» książki » History - United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Kategoria BISAC: History >> United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
ilość książek w kategorii: 3224
 |
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...
|
cena:
192,30 zł |
 |
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 ...
|
cena:
113,55 zł |
 |
Rogers Rock: The Hotel the Club the Cottage Colony
ISBN: 9781420853643 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
78,46 zł |
 |
Once Upon A Berlin Time...: Two
ISBN: 9781420867039 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
154,55 zł |
 |
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. |
cena:
233,48 zł |
 |
Morah: 19th Century Adventures by Stagecoach
ISBN: 9781425927042 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
62,72 zł |
 |
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. |
cena:
131,15 zł |
 |
The Brookline Trunk
ISBN: 9781557091796 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty years after its initial publication, The Brookline Trunk is being reopened. Inside, readers of all ages will discover the rich history of the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts. Working backwards from 1955 to the 1630s, Brookline author Louise Andrews Kent unearths stories of people and events that shaped the hamlet originally called Muddy River.
Fifty years after its initial publication, The Brookline Trunk is being reopened. Inside, readers of all ages will discover the rich history of the To...
|
cena:
92,38 zł |
 |
Free...for Three Months Only
ISBN: 9781557099617 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in Cooperation with the Harvard Historical Society.
Published in Cooperation with the Harvard Historical Society.
|
cena:
69,23 zł |
 |
Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield
ISBN: 9781558495036 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On February 29, 1704, a party of French and Indian raiders descended on the Massachusetts village of Deerfield, killing fifty residents and capturing more than a hundred others. In this masterful work of history, Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney reexamine the Deerfield attack and place it within a framework stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. Drawing on previously untapped sources, they show how the assault grew out of the aspirations of New England family farmers, the ambitions of Canadian colonists, the calculations of French officials, the fears of Abenaki warriors, and... On February 29, 1704, a party of French and Indian raiders descended on the Massachusetts village of Deerfield, killing fifty residents and capturi... |
cena:
170,72 zł |
 |
The History and Future of Narragansett Bay
ISBN: 9781581129113 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book covers 10,000 years of the history of Narragansett Bay. Topics include the geology of the Bay, paleo-Indians, pre-Colombian exploration, Indian Tribes living near the Bay, and the economic history and future of the Bay region.
The book covers 10,000 years of the history of Narragansett Bay. Topics include the geology of the Bay, paleo-Indians, pre-Colombian exploration, Indi...
|
cena:
146,34 zł |
 |
Provincetown: A History of Artists and Renegades in a Fishing Village
ISBN: 9781540205001 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
145,49 zł |
 |
Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound
ISBN: 9781586485757 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object. But there was a lot of merit in creating a privately funded, clean energy source for energy-starved New England, and he felt sure most people would recognize it eventually. Instead, all Hell broke loose. Gordon had unwittingly challenged the privileges of some of America's richest and most politically connected people, and they would fight him tooth and nail, no matter what it cost, and even when it made no sense.
"Cape Wind" is a rollicking tale of democracy in action and plutocracy in... When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object. But there was a lot of merit in creating a p...
|
cena:
96,98 zł |
 |
Time and the Town: A Provincetown Chronicle
ISBN: 9781597402712 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
407,55 zł |
 |
Swedish Heritage of Greater Worcester
ISBN: 9781540203236 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
141,08 zł |
 |
Slavery & the Underground Railroad in New Hampshire
ISBN: 9781540202628 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
141,08 zł |
 |
Schoodic Point: History on the Edge of Acadia National Park
ISBN: 9781540210456 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
141,08 zł |
 |
Historic Storms of New England
ISBN: 9781889833279 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reissue of the classic book of historic New England storms, first published in 1891 by Sidney Perley (1858-1928).
A reissue of the classic book of historic New England storms, first published in 1891 by Sidney Perley (1858-1928).
|
cena:
98,61 zł |
 |
A Short History of Boston
ISBN: 9781889833477 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Until 2004 and the publication of ""A Short History of Boston,"" there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway. With economy and style, Dr. Robert Allison brings Boston history alive, from the Puritan theocracy of the seventeenth century to the Big Dig of the twenty-first. His book includes a wealth of illustrations, a lengthy chronology of the key events in four centuries of Boston history, and twenty short profiles of exceptional Bostonians, from founder John Winthrop to heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, from ""heretic"" Anne Hutchinson to Russian-American...
"Until 2004 and the publication of ""A Short History of Boston,"" there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway. With eco...
|
cena:
65,93 zł |
 |
The Hurricane of 1938
ISBN: 9781889833750 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping description of New England's storm of the century.
A gripping description of New England's storm of the century.
|
cena:
86,26 zł |
Czytaj nas na:
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
