Italians of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Hardcover - Nicholas P. Ciotola

Reducere. In 1930, one out of every six Pittsburgh residents was an immigrant. More came from Italy than from any other country in the world. Drawn by chain ...

Reducere. Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in...

Reducere. Every Labor Day weekend, hundreds of thousands of people flock to Courthouse Square in Scranton for the largest ethnic festival in northeastern Pen...

Reducere. Ghostly travelers are said to wander the lonely roads of western Pennsylvania. A creeping fog rises from Blue Mist Road, and stories of car crashes...

Reducere. A collection of frightening stories from the western part of the Keystone State, including . . . Hauntings at Bedford Springs HotelThe Miracles of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas P. MoneyThe great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kay NiemannRocky Mountain Italians is an account of early Italian families coming to Colorado during the great Italian immi...

Reducere. Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philoso...

Reducere. Violent bank heists, bold train robberies and hardened gangs all tear across the history of the wild west--western Pennsylvania, that is. The regio...

Reducere. Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces ...

Legislative History of American Immigration Policy, 1798-1965, Hardcover

Reducere. Oppaymolleah's curse. General Braddock's buried gold. The Original Man of Steel, Joe Magarac. Such legends have found a home among the rich folklor...

Reducere. Ghostly travelers are said to wander the lonely roads of western Pennsylvania. A creeping fog rises from Blue Mist Road, and stories of car crashes...

As the twentieth century dawned on western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the region's steel industry faced a struggle for unionism. Unionists like...

Reducere. Engineering Pittsburgh: A History of Roads, Rails, Canals, Bridges and More, Hardcover

DescriptionThe Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most enigmat...

Reducere. In the early 1900s, the Little Italy, Riverside, Stony Road, and Sandy Hill sections of Paterson, all within walking distance of booming factories ...

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

Reducere. When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The de...

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five o...

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. IMAGES OF THE SAN JUANS--HISTORIC SELECTIONS FROM THE RUTH AND MARVIN GREGORY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION. Images of the San Juans is a rare treat--a col...

"A typically wise and thoughtful book, which manages to combine a wealth of unexpected information with an immensely readable style - it should gra...

Reducere. Pittsburgh: 1758-2008 surveys the city's evolution from strategic fort in the wilderness to bustling industrial workshop to high-tech center for un...

Provides an account of the rebellion of the unprotected frontiersmen and the unfranchised artisans, who constituted two-thirds of the population in...

Reducere. At the beginning of the last century, there were just over 11, 000 Italians in Ohio. While many of the earliest immigrants settled along Lake Erie,...

Reducere. Italians in the Lowcountry is the first book to explore the contributions and legacies of the Italian and Italian American community in Charleston,...

Reducere. 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 ...

Inclusive, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic, Kenyon shows that no matter how great the crisis, music has the power to bring us togetherPublisher: Ya...

DescriptionAs recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars. The past quarter century, howe...

Reducere. Many Western history enthusiasts believe that Ouray was the greatest of all Indian chiefs. Unlike his contemporaries, he is remembered for his nego...

Reducere. Western Armenian is the language spoken by most of the seven million Diaspora Armenians who live outside their historic homeland. Its speakers form...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the summer of 1904 as Russia was convulsed in the Russo-Japanese War, an event of great joy occurred when a baby boy was born to Tsar...

Reducere. Italians have been a part of the Chicago community since the 1850s. The city's Italian immigration rate peaked in 1914, and many of these new resid...

Reducere. People of Italian descent have been present in Detroit since Alfonso Tonti, second-in-command to Antoine Cadillac, participated in the founding of ...

Reducere. The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America ...

National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Ameri...

Reducere. When Mark Twain visited in 1884, he claimed to spy a little bit of hell in Pittsburgh s smoky appearance. Twain s observations are among the many r...

Reducere. Such was the wisdom of the Pittsburgh Daily Gazette and Advertiser in 1866 when describing a railway boss's threat to decapitate a former employee....