One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O’Malley (1903–79) is best remembered—and still reviled by many—for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O’Malley story leading up to the Dodgers’ move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man. When he entered the public eye, the self-constructed family background and early life he presented was gilded. Later his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters, who hated him for moving the Dodgers.
In Mover and Shaker Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of O’Malley’s life. He also departs from the overly sentimentalized accounts of O’Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman, who was a major force in baseball for three decades and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game.
Автор: Sophie Greenspan Название: Westward with Fremont: The Story of Solomon Carvalho ISBN: 082761313X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780827613133 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In 1853, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, proud descendant of a Sephardic Jewish family, accepted the invitation of Col. John Charles Fremont to accompany him on his fifth expedition of discovery through the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. As the photographer and artist of the Fremont expedition, Carvalho provided the visual proof that the northern route through the Rockies could be used for the railroad that was being planned to link East and West. Fremont required this evidence to foil those who favored a route through the southern slaveholding states.
Carvalho performed exceedingly well under extreme stress and danger. His photographs document the scenery and the Indian tribes that lived in the area between modern Kansas and Utah. His interest in science helped the colonel in recording the topography of the region and its meteorology. The paths of Carvalho and Fremont crossed again when the latter became the first Republican candidate for the presidency. To help the colonel, Carvalho published a book with an account of the expedition that ultimately became a best seller.
Carvalho retained the pioneering instinct for the rest of his life, even in his later business career. He remains an honored figure in the history of the United States, typifying those who have served both the country at large and the Jewish community.
Westward with Fremont tells the exciting story of one of the great legendary figures in American Jewish history.
Автор: Fischer, David Hackett Kelly, James C. Название: Bound away ISBN: 0813917743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813917740 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25080.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but also through the physical artefacts and folkways of ordinary people.
Автор: Stanley Harrold Название: American Abolitionism: Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction ISBN: 0813942292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813942292 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists' political tactics—petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians—and on their disruptions of slavery itself.Harrold begins with the abolition movement's relationship to politics and government in the northern American colonies and goes on to evaluate its effect in a number of crucial contexts-the U.S. Congress during the 1790s, the Missouri Compromise, the struggle over slavery in Illinois during the 1820s, and abolitionist petitioning of Congress during that same decade. He shows how the rise of ""immediate"" abolitionism, with its emphasis on moral suasion, did not diminish direct abolitionists' impact on Congress during the 1830s and 1840s. The book also addresses abolitionists' direct actions against slavery itself, aiding escaped or kidnapped slaves, which led southern politicians to demand the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a major flashpoint of antebellum politics. Finally, Harrold investigates the relationship between abolitionists and the Republican Party through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Автор: Baby Professor Название: Why Did the Mormons Move West? Westward Expansion Books Grade 5 Children`s American History ISBN: 1541979184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541979185 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this book, you will read about the reasons why the Mormons decided to move west. What was in the west of the US, particularly Utah? Which route did they take? Did all them get to their destination safely? Who were Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and what was their role in this migration? Know the answers by reading this book.
Автор: Guntzelman John C. Название: The Wild West in Color: A Photographic Account of Our Nation`s Westward Expansion ISBN: 0785838805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780785838807 Издательство: Hachette UK Рейтинг: Цена: 15170.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Re-explore the Wild West, where America's legends and myths were made, for the first time with fully colorized images by best-selling author and cinematographer John Guntzelman. The lure of the Wild West has been a driving force in the American experience. Originally the stuff of dreams, dime novels, and Wild West shows, the fascination continued in motion pictures such as The Great Train Robbery, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, the so-called spaghetti westerns of Clint Eastwood, and hundreds more. Whether through the appeal of wide-open spaces, the control of our own destiny, or just the desire for a better life, the Wild West still strikes a chord that resonates within. Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the country expanded westward ready to grow--and grow it did. The evocative landscapes of these unexplored lands were recorded by a number of excellent photographers: John C. H. Grabill; Edward S. Curtis; John K. Hillers; and Timothy O'Sullivan, the famed Civil War photographer. Many of their striking images survive and continue to inspire us today. These iconic and incredibly evocative photographs from another era capture the reality and immediacy of that time and only require the careful addition of color to make them far more accessible, believable, and meaningful to present-day readers. The Wild West in Color includes over 200 of the best black-and-white photographs from that time, fully colorized to bring this lost world back to life It offers a new glimpse into a period of the American experience that has inspired countless books, motion pictures, and stories--a time that continues to resonate and inspire us to the present day.
Автор: Katz William Loren Название: The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States ISBN: 1682752267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682752265 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 31450.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs -- many never before seen -- as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on Americas early frontiers. This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the western frontier. Among its fascinating accounts are those explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas successfully escaped into the neighbouring Indian Territory in Oklahoma. These runaways inspired the idea eventually adopted as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within the states that were in rebellion. Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick; Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary; Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill -- and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo.
Автор: Billington, Ray Allen Huntington, Henry E. Ridge, Martin Название: Westward expansion ISBN: 0826319815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826319814 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington`s Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book`s reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of the fifth edition focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier.
Автор: Laura Dean Название: Music in the Westward Expansion: Songs of Heart and Place on the American Frontier ISBN: 1476685223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476685229 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 45270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Examines the roles of music in the Westward Expansion and the diverse cultural landscape of the Old West, including Northern Cheyenne courtship flute makers, fiddle-playing explorers, dancing fur trappers, hymn-singing missionaries, frontier flutists, girls with guitars, wagon-driving balladeers, poetic cowboys, and preaching songsters.
Автор: Crutchfield, James A. Название: The Settlement of America ISBN: 0765619849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765619846 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 275610.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Austin Gloria Название: Westward Ho: Concord Coach - Staging and Freighting ISBN: 1733986057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733986052 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 19560.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Western Migration was a monumental movement that helped spur our nation's transportation into gear. Westward Ho Concord Coach- Staging and Freighting will give you an insight on how pioneers, mountain men, and famous historical figures traveled their way to a better life. This book exposes the reality of how horses were crucial in surviving harsh journeys such as the Oregon Trail and the Gold Rush. Between these binds, you will learn about the advancement of stagecoaches and their significance to modern day transportation.
In the late nineteenth century, European expansionism found one of its last homes in North America. While the American West was renowned for its lawlessness, the Canadian Prairies enjoyed a tamer reputation symbolized by the Mounties’ legendary triumph over chaos.
Westward Bound debunks the myth of Canada’s peaceful West and the masculine conceptions of law and violence upon which it rests by shifting the focus from Mounties and whisky traders to criminal cases involving women between 1886 and 1940. Lesley Erickson reveals that judges’ and juries’ responses to the most intimate or violent acts reflected a desire to shore up the liberal order by maintaining boundaries between men and women, Native peoples and newcomers, and capital and labour. Victims and accused could only hope to harness entrenched ideas about masculinity, femininity, race, and class in their favour. The results, Erickson shows, were predictable but never certain.
This fascinating exploration of hegemony and resistance in key contact zones draws prairie Canada into larger debates about law, colonialism, and nation building.
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