ilość książek w kategorii: 5581
Bloody Illinois
ISBN: 9781892523587 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join author Troy Taylor as his -Dead Men Do Tell Tales- Series continues with a terrifying and blood-soaked look at Illinois crime, mystery and tales of hauntings from all over the state - many of which have never appeared in any book before In this volume, Taylor unlocks files of rare, seldom-told and favorite stories from both the cities and rural areas of the Prairie State, revealing true accounts of violence, murder, bloodshed and ghosts. Journey back into Illinois' past and discover tales of bandits, thieves, pirates and killers from the early days of the state; haunted prisons, jails...
Join author Troy Taylor as his -Dead Men Do Tell Tales- Series continues with a terrifying and blood-soaked look at Illinois crime, mystery and tales ...
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78,99 zł |
Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858
ISBN: 9780700616121 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Kansas Territory was a national issue that dominated America's press, not to mention three sessions of Congress. Hundreds of thousands of articles and editorials--4,500 in the New York Herald alone--were published about Bleeding Kansas during those four tumultuous years leading up to the Lecompton Constitution. Craig Miner now offers the first in-depth study of national media coverage devoted to the beleaguered territory, unearthing new examples of what Americans were saying about Kansas and showing how those words affected the course of...
Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Kansas Territory was a national issue that dominated America's press, not to mention three sessions ...
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327,21 zł |
The Great Minnesota Fish Book
ISBN: 9780816651351 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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155,56 zł |
Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown
ISBN: 9780674031760 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Sean Safford compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Allentown has seen a noticeable rebound over the course of the past twenty years. Facing a collapse of its steel-making firms, its economy has reinvented itself by transforming existing companies, building an entrepreneurial sector, and attracting inward investment. Youngstown was similar to Allentown in its industrial history, the composition of its labor force, and other important variables, and yet instead of adapting in the face of acute economic crisis, it fell into a mean...
In this book, Sean Safford compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Allentown has seen a noticeable rebo...
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223,59 zł |
Voices from Haskell: Indian Students Between Two Worlds, 1884-1928
ISBN: 9780700616176 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values. For a century and a quarter since that time, this famous boarding school institution has challenged and touched the lives of tens of thousands of Indian students and their families representing a diverse array of tribal heritages. Voices from Haskell chronicles the formative years of this unique institution through the vivid memories and words of the students who attended. Drawing on children's own accounts in...
Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestan...
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239,67 zł |
Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962
ISBN: 9780268037291 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the French priests who came to the upper midwest territory during the first half of the nineteenth century. Over the next fifty years a flood of settlers, primarily Irish and German Catholics, filled up the land. In 1850 Rome created a new diocese centered in the village of St. Paul, and in 1851 French priest Joseph Cretin was named its first bishop.O'Connell's lively account stresses the social, economic, and... This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordina... |
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300,85 zł |
The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns
ISBN: 9780896726345 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histories in sensational incidents and quiet human connections, many recorded in detail here for the first time. After covering racial unrest in the remote northwest corner of his home state of Nebraska in 1999, journalist Stew Magnuson returned four years later to consider the larger questions of its peoples, their paths, and the forces that separate them. Examining Raymond Yellow Thunder s death at the hands of four white men in 1972, Magnuson looks...
The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their historie...
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124,85 zł |
Miami University, 1809-2009: Bicentennial Perspectives
ISBN: 9780821418277 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its start in the nineteenth century as a small midwestern college to its transformation into a twenty-first-century international university, Miami University has stood for two centuries as a model of public higher education. With hundreds of illustrations and contributions from many hands, "Miami University, 1809 2009: Bicentennial Perspectives" reviews how national social forces and academic culture interacted in the college town of Oxford, Ohio, yielding five different eras of campus life over two hundred years.
This special bicentennial book celebrating one of Ohio s premier... From its start in the nineteenth century as a small midwestern college to its transformation into a twenty-first-century international university, Mia...
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233,42 zł |
No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States
ISBN: 9780821418338 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds of years, yet the justification for carrying out the ultimate sentence is a continuing source of controversy. "No Winners Here Tonight "explores the history of the death penalty and the question of its fairness through the experience of a single state, Ohio, which, despite its moderate midwestern values, has long had one of the country s most active death chambers.
In 1958, just four states accounted for half of the forty-eight executions... Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds o...
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245,70 zł |
No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States
ISBN: 9780821418345 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds of years, yet the justification for carrying out the ultimate sentence is a continuing source of controversy. "No Winners Here Tonight "explores the history of the death penalty and the question of its fairness through the experience of a single state, Ohio, which, despite its moderate midwestern values, has long had one of the country s most active death chambers.
In 1958, just four states accounted for half of the forty-eight executions... Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds o...
