ilość książek w kategorii: 6033
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
ISBN: 9780060572006 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it--and almost certainly... Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute lat... |
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78,02 zł |
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Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case
ISBN: 9780143036630 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects was scant and the trial ended in a hung jury. Outraged, Thalia's socialite mother arranged the kidnapping and murder of one of the suspects. In the spectacularly publicized trial that followed, Clarence Darrow came to Hawai'i to defend Thalia's mother, a sorry epitaph to a noble career.
It is one of the most sensational criminal cases... In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gan...
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74,00 zł |
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Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
ISBN: 9780195154443 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hailed as "a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same," Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now, in the eagerly anticipated conclusion, Lone Star Lawmen, Utley once again chronicles the daring exploits of the Rangers, this time as they bring justice to the twentieth-century West.
Based on unprecedented access to Ranger archives, this fast-paced narrative stretches from the days of the Mexican Revolution (where atrocities against Mexican Americans marked the nadir of... Hailed as "a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same," Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice c...
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262,69 zł |
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Embattled Dreams : California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
ISBN: 9780195168976 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II.
During the 1940s California ascended to a new, more powerful role in the nation. Starr describes the vast expansion of the war industry and California's role as the "arsenal of democracy" (especially the significant part women played in the aviation industry). He examines the politics of the state: Earl Warren as the dominant... The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Emba...
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148,92 zł |
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The Battle over Hetch Hetchy : America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780195313093 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off a firestorm of protest. For the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve nature, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club, who sought to protect what they believed was the right of all Americans to experience natural beauty, particularly the magnificent mountains of the...
In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its ...
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188,64 zł |
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Reworking Race : The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
ISBN: 9780231135344 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly joined the left-led International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and challenged their powerful employers. In this theoretically innovative study, Moon-Kie Jung explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame entrenched racial divisions and successfully mobilized...
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to ar...
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441,80 zł |
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Lost Butte, Montana
ISBN: 9781540206954 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. |
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130,70 zł |
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Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West
ISBN: 9780253342027 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. It seems difficult even to imagine the modern West without reference to its planes, trains, and automobiles. Freeways define modern Los Angeles, as Route 66 still recalls the freedom of the open road. Seattle, long home to Boeing, gave birth to jetliners such as the 707. And once trains with glamorous names like The Sunset Limited and The Great Northern Flyer carried passengers in posh luxury through the grand vistas of the West. "Railways, highways, and skyways link landscapes both ordinary and sublime for tourists in search of scenic splendor," observes Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes. But... It seems difficult even to imagine the modern West without reference to its planes, trains, and automobiles. Freeways define modern Los Angeles, as... |
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195,83 zł |
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From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952
ISBN: 9780253348517 / Angielski / Twarda / 598 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the 20th century the American West was home to nearly half of America's immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians, Germans and Greeks, Mexicans, Italians, Swedes, Basques, and others. This book tells their rich and complex story-of adaptation and isolation, maintaining and mixing traditions, and an ongoing ebb and flow of movement, assimilation, and replenishment. These immigrants and their children built... At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its... |
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171,28 zł |
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Montana Justice : Power, Punishment, and the Penitentiary
ISBN: 9780295984438 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since the days of the wild West, Montanans have struggled to be "tough on crime" with limited resources. During Montana's early territorial years, "criminal justice" was almost nonexistent: a few towns had inadequate and chronically overcrowded jails; occasional prisoners were sent east to the federal penitentiary in Detroit; and vigilantes summarily dealt with others suspected of crimes. In 1871, the federal government funded a penitentiary in Deer Lodge that was turned over to Montana when it achieved statehood in 1889. In this absorbing book, Keith Edgerton provides... Since the days of the wild West, Montanans have struggled to be "tough on crime" with limited resources. During Montana's early terri... |
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135,82 zł |
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Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City
