Название: This is Who We Were: In the 1900s ISBN: 1682173518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682173510 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 162630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day to day life in America in the 1900s. This new series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America`s family tree. The richly-illustrated text provides an interesting way to study a truly unique time in American history.
Автор: Laura Mars Название: This is Who We Were: 1880-1899 ISBN: 1619257556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781619257559 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 162630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day-to-day life in America during the last two decades of the 19th century. Readers will uncover what life was like for ordinary Americans as they lived through an industrialized revolution, labour strikes, an influx of millions of immigrants, and the expansion of cities and the railroad.
Автор: Laura Mars Название: This is Who We Were: In the 2010s ISBN: 1642654787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781642654783 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 150610.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day to day life in America during a particular decade. This richly-illustrated series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America`s family tree.
Автор: Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert (assistant Professor Of English, Pennsylvania State University, Usa) Название: To set this world right ISBN: 0801441579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801441578 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement in Concord. In addressing fundamental questions about the origin and nature of radical abolitionism in this most American of towns, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis frames the antislavery ideology of Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson—two of Concord's most famous residents—as a product of family and community activism and presents the civic context in which their outspoken abolitionism evolved.
In this historic locale, radical abolitionism crossed racial, class, and gender lines as a confederation of neighbors fomented a radical consciousness, and Petrulionis documents how the Thoreaus, Emersons, and Alcotts worked in tandem with others in their community, including a slaveowner's daughter and a former slave. Additionally, she examines the basis on which Henry Thoreau—who cherished nothing more than solitary tramps through his beloved woods and bogs—has achieved lasting fame as a militant abolitionist.
This book marshals rich archival evidence of the diverse tactics exploited by a small coterie of committed activists, largely women, who provoked their famous neighbors to action. In Concord, the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins was clothed and fed as he made his way to freedom. In Concord, the adolescent daughters of John Brown attended school and recovered from their emotional distress after their father's notorious public hanging. Although most residents of the town maintained a practiced detachment from the plight of the enslaved, women and men whose sole objective was the moral urgency of abolishing slavery at last prevailed on the philosophers of self-culture to accept the responsibility of their reputations.
Do you want to get to know the man who tamed the wildest corner of the West? Then keep reading...
Deadwood, 1876: a notorious little mining town in modern-day South Dakota that was a hive of criminal activity. Thieves, drunkards, prostitutes, and murderers ran rampant among its booming streets. There were over 300 murders in this town during the first year of its existence.
When Wild Bill Hickok was brutally shot and killed at point-blank range in the back of the head, it was obvious that someone had to rise up and save the town of Deadwood from itself. Someone with nerves of steel and a keen sense of justice. Someone like Seth Bullock.
This Canadian-born legend has been immortalized in television and film as the steely-eyed sheriff who brought Deadwood to its knees without killing a single person in an era of bloody frontier justice, but there is far more to Bullock than just his short career in Deadwood. He was a businessman, sheriff, US marshal, soldier, husband, friend, and survivor. Seth Bullock is truly the stuff of legend, but his story is entirely true.
In this book, you'll learn more about Bullock's escapades, including:
Surviving a childhood filled with abuse
Rebellious escapes from a cruel, corrupt father
Becoming an integral part of founding Yellowstone National Park
Serving as the sheriff of Lewis and Clark County, Montana
Becoming close friends with none other than Theodore Roosevelt
Business exploits, including a hotel, railway station, and ranch
Founding the town of Belle Fourche
Serving in a volunteer cavalry regiment akin to the Rough Riders
And, of course, his illustrious stint as Deadwood's first sheriff
This book also includes a brief history of Deadwood itself and all its fascinating, real-life characters
And much, much more
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Автор: Miller Daegan Название: This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent ISBN: 022633614X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226336145 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A radical revelation of how American ideas of freedom, justice, and progress are rooted--and sometimes hidden--in the country`s stunning landscapes
Mary Venner gave up a secure job to travel to the other side of the world to work in foreign aid. She soon discovered that it isn't always about feeding the hungry and tending the sick. It's also about red tape and regulation, spreadsheets, computers and accounting.
Mary arrived in Kosovo in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and found a new career providing advice to politicians and government officials on how to manage their country's finances. With a wry sense of humour, she describes the strange working conditions, the daily security challenges, and the lively social life of expats living in cities that tourists avoid.
This book provides a first-hand account of the devastation caused by war, the hardships created by government corruption and incompetence, and the problems that need to be solved to make life better in these places. It also provides insights into the lives of the locals who live with the consequences after the foreigners have moved on.
Автор: Swift Earl Название: The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways ISBN: 0547907249 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780547907246 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Travelers hitting the highways this summer might better appreciate the asphalt beneath their tires thanks to this engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system."--Los Angeles Times Perhaps nothing changed the face of America more than the creation of the interstate system. At once man-made wonders, economic pipelines, agents of sprawl, and uniquely American sirens of escape, the interstates snake into every aspect of modern life. The Big Roads documents their historic creation and the many people they've affected, from the speed demon who inspired a primitive web of dirt auto trails, to the cadre of largely forgotten technocrats who planned the system years before Ike reached the White House, to the thousands of city dwellers who resisted the concrete juggernaut when it bore down on their neighborhoods. The Big Roads tells the story of this essential feature of the landscape we have come to take for granted. With a view toward players both great and small, Swift gives readers the full story of one of America's greatest engineering achievements. "Engaging, informative . . . The first thorough history of the expressway system."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "The book is a road geek's treasure--and everyone who travels the highways ought to know these stories."--Kirkus Reviews
Автор: Winter Название: The Cambridge History of the First World War 3 Volume Paperback Set ISBN: 1316600661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316600665 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 115110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Cambridge History of the First World War is a definitive, transnational new history of the Great War. With contributions from leading historians, this three-volume reference work transcends European boundaries to provide a truly global account of the military, political, social and cultural aspects of the conflict.
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