ilość książek w kategorii: 6292
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The Manitou Passage Story
ISBN: 9780979789601 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn about the natural and human history of the Manitou Passage, from glacier to National Park This small book offers a light, sometimes romantic, conspectus written in the conversational style of the popular broadcast series, Alistair Cooke's America.
Learn about the natural and human history of the Manitou Passage, from glacier to National Park This small book offers a light, sometimes romantic, c...
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38,35 |
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
ISBN: 9781400033225 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic twenty-year struggle for the eight-hour workday. Blending a gripping narrative, outsized characters and a panoramic portrait of a major...
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept t...
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69,17 |
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The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in That State: 1719-1864
ISBN: 9781410216397 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally a University of Chicago doctoral dissertation, the first work of its kind, and the most thorough history of slavery in any state, of particular interest for its coverage of the work of Elijah P. Lovejoy, the Alton Riots, the evolution of the Free Soil Party, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and subsequent post-Civil war developments. This study of the pro - and anti-slavery agitation in the state from 1719 to 1864 is cited and recommended in: Bibliography of Comparative Literature - Baldensperger. At the time of book publication in 1904, N. Dwight Harris, Ph.D., was Professor of...
Originally a University of Chicago doctoral dissertation, the first work of its kind, and the most thorough history of slavery in any state, of partic...
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77,65 |
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The Kansas Conflict
ISBN: 9781410216441 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,91 |
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Hemlock in the Headlines: Newspaper Articles Chronicling the Early Years of Hemlock Michigan
ISBN: 9781410744067 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,25 |
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Glimpses - Iowa's Rural Legacy
ISBN: 9781412043502 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The assembled stable of writers has produced a highly readable - and nostalgic - volume. Some will make you laugh; some may bring tears. Any one is worth the price of the book.
The assembled stable of writers has produced a highly readable - and nostalgic - volume. Some will make you laugh; some may bring tears. Any one is wo...
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65,51 |
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A Brief History of Wyandot County, Ohio
ISBN: 9781540202178 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,27 |
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Michigan Soldier-Michigan Pride
ISBN: 9781420826982 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michigan Soldier - Michigan Pride is filled with short stories about soldier battle times and interesting tidbits of wartime history! Do you remember when America was "bombed" by the Japanese? When a "bomb" came within 10 miles of Detroit, Michigan? Fascinating facts of Japanese ingenuity are told in "The Windships." Read about the scientist with a "home front" part in protecting our soldiers in "Behind the Scenes." Michigan's most decorated soldier is highlighted in "Bullseye to Disaster!" Read his horrendous account of the "first" KIA's he encountered. Men who were under his command! A...
Michigan Soldier - Michigan Pride is filled with short stories about soldier battle times and interesting tidbits of wartime history! Do you remember ...
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77,73 |
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Dayton in the 20th Century
ISBN: 9781420860948 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,07 |
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Echoes from One-Room Schools: Monroe County, Indiana
ISBN: 9781425925659 / Angielski / Miękka / 465 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,94 |
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Stories From Branson's 76 Country Boulevard...and Places Nearby
ISBN: 9781425936778 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,55 |
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Stories from Branson's 76 Country Boulevard...and Places Nearby
ISBN: 9781425936785 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,54 |
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Art and Beauty in the Heartland: The Story of the Eagle's Nest Camp at Oregon, Illinois, 1898-1942
ISBN: 9781425938611 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,41 |
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Black Gold: A History of Charcoal in Missouri
ISBN: 9781425938628 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,49 |
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Black Gold: A History of Charcoal in Missouri
ISBN: 9781425938659 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,17 |
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Lone Feather and the Settlers: A History of Naperville, Illinois
ISBN: 9781425942632 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lone Feather and the Settlers" is a poignant American story set in the 19th century when the country was expanding and pushing back the frontier. The conflict-and the eventual resolution-between the native tribes who occupied the land and the settlers who came to claim it are captured in three firsthand accounts. Each chapter-story is told by a different woman: Lone Feather, a fictitious Pottawatomie woman; Almeda Naper, wife of settler Captain Joseph Naper; and Hannah Ditzler, a schoolteacher who was born and lived for ninety years in the town known as Naperville, and whose diaries first...
"Lone Feather and the Settlers" is a poignant American story set in the 19th century when the country was expanding and pushing back the frontier. The...
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91,67 |
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Maple Grove
ISBN: 9781425966256 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was written while living in the Maple Grove neighborhood. It is about the people and work in the Maple Grove area north of Bloomington and some of the events on my dad's farm. Dad called it the Showers Hedgerow Farm because the farm was owned by the Showers furniture company and the many rows of large hedge trees (Osage Orange). The chapters Blanche and James are of my parents and some family history. They are also about the time our family moved from Lawrence County, Indiana to our farm in the Maple Grove area. The farm was once owned by the Showers family, who cropped and sold...
This book was written while living in the Maple Grove neighborhood. It is about the people and work in the Maple Grove area north of Bloomington and s...
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91,49 |
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Maple Grove
ISBN: 9781425966263 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was written while living in the Maple Grove neighborhood. It is about the people and work in the Maple Grove area north of Bloomington and some of the events on my dad's farm. Dad called it the Showers Hedgerow Farm because the farm was owned by the Showers furniture company and the many rows of large hedge trees (Osage Orange). The chapters Blanche and James are of my parents and some family history. They are also about the time our family moved from Lawrence County, Indiana to our farm in the Maple Grove area. The farm was once owned by the Showers family, who cropped and sold...
This book was written while living in the Maple Grove neighborhood. It is about the people and work in the Maple Grove area north of Bloomington and s...
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128,35 |
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The Stuff Of Legends: Tales of Van Buren Township of Brown County's People
ISBN: 9781425966577 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This talented author has again accomplished the impossible by bringing her colorful characters to life in a very entertaining way as only she can do. Read about.the young boy who discovered a beer box airplane made a wreckage of his plans to fight the war...the older couple who loved squirrel meat; she couldn't see, he couldn't hear so they hunted together quite successfully...the old soldier who thought bathing made him smell like a sissy... the storekeeper who made and sold pickled dog...the older woman who whipped her naughty chickens... the young mother who was prepared to shoot an...
This talented author has again accomplished the impossible by bringing her colorful characters to life in a very entertaining way as only she can do. ...
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123,76 |
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Eastern Iowa's Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures: Including the Amana Colonies
ISBN: 9781430302735 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally there were approximately 200,000 barns built in Iowa. Now it is estimated that only 60,000 barns remain, with another 1,000 or more barns disappearing from Iowa's landscape annually. This book preserves in print Eastern Iowa's historic barns built from 1839 to 1955 with over 250 photographs from the author's research, the first ever Amana Colonies barn tour, the Johnson County Historical Society barn tour, and the Iowa Barn Foundation's annual barn tour. Eight Iowa counties and twenty rural cities are covered. Former president Hoover lived as a youth five miles from one of the...
Originally there were approximately 200,000 barns built in Iowa. Now it is estimated that only 60,000 barns remain, with another 1,000 or more barns d...
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90,68 |