Kategoria BISAC: History >> United States - State & Local - General

Quaife narrates the opening of trade and the course of European exploration, facilitated by the Chicago portage and subsequent construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. He profiles the personalities who shaped the early Chicago area, from the French explorers La Salle, Marquette, and Joliet to the ambitious Champlain, who set the course for decades to come by securing for New France the...

"The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites." Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times Book Review

Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists the two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experiments Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.

"It does not belong on a shelf but in the hands of community activists, politicians, reporters and campaign workers who want to get a better understanding of ward politics in Chicago." Lawndale News-West Side Times

..". enough lively tidbits in a breezily written way to keep any Chicago City Council political junkie awake." Pioneer Press

..". in Chicago Politics Ward by Ward, the system reveals the bizarre adaptations usually associated with life on a coral reef. If you can t believe these guys really exist, look again." Chicago Magazine

"All told, a most useful and...

..". freaky and fascinating... Cavinder is a storyteller with an engaging sense of humor." Gary (IN) Post-Tribune

"Because the contents of this eminently readable book cover many people, places, and events there is something for every reader young and old." Madison Courier

It's Ripley's with a Hoosier twist Fred Cavinder has put together a group of findings and stories, some kooky and strange, some from the twilight zone, some historical oddities and fascinations, all gleaned from Indiana. Submitted for your consideration: the blind man who designed and built an automobile, the...

..". the best account of how life was lived on the frontier of the Old Northwest that I have ever read... it will deepen your understanding of the American inheritance." Harper s

These sketches tell of early settlement by a variety of movers seeking homes in a Beulah land, of the raising of rough cabins in primitive clearings, of farm life in the 1850s, and of the growth of politics and government. Logan Esarey, born in Perry County, Indiana, in 1873, was a pioneer in the development of regional history.

"Parman brings fresh life to some well-worked topics, while illuminating lesser-known developments of the postwar period and contextualizing Indian concerns within broader governmental and social dynamics. Both specialists and general readers will appreciate his succinct, informed treatment of 'the Indian problem' in the United States." -Gateway Heritage

"Parman's accomplishment lies in his ability to synthesize the saga of the numerous interactions among those seeking dominance.... Parman's balanced and comprehensive overview provides a handy guide to the subject for upper-division...

"Kelley and Francis clearly and comprehensivly address a timely topic, illuminating superbly the inexorable linkage between preserving American Indian cultures and protecting sites endowed with spiritual significance." --Choice

"This is an exceptional ethnography of the Navajos' relationship to their land... "--The Reader's Review

"The authors succeed admirably in their goal to investigate Navajo oral traditions in relation to place." --Raymond J. DeMallie

An engaging blend of anthropological study and firsthand account takes readers into the heart of the Navajo's...

This highly successful short history of Cleveland has now been revised and brought up to date through 1996, the bicentennial year, including two new chapters, and new illustrations and charts.

"Middletown Jews... takes us, through nineteen fascinating interviews done in 1979, into the lives led by mainly first generation American Jews in a small mid-western city." San Diego Jewish Times

..". this brief work speaks volumes about the uncertain future of small-town American Jewry." Choice

"The book offers a touching portrait that admirably fills gaps, not just in Middletown itself but in histories in general." Indianapolis Star

..". a welcome addition to the small but growing number of monographs covering local aspects of American Jewish history." Kirkus...