(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186619)
In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twains boyhood home from a steamboat village to a factory to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186602)
In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twains boyhood home from a steamboat village to a factory to...Loe edasi...
Kevin W. Hula, Douglas B. Harris, William L. Riordon
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786242)
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, first published in 1905, provides an extraordinary account of the political corruption and profiteering of George Washington Plunkitt, a long-time district leader in the New York Democratic Partys political machine in Manha...Loe edasi...
Kevin W. Hula, Douglas B. Harris, William L. Riordon
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786259)
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, first published in 1905, provides an extraordinary account of the political corruption and profiteering of George Washington Plunkitt, a long-time district leader in the New York Democratic Partys political machine in Manha...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186930)
Henry Eustace McCulloch provides the first comprehensive account of a pivotal nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. In his military career, Henry McCulloch served with his brother Ben in one of the first Texas Ranger companies...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186947)
Henry Eustace McCulloch provides the first comprehensive account of a pivotal nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. In his military career, Henry McCulloch served with his brother Ben in one of the first Texas Ranger companies...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469694139)
Landmarks with great historical, architectural, and cultural value are often demolished in the name of progress, leaving little but memories behind. In the growing city of Raleigh, many important buildings have been razed, but even when no longer pre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The History Press, ISBN-13: 9781837053070)
In December 1987, UNESCO bestowed its greatest honour on Bath when it declared the city a World Heritage Site for its outstanding cultural heritage - including its natural thermal spa waters - and landscape setting. Bath was one of the first ten site...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813955049)
The first biography of a neglected but crucial revolutionary figure and a fascinating window into his worldStudy the American Revolution and you might miss the name Robert Carter Nicholas; study Robert Carter Nicholas and you will see the entire revo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813955049)
The first biography of a neglected but crucial revolutionary figure and a fascinating window into his worldStudy the American Revolution and you might miss the name Robert Carter Nicholas; study Robert Carter Nicholas and you will see the entire revo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040929261)
First published in 1967, Local History and the Teacher explores the opportunities and the difficulties presented by the study and teaching of historical aspects of the local environment. The author treats the development and value of local history st...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040929049)
First published in 1967, Local History and the Teacher explores the opportunities and the difficulties presented by the study and teaching of historical aspects of the local environment. The author treats the development and value of local history st...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Arkansas Press, ISBN-13: 9781610758536)
In 1930, a remote corner of southwest Arkansas witnessed the discovery of cinnabar, the ore from which mercury is extracted. Upon the arrival of "e;the metal of a thousand uses,"e; a wave of hope and ambition swept through the foothills of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Arkansas Press, ISBN-13: 9781610758536)
In 1930, a remote corner of southwest Arkansas witnessed the discovery of cinnabar, the ore from which mercury is extracted. Upon the arrival of "e;the metal of a thousand uses,"e; a wave of hope and ambition swept through the foothills of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469689302)
Facing persistent exploitation, discrimination, and marginalization in the second half of the twentieth century, generations of Puerto Rican organizers and activists drew on multiple competing versions of nationalism to challenge the racial order in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469695433)
When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the two nations, Mary E. Mendoza focuses on how the natural w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469689296)
Facing persistent exploitation, discrimination, and marginalization in the second half of the twentieth century, generations of Puerto Rican organizers and activists drew on multiple competing versions of nationalism to challenge the racial order in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469695426)
When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the two nations, Mary E. Mendoza focuses on how the natural w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476658209)
Sweet Evening Breeze (1895-1983), born James Herndon, was a well-known LGBTQ figure in Lexington, Kentucky, whose gender identity defied categorization at the time. While she wore mens clothing and answered to her birth name at work and church, s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186268)
Melissa Daggetts Eugene and Eulalie is an epic story of love, race, prosperity, and legal maneuvering. It chronicles for the first time in a comprehensive way the largely forgotten lives of Eulalie Mandeville, a free woman of color, and her white pa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186251)
Melissa Daggetts Eugene and Eulalie is an epic story of love, race, prosperity, and legal maneuvering. It chronicles for the first time in a comprehensive way the largely forgotten lives of Eulalie Mandeville, a free woman of color, and her white pa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469683997)
Landmarks with great historical, architectural, and cultural value are often demolished in the name of progress, leaving little but memories behind. In the growing city of Raleigh, many important buildings have been razed, but even when no longer pre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469695464)
Step into the turbulent aftermath of the Civil War, where the abolition of slavery marked the start of a fierce struggle over property, politics, and personhood. In Louisianaa wealthy, diverse state shaped by a history of brutal enslavement and devas...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469693385)
The history of the environmental movementfrom environmentalism of the nineteenth century to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth centuryhas often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469693392)
The history of the environmental movementfrom environmentalism of the nineteenth century to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth centuryhas often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards o...Loe edasi...
A genre-bending work similar to Edgar Lee Masters A Spoon River Anthology, this miscellany is a portrait of a fictional New England small town over the past several hundred years, celebratory and insightful, its stories recounted by more than a hundr...Loe edasi...
Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the river-mouth bay and the great water, part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. From Borrodale (fort-dale) to Kil...Loe edasi...
Beyond Fort William, on the road to the Isles, lies Morar, the Highlands of the Highlands and centre of the Rough Bounds, that wild, desolate, but uniquely beautiful part of Scotland that was once the homeland of the Clan Macdonald of Clanranald,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University Alabama Press, ISBN-13: 9780817395940)
A revealing legal journey through Alabamas civil rights battles, exposing systemic discrimination and the enduring fight for justice via landmark Supreme Court cases State of Segregation: Americas Freedom Rights Struggles, as Told by Alabama by Mar...Loe edasi...
Derbyshire has long been known for its food. Writers from the seventeenth century onwards have extolled the virtues of its fine produce. Created in the nineteenth century, Bakewell Pudding is today perhaps the food most associated with the county but...Loe edasi...
