Nashville Baseball History: From Sulphur Dell to the Sounds
ISBN: 9781938545832 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,27 zł |
Cowboy Christians
ISBN: 9780190856564 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cowboy Christians examines the long history of cowboy Christians in the American West, focusing on the cowboy church movement of the present day and closely related ministries in racetrack and rodeo settings. Early chapters move from the postbellum period through the twentieth century, tracing religious life among cowboys on the range as well as its representation in popular imagery and the media. The central chapters focus on the modern cowboy church and examine its structure, theology, and method of perpetuation, and explore future challenges the institution may face, such as its...
Cowboy Christians examines the long history of cowboy Christians in the American West, focusing on the cowboy church movement of the present ...
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189,76 zł |
Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Antebellum New England
ISBN: 9780190676643 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Shadrach Howard, David Ruggles, Frederick Douglass, and others had rejected demands that they relinquish their seats on various New England railroads. They were protesting segregation on Jim Crow cars, a term that originated in New England in 1839. Theirs was part of a larger movement for equal rights in antebellum New England. Using sit-ins, boycotts, petition drives, and other initiatives, African-American New Englanders and their white allies attempted to desegregate schools, transportation,...
More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Shadrach Howard, David Ruggles, Frederick Douglass, and others ...
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168,02 zł |
Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780190685591 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of women's political involvement has focused heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century women engaged in grassroots activism when they found it increasingly challenging to feed their families and balance their household ledgers. Politics of the Pantry examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century. Shifting the focus away from the workplace as a site of protest, Emily E. LB....
The history of women's political involvement has focused heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century women engaged in grassroo...
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189,76 zł |
The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement
ISBN: 9780785216933 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Azusa Street Mission and Revival, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. brings to bear expertise from decades of focused study in church history to reveal the captivating story of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles, which became known as the Azusa Street Mission.
In Azusa Street Mission and Revival, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. brings to bear expertise from decades of focused study in church history to reveal the capti...
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73,32 zł |
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
ISBN: 9780822371458 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan uncovers the moment when the civil rights movement reached New York City's elite art galleries. Focusing on three controversial exhibitions that integrated African American culture and art, Cahan shows how the art world's racial politics is far more complicated than overcoming past exclusions.
In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan uncovers the moment when the civil rights movement reached New York City's elite art galleries. Focusing on thr...
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132,48 zł |
The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War
ISBN: 9781503604605 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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203,89 zł |
Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura
ISBN: 9781503604957 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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591,28 zł |
Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura
ISBN: 9781503606111 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,10 zł |
Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements
ISBN: 9780814213582 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American incarceration, and the migrant labor of the Southwest, Abigail G. H. Manzella reveals how the country's past is imbued with governmentally (en)forced movements that diminished access to full citizenship rights for the laboring class, people of color, and women. This work is the first book-length... Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history a... |
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610,17 zł |
Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements
ISBN: 9780814254608 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American incarceration, and the migrant labor of the Southwest, Abigail G. H. Manzella reveals how the country's past is imbued with governmentally (en)forced movements that diminished access to full citizenship rights for the laboring class, people of color, and women. This work is the first book-length... Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history a... |
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187,25 zł |
Religious Diversity and American Religious History
ISBN: 9780820352497 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, Muslim, and Native American traditions. Chapters on religion and the South, religion and gender, indigenous sectarian religious movements, and the metaphysical tradition round out the collection. The contributors examine the past, present, and future of American religion, first orienting readers to historiographic trends and traditions of interpretation in each area, then providing case studies to show their vision of how these areas should... The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, M... |
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573,92 zł |
Selling Mrs. Consumer
ISBN: 9780820352510 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first book-length treatment of the life and work of Christine Frederick (1883-1970) reveals an important dilemma that faced educated women of the early twentieth century. Contrary to her professional role as home efficiency expert, advertising consultant, and consumer advocate, Christine Frederick espoused the nineteenth-century ideal of preserving the virtuous home--and a woman's place in it. In an effort to reconcile her desire to succeed in the public sphere of modernization and consumerism with the knowledge that most middle-class Americans still held traditional beliefs about... This first book-length treatment of the life and work of Christine Frederick (1883-1970) reveals an important dilemma that faced educated women of ... |
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543,71 zł |
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
ISBN: 9781608469178 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,13 zł |
Richard Nixon: The Life
ISBN: 9780345804969 / Angielski / Miękka / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made. At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial biography of the...
From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, ...
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103,57 zł |
Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965-1992
ISBN: 9781496203366 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
The talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control at what is now Johnson Space Center occupied a room located on the third floor of Building 30, a room that at first glance looked like just another auditorium in just another government building but would eventually become known by many as "the Cathedral." These members of the space program were the brightest of their generation, making split-second decisions that determined the success or failure of a mission. The flight controllers, each supported by a staff of specialists, were the most visible part of the...
The talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control at what is now Johnson Space Center occupied a room located on the third f... |
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94,72 zł |
Cowboy Tales on the Eaton Trail in Yellowstone
ISBN: 9781941052235 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,72 zł |
The World Jewish Congress During the Holocaust: Between Activism and Restraint
ISBN: 9783110554021 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,89 zł |
California at War: The State and the People During World War I
ISBN: 9780700626465 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World War I propelled the US into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California. The war expanded the role of the government and enlarged the presence of private citizens' associations. Never before had so many Californians taken such a dynamic part in community, state, national, and international affairs. These definitive events unfold in this study.
World War I propelled the US into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California. The war expanded the ro...
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338,29 zł |
Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier
ISBN: 9780700626502 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her clear, engaging study, Perry argues that Jackie exerted an impressive, enduring cultural influence on Washington and the White House, an influence unsurpassed by other first ladies.
In her clear, engaging study, Perry argues that Jackie exerted an impressive, enduring cultural influence on Washington and the White House, an influe...
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187,25 zł |