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Brazil: The Once and Future Country
ISBN: 9780312214456 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the most comprehensive introduction to Brazil available in English, Brazil: The Once and Future Country shows Brazil to be a land of the marvellous and the mystical, the sublime and the tragic. Eakin describes a country defined by paradoxes: immense wealth surrounded by widespread poverty, a modern industrial infrastructure alongside an outmoded agricultural system, a largely white South and a Northeastern coast that is overwhelmingly of African descent. Eakin chronicles Brazil's development from its origins in the sixteenth century, when it was created as a by-product of European imperial...
As the most comprehensive introduction to Brazil available in English, Brazil: The Once and Future Country shows Brazil to be a land of the marvellous...
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Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy, and the Spanish-American War
ISBN: 9780312240233 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Paramount in Roosevelt's vision was the creation of a fleet of modern, steel-hulled warships armed with the most powerful weapons available. The future president and his intellectual soul mate, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, firmly believed that America's emerging global expansion would only reach its full potential through sea. power. The swift and overwhelming US victor in the Spanish-American War of 1898 vindicated the views of Theodore Roosevelt and Captain Mahan, and marked the debut on...
In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Paramount in Roosevelt's vision was the creatio...
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The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1957-69
ISBN: 9781403912930 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eisenhower and Macmillan had a huge impact as leaders of the free world and were committed to the Anglo-American leadership of that world. This complete collection of their letters throws light on world politics, diplomacy and history.
Eisenhower and Macmillan had a huge impact as leaders of the free world and were committed to the Anglo-American leadership of that world. This comple...
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An Intellectual History of the Caribbean
ISBN: 9781403966766 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the region as well as texts interpretive of the region produced by Western authors. Stressing the experimental and cultural particularity of the Caribbean, the study considers major questions in the field.
This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the regi...
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Latin America in the 1930s: The Role of the Periphery in World Crisis
ISBN: 9780333365724 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s, a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students alike. The second edition has been revised and updated, including a new preface and updated statistical material, to form the second volume in An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America . This book confronts the puzzle of Latin America's rapid recovery from the collapse in world markets and capital flows in the late 1920s. It shows how far the safety valves which made recovery possible in the 1930s were not available fifty years...
This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s, a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students ...
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Allies in Conflict: Anglo-American Strategic Negotiations, 1938-44
ISBN: 9780333671573 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The following study is primarily concerned with the unifying and destructive forces that affected the Anglo-American relationship between 1938 and 1944, as those involved searched for a strategic solution to the war in Europe. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill's methods of leadership are compared and their personal relationship investigated. Anglo-American tensions are disclosed and assessed with regard to clandestine warfare, special operations and rearming the French and operation ANVIL, the invasion of southern France, is examined for its role in the...
The following study is primarily concerned with the unifying and destructive forces that affected the Anglo-American relationship between 1938 and 194...
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The Rediscovery of America: Transatlantic Crosscurrents in an Age of Revolution
ISBN: 9781349269365 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rediscovery of America features some twenty representatives of England, France and America, whose careers in some sense straddled the Atlantic in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. While not establishing causal links between the American and French Revolutions, the collective weight of these individual responses to the new America supports the idea of an 'Atlantic Revolution'. This study of the writings and transatlantic experiences of the revolutionary generation shows the power of American images in shaping political rhetoric, if not political reality.
The Rediscovery of America features some twenty representatives of England, France and America, whose careers in some sense straddled the Atlantic in ...
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The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1957-69
ISBN: 9781349511570 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence provides, for the first time, an edition of the messages exchanged between Harold Macmillan and Dwight D. Eisenhower during their tenures as national leaders in the late 1950s. The collection consists of more than 400 letters, cables and transcripts of telephone conversations. This extensive correspondence reveals the agreements and disagreements between Macmillan and Eisenhower and their approaches to the major political issues of their time. The correspondence also shows how Macmillan and Eisenhower preserved and strengthened the Anglo-American...
