The Male Body at War: American Masculinity During World War II
ISBN: 9780875803227 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Muscular, fearless, youthful, athletic - the soldier embodies masculine ideals and, since World War II when the nation came of age as a world superpower, has represented the manhood of the United States. In The Male Body at War, Christina Jarvis examines the creation of this national symbol, from military recruitment posters, to Hollywood war films, to the iconic flag-raisers at Iwo Jima. A poignant selection of illustrations brings together comics and advertisements presenting the model male as well as media images and government propaganda intended to impress U.S. citizens and foreign...
Muscular, fearless, youthful, athletic - the soldier embodies masculine ideals and, since World War II when the nation came of age as a world superpow...
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180,44 |
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Rooseveltas Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
ISBN: 9780878059386 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Roosevelt's Blues Guido van Rijn documents more than a hundred blues and gospel lyrics that contain direct political comment about FDR. Altogether, they convey the thought, spirit, and history of the African-American population during the Roosevelt era. Included in the book are recorded sermons by Rev. J.M. Gates and lyrics to songs recorded by such notable musicians as Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter, Big Bill Broonzy, Champion Jack Dupree, Sonny Boy Williamson, Josh White, the Mississippi Sheiks, and many others. Using these sources, which have been neglected by historians, van Rijn documents...
In Roosevelt's Blues Guido van Rijn documents more than a hundred blues and gospel lyrics that contain direct political comment about FDR. Altogether,...
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117,50 |
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Revolution in Virginia, with a New Foreword
ISBN: 9780879352332 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby's masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions, in both men and material, that the state made to the new nation's war effort, Shelby shows how Virginia's leaders responded to the need to expand the state's administration and mobilize its people for war while at the same time looking westward to the vast territory beyond the Appalachians. Now available for the first time in paperback and with a new foreword by the historian Don... Unsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby's masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during... |
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93,01 |
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The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: A Centennial History
ISBN: 9780890300657 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's oldest and largest federal land management agency the Forest Service is examined from its roots in the 1800s to present day in this illustrated history. As exemplified by the endless interpretations of the "greatest good" as it first applied to timber, grazing, and watershed protection and later included recreation, wilderness, wildlife, and eventually the consideration of ecosystem management this is the story of the myriad conflicts that have pitted America's primary land-management agency against the President. By documenting the establishment of the National Forest System and...
America's oldest and largest federal land management agency the Forest Service is examined from its roots in the 1800s to present day in this illustra...
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88,11 |
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Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance
ISBN: 9780890967614 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harlem symbolized the urbanization of black America in the 1920s and 1930s. Home to the largest concentration of African Americans who settled outside the South, it spawned the literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Its writers were in the vanguard of an attempt to come to terms with black urbanization. They lived it and wrote about it.
First published in 1988, "Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance" examines the relationship between the community and its literature. Author Cary Wintz analyzes the movement's emergence within the framework of the black social... Harlem symbolized the urbanization of black America in the 1920s and 1930s. Home to the largest concentration of African Americans who settled outside...
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83,21 |
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George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile
ISBN: 9780890967799 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As forty-first president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush witnessed many great changes: the fall of the Berlin Wall; the first breath of freedom for millions of people around the world; and America's victory in the Cold War.
However, President Bush left the White House with the hope that not all things change. Some important facets of American life would remain constant: "our belief in a strong defense, in strong families, and in leaving the world a better and more prosperous place for the young kids here today." During his terms as vice president and president, Bush... As forty-first president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush witnessed many great changes: the fall of the Berlin Wall; the first breath ...
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166,52 |
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How Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995
ISBN: 9780890967980 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the twentieth century draws to an end, the changing role of women appears as one of the dominant features of the era. In "Now Hiring, " historian Julia Blackwelder traces the century-long evolution of the American occupational structure and the ensuing rise in demand for female workers through the closing episodes of the Industrial Revolution and the advent of postindustrialism. Decade by decade, she adroitly traces the main lines of the development of the female work force and its interactions with education, family life, and social convention while developing a nuanced analysis of the...
As the twentieth century draws to an end, the changing role of women appears as one of the dominant features of the era. In "Now Hiring, " historian J...
