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Country People In The New South - Tennessee''S Upper Cumberland

de Jeanette Keith

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Using the Tennessee antievolution ""Monkey Law,"" authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, this study explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925.
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Prairie Patrimony - Family, Farming, And Community In The Midwest

de Sonya Salamon

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 This work takes the reader on a cultural tour of the American institution and landscape - midwestern families and their farms.
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World Of Its Own - Race, Labor, And Citrus In The Making Of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970

de Matt Garcia

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and co-operation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped shape the city.
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Poquosin - A Study Of Rural Landscape And Society

de Jack Temple Kirby

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A history of the American country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. It combines social and political history with the story of the landscape, to show how Native American, African and European people have adapted to and modified the area in nearly 400 years.
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Prairie Patrimony - Family, Farming, And Community In The Midwest

de Sonya Salamon

86,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 This work takes the reader on a cultural tour of the American institution and landscape - midwestern families and their farms.
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Working The Garden - American Writers And The Industrialization Of Agriculture

de William Conlogue

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 per cent of the US workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994 there were too few to warrant a separate census category. This study demonstrates the debates on the changes in family farming that occurred in literature.
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Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices - Women On Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940

de Rebecca Sharpless

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Using oral history interviews and written memoirs, this is an account of women's lives on Texas cotton farms. It examines how women from varying ethnic backgrounds coped with difficult circumstances and shows how their actions were important for the welfare of their families.
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Mama Learned Us To Work - Farm Women In The New South

de Lu Ann Jones

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Farm women of the 20th century have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out and isolated. Building upon oral histories, Lu Ann Jones presents these women as consumers, producers and agents of economic and cultural change.
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Mixed Harvest - The Second Great Transformation In The Rural North, 1870-1930

de Hal S. Barron

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Explores the rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. The book argues that country people met the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture with both resistance and accommodation.
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Culture Of Wilderness - Agriculture As Colonization In The American West

de Frieda Knobloch

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Combines cultural and technological history, to show how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American west. The author uses agricultural textbooks, USDA documents and settlement accounts to explore the idea that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to the wilderness.
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Transformation Of Rural Life - Southern Illinois, 1890-1990

de Jane Adams

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of political and economic change.
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Prairie Patrimony - Family, Farming, And Community In The Midwest

de Sonya Salamon

68,90€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 This work takes the reader on a cultural tour of the American institution and landscape - midwestern families and their farms.
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World Of Its Own - Race, Labor, And Citrus In The Making Of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970

de Matt Garcia

185,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and co-operation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped shape the city.
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Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices - Women On Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940

de Rebecca Sharpless

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Using oral history interviews and written memoirs, this is an account of women's lives on Texas cotton farms. It examines how women from varying ethnic backgrounds coped with difficult circumstances and shows how their actions were important for the welfare of their families.
INGLÊS

World Of Its Own - Race, Labor, And Citrus In The Making Of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970

de Matt Garcia

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and co-operation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped shape the city.
INGLÊS

Country People In The New South - Tennessee'S Upper Cumberland

de Jeanette Keith

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Using the Tennessee antievolution ""Monkey Law,"" authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, this study explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925.
INGLÊS

Working The Garden - American Writers And The Industrialization Of Agriculture

de William Conlogue

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 per cent of the US workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994 there were too few to warrant a separate census category. This study demonstrates the debates on the changes in family farming that occurred in literature.
INGLÊS

A World Of Its Own - Race, Labor, And Citrus In The Making Of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970

de Matt Garcia

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and co-operation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped shape the city.
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Lee Considered - General Robert E. Lee And Civil War History

de Alan T. Nolan

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 In this re-examination of the historical evidence, the author attempts to separate the Robert E. Lee of reality from the Lee of mythology.
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The Culture Of Wilderness - Agriculture As Colonization In The American West

de Frieda Knobloch

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Combines cultural and technological history, to show how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American west. The author uses agricultural textbooks, USDA documents and settlement accounts to explore the idea that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to the wilderness.
INGLÊS

Mixed Harvest - The Second Great Transformation In The Rural North, 1870-1930

de Hal S. Barron

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Explores the rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. The book argues that country people met the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture with both resistance and accommodation.
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Insurgent Cuba - Race, Nation, And Revolution, 1868-1898

de Ada Ferrer

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 An examination of the tensions between racism and antiracism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation. It explores the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when the revolution began, until the intervention of American forces in 1898.
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Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices - Women On Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940

de Rebecca Sharpless

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Using oral history interviews and written memoirs, this is an account of women's lives on Texas cotton farms. It examines how women from varying ethnic backgrounds coped with difficult circumstances and shows how their actions were important for the welfare of their families.
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Cutting Into The Meatpacking Line - Workers And Change In The Rural Midwest

de Deborah Fink

58,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Focusing on Iowa's porkpacking industry, this text studies the rural working class and its significance in shaping the state's economic, political and social contours. It examines the class, gender and ethnic contradictions that allowed the Midwest's meatpacking industry's development.
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