Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York, Paperback - Judith Wellman

Tells the riveting narrative of the growth, disappearance, and eventual rediscovery of one of the largest free black communities of the nineteenth ...

Reducere. ... will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition t...

Reducere. The surprising history of the Gowanus Canal and its role in the building of Brooklyn For more than 150 years, Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal has been cal...

Reducere. On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concl...

DescriptionA critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los AngelesThe Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between ...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Ottilie MulzetNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 114 x 176 x 17Cover type...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Min Hee GoIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

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Reducere. ""Trespass" might as well be "Desert Solitaire"'s literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one." Jud...

Open up the book of Numbers, part of the Bible Speaks Today series of commentaries, with Raymond Brown, and see how this complex book can speak cle...

Reducere. This is a complete translation of Eihei Shingi, the major writing by the Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) on monastic practice and the r...

Publisher: Grolier Club of New YorkAuthor(s): Heather ClarkNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 9Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. A view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmet...

Omega - The Promised Land - Andreea Dobasu

A translation from the Latin of one of the most famous and enduring stories of western Christendom, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written ...

A haunting and powerful portrait of a young French girl, and her desire to escape the world in which she is born, without losing her identity In th...

Reducere. George R. Stewart's classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the n...

Reducere. This book presents a historical overview of the free Negro in Virginia, from the mid-eighteenth century through the Civil War, along with the physi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Scott EllsworthForeword by: John Hope FranklinWhen a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the even...

Reducere. Eleven Days to the Promised Land is a timely realization of past and present times, a fascinating tale of how an impoverished boy from a civil war-...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists togethe...

Contributor(s): Author: Martin Fletcher"Martin Fletcher, who headed up NBC TV's Tel Aviv News Bureau, knows his territory and it shows on every pag...

Reducere. Omega - The Promised Land is a science-fiction book only because the action takes place far into the future. It is in fact an essence-reality book,...

Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkNumber of pages: 350Collection: Women's Studies QuarterlyPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in...

How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the...

Reducere. Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States and the first African American commander-in-chief. He served two terms, in 2008 and 2012. ...

With a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special paperback edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Mont...

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Reducere. Unwind your mind This latest collection of fun, enjoyable puzzles from crossword great Will Shortz is perfect for stress-free solving. Seventy-five...

DescriptionIn 1800, the Holland Land Company assigned surveyor Joseph Ellicott the task of selling at a profit 3.3 million acres of land west of th...