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Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776
ISBN: 9780415931731 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While much scholarship has examined the colonial Chesapeake's slave culture, little attention has been paid to the class of landowners who dominated this society. Trevor Burnard has undertaken a systematic study of this agricultural elite, providing a glimpse into the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland during the period 1691-1776.
While much scholarship has examined the colonial Chesapeake's slave culture, little attention has been paid to the class of landowners who dominated t...
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873,24 |
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The New Immigration : An Interdisciplinary Reader
ISBN: 9780415949163 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the turn of the millennium, the United States has the largest number of immigrants in its history. As a consequence, immigration has emerged once again as a subject of scholarly inquiry and policy debate. This volume brings together the dominant conceptual and theoretical work on the "New Immigration" from such disparate disciplines as anthropology, demography, psychology, and sociology. Immigration today is a global and transnational phenomenon that affects every region of the world with unprecedented force. Although this volume is devoted to scholarly work on the new immigration in the...
At the turn of the millennium, the United States has the largest number of immigrants in its history. As a consequence, immigration has emerged once a...
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314,74 |
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The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation
ISBN: 9780520077799 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the emergence of the antislavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to this development. The essays delve beyond these issues, however, to raise a deeper question of historical interpretation: What are the relations between consciousness, moral action, and social change? The debate illustrates that concepts common in historical practice are not so stable as we have thought them to be. It is about concepts as much as evidence,...
This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the emergence of the an...
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144,30 |
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Reading Columbus: Volume 9
ISBN: 9780520082977 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications. Her comprehensive study takes into account the newly discovered "Libro Copiador," which includes previously unknown letters from Columbus to the Crown. Zamora examines those aspects of the texts that have caused the most anxiety and disagreement among scholars--questions concerning...
Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first...
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182,89 |
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Haiti, History, and the Gods
ISBN: 9780520213685 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives human dimensions to this eighteenth-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today.
In examining the complex social fabric of French... In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by hi...
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144,30 |
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Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961
ISBN: 9780520232303 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends--the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power--were linked in complex and surprising ways. While most cultural historians of the Cold War have focused on the culture of containment, Christina Klein reads the postwar period as...
In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and tra...
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199,48 |
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This Land Is Our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami
ISBN: 9780520233980 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For those opposed to immigration, Miami is a nightmare. Miami is the de facto capital of Latin America; it is a city where immigrants dominate, Spanish is ubiquitous, and Denny's is an ethnic restaurant. Are Miami's immigrants representative of a trend that is undermining American culture and identity?
Drawing from in-depth fieldwork in the city and looking closely at recent events such as the Elian Gonzalez case, This Land Is Our Land examines interactions between immigrants and established Americans in Miami to address fundamental questions of American identity and... For those opposed to immigration, Miami is a nightmare. Miami is the de facto capital of Latin America; it is a city where immigrants dominate, Spanis...
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199,48 |
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The Fractious Nation?: Unity and Division in Contemporary American Life
ISBN: 9780520236639 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before and the time of unity that followed is much too stark, indeed.
Less than a year before two planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the 2000 presidential election produced not just the starkly blue and red electoral map but also the two tribal Americas those totemic colors emblazoned.... What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a back...
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199,48 |
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Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City
ISBN: 9780520240933 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arlene Davila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New York, the global center of culture and consumption, where Latinos are now the biggest minority group. Analyzing the simultaneous gentrification and Latinization of what is known as El Barrio or Spanish Harlem, Barrio Dreams makes a compelling case that--despite neoliberalism's race-and ethnicity-free tenets--dreams of economic empowerment are never devoid of distinct racial and ethnic considerations. Davila scrutinizes dramatic shifts in...
Arlene Davila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New York,...
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199,48 |
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Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology
ISBN: 9780520241374 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teacher, scholar, and leader, Neil Smelser stands as an iconic figure in sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars from all walks of the social sciences, reveal the range and depth of Smelser's influence--and his substantial contributions to diverse fields such as British history, social change, collective behavior, higher education, the economy, and psychoanalysis.
