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Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic
ISBN: 9781585445325 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the whirlwind of revolutions in the Americas, the Texas Revolution stands at the confluence of northern and southern traditions. On the battlefield and in the political aftermath, settlers from the United States struggled with those who brought revolutionary ideas from Latin America and arms from Mexico. In the midst of the conflict stood the Tejanos who had made Texas home for generations. This masterpiece of narrative and analysis, first published in hardback in 2004, brings the latest scholarship to bear on the oldest questions. Well-known characters such as Sam Houston, Stephen F....
In the whirlwind of revolutions in the Americas, the Texas Revolution stands at the confluence of northern and southern traditions. On the battlefield...
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Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest
ISBN: 9781585445462 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In "Remembering the Hacienda", Vincent Perez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an "antebellum," agrarian social order that predates the United States. It is the site in which the Mexican American community's "heroic," genteel forebears lived in dignity and pride, and it is the heritage from which they were cast out as "orphans," both in mother Mexico by the Revolution and in the American Southwest when the wars of 1836 and 1846-48...
What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In "Reme...
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John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman
ISBN: 9781585445530 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Texas, by God " cried notorious killer John Wesley Hardin when he saw a Colt .45 pointed at him on a train in Florida. At the other end of the pistol stood Texas Ranger John B. Armstrong.
Hardin's arrest assured Armstrong a place in history, but his story is larger, fuller, and even more important--and until now it has never been told. Serving in the Rangers' famed Frontier Battalion from 1875 to 1878, Armstrong rode with Captain L. H. McNelly in the capture of King Fisher, was called to Round Rock when Sam Bass was cornered, and helped patrol the region caught in the Taylor-Sutton... "Texas, by God " cried notorious killer John Wesley Hardin when he saw a Colt .45 pointed at him on a train in Florida. At the other end of the pistol...
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The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981
ISBN: 9781585446025 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Awarded the Texas State Historical Association's Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize; presented March 2005 Despite controversies over current educational practices, Texas boasts a rich and vibrant bilingual tradition-and not just for Spanish-English instruction, but for Czech, German, Polish, and Dutch as well. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Texas educational policymakers embraced, ignored, rejected, outlawed, then once again embraced this tradition. In The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, author Carlos Blanton traces the educational policies and their...
Awarded the Texas State Historical Association's Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize; presented March 2005 Despite controversies over current education...
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Historic Photos of Phoenix
ISBN: 9781596523753 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The town of Phoenix was officially recognized in May of 1868 and is now the largest state capital city in the country. Phoenix goes by the nickname ?Valley of the Sun?and the Indian translation means ?this place is hot?. This book follows life, government, events and people important to Phoenix history and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Phoenix!
The town of Phoenix was officially recognized in May of 1868 and is now the largest state capital city in the country. Phoenix goes by the nickname ?V...
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159,45 |
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The Nogal Mesa: A History of Kivas and Ranchers in Lincoln County
ISBN: 9781540205391 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Tres Ritos: A History of Three Rivers, New Mexico
ISBN: 9781540207869 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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The Inspiring Life of Texan Hector P. Garcia
ISBN: 9781540203052 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna S Texas Campaign
ISBN: 9781841760902 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 around 1,100 Mexican soldiers under Generalissimo Santa Anna stormed a small mission outside San Antonio, Texas, and slaughtered the garrison of around 200 Texans. It was not a large battle but its significance vastly outweighed its size for the name of the mission was the Alamo. Less than two months later Santa Anna's force was smashed at San Jacinto by a volunteer army whose battle cry was "Remember the Alamo." Stephen L Hardin details the...
Osprey's examination of the Battle of Alamo (1836), which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836). On the morning of 6 March 1836 ...
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The Women and Children of the Alamo
ISBN: 9781880510124 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The riveting story of the Alamo ends in tragedy with no brave defender left alive to tell his tale, but there were others who did survive the final massacre--more than a dozen women and children. The thirteen days of the siege and fall of the Alamo have been studied, examined, probed, and researched by students and historians for over 150 years, but here is the Alamo's story by the ones who were there.
The riveting story of the Alamo ends in tragedy with no brave defender left alive to tell his tale, but there were others who did survive the final ma...
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The Newton Boys: Portrait of an Outlaw Gang
ISBN: 9781880510162 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Portrays the misdeeds of the notorious early twentieth-century bank and train robbers. The Newtons' story was made into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, and Julianna Margulies.
"Bonnie and Clyde was just silly kids bound to get themselves killed. We wasn't at all like them. We wasn't thugs. All we wanted was the money, just like doctors, lawyers and other businessmen. Robbing banks and trains was our way of getting it. That was our business." Willis Newton (from the book) Portrays the misdeeds of the notorious early twentieth-century bank and train robbers. The Newtons' story was made into a movie starring Matthew McCon...
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75,83 |
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Indianola: The Mother of Western Texas
ISBN: 9781880510308 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ghost port of Indianola is the subject of a gripping book that is of prime interest to anyone interested in knowing what life was like in coastal Texas during the nineteenth century. 1978 Summerfield G. Roberts Award.
