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Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West
ISBN: 9780762735662 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Bestseller "No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertisements in just that manner. Yet apply they did. And in small towns all over the west, highly trained women from medical colleges in the East took on the post of local doctor to great acclaim. These women changed the lives of the patients they came in contact with, as well as their own lives, and helped write the history of the West. In this new book, author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into the fascinating lives of ten of these amazing women.
A New York Times Bestseller "No women need apply." Western towns looking for a local doctor during the frontier era often concluded their advertiseme...
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Great Train Robberies of the Old West
ISBN: 9780762741502 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train robbery a capital crime. A few of the hundreds of train robberies stand out as thrilling and dangerous affairs, and the greatest of these...
During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first west...
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American Words of Freedom
ISBN: 9780764566387 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the complete texts of key historic documents with commentary on events surrounding their creation and an overview of United States constitutional law.
Presents the complete texts of key historic documents with commentary on events surrounding their creation and an overview of United States constituti...
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Currents in American History: A Brief History of the United States, Volume II: From 1861 : A Brief History of the United States, Volume II: From 1861
ISBN: 9780765618191 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The First New Nation : The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780765805225 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States was the first major colony to revolt successfully against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first "new nation." To see how, in the course of American history, its values took shape in institutions may help us to understand some of the problems faced by the new nations emerging today on the world scene. In The First New Nation, two broad themes occupy Seymour Martin Lipset's attention: the social conditions that make a stable democracy possible, and the extent to which the American experience was representative or exceptional. The volume is divided... The United States was the first major colony to revolt successfully against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first "new nation." To see how... |
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
ISBN: 9780767916899 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of...
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the bo...
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New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons
ISBN: 9780773528659 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. In New England and the Maritime Provinces leading scholars examine this important relationship through analysis of themes common to both regions and show the effects of the evolution of the region from a borderland with ill-defined boundaries to a bordered land with defined political borders. They demonstrate that such boundaries are never absolute and that in some ways the region remains a social, cultural, and environmental borderland. A significant addition to the growing field of transnational studies, New...
New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. In New England and the Maritime Provinces leading scholars examine this i...
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New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons: Volume 49
ISBN: 9780773530409 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. In New England and the Maritime Provinces leading scholars examine this important relationship through analysis of themes common to both regions and show the effects of the evolution of the region from a borderland with ill-defined boundaries to a bordered land with defined political borders. They demonstrate that such boundaries are never absolute and that in some ways the region remains a social, cultural, and environmental borderland. A significant addition to the growing field of transnational studies, New...
New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. In New England and the Maritime Provinces leading scholars examine this i...
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The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray-Alexander Bell Controversy and Its Many Players
ISBN: 9780786408832 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent issued to Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876. Many problems and questions surround this patent, not the least of which was its collision in the Patent Office with a strangely similar invention by archrival Elisha Gray. A flood of lawsuits followed the patents issue; at one point the government attempted to annul Bells patent and launched an investigation into how it was granted. From court testimony, contemporary accounts, government documents, and the participants correspondence, a...
The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent issued to Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876. Man...
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Humor in the White House: The Wit of Five American Presidents
ISBN: 9780786409495 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines how five of the US's chief executives - Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan - used wit and humour to their advantage during their terms as president, and how their management of the Executive Branch was thereby enhanced.
This work examines how five of the US's chief executives - Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan ...
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Disputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program
ISBN: 9780786411849 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the election campaign of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised that if elected he would work for a programme to help the struggling farmers. However, some farmers groups opposed him. This is a history of seven such organisations.
During the election campaign of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised that if elected he would work for a programme to help the struggling farmers. How...
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Pacific American Fisheries, Inc.: History of a Washington State Salmon Packing Company, 1890-1966
ISBN: 9780786411856 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work documents the rise and fall of Pacific American Fisheries, a salmon packing company based in Bellingham, Washington. It covers the company's history from its beginnings in 1898 up until its closure in 1966.
This work documents the rise and fall of Pacific American Fisheries, a salmon packing company based in Bellingham, Washington. It covers the company's...
