Madhouse: The Hidden History of Insane Asylums in 19th Century New York, Paperback - Michael T. Keene

Reducere. THE YEAR WAS 1869, HER NAME WAS MARY ROTE. ...SHE ARRIVED BY STEAMBOAT AT OVID LANDING, SHACKLED AT THE WRISTS AND TRANSPORTED BY ARMED GUARDS........

Reducere. The women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene's book are from North Central New York ...

Reducere. Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. Beginning ...

Reducere. All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael T. Keene Eight boys from the rural community of Holley, New York, died fighting in Vietnam. All went to the same hi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael T. KeeneThe Erie Canal delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Susan Cady Stanton and Lucr...

Reducere. In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucra...

Reducere. Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York examines the activities and ideals of Puerto Rican revolutionary exiles in New ...

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...

The first book to explore the role of women at the Durham Coalfield

Reducere. Non fiction account of thirteen true murder mysteries that occurred in 19th century New York including the Tourture Tree, the Batavia women who mur...

This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and...

Reducere. During the 1930s, the Greek architect and writer Panos Tzelepis (1894-1976) recorded the memories and tales of Stavris, an older relative, who as a...

DescriptionIn the late nineteenth century, a conviction that China was somehow weaker than other political states in Asia and the West spread acros...

Reducere. Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of scientific em...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By fo...

Reducere. The author's analysis of the internecine strife and fierce clan rivalry rampant in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries puts into perspective th...

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page beautiful homage to New York City.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Kenneth GoldsmithNumber of pa...

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

Reducere. The Trail of Tears is a fascinating story that revolves around the forced removal of the Native Americans from their ancestral lands in the United ...

DescriptionGlossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to f...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the Famine written by survivors and newspapers *Includes a bibliography for further reading "I have called...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rush written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of co...

Reducere. Anna Lee Waldo, author of SACAJEWEA said about PICTURE MAKER that she did not want the story to end. Linda Lay Shuler, author of SHE WHO REMEMBERS,...

Reducere. This collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for liter...

Reducere. DescriptionBordered by the Hudson River and the Berkshire Mountains, Columbia County is part of the famously picturesque Hudson Valley region. But ...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic e...

Reducere. Bullets in The Fire - The Saga of New York RedA sexually liberated young woman, Erma Louise Hill, comes of age during the depression under difficul...

Reducere. From acclaimed journalist David Talbot comes a groundbreaking narrative account of one of the most tumultuous periods in our history: the Kennedy A...

A gripping, flawlessly researched, and overdue portrait of America's trailblazing female journalists. Kim Todd has restored these long-forgotten ma...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Isobel ArmstrongNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 1982Dimensions: 219 x 151 x 21Cover type: HardbackR...

Reducere. NEW EDITION: A collection of paintings, drawings, and prints from Western art illustrating the occupation and hobby of knitting during the 1800s. I...

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. Critically acclaimed author Joe Guy serves up a stout batch of East Tennessee history in this latest collection of articles from his popular newspa...

Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace; this bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows our proven ...

The essays in this book combine the authors' personal experiences walking through the landscape and among the plants of Western New York with both ...

- Written by true locals, addresses selected after independent research, 100 lists of 5 addresses/secrets each. What are the 5 most beautiful build...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David HollanderForeword by: George RomeroIn the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who...

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