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An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China
ISBN: 9781558495951 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning -- character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes counted for little, especially in the South. Adams was a seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1947 when he fled Memphis and the local police to join the U.S. Army. Three years later, after fighting in the Korean War in an all-black artillery unit that he believed to have been sacrificed to... Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning -- character traits often e... |
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African American Political Thought, 1890-1930: Washington, Du Bois, Garvey and Randolph
ISBN: 9781563241789 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents a selection of essays and speeches written between 1890 and 1930 by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey. The work analyses African-American political thought, defining the options confronting African Americans in the 20th century.
This text presents a selection of essays and speeches written between 1890 and 1930 by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and Ma...
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Hope Restored: How the New Deal Worked in Town and Country
ISBN: 9781566630030 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the suffering and poverty of the Great Depression, American morale received a shock as powerful as the economic collapse. Many Americans who had nurtured a deep faith in democracy, hard work, and a free economy suddenly found themselves questioning their system. Others feared that in combating the Depression, democracy might give way to the totalitarianism of the left or right. In Hope Restored, Bernard Sternsher has assembled fourteen writings by historians that show how, even though the New Deal s initiatives did not always work, FDR s program was a psychological and political success....
In the suffering and poverty of the Great Depression, American morale received a shock as powerful as the economic collapse. Many Americans who had nu...
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58,73 |
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The Hidden History of the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9781566631976 / Angielski / Miękka / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States could have won the war in Vietnam if only President Lyndon Johnson had let his air generals do what they wanted...if only we had intervened massively...if only we had pursued our campaign against the Viet Cong infrastructure. These propositions and others, advanced by apologists for the American defeat in Vietnam (many of them the very generals and officials responsible for prosecuting the war), are fast becoming conventional wisdom. In The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, John Prados meets them head on. His straightforward narrative does not aim to be a comprehensive...
The United States could have won the war in Vietnam if only President Lyndon Johnson had let his air generals do what they wanted...if only we had int...
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Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933
ISBN: 9781566632089 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, from roughly 1800 to the repeal of national prohibition in 1933. An intriguing tale of social reform and of the limits of government-imposed morality. The best short history available of the politics and practices of American temperance reform....Highly recommended. Library Journal. American Ways Series."
A narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, from roughly 1800 to the repeal of national prohibition in 1933. An intriguing tale of social re...
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93,01 |
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Women of Valor: The Struggle Against the Great Depression as Told in Their Own Life Stories
ISBN: 9781566632461 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not all women were victims of the gravest economic crisis in the nation's history. Many were talented fighters who helped to shape the response to the expression by government and labor, in public and private arenas. Sixteen of their stories--pieces of autobiography--have been gathered in this striking book. The women include Mary Simkhovitch and Lillian Wald, influential settlement leaders; Eleanor Roosevelt; Dorothy Day and Margaret Bourke-White, journalists who championed the poor and oppressed; Frances Perkins, Mary Anderson, Louise Armstrong, and Hallie Flanagan, who helped forge New...
Not all women were victims of the gravest economic crisis in the nation's history. Many were talented fighters who helped to shape the response to the...
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73,42 |
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That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781566634595 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many Americans commonly associate evangelical Protestants with the scoldings of the religious right and solicitations of money by televangelists. Whether or not these associations are particularly flattering, it is true that a concern for preserving a moral social order as well as an unrelenting desire to make new converts are traits that have defined evangelicalism throughout American history. In this cogent account, D. G. Hart unpacks evangelicalism s current reputation by tracing its development over the course of the twentieth century. He shows how evangelicals entered the century as full...
Many Americans commonly associate evangelical Protestants with the scoldings of the religious right and solicitations of money by televangelists. Whet...
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Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behind
ISBN: 9781566636056 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sudden disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater nearly 75 years ago led to perhaps the most famous missing persons case of the twentieth century. Crater, a justice of New York's state Supreme Court, vanished amid political scandal. Within days, questions arose about Judge Crater's finances and his liaisons with numerous women. A public frenzy about what happened to Crater provided impetus for scrutiny of New York's Tammany Hall political machine and ultimately for the vanishing of Tammany Hall as well. The cast of characters in this book the first-ever serious look at the Crater case includes...
The sudden disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater nearly 75 years ago led to perhaps the most famous missing persons case of the twentieth century. Crat...
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93,01 |
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The Reagan Imprint: Ideas in American Foreign Policy from the Collapse of Communism to the War on Terror
ISBN: 9781566637268 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contrary to widely held views of Ronald Reagan as a reflexive man of action, John Arquilla s sharply revisionist study argues that he was drawn to and driven by ideas. In Mr. Arquilla s view, Reagan during his presidency articulated important new concepts that fundamentally reshaped American foreign policy. He saw the effort simply to contain Soviet expansion as too defensive in nature, so he replaced it with a doctrine designed to help others free themselves from totalitarian rule. He objected to the notion of mutual nuclear deterrence on practical and ethical grounds, a stand that led him...
