ilość książek w kategorii: 5581
African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780803226678 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence let alone importance of African Americans in the unfolding of the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Americans on the Great Plains went largely unnoted. This book, the first of its kind, supplies that critical missing chapter in American history.Originally published over the span of twenty-five years in Great Plains Quarterly, the essays collected here describe the part African Americans played...
Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence let alone importance of African Americans in the unfolding of the ...
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152,83 zł |
Women Elders' Life Stories of the Omaha Tribe: Macy, Nebraska, 2004-2005
ISBN: 9780803225367 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eleanor Baxter, Alice Saunsoci, and Hawate (Wenona Caramony) are female elders of the Omaha Tribe in Macy, in the northeast corner of Nebraska. All three grew up on the Omaha reservation, moved away in later life, and held careers outside the reservation. Yet all returned to their community, bringing the skills they learned in the white world and the knowledge they gained as children from their own elders to contribute to the well-being of the Omaha people.
Eleanor Baxter was formerly the Omaha tribal chair, the first woman to serve in this capacity, and continues to be politically active;... Eleanor Baxter, Alice Saunsoci, and Hawate (Wenona Caramony) are female elders of the Omaha Tribe in Macy, in the northeast corner of Nebraska. All th...
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155,56 zł |
God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
ISBN: 9780465015023 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South Dakota. To this day, the Ghost Dance remains widely mischaracterized as a primitive and failed effort by Indian militants to resist American conquest and... In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to... |
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263,08 zł |
Phantoms in the Looking Glass
ISBN: 9781892523617 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take a journey into the history of southwestern Illinois and discover the ghosts and hauntings of Lebanon, one of the most haunted small towns in the state Author and tour guide Len Adams reveals the myriad of spirits that still linger on the streets of this quiet town a place where the former residents do not rest in peace. From its beginnings in 1804, Lebanon has played host to visitors like Charles Dickens and has earned acclaim for being home to Illinois oldest college and to the fabled Looking Glass Prairie. Today, its known for not only its history, but for its hauntings too Hauntings...
Take a journey into the history of southwestern Illinois and discover the ghosts and hauntings of Lebanon, one of the most haunted small towns in the ...
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54,19 zł |
Saint Louis University: A Concise History
ISBN: 9780980047547 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saint Louis University professor emeritus of history Faherty encapsulates the school's rich heritage and traditions, documents the university's growth and development, and tells the story of a venerable and cherished Jesuit institution.
Saint Louis University professor emeritus of history Faherty encapsulates the school's rich heritage and traditions, documents the university's growth...
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41,64 zł |
An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West
ISBN: 9780806306605 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work, based on a reading of seventy-three Michigan county histories, consists of an alphabetical list of more than 5,000 persons who moved west from Massachusetts to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and other states of the middle west. The purpose throughout is to supply name, date and town of birth, date of removal, and state in which the pioneer settled. Additional information given includes name of spouse, date of marriage, and the complete identification of all sources.
This work, based on a reading of seventy-three Michigan county histories, consists of an alphabetical list of more than 5,000 persons who moved west f...
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77,04 zł |
Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781
ISBN: 9780806351919 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering the years 1769 to 1800, these 743 pages address each of the major political and governmental episodes, with their principal participants, in the formative period of the Volunteer State. To produce this achievement, the author worked assiduously in the archives of Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. as well as conversed with such founding fathers as James White, Charles McClung, and his maternal grandfather, John McKnitt Alexander, secretary of the Mecklenburg Convention of 1775. Although the researcher will discover genealogical sketches of Tennessee throughout the...
Covering the years 1769 to 1800, these 743 pages address each of the major political and governmental episodes, with their principal participants, in ...
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249,77 zł |
An American Urban Residential Landscape, 1890-1920: Chicago in the Progressive Era
ISBN: 9781604976137 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this first full-length study of improvement and National Improvement Associations (NIAs), Craig Turnbull explores the ideas and behavior of key improvement ideologues and practitioners. The book outlines the rural origins of improvement, and examines why Chicago became a focal point of grassroots improvement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book also offers the first systematic description and analysis of NIA objectives, activities, membership, politics, and organizational structures. It analyses the role of improvement in advancing the new professional agenda...
In this first full-length study of improvement and National Improvement Associations (NIAs), Craig Turnbull explores the ideas and behavior of key imp...
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583,55 zł |
Michigan Genealogy 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780806317557 / Angielski / Miękka / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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217,10 zł |
Ohio Guide to Genealogical Sources
ISBN: 9780806312286 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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233,21 zł |
Guide to County Records and Genealogical Resources in Tennessee
ISBN: 9780806311753 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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147,06 zł |
The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy
ISBN: 9780230618213 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago.