The Macmillan-Eisenhower Correspondence provides, for the first time, an edition of the messages exchanged between Harold Macmillan and Dwight D. Eise...
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Eisenhower, MacMillan and the Problem of Nasser: Anglo-American Relations and Arab Nationalism, 1955-59
ISBN: 9780333644553 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study traces the British and US responses to the Turco-Iraqi Pact of 1955, the Suez crisis, the Syrian crisis of 1957, civil strife in Lebanon, and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958. It shows how differing priorities promoted confrontation and co-operation over Middle Eastern questions.
This study traces the British and US responses to the Turco-Iraqi Pact of 1955, the Suez crisis, the Syrian crisis of 1957, civil strife in Lebanon, a...
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Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy and the Spanish-American War
ISBN: 9781349633449 / Angielski / Miękka / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the work of nine distinguished historians and naval officers writing about Theodore Roosevelt and his close association with the U. S. Navy in the pivotal Spanish-American War years.
This book presents the work of nine distinguished historians and naval officers writing about Theodore Roosevelt and his close association with the U....
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American Catholic Women Religious: Radicalized by Mission
ISBN: 9783319604640 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book depicts the significant role played by American Catholic Women Religious in the broader narratives of modern American history and the history of the Catholic Church. The book is a guide to fifty foreign missions founded by Dominican and Maryknoll Sisters in the twentieth century. Sister Donna Moses examines root causes for the radical political stances taken by American Catholic Women Religious in the latter half of the century and for the conservative backlash that followed. The book identifies key events that contributed to the present state of division within the American... This book depicts the significant role played by American Catholic Women Religious in the broader narratives of modern American history and the his... |
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Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms: The Crown of Education
ISBN: 9783319894010 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia.
This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ont...
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Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms: The Crown of Education
ISBN: 9783030077617 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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American Catholic Women Religious: Radicalized by Mission
ISBN: 9783319868684 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Anti-Catholicism and British Identities in Britain, Canada and Australia, 1880s-1920s
ISBN: 9783031112270 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion. This book explores anti-Catholicism in Britain and its Dominions, and forms part of a notable revival over the last decade in the critical historical analysis of anti-Catholicism. It employs transnational and comparative historical approaches throughout, thanks to the exploration of relevant original sources both in the United Kingdom and in Australia...
Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought...
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Anti-Catholicism and British Identities in Britain, Canada and Australia, 1880s-1920s
ISBN: 9783031112300 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion. This book explores anti-Catholicism in Britain and its Dominions, and forms part of a notable revival over the last decade in the critical historical analysis of anti-Catholicism. It employs transnational and comparative historical approaches throughout, thanks to the exploration of relevant original sources both in the United Kingdom and in...
Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought...
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Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500 - 1900
ISBN: 9789004223899 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent developments in the cultural history of written culture have omitted the specificity of practices relative to writing that were anchored in colonial contexts. The circulation of manuscripts and books between different continents played a key role in the process of the first globalization from the 16th century onwards. While the European colonial organization mobilised several forms of writing and tried to control the circulation and reception of this material, the very function and meaning of written culture was recreated by the introduction and appropriation of written culture into...
Recent developments in the cultural history of written culture have omitted the specificity of practices relative to writing that were anchored in col...
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Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press for Thirty Years
ISBN: 9783846047699 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Befreiungskampf der nordamerikanischen Staaten
ISBN: 9783846017463 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 782 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Title: Befreiungskampf der nordamerikanischen Staaten: mit den Lebensbeschreibungen der vier beruhmtesten Manner desselben: Washington, Franklin, Lafayette und Kosciuszko.Author: Heinrich ElsnerPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil...
Title: Befreiungskampf der nordamerikanischen Staaten: mit den Lebensbeschreibungen der vier beruhmtesten Manner desselben: Washington, Franklin, Lafa...
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PABLO ESCOBAR. Su defensa. Parte I.: Lo malo fue ser bueno.
ISBN: 9789584924490 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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