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Father of All: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780520289079 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historian Louise Pubols presents a rich and nuanced study of a key family in California's past: the de la Guerras of Santa Barbara. Amid sweeping economic and political changes, including the U.S.Mexican War, the de la Guerra family continually adapted and reinvented themselves. This absorbing narrative is much more than the history of an elite and powerful family, however. Pubols analyzes the region's trading and provisioning economy and clarifies its volatile political rivalries. By tracing a web of business and family relationships, Pubols shows in practical terms how patriarchy functioned...
Historian Louise Pubols presents a rich and nuanced study of a key family in California's past: the de la Guerras of Santa Barbara. Amid sweeping econ...
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303,02 zł |
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Historic Nevada Waters: Four Rivers, Three Lakes, Past and Present
ISBN: 9781476672618 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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303,02 zł |
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From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1931
ISBN: 9780520326460 / Angielski / Miękka / 545 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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303,02 zł |
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The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley
ISBN: 9780520266636 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many...
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provide...
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303,02 zł |
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Working People of California
ISBN: 9780520332768 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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303,02 zł |
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Dutton's Dirty Diggers: Bertha P. Dutton and the Senior Girl Scout Archaeological Camps in the American Southwest, 1947-1957
ISBN: 9781607817833 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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303,04 zł |
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Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929
ISBN: 9780813044811 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 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...
"Pushes aside the palm fronds celebrated by boosters to explain how the nineteenth-century frontiers of barren southern California and waterlogged sou...
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303,04 zł |
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On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
ISBN: 9780520272385 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. This title features essays that show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control.
Reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. This titl...
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303,56 zł |
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Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaiivolume 11
ISBN: 9780520298590 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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303,56 zł |
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The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands Volume 9
ISBN: 9780520291638 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Other California is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse landscape of Baja California. Packed with new and transformative stories, the book examines the interplay of land reform and migratory labor on the peninsula from 1850 to 1954, as governments, foreign investors, and local communities shaped a vibrant and dynamic borderland alongside the booming cities of Tijuana, Mexicali, and Santa Rosalia. Migration and intermarriage between Mexican women and men from Asia, Europe, and the United States transformed Baja...
The Other California is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse landscape of Baja C...
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303,56 zł |
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San Francisco: A Food Biography
ISBN: 9780759121515 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This food biography focuses on how people have experienced the bounty of the City by the Bay.
This food biography focuses on how people have experienced the bounty of the City by the Bay.
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305,89 zł |
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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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307,28 zł |
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News of the Plains and Rockies: Early Explorers, 1803-1812; Fur Hunters, 1813-1847
ISBN: 9780870622519 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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307,93 zł |
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News of the Plains and Rockies: Missionaries, Mormons, 1821-1864; Indian Agents, Captives, 1822-1865
ISBN: 9780870622533 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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307,93 zł |
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News of the Plains and Rockies: Warriors, 1834-1865; Scientists, Artists, 1835-1859
ISBN: 9780870622540 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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307,93 zł |
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News of the Plains and Rockies: Later Explorers, 1847-1865
ISBN: 9780870622557 / Angielski / Twarda / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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307,93 zł |
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News of the Plains and Rockies: Mailmen, 1857-1865; Gold Seekers, Pike's Peak, 1858-1865
ISBN: 9780870622571 / Angielski / Twarda / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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307,93 zł |
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News of the Plains and Rockies: Gold Seekers, Other Areas, 1860-1865; Series Index
ISBN: 9780870622588 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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307,93 zł |
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Man-Made Disaster: The Story of St. Francis Damvolume 3
ISBN: 9780870623226 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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307,93 zł |
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Trouble in the Forest : California's Redwood Timber Wars
ISBN: 9780816653249 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wars over natural resources have been fiercely fought in the Humboldt Bay redwood region of Northern California, a situation made devastatingly urgent in recent decades of timber war that raised questions of economic sustainability and ecological preservation. In Trouble in the Forest, Richard Widick narrates the long and bloody history of this hostility and demonstrates how it exemplifies the key contemporary challenge facing the modern societies-the collision of capitalism, ecology, and social justice. An innovative blend of social history, cultural theory, and ethnography,... Wars over natural resources have been fiercely fought in the Humboldt Bay redwood region of Northern California, a situation made devastatingly urg... |
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307,93 zł |
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