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Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
ISBN: 9780307341884 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. But the lynching cannot be forgotten. It is too much a part of the fabric of Marion, too much ingrained even now in the minds of those who live there. In Our Town journalist Cynthia Carr explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of a specific hate crime that occurred in...
The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event...
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109,20 zł |
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A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith
ISBN: 9780316110181 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anna-Lisa Cox presents the true story of an extraordinary 19th century town where blacks and whites lived as equals.
Anna-Lisa Cox presents the true story of an extraordinary 19th century town where blacks and whites lived as equals.
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198,14 zł |
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God's Hill: A history of love and stewardship
ISBN: 9780990559917 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. God's Hill, a history of love and stewardship, tells of settlers from the Rhine region in Germany building a community with their bare hands, literally. They developed a wine business that flourished, then fell victim to blight. The homes they fashioned from the native limestone rock they found in the fields and creeks, stand today, protected by the National Register of historic Places. The school that moved from living rooms to a log cabin in 1851 has been in operation for 164 years. This is the inspiring history of their struggles, triumphs and heartaches, as they worked to build a...
God's Hill, a history of love and stewardship, tells of settlers from the Rhine region in Germany building a community with their bare hands, literall...
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68,80 zł |
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Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780393009514 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
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104,61 zł |
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Michigan: A Bicentennial History
ISBN: 9780393301755 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The late Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton is known to millions of readers for his absorbing works on the Civil War. In this book, he turns to his native Michigan to tell a story of what happened when a primitive wilderness changed into a bustling industrial center so fast that it was as if the old French explorer Etienne Brule "should step up to shake hands with Henry Ford."
The late Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton is known to millions of readers for his absorbing works on the Civil War. In this book, he turn...
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100,24 zł |
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South Dakota: A History
ISBN: 9780393305715 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gold sparked the major migration of white settlers to the Dakota Territory a century ago, but for South Dakota, grass proved to be the real bonanza. Today more and more Americans are coming to understand the almost mystical appeal of the horizon and the primitive pull of the earth that make South Dakota one of the few remaining places where the individual can enjoy real isolation and a sense of standing apart from the crowd.
Gold sparked the major migration of white settlers to the Dakota Territory a century ago, but for South Dakota, grass proved to be the real bonanza. T...
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109,20 zł |
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Minnesota: A History
ISBN: 9780393319712 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive history of a state thought by many to be the most livable.
A comprehensive history of a state thought by many to be the most livable.
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108,98 zł |
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Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860
ISBN: 9780415977722 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dissertation examines the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860, and in particular, the issue of master-slave relationships and how they affected education (broadly defined as the transmission of Southern culture). Although Missouri had one of the lowest slave populations during the Antebellum period, Central Missouri - or what became known as Little Dixie - had slave percentages that rivaled many regions and counties of the Deep South. However, slaves and slave owners interacted on a regular basis, which affected cultural transmission in the areas... This dissertation examines the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860, and in particular, the issue of master-s... |
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682,09 zł |
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Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West
ISBN: 9780521025430 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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207,87 zł |
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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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453,66 zł |
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Ohio's Founding Fathers
ISBN: 9780595293223 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, warned friends in Congress that the frontier settlers of Ohio were too indigent and ignorant to form a constitution and government for themselves. This is the story of the men who proved him wrong.
The author describes the beginning of Ohio through the lives of its founding fathers. Founding fathers include the thirty-five delegates to the convention held in Chillicothe in November, 1802, which decided that Ohio should become a state and then drafted its first constitution, as well as twenty additional men whose activities before and... Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, warned friends in Congress that the frontier settlers of Ohio were too indigent and ignorant to...
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104,61 zł |
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George and Maggie and the Red Light Saloon: Depravation, Debauchery, Violence, and Sundry Cussedness in a Kansas Cowtown
ISBN: 9780595294077 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,56 zł |
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Memories and Melancholy: Reflections on the Mahoning Valley and Youngstown, Ohio
ISBN: 9780595372690 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gypsies, freak shows, funeral rites, Native American folklore, legendary national leaders, and enthralling tales of hordes of immigrants, trend-setting business titans, gritty steel mills, and the painful decline of one of America's premier industrial corridors all are featured in the social and cultural collection of articles titled "Memories and Melancholy: Reflections on the Mahoning Valley and Youngstown, Ohio."