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Advances and Innovations in American Daily Life, 1600s-1930s
ISBN: 9780786412488 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference book is divided into these sections: Agriculture, Art and music, Business and finance, Clothing, Communications, Education, Energy, Entertainment, Food and drink, Health, Labor, Law, Manufacturing, Public service, Religion, Science, Shelter and domestic furnishing, Social welfare, Sports, and Transportation. Within each section the reader will find subsections detailing innovations and advances in that field - for example, Business and finance is made up of Accounting, Banking, Business machines, Exchanges, Hotels, Insurance, Lotteries, Merchandising, Money, Taxes, and Time...
This reference book is divided into these sections: Agriculture, Art and music, Business and finance, Clothing, Communications, Education, Energy, Ent...
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Vending Machines: An American Social History
ISBN: 9780786413690 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero--a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century a.d.--who described and illustrated a coin-operated device to be used for vending sacrificial water in Egyptian temples. Completely automatic, the device was set in operation by the insertion of a five-drachma coin. This work traces the history of the vending machine from its inception to its...
Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest re...
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Art Smith: Pioneer Aviator
ISBN: 9780786416462 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thrilled audiences with his barnstorming feats, doing "death spirals," sky writing, "loop-the-loops," and night flights using phosphorus fireworks. He was a consummate showman and had he not died in 1926, his name probably would be familiar to most Americans. He glamorized and popularized aviation while testing the boundaries of aeronautical principles. As a boy he longed to fly before he had ever seen an airplane. His parents believed in him, and he was fortunate to have a best friend named Al Wertman...
By 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thrilled audiences with his barnstorming feats, doing "death...
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Charles Herrold, Inventor of Radio Broadcasting
ISBN: 9780786416905 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Herrold invented the radio station in 1909. This biography covers his life and work.
Charles Herrold invented the radio station in 1909. This biography covers his life and work.
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The Fathers of American Presidents: From Augustine Washington to William Blythe and Roger Clinton
ISBN: 9780786416998 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Farmers, shopkeepers, businessmen, politicians - the fathers of the presidents of the US have come from all walks of life. This reference work provides biographies of both the biological and adoptive fathers of the 41 men who have served as president of the United States.
Farmers, shopkeepers, businessmen, politicians - the fathers of the presidents of the US have come from all walks of life. This reference work provide...
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Presidential Performance: A Comprehensive Review
ISBN: 9780786418206 / Angielski / Miękka / 421 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presidential rankings emerged in 1948 when Life Magazine published an article by the prominent historian, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., who had selected 55 experts on the presidency and asked them to rank the presidents. He asked his respondents to rank presidents into categories of Great, Near Great, Average, Below Average and Failure. The result was a substantial article that attracted wide public attention. His work and similar studies have not escaped criticism, however. Many general works on the presidency have discussed presidential greatness and identified presidents who stood out for...
Presidential rankings emerged in 1948 when Life Magazine published an article by the prominent historian, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., who had selected...
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The CCC Chronicles: Camp Newspapers of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
ISBN: 9780786418312 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers relating to the organization were launched almost immediately. Happy Days, the semi-official newspaper of the CCC, and other such publications served as soundings boards for opinions among the CCC enrollees, encouraged and instructed the men as they assumed their new roles, and generally supported the aims of Roosevelt's New Deal program. Happy Days also encouraged and instructed editors in the production of camp newspapers - well over 5,000 were published by almost 3,000 of the CCC companies from 1933...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers relating to the organization were launched almost immediate...
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The Early Exploration of Inland Washington Waters: Journals and Logs from Six Expeditions, 1786-1792
ISBN: 9780786418794 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What did early explorers think of Elliot Bay, Seattle's major seaport, during their initial surveys in the 1840s? What hardships did the first white men who cruised through the San Juan Islands face? How was Puget Sound discovered? How did the highest volcano in the Cascade Range come to be called Mount Rainier? Such questions are answered in this examination of the early exploration and settlement of inland Washington. Illegible] unique text chronicles the history of many of these expeditions: George Vancouver's travels are described using his own journals, as well as those of his men, to...
What did early explorers think of Elliot Bay, Seattle's major seaport, during their initial surveys in the 1840s? What hardships did the first white m...
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