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Guerrilla Warfare
ISBN: 9789562915717 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Should be on the required reading lists of the Chiefs of Staff and [the President's] advisers."
--"The Western Political Quarterly Startlingly relevant to our own time, Che's essays in this manifesto on asymmetrical warfare established the principles of waging a popular rebellion. Che outlines his theories, and discusses their application in Cuba and elsewhere. His belief that insurrection relies equally on practical and "romantic" elements has, literally, changed the world. "Should be on the required reading lists of the Chiefs of Staff and [the President's] advisers."
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34,64 |
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Bain Town
ISBN: 9781434301376 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,23 |
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Bain Town
ISBN: 9781434301383 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,72 |
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Labour and the Multiracial Project in the Caribbean: Its History and Its Promise
ISBN: 9780739116869 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Labour and The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean covers major twentieth-century political developments in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. It pays particular attention to social movements, class formation, and new emancipatory ideas on liberation from colonial legacies in political structure and racial division.
Labour and The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean covers major twentieth-century political developments in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. It pays p...
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220,40 |
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Papa Doc: Portrait of a Haitian Tyrant
ISBN: 9789768202499 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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155,16 |
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American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism
ISBN: 9780822342298 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic government at the political elite: the relatively small class of the wealthy, educated, and politically powerful within each colony. While they retained...
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform it...
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156,72 |
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Reader's Companion to Cuba
ISBN: 9780156003674 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gathering of some of the best travel writing ever about the most intriguing hot spot in the Caribbean, this book includes work by Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Thomas Merton, Anais N n, Frederic Remington, James Michener, Tommy Lasorda, and others. The Reader s Companion to Cuba offers an infinitely more revealing and personal time-lapse tour of this complex country than could possibly be offered by any standard guidebook. Map.
" A gathering of some of the best travel writing ever about the most intriguing hot spot in the Caribbean, this book includes work by Hemingway, Langsto...
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115,61 |
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Growth of the Modern West Indies
ISBN: 9780853451303 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzes West Indian society in detail from the First World War through the 1960s. Analyzes West Indian society in detail from the First World War through the 1960s. |
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168,15 |
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Our British Heritage - Volume II
ISBN: 9781425748111 / Angielski / Miękka / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our British heritage and the Fight for Independence and Freedom, depicts the Scotch, who came mostly from Ulster Ireland, from the Welsh and other ancestry, and from England. It is about those who felt compelled to leave their homeland, largely because of English oppression and for religious reason. Two thirds of General Washington's army and the first settlers in the United States at the onset were of Scottish ancestry. Reasons for emigration to America were based on a complex, multifactorial and pleury-facetted inter-relationship between peoples of different ethnicity, and religious...
Our British heritage and the Fight for Independence and Freedom, depicts the Scotch, who came mostly from Ulster Ireland, from the Welsh and other anc...
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111,71 |
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Black Race in Motion: Anecdotal Experiences and the Road Ahead
ISBN: 9781434323200 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,64 |
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The Bright-Meyler Papers: A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837
ISBN: 9780197264058 / Angielski / Twarda / 650 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The documents collected here illuminate the conduct of British trade and investments in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain's Atlantic empire. Pertaining to the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families connected through marriage and business, the documents include correspondence, wills and inventories, partnership agreements, insurance policies and property deeds.
The introduction addresses issues of the slave trade and sugar cultivation, capital accumulation, the ways in which a West India fortune was... The documents collected here illuminate the conduct of British trade and investments in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was t...
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618,66 |
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Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States: Essays on Incorporation, Identity, and Citizenship
ISBN: 9781592139545 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States" features a diverse group of scholars from across academic disciplines studying the transnational paths of Caribbean migration. How has the colonial path of the Caribbean influenced migration with regard to power relations, ethnic identities and transnational processes? Through a series of case studies, the contributors to this volume examine the experiences of Caribbean immigrants to Spain, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands as well as the United States. They show the demographic, socioeconomic, political and... "Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States" features a diverse group of scholars from across academic disciplines studying the tr... |
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269,38 |
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An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies : And Related Texts
ISBN: 9780872206250 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolome de Las Casas dedicated his Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevisima Relacion catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king s colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it."
Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolome de Las Casas... |
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78,32 |
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Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados 1680-1834
ISBN: 9789766371470 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados, 16801834 is one of the first specialised treatments of an Anglophone Caribbean port-town by a contemporary historian. Having adeptly mined the existing archival data and statistics on Bridgetown, Pedro Welch shares with readers these nuggets of information that contribute immensely to our understanding of the way slave societies functioned in the Caribbean. The book shows how life in the urban slave society departed significantly from that of the rural plantation. There is considerable evidence indicating that slaves and freed persons...
Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados, 16801834 is one of the first specialised treatments of an Anglophone Caribbean port-town by a...
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127,87 |
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Afro-Creole: Priorities for Action
ISBN: 9780801483257 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D. E. Burton focuses on ways in which African traditions including those in religion, music, food, dress, and family structure were transformed by interaction with European and indigenous forces to create the particular cultures of Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti. He demonstrates how the resulting Afro-Creole cultures have both challenged and reinforced the social, political, and economic status quo in these countries.Jamaican slaves opposed slavery...
This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D...
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128,84 |
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Papa Doc & the Tontons Macoutes
ISBN: 9781558762909 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bernard Diederich was a correspondent for "Time" Magazine, covering Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. He has also written two other biographies of Latin American dictators. Al Burt was the longtime Latin America editor of the Miami Herald.
Bernard Diederich was a correspondent for "Time" Magazine, covering Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. He has also written two other biograph...
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124,95 |
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The Archaeology of the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780521623339 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Archaeology of the Caribbean is a comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, to the time of European conquest of the islands, from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Samuel Wilson reviews the evidence for migration and cultural change throughout the archipelago, dealing in particular with periods of cultural interaction when groups with different cultures and histories were in contact.
The Archaeology of the Caribbean is a comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, ...
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419,25 |
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Eric Williams & the Making of the Modern Caribbean
ISBN: 9780807859247 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University and wrote several books, including the classic Capitalism and Slavery. In the first scholarly biography of Williams, Colin Palmer provides insights into Williams's personality that illuminate his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous influence on the historiography and...
Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to indep...
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166,52 |
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The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking
ISBN: 9780813032900 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Smith interrogates sherds and other leavings of bibulous entertainments, drunken binges, and everyday drinking in a demonstration of historical archaeology's meaningful contributions to the study of alcohol and its use and abuse in the early modern and modern world."--Mary C. Beaudry, Boston University "Provides an exhaustive though concise synthesis of the literature on the historical archaeology of alcohol production, distribution, and consumption. Student and professional alike will benefit from Smith's expansive knowledge of the historical archaeology of drinking."--James A.... "Smith interrogates sherds and other leavings of bibulous entertainments, drunken binges, and everyday drinking in a demonstration of historical ar... |
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97,90 |
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The Memoirs of Pere Labat, 1693-1705: First English Translation
ISBN: 9780714619408 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The adventures of pere Labat during his stay in the West Indies as a Dominican missionary are varied, but it is in the descriptions of the lives of the different races that the value of his memoirs resides.
The adventures of pere Labat during his stay in the West Indies as a Dominican missionary are varied, but it is in the descriptions of the lives of th...
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759,15 |
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