ilość książek w kategorii: 12585
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Haitian History: New Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415808675 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousness of most Americans until recently. Those who struggled to understand Haiti's suffering in the earthquake of 2010 often spoke of it as the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, but could not explain how it came to be so. In recent years, the amount of scholarship about the island has increased dramatically. Whereas once this scholarship was focused on Haiti's political or military leaders, now the historiography of Haiti features lively...
Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousn...
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836,10 zł |
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Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica
ISBN: 9781409468912 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with...
Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first...
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836,10 zł |
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A Companion to American Women's History
ISBN: 9781119522638 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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842,51 zł |
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American Intellectual Histories and Historians
ISBN: 9780691647890 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of American intellectual histories sketches their development from colonial chronicles to today's professional scholarship. It concentrates upon the writings of a dozen or more major historians between the late 1800's and the middle 1900's who have contributed to the study of the history of ideas in America, including Moses Coit Tyler, Edward Eggleston, Charles Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Farrington, Merle Curti, Perry Miller, and Ralph Gabriel. The various histories are analyzed partly from the perspective of a developing scholarly discipline and partly from the perspective of... This study of American intellectual histories sketches their development from colonial chronicles to today's professional scholarship. It concentra... |
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849,81 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Mexico
ISBN: 9781538111499 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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864,11 zł |
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The History of Freemasonry in Virginia
ISBN: 9780761811305 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, a product of collaboration and cooperation between two non-Masonic historians and the Grand Lodge of Virginia, is an objective, comprehensive study of the history of Freemasonry in the state of Virginia.
This book, a product of collaboration and cooperation between two non-Masonic historians and the Grand Lodge of Virginia, is an objective, comprehensi...
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871,22 zł |
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General History of the Caribbean - UNESCO: Autochthonous Societies
ISBN: 9781403975898 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time. This volume investigates the movement of Paleoindians into the islands, and looks at the agricultural societies which developed. It then explores the indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the hierarchy of the chiefdoms, and the development of slavery.
Volume 1 of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean people, and analyses their various po...
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875,22 zł |
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General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 5: The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781403975935 / Angielski / Twarda / 801 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. Its wide ranging study of the economic, political, religious, social and cultural history of this period brings the series to the authorial present. Highlights include the 'turbulent thirties;' decolonization; the 'turn to the left' made in the 1970s by anglophone Caribbean countries; the Castro Revolution; and changes in social and demographic structures, including ethnicity and race consciousness and the role and status of women.
Volume 5 provides an account and interpretation of the historical development of the region from around 1930 to the end of the twentieth century. Its ...
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875,22 zł |
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Cold War: Global Impact and Lessons Learned
ISBN: 9781536156676 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary text takes into account the impact of the Cold War on various locales, groups, societies, organizations, and technology. Included in this work are chapters on education, political groups, cultural challenges and rivalries, nuclear technology and weaponry, the impact of nuclear exposure, and the new global order in a post-nuclear age. Edited by an historian, each chapter is written from multiple disciplinary perspectives a a political science, history, social science, science, and medicine a a making this work exceptionally unique with broad sweeping conceptual...
This interdisciplinary text takes into account the impact of the Cold War on various locales, groups, societies, organizations, and technology. Includ...
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876,59 zł |
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The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918
ISBN: 9781536161076 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nation at war wants nothing less than complete information of her enemy. It is hard for the mind to conceive exactly what "complete information" means, for it includes every fact which may contain the lightest indication of the enemy strength, her use of that strength, and her intention. The nation which sets out to obtain complete information of her enemy must pry into every neglected corner, fish every innocent pool, and collect a mass of matter concerning the industrial, social and military organization of the enemy which when correlated, appraises her strengthaand her weakness. Nothing...
A nation at war wants nothing less than complete information of her enemy. It is hard for the mind to conceive exactly what "complete information" mea...
