1289 rezultatov
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Replenishing the Earth(2011) BELICH, JAMES (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STOUT RESEARCH CENTRE, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON)Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how thisVezava: Mehka42,75 €
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Golpe(2022) MCKENZIE, ROBTrue crime meets political thriller in an explosive exposé of US meddling in MexicoVezava: Mehka23,15 €
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Between Worlds(2018) UMBERGER, LESLIEA major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born iVezava: Trda116,03 €
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Norse America(2021) CAMPBELL, GORDON (EMERITUS PROFESSOR AND FELLOW IN RENAISSANCE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in receVezava: Trda38,54 €
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Sweet Taste of Liberty(2019) MCDANIEL, W. CALEB (MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, RICE UNIVERSITY)The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage, and won.Vezava: Trda36,44 €
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African American Dilemma(2021) BURKHOLDER, ZOE (PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS, PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS, MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY)Presenting a revealing historical perspective on today's charged schooling choices, An African American Dilemma illuminates the tensions between school integration and separation that have shaped the long history of black struggles for equal education andVezava: Trda55,11 €
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Mahjong(2021) HEINZ, ANNELISE (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON)In Mahjong, Annelise Heinz charts a complex cultural journey as the game's history connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese Americans in the 1930s, incarcerated Japanese Americans in wartime, Jewish American suburVezava: Trda55,11 €
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Harry White and the American Creed(2022) BOUGHTON, JAMES M.The life of a major figure in twentieth-century economic history whose impact has long been clouded by dubious allegationsVezava: Trda57,03 €
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American Cipher(2020) FARWELL, MATT,AMES, MICHAELThe explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in AfghanistanVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Jesus and John Wayne(2021) KOBES DU MEZ, KRISTIN (CALVIN UNIVERSITY)“It is impossible to do justice to the richness of Jesus and John Wayne”—Chrissy Stroop, The Boston GlobeVezava: Mehka24,94 €
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Cause(2021) ELLIS, JOSEPH J., PH.D.A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.Vezava: Trda39,90 €
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Howe Dynasty(2021) FLAVELL, JULIEFinally revealing the family’s indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution.Vezava: Trda46,56 €
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Laywoman Project(2020) HENOLD, MARY JOANNESummoning everyday Catholic laywomen to the forefront of twentieth-century Catholic history, Mary Henold considers how these committed parishioners experienced their religion in the wake of Vatican II. This era saw major changes within the heavily patriarVezava: Mehka38,44 €
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Henry C. "Hank" Smith and the Cross B Ranch(2021) SOSEBEE, MORGAN SCOTTWhen people think of legendary Texas cattle ranches the images that first come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South Texas. In Henry C. ‘Hank' Smith and the Cross B Ranch, historian M. Scott Sosebee tells the story of one pionVezava: Trda33,09 €
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Alexander Graham Bell(2018) GROUNDWATER, JENNIFERThe world of communications was forever changed by his invention of the telephone, but that's not all Alexander Graham Bell put his mind toVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Negroland(2016) JEFFERSON, MARGOWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award: this is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture by a Pulitzer-prize winning critic.Vezava: Mehka14,46 €