Pittsylvania County, Virginia: A Brief History, Hardcover - Larry G. Aaron

Queen of Virginia's tobacco-producing counties, one of the top five fossil sites in the world, home to heroes, adventurers, counterfeiters and inno...

The wooden pier, tree-lined Main Street and ocean views, coupled with a prosperous and happy community, led Forbes "magazine to name Seal Beach one...

Reducere. With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to "put her in Spencer on time" o...

Reducere. Over two centuries, Coweta County has been home to diverse residents who mastered the art of reinventing the county. Initially home to Creek-Muscog...

Reducere. The city of Los Alamitos and the contiguous, unincorporated community of Rossmoor exemplify small-town America amid the populous western Orange Cou...

Reducere. With 85 percent of its buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, Galena truly is a place drenched in history. From the ancient burial ...

Reducere. Before a 1901 ceremony opened the peaceful resort town, the wild dunes of Bethany Beach were part of the rough-and-tumble New World and the deadly ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince Naperville sprang from the northern Illinois prairie, it has maintained an unmistakably fascinating heritage. The settlers who fol...

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...

Reducere. Founded in 1768 at the crossing of two Indian trails, Charlotte has a rich heritage to match its age. In this extensively researched volume, accomp...

Reducere. Since its establishment in 1792 as the permanent and unalterable seat of government of the state of North Carolina, " Raleigh has seen many changes...

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 ...

Reducere. Like the mist rising from San Francisco Bay encircles the towering redwoods, the little-known legends of the East Bay Hills enrich a glorious histo...

Reducere. DescriptionLouis Blanchette came to Les Petites Cotes (the Little Hills) in 1769. The little village, later dubbed San Carlos del Misury by the Spa...

Reducere. Arranged chronologically, this book traces coastal Onslow's social, economic, and political history from the county's creation in 1731 to the 1990s.

Reducere. Though not truly an island, Fenwick fits the stereotype, with its history of swashbuckling pirates anchored offshore, fierce storms pounding the co...

DescriptionLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of ...

Reducere. Beginning with the early interactions between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, this history traces three and a half centuries ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

Reducere. This is a history of the land and the landowners along Germanna Road and connecting roads, from the Rapidan River to Wilderness Run. The chapters t...

Reducere. DescriptionNo other southern city has a history quite like Memphis. First purchased in the early 1800s from natives to serve as a vital port for th...

Reducere. This classic book has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, and Stephen Hawking is widely considered the most brilliant theoretical physi...

Ivy A dark-haired beauty gifted with strength and kindness. Raised in the hills of Virginia, she's ushered farther south to the mountains of North ...

Reducere. The author turned his passion for his native county into a dissertation for his doctorate and then into this book. Although the county was not form...

DescriptionCharlottesville and surrounding Albemarle County have the peaceful charm of another era. Nestled at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Moun...

Reducere. DescriptionThe charm of the early 20th century provides the backdrop for a close-knit island community on the tip of the Pacific Northwest. A fathe...

Reducere. In August of 1758, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, a poor Irish immigrant named Mary Madden bore a child, Sarah Madden, whose father was said to ...

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Reducere. Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi...

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Autor: Yuval Noah Harari

Reducere. Certified Genealogist Pam Stone Eagleson traces five generations of descendants of Thomas Stone (d. 1791), humble planter of Prince William County ...

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Reducere. This work begins in the 1700s, prior to the county's establishment, and records interesting incidents and major historic events of the day, as well...

Reducere. An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojo...

Reducere. In Clarke County, the spirits of the past bring history to life. The ghost of a brokenhearted Confederate soldier stares out a window waiting in va...

In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the Ame...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

In this concise history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray how insights are acquired, lost, and r...

Reducere. New Second Edition, revised and updated! Nestled into the rolling terrain of the Texas Hill Country, Boerne is acclaimed for its beautiful setting,...

In this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving toward great...

This book honors the Confederate soldiers who served their county, state, and country during the War for Independence. Few of them owned slaves or ...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Life of Aaron Burr and His Duel with Alexander HamiltonBased on his early achievements, Aaron Burr Jr. should have become a...

Reducere. The perfect introduction to the Irish story-a story wrapped in mythology and legend. Since its very origins, Ireland has become the home for a succ...

Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. I...

Reducere. An overview of Cypriot history from the powerful empires that first inhabited the island to the 20th Century tug-of-war between Britain, Greece and...

From bloomers to boxers, everyone wears underwear! One part humor, one part history, A Brief History of Underpants explores the evolution of fashio...

Publisher: Mapseeker Digital LtdAuthor(s): Corinne BrazierNumber of pages: 104Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 218 x 304 x 14Cover type: HardbackR...

Reducere. Calmly nestled among the glacial streams and hills of central New York, residents of Ithaca may find it hard to believe that their city began with ...

A short history of Spain from prehistoric times to today - from the author of Ghosts of Spain.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Giles TremlettIllus...