First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory, Paperback - Gary B. Nash

Reducere. With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth centu...

This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United State...

Reducere. In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle ...

Why has democracy flourished in the Federal Republic of Germany? This book illuminates the pivotal role played by the half million veterans of the ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Richard VinenNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern...

DescriptionAn astonishing trilogy of books, collected in one volume, documenting the tumultuous first half of the 20th century in Spain The Forging...

Trevor Royle does for Culloden what Juliet Barker did for Agincourt, bringing us the definitive account of the battle and its wider role in the cre...

One of The Christian Science Monitor's ten best books of JuneAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds wit...

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....

Reducere. This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd de...

Reducere. Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando...

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Reducere. Description1968 was a particularly tumultuous year in American history. The escalating war in Vietnam, the riots during the Democratic Convention, ...

DescriptionThis book sheds crucial new light on the epochal US interventions in Southeast Asia after World War II. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman d...

Reducere. Description"One of the best thrillers I have read this year."--Books and Movie Reviews (re Any Means Necessary) In the much-anticipated debut of a ...

Reducere. Description"One of the best thrillers I have read this year."--Books and Movie Reviews (re Any Means Necessary) In the much-anticipated debut of a ...

Reducere. During the 1960s and '70s, Mexican Americans began to agitate for social and political change. From their diverse activities and agendas there emer...

Reducere. With a reputation as the hot-air balloon capital of the world and the home of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta(R), the skies of the sou...

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Reducere. The central theme of Connections Remembered is the ancient African origins of humanity and civilization, framed around the impact of these historic...

Reducere. DescriptionThe battle of Gettysburg was considered to be the turning point of the War of the Southern Rebellion not necessarily because the Federal...

Reducere. March 29, 1968 - ARVN Rangers and U.S. advisors came under attack as their helicopters landed near A Luoi, RVN. Several choppers were destroyed, an...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Levi RoachIllustration(s): 52 b/w illus. 4 tables. 3 maps.Number of pages: 360Publication date: 202...

Reducere. DescriptionReveals how the art of memory is the origin of the Masonic method - Explains the classical techniques of the art of memory, how they wer...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. AwardsOregon Book AwardsDescriptionThrough much of the twentieth century, black Seattle was synonymous with the Central District--a four-square-mil...

Reducere. Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their ...

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The City of Abraham is a journey to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and an account of the shared roots of the three great monotheist...

John T. Chain, Jr., rose from a second lieutenant to four-star general and led our national missile defense program. Mike Harper led ConAgra Foods ...

"Carbon Comes out of the Closet" is a humorous conservative "Children's Book" that tackles Climate Change, Energy and Fake News in a manner that is...

In the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839 to 1842, considered the most infamous of all colonial wars, only Dr. Brydon survived out of the 13, 000-to-20...

Reducere. With 160 color photographs that invite the reader to step over the threshold, Historic Houses of Philadelphia brings the region's most impressive m...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7. DuBois was ...

Reducere. In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious cultur...

About DK Eyewitness Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch CountryThe ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus d...