(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Swift Press, ISBN-13: 9781800754966)
An informative and thought-provoking history The Telegraph A story rich in intrigue, diplomacy and personalities New Statesman Offering new perspectives and ideas Guardian Here is t...Loe edasi...
Examines the 1664 English takeover of Dutch-controlled New Amsterdam, exploring how negotiations shaped New York’s foundation as a diverse, capitalist hub while also examining the dispossession of Native Americans and the entrenchment of slavery, ref...Loe edasi...
The best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World examines the history of the mob in small-town America and his grandfathers clandestine activities as the head of a Pennsylvania gambling empire. Illustrations. Family s...Loe edasi...
“An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” —Chicago Tribune At a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged....Loe edasi...
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This comprehensive guide to touring important sites of Dutch history also serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference. Art and architecture, cooking, furniture and antiques, much more. Color photographs and maps. ...Loe edasi...
From the best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World comes an account of the American Revolution that draws on diaries, letters and more to flesh out six disparate lives affected by the war, including an African man who freed...Loe edasi...
A historical portrait of the Netherlands capital and the ideas that make it unique explores the ongoing efforts of its citizens to navigate its seaside challenges and democratic philosophies, revealing how the liberal ideals that evolved there throug...Loe edasi...
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Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the citys colourful thousand y...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2013, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Books on Tape, ISBN-13: 9780804149327)
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A historical portrait of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique explores the ongoing efforts of its citizens to navigate its seaside challenges and democratic philosophies, revealing the influence of the liberal ideals that evolved there....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: Random House USA Inc, ISBN-13: 9780385534574)
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
A historical portrait of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique explores the ongoing efforts of its citizens to navigate its seaside challenges and democratic philosophies, revealing the influence of the liberal ideals that evolved there....Loe edasi...
Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the citys colourful thous...Loe edasi...
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The Dutch spirit of diversity, tolerance, and entrepreneurship still echoes across our city streets today. This guide will highlight the history of the early settlements of these new world pioneers as well as the incredible impact they had, and stil...Loe edasi...
Adriaen van der Donck, Charles T. Gehring, William A. Starna, Diederik Willem Goedhuys, Russell Shorto
Sari: The Iroquoians and Their World
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2010, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803232839)
This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2009, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Black Swan, ISBN-13: 9780552776042)
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Manhattan Island was to grow into the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world. This title tells how a wilderness populated only by wolves and native tribes became the melting pot from which developed the free-trade, multi-cultur...Loe edasi...