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876,59 zł |
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European Background of American History
ISBN: 9781536160727 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of America is a branch of that of Europe. The discovery, exploration, and settlement of the New World were results of European movements, and sprang from economic and political needs, development of enterprise, and increase of knowledge, in the Old World. The fifteenth century was a period of extension of geographical knowledge, of which the discovery of America was a part; the sixteenth century was a time of preparation, during which European events were taking place which were of the first importance to America, even though none of the colonies which were to make up the United...
The history of America is a branch of that of Europe. The discovery, exploration, and settlement of the New World were results of European movements, ...
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876,59 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Argentina
ISBN: 9781538119693 / Angielski / Twarda / 874 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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880,11 zł |
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Korea Briefing: 2000-2001: First Steps Toward Reconciliation and Reunification
ISBN: 9780765609533 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of Korea Briefing provides a timely analysis of the evolving relationship between South and North Korea. In June 2000, after years of ignoring the South Korean government, the North Korean leader Kim Jong II finally agreed to a summit meeting with South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung. As a sign of reconciliation, the summit meeting has prompted Korea and its neighbors to rethink the assumptions of the Cold War era. With contributions by a multi-national panel of Koreanexperts, the book discusses a wide range of topics, including South Korean politics and economy; Korea's...
This new edition of Korea Briefing provides a timely analysis of the evolving relationship between South and North Korea. In June 2000, after years of...
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886,78 zł |
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The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent
ISBN: 9781138042872 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In its early years, the American Republic was far from stable. Conflict and violence, including major land wars, were defining features of the period from the Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War, as struggles over who would control land and labor were waged across the North American continent. The World of the Revolutionary American Republic brings together original essays from an array of scholars to illuminate the issues that made this era so contested. Drawing on the latest research, the essays examine the conflicts that occurred both within the Republic and... In its early years, the American Republic was far from stable. Conflict and violence, including major land wars, were defining features of the peri... |
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886,78 zł |
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From Dictatorship to Democracy: Confronting the Authoritarian Past in Brazil
ISBN: 9781835536971 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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894,92 zł |
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Theodore de Bry. America
ISBN: 9783836552097 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the New World was really new, Theodore de Bry drew inspiration from some of history's greatest explorers to record its wonders. From Virginia and Florida to Brazil, his work captivated the European imagination with visions of freshly discovered landscapes, customs, and peoples. This reproduction brings together his finest engravings of...
When the New World was really new, Theodore de Bry drew inspiration from some of history's greatest explorers to record its wonders. From Virginia and...
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894,92 zł |
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Historical Dictionary of Canada, Third Edition
ISBN: 9781538120330 / Angielski / Twarda / 724 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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901,45 zł |
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British West Indian Slavery, 1750-1834: The Process of Amelioration
ISBN: 9780198201441 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first account of Caribbean slavery to draw from the plantation records of several different sugar colonies, this book examines the attempts made by British West Indian planters to improve the treatment of their slaves, partly in response to the anti-slavery movement. Ward argues that although the measures taken did raise the standard of living and productive efficiency of plantation slaves, "amelioration" contained serious weaknesses that made it ultimately ineffective as a means of defending the institution of slavery. Though focused on the British West Indies, the book's main theme--the...
The first account of Caribbean slavery to draw from the plantation records of several different sugar colonies, this book examines the attempts made b...
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906,41 zł |
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Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914
ISBN: 9780198204411 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the most comprehensive comparative study of the agrarian systems of the frontier lands of Argentina and Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jeremy Adelman challenges much received wisdom about the economic "success" of North America and the "failure" of Latin America. Based on extensive primary research in Argentina, Canada, and Britain, Adelman's book points to the central importance of property relations in economic history in these regions.
This is the most comprehensive comparative study of the agrarian systems of the frontier lands of Argentina and Canada in the late nineteenth and earl...
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906,41 zł |
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Caribbean History: From Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present
ISBN: 9781138475816 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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912,11 zł |