Автор: Scanlan, Padraic X. Название: Slave Empire ISBN: 1472142357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472142351 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 3795.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The idea that the British empire was built on freedom is a myth. Britain rose to global power in the eighteenth century on the backs of enslaved workers. And although Britain was the first European empire to abolish slavery, even British abolitionism was shaped by the slave empire.
Автор: Colum Padraic Название: The Children`s Homer: (illustrated by Willy Pogany) ISBN: 1420960849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781420960846 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1837.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Coffey, Padraic Название: This day in irish history ISBN: 1788492579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788492577 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2850.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the first city in the world to have a woman stockbroker, decades before London or New York? With one anniversary for each day of the year, discover the moments that make us who we are.
Описание: Mountain Folk is the fifth and final book in the Backroads series by Lynn Coffey that showcases the lives and customs of the native Appalachian people of Virginia's highlands. Interviews with seventeen people still living in and around the hamlet of Love where the author makes her home, shed a new light on these private and oft-misunderstood folks whose roots grow deep in the rocky soil of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Read about Ruby May Henderson and Irma Roberts, both now over one-hundred years of age who can remember what life was like during the horse and buggy days of their childhood. Or Carl Coffey, whose father died when he was eight years old, leaving him and his younger in charge of making a living for their family of five by logging the forest with a massive but gentle ox named "Mike." Be swept away by Frances Fitzgerald's account of the Flood of 1969, when Hurricane Camille ripped through rural Nelson County, Virginia, dumping over two feet of rain in an eight hour period, destroying not only property but taking the mountains down with it, along with 124 lives. Read the eulogy for Owen Garfield Campbell; one of the last true mountain men of our area, who, following in the footsteps of his early ancestors, continued to live a life devoid of all modern conveniences. These stories and more will thrill the reader and command new respect for the last generation of mountain people who lived the old way.
Автор: Kenney Padraic Название: Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 19451950 ISBN: 080147793X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801477935 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4288.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Rebuilding Poland provides a radically new interpretation of the communist experience. Padraic Kenney argues that the postwar takeover was also a social revolution, in which workers expressed their hopes for dramatic social change and influenced the evolution—and eventual downfall—of the communist regime.Kenney compares L?dz, Poland's largest manufacturing center, and Wroclaw, a city rebuilt as Polish upon the ruins of wartime destruction. His account of dramatic strikes in the textile mills of L?dz shows how workers resisted the communist party's encroachment on factory terrain and its infringements of worker dignity. The contrasting absence of labor conflict among migrants in the frontier city of Wroclaw holds important clues to the nature of stalinism in Poland: communist power was strongest where workers lacked organizational ties or cultural roots. In the collective reaction of workers in L?dz and the individualism of those in Wroclaw, Kenney locates the beginnings of the end of the communist regime. Losing the battle for worker identity, the communists placed their hopes in labor competition, which ultimately left the regime hostage to a resistant work force and an overextended economy incapable of reform.
Автор: Colum Padraic Название: The Golden Fleece ISBN: 1617204668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617204661 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2400.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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