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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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122,96 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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233,87 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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246,17 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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114,83 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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114,28 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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69,58 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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114,28 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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178,68 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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207,47 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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118,85 zł |
Chicago's Irish Legion: The 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War
ISBN: 9780809328901 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Extensively documented and richly detailed, Chicago s Irish Legion tells the compelling story of Chicago s 90th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the only Irish regiment in Major General William Tecumseh Sherman s XV Army Corps. Swan s sweeping history of thissingular regiment and its pivotal role in the Western Theater of the Civil War draws heavily from primary documents and first-person observations, giving readers an intimate glimpse into the trials and triumphs of ethnic soldiersduring one of the most destructive wars in American history.At the onset of the bitter conflict between...
Extensively documented and richly detailed, Chicago s Irish Legion tells the compelling story of Chicago s 90th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, th...
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229,49 zł |
Home: Tom Arndt's Minnesota
ISBN: 9780816658954 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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233,87 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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81,90 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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77,79 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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107,24 zł |
Hear the Roar!: The Resurgence of Mizzou Football
ISBN: 9780826218650 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2007, it had been nearly fifty years since Mizzou s football program was ranked number one in the country and in contention for college football s national championship. But over the next two seasons, fans who bleed black and gold watched first in amazement and then in delight as the Tigers surged back, racking up a number-one ranking, a Heisman Trophy finalist, three all-Americans, and a pair of bowl victories. The 2007 and 2008 Tigers proved nothing short of unforgettable. This large-format book combines stirring recaps of games with exciting gridiron photos to offer a breathtaking look...
In 2007, it had been nearly fifty years since Mizzou s football program was ranked number one in the country and in contention for college football s ...
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152,90 zł |
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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153,12 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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155,86 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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259,20 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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53,37 zł |