Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863, Paperback - Robert Ernst

This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanisation of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the eff...

Reducere. This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), fo...

Reducere. At age eleven, Rosie Lepidus's main concerns are winning ring-a-levio, going to school, and staying out of trouble. But when Mama falls ill with pn...

Reducere. CD 1: 1. My Love Will Not Let You Down 2. Prove It All Night 3. Two Hearts 4. Atlantic City 5. Mansion On The Hill 6. The River 7. Youngstown 8. Mu...

Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...

Reducere. Viniyl 1: Side A: 2. Prove It All Night 6: 164. Atlantic City 6: 36Side B: 2. The River 11: 162. Badlands 5: 434. Born To Run 5: 576. Land Of Hopes...

Award NameSydney Taylor Book AwardAward categoryOlder ReadersDescriptionAt age eleven, Rosie Lepidus's main concerns are winning ring-a-levio, goin...

Reducere. King Claude, the adorable talking dog, and his family return to New York City for another exciting journey. Join them in this beautifully illustrat...

Reducere. ``Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us.`` -- Boston Globe ``A richly textured guide to the his...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Spanish-American War in 1898, many Filipinos immigrated to New York City, mostly as students, enrolling at local institutions ...

Reducere. Finding Your Irish Ancestors in New York City, Paperback

Reducere. Beginning in the 1920s, an all-star team of goons, gunmen and garrotters transformed America's criminal landscape. Its membership was diverse; the ...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael A. LernerIn 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibiti...

Contributor(s): Author: Christopher WashburneThis ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s offers detailed accounts of music...

Examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of immigrants. This book moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in parti...

ALL COLOR INTERIORVery few men have had the impact on Broadway theatre as did Justin Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times from 1...

Reducere. ALL COLOR INTERIORVery few men have had the impact on Broadway theatre as did Justin Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times from 1...

Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. is distinguished as a historian who provides original and illuminating insights into familiar aspects of the War Between...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writ...

Reducere. In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Convinced by...

Reducere. Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transi...

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 ...

Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory Peterson is on an early evening walk through the city, suddenly shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. Us...

Beautifully photographed, with insightful analysis in terms of both traditional and contemporary contexts, An American Renaissance is a significant...

Reducere. Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1948-1998, Hardcover

Catherine believes that life is a journey. After serving a one year tour in Iraq with the military, Catherine realized life is short and that she n...

Publisher: Bonnier Books LtdAuthor(s): Lauren UrasekNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 19Cover type: Paperback / sof...

In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects ...

Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles-and bicyclists-in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the city over ti...

Explores women of colour's grassroots leadership in organisations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centred in New York City, Pushi...

Reducere. The history of Puerto Ricans in the so-called "Babel of Steel" dates back more than a century. Through hundreds of images of the "pioneers"-those P...

Reducere. In this book Michael A. Gordon examines the causes and consequences of the tragic and bloody Orange Riots that rocked New York City in 1870 and 187...

Reducere. A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Ir...

Reducere. In this lively and deeply affecting memoir, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York as only a stunned newcomer can: in overheard conver...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...