ilość książek w kategorii: 10352
Gilboa: New York's Quest for Water and the Destruction of a Small Town
ISBN: 9780761830702 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the night of October 18, 1925, fire raged through the downtown area of the tiny Catskill Mountain Village of Gilboa, New York. Firefighters came from miles around to fight the inferno while tourists sat on the hilltops to watch the show. In the end, 18 buildings lay in smoldering ruins. Yet, this fire was not the end of Gilboa, merely a climax of events that were razing the community more slowly. Gilboa was in the way of the Schoharie Reservoir, one of the numerous artificial lakes collecting water for thirsty New Yorkers. In order for New York City to growing, the people of Gilboa would...
On the night of October 18, 1925, fire raged through the downtown area of the tiny Catskill Mountain Village of Gilboa, New York. Firefighters came fr...
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365,57 zł |
Citoyennes and Icaria
ISBN: 9780761831266 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Citoyennes and Icaria is the historical account of Citoyennes' quest for full equality in seven Icarian colonies in America, between the years 1848 and 1898. Their requests for equal opportunities and rights were dismissed by the male Assembly. In response, the Citoyennes told the governing body that they would not be "silenced by a sentiment of equality." Icaria was a community where everyone shared all goods in common. It was premised on imaginative depictions in a utopian novel, Voyage en Icaria by Etienne Cabet (1840). Women and men were obliged to marry. No dowry was necessary, for the...
Citoyennes and Icaria is the historical account of Citoyennes' quest for full equality in seven Icarian colonies in America, between the years 1848 an...
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416,90 zł |
Our Corner of the World: African American Women in Utah Tell Their Stories, 1940-2002
ISBN: 9780761832539 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Corner of the World is a detailed look at the lives of African American women who migrated to Utah from the 1940s to the present. It is a great supplemental text for students in the fields of race, class, gender, and African American studies.
Our Corner of the World is a detailed look at the lives of African American women who migrated to Utah from the 1940s to the present. It is a great su...
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337,05 zł |
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
ISBN: 9781476794051 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore--the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States. Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York's best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House. Before their marriage, the wealthy...
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded...
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81,44 zł |
Haunted Tampa: Spirits of the Bay
ISBN: 9781540209108 / Angielski / Twarda / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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130,33 zł |
The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780
ISBN: 9781540203595 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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187,36 zł |
It Happened in New Orleans, First Edition
ISBN: 9780762739059 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the earliest days of French and Spanish rule to school integration in the 1960s, It Happened in New Orleans offers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Crescent City. March along with Creole Wild West during their first Mardi Gras. Experience the ten heady days of the longest woman-suffrage convention ever held. And discover a lovingly restored mausoleum where great New Orleans musicians are laid to rest.Meet the voodoo queen, a baroness, a pirate and many more real-life characters who helped make New Orleans the famous city it is today.What happens...
From the earliest days of French and Spanish rule to school integration in the 1960s, It Happened in New Orleans offers a unique look at intriguing pe...
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40,54 zł |
Newport News: A Vintage Postcard Tour: A Vintage Postcard Tour
ISBN: 9780764324055 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though the English colony that would be known as Newport News, Virginia was settled in the early 1600s, the modern story began in the 1880s with the arrival of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and the building of shipyards by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Over 250 vintage postcards will take readers on a journey through the city's history, industry, recreation, and culture from the 1890s through World War II. Enjoy a nostalgic tour of the Maritime Museum, stroll down the beach, or take a tour of the biggest privately owned shipyard in the United States. A chapter on...
Though the English colony that would be known as Newport News, Virginia was settled in the early 1600s, the modern story began in the 1880s with the a...
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117,64 zł |
Greetings from St. Petersburg
ISBN: 9780764326905 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tour this winter playground rich in history and tropical allure. The resort city's amenities are illustrated in beautiful, hand-tinted picture postcards that date to the early 1900s. The city's history unfolds with images of the Sunken Gardens, home to hundreds of tropical plant species; the Coliseum, considered the finest ballroom in the South, and the luxurious Vinoy Park Hotel. Join the hordes as they relax on Central Avenue's famous green benches, eye the yachts along the waterfront, or feed pelicans at the pier. You'll even get a glimpse at the Sunshine City's famous Open Air Post...
Tour this winter playground rich in history and tropical allure. The resort city's amenities are illustrated in beautiful, hand-tinted picture postca...
