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When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young, 1903-1940
ISBN: 9780824838515 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the stories of some "1.5" and second-generation Koreans who experienced life in Hawaii or on the US mainland since childhood. Some tales are humorous, some sad. Their stories were captured from nearly a hundred interviews taken by co-author Roberta Chang. Their stories are filled with amazing personal accomplishments, family love, and unique community life.
Tells the stories of some "1.5" and second-generation Koreans who experienced life in Hawaii or on the US mainland since childhood. Some tales are hum...
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Rough-Water Man: Elwyn Blake's Colorado River Expeditions
ISBN: 9780874179149 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed the river's main courses, but still needed accurate charts of the last stretches of deep canyons and white-water rapids, accessible only by boat.
"Rough-Water Man" is the first detailed account of these mapping expeditions by the USGS--the San Juan Canyon in 1921, the upper Green River in 1922, and the Grand Canyon in 1923. Illustrated throughout with period photographs, it is also the personal... The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries....
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Five Old Men of Yellowstone: The Rise of Interpretation in the First National Park
ISBN: 9781607812463 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Modern Blackfeet: Montanans on a Reservation
ISBN: 9780803246430 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern Blackfeet sheds light on the politics, economics, society, and especially the acculturation of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. The Blackfeet Reservation has an established government and an active and diverse population that has long supported itself through ranching, industry, and oil and natural gas exploration. Malcolm McFee shows why, as a result, policies and programs based on simplistic assumptions of assimilation are doomed to failure. The results of McFee s long-term research among the Blackfeet in the 1950s and 1960s make it clear that acculturation is... Modern Blackfeet sheds light on the politics, economics, society, and especially the acculturation of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. The ... |
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Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
ISBN: 9780806146812 / Angielski / Miękka / 471 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was he a Mexican American Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In this engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers. Bandido pulls back the... Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Trib... |
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Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929
ISBN: 9780813061993 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pushes aside the palm fronds celebrated by boosters to explain how the nineteenth-century frontiers of barren southern California and waterlogged southern Florida were reimagined as havens for American leisure and agriculture. This is the story of the birth of modern America. Anthony J. Stanonis, author of Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918 1945 A refreshingly original and subtly nuanced study of how nineteenth- and twentieth-century boosters sold Florida and California as semi-tropical lands worthy of serious attention. With clarity...
Pushes aside the palm fronds celebrated by boosters to explain how the nineteenth-century frontiers of barren southern California and waterlogged sout...
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L.A. Private Eyes
ISBN: 9780813596365 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the present. The book takes a closer look at narratives in which detectives travel the streets of LA, uncovering corruption, moral ambiguity, and greed, while always ultimately finding truth and redemption.
Examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the present. The bo...
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Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990
ISBN: 9780806154176 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876
ISBN: 9780806165929 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy
ISBN: 9781496216656 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Molly McClain presents a biography of Ellen Browning Scripps, an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, social reformer, and philanthropist who made her fortune in the rapidly expanding Scripps chain of newspapers and used her wealth and influence to support philanthropic causes.
Molly McClain presents a biography of Ellen Browning Scripps, an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, social reformer, and phi...
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The Trial of Tom Horn
ISBN: 9780806167510 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sea Otters: A History
ISBN: 9781496225009 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mark O. Hatfield: Oregon Statesman Volume 33
ISBN: 9780806175805 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West
ISBN: 9781496227928 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Social Process in Hawai'i, Volume 46: Celebrating 100 Years of Local Studies
ISBN: 9781952460005 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance
ISBN: 9780806186368 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska
ISBN: 9781496232472 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Lefty O'Doul: Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
ISBN: 9781496234759 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Radical L.A.: From Coxey's Army to the Watts Riots, 1894-1965
ISBN: 9780806192185 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, 'Coxey's Army' marked the birth of radicalism in that city. This book traces the subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.'s power structure, and tells how both sides shaped the city's character.
When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, 'Coxey's Army' marked the birt...
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Montana's Pioneer Naturalist: Morton J. Elrod
ISBN: 9780806194806 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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