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Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954
For more than half a century, the Brazilian army used fear and censorship to erase aspects of its history from public memory and to create its own political myths. Although the military had remarka...
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263,29 zł
The Arts in Early American History
Needs and Opportunities for Study
This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colonization to 1826 are primarily intended to aid the scholar and student by suggesting areas of furthe...
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224,39 zł
The People's Welfare
Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In Th...
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264,72 zł
Intellectual Manhood
University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South
In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a g...
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262,75 zł
Democratic Politics and Sectionalism
The Wilmot Proviso Controversy
This detailed study of the Wilmot Proviso controversy of the late 1840s analyzes the debate that drew the theoretical battle lines concerning slavery in the territories and that led eventually to t...
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280,35 zł
From Chicaza to Chickasaw
The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mis...
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous peop...
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205,21 zł
Constructing American Lives
Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio ...
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259,76 zł
Those Who Dared
Beginning with the Age of Discovery, these adventures of explorers, pioneers, inventors, and others, whose deeds of valor won a continent, cover a period of 250 years. Written especially for use as...
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279,61 zł
The Botanizers
Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America
Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines...
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278,42 zł
A Theory of Political Decision Modes
Intraparty Decision Making in Switzerland
The authors present a new theory of decision-making that provides modes that can be used to describe such widely diverse political entities as the British cabinet, a Quaker meeting, or a village me...
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277,76 zł
Governing Spirits
Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto R...
Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions op...
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234,82 zł
Public Service in Great Britain
The author discusses the inducements to public life and describes the type of personnel responsible for the public service, analyzes relationships in the various branches of the government, and pre...
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266,71 zł
The Wasted Land
Johnson is concerned with the waste of land and human wealth in the Southeast. He believes that in practically every form it takes this waste is avoidable and remediable. He proposes a constructive...
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211,22 zł
The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861
With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until ...
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262,01 zł
Cloud by Day
A Story of Coal and Coke and People
This book, written from the author's personal knowledge of the district, is a picture of the fabulous and violent past of Pennsylvania's famed coke region and of its uncertain present. In tracing i...
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279,34 zł
The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America
Chile, Argentina, and Mexico
In the 1980s and 1990s, nations throughout Latin America experienced the dual transformations of market liberalizing reforms and democratization. Since then, perhaps no issue has been more controve...
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262,95 zł
Gendered Compromises
Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950
With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held ...
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261,49 zł
The League to Enforce Peace
In the critical years between 1914 and 1920, the League to Enforce Peace offered the strongest and most unified support in America for a League of Nations. By 1919 it had gained enthusiastic suppor...
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260,11 zł
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Globalization in the American South
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also ...
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207,01 zł
Francis Bacon on Communication and Rhetoric
Francis Bacon's comments on communication and rhetoric are scattered throughout his works--in letters and occasional writings, in philosophical, scientific, and literary compositions. The author co...
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265,89 zł
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