Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City, Hardcover - John Griswold

Herrin, Illinois, has seen many dramatic events unfold in the nearly two hundred years since it was a bell-shaped prairie on the frontier. Now, Her...

Reducere. John Eugene Rodriguez's Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its Nor...

Is America destined to always be a violent nation? This sweeping history by Chris Murphy, U.S. senator from Connecticut, explores the origins of ou...

Reducere. "Written in 1965 about a same-sex sexual scandal that occurred in 1955 in Boise, Idaho, John Gerassi's classic study depicts both middle America's ...

Reducere. Orange, California, a city that started small, but grew big on the promise, sweat and toil of agriculture. Born from the breakup of the old Rancho ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament's most infamous cities. Like many Christians today in the academ...

The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause c l bre in seventeenth-century Rome, how ...

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Reducere. In 1924, University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were young, rich, and looking for a thrill. The crime that came next--the b...

How the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant long-distance transportPublisher: T...

Death at Dozier School is the history of the controversial and oft-sensationalized "Boot Hill" Cemetery at the former Dozier School for Boys in Mar...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen PuleoBetween 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis from an insulated New England town into one o...

Reducere. Corvette is an icon. For most of its history it was built in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The author, a forty-one year veteran of GM, spent twenty-four...

Reducere. DescriptionThis title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. T...

Reducere. Bayou St. john played a significant role in the neighborhood of the same name, fueling debate over the waterway's use, control and ownership for ce...

A wise, witty, alternative history of humanity, DOG'S BEST FRIEND reflects on how our relationship with dogs has changed over the centuries, and ex...

A wise, witty, alternative history of humanity exploring how our relationship with dogs has changed over the centuries - by the author of the bests...

Reducere. Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land ...

Reducere. From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memor...

The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history--Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--and their attempt to create an electric-powered c...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): J FruchtmanNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 23Cover type: Paperback / s...

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our citiesPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): David CutlerNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded ...

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Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, a...

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Iconic urbanist Lewis Mumford stressed the role of a well-constructed city in the development of the good life, championing pedestrian-scaled, sust...

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of p...

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Battle of Antietam, then keep reading...On September 17th, 1862, US President Abraham Lincol...

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Reducere. DescriptionNative American Prayer Trees of Colorado is a book about the cultural tradition of a people. John Wesley Anderson takes his readers on a...

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