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A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America
ISBN: 9780195341676 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Eldon Ladd was a pivotal figure in the resurgence of evangelical scholarship in America during the years after the Second World War. Ladd's career as a biblical scholar can be seen as a quest to rehabilitate evangelical thought both in content and image, a task he pursued at great personal cost. Best known for his work on the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, Ladd moved from critiquing his own movement to engaging many of the important theological and exegetical issues of his day. Ladd was a strong critic of dispensationalism, the dominant theological system in conservative...
George Eldon Ladd was a pivotal figure in the resurgence of evangelical scholarship in America during the years after the Second World War. Ladd's car...
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396,06 |
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From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955
ISBN: 9780804756662 / Angielski / Twarda / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the period, including the Army-Navy fight over unification that led to the creation of the National Security Act of 1947, the early postwar fighting in China between the Nationalists and the Communists, the formation of NATO, the outbreak of the Korean War, the decision of the Eisenhower Administration not...
This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspe...
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347,74 |
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God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
ISBN: 9780060872588 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did we go from John F. Kennedy declaring that religion should play no role in the elections to Bush saying, "I believe that God wants me to be president"? Historian Randall Balmer takes us on a tour of presidential religiosity in the last half of the twentieth century--from Kennedy's 1960 speech that proposed an almost absolute wall between American political and religious life to the soft religiosity of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society; from Richard Nixon's manipulation of religion to fit his own needs to Gerald Ford's quiet stoicism; from Jimmy Carter's introduction of... How did we go from John F. Kennedy declaring that religion should play no role in the elections to Bush saying, "I believe that God wants me to be ... |
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57,76 |
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Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence
ISBN: 9780801474972 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was transformed by the arrival of Italian, Irish, and French-Canadian workers. By 1905, more than half of its population was Catholic Rhode Island was the first state in the nation to have a Catholic majority. Civic leaders, for whom Protestantism was an essential component of American identity, systematically sought to exclude the city's Catholic immigrants from participation in public life, most...
By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city cr...
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151,83 |
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Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer
ISBN: 9780230613652 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1912 to 1940, social worker Harry Hopkins committed himself to the ideal of government responsibility for impoverished Americans. This look at Hopkins' life and social work career broadens our understanding of the political and cultural currents that led to the Social Security Act of 1935, the bedrock of the American welfare state. Hopkins' experiences as an advocate and administrator of work relief and widows' pensions in New York City during the Progressive Era informed his contribution to welfare legislation during the New Deal years. Written by his granddaughter June Hopkins, this...
From 1912 to 1940, social worker Harry Hopkins committed himself to the ideal of government responsibility for impoverished Americans. This look at Ho...
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221,37 |
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
ISBN: 9780231126908 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century ...
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599,74 |
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
ISBN: 9780231126915 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century ...
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137,14 |
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Story Behind the Protest Song: A Reference Guide to the 50 Songs That Changed the 20th Century
ISBN: 9780313341410 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Protest songs are united by the fact they all have something to say, something to dispute, or something to rile against, whether it be political, social, or personal. Story Behind the Protest Song features 50 of the most influential musical protests and statements recorded to date, providing pop-culture viewpoints on some of the most tumultuous times in modern history. Among the featured: songs about the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the most recent upheaval over policy in the Middle East, as well as teenage rebellion, animal rights, criticisms of mass media, and even... Protest songs are united by the fact they all have something to say, something to dispute, or something to rile against, whether it be political, s... |
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283,55 |
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The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII
ISBN: 9780739113813 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. While it is often assumed that American Jews_because of a commitment to fighting prejudice_would have taken a position against this discriminatory policy, the treatment of Japanese Americans was largely ignored by national Jewish groups and liberal groups. For those on the West Coast, however, proximity to the evacuation made it difficult to ignore. Conflicting impulses on the issue_the desire to speak out against discrimination on...
The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans d...
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450,59 |
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The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII
ISBN: 9780739113820 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. While it is often assumed that American Jews--because of a commitment to fighting prejudice--would have taken a position against this discriminatory policy, the treatment of Japanese Americans was largely ignored by national Jewish groups and liberal groups. For those on the West Coast, however, proximity to the evacuation made it difficult to ignore. Conflicting impulses on the issue--the desire to speak out against discrimination...
The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans d...
