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Shadow Men
ISBN: 9781621377283 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Psychological operations (PSYOPs) are the preferred method by which shadow men socially engineer the masses' consent on a myriad of important issues. The author provides numerous examples of how social engineers have modified the public's perceptions and attitudes about America's founders, slavery, financial markets, dating and mating customs, self-perception, and a laundry list of other matters people have no idea were socially engineered. The reader will become expert on the character of the men who work in the shadows whose sole reason for living is to control others in service to...
Psychological operations (PSYOPs) are the preferred method by which shadow men socially engineer the masses' consent on a myriad of important issues. ...
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174,62 zł |
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The Politics of Readjustment : Vietnam Veterans since the War
ISBN: 9780202304069 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Veterans of all wars face a demanding task in readjusting to civilian life. Vietnam veterans have borne an additional burden, having returned from a controversial war that ended in defeat for the United States and South Vietnam. To address this situation, leaders among the Vietnam veterans and their allies formed organizations of their own to articulate their problems and extract concessions from a reluctant Congress, Federal agencies, and courts. Scott, a former infantry platoon leader in Vietnam, describes the major social movements among his fellow veterans during the period of 196 to 1990...
Veterans of all wars face a demanding task in readjusting to civilian life. Vietnam veterans have borne an additional burden, having returned from a c...
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320,76 zł |
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle : The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy
ISBN: 9780226020433 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. No part of the United States was more resistant to the civil rights movement and its pursuit of racial equality than Mississippi. "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle" explores the civil rights movement in that state to consider its emergence before the 1965 Voting Rights Act and its impact long after. Did the civil rights movement have a lasting impact, and, if so, how did it bring about change? Kenneth T. Andrews is the first scholar to examine not only the history of the movement but its social and political legacy as well. His study demonstrates how during the 1970s and '80s, local movements...
No part of the United States was more resistant to the civil rights movement and its pursuit of racial equality than Mississippi. "Freedom Is a Consta...
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132,06 zł |
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As Others See Chicago : Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
ISBN: 9780226668215 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Sometimes it takes an outsider to capture the essence of an individual place. The impressions of travelers in particular have a special allure—unanticipated and serendipitous, their views get to the heart of a particular region because nothing to them is routine or expected.
First published in 1933 by the University of Chicago Press to mark the occasion of the Century of Progress Exhibition, As Others See Chicago consists of writings culled from over a thousand men and women who visited the city and commented on the best and worst it... Sometimes it takes an outsider to capture the essence of an individual place. The impressions of travelers in particular have a special allure...
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143,85 zł |
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Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory
ISBN: 9780226741987 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Abraham Lincoln has long dominated the pantheon of American presidents. From his lavish memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume he was a national hero rather than a controversial president who came close to losing his 1864 bid for reelection. In "Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory," Barry Schwartz aims at these contradictions in his study of Lincoln's reputation, from the president's death through the industrial revolution to his apotheosis during the Progressive Era and First World War.
Schwartz draws on a wide array of... Abraham Lincoln has long dominated the pantheon of American presidents. From his lavish memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, ...
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129,47 zł |
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Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America
ISBN: 9780226748849 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After World War II, the United States underwent a massive cultural transformation that was vividly realized in the development and widespread use of new medical technologies. Plastic surgery, wonder drugs, artificial organs, and prosthetics inspired Americans to believe in a new age of modern medical miracles. The nationalistic pride that flourished in postwar society, meanwhile, encouraged many Americans to put tremendous faith in the power of medicine to rehabilitate and otherwise transform the lives and bodies of the disabled and those considered abnormal. Replaceable You revisits this...
After World War II, the United States underwent a massive cultural transformation that was vividly realized in the development and widespread use of n...
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243,85 zł |
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Enduring Western Civilization : The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its Others
ISBN: 9780275954000 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic crisis, and when postmodernism, feminist theory, afrocentrism, deconstruction, and other current philosophical schools define themselves as alternatives to, or critiques of, Western Civilization, this book seeks to trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and to examine the reasons for its endurance. It also suggests ways in which proponents of Western Civilization can co-opt ideas from... What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Ci... |
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196,05 zł |
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The Americas in the Age of Revolution: 1750-1850
ISBN: 9780300077261 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This magisterial work is a comparative history of three important revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish-American struggle for independence that ended a half century later. Lester Langley describes the movements and events that led to these wars of independence, explaining why revolution took one form in one place and a different form in another.
Langley examines the political and social tensions reverberating throughout British, French, and Spanish America, pointing out the... This magisterial work is a comparative history of three important revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt ...
