ilość książek w kategorii: 3540
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American Showman: Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935
ISBN: 9780231159043 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in silent film exhibition; scored early Fox Movietone films such as Sunrise (1927); pioneered the convergence of film, broadcasting, and music publishing and recording in the 1920s; and helped movies and moviegoing become the dominant form of mass entertainment between the world wars. The first book devoted to...
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, th...
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474,31 |
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Denholms: The Story of Worcester's Premier Department Store
ISBN: 9781540206282 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
123,27 |
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Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial
ISBN: 9780300177855 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a political murder. This book is the first to reveal the full national and international scope of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair, uncovering how and why the two men became the center of a global cause celebre that shook public opinion and transformed America's relationship with the world. Drawing on extensive research on two continents, and written... What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and l... |
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281,44 |
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A History of the Greenwich Waterfront: Tod's Point, Great Captain Island and the Greenwich Shoreline
ISBN: 9781540205698 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,27 |
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A History of Vampires in New England
ISBN: 9781540204882 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
127,12 |
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Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9781421407296 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny -Appleseed- Chapman's life and the environmental and cultural significance of the plant he propagated. Creating a startling new portrait of the eccentric apple tree planter, William Kerrigan carefully dissects the oral tradition of the Appleseed myth and draws upon material from archives and local historical societies across New England and the Midwest. The character of Johnny Appleseed stands apart from other frontier heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, who employed violence against Native... Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny -Appleseed- Chapman's life and the environmental and cultural s... |
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80,81 |
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Bar Harbor in the Roaring Twenties: From Village Life to the High Life on Mount Desert Island
ISBN: 9781540209207 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,27 |
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Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence: Immigration to Rhode Island
ISBN: 9781626192294 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in nine of these individuals elected to settle in Rhode Island after landing in Providence, amounting to around eleven thousand new residents. Most of these immigrants were from Portugal and Italy, and the Fabre Line kept up a brisk and successful business. However, both the line and the families...
In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important por...
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92,44 |
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History of the Town of Leeds, Androscoggin County, Maine, from Its Settlement, June 10, 1780
ISBN: 9780788405419 / Angielski / Miękka / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over three-quarters of this book is devoted to genealogical records of the early settlers of Leeds, Maine. The main section contains biographical and genealogical information regarding more than forty of the town's leading families. Additional noteworthy chapters include the records of marriage intentions from 1801-1901 and the genealogy section containing Leeds men who were living at the time the book was published (c.1901) and listing their children, parentage and paternal and maternal grandparents. The text's narrative history covers: the founding of the town, its location and natural...
Over three-quarters of this book is devoted to genealogical records of the early settlers of Leeds, Maine. The main section contains biographical and ...
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cena:
194,22 |
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Journal of Occurrences: Patriot Propaganda on the British Occupation of Boston, 1768-1769
ISBN: 9780788405693 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In late September of 1768, a fleet of British warships entered Boston harbor, and two army regiments disembarked for a year-long occupation of the city. The governor, Sir Francis Bernard, had requested these forces as a means of preserving law and order and ensuring the protection of loyalist citizens after several disturbances earlier that summer had raised suspicions against patriot agitators. Samuel Adams, a staunch patriot, was outraged at this treatment, which he called "the grossest and most pointed Insult ever offered to a free People and its whole Legislature." With direct and...
In late September of 1768, a fleet of British warships entered Boston harbor, and two army regiments disembarked for a year-long occupation of the cit...
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cena:
107,90 |
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Honor Roll of Litchfield County, Connecticut Revolutionary Soldiers
ISBN: 9780788406621 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a master index to over forty sources. Each entry provides the soldier's full name, source of the record, and associated page number(s) for Litchfield County men serving in the Revolutionary War. Sources include pension applications, D.A.R. lineage books, published histories, genealogies, and rolls and lists from the Connecticut Historical Society. Entries are alphabetically arranged within towns.
This is a master index to over forty sources. Each entry provides the soldier's full name, source of the record, and associated page number(s) for Lit...
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cena:
105,74 |
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Old Houses of the Ancient Town of Norwich [Connecticut] 1660-1800, with Maps, Illustrations, Portraits and Genealogies
ISBN: 9780788415159 / Angielski / Miękka / 718 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If these walls could talk... Thanks to the research efforts of the author, these walls can talk. The first part of this book, laced with interesting town history and enlivened by anecdotes and reminiscences, offers an account of the old houses of Norwich, Connecticut, and their owners and occupants, from the settlement of the town to the year 1800. All buildings on major thoroughfares are discussed, often illustrated with photographs of the house and portraits of inhabitants. Land grants, town books, church records, old manuscripts, maps, newspapers and letters were consulted to discover...
If these walls could talk... Thanks to the research efforts of the author, these walls can talk. The first part of this book, laced with interesting t...
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215,80 |
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The Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1672-1706: Volume V, a Complete Transcript of the Town Meeting and Selectmen's Records Contain
ISBN: 9780788426391 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1886, the Town of Dedham published its first volume of printed records including births, deaths, and marriages (1635-1845). In 1888, they published the second volume, records from several churches, and inscriptions from cemeteries (1638-1845). Volume Three, Book One of the town records and a transcript of the Selectmen's Day Book (1636-1659), was published in 1892. The fourth volume, published in 1894, contains a complete transcript of the Town Meeting and Selectmen's Records contained in Book Three of the General Records of the town (1659-1673). This fifth volume "reproduces the record...
In 1886, the Town of Dedham published its first volume of printed records including births, deaths, and marriages (1635-1845). In 1888, they published...
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cena:
151,05 |
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The Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1, 1899
ISBN: 9780788448560 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume I contains: The Brewster Book; Governor Bradford's list of Mayflower passengers; old style versus new style dating; the Paul Prince Bible; Plymouth Colony deeds;...
The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, t...
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116,53 |
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The Mayflower Descendant, Volume 2, 1900
ISBN: 9780788448577 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume II contains: The Brewster Book; Plymouth Colony deeds; Plymouth Colony probate records; Plymouth vital records; the diary of Jabez Fitch Jr.; Mayflower...
The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, t...
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116,53 |
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The Mayflower Descendant, Volume 6, 1904
ISBN: 9780788448614 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume VI contains: Plymouth Colony deeds; Plymouth Colony wills; the diary of Jabez Fitch Jr.; gravestones of Phineas Pratt; John Haskell's inventory; Governor...
The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, t...
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116,53 |
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The Mayflower Descendant, Volume 7, 1905
ISBN: 9780788448621 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume VII contains: Governor Bradford's letter book; Kingston, Massachusetts death records; First Parish Brewster records; Orleans, Massachusetts death records; Plymouth...
The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, t...
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116,53 |
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The Mayflower Descendant, Volume 8, 1906
ISBN: 9780788448638 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume VIII contains: Presbyterian Church of Cape May, New Jersey, session book; Wellfleet, Massachusetts records; Pilgrim Legacy; Leyden and Amsterdam marriage records;...
The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, t...
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116,53 |
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The Mayflower Descendant, Volume 9, 1907
ISBN: 9780788448645 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume IX contains: Gravestone records for: Duxbury, Eastham, Halifax, Hanson, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth, and Provincetown, Massachusetts; church records for:...
The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, t...
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cena:
116,53 |
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The Mayflower Descendant, Volume 10, 1908
ISBN: 9780788448652 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume X contains: gravestone records for: Duxbury, Halifax, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plympton, Provincetown, Scituate, and Wellfleet, Massachusetts; church records for:...
The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, t...
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cena:
116,53 |