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Indianapolis: A Concise History
ISBN: 9780253069238 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As its name denotes, Indianapolis is without question Indiana's city. Known as the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis and the surrounding communities have and continue to play an important role in politics, logistics, and commerce for both the state and the country. Indianapolis: A Concise History looks at the development of the city from a frontier village to a major railroad city in the late nineteenth century and through its continued growth in the twentieth century. Author and historian Jon C. Teaford reveals the origins of the Indianapolis Speedway, the rise and fall of the Ku Klux...
As its name denotes, Indianapolis is without question Indiana's city. Known as the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis and the surrounding communities...
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77,68 |
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The Interwar World
ISBN: 9780367616847 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyse and interpret this crucial period in twentieth century history. A comprehensive understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches and strict adherence to the temporal limits of the world wars.
The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyse and interpret this crucial period in twentieth century ...
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1117,31 |
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50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution
ISBN: 9780593321560 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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190,05 |
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Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China
ISBN: 9780674293779 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Betting on the Civil Service Examinations, En Li places the history of Chinese weixing, or "surname guessing," for civil service examinations in a larger context. Li traces institutional revenue innovations surrounding lottery regulation and depicts an expansive community stretching among Guangdong, Southeast Asia, and North America.
In Betting on the Civil Service Examinations, En Li places the history of Chinese weixing, or "surname guessing," for civil service examinations in a ...
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260,54 |
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Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China
ISBN: 9780674293830 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Betting on the Civil Service Examinations, En Li places the history of Chinese weixing, or "surname guessing," for civil service examinations in a larger context. Li traces institutional revenue innovations surrounding lottery regulation and depicts an expansive community stretching among Guangdong, Southeast Asia, and North America.
In Betting on the Civil Service Examinations, En Li places the history of Chinese weixing, or "surname guessing," for civil service examinations in a ...
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153,15 |
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Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
ISBN: 9780802161864 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle. From Colonial America’s founding...
Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history. For decades, writers from...
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110,67 |
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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America\'s Cemeteries
ISBN: 9781419754869 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our deadThe summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville’s lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead. Melville’s Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and...
An “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where,...
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68,42 |
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Media and Communication in the Soviet Union (1917–1953): General Perspectives
ISBN: 9783030883690 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a systematic account of media and communication development in Soviet society from the October Revolution to the death of Stalin. Summarizing earlier research and drawing upon previously unpublished archival materials, it covers the main aspects of public and private interaction in the Soviet Union, from public broadcast to kitchen gossip.The first part of the volume covers visual, auditory and tactilechannels,such as posters, maps and monuments. The second deals withmedia, featuring public gatherings, personal letters, telegraph, telephone, film and radio. The concluding...
This book provides a systematic account of media and communication development in Soviet society from the October Revolution to the death of Stalin. S...
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603,81 |
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Interwar London after Dark in British Popular Culture
ISBN: 9783030949402 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the representation of London’s nightlife in popular films and newspapers of the interwar period. Through a series of case-studies, it analyses how British popular media in the 1920s and 1930s displayed the capital after dark. It argues that newspapers and films were part of a common culture, which capitalized on the transgressive possibilities of the night. At the same time both media ensured that those in authority, such as the police, were always shown to ultimately be in control of the night.The first chapter of the book provides an overview of the British film and...
This book explores the representation of London’s nightlife in popular films and newspapers of the interwar period. Through a series of case-studies...
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442,79 |
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Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England: Books, the Literary Marketplace, and the Scholarly Persona
ISBN: 9783031284601 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a...
This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the ninete...
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563,56 |
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A History of Mongolian Shamanism
ISBN: 9789811694622 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the evolution of Mongolian shamanism from the distant past to the collapse of great empires such as the Yuan Dynasty in the fourteenth century, drawing on archeological findings and historical resources like theMongolian Secret History. Further, it introduces readers to the cultural and ideological differences between Mongolian shamanists, who believe in the Eternal Blue Sky, and modern Mongols, who follow Buddhist teachings. In closing, the authors put forward the idea that Mongolian shamanism could have helped build great empires, emphasizing, e.g., shamanism’s...
This book discusses the evolution of Mongolian shamanism from the distant past to the collapse of great empires such as the Yuan Dynasty in the fourte...
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442,79 |
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A History of China in the 20th Century, Volume I
ISBN: 9789819907335 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned as a thought leader and highly acclaimed arts professional in China, the author is able to give a historical account of China’s twentieth century that is richly informed by its valent fields of political economy and cultural studies. Western readers' knowledge of China’s twentieth century remains based on pioneering research of modern scholars such as Fairbank and Jonathan Spence. In recent years, however, it is rare to see a complete history...
This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China. Positioned as a...
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603,81 |
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Searching for the Spirit of the West: Social Utopias and World Wars – A Hidden History of the USA in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781912992492 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can the West rediscover its authentic spirit? Exploring the period from 1899 to 1945 - from the end of the US frontier and the writing of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to the conclusion of World War II and the dropping of the atom bomb - Luigi Morelli traces the events that led the United States to become the world's dominating imperial force. America, he demonstrates, is deeply connected to Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe, particularly Russia. Yet despite their tragic collective histories, there is hope for the future - if only America can claim its true task. --- Searching for the...
How can the West rediscover its authentic spirit? Exploring the period from 1899 to 1945 - from the end of the US frontier and the writing of The Wond...
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113,24 |
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Memory and Modern British Politics: Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy
ISBN: 9781350190467 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of ‘dead generations’. In doing so, this book provides a...
This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it co...
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434,65 |
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Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780198865018 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,54 |
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Gastro–modernism: Food, Literature, Culture
ISBN: 9781802078657 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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208,37 |
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Globalization and the American Southwest. An Economic, Social, and Political History.
ISBN: 9798215060339 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,42 |
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The Botanic Garden: The world's greatest botanical sanctuaries
ISBN: 9780711282261 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This rich and beautiful book takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens, as it tours the most magnificent botanic havens in the world.
This rich and beautiful book takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens, as it tours the mos...
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150,97 |
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Wales in World War 2
ISBN: 9781800994003 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,44 |
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Explaining Modern Social Reality: The Basic Concepts in Norbert Elias’s Figurational Sociology
ISBN: 9789633866610 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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539,22 |
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