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White-Tipped Orange Masts: The Gloucester Dragger Fleet That Is No More
ISBN: 9781540204509 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,68 |
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Puritans and Yankees: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England
ISBN: 9780691651934 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Governor John Winthrop established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, he commenced a tradition of public service in which his family would participate for almost a century. His son, John, Jr., and his grandsons, Fitz John and Wait Still, were deeply involved in the colonial government of New England, although their motives were increasingly mixed with private interest. Mr. Dunn's portrayal of this important and interesting family illuminates the two most fundamental themes in early New England history: the gradual secularization of the New England conscience, and the continuous... When Governor John Winthrop established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, he commenced a tradition of public service in which his family would ... |
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734,66 |
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A Life in Orange: Life in a Massachusetts Mill Town in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781511716994 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1985, a college student interviewed her grandmother Leona about life in Orange, Massachusetts during the 1920's and 1930's. Leona's accounts of school, work, family, and play in this quintessential New England mill town are entertaining tales from a vanished past. And Leona's wariness about the future-in regard to crime, the media, education, and the social fabric of the country-proves to be prescient. Of interest to students of American history, New England history, or simply human history. Enjoy a slice of life in Orange in the early 1900's, with its mills, trains, piazzas, Atwater Kent...
In 1985, a college student interviewed her grandmother Leona about life in Orange, Massachusetts during the 1920's and 1930's. Leona's accounts of sch...
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32,33 |
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The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and Other Contemporaneous Documents
ISBN: 9781596413528 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work contains the names of all persons found in the journals and lists of the colonies, towns, churches and counties of Massachusetts in the period of 1620-1650, inclusive, as well as those perpetuated in the passenger-lists of that time which have survived to the year 1900. The names have been arranged alphabetically, and information on the individual, when available and known, include dates of arrival in America, marriages, births, deaths, children, etc. This volume is a genealogical goldmine for those researching Massachusetts and its early arrivals
This work contains the names of all persons found in the journals and lists of the colonies, towns, churches and counties of Massachusetts in the peri...
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211,48 |
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Hidden History of Cape Cod
ISBN: 9781626197107 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The salty waves and sandy beaches of Cape Cod disguise its fascinating and nearly forgotten history. From Provincetown to Falmouth, the Cape's fifteen towns offer a plethora of hidden and enchanting tales. Learn why one of the most famous rescues in Coast Guard history spent nearly fifty years in the shadows without public notice. Discover which wild creature went from the nineteenth-century soup pot to enjoying conservation protection under state law. Historian Theresa Mitchell Barbo explores these mysteries and more, from the lost diary of a nineteenth-century schoolteacher to the reason...
The salty waves and sandy beaches of Cape Cod disguise its fascinating and nearly forgotten history. From Provincetown to Falmouth, the Cape's fifteen...
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84,74 |
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French & Indian Wars in Maine
ISBN: 9781467117753 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For eight decades, an epic power struggle raged across a frontier that would become Maine. Between 1675 and 1759, British, French and Native Americans clashed in six distinct wars to stake and defend their land claims. Though the showdown between France and Great Britain was international in scale, the decidedly local conflicts in Maine pitted European settlers against Native American tribes. Native and European communities from the Penobscot to the Piscataqua Rivers suffered savage attacks. Countless men, women and children were killed, taken captive or sold into servitude. The native people...
For eight decades, an epic power struggle raged across a frontier that would become Maine. Between 1675 and 1759, British, French and Native Americans...
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84,74 |
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Pemaquid Peninsula:: A Midcoast Maine History
ISBN: 9781467118071 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offshore fishermen and skillful shipbuilders transformed the quiet shores of the Pemaquid Peninsula beginning in 1815. The maritime economy drove local commerce until enterprising locals turned to ice harvesting, granite quarrying, brick making, lobster canning and pogy oil processing before summer tourism grew and thrived. The descendants of revolutionaries became the faces of a more prosperous generation--men like Albert Thorpe, who ran a popular summer hotel on the grounds where his grandfather had salted and dried his catch decades earlier. Today, summer rusticators discover the enduring...
Offshore fishermen and skillful shipbuilders transformed the quiet shores of the Pemaquid Peninsula beginning in 1815. The maritime economy drove loca...
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96,30 |
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Hurry Down Gunntown: A Small Town Saga of a Stolen Boy and Land Saved
ISBN: 9781508968795 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HURRY DOWN GUNNTOWN - A WILD RIDE WRITTEN AS ONE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Hurry Down Gunntown - A Small Town Tale Of A Stolen Boy And Land Saved simultaneously takes the reader into the whirlwind of two conflicts separated by two centuries. The land in the Gunntown neighborhood of Naugatuck, CT more than weaves the centuries together. It makes the ecology and tumultuous history of the land have one continuous narrative. The author tells the modern day story as memoir while a kidnapped boy writes in his journal retrospectively and reveals the 18th century tale. Young people, conflicted in their...
HURRY DOWN GUNNTOWN - A WILD RIDE WRITTEN AS ONE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Hurry Down Gunntown - A Small Town Tale Of A Stolen Boy And Land Saved simultane...
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80,92 |
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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
ISBN: 9781611688535 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of many of the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty. The blaze was ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, a 1980s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane "egg crate" foam sound insulation on the club's walls. In less than 10 minutes, 96 people were dead and 200 more were injured, many catastrophically. The final death toll topped...
On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That nigh...