Contrary to widely held views of Ronald Reagan as a reflexive man of action, John Arquilla s sharply revisionist study argues that he was drawn to and...
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How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal
ISBN: 9781568582665 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Panama was created by a group of Wall Street investors in Room 1162 of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. This meeting brought down the French Republic, the Columbian government and shook the almost invincible Teddy Roosevelt and gave birth to American imperialism in Latin America.
Panama was created by a group of Wall Street investors in Room 1162 of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. This meeting brought down the French Republic, the C...
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106,77 |
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All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The Wpa's Federal Music Project and American Society
ISBN: 9781572332522 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Invitation to Vernacular Architecture : A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes
ISBN: 9781572333314 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes, is a manual for exploring and interpreting vernacular architecture, the common buildings of particular regions and time periods. Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley provide a comprehensive introduction to the field. Proposing a methodology, Invitation to Vernacular Architecture provides a systematic approach to vernacular architecture fieldwork. The authors walk readers through the process of examining and documenting a building, explaining in detail how to define a research area and...
Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes, is a manual for exploring and interpreting vernacula...
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The Galax Gatherers: The Gospel Among the Highlanders
ISBN: 9781572333635 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps no group has had such a controversial place in the literature of Appalachianstudies as the home missionaries. Accused of cultural and religious imperialism, many scholars fault home missionaries for casting mountain peoples in the role of?other, ? as well as for partnering with economic interests to exploit the region's resources. Edward O. Guerrant, a Kentucky-born physician and Presbyterian minister, has been singled out as one of the worst offenders.For most of his adult life, Guerrant traveled the hills and hamlets of southernAppalachia, spreading gospel, building churches, and...
Perhaps no group has had such a controversial place in the literature of Appalachianstudies as the home missionaries. Accused of cultural and religiou...
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The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women's Lives, 1890-1940
ISBN: 9781572335424 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women s Lives, 1890 1940 explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries added meaning to their lives through their domestic amusements leisure pursuits that took place in and were largely focused on the home. This pathbreaking study by Beverly Gordon demonstrates that these women elaborated on their everyday tasks and responsibilities by transforming them into playful, emotionally satisfying amusements. In doing so, they cultivated a heightened, aesthetically charged saturated state...
The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women s Lives, 1890 1940 explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth...
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156,72 |
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Elites for Peace : The Senate and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968
ISBN: 9781572335790 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Vietnam War was the largest American military interventions since World War II and the most controversial American war since the Civil War. The controversy has outlived the war's end and its memory has resonated in discussions of every American intervention since then.
Unsurprisingly, interest in the Vietnam War has also spawned numerous books on various aspects of the conflict, but to date no book has been published focusing on the United States Senate even though the war could not have taken place without the Senate's support. Gary Stone's Elites for Peace fills this gap, giving... The Vietnam War was the largest American military interventions since World War II and the most controversial American war since the Civil War. The co...
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The Strength Not to Fight: Conscientious Objectors of the Vietnam War - In Their Own Words
ISBN: 9781574882575 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Tollefson imparts an oral history that has the compelling drama of the best fiction. Conscientious objectors tell the stories behind the classification: the depth of their conviction, their efforts to prove sincere opposition in the face of persecution and criminal prosecution, and their feelings today about their actions during the Vietnam War.
James Tollefson imparts an oral history that has the compelling drama of the best fiction. Conscientious objectors tell the stories behind the classif...
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68,52 |
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Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family
ISBN: 9781574886900 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pattons is an exceptional portrait of the famous military family, eloquently written by the grandson of its most illustrious member, George S. Patton. Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley called it -one of the best books of the year.-
The Pattons is an exceptional portrait of the famous military family, eloquently written by the grandson of its most illustrious member, George...
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The Warren Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
ISBN: 9781576071601 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A survey and analysis of the historical context, key figures, and lasting legacy of the Warren Court.
A survey and analysis of the historical context, key figures, and lasting legacy of the Warren Court.
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Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture
ISBN: 9781578060337 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although now sometimes called -America's classical music, - jazz has not always been accorded favorable appellations. Accurate though these encomiums may be, they obscure the complex and fractious history of jazz's reception in the U.S. Developing out of the African American cultural tradition, jazz has always been variously understood by black and white audiences. This penetrating study of America's attitudes toward jazz focuses on a momentous period in postwar history--from the end of World War II to the beginning of the Black Power Movement. Exploring the diverse representations of... Although now sometimes called -America's classical music, - jazz has not always been accorded favorable appellations. Accurate though these encomiu... |
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The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-36
ISBN: 9781578060955 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and constitutes the theme of The Cry Was Unity. Utilizing for the first time materials related to African Americans from the Moscow archives of the Communist Inter-national (Comintern), The Cry Was Unity traces the trajectory of the black-red relationship from the end of World... The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its... |
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