The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
ISBN: 9781107189706 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were dynamic, diverse, and experimental polities, and that their success or failure was determined by a combination of forceful interventions, as well as...
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in th...
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513,82 zł |
An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876
ISBN: 9780190876098 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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214,19 zł |
Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
ISBN: 9781487503567 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing connections between the history of planning and emerging scholarship in Black Studies, Ted Rutland positions anti-blackness at the heart of contemporary city-making.
While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. D...
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391,72 zł |
Imagining European Unity Since 1000 Ad
ISBN: 9781349693962 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. European unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages. Its motives have varied from a longing for peace to a deep-rooted abhorrence of diversity, as well as a yearning to maintain Europe's colonial dominance. This book offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the European imagination in a global context.
European unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages. Its motives have varied from a longing for peace to a deep-roote...
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214,47 zł |
Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes
ISBN: 9781421425399 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of the Appalachian Mountains, and a historical geography of spaces and places in the twentieth century.
Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of the ...
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230,27 zł |
How the West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West
ISBN: 9780803249301 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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295,06 zł |
Studies in Canadian Geography: Ontario
ISBN: 9780802061607 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this short volume is to contribute to an understanding of Ontario, to point out something of what it is both to those who are already acquainted with the province and to those who are being introduced to it for the first time.
The purpose of this short volume is to contribute to an understanding of Ontario, to point out something of what it is both to those who are already a...
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76,26 zł |
Writing Cities: Exploring Early Modern Urban Discourse
ISBN: 9789637326530 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself.
Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled,...
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122,90 zł |
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land
ISBN: 9780198724391 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the Holy Land, encompassing the three millennia that saw the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and is highly illustrated with paintings, photographs, and ancient texts.
The story of the Holy Land, encompassing the three millennia that saw the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each chapter is written by a lead...
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174,98 zł |
Pickin' Up Paw Paws: Descendants of Colonel William Burgess of Maryland
ISBN: 9781478787563 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,39 zł |
The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back
ISBN: 9781538116111 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the policies and events that transformed Brooklyn so dramatically in such a short period of time. Her portrait of the dramatic transformation of one urban center offers prescriptions that any city can employ and will be required reading for everyone interested in the rebirth of America's cities.
In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the policies and events that transformed Brooklyn so dramatically in such a short period of time. Her por...
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74,92 zł |
The Structure of Political Geography
ISBN: 9781138538924 / Angielski / Twarda / 539 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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763,09 zł |
World's Finest Beach: A Brief History of the Jacksonville Beaches
ISBN: 9781540224330 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,38 zł |
Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River
ISBN: 9780300119169 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora
A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora
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The Great Fires: Indian Burning and Catastrophic Forest Fire Patterns of the Oregon Coast Range, 1491-1951
ISBN: 9781732127609 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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408,84 zł |
Changes in the Air: Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
ISBN: 9781785339318 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.
Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interp...
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503,64 zł |
The Silk Roads: An Illustrated New History of the World
ISBN: 9781547600212 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,91 zł |
The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia
ISBN: 9780824879327 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a translation of a key work by one of Okinawa's most respected historians, Mamoru Akamine. The book provides a compelling new picture of the role played by the Ryukyu Kingdom in the history of East Asia.
Presents a translation of a key work by one of Okinawa's most respected historians, Mamoru Akamine. The book provides a compelling new picture of the ...
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149,68 zł |
Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński. Zapomniany odkrywca...
ISBN: 9788365684707 / Polski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński to postać ze wszech miar nietuzinkowa. Pochodzący z Kalisza orędownik niepodległej Polski, będący patriotą i niespokojną duszą, a także łowcą przygód – nie tylko podróżniczych – przez całe życie poszukiwał swego miejsca na ziemi. Jego wielkim marzeniem było zostać obieżyświatem i odkrywcą. Mimo licznych przeciwności losu i nieustannie borykając się z problemami finansowymi, dopiął swego. W 1881 roku został członkiem Towarzystwa Geografii w Paryżu, co otworzyło przed nim drogę ku Czarnemu Lądowi. Wraz z Klemensem Tomczekiem i...
Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński to postać ze wszech miar nietuzinkowa. Pochodzący z Kalisza orędownik niepodległej Polski, będący patriotą i niespokoj...
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47,40 zł |
The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
ISBN: 9780393356618 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,80 zł |