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103,11 |
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Mysteries and Adventures Along the Atlantic Coast
ISBN: 9781933212876 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,95 |
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A Passion for Preservation: Katherine Warren and the Shaping of Modern Newport
ISBN: 9781938700095 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, Newport is renowned as one of the most historically significant and architecturally intact cities in America. In the years following World War II, this heritage was under siege; the city s rich collection of colonial buildings and Gilded Age mansions was threatened by demolition and redevelopment. Katherine Warren, California-born and New Orleans bred, intervened by galvanizing her adopted community around the protection of its architectural heritage and, in doing so, contributed greatly to the city s revitalization. Warren s passion for preservation was complemented by an equally...
Today, Newport is renowned as one of the most historically significant and architecturally intact cities in America. In the years following World War ...
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86,95 |
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Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England
ISBN: 9781625341846 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this richly illustrated book, Robert Macieski examines Lewis W. Hine's art and advocacy on behalf of child laborers as part of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) between 1909 and 1917. A "social photographer" -- as he called himself -- Hine created images that documented children at work throughout New England, making the case for their exploitation in the North as he had for rural working children in the South. Hine staged his images, highlighting particular types of labor in specific places: the "newsies" in Connecticut cities; sardine canners in Eastport, Maine; cranberry... In this richly illustrated book, Robert Macieski examines Lewis W. Hine's art and advocacy on behalf of child laborers as part of the National Chil... |
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141,98 |
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Not a Catholic Nation: The Ku Klux Klan Confronts New England in the 1920s
ISBN: 9781625341891 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan experienced a remarkable resurgence, drawing millions of American men and women into its ranks. In Not a Catholic Nation, Mark Paul Richard examines the KKK's largely ignored growth in the six states of New England -- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont -- and details the reactions of the region's Catholic population, the Klan's primary targets. Drawing on a wide range of previously untapped sources -- French-language newspapers in the New England--Canadian borderlands; KKK documents scattered in local, university,... During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan experienced a remarkable resurgence, drawing millions of American men and women into its ranks. In Not a Catholic... |
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137,09 |
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White Mountains Hiking History: Trailblazers of the Granite State
ISBN: 9781540208583 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,27 |
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Development of Martha's Vineyard Harbors 1881-1915
ISBN: 9781511752275 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This slim, 91-page book tells little-known facts about the early development of Martha's Vineyard harbors. For those not familiar with the Vineyard, it is an island off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, near Cape Cod. The time frame is from 1881 through 1915. The harbors covered are Menemsha, Vineyard Haven, Oak Bluffs (Cottage City) and Edgartown Harbors. The source for all data is the Massachusetts Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners' Annual Reports. The reader will learn of not only the Commission's successes in implementing "big" ideas, but also of the setbacks that the...
This slim, 91-page book tells little-known facts about the early development of Martha's Vineyard harbors. For those not familiar with the Vineyard, i...
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80,92 |
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Marblehead Myths, Legends and Lore
ISBN: 9781596292567 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,74 |
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Memories from New Hampshire's Lakes and Mountains:: Fence Building and Apple Cider
ISBN: 9781596292666 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since colonial times, when Yankee pioneers first planted villages and homesteads in New Hampshire s rugged hill country, the Granite State s rural settlers have cultivated a vibrant pastoral society. Bruce D. Heald offers a richly nostalgic recollection of the traditions, pastimes and storied names and locales that have helped New Hampshire s backwoodsmen carve out a unique identity. With stops to consider such classic northern New England activities as ice fishing, maple sugaring and blueberry picking, Memories from New Hampshire's Lakes and Mountains: Fence Building and Apple Cider takes...
Since colonial times, when Yankee pioneers first planted villages and homesteads in New Hampshire s rugged hill country, the Granite State s rural set...
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84,74 |
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Connecticut Pirates & Privateers:: Treasure and Treachery in the Constitution State
ISBN: 9781626199217 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The waters, inlets and islands of Connecticut once swarmed with fabled corsairs like Captain Kidd and Blackbeard who may have buried their booty in Constitution State soil. In colonial times and through the nineteenth century, over one hundred privateers used the Connecticut River and waterways as a home port, influencing the geopolitics of the time. During the Revolutionary War, the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold attempted to destroy the state's privateer fleet. In 1779, Captain Elisha Hinman cleverly devised a system that allowed the large privateer ship Governor Trumbull to avoid enemy...
The waters, inlets and islands of Connecticut once swarmed with fabled corsairs like Captain Kidd and Blackbeard who may have buried their booty in Co...
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84,74 |
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One August Morning
ISBN: 9781892523952 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ONE AUGUST MORNING THE TRUE STORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN BY TROY TAYLOR LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AXE... OR DID SHE? Lizzie Borden is a name that has lived in infamy. As everyone knows, she's the young woman who "took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks" and then "gave her father 41." Everyone seems to know the rhyme, but most people don't know the truth behind the grim story of one of America's most famous unsolved murders. In this new entry in the "Dead Men Do Tell Tales" series, author Troy Taylor delves into the true story of the Borden Murders, revealing what really happened on that morning in...
ONE AUGUST MORNING THE TRUE STORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN BY TROY TAYLOR LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AXE... OR DID SHE? Lizzie Borden is a name that has lived in i...
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69,36 |
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The Reluctant Migrants: Migration from the Veneto to Central Massachusetts 1880-1920
ISBN: 9781934844717 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most accounts of Italian immigration published in English have dealt with the waves of migration from southern Italy, but very little has been written on those who left northern Italy and their migration patterns. This book explores the factors that drove people who were strongly attached to their home paese (towns) to become global adventurers, as well as what factors drew them to central Massachusetts. Research was completed using American archives and in Italian-language sources in Venice, Treviso, Vittorio Veneto, and Belluno, Italy. At first the Veneti sought seasonal work in Austria and...
Most accounts of Italian immigration published in English have dealt with the waves of migration from southern Italy, but very little has been written...
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151,05 |
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