Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community
ISBN: 9780271030708 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1850, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was a community like many others in the U. S., employing most of its citizens in trade and commerce. Unlike its larger neighbors, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Harrisburg had not yet experienced firsthand the Industrial Revolution. Within a decade, however, Harrisburg boasted a cotton textile mill, two blast furnaces and several iron rolling mills, a railroad car manufactory, and a machinery plant. This burst of industrial activity naturally left its mark on the community, by within two generations most industry had left Harrisburg, and its economic base... In 1850, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was a community like many others in the U. S., employing most of its citizens in trade and commerce. Unlike its ... |
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222,44 zł |
American Notes for General Circulation
ISBN: 9781108003896 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Dickens (1812 1870) is best remembered today for the novels which offer a fantastic, even grotesque panorama of Victorian life, but he was a journalist before he became a novelist. His travel writings have all the energy and urgency of journalism, and these two volumes, drawn from his experiences on a six-month tour of America between January and June 1842, are no exception. Dickens was already hugely popular with the American reading public, and he was lionised wherever he went, but the American Notes, and the American scenes in Martin Chuzzlewit, caused great controversy and were...
Charles Dickens (1812 1870) is best remembered today for the novels which offer a fantastic, even grotesque panorama of Victorian life, but he was a j...
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116,50 zł |
Daily Life in Civil War America
ISBN: 9780313366031 / Angielski / Twarda / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When first published, Daily Life in Civil War America shifted the spotlight from the conflict's military operations and famous leaders to its affect on day-to-day living. Now this popular, groundbreaking work returns in a thoroughly updated new edition, drawing on an expanded range of journals, journalism, diaries, and correspondence to capture the realities of wartime life for soldiers and citizens, slaves and free persons, women and children, on both sides of the conflict. In addition to chapter-by-chapter updating, the edition features new chapters on two important... When first published, Daily Life in Civil War America shifted the spotlight from the conflict's military operations and famous leaders to it... |
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457,22 zł |
Custer Survivor: The End of a Myth, the Beginning of a Legend
ISBN: 9781933909035 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracks the man and his activity during the Little Big Horn battle. This book features documented accounts and recreates the scene from the Sioux and Cheyenne encampment the night before the battle through the action the following day, the remarkable 'escape' of the wounded survivor, the aftermath of the battle and his fascinating life thereafter.
Tracks the man and his activity during the Little Big Horn battle. This book features documented accounts and recreates the scene from the Sioux and C...
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76,43 zł |
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
ISBN: 9781108003834 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the success of The Englishwoman in America (also reissued in this series), the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831 1904) continued her travels first to Scotland, then to Australia and Hawaii before returning to the United States and taking up residence in what was then the newest state, Colorado. Her adventures here recorded as letters to her sister which she artlessly tells the reader were never intended for publication included riding alone across the prairie, trying to help a family dying of cholera in the face of indifference from the local inhabitants, a sight of the invalids who...
After the success of The Englishwoman in America (also reissued in this series), the indefatigable Isabella Bird (1831 1904) continued her travels fir...
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151,97 zł |
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy
ISBN: 9781108005586 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New York, of which he became the superintendent in 1857, but he also worked on the design of parks in many other burgeoning American cities, and was called by Charles Eliot Norton 'the greatest artist that America has yet produced'. His A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States was originally published in 1856, and arose from journeys in the south which Olmsted, a passionate abolitionist, had undertaken in...
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most ...
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182,37 zł |
California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542-1848,
ISBN: 9780806348933 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compilation of genealogical and biographical sketches is extracted from the first five volumes of Bancroft's seven-volume History of California. Consists of a complete register of pioneers, alphabetically arranged, listing all known information of importance about them.
This compilation of genealogical and biographical sketches is extracted from the first five volumes of Bancroft's seven-volume History of California. ...
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257,32 zł |
Boots and Saddles: the experiences of General Custer's Wife on the Western Plains
ISBN: 9781846777332 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic account of life on the Western Frontier
Mrs Custer-Libby-the love of George Armstrong Custer's life is in some regard no less famous than her husband. They were in the truest sense 'a couple' and our understanding of their relationship has been enhanced by Elizabeth Custer's writing of her time in the company of her husband during his campaigning on the Western Plains against the Indian tribes. Custer was already a legend-The Boy General-during the Civil War. Elizabeth Custer's writing of his post-war career enhances both our view of him-and them-and brings with it an... A classic account of life on the Western Frontier
Mrs Custer-Libby-the love of George Armstrong Custer's life is in some regard no less famous tha... |
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86,57 zł |
Boots and Saddles: the experiences of General Custer's Wife on the Western Plains
ISBN: 9781846777349 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic account of life on the Western Frontier
Mrs Custer-Libby-the love of George Armstrong Custer's life is in some regard no less famous than her husband. They were in the truest sense 'a couple' and our understanding of their relationship has been enhanced by Elizabeth Custer's writing of her time in the company of her husband during his campaigning on the Western Plains against the Indian tribes. Custer was already a legend-The Boy General-during the Civil War. Elizabeth Custer's writing of his post-war career enhances both our view of him-and them-and brings with it an... A classic account of life on the Western Frontier
Mrs Custer-Libby-the love of George Armstrong Custer's life is in some regard no less famous tha... |
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139,48 zł |
Men and Manners in America
ISBN: 9781108002783 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout Men and Manners in America, Thomas Hamilton (1789 1842) describes with scathing honesty, and a sometimes sarcastic wit, the political and social structures of the newly independent United States. Hamilton journeyed to America in 1830, determined to write a conclusive and impartial account of its democracy. On his return, however, he was desperately aware that this impartiality had produced writings with the potential to deeply offend. His book was published almost a year later (1833) when Hamilton finally felt duty-bound to speak the truth. Volume 2 describes Hamilton's experiences...