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114,61 zł |
Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860-1960
ISBN: 9780803220812 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While predominantly agrarian, Kansas has a surprisingly rich heritage of labor history and played an active role in the major labor strife of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Farmers vs. Wage Earners is a survey of the organized labor movement in the Sunflower State, which reflected in a microcosm the evolution of attitudes toward labor in the United States. R. Alton Lee emphasizes the social and political developments of labor in Kansas and what it was like to work in the mines, the oil fields, and the factories that created the modern industrial world. He vividly describes...
While predominantly agrarian, Kansas has a surprisingly rich heritage of labor history and played an active role in the major labor strife of the late...
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114,06 zł |
Chinese Blackbird
ISBN: 9781932690682 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan Lee describes her personal, transformative journey in which she explores how race, class, gender, and sexual identity inform who she is.
Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan Lee describes her personal, transformative journey in which she explores how race, ...
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70,65 zł |
The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb
ISBN: 9780252076442 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photographs, "The Jews of Chicago" is the fascinating story of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews. This edition of Irving Cutler's definitive historical volume also includes a new foreword written by the author.The first comprehensive history of Chicago's Jewish population in eighty years, "The Jews of Chicago" brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish community. Cutler intertwines neighborhood histories with representative... Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photographs, "The Jews of Chicago" is the fascinating story of the cultural, religious, frat... |
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114,06 zł |
American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation Among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920
ISBN: 9780700616589 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although it is usually assumed that Native Americans have lost their cultural identity through modernization, some peoples have proved otherwise. Brian Hosmer explores what happened when cultural identity and economic opportunity converged among two Native American communities that used community-based industries to both generate income and sustain their cultures. Comparing a lumber business run by the Menominees of Wisconsin and a salmon cannery established by British Columbian and Alaskan Tsimshian communities known as Metlakatla, Hosmer reveals how each tribe responded to market and...
Although it is usually assumed that Native Americans have lost their cultural identity through modernization, some peoples have proved otherwise. Bria...
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181,31 zł |
Chicago Journalism: A History
ISBN: 9780786441815 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history of Chicago journalism is framed against the larger landscape of American media and the ways in which technology and mergers have altered news gathering and presenting. The book demonstrates how daily operations at the newspapers and broadcast stations have changed with the times. Audience tastes and interests ran a parallel course with technology, a sharp decline in print readership, competition in television news, and the explosion of the Internet.
This history of Chicago journalism is framed against the larger landscape of American media and the ways in which technology and mergers have altered ...
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210,56 zł |
A Man of Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton
ISBN: 9780875803982 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Man of Salt and Trees is the first full-length biography of Joy Morton (1855-1934), founder of The Morton Arboretum--an internationally acclaimed outdoor museum of woody plants--and Morton Salt--the brand that for over a century has been a household name in the United States. Joy Morton's story begins in the pre-Civil War Nebraska Territory and concludes in the midst of the Great Depression in Chicago, the city in which he lived for over a half century. Using the voluminous correspondence of the Morton family, Ballowe tells the story of the Nebraska farm boy who grew up to be a... A Man of Salt and Trees is the first full-length biography of Joy Morton (1855-1934), founder of The Morton Arboretum--an internationally ac... |
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119,25 zł |
Home: Tom Arndt's Minnesota
ISBN: 9780816658954 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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233,42 zł |
Forest for the Trees: How Humans Shaped the North Woods
ISBN: 9780873516501 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Jeff Forester describes how humans have occupied and managed the northern borderlands of Minnesota, from tribal burning to pioneer and industrial logging to evolving conceptions of wilderness and restoration forestry. On the surface a story of Minnesota's borderlands, The Forest for the Trees more broadly explores the nation's history of resource extraction and wilderness preservation, casting forward to consider what today's actions may mean for the future of America's forests.
From early settlers and industrialists seeking the pine forests' wealth to modern visitors... Author Jeff Forester describes how humans have occupied and managed the northern borderlands of Minnesota, from tribal burning to pioneer and industri...
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83,16 zł |
Battlefields of Nebraska
ISBN: 9780870044717 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"
Today, the state of Nebraska is as peaceful a place as one is likely to find in America. But that wasn't always the case. Because of its geographic location near the center of the continent and astride the most convenient east-west routes, Nebraska has been the scene of some of the most significant clashes in western history. "Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"
Today, the state of Nebraska is as peaceful a place as one is likely to find in ... |
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78,99 zł |
Indiana High School Basketball's 20 Most Dominant Players
ISBN: 9781438973166 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indiana High School Basketball's 20 Most Dominant Players relives the passionate memories, thrilling victories, and the sheer dominance of these Hoosier hardcourt idols. With these twenty players combining to win 14 coveted Mr Basketball awards and 28 state championships, Hall of Fame sportswriter Dave Krider truly profiles the best of the best.
Indiana High School Basketball's 20 Most Dominant Players relives the passionate memories, thrilling victories, and the sheer dominance of these Hoosi...
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108,89 zł |