ilość książek w kategorii: 5758
Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota's Iron Range, 1915-2000
ISBN: 9780816694297 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Midwestern History Association's 2016 Hamlin Garland Prize The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world's richest iron ore mining districts. The Iron Range propelled the U.S. steel industry in the late nineteenth century, and iron mining sustained generations in the region with work and a strong economy. But long before most other parts of the country faced the realities of industrial decline, Minnesota's Iron Range was already striving to maintain its core industry.In Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota's Iron... Winner of the Midwestern History Association's 2016 Hamlin Garland Prize The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world'... |
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440,65 zł |
Borderland Narratives: Negotiation and Accommodation in North America's Contested Spaces, 1500-1850
ISBN: 9780813054957 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Breathes new life into the borderlands debate by reinforcing that 'borderlands' are more than mere locations--they are also imagined spaces and metaphorical tools with which scholars can explore the commonalities of human experiences across time and place."--Kristofer Ray, author of Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier "Offers a wide-ranging tour of some of North America's most intriguing borderlands contexts. A smart and timely collection."--Brian DeLay, editor of North American Borderlands Broadening the idea of "borderlands" beyond its...
"Breathes new life into the borderlands debate by reinforcing that 'borderlands' are more than mere locations--they are also imagined spaces and metap...
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441,49 zł |
North Country: Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity
ISBN: 9780806191881 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature.
From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and imm...
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441,79 zł |
Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment
ISBN: 9781439915486 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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445,66 zł |
The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories
ISBN: 9781496225078 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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445,66 zł |
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
ISBN: 9781496228024 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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445,66 zł |
The Early Years of Chicago Soccer, 1887-1939
ISBN: 9781498599030 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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448,04 zł |
Chicago Muslims and the Transformation of American Islam: Immigrants, African Americans, and the Building of the American Ummah
ISBN: 9781498548762 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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448,04 zł |
Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan: Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers
ISBN: 9781439915660 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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448,04 zł |
Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West
ISBN: 9780521640923 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provincial Lives tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West. It traces the efforts of waves of Americans to transmit their social structures, behavior, and values to the West and construct a distinctive regional middle-class culture on the urban frontier. Intertwining local, regional, and national history with social, immigration, gender and urban history, Mahoney examines how a succession of settlers from "good" society--farmers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and "genteel" men and women from the urban East--interacted with, accommodated, and...
Provincial Lives tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West. It traces the efforts of waves of Americ...
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450,67 zł |
Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance
ISBN: 9780268105457 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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450,67 zł |
Settler Colonial City: Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis
ISBN: 9781517904791 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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450,67 zł |
Gateway to the West. in Two Volumes. Volume 1
ISBN: 9780806312378 / Angielski / Miękka / 990 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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451,74 zł |
Gateway to the West. in Two Volumes. Volume 2
ISBN: 9780806312385 / Angielski / Miękka / 1014 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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451,74 zł |
Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era
ISBN: 9780700627059 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kansas City during the Pendergast Era (1920 - 1939); a city of possibilities in a time of economic stress, hard lines of race and class, and cultural innovation.
Kansas City during the Pendergast Era (1920 - 1939); a city of possibilities in a time of economic stress, hard lines of race and class, and cultural ...
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453,31 zł |
Kansas Baseball, 1858-1941
ISBN: 9780700624393 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game. The early history of baseball in Kansas, chronicled in this book, is the story of those towns and the ballparks they built, of the local fans and teams playing out the drama of the American dream in the heart of the country. Mark Eberle's history spans the years between the Civil War-era and the start of World War II, encapsulating a time when baseball was adopted by early settlers, then taken up by soldiers sent west, and finally by teams formed to express...
As baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game. The early history ...
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453,31 zł |
The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest
ISBN: 9780700629305 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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453,31 zł |
Valuing Detroit's Art Museum: A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue
ISBN: 9783319452180 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and political development of Detroit, giving a history of the city as well as of the institution, and providing a model of contextual institutional history. Abt describes how the Detroit Institute of Arts became the fifth largest art museum in America, from its founding as a private non-profit corporation...
This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nones...
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459,42 zł |
Valuing Detroit's Art Museum: A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue
ISBN: 9783319832425 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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459,42 zł |
Frontier Democracy: Constitutional Conventions in the Old Northwest
ISBN: 9781107090767 / Angielski / Twarda / 403 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s-50s.
Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and ...
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460,64 zł |