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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
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
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
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
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
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
The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage
High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana
Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition...
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277,96 zł
Athenian Popular Religion
Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religious beliefs citizens of Athens spoke of and acte...
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234,42 zł
The Opium War, 1840-1842
Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of...
This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in w...
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264,47 zł
The Indians' New World
Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact thro...
This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries late...
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250,51 zł
Rudolf Otto
An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology
Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the...
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224,42 zł
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