The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
ISBN: 9780679763888 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER HEARTLAND AWARD WINNER DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times - USA Today - O: The Oprah Magazine - Amazon -... In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American...
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Alice Lakwena & the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1985-97
ISBN: 9780821413104 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the "Holy Spirit Mobile Forces." With it she waged a war against perceived evil, not only an external enemy represented by the National Resistance Army of the government, but internal enemies in the form of "impure" soldiers, witches, and sorcerers. She came very close to her goal of overthrowing the government but was defeated and fled to Kenya. This book provides a unique view of Alice's movement, based on interviews with its...
In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised ...
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Fear and Loathing in World Football
ISBN: 9781859734636 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quickest entry-point into most local cultures anywhere on earth is to be found in talking football. Historically, football is one of the great cultural institutions, and, like education and the mass media, has played a key role in shaping and cementing senses of national identity throughout the world. However, the nature of intra-nation hostility, which may be based in football or which may use the game as an arena for antagonisms, has yet to be analyzed. Football today is more global than ever before. Teams, clubs and regions increasingly establish cultural identities through rivalries...
The quickest entry-point into most local cultures anywhere on earth is to be found in talking football. Historically, football is one of the great cul...
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Little Soldiers: How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941-1945
ISBN: 9780199585557 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers. Thousands of those below the enlistment age served with regular and paramilitary formations, even though they were not formally mobilised or allowed at the front. For several decades after the war, these youngsters played an important part in Soviet remembrance culture, though their true experiences were obscured by the myth of the Great Patriotic War.
Situated at the crossroads of social, cultural, and military history, Little Soldiers is the first to tell the story of the Soviet Union's child soldiers in a... Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers. Thousands of those below the enlistment age served with regular and para...
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Narrative Projections of a Black British History
ISBN: 9780415893756 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I poses the question of what sort of narratives have emerged from, and in turn determine, key events (such as the iconic 'Windrush' moment) and developments and provides basic insights into theoretical frameworks serving a deeper understanding of these narratives. Part II offers a large number of comparative readings. It...
Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections o...
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705,23 zł |
The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Cattle-Man, Field-Worker, and Dairy-Ma
ISBN: 9781108024969 / Angielski / Miękka / 706 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry Stephens (1795 1874) was a farmer and later a writer on agriculture. After attending lectures on chemistry and agriculture at the University of Edinburgh he boarded with a Berwickshire farmer, George Brown, and gained experience of agricultural work. In 1820 Stephens acquired his own farm, on which he used modern and experimental farming methods. In 1837 he sold the farm, and devoted the rest of his life to writing guides to farming for the use of inexperienced farmers. These influential volumes, first published in 1842, contain Stephens' detailed descriptions of contemporary farming...
Henry Stephens (1795 1874) was a farmer and later a writer on agriculture. After attending lectures on chemistry and agriculture at the University of ...
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Imagology Revisited
ISBN: 9789042031999 / Angielski / Twarda / 571 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagology Revisited brings together in one volume essays written over a forty-year period on the perception and representation of foreign countries and peoples, the "other". The book traces the emergence of national and ethnic stereotypes in the early modern age and studies their evolution and multiple functions in a wide range of texts from travelogues and diaries to novels, plays and poetry, produced between the 16th and 20th centuries. The collection of essays, many of which are appearing in English for the first time, examines such phenomena as the mutual perception and misperception of...
Imagology Revisited brings together in one volume essays written over a forty-year period on the perception and representation of foreign countries an...
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704,55 zł |
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution: War and Revolution
ISBN: 9781456303501 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marx and Engels' views on war, revolution and the relation between the two evolved over time in response to the turbulent political and military history of the nineteenth centurey. The result has been that anyone can select a text to prove that Marx and Engels held the author's position. The solution is to review the statements of Marx and Engels in their historical context.
Marx and Engels' views on war, revolution and the relation between the two evolved over time in response to the turbulent political and military histo...
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90,36 zł |
The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade
ISBN: 9780739143148 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we approach twenty years since the end of the 1980s, we have the opportunity to see the decade in perspective, and are in a position to question the glib assumption that the 1980s were a mere conservative foil to the 1960s. The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade, edited by Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell, places its topics within the context of a decade described as both critical and transitional because the 1980s, in many respects, marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. For example, the Reagan presidency, the end of the Cold War, MTV, and the appearance...
As we approach twenty years since the end of the 1980s, we have the opportunity to see the decade in perspective, and are in a position to question th...
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291,64 zł |
Catholic Police Officers Northern Irl CB: Voices Out of Silence
ISBN: 9780719082917 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting new monograph aims to establish the historical and cultural reasons why there was only a participation rate of 7-8% by the Catholic population in policing Northern Ireland when the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) came into being in 2001, even though Catholics constituted 46% of the total population. It also aims to ascertain whether or not implementation of the Patten Commission's recommendation to recruit to the PSNI on a 50: 50 basis between Catholics and non-Catholics has resulted in greater representation and what the political and cultural obstacles might be in...
