A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike, Paperback - Francis Russell

On September 9, 1919, an American nightmare came true. The entire Boston police force deserted their posts, leaving the city virtually defenseless....

Reducere. CONTENTS: Scenes of My Childhood Seeking an Education The Law and Politics In National Politics On Entering and Leaving the Presidency Some of the ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn August 2, 1927, President Calvin Coolidge shocked the nation by announcing he would not seek reelection. The declaration came from th...

Reducere. Calvin Coolidge has long been dismissed as silent, and with little to say. This collection of over 250 quotations reveals the concise, direct, even...

Tells the story of Francis Tukey and the formation of the Boston Police Department, featuring many of the department-s earliest cases and crises. S...

The RIC are often portrayed as the villains of the War of Independence, Irishmen who betrayed their country. Police Casualties in Ireland 1919 - 19...

A new and 50% enlarged, entertaining, but fundamentally serious selection of the most rewarding places to visit in Italy. Towns, villages, museums ...

Reducere. The austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadershipHe was know...

Reducere. DescriptionPimps, prostitutes, safe crackers, murderers, drug addicts, thieves and thugs--and of course, the Portland Police Bureau--Don DuPay intr...

Reducere. A high school honors student with no police record encounters the police outside his home. He emerges from the confrontation bruised and beaten. Th...

Reducere. DescriptionTrade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action whi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

From the street fighting that heralded the German occupation to the Gestapo repression that followed, this is the gripping story of the German occu...

Reducere. My Gaza offers a startling perspective on contemporary Gaza. Photographer Jehad al-Saftawi documents his life there up until his escape, in 2016. H...

A Redesign of the Classic Work by Francis A. Schaeffer Few Christians had a greater impact on the Christian response to modernism and postmodernism...

DescriptionLondon: A City in Pictures forms a tour of the city s historic streets of medieval and classical architecture, sumptuous palaces and dis...

One of the world's great cities, Britain's capital has long been an icon not only for the seven million inhabitants who live and work there, but al...

Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? These are some of the questions...

DescriptionNestled on the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, the city of Khartoum has, for two centuries, been a focal point for both imperial...

Reducere. In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwe...

This comprehensive history of policing from the 18th century onwards draws on largely unused police archives. The text addresses all the major issu...

DescriptionBirmingham is a writer's city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge ...

DescriptionTbilisi is the largest city and capital of Georgia, with a population of more than 1.5 million people. Situated at the boundary between ...

In 1919, the steel industry of Pittsburgh was on the brink of war. Years of labor strife broke out into open conflict as steel workers launched the...

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Publisher: Mapseeker Digital LtdAuthor(s): Corinne BrazierNumber of pages: 104Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 218 x 304 x 14Cover type: HardbackR...

In the context of the greater China region, this book provides an overview of translation phenomena, identifies the trends of translation and publi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Comma Press's popular 'Reading the City' series goes North East in this book of short stories exploring the history and variety of Newcastle-upon-T...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory Peterson is on an early evening walk through the city, suddenly shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. Us...

Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Venice is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural change ...

Reducere. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Introduction by Patrick James Dunagan. A transcribed conversation between two prolific American poets. Swapping person...

Kiki Strike. Inside the Shadow City - Kristen Miller

Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Barcelona is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural chan...

Bringing together fiction from some of the city's most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social ...

DescriptionThe stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havana's citizens have had to endure as a result of their cou...

This anthology brings together ten short stories that go beyond the postcards and snapshots, and introduce us to real residents of Rio - young danc...

Iceland is a land of stories; from the epic sagas of its mythic past, to its claim today of being home to more writers than anywhere in the world. ...

Publisher: Birlinn GeneralAuthor(s): Russell FindlayIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 131 ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Iain (University of Plymouth, UK) ChanningIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Tim (University of Queensland, Australia) DunneIllustration(s): 1 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Table...

Contributor(s): Author: Calvin L. WarrenIn Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black hu...

Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen PuleoBetween 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis from an insulated New England town into one o...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist m...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Russell MeeufIllustration(s): 28 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 226Publication date: 2022Dimens...

DescriptionA corrupt police officer trawls the streets of Cairo on the most important assignment of his career: the answer to the truth of all exis...

DescriptionA city of stories--short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory--Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the capital city ...