ilość książek w kategorii: 5502
El Camino Real de California: From Ancient Pathways to Modern Byways
ISBN: 9780826361028 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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383,72 zł |
The Latino Big Bang in California
ISBN: 9780826365507 / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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383,72 zł |
Benjamin Bugsy Siegel: The Gangster, the Flamingo, and the Making of Modern Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781440801853 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the famous Flamingo Hotel and Casino. Larry D. Gragg examines Siegel's image as portrayed in popular culture, dispels the myths about Siegel's contribution to the founding of Las Vegas, and reveals some of the more lurid details about his life. Unlike previous biographies, this book is the first to make use of more than 2,400 pages of FBI files on Siegel, referencing documents about the reputed gangster in the New York City Municipal Archives... This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the... |
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383,72 zł |
Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West Volume 8
ISBN: 9780806191782 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The image of western ranchers making a stand for their “rights”—against developers, the government, “illegal” immigrants—may be commonplace today, but the political power of the cowboy was a long time in the making. In a book steeped in the culture, traditions, and history of western range ranching, Michelle K. Berry takes readers into the Cold War world of cattle ranchers in the American West to show how that power, with its implications for the lands and resources of the mountain states, was built, shaped, and shored up between 1945 and 1965. After long days working the ranch,...
The image of western ranchers making a stand for their “rights”—against developers, the government, “illegal” immigrants—may be commonplac...
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383,72 zł |
Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers, Selected Trial Records and Aftermath
ISBN: 9780806157221 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote region of southwestern Utah. Within weeks, news of the atrocity spread across the United States. But it took until 1874--seventeen years later--before a grand jury finally issued indictments against nine of the perpetrators. Mountain Meadows Massacre chronicles the prolonged legal battle to gain justice for the victims.
The editors of this two-volume collection of documents have combed public and private manuscript collections from... On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote regio...
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Stauffer: Kahana: How the Land Was
ISBN: 9780824825904 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the most detailed case study of land tenure in Hawaii. Focusing on kuleana (homestead land) in Kahana, Oahu, from 1846 to 1920, the author challenges commonly held views concerning the Great Mahele (Division) of 1846-1855 and its aftermath. There can be no argument that in the fifty years prior to the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, ninety percent of all land in the Islands passed into the control or ownership of non-Hawaiians. This land grab is often thought to have begun with the Great Mahele and to have been quickly accomplished because of Hawaiians' ignorance of... This volume is the most detailed case study of land tenure in Hawaii. Focusing on kuleana (homestead land) in Kahana, Oahu, from 1846 to 1920, the ... |
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386,14 zł |
Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai'i
ISBN: 9780824835026 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Powerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers--Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin--were routinely subjected to repression and racism at the hands of white bosses. The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii... Powerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen's U... |
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386,14 zł |
Nevada: A Guide To The Silver State
ISBN: 9780403021789 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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394,01 zł |
Montana: A State Guide Book
ISBN: 9780403021765 / Angielski / Twarda / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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394,01 zł |
Indians of Colorado
ISBN: 9780403098767 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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394,01 zł |
Encyclopedia of Nevada Indians
ISBN: 9780403097852 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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394,01 zł |
Encyclopedia of Wyoming Indians
ISBN: 9780403097876 / Angielski / Twarda / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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394,01 zł |
Encyclopedia of Utah Indians
ISBN: 9780403097838 / Angielski / Twarda / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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394,01 zł |
Yellowstone and the Smithsonian: Centers of Wildlife Conservation
ISBN: 9780700623884 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the winter of 1996-97, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison. Since that time, thousands more have been killed or hazed back into the park, as wildlife managers struggle to accommodate an animal that does not recognize man-made borders. Tensions over the hunting and preservation of the bison, an animal sacred to many Native Americans and an icon of the American West, are at least as old as the nation's first national park. Established in 1872, in part "to protect against the wanton destruction of the fish and game,"...
In the winter of 1996-97, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison. Since that time,...
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395,33 zł |
Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco
ISBN: 9781439909911 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Church and State in the City" provides the first comprehensive analysis of the cityOCOs long debate about the public interest. Historian William Issel explores the complex ways that the San Francisco Catholic ChurchOCoand its lay men and womenOCodeveloped relationships with the local businesses, unions, other community groups, and city government to shape debates about how to define and implement the common good. IsselOCOs deeply researched narrative also sheds new light on the cityOCOs socialists, including Communist Party activistsOCothe most important transnational challengers of both... "Church and State in the City" provides the first comprehensive analysis of the cityOCOs long debate about the public interest. Historian William I... |
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395,59 zł |
How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914
ISBN: 9780814756768 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African-American men were systematically disenfranchised. How did the frontier West leap ahead of the rest of the nation in the enfranchisement of the majority of its citizens? In this provocative new study, Rebecca J. Mead shows that Western... By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democ... |
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400,60 zł |
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California
ISBN: 9781613321232 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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400,60 zł |
El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition
ISBN: 9780520272125 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is Cinco de Mayo--a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862--so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time--it embodied immigrant nostalgia in the 1930s, U.S. patriotism during World War II, Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, and commercial intentions in...
Why is Cinco de Mayo--a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862--so widely celebrated in California and across the U...
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406,65 zł |
Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration
ISBN: 9780190842062 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nature Behind Barbed Wire uses an environmental lens to reinterpret the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Nature Behind Barbed Wire uses an environmental lens to reinterpret the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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408,20 zł |
Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9781646425440 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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411,14 zł |