This exciting new monograph aims to establish the historical and cultural reasons why there was only a participation rate of 7-8% by the Catholic popu...
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450,71 zł |
Gesetzgebung, Menschenbild und Sozialmodell im Familien- und Sozialrecht
ISBN: 9783110207774 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Vortrage und Diskussionen des 14. Symposiums der Kommission Die Funktion des Gesetzes in Geschichte und Gegenwart, die der vorliegende Band dokumentiert, galten dem Verhaltnis von Sozial- und Privatrecht. Die in den Vordergrund geruckte und zu Beginn in ihre historische Perspektive gestellte Grundsatzfrage nach dem Verhaltnis von staatlicher Fursorge und privaten Freiheitsrechten wird anhand hochaktueller Themen diskutiert: Staatliches "Fordern und Fordern" nach Hartz-IV, Leistungen im wechselseitigen Verhaltnis von Staat und Familie, Unterhaltspflichten im Solidarverband... Die Vortrage und Diskussionen des 14. Symposiums der Kommission Die Funktion des Gesetzes in Geschichte und Gegenwart, die der vorliegende... |
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Geschichte durch Geschichte überwinden
ISBN: 9783110207446 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der erste Band der Troeltsch-Studien, Neue Folge dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des 8. Internationalen Kongresses der Ernst-Troeltsch-Gesellschaft, der sich die Analyse der Trias aus Geschichtsphilosophie, Geschichtstheologie und Geschichtspolitik vorgenommen hatte. Der erste Band der Troeltsch-Studien, Neue Folge dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des 8. Internationalen Kongresses der Ernst-Troeltsch-Gesell... |
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478,18 zł |
Denken Vom Staat Her
ISBN: 9783486568189 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die bundesdeutsche Staatsrechtslehre vollzog in den 1960er Jahren einen tief greifenden Bruch mit ihrer Vergangenheit. Zunachst waren im Rahmen des neuen Verfassungskonsenses vor allem etatistische Traditionen wieder belebt worden. Anders als etwa die Staatsrechtslehrer aus dem Umkreis von Carl Schmitt hatten jedoch die Schuler von Rudolf Smend schon bald begonnen, das traditionelle Denken vom Staat her durch eine entschieden pluralistische Grundhaltung zu ersetzen. Seit Ende der funfziger Jahre ubernahmen sie Professuren und forderten nunmehr auch ihre Kollegen zu einem radikalen Umdenken...
Die bundesdeutsche Staatsrechtslehre vollzog in den 1960er Jahren einen tief greifenden Bruch mit ihrer Vergangenheit. Zunachst waren im Rahmen des ne...
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Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933
ISBN: 9780230113688 / Angielski / Twarda / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, advancements in communication and travel encouraged widespread international cultural exchange, and Americans increasingly came into contact with Russian culture and theatrical performance. A number of factors, including emigration from Russia, world war, revolutionary activities in both Russia and the United States, and developments in modernism in the American theatre influenced the way those performances were received by American artists and audiences. Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman...
Between the 1890s and the 1930s, advancements in communication and travel encouraged widespread international cultural exchange, and Americans increas...
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No Room of Her Own: Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance
ISBN: 9780230116573 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular.
This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women i...
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The French Queen's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe
ISBN: 9780230620308 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.
A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portr...
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British Classics Outside England: The Academy and Beyond
ISBN: 9781602583337 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classics--the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languages--beyond the borders of England itself, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: inside the academy as specialized scholarship and teaching, outside the academy as a mode of social and cultural formation. Not only did British classics permeate England; they brought English values to Scotland, Wales, and America as well. Far into the twentieth century, to learn classics "the Oxbridge way" was to cloak oneself in the... The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classics--the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical L... |
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156,91 zł |
Free At Last!
ISBN: 9781853997518 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did freed slaves reinvent themselves after the shackles of slavery had been lifted? How were they reintegrated into society, and what was their social position and status? What contributions did they make to the society that had once - sometimes brutally - repressed them? This collection builds on recent dynamic work on Roman freedmen, the contributors drawing upon a rich and varied body of evidence - visual, literary, epigraphic and archaeological - to elucidate the impact of freed slaves on Roman society and culture amid the shadow of their former servitude. The contributions span... How did freed slaves reinvent themselves after the shackles of slavery had been lifted? How were they reintegrated into society, and what was their... |
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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
ISBN: 9780061288517 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York's immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round." -- Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World 97 Orchard is a richly detailed investigation of the lives and culinary habits--shopping, cooking, and eating--of five families of various ethnicities living at the turn of the twentieth... "Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and thro... |
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64,53 zł |
Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America
ISBN: 9780299250744 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth News. More recently, the movement has reemerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and more sustainable energy paths. But these latest back-to-the-landers are part of a much larger story. Americans have been dreaming of returning to the land ever since they started to leave it. In Back to the Land, Dona Brown explores the history of this recurring impulse. ? Back-to-the-landers have often been viewed as nostalgic escapists or...
For many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth...
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134,77 zł |