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Netherland by Joseph O'Neill & President Barak Obama's America: A Historical-Literary Examination (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781596890947 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph ONeills novel, Netherland, has won many prestigious awards and recognitions, including the PEN/Faulker Award and The New York Times Book Reviews "Best Book of the Year." This book, written and published in the first decade of the 21st century, accurately captures the zeitgeist of the American people and American peoples perception about American politics, War against Terror, and American capitalism. Dr. Heerak Christian Kim, who has identified the literary device of "The Key Signifier," analyzes Josephs ONeills book, Netherland, with the view to understanding the current...
Joseph ONeills novel, Netherland, has won many prestigious awards and recognitions, including the PEN/Faulker Award and The New York Times Book Review...
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Résumé De L'histoire Des Établissemens Européens Dans Les Indes Occidentales, Depuis Le Premier Voyage De Christophe Colomb Jusqu'a Nos Jours
ISBN: 9781144893765 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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111,99 |
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The Real Bearings of the West India Question: As Expounded by the Most Intelligent and Independent Free-Trader of the Day
ISBN: 9781148787541 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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68,84 |
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Netherland by Joseph O'Neill & President Barak Obama's AMERICA: A Historical-Literary Examination
ISBN: 9781596890961 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph ONeills novel, Netherland, has won many prestigious awards and recognitions, including the PEN/Faulker Award and The New York Times Book Reviews "Best Book of the Year." This book, written and published in the first decade of the 21st century, accurately captures the zeitgeist of the American people and American peoples perception about American politics, War against Terror, and American capitalism. Dr. Heerak Christian Kim, who has identified the literary device of "The Key Signifier," analyzes Josephs ONeills book, Netherland, with the view to understanding the current...
Joseph ONeills novel, Netherland, has won many prestigious awards and recognitions, including the PEN/Faulker Award and The New York Times Book Review...
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128,13 |
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Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse
ISBN: 9780823233557 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth value" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in constructing refugee subjectivity in New World cultural and political formations. By examining literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikol Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman,...
Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theor...
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225,30 |
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Puerto Rican Arrival in New York: Narratives of the Migration, 1920-1950
ISBN: 9781558763623 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "First to disembark were passengers traveling first class - businessmen, well-to-do families, students. In second class, where I was, there were the emigrants, most of us tabaqueros, or cigar workers..." Thus writes Bernardo Vega in this collection of engaging and readable first-hand reminiscences about the mid-20th-century migration from Puerto Rico to the U.S. The documentary importance of these testimonies is evident, particularly in their capturing of the actual voyage from Puerto Rico and arrival in New York. Unlike more recent writings about the migration, where attention is riveted on...
"First to disembark were passengers traveling first class - businessmen, well-to-do families, students. In second class, where I was, there were the e...
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99,05 |
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Shaken, Not Stirred: A Survivor's Account of the January 12, 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
ISBN: 9781432758356 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting, inspiring earthquake survival story tells the gripping true story of a music educator-turned-emergency medic during the Haitian earthquake.
This exciting, inspiring earthquake survival story tells the gripping true story of a music educator-turned-emergency medic during the Haitian earthqu...
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103,36 |
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Dudley Huggins: Memoir of a West Indian's Journey.
ISBN: 9781449088071 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,98 |
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Destruyan a Castro-Rescaten a Cuba-Salven Latinoamerica
ISBN: 9781453540558 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Terminen la inconclusa invasion de Bahia de Cochinos"--Cover.
"Terminen la inconclusa invasion de Bahia de Cochinos"--Cover.
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80,88 |
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Destruyan a Castro-Rescaten a Cuba-Salven Latinoamerica
ISBN: 9781453540565 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,43 |
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The West Indies, Before and Since Slave Emancipation: Comprising the Windward and Leeward Islands' Military Command
ISBN: 9781108020732 / Angielski / Miękka / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Davy (1790 1868) was an English doctor and brother of the chemist Sir Humphrey Davy. After graduating from Edinburgh University, in 1814 Davy became Inspector General of Army Hospitals, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834. In his capacity as Inspector General, he spent 1845 1848 living in Barbados and visiting other Caribbean Islands. This volume, first published in 1854, describes the society and culture of Barbados and other islands, including Trinidad, Tobago and St Lucia. Based on Davy's notes and observations made while stationed on the island, the book...
John Davy (1790 1868) was an English doctor and brother of the chemist Sir Humphrey Davy. After graduating from Edinburgh University, in 1814 Davy bec...
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The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As It Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, An
ISBN: 9781108020824 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lawyer and leading abolitionist James Stephen (1758 1832) published Volume 1 of The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated in 1824. The volume is an exposure of the cruel and oppressive legal system of slavery in the British West Indies. The work explores the origin of nineteenth-century colonial slave laws, the legal status of individual slaves, the legal relations between slaves and their masters, and the policing and governance of slave populations. In each chapter Stephen exposes the cruelty and inhumanity behind the West Indian slave laws. Stephen had been the legal...
The lawyer and leading abolitionist James Stephen (1758 1832) published Volume 1 of The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated in 1824....
