Census, Hardcover

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

No scholarly reference library is complete without a copy of Ancestry's Red Book. In it, you will find both general and specific information essent...

Reducere. DescriptionBrooklyn, or "Bruculinu, " as many Italians affectionately pronounced it, is where Italian values, culture, and dreams thrived. In an er...

Reducere. Macon County, North Carolina - 1829Storm clouds are gathering over the Blue Ridge Mountains. Andrew Jackson has signed legislation sealing the fate...

In 2009, Peachtree City is a 50-year-old thriving "new town." But when it was incorporated in 1959, it was 5, 000 acres of farmland with little mor...

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malth...

Reducere. The purpose of this book is to determine the places of origin of the families recruited by John Law in 1720, and to re-examine the migration within...

Reducere. Mr. Hurley has made numerous additions and corrections and has included 3, 000 more names than the original edition! Volume 1 now contains all the ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

Reducere. A boy and his mom continue the family tradition of participating in the annual bird count. Since Gramps went South for the winter, the boy hopes to...

DescriptionToday, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers ...

Reducere. The falls of the Big Sioux River were formed 14, 000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, as melting ice eroded a channel down to the bedrock...

Reducere. DescriptionCades Cove came into existence in 1821, when William "Fighting Billy" Tipton was granted 1, 280 acres of fine fertile land in the first ...

Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was established in 1721, but it was not until after the Civil War that the names of approximately 4, 700 African Ame...

Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1871 as the village of Detroit. Detroit became a boomtown in the late 19th century because of the vas...

DescriptionA history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. ...

Reducere. When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was ``rediscovered`` by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notio...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics"Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the larg...

In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black companionship.According to the 2010 US census, mor...

Reducere. In the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onwards, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a criti...

Kimbel and Cabus were among the most progressive design reformers of their time. Modern Gothic is the first publication to explore the timeless Ame...

This important new study examines the intricately linked phenomena of interwoven population growth, economic power, quality education, business lea...

Reducere. After the American Civil War, many African Americans found a new life in "River Town." Louisville became a historic marker for freed men and women ...

Reducere. Located in an area known as the "Pine Barrens" because the branches of the dense, virgin pine trees interlaced so tightly that they almost blocked ...

Now a #1 New York Times BestsellerIn the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project -to single-handedly create a photo...

Best Reference Books of 2012 presented by Library Journal The Great Irish Famine is the most pivotal event in modern Irish history, with implicatio...

Reducere. This volume is the latest in the North Carolina Troops series, which is published by the State of North Carolina, with the aim of presenting the hi...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Hampshire is Robert Frost's poetic tour de force. It won the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in poetry. While Frost had been a respect...