Contributors: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Nancy J. Chodorow, Burton R. Clark, Yiannis Gabriel, Arlie Russell Hochschild, James M. Jasper, Christian Joppke,... Teacher, scholar, and leader, Neil Smelser stands as an iconic figure in sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. The essays in this vol...
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199,48 |
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Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s
ISBN: 9780520243309 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moment of Grace tells the story of the American city in its remarkable heyday. Never before or after the 1950s were downtowns so exciting, neighborhoods so settled, or suburban dwellers so optimistic. Urban culture was at its peak: it was vital, urbane, conformist, and generating rebellion all at once. Capturing the mood of the '50s in superb historical photographs and mining delightfully varied sources--including urban critics, interviews with city residents, novels, songs, magazines, and newspapers--Moment of Grace brings alive the downtowns, the neighborhoods, and the suburbs...
Moment of Grace tells the story of the American city in its remarkable heyday. Never before or after the 1950s were downtowns so exciting, neig...
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182,89 |
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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000: Volume 4
ISBN: 9780520248489 / Angielski / Miękka / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States--a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this interconnected destiny has meant for American Jews and how it has defined their experience among the world's Jews is fully chronicled in this work, a comprehensive and finely nuanced history of Jews in the United States from 1654 through the end of the past century. Hasia R. Diner traces Jewish participation in American history--from the...
Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and ...
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144,30 |
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Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650
ISBN: 9780521627306 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Noble David Cook explains, in vivid detail and sweeping scope, how the conquest of the New World was achieved by a handful of Europeans--not by the sword, but by deadly disease. The Aztec and Inca empires with their teeming millions were destroyed by a few hundred Europeans whose most important weapons, though the conquerors did not realize it at the time, were diseases previously unknown in the Americas. The end result of the colonizing experience in the Americas, whether of the Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, or French, was the collapse of native society.
Noble David Cook explains, in vivid detail and sweeping scope, how the conquest of the New World was achieved by a handful of Europeans--not by the sw...
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116,93 |
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The United States and Europe in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780582308640 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflict and co-operation are key features of US-European relations throughout the 20th century. This text looks at the relationship from the growth of the United States as a world power, to the so-called uni-polar moment at the end of the Cold War. The book examines: the traditions of United States foreign relations; relations up to and between World War I and World War II; The United States and Europe during the Cold War; Washington and West European integration; and the growing influence of the United States in Europe. Throughout the book the author emphasises that as well as significant...
Conflict and co-operation are key features of US-European relations throughout the 20th century. This text looks at the relationship from the growth o...
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218,27 |
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American Abolitionists
ISBN: 9780582357389 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SEMINAR STUDIES IN HISTORYGeneral Editors: Clive Emsley & Gordon MartelThe effort to abolish slavery produced the Atlantic world's great reform movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.This book focuses on the American abolitionists who struggled against slavery and advocated equal rights for African Americans in the United States. Blacks, whites, men and women, southern slaves and northern agitators became participants in the conflict between North and South that led to the Civil War in 1861 and general emancipation in 1865. Some of these activists advocated non-violence, while...
SEMINAR STUDIES IN HISTORYGeneral Editors: Clive Emsley & Gordon MartelThe effort to abolish slavery produced the Atlantic world's great reform moveme...
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218,27 |
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Franklin D Roosevelt
ISBN: 9780582438033 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Richard Carwardine, St Catherine's College, Oxford; calls this work, a fresh and vividly written account, of Franklin D.Roosevelt's life, covering his early days in one of the nation's oldest and richest families; the effect of the polio that ravaged him in his prime; and the role of his early political career and his 12-year presidency.
Professor Richard Carwardine, St Catherine's College, Oxford; calls this work, a fresh and vividly written account, of Franklin D.Roosevelt's life, co...
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223,35 |
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India Once Ruled the Americas!
ISBN: 9780595134687 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,02 |
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A Companion to American Technology
ISBN: 9780631228448 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America.
A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology"...
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988,47 |
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South America on the Eve of Emancipation: The Southern Spanish Colonies in the Last Half-Century of Their Dependence
ISBN: 9780714620329 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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263,97 |
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The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas
ISBN: 9780714641720 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.
Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing the...
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421,37 |
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