Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History, Paperback - Mary Kratt

Reducere. Founded in 1768 at the crossing of two Indian trails, Charlotte has a rich heritage to match its age. In this extensively researched volume, accomp...

Reducere. Founded in 1768 at the crossing of two Indian trails, Charlotte has a rich heritage to match its age. In this extensively researched volume, accomp...

Reducere. Since its establishment in 1792 as the permanent and unalterable seat of government of the state of North Carolina, " Raleigh has seen many changes...

Reducere. Arranged chronologically, this book traces coastal Onslow's social, economic, and political history from the county's creation in 1731 to the 1990s.

Reducere. Draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents ...

In this concise history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray how insights are acquired, lost, and r...

Reducere. New Second Edition, revised and updated! Nestled into the rolling terrain of the Texas Hill Country, Boerne is acclaimed for its beautiful setting,...

Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. I...

Reducere. Calmly nestled among the glacial streams and hills of central New York, residents of Ithaca may find it hard to believe that their city began with ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County. This book traces the his...

DescriptionSince Naperville sprang from the northern Illinois prairie, it has maintained an unmistakably fascinating heritage. The settlers who fol...

Reducere. It takes only a brief drive past the stately homes that line Preston Hollow's winding tree-lined streets to understand the neighborhood's appeal. G...

Reducere. Here, for the first time is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans to the twenty-first century. Based...

Offers a concise introduction to political, cultural, and intellectual history. This eleventh edition retains many popular features, including comp...

DescriptionThe University of Oxford is the third-oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. Institution...

Reducere. Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But fol...

This third edition of our ground-breaking publication, the first survey of Tejanos, has been completely updated to present a concise political, cul...

Reducere. How did a single village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become one of the most powerful imperial powers the world has ever known? In...

Reducere. For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly...

Reducere. Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians? Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black? Did the ancient Greeks b...

Reducere. Examines the history of James City, a black community located near New Bern. Established in 1863 as a camp for destitute former slaves, James City ...

Reducere. Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life fo...

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. Contributor(s): Editor: Larry E. TiseEditor: Jeffrey J. CrowNew Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North ...

Reducere. Recounts events leading to the establishment of twenty-nine lifesaving stations along North Carolina's treacherous coastline and the role of their ...

Reducere. Matching up history with the calendar, Ansley Wegner shares with readers a day-by-day chronicle highlighting topics of importance to North Carolina...

Reducere. Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to...

Reducere. Presents a detailed introduction to each of the following maps: White 1585 MS, White-DeBry 1590, Mercator-Hondius 1606, Comberford 1657 MS, Ogilby-...

Reducere. Originally published in 1960, this paperback is the most popular title ever published by the Historical Publications Section and has never gone out...

This tenth revised edition of the popular marker guide contains inscriptions on 1, 513 markers erected across the state between 1935 and 2007. The ...

Reducere. The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in t...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. This classic book has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, and Stephen Hawking is widely considered the most brilliant theoretical physi...

Beautifully illustrated with prints, portraits, manuscripts and archival material, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the hist...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is another Civil War history book, but it deals with an aspect of the Civil War that does not appear-even as an aside or footnote-i...