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88,11 |
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Eight Wilderness Discovery Books
ISBN: 9780898863352 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Muir is perhaps the nation's greatest conservationist * His books reveal why he devoted his life to preserving the West's greatest natural treasures The name John Muir (1838-1914) has come to stand for the protection of wilderness both in the United States and abroad. This is a collection of his eight most influential works in a single volume. The collection represents the lifelong relationship between the landscape and an inspirational architect of the conservation movement. Arranged in the order of Muir's life are: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, A Thousand Mile Walk... * Muir is perhaps the nation's greatest conservationist * His books reveal why he devoted his life to preserving the West's greatest natural ... |
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154,14 |
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William Howard Taft Confident Peacemaker
ISBN: 9780916101503 / Angielski / Miękka / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a study of the internationalism of William Howard Taft. In the months after war broke out in 1914, Taft was second only to Woodrow Wilson in his awareness of the need to preserve the peace of the world through a new version of international organization. Built upon a synthetic interpretation of Taft's foreign policy ideas and initiatives, the book encompasses the whole of his public career as a statesman, from his years as civil governor of the Philippines through his tenure as chief justice of the Supreme Court. During those years, he moved from a basic belief in the theory and...
This book is a study of the internationalism of William Howard Taft. In the months after war broke out in 1914, Taft was second only to Woodrow Wilson...
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78,32 |
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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
ISBN: 9780929587066 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years, but none has surpassed Nicholas von Hoffman s classic account of the 1960s counter-culture in San Francisco. In the summer of 1967, he writes, youth drew attention to itself by clustering in large numbers in most major American cities, where they broke the narcotics laws proudly, publicly, and defiantly. At the same time, they enunciated a different social philosophy and a new politics, and perhaps even mothered into life a subculture that was new to America. This book tries to explain what happened in the Haight-Ashbury section of...
Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years, but none has surpassed Nicholas von Hoffman s classic account of the 1960s counter-culture ...
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96,86 |
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We're Not Going to Take it Anymore
ISBN: 9780931761843 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Gerald G. Jackson incorporates the perceptions, ideals, hesitancies and proclamations of hte Hip-Hop and post Hip-Hop generations into the Africana Studies field. He pulls evidence from a rich tapestry of history, classroom learning exercises, student reports, scholar and professional led lectures, discussions and educational tours to create a groundbreaking multicultural and pluralistic model for the application of Africentric helping to the educational sphere. While the mode varies, the greater number of compositions compiled here are biographies of ordinary and extraordinary...
Professor Gerald G. Jackson incorporates the perceptions, ideals, hesitancies and proclamations of hte Hip-Hop and post Hip-Hop generations into the A...
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256,00 |
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Boston Boy: Growing Up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
ISBN: 9780967967523 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-Semitism. He develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. And he discovers his love of jazz music as he follows, and is befriended by, the great jazz musicians of the day, including Duke Ellington and Lester Young among others. -This memoir of Hentoff's] youth should be appreciated not only by adults who grew up through the fires of their own youthful rebellion, but by those restless young people who... Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-... |
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88,11 |
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They Used to Call Me Pinky: Growing Up in America's Heartland
ISBN: 9780977336531 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Lynn Stanfield was growing up in Martinsville, Illinois, in the 1930's, the population was 1,206. (It's now 1,238.) It was "essential to create your own entertainment back then," and "Pinky" and his friends did, from making skate boards and racers and their own oil-drilling rigs to observing and participating in the portion of life's rich pageant that family life, the Stanfield's store, and the town offered them. This insider's view of life in a small Midwestern town is funny, interesting, and heartwarming. Martinsville may not have grown much, but it was a great place for Lynn Stanfield...
When Lynn Stanfield was growing up in Martinsville, Illinois, in the 1930's, the population was 1,206. (It's now 1,238.) It was "essential to create y...
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64,52 |
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Someone Would Have Talked
ISBN: 9780977465712 / Angielski / Twarda / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hancock reveals startling discoveries about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy to mislead history.
Hancock reveals startling discoveries about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy to mislead history.
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151,05 |
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Villages by an Emerald Sea
ISBN: 9780979044304 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History of Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast in the 1950's, particularly the communities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, Mary Esther, Valparaiso, Seaside, Sandestin, Crestview, and DeFuniak Springs. It is written in engaging short story format.
History of Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast in the 1950's, particularly the communities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, Mary Est...
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120,63 |
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The Free Men
ISBN: 9780979304910 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, NC. The movement began through the efforts of three young men: two white UNC-CHapel Hill students, John Dunne, a gifted Morehead Scholar, and Pat Cusick, the grandson of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, and one student from the all-black North Carolina College in Durham, Quinton Baker. First published in 1965 by Harper & Row, 'The Free Men' was controversial but won the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction....
This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil ...
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86,10 |
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
ISBN: 9781400032808 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God. At the core of Krakauer's book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder,...
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 peopl...
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77,07 |
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