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215,50 |
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Treasure in the Cellar: A Tale of Gold in Depression-Era Baltimore
ISBN: 9780938420972 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coin collectors and enthusiasts have long been familiar with the story of two boys who unearthed a fortune in gold coins while playing in a Baltimore basement in 1934. But the rest of the story trailed off to a few odd details. One of the boys died young, the other ran into trouble with the law. No one seemed to know more. A lifelong coin collector, Leonard Augsburger was determined to uncover the rest of the story. What happened to the kids? The gold? Who buried it in the first place? Meticulously researched, Treasure in the Cellar delves into the lives of the boys... Coin collectors and enthusiasts have long been familiar with the story of two boys who unearthed a fortune in gold coins while playing in a Baltimo... |
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103,11 |
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Obesity in America, 1850-1939: A History of Social Attitudes and Treatment
ISBN: 9780786441204 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study concentrates on how the condition of obesity was viewed, studied, and treated from 1850 to 1939. It examines the images and stereotypes that were associated with fatness, the various remedies that were proposed for the condition, and the often bizarre theories that were proposed to explain obesity.
This study concentrates on how the condition of obesity was viewed, studied, and treated from 1850 to 1939. It examines the images and stereotypes tha...
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221,82 |
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Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution
ISBN: 9780253352163 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Visionary Railroader chronicles the life of a key figure in the history of rail travel in the United States. As president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Jervis Langdon Jr. had the opportunity to put progressive concepts into practice. Visionary Railroader chronicles the life of a key figure in the history of rail travel in the United States. As president of the Baltimore & Ohio R... |
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132,18 |
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Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class
ISBN: 9780521513609 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eli Lederhendler s Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880 1920: From Caste to Class reexamines the immigration of Russian Jews to the United States around the turn of the 20th century a group that accounted for 10 to 15 percent of immigrants to the United States between 1899 and 1920 challenging and revising common assumptions concerning the ease of their initial adaptation and image as a model immigrant minority. Lederhendler demonstrates that the characteristics for which Jewish immigrants are commonly known their industriousness, middle-class domestic habits, and political...
Eli Lederhendler s Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880 1920: From Caste to Class reexamines the immigration of Russian Jews to the United ...
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368,21 |
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Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class
ISBN: 9780521730235 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eli Lederhendler s Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880 1920: From Caste to Class reexamines the immigration of Russian Jews to the United States around the turn of the 20th century a group that accounted for 10 to 15 percent of immigrants to the United States between 1899 and 1920 challenging and revising common assumptions concerning the ease of their initial adaptation and image as a model immigrant minority. Lederhendler demonstrates that the characteristics for which Jewish immigrants are commonly known their industriousness, middle-class domestic habits, and political...
Eli Lederhendler s Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880 1920: From Caste to Class reexamines the immigration of Russian Jews to the United ...
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146,74 |
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A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade
ISBN: 9780195367539 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A watershed decade in U.S. history, the 1930s witnessed a struggle on various fronts--fought by many different Americans--that raised the country's awareness of the inequalities and injustices suffered by African Americans.
Featuring a new preface and an expansive, up-to-date bibliography, this 30th Anniversary Edition of Harvard Sitkoff's A New Deal for Blacks presents a comprehensive account of the changes--substantive and symbolic--that eventually led to the emergence of civil rights as a national issue and helped make a successful quest for racial justice possible. It emphasizes a... A watershed decade in U.S. history, the 1930s witnessed a struggle on various fronts--fought by many different Americans--that raised the country's aw...
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313,81 |
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Witch Hunt in Wise County: The Persecution of Edith Maxwell
ISBN: 9780275948924 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The southwest Virginia murder trials of a young schoolteacher named Edith Maxwell made her a cause celebre of the 1930s. No newspaper reader or radio listener could avoid hearing of her case in 1935 or 1936, and few magazines neglected to run at least one story on the case. In the media attention that it received, the Maxwell case rivaled the Scopes monkey trial of the 1920s, and for some it seemed to involve many of the same sociological issues--the conflict between modernism and tradition, between urban and rural values, between the sexes, and between generations. Feminist organizations... The southwest Virginia murder trials of a young schoolteacher named Edith Maxwell made her a cause celebre of the 1930s. No newspaper reader or rad... |
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283,55 |
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That Was the Life: The Upstairs Downstairs Story of America's Favorite Magazine
ISBN: 9780393088243 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,30 |
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
ISBN: 9780385722704 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery," the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly black men, were "leased" through forced labor camps operated by state and federal governments. In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon unearths... A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery," the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, most... |
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77,07 |
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In Search of Refuge: Jews and Us Consuls in Nazi Germany 1933-1941
ISBN: 9780853034001 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. US consuls played a distinctive and crucial role in control of Jewish refugee entry into the United States in 1933-41. The consuls decided individual cases and in doing so had discretion to grant immigration visas. This extended to interpreting aspects of the immigration laws and regulations which were not fully defined, notably the likely to become a public charge clause.
US consuls played a distinctive and crucial role in control of Jewish refugee entry into the United States in 1933-41. The consuls decided individual ...
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269,38 |
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