Portrait of the Panama Canal: Celebrating Its History and Expansion, Paperback

Reducere. The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation"in 1950s' England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive S...

Reducere. The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat t...

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the "American Century." Panama Fever draw...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the projects' construction *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Transcont...

Marco Polo's family traveled to the Far East with the hope of establishing trade with what today is known as China and India. But It was Henry of P...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the United States took on the building of the Panama Canal in 1904, workers were faced with extremely difficult living conditions. ...

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Reducere. This book tells a previously untold story of decades of financial speculation, fraud, and international conspiracy that led to the creation of the ...

A single-volume history told in a new way: mingling grand sweep narrative with deep-core, local, personal stories - all woven together with landsca...

Reducere. When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American his...

Robert Swain outlines the history of the canal in part one of this book, from its construction through its trading days, to its demise and then reb...

Reducere. The Big Bend, the Big Country, the Big Empty. The High Plains, the Permian and the Panhandle. Cowboys, Cowtown and the curl of a killer tornado. A ...

Reducere. The Singer's Needle offers a bold new approach to the history of twentieth-century Panam , one that illuminates the nature of power and politics in...

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Reducere. This fresh look at the Gospel of Matthew highlights the unique contribution that Matthew's rich and multilayered portrait of Jesus makes to underst...

Reissue of a wonderfully evocative book that reflects a place and a taste never to be forgotten once sampled: the perfect book to curl up with in f...

Reducere. DescriptionLife working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, ...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Arnold Hermann Ludwig HeerenIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 486Publication date: 20...

Reducere. Shgagwéi, as it was first called centuries before by the Tlingit for the "bunched up water" in its bay caused by strong winds, was "discovered" in ...

Reducere. The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant. The book...

Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectAuthor(s): Professor Ying-Shih (Princeton University) YuIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of...

DescriptionImmanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social...

DescriptionHow the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation o...

Reducere. A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission un...

Revisiting Marx's seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.

Reducere. In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal...

Reducere. The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveal...

Reducere. How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the firs...

Reducere. American Indians had lived in North America for thousands of years by the time European settlers arrived. The settlers came in search of land and w...

The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrate...

An insightful and informative overview of how, in the time leading up to the founding of The Christian Community nearly one hundred years ago, Rudo...

Reducere. Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and want...

Celebrating a Century of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is the definitive history of the greatest horse race in Europe. Inaugurated in 1920 on the B...

Reducere. A Washington Post Best Book of the YearBerlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest...

Reducere. This evocation of the figures and events of one of the most extraordinary eras of this century makes the most vivid portrait of the period yet writ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In 1831, a 26-year old French foreign service offic...

DescriptionMacon is certainly not the largest railroad hub in the country--not even in Georgia. Yet in the early 1900s, with nearly 100 daily passe...

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history and the development of Arab music and musical theory from its pre-Islamic roots until 1970, ...

A further volume in Jerry Murland's series of Battleground books on the France and Flanders Campaign 1940, leading to the Dunkirk Evacuation.

The origins of the fez, also known as "tarboosh" are in dispute. Some claim that its origins are ancient Greece. Others claim it comes from the Bal...

A new history of self-portraiture, and the artworks that offer the deepest insights into an artist's personal, psychological and creative world. No...

The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Janis TomlinsonIllustration(s): 35 color + 46 b/w illus.Number of pages: 448Publication date: 2022D...

Considered one of the world's most beautiful beaches for its sugar white sand and emerald blue-green waters, Panama City Beach has, until recently,...

Reducere. The French Revolution: Its Causes, Its History and Its Legacy After 200 Years, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Reducere. In the summer of 1936, fourteen-year-old Maxwell Breeze was playing in the waters of the Erie Canal in Brockport when a dog jumped into the canal a...

Examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and fre...

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