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267,60 zł |
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The Chattel Principle : Internal Slave Trades in the Americas
ISBN: 9780300103557 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade. The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the...
This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Amer...
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267,60 zł |
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New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870
ISBN: 9780822361336 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. After 1750 the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industrial capitalism. Political revolution made the United States the first new nation; revolutionary slaves made Haiti the second, freeing themselves and destroying the leading Atlantic export economy. A decade later, Bajio insurgents took down the silver economy that fueled global trade and sustained Spain's empire while Britain triumphed at war and pioneered industrial ways that led the U.S. South, still-Spanish Cuba, and a Brazilian empire to...
After 1750 the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new indust...
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125,67 zł |
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New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870
ISBN: 9780822361145 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. After 1750the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industrial capitalism. Political revolution made the United States the first new nation; revolutionary slaves made Haiti the second, freeing themselves and destroying the leading Atlantic export economy. A decade later, Bajio insurgents took down the silver economy that fueled global trade and sustained Spain s empire while Britain triumphed at war and pioneered industrial ways that led the U.S. South, still-Spanish Cuba, and a Brazilian empire to...
After 1750the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industr...
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497,44 zł |
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Negotiated Empires : Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820
ISBN: 9780415925389 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This volume brings together original essays by leading historians of the Atlantic World, representing recent developments in historiography of the period. These essays present the argument that coercive imperial authority has been vastly overrated. Distance, the primacy of trade over politics, and the refusal of colonized peoples to recognize European authority resulted in de-centralized American empires.
This volume brings together original essays by leading historians of the Atlantic World, representing recent developments in historiography of the per...
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655,96 zł |
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Negotiated Empires : Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820
ISBN: 9780415925396 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison.
In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the rela...
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202,20 zł |
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Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War
ISBN: 9780415925990 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Americans talked about politics in the 1950s, this title argues, they always seemed to be talking about sex. Political discourse was inundated with references to soft and hard, to masochism and impotency, to thrusts and ecstacies. Cuordileone argues that the gendered and sexualized language of Cold Warriors was produced by specific anxieties about masculinities. To support this interpretation she offers readings of figures like Norman Mailer, Arthur Schlesinger and JFK.
When Americans talked about politics in the 1950s, this title argues, they always seemed to be talking about sex. Political discourse was inundated wi...
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956,51 zł |
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Operation Pedro Pan : The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children
ISBN: 9780415928236 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Between 1960 and 1962, over 14,000 children were sent out of Cuba alone by desperate parents who feared for their children's future under Castro. The author, herself a Pedro Pan child, has recorded hundreds of their diverse stories and experiences from American foster homes and orphanages. These children share their feelings about this painful time in their lives. The book investigates the events and key figures surrounding the exodus, including the roles of the Catholic church and the State Department, and the extent of the CIA's involvement.
Between 1960 and 1962, over 14,000 children were sent out of Cuba alone by desperate parents who feared for their children's future under Castro. The ...
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392,03 zł |
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The Mestizo Mind : The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization
ISBN: 9780415928786 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Mestizo is a person of mixed blood - specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Historian Serge Gruzinski here offers a critique of colonization and globalization. Looking at the 15th century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the melange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus. These physical and cultural encounters created a new culture, a new individual and a phenomenon we now call globalization.
A Mestizo is a person of mixed blood - specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Historian Serge Gruzinski here offers a ...
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837,73 zł |
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Columbus in the Americas
ISBN: 9780471211891 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy ""They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and labored to find out if there was any gold."" With these portentous words, Christopher Columbus described one of his first encounters with Native Americans on the island of Guanahani, which he had named San Salvador and claimed for Spain the day before. In Columbus in the Americas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reveals that...
A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy ""They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tir...
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84,63 zł |
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Shipwrecks in the Americas
ISBN: 9780486255149 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1623, a fleet from Havana was struck by a storm at the mouth of the Bahama Channel somewhere near the coast of Florida. -The treasure-laden galleon Espiritu Santo el Mayor, 480 tons, Captain Antonio de Soto, opened up and sank so quickly that only 50 of the 300 persons aboard her could be saved by other ships, and all her treasure -- amounting to 1 million pesos, was totally lost.-
Such catastrophes at sea -- among many described in this book -- have long fueled dreams of finding sunken ships awash in gold doubloons and fabulous jewels, and have tantalized archaeologists with... In 1623, a fleet from Havana was struck by a storm at the mouth of the Bahama Channel somewhere near the coast of Florida. -The treasure-laden galleon...
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97,36 zł |
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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. 22-25 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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129,47 zł |
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Reading Columbus
ISBN: 9780520082977 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 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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129,47 zł |
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