The ghost port of Indianola is the subject of a gripping book that is of prime interest to anyone interested in knowing what life was like in coastal ...
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97,10 |
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Defending the Borders: The Texas Rangers, 1848-1861
ISBN: 9781880510766 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second book in his critically acclaimed series of Texas Ranger histories, Frederick Wilkins' Defending the Borders narrates a rarely told story of the rangers during the slightly-more-than-a-decade of Texas' history as one of the states of the United States, just before the Civil War ripped asunder the fabric of the federal union which Texas had joined.
The period 1848-1861 is one in which Texas, despite having joined the Union, was nevertheless forced to rely upon itself for defense against both Indian depredations and invasions from south of the Rio Grande. The U.S. Army forces... The second book in his critically acclaimed series of Texas Ranger histories, Frederick Wilkins' Defending the Borders narrates a rarely told story of...
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111,68 |
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Defending the Borders: The Texas Rangers, 1848-1861
ISBN: 9781880510773 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second book in his critically acclaimed series of Texas Ranger histories, Frederick Wilkins' "Defending the Borders" narrates a rarely told story of the rangers during the slightly-more-than-a-decade of Texas' history as one of the states of the United States, just before the Civil War ripped asunder the fabric of the federal union which Texas had joined.
The period 1848-1861 is one in which Texas, despite having joined the Union, was nevertheless forced to rely upon itself for defense against both Indian depredations and invasions from south of the Rio Grande. The U.S. Army forces... The second book in his critically acclaimed series of Texas Ranger histories, Frederick Wilkins' "Defending the Borders" narrates a rarely told story ...
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A Frontier Texas Mercantile: The History of Gibbs Brothers and Company, Huntsville, 1841-1940
ISBN: 9781881515081 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August, 1841, Thomas Gibbs and Gardner Coffin, two itinerant merchants traveling from the states of the American South, arrived in the Republic of Texas and opened a small frontier general mercantile in the recently-established settlement of Huntsville. From that date to the present, members of the Gibbs family residing in Walker County have operated their business interests from the same location on the courthouse square. Being in continuous operation for well over a century and a half permits the Gibbses to claim with justifiable pride that theirs is the oldest business in the state....
In August, 1841, Thomas Gibbs and Gardner Coffin, two itinerant merchants traveling from the states of the American South, arrived in the Republic of ...
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121,40 |
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31 by Lawrence Clayton
ISBN: 9781893114326 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historian David Coffey wrote that the "late Texas folklorist and historian Lawrence Clayton found beauty where many might see only mesquite and limestone; he found humor in unlikely places, and he found nobility in the hard lives of cowboys and the roughnecks. "For years, Dr. Clayton chronicled the history of the Clear Fork Country--the stretch of land cut by the Clear Fork of the Brazos River of Shackelford and Throckmorton counties. His thoughtful prose on the region's colorful past and its equally colorful characters has appeared in dozens of publications over the years. His efforts...
Historian David Coffey wrote that the "late Texas folklorist and historian Lawrence Clayton found beauty where many might see only mesquite and limest...
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121,40 |
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Spirits of the Border: Restless Spirits
ISBN: 9781933951096 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ghosts and hauntings are found almost everywhere that tragedy has leftits mark. Soldiers, so focused on doing their duty have been seen to still carry out their assigned tasks longer after the war and their own lives are ended. From John Brown, who walks the streets of Harpers Ferry, to the ghosts who continue to refight the Battle of Antietam, miliary ghosts open up anentirely new chapter of history.
Ghosts and hauntings are found almost everywhere that tragedy has leftits mark. Soldiers, so focused on doing their duty have been seen to still carry...
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Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of Colorado
ISBN: 9781933951119 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ghosts and hauntings are found almost everywhere that tragedy has leftits mark. Soldiers, so focused on doing their duty have been seen to still carry out their assigned tasks longer after the war and their own lives are ended. From John Brown, who walks the streets of Harpers Ferry, to the ghosts who continue to refight the Battle of Antietam, miliary ghosts open up anentirely new chapter of history.
Ghosts and hauntings are found almost everywhere that tragedy has leftits mark. Soldiers, so focused on doing their duty have been seen to still carry...
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Spirits of the Border: The History and Mystery of Tombstone, AZ.
ISBN: 9781933951249 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tombstone, Arizona, is one of the most famous of the mining boomtowns, and one of the most violent. Meet the ghosts in this tour of the historic old west town that was too tough to die.
Tombstone, Arizona, is one of the most famous of the mining boomtowns, and one of the most violent. Meet the ghosts in this tour of the historic old w...
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Spirits of the Border: School Spirits
ISBN: 9781933951256 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this newest installment in the Spirits of the Border series, attention is concentrated on the most haunted schools in the Southern border of the United States--elementary to college. Who are these spirits doomed to walk the halls of educational institutions for eternity? Why are they there, and what do they do as they wander?
In this newest installment in the Spirits of the Border series, attention is concentrated on the most haunted schools in the Southern border of the Un...
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