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Vineyard Confidential : 350 Years of Scandals, Eccentrics, & Strange Occurrences
ISBN: 9780892726875 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the author's words, her book includes the island's fabulous collection of historic and contemporary tidbits, including those about people who come to the island in secret; celebrity scandals, as seen from the point of view of people who live on Martha's Vineyard; unsolved murders; sea monster sightings; paranormal events; shipwrecks; and some only on the Vineyard eccentrics and crackpots from the last 350 years.
In the author's words, her book includes the island's fabulous collection of historic and contemporary tidbits, including those about people who come ...
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84,59 |
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The Papers of Leverett Saltonstall, 1816-1845: January 1843-May 1845 Volume 5
ISBN: 9780934909532 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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197,51 |
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Every Day But Sunday
ISBN: 9780975973714 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every Day But Sunday: The Romantic Age of New England Industry is the story of America when rugged individualism was in full swing. the nineteenth-century industrialist, whether he made soap, tacks, or plows, stamped his peronality upon the small organization he controlled. Therefore the story of this romantic age of industry is a story of individuals -- of men who were rugged, shrewd, and daring. The author has taken a typical New England town -- Mansfield, Massachusetts -- from the beginning to the close of the 19th century and conujures up for us the ramshackle factories, the honest...
Every Day But Sunday: The Romantic Age of New England Industry is the story of America when rugged individualism was in full swing. the nineteenth-cen...
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86,10 |
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Sharon, Massachusetts - A History
ISBN: 9780975973738 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of the town of Sharon, Massachusetts from the American Revolution on up. The book was compiled from Sharon residents by the Sharon American Revolution Bicentennial Committee in 1976 and updated in 2005.
A history of the town of Sharon, Massachusetts from the American Revolution on up. The book was compiled from Sharon residents by the Sharon American ...
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107,68 |
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A Sicilian in East Harlem
ISBN: 9780977356720 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The personal memoir of Dr. Salvatore Mondello, this work offers a unique perspective on Sicilian life and culture in East Harlem and makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of this immigrant group.
The personal memoir of Dr. Salvatore Mondello, this work offers a unique perspective on Sicilian life and culture in East Harlem and makes a significa...
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107,68 |
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Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England
ISBN: 9781403972125 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For over four centuries, "Puritan" has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In the tenth anniversary edition of Puritans at Play, Bruce Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim portrait by examining leisure and recreation in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. Chapters on music, dinner parties, dancing, sex, alcohol, taverns, and sports are presented in a lively style that makes this book as entertaining as it is illuminating.
For over four centuries, "Puritan" has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In the tenth anniversary edition of Puritans at Play, Bruce Da...
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222,94 |
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The Beginnings of New England: The Puritan Theocracy in Its Relation to Civil and Religious Liberty
ISBN: 9781410205490 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On Puritan theocracy and how such intolerance gave rise to concepts of civil and religious liberty - ..".the principles at work in the history of New England down to the revolution in 1689." Chapter headings include: The Roman Idea And The English Idea, The Puritan Exodus, The Planting of New England, The New England Confederacy, King Phillip's War, and The Tyranny of Andros. John Fiske (1842-1901) was a Harvard lecturer and Professor of American history at Washington University in Saint Louis. He was the chief popularizer of Victorian science and philosophy in the USA in his day.
On Puritan theocracy and how such intolerance gave rise to concepts of civil and religious liberty - ..".the principles at work in the history of New ...
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99,23 |
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Rogers Rock: The Hotel the Club the Cottage Colony
ISBN: 9781420853643 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,55 |
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Once Upon A Berlin Time...: Two
ISBN: 9781420867039 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,05 |
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Westford Recollections of Days Gone by: Recorded Interviews, 1974-1975 a Millennium Update
ISBN: 9781425923884 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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204,02 |
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Morah: 19th Century Adventures by Stagecoach
ISBN: 9781425927042 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,80 |
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Ice Fire: N.Y. Harbor: What Happened Beneath The Verrazano Bridge (Portrait of an LNG Tragedy)
ISBN: 9781425947866 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,60 |
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Living on the Boott: Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses of Lowell, Massachusetts
ISBN: 9781558490352 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering an introduction to the field of archaeology, the authors use a single case study to demonstrate the power of their interdisciplinary approach, and create a fresh portrait of 19th-century domestic life in the company-owned boarding-houses of the Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Offering an introduction to the field of archaeology, the authors use a single case study to demonstrate the power of their interdisciplinary approach...
