Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island's North and South Forks, Paperback - Marilyn E. Weigold

Reducere. Bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north by Long Island Sound, the Peconic Bay region, including the North and South Forks, has...

Reducere. The four hundred years since colonization have brought European, African and Asian techniques, ingredients and tastes to the Chesapeake Bay. Europe...

Reducere. Once upon a time, salad was iceberg lettuce with a few shredded carrots and a cucumber slice, if you were lucky. A vegetable side was potatoes--wou...

Reducere. By the early twentieth century, the coastal bays of the North Fork were filled with new and enterprising hostelries. From the Miamogue and the Grea...

Reducere. DescriptionBoasting a verdant landscape and miles of silky white beaches, Long Island's North Fork remains a natural paradise. Escaping the urbaniz...

Reducere. The revised edition of Long Island's Prominent South Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and Islip joins the cr...

Reducere. Long Island's Gold Coast, more than any other section of the country, has captured the imagination of America. This, in part, is attributable to F....

Reducere. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by...

Reducere. Neill McKee, author of the award-winning travel memoir Finding Myself in Borneo, takes the reader through 400 years and 15, 000 miles of an on-the-...

Reducere. On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the Ameri...

Reducere. Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen schol...

Reducere. Presents the graphic and sad story of the British anti-submarine trawler Bedfordshire and the German submarine U-558. Off Cape Lookout on a fateful...

Reducere. The first Fire Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1826 after numerous shipwrecks along the barrier island. A replacement tower built in 1858 inco...

Like its Southampton counterpart, East Hampton has had a considerable evolution with the influx of entertainment celebrities and high-powered tech ...

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Reducere. Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island's wealthy elite when she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook...

Reducere. Long Island's Gold Coast, more than any other section of the country, has captured the imagination of America. This, in part, is attributable to F....

Reducere. In the spotlight with the publication of The Great Gatsby, the North Shore's Gold Coast boasted perhaps the greatest concentration of wealth in the...

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Publisher: Bloodaxe Books LtdAuthor(s): Robyn BolamNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 215 x 140 x 21Cover type: Paperback / soft...

North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a midd...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first Fire Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1826 after numerous shipwrecks along the barrier island. A replacement tower built i...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Big Duck and Eastern Long Island's Duck Farming Industry traces the fascinating and largely unknown history of the "Long Island Duck...

Reducere. Across four centuries, Apache (Ndé) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, sub...

Reducere. Erected in 1759 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Eyre Hall is still occupied by descendants of its builder. It retains a rich variety of objects f...

Reducere. The third edition of Christianity Through the Centuries brings the reader up-to-date by discussing events and developments in the church into the 1...

Reducere. Colonist George Thorpe first crafted corn beere, an ancestor to bourbon, in 1620 at Berkeley Plantation, and George Washington once operated one of...

DescriptionContinuing the theme of unexplored moments introduced in Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century Upcountr...

Reducere. Rosie and Leonardo the Lion are back with an all-new adventure. This time, they're teaming up with the Crop Dusters, a fun club, dedicated to shari...

Level 6. North and South Book and MP3 Pack - Elizabeth Gaskell

Features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. This title shows how, forced to move fro...

Reducere. One of Elizabeth Gaskell's best known novels, sometimes called an industrial novel or social novel, about the industrialization of cities in northe...

Reducere. "The Southeastern Indian people found their voices in this work. They are alive and well--still on their land "--Hiram F. Gregory, coauthor of The ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Larry E. TiseEditor: Jeffrey J. CrowNew Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North ...

The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and w...

Reducere. James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black school...

Often overlooked because of their high degree of assimilation, people of German descent are actually the largest single ethnic group in the United ...

Reducere. South Carolina has been home to good, old-fashioned barbeque for quite a long time. Hundreds of restaurants, stands and food trucks sell tons of th...

Reducere. The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of S...

Reducere. Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and...

An account of the first five months of the Korean War, describing the withdrawal to the Pusan perimeter, MacArthur's landing at Inch'on and drive n...

Reducere. This unique short-term Bible study combines an in-depth look at Scripture, American history, and the music and lyrics of six African American spiri...

Reducere. It was a time of faith. Men believed. To the chosen few, the Christian God spoke directly and laid out His wishes and orders.But He sometimes chang...

Reducere. The intimate, uncensored erotobiography that is pure-as-Ivory Snow. The sexy girl next door who turned on the world talks openly in detail about he...

Reducere. A crisis of conscience uproots a clergyman's family from the pastoral beauty of the south, sending them to a dreary city in the industrial north. M...

As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between t...

Examines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in bot...