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Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World
ISBN: 9781138223301 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing dictatorial regimes across Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. These are divided into three different approaches to theatre itself - as cultural practice, as performance, and as textual artifact - addressing topics including obedience, resistance, authoritarian policies, theatre business, exile, violence, memory, trauma, nationalism, and postcolonialism. This book draws together a diverse range of methodological approaches to foreground the... Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing dictato... |
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710,17 |
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Roosevelt and Howe
ISBN: 9781138532106 / Angielski / Twarda / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roosevelt and Howe is a joint biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of his principal advisors. Louis Howe was not only FDR's first political aide, but the only one who also became an intimate personal friend. Other than Harry Hopkins in the late 1930s, he was the only advisor whom Roosevelt trusted completely to serve his interests without distracting personal ambition or a shadowy private agenda. This book is the story of their separate early lives, of the rare chances which brought them together and of their totally intertwined careers after 1912. It deals with their political...
Roosevelt and Howe is a joint biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of his principal advisors. Louis Howe was not only FDR's first political aide...
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710,17 |
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Lincoln
ISBN: 9781138162655 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in the American Civil War and the role of Abraham Lincoln has grown dramatically in the last decade. Leader of the anti-slavery Republican coalition and the wartime Union, he has become a model of a particular kind of democratic politician who led rather than followed.Richard J. Carwardine examines Lincoln's rise to power and his achievements as US president. The book explores the wider sources of Lincoln's authority and skills in embracing a broad range of elements within the Republican party. In particular, it looks at Lincoln's shrewd relationship with evangelical...
Interest in the American Civil War and the role of Abraham Lincoln has grown dramatically in the last decade. Leader of the anti-slavery Republican co...
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710,17 |
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710,17 |
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American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change
ISBN: 9781032780658 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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710,17 |
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Outline of US History
ISBN: 9781600214578 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A publication of the US Department of State.
A publication of the US Department of State.
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711,41 |
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The Biological Welfare of Ibero-America - A New Anthropometric History
ISBN: 9789819515080 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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712,89 |
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Shipping and the American War 1775-83: A Study of British Transport Organization
ISBN: 9781474241335 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reprint. Originally published: London, England: University of London, Athlone Press, 1970.
Reprint. Originally published: London, England: University of London, Athlone Press, 1970.
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721,77 |
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America and the World War
ISBN: 9781536155136 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book which was originally published in 1915 is a window into the world of a century ago, when Woodrow Wilson was wondering whether or not America should enter WWI. Former president Theodore Roosevelt lays out the moral and political case for coming to the aid of our European allies. This book demonstrates that America's issues are relatively unchanged even after one the most changing centuries in the history of mankind.
This book which was originally published in 1915 is a window into the world of a century ago, when Woodrow Wilson was wondering whether or not America...
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732,03 |
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Lyndon B Johnson: Pursuit of Populism, Paradox of Power
ISBN: 9781626186248 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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732,03 |
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Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650-1725
ISBN: 9781848930407 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the early history of colonial south-east America. This study is the first to tell the full story of this rivalry.
Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the ...
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734,66 |
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The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Freedom, Fear, and the American Constitution
ISBN: 9781138706286 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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734,66 |
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Historical Dictionary of Haiti, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781538127520 / Angielski / Twarda / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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734,66 |
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The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru
ISBN: 9789463724173 / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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734,66 |
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Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter
ISBN: 9780754667605 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery traces the linguistic, rhetorical, and literary innovations that emerged out of the first encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. Through analysis of six texts, Michael Householder demonstrates the role of language in forming the identities or characters that permitted Europeans (English speakers, primarily) to adapt to the unusual circumstances of encounter. Arranged chronologically, the texts examined include John Mandeville's Travels, Richard Eden's English-language translations of the accounts of Spanish and...
Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery traces the linguistic, rhetorical, and literary innovations that emerged out of the first encounters betwe...
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734,66 |
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Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850 Vol 2
ISBN: 9781138766884 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communi...
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734,66 |
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The Essential Calhoun
ISBN: 9780887384424 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John C. Calhoun was a major actor in the political history of nineteenth-century America. His dramatic career will always be of interest. However, Calhoun is equally important as a political thinker who continues to elicit widespread interest from the most diverse points of the ideological spectrum. The Essential Calhoun presents a full-fledged selection of speeches and writings taken from the entire forty-year span of Calhoun's public career and from many varieties of occasions, public and private. For the first time, it is possible to appreciate Calhoun fully and to consider his... John C. Calhoun was a major actor in the political history of nineteenth-century America. His dramatic career will always be of interest. However, ... |
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734,66 |
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Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: Past, Present, and Future Research Directions
ISBN: 9789088908460 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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734,66 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas
ISBN: 9780199227990 / Twarda / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Indies, and South America, the Handbook has impressive geographic and temporal coverage. It also includes a generous range of thematic essays on comparative slavery, the economics of slavery, historical methodology in the field, slavery and the law, for instance.
While obviously indebted to the foundational works of the 1960s and... The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institu...
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737,09 |
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Franklin D Roosevelt
ISBN: 9781138164741 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important addition to the Profiles in Power series, this critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most dominant US politician of the 1930s and 1940s. Roosevelt led the United States through the two great crises of depression and the Second World War, making him one of the key figures of the twentieth century.
An important addition to the Profiles in Power series, this critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most dominant US politician of the ...
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