Throughout Men and Manners in America, Thomas Hamilton (1789 1842) describes with scathing honesty, and a sometimes sarcastic wit, the political and s...
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162,10 zł |
Men and Manners in America
ISBN: 9781108002752 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout Men and Manners in America, Thomas Hamilton (1789 1842) describes with scathing honesty, and a sometimes sarcastic wit, the political and social structures of the newly independent United States. Hamilton journeyed to America in 1830, determined to write a conclusive and impartial account of its democracy. On his return, however, he was desperately aware that this impartiality had produced writings with the potential to deeply offend. Men and Manners in America was, in fact, published almost a year later (1833) when Hamilton finally felt duty-bound to speak the truth. His writings...
Throughout Men and Manners in America, Thomas Hamilton (1789 1842) describes with scathing honesty, and a sometimes sarcastic wit, the political and s...
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162,10 zł |
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
ISBN: 9780195393095 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key...
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dre...
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85,85 zł |
Texas Riverman, the Life and Times of Captain Andrew Smyth
ISBN: 9780982440520 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.
Originally published: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.
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81,39 zł |
William Henry Harrison: A Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313281679 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although William Henry Harrison died a month after becoming President, he lived a full and accomplished life before assuming the presidency. As a member of Congress, he sponsored legislation dividing the Northwest Territory. As governor of the Indiana Territory, he led a movement to suspend the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance and earned a reputation for acquiring large land cessions from the Indian tribes, winning the affection of white settlers and the animosity of Native Americans. Serving as brigadier general during the War of 1812, he then served in the Ohio legislature and the... Although William Henry Harrison died a month after becoming President, he lived a full and accomplished life before assuming the presidency. As a m... |
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427,16 zł |
Marriage Records of Brunswick County, Virginia, 1730-1852
ISBN: 9780806307046 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compilation, running from 1730 to 1852, is a composite of more than 3,000 marriage records. As is customary in such compilations, men are listed in alphabetical order, with an index of brides comprising a separate section. Incidental information found among the records, and employed here, includes references to places of residence and to guardians, sureties, and parents. All told the work indentifies 7,500 brides, grooms, parents and sureties, and the exact date of the marriage or bond.
This compilation, running from 1730 to 1852, is a composite of more than 3,000 marriage records. As is customary in such compilations, men are listed ...
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124,81 zł |
Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants
ISBN: 9780806345437 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an exhaustive regional history of the parent county of nine present-day Virginia or West Virginia counties. It features several hundred detailed genealogical and biographical sketches of early families of old Frederick County. With an improved index
This is an exhaustive regional history of the parent county of nine present-day Virginia or West Virginia counties. It features several hundred detail...
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428,07 zł |
Abstract of Probate Records, Washington County, Ohio
ISBN: 9780806345567 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains abstracts of wills, estates, and guardian records of Washington County from 1789 to 1855--the earliest on record.
This volume contains abstracts of wills, estates, and guardian records of Washington County from 1789 to 1855--the earliest on record.
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141,89 zł |
A Place Apart
ISBN: 9780806347066 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Beginner's Guide to Using Tax Lists is Cornelius Carroll's primer for making the best genealogical usage of tax lists. At the outset the author differentiates between tax lists, quit rents, tithables, militia lists, censuses, and similar records and the laws that applied to them. Then, by focusing on the tax lists of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, he demonstrates how tax lists can be used for determining parentage, birth and death dates, indentured servitude, slavery, manumission, and racial status. Mr. Carroll has also included a number of sample tax lists in order to...
The Beginner's Guide to Using Tax Lists is Cornelius Carroll's primer for making the best genealogical usage of tax lists. At the outset the author di...
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185,18 zł |
Dorsey Family
ISBN: 9780806347493 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work at hand is the only comprehensive history of Anson County, spanning over 225 years of the county's growth from a vast wilderness to a thriving industrial and agricultural community. The first third of the volume traces politics in the county. The middle portion covers Anson's social history, including education, religion, agriculture and industry, social and cultural life, etc. The final third of the book provides biographical sketches of scores of Anson "Men and Women of Note" and a number of source record collections of great import to genealogists.
The work at hand is the only comprehensive history of Anson County, spanning over 225 years of the county's growth from a vast wilderness to a thrivin...
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211,64 zł |
Migration to South Carolina: Movement from New England and Mid-Atlantic States, 1850 Census
ISBN: 9780806352237 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a detailed genealogy of the family of the 40th U.S. President, Ronald Reagan. The work is divided into thirteen parts, one each for President Reagan's paternal line (that of Michael Reagan of Tipperary, Ireland) and the twelve allied families of John Baker, Benjamin R. Bechtel, Johnnie Blue, George Bristle, Henry E. Gerdes, Eilt Habben, Samuel Luckett, William McFarlane, Nathaniel Pierce, Jacob Smith, Andrew Wilson, and Claudio Wilson (whose connection is still unproven).
This is a detailed genealogy of the family of the 40th U.S. President, Ronald Reagan. The work is divided into thirteen parts, one each for President ...
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116,63 zł |