Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire, Paperback - Gerard Koeppel

Reducere. In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal...

Reducere. The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveal...

Reducere. Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightes...

Reducere. This is the story of a nation--the United States--that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting it loves peace....

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Reducere. DescriptionLife working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael T. KeeneThe Erie Canal delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Susan Cady Stanton and Lucr...

Reducere. In the summer of 1936, fourteen-year-old Maxwell Breeze was playing in the waters of the Erie Canal in Brockport when a dog jumped into the canal a...

Reducere. In 1972 the banks of the Wabash River in southeastern Illinois played host to one of the most disorganized music festivals in history. The Bull Isl...

DescriptionHow American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of th...

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the "American Century." Panama Fever draw...

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Washington first proposed the idea of a canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Ohio-Mississippi River System in 1784. Inspired b...

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 ...

Reducere. The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation"in 1950s' England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive S...

Marco Polo's family traveled to the Far East with the hope of establishing trade with what today is known as China and India. But It was Henry of P...

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 ...

Reducere. "The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Fr mont that has appeared to date"--Howard R. Lamar, Yale UniversityThe career ...

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, U.S.Author(s): James YoungNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 147 x 225 x 23Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. This 50-year saga of the "Weary Erie" goes far beyond describing in brilliant detail the turbulent last decades of a colorful, spunky, and innovati...

Reducere. To help celebrate the fourth centenary of the birth of St. John of the Cross in 1542, Edith Stein received the task of preparing a study of his wri...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

Reducere. First published in 1956, Empire in Wood is the definitive history of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, from its predeces...

Features over 200 miles of canals and rivers in The Midlands & South of England. This title focuses on the rural Oxford Canal; the mighty Grand Uni...

Publisher: Fordham University PressNumber of pages: 352Collection: Reconstructing AmericaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 29Cover type...

Ethics, the study of how people treat other, is a hunt for truth as every person becomes a judge of right and wrong. It is also the way to become a...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

Publisher: PiXZ BooksAuthor(s): Mike CopeIllustration(s): colour photographs and sketch mapsNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 12...

This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of cit...

Reducere. Over two decades have passed since the "Cold War" between the Soviet Union and the West ended. Many citizens of the former Soviet republics and War...

The Empire State Building is a famous skyscraper. It was once the tallest building in the world In Building the Empire State Building, young reader...

Reducere. American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of -winning- the West, Drinnon links r...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Henry M CistNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Richard B IrwinNumber of pages: 420Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 217 x 139 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externaliz...

Reducere. "Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life."--The New Yor...

Naoki Sakai examines the decline of US hegemony in Japan and East Asia and its impact on national identity and legacies of imperialism.Publisher: D...

Reducere. Which state has a law against letting a donkey sleep in your bathtub? Which state capitol is heated by a geothermal well? Which state holds barstoo...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...