This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it...
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194,52 zł |
Ojibwe Waasa Inaabiodaa: We Look in All Directions
ISBN: 9780873517850 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The story--dibaajimowin--told here is a story of Indian Country. It is the story of land-based cultures and our histories. It is also an amazing and wondrous set of stories told by those who dearly love their history and peoples--a great gift to us all: the scattered and dispersed leaves of our stories brought together with this generation's faces and living words."--Winona LaDuke
Ojibwe: Waasa Inaabidaa is a uniquely personal history of the Ojibwe culture by Ojibwe educator Thomas Peacock. Illustrated with color and historic black and white photographs, artwork, and maps, it is... "The story--dibaajimowin--told here is a story of Indian Country. It is the story of land-based cultures and our histories. It is also an amazing and ...
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145,69 zł |
Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
ISBN: 9780252077234 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based almost entirely on original source documents from the United States, France, and Spain, Carl J. Ekberg's Stealing Indian Women provides an innovative overview of Indian slavery in the Mississippi Valley. His detailed study of a fascinating and convoluted criminal case involving various slave women and a metis (mixed-blood) woodsman named Celadon illuminates race and gender relations, Creole culture, and the lives of Indian slaves--particularly women--in ways never before possible.
Based almost entirely on original source documents from the United States, France, and Spain, Carl J. Ekberg's Stealing Indian Women provides an innov...
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119,25 zł |
Illinois Politics: A Citizen's Guide
ISBN: 9780252077029 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Illinois Politics: A Citizen's Guide" sheds light on these important questions and more: Why has corruption flourished in Illinois even as reformers struggle for ethical change? How do the three regions of the state compete for resources? How does the legislature work? When did the state become so blue? What powers do the governor and other elected officials really have? How are judges appointed to and removed from the bench? Why does Illinois have more units of government than any other state? How did higher education lose ground as a funding priority? What role did politics play in the...
"Illinois Politics: A Citizen's Guide" sheds light on these important questions and more: Why has corruption flourished in Illinois even as reformers ...
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88,13 zł |
American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier
ISBN: 9780813192673 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of... In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms o... |
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147,42 zł |
John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History
ISBN: 9780700617234 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents portraits of twenty-seven notable men and women, including radical abolitionist John Brown; wheat king Theodore C Henry; women's rights activist Clarina Nichols; William Allen White, the Sage of Emporia; President Dwight D Eisenhower; Esther Brown, who challenged segregation in public schools; political icon Bob Dole; and, Gordon Parks.
Presents portraits of twenty-seven notable men and women, including radical abolitionist John Brown; wheat king Theodore C Henry; women's rights activ...
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181,31 zł |
Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual and Ritual Interaction
ISBN: 9780306484780 / Angielski / Twarda / 807 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two thousand years ago, their elaborately embellished works of art made of glistening metals and stones from faraway places, and their highly formalized mortuaries. In this book, twenty-one researchers in interwoven efforts immerse themselves and the reader in this vibrant archaeological record in order to richly reconstruct the societies, rituals, and ritual interactions of Hopewellian... Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed ea... |
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894,96 zł |
A Northern Confederate at Johnson's Island Prison: The Civil War Diaries of James Parks Caldwell
ISBN: 9780786444717 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A college graduate at 16 and founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Caldwell entered the Confederate Army as an artillery lieutenant. He fought at Shiloh, Port Hudson and other campaigns before being captured in 1863 and imprisoned in Ohio. He kept a daily diary for 18 months, describing the prison food and conditions, as well as his classicist and intellectual interests. This title features letters, a poem, index, and notes.
A college graduate at 16 and founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Caldwell entered the Confederate Army as an artillery lieutenant. He fought at Shilo...
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210,56 zł |
Aileen & Roy: From Sod House to State House
ISBN: 9780803232945 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aileen and Roy is the story of the author s parents: Roy Cochran, who rose from a sod house on a hardscrabble farm in western Nebraska to the state house in Lincoln as governor, and Aileen Gantt Cochran, a pioneer teacher and superintendent of schools in the Nebraska Sandhills.Roy Cochran s three terms as governor (1935 41) covered the most critical years in the history of the West, when the population was ravaged by drought and the Great Depression, and new state-federal programs social security, the WPA were coming into being. Aileen Gantt grew up in the small town of North Platte at...
Aileen and Roy is the story of the author s parents: Roy Cochran, who rose from a sod house on a hardscrabble farm in western Nebraska to the s...
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74,82 zł |