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98,70 |
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Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions
ISBN: 9781558490468 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two centuries, Massachusetts workers have fought for many important advances that would later be enjoyed by other Americans. The right to organize, restrictions on work hours and child labor, and workers' compensation were all pioneered in the Commonwealth. From the 1825 strike of Boston carpenters for a ten-hour day to recent victories in hospitals and universities, Massachusetts workers and their unions have been in the forefront of the battle for dignity and justice. This book tells their story. In eighteen chapters, beginning with the first industrial workers in the... Over the past two centuries, Massachusetts workers have fought for many important advances that would later be enjoyed by other Americans. The righ... |
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133,27 |
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Massachusetts: A Concise History
ISBN: 9781558492493 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the moment the first English colonists landed on the shores of Plymouth Bay, the experiences of the people of Massachusetts have been emblematic of larger themes in American history. The story of the first Pilgrim thanksgiving is commemorated as a national holiday, while the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's ride have passed into the national mythology. Even the grimmer aspects of the American experience -- Indian warfare and the conquest of an ever expanding frontier -- were part of the early history of Massachusetts. In this book, Richard D. Brown and Jack Tager survey the rich... From the moment the first English colonists landed on the shores of Plymouth Bay, the experiences of the people of Massachusetts have been emblemat... |
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138,20 |
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Letters from an American Utopia: The Stetson Family and the Northampton Association, 1843-47
ISBN: 9781558494312 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1842, a group of radical abolitionists and social reformers established the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, a utopian community seeking equality and harmony. This volume contains 75 letters written by members of the Stetson family, documenting life in the Association.
In 1842, a group of radical abolitionists and social reformers established the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, a utopian community ...
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138,20 |
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Massachusetts at a Glance: A User's Guide to the Bay State
ISBN: 9781558494404 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for both residents and visitors, this book offers an alphabetically arranged compendium of information about people, places, and events -- past and present -- in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its aim is to provide a handy one-volume reference guide to a state that has played a central role in American history since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Site of the first Thanksgiving in the seventeenth century and seedbed of revolutionary sentiment during the eighteenth, the Bay State became a center of industrialization during the nineteenth and of the high tech... Designed for both residents and visitors, this book offers an alphabetically arranged compendium of information about people, places, and events --... |
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123,40 |
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Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts
ISBN: 9781558494619 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How ordinary people use the past to shape their sense of self and community; People know who they are by fixing themselves in place and time. They keep the past in numerous ways - not simply by writing histories but also by telling stories, creating pictures, collecting memorabilia, preserving old homes, and tracing genealogies. As Michael C. Batinski shows in this imaginative study, the pastkeepers of Deerfield, Massachusetts, have long illustrated this human yearning to connect with past and place. For five centuries people in this small New England town have passed stories from one...
How ordinary people use the past to shape their sense of self and community; People know who they are by fixing themselves in place and time. They kee...
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138,20 |
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The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901
ISBN: 9781558494794 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Great Gypsy Moth War, Robert J. Spear presents the untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America and the astonishing series of coincidences that brought the state of Massachusetts to a decade-long war against this tenacious insect. Spear traces the events leading up to the beginning of the war in 1890, notes the causes of its failure, and shows the terrible legacy it left as the precedent for all subsequent insect-eradication campaigns. During the Civil War, when the supply of cotton from southern fields was disrupted, the owners of northern textile...
In The Great Gypsy Moth War, Robert J. Spear presents the untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America and the a...
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153,07 |
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A Place Called Paradise: Culture and Community in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654-2004
ISBN: 9781558494855 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1790, President Timothy Dwight of Yale offered this description of Northampton, a town situated on the banks of the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts: The inhabitants of this valley possess a common character, he remarked. Even the beauty of the scenery, scarcely found in the same degree elsewhere, becomes a source of pride as well as enjoyment. For Dwight, the appeal of the place lay in its proportions, which epitomized eighteenth-century ideas about the proper balance between the natural world and the built environment. Northampton evoked equally powerful visions in others. of...
In 1790, President Timothy Dwight of Yale offered this description of Northampton, a town situated on the banks of the Connecticut River in western Ma...
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158,00 |
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