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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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319,74 zł |
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The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town
ISBN: 9780806140759 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Julie Weston's book could have been subtitled Growing Up in America-against a background of poison from one of the most notorious mining operations in the world. Weston's insights are unforgettable; her writing is wonderful." - Mary Clearman Blew, author of All but the Waltz and Jackalope Dreams "An important portrait of the interior West-the true stuff, raw and gritty, honest to the bone."--Craig Lesley, author of Burning Fence and Sky Fisherman Julie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it pulled her back. Only when she returned to this mining community in...
"Julie Weston's book could have been subtitled Growing Up in America-against a background of poison from one of the most notorious mining operations i...
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121,97 zł |
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Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime
ISBN: 9781596525344 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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185,00 zł |
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Two Dot Ranch, A Biography of Place
ISBN: 9781932636475 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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118,85 zł |
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Racial Borders: Black Soldiers Along the Rio Grande
ISBN: 9781603441599 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the Civil War ended, hundreds of African Americans enlisted in the U.S. Army to gain social mobility and regular paychecks. Stationed in the West prior to 1898, these black soldiers protected white communities, forced Native Americans onto government reservations, patrolled the Mexican border, and broke up labor disputes in mining areas. African American men, themselves no strangers to persecution, aided the subjugation of Indian and Hispanic peoples throughout the West. It can hardly be surprising, then, that the relations among these groups became complex and often hostile hardly...
When the Civil War ended, hundreds of African Americans enlisted in the U.S. Army to gain social mobility and regular paychecks. Stationed in the West...
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104,70 zł |
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Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941
ISBN: 9780520292420 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of its complex relationship to three rivers: the Los Angeles, the Owens, and the Colorado. The remarkable urban and suburban trajectory of southern California since then cannot be fully understood without reference to the ways in which each of these three river systems came to be connected to the future of the metropolitan...
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit...
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162,86 zł |
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Two Dot Ranch, a Biography of Place
ISBN: 9781932636482 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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167,36 zł |
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Hidden History of Utah
ISBN: 9781540209559 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,08 zł |
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Trails of Historic New Mexico: Routes Used by Indian, Spanish and American Travelers Through 1886
ISBN: 9780786440108 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a survey of the major historic network of two-way trade routes of New Mexico and other parts of the American Southwest used by Indians, prospectors, soldiers, buffalo hunters, immigrants, and cattle and sheep drovers. A chronology of the history of these trails and maps of the most important trails are included--Provided by publisher.
This is a survey of the major historic network of two-way trade routes of New Mexico and other parts of the American Southwest used by Indians, prospe...
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252,96 zł |
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Hā'ena: Through the Eyes of the Ancestors
ISBN: 9780824834104 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ha'ena is a land steeped in antiquity yet vibrantly beautiful today as any Hollywood fantasy of a tropical paradise. He 'aina momona, a rich and fertile land linked to the sea and the rising and setting sun, is a place of gods and goddesses: Pele and her sister, Hi'iaka, and Laka, patron of hula. It epitomizes the best that can be found in the district of northwestern Kaua'i, known to aboriginal Hawaiians as Hale Le'a (House of Pleasure and Delight). This work is an ambitious attempt to provide a unique perspective in the complex story of the ahupua'a of Ha'ena. Carlos Andrade begins... Ha'ena is a land steeped in antiquity yet vibrantly beautiful today as any Hollywood fantasy of a tropical paradise. He 'aina momona, a rich and fe... |
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105,58 zł |
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Nevada Civil War Claims: Legislative Reports, 1888-1900
ISBN: 9781585499564 / Angielski / Miękka / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This excellent resource book contains facsimile reprints of legislative reports submitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives for Nevada Civil War claims between April 16, 1888 and May 16, 1900. The reports are a goldmine of information, libera
This excellent resource book contains facsimile reprints of legislative reports submitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives for Nevada Ci...
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187,69 zł |
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Santa Paula 1930-1960
ISBN: 9780738571652 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This visual history of the 20th century's middle decades in Santa Paula illustrates how a rural city settled into its middle age. As a sequel to Images of America: Santa Paula, which covered the pioneering and settlement years of 1870 to 1930, it continues this Ventura County city's story through the Depression decade and the World War II and Korean War home front years that led up to the sixties. The time from 1930 to 1960 was prosperous for the two main industries in Santa Paula and its environs: citrus cultivation and oil production. The population increases reflected the job opportunities...
This visual history of the 20th century's middle decades in Santa Paula illustrates how a rural city settled into its middle age. As a sequel to Image...
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110,21 zł |
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Sacagawea's Child: The Life and Times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau
ISBN: 9780806140988 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first complete and documented biography of this remarkable frontiersman, whose life encapsulated much of western American history up to about 1865, for he was by turns a mountain man, interpreter, guide, hotel operator, and gold miner. With Lewis and Clark from the moment of his birth, little "Pomp," whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, journeyed from North Dakota to the Pacific and back in the arms of his mother, Sacagawea. In his sixty-one years, he successfully integrated the voyageur lifestyle of his father's people, the proud Native American heritage of his mother's people,...
The first complete and documented biography of this remarkable frontiersman, whose life encapsulated much of western American history up to about 1865...
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160,35 zł |
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Early School Attendance Records of Sonoma County, California: Volume II, 1874-1932
ISBN: 9780788441844 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume II consists of a set of selected school attendance record pages which were duplicated from school registers. This volume contains over 12,000 listings of pupils in nineteen schools and ranges in date from 1874 to 1932. These records do not lend the
Volume II consists of a set of selected school attendance record pages which were duplicated from school registers. This volume contains over 12,000 l...
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207,45 zł |
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The Civil War Veterans of San Diego: Including Citations to Genealogical Research Sources in San Diego, California
ISBN: 9780788435805 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study was conducted to indentify Civil War veterans who migrated to San Diego, California, after the war. Nearly 2,000 veterans were identified, mostly Union veterans from the Northern States. For example: 281 were born in New York, 251 in Ohio, 172 in
A study was conducted to indentify Civil War veterans who migrated to San Diego, California, after the war. Nearly 2,000 veterans were identified, mos...
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276,59 zł |
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Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780788403873 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work fills the void by making obscure and un-indexed material available to researchers in Alaskan and Canadian history and genealogy. Volume 2 contains more than 400 additional biographies, alphabetically arranged and full of fascinating information
This work fills the void by making obscure and un-indexed material available to researchers in Alaskan and Canadian history and genealogy. Volume 2 co...
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158,06 zł |
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Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
ISBN: 9780807871133 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics.
During an era of expansion and political struggle in California's system of public higher education, black southern migrants formed the BPP. In the early 1960s, attending Merritt College and other public universities radicalized Huey Newton,... In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history ...
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208,37 zł |
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California Place Names, 40th Anniversary Edition: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names
ISBN: 9780520266193 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.
This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of Califor...
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152,00 zł |
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A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
ISBN: 9781400033584 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Best Book of the Year
The Los Angeles Times The Washington Post Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times... Best Book of the Year
The Los Angeles Times The Washington Post Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in... |
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88,20 zł |
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L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
ISBN: 9780307352088 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men--one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief--each prepared to... Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine... |
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74,97 zł |
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