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117,64 zł |
Magnolias Without Moonlight: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration
ISBN: 9780765802934 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The eleven ex-Confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region's dual personality, how it came into being, and the purposes and interests it served is examined here, as well as its central role in the politics and "culture wars" flowing from the transformative Civil Rights Movement and the other social justice movements of the 1950s and 1960s. The essays on this theme include a penetrating explication of C. Vann Woodward's masterpiece, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, which is explicitly... The eleven ex-Confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region's dual... |
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445,15 zł |
Asheville: A History
ISBN: 9780786431762 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asheville, North Carolina, grew from humble beginnings as a hamlet for local livestock handlers to become one of the most culturally and artistically diverse cities in the South. Here in this book is all the fascinating history of Asheville, complete with a rich array of photographs. Multiple appendices reveal details concerning many lesser-known aspects of Ashevilles unique history, including city buildings designed by architects Richard Sharp Smith and Douglas D. Ellington, and city projects funded by philanthropist Julian Price.
Asheville, North Carolina, grew from humble beginnings as a hamlet for local livestock handlers to become one of the most culturally and artistically ...
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177,12 zł |
Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters
ISBN: 9780801841132 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.
Stowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.
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148,13 zł |
Citizens More Than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic
ISBN: 9780803229709 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside with a rusty, antiquated musket. Citizens More than Soldiers demonstrates that, to the contrary, the militia remained an active civil institution in the early nineteenth century, affecting the era s great social, political, and economic transitions. In fact, given their degree of community involvement, militiamen were more influential in Kentucky s maturation than any other formal...
Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons...
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204,69 zł |
Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780803262676 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coastal Encounters opens a window onto the fascinating world of the eighteenth-century Gulf South. Stretching from Florida to Texas, the region witnessed the complex collision of European, African, and Native American peoples. The Gulf South offered an extraordinary stage for European rivalries to play out, allowed a Native-based frontier exchange system to develop alongside an emerging slave-based plantation economy, and enabled the construction of an urban network of unusual opportunity for free people of color. After being long-neglected in favor of the English colonies of the Atlantic...
Coastal Encounters opens a window onto the fascinating world of the eighteenth-century Gulf South. Stretching from Florida to Texas, the region witnes...
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112,53 zł |
Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780803268791 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s. Many of them died on the Trail of Tears. But until recently historians have largely ignored the tribal remnant that avoided removal and remained in North Carolina. John R. Finger shifts attention to the Eastern Band of Cherokees, descended from that remnant and now numbering almost ten thousand, most of whom live on a reservation adjacent to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Cherokee Americans is, ironically, the first comprehensive account of the twentieth-century...
Much has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s. Many of them died on the Trail o...
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81,28 zł |
Only in Old Kentucky: Historic True Tales of Cultural Ingenuity
ISBN: 9781540209887 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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130,33 zł |
Alternative Oklahoma: Contrarian Views of the Sooner State
ISBN: 9780806138190 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present? In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before," Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahoma's unique populist past and address current political and social issues. Joyce invited scholars and political activists to speak their minds on subjects ranging from gender, race, and religion to popular music, the energy industry, and economics. These decidedly contrarian Sooner voices reflect the progressive, libertarian, and even radical viewpoints that... How many of us really know every side to Oklahoma's past and present? In this companion to his previous volume, "An Oklahoma I Had Never S... |
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89,43 zł |
The South in the Revolution, 1763-1789: A History of the South
ISBN: 9780807100035 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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359,33 zł |
The South in the New Nation, 1789-1819: A History of the South
ISBN: 9780807100141 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first thirty years under the Federal Constitution encompass the most obscure period of Southern history. Thomas P. Abernethy brings this turbulent era into full focus for the first time in this book, Volume IV of A History of the South. With Spain in possession of Florida and Louisiana, claiming and partially occupying everything west of the Alleghenies and south of the Tennessee River, and with England and France attempting to exploit Spain's weakness to strengthen their own positions in the New World, the Southern frontier was beset by active or potential enemies during most of... The first thirty years under the Federal Constitution encompass the most obscure period of Southern history. Thomas P. Abernethy brings this turbul... |
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128,08 zł |
Origins of the New South, 1877-1913: A History of the South
ISBN: 9780807100196 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviews the economic, political, and social evolution of the South from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War I.
Reviews the economic, political, and social evolution of the South from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War I.
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179,67 zł |