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The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As It Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, An
ISBN: 9781108020831 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lawyer and leading abolitionist James Stephen (1758 1832) published Volume 2 of The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated in 1830. The volume is an exposure of the cruel and oppressive practice of slavery in the British West Indies. It investigates the living conditions, feeding and clothing of slave populations; the brutal practices, such as 'slave driving', involved in forcing labour; and, by comparisons of forced and free labour, argues for the complete abolition of slavery. Stephen had been the legal mastermind of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the slave...
The lawyer and leading abolitionist James Stephen (1758 1832) published Volume 2 of The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated in 1830....
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338,26 |
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The Jamaica Planter's Guide: Or, a System for Planting and Managing a Sugar Estate or Other Plantations in That Island, and Throughout the British
ISBN: 9781108024303 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1823 work is an important source for the study of the slave economy and agriculture in the West Indies.
This 1823 work is an important source for the study of the slave economy and agriculture in the West Indies.
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302,38 |
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Lady Nugent's Journal: Jamaica One Hundred Years Ago
ISBN: 9781108024419 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The husband of Maria, Lady Nugent (1771 1834) was Governor of Jamaica from 1801 to 1806. Her diaries were not written for publication, and therefore offer a valuable and frank record of people and situations she met with in Jamaica. They were published privately after her death, and are here reproduced from the 1907 edition. The Jamaica diary covers a period of uncertainty in the West Indies due to the Napoleonic Wars. While generally avoiding politics, she comments on colonial society and planter life. Her initial view of slaves altered as rumours of uprisings made her fear for her young...
The husband of Maria, Lady Nugent (1771 1834) was Governor of Jamaica from 1801 to 1806. Her diaries were not written for publication, and therefore o...
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Present State of the Spanish Colonies: Including a Particular Report of Hispañola, or the Spanish Part of Santo Domingo
ISBN: 9781108024594 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Walton (?1783 1857) was British agent at Santo Domingo (Haiti), one of the two states on the island of Hispaniola, over which the British had briefly fought with the French before it proclaimed its independence in 1804. Returning to England in 1809 he began to write on Spanish and South American affairs. This work was published in two volumes in 1810. Volume 1 deals with Hispaniola, which was settled by both the Spanish and French, and officially divided in 1697. Haiti was now independent, but the other part (now the Dominican Republic) remained under Spanish control until 1821....
William Walton (?1783 1857) was British agent at Santo Domingo (Haiti), one of the two states on the island of Hispaniola, over which the British had ...
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Present State of the Spanish Colonies: Including a Particular Report of Hispañola, or the Spanish Part of Santo Domingo
ISBN: 9781108024600 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Walton (?1783 1857) was British agent at Santo Domingo (Haiti), one of the two states on the island of Hispaniola, over which the British had briefly fought with the French before it proclaimed its independence in 1804. Returning to England in 1809 he began to write on Spanish and South American affairs. This work was published in two volumes in 1810. Volume 2 examines the Spanish settlements on the American mainland, in California, Texas, Mexico and particularly in South America. Walton first considers the administration of these colonies. He discusses the origins of the native...
William Walton (?1783 1857) was British agent at Santo Domingo (Haiti), one of the two states on the island of Hispaniola, over which the British had ...
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251,09 |
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Higglers in Kingston: Women's Informal Work in Jamaica
ISBN: 9780826517654 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucratic mazes, neighborhood territoriality, and ingrained racial and cultural prejudices. For them, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.
In Higglers in Kingston, Winnifred Brown-Glaude puts the reader on the ground in frenetic urban Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. She explores the lives of informal market laborers, called "higglers," across the city as they... Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law. Women of color in Jamaica encounter bureaucrat...
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545,52 |
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Journal of a West India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
ISBN: 9781108024853 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matthew 'Monk' Lewis (1775 1818) is best known as a writer of plays and 'Gothic' novels such as The Monk (from which he acquired his nickname). On the death of his father in 1812, he inherited a large fortune, including estates in Jamaica. He spent four months there in 1815, during which time much of this Journal of a West India Proprietor was written. He became interested in the condition of the slaves on his estates, and on returning to England made contact with William Wilberforce and other abolitionists. The improvements he made on his own estates were unpopular with other landholders,...
Matthew 'Monk' Lewis (1775 1818) is best known as a writer of plays and 'Gothic' novels such as The Monk (from which he acquired his nickname). On the...
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251,09 |
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Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel: With Some Notes on the Economic Conditions of their Production
ISBN: 9781108026949 / Angielski / Miękka / 794 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (1816 1904) was a leading metallurgist and industrialist who served as president of both the Iron and Steel Institute and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He combined business skills with scientific expertise and was recognised as a world authority on blast furnace technology. His major works reveal both technical know-how and commercial awareness, and show that he was conscious of the threat to Britain's early lead in industrialisation from foreign competition. He supported free trade, and believed that British industry needed a firm scientific base in order...
Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (1816 1904) was a leading metallurgist and industrialist who served as president of both the Iron and Steel Institute and the ...
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