This riveting nostalgic anthology includes topics: Gypsies, freak shows, funeral rites, Native American folklore, legendary national leaders, and enthralling tales of hordes of immigrants, trend-settin...
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104,61 zł |
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Down Mason City's Memory Lane
ISBN: 9780595435289 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mason City, Illinois, a tiny rural community in the heart of the Midwest, is the setting for Dale Fancher's book of reflections and memories of a day gone by. A lifelong resident of Mason City, Fancher has a keen mind, and a heart for the quaint, easily lost memories of youth: From bathing in a galvanized washtub, to trailing behind the ice-delivery truck to beg shards of ice on a hot day; from fishing at Salt Creek at night and listening to the bobcats, to World War II blackouts.
Reading Fancher's book, one becomes familiar with local characters like Kenny Hanover, still barbering after... Mason City, Illinois, a tiny rural community in the heart of the Midwest, is the setting for Dale Fancher's book of reflections and memories of a day ...
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74,04 zł |
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Ohio's Founding Fathers
ISBN: 9780595750399 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, warned friends in Congress that the frontier settlers of Ohio were too indigent and ignorant to form a constitution and government for themselves. This is the story of the men who proved him wrong.
The author describes the beginning of Ohio through the lives of its founding fathers. Founding fathers include the thirty-five delegates to the convention held in Chillicothe in November, 1802, which decided that Ohio should become a state and then drafted its first constitution, as well as twenty additional men whose activities before and... Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, warned friends in Congress that the frontier settlers of Ohio were too indigent and ignorant to...
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148,29 zł |
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
ISBN: 9780618773473 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones in the darkest years of the Depression.
Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through b...
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82,95 zł |
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Prohibition in Hamtramck: Gangsters, Gunfights & Getaways
ISBN: 9781540202062 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,73 zł |
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Sod-House Days: Letters from a Kansas Homesteader, 1877-1983
ISBN: 9780700602346 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Howard Ruede was twenty-two years old in March of 1877 when he rode on a freight wagon into Osborne City, a community in west-central Kansas. A young man of courage, common sense, and independence, Ruede was filled with the optimism and determination typical of the men and women who took up the challenge of homesteading on the prairie. Brought together by economist John Ise and first published in 1937, Sod-House Days is a collection of the letters Ruede wrote to his family in Pennsylvania chronicling his first year in Kansas. In minute detail these letters show the hard, wearying...
Howard Ruede was twenty-two years old in March of 1877 when he rode on a freight wagon into Osborne City, a community in west-central Kansas. A young ...
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159,12 zł |
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The Great Kansas Bond Scandal
ISBN: 9780700602483 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of the greatest public scandal in the history of the state of Kansas. At the nadir of the Great Depression, in the summer of 1933, a million and a quarter in forged bonds and warrants were discovered in the state treasury and in bond brokerage houses. Before the affair was over, martial law was declared in the statehouse; four criminal convictions were effected--including the three longest sentences in the state's penal history; two state officers were impeached; six federal indictments were handed down, including one against the president of one of the Midwest's...
This book tells the story of the greatest public scandal in the history of the state of Kansas. At the nadir of the Great Depression, in the summe...
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220,27 zł |
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The Wpa Guide to 1930s Kansas
ISBN: 9780700602490 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The WPA Guide, the first and only guidebook ever devoted to Kansas, was published in 1939. After six decades and more, its pages still provide a wealth of reliable historic, geographic, and cultural information on Kansas, as well as some intriguing lore that many modern-day readers will find new. Not the least of its contributions is the accurate picture it gives of Kansas between the Great Depression and World War II--of its industrial, agricultural, and natural resources. The book is divided into three sections: seventeen topical essays covering subjects such as Indians,...
The WPA Guide, the first and only guidebook ever devoted to Kansas, was published in 1939. After six decades and more, its pages still provide ...
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250,85 zł |
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