ISBN: 9780295984452 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years, Doris Pieroth describes the contributions of a remarkable group of women who dominated the Seattle public school system in the early years of the twentieth century and helped to produce well-educated citizens who were responsible for the widespread philanthropic, volunteer, and municipal activities that came to characterize the city. While most publications on the history of education have emphasized theory or administration, Pieroth focuses on individual teachers. Set against the backdrop of a developing city, the book... In Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years, Doris Pieroth describes the contributions of a remarkable group of women who dominated th... |
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128,99 zł |
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Beaten Down : A History of Interpersonal Violence in the West
ISBN: 9780295985053 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The word "violence" conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten Down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force--a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who was the "better man." David Peterson del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of violence, this "white noise" that has always been with us, humming quietly between more explosive acts of... Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The word "violence" conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. |
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128,99 zł |
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Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
ISBN: 9780295746098 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. |
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96,16 zł |
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Land in California : The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads
ISBN: 9780520038752 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. The story of California can be told in terms of its land. Better still, it can be told in terms of men and women claiming the land. These men and women form a procession that begins in prehistory and comes down to the present moment. Heading the procession are Indians, stemming out of a mysterious past, speaking a babel of tongues, and laying claims to certain hunting, fishing, and acorn-gathering areas-possessory claims doomed to fade quickly before conquering white races. Following the brown-skinned Indians are Spanish speaking soldiers, settlers, and missionaries who, in 1769, began coming...
The story of California can be told in terms of its land. Better still, it can be told in terms of men and women claiming the land. These men and wome...
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128,51 zł |
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Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes : Violence on the Frontier
ISBN: 9780520060265 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. From the Preface: On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was largely absent; law enforcement and the criminal justice system had limited, if any, influence; and danger--both from man and from the elements--was ever present. This view of the frontier is projected by motion pictures, television, popular literature, and most scholarly histories. But was the frontier really all that violent? What was the nature of the violence that did occur? Were frontier towns more violent that cities in the East? Has America inherited a violent way of...
From the Preface: On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was largely absent; law enforcement...
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136,28 zł |
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California : The Great Exception
ISBN: 9780520218932 / Angielski / Miękka / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years--its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns. As he examined the reasons for the prodigious growth and productivity that have characterized California since the Gold Rush, he praised the vitality of the new citizens who had come from all over the world to populate the state in a very short time. But he also made clear how brutally the new Californians dealt with "the Indian problem," the water problem, and the need for...
In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years--...
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188,64 zł |
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Up and Down California in 1860-1864 : The Journal of William H. Brewer
ISBN: 9780520238657 / Angielski / Miękka / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. Brewer was not a geologist, but his training in agriculture and botany made him an invaluable member of the team. He traveled more than fourteen thousand miles in the four years he spent in California and spent much of his leisure time writing lively, detailed letters to his brother back East. These warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety, describe the new...
In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to a...
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149,78 zł |
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The Island Chumash : Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society
ISBN: 9780520243026 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. "The most important study to come out of the Chumash area, and one of the best examples of research on culture change in contemporary archaeology."--L. Mark Raab, coeditor of "Prehistoric California "A contribution that is remarkable in its scope, quality, and importance."--Terry L. Jones, coeditor of "Catalysts to Complexity "The most comprehensive effort yet made to apply the theoretical framework of behavioral ecology to a problem in human prehistory. The result is not only an excellent demonstration of the power of the approach but a major contribution to the pre-European history of...
"The most important study to come out of the Chumash area, and one of the best examples of research on culture change in contemporary archaeology."--L...
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489,66 zł |
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Fit to Be Citizens? : Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
ISBN: 9780520246492 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups. She shows how the racialization of Mexican Americans was not simply a matter of legal exclusion or labor...
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race...
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205,66 zł |
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Whitewashed Adobe : The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
ISBN: 9780520246676 / Angielski / Miękka / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city--including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920s. In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriating--and...
Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew an...
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177,29 zł |