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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 15 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Reducere. A complete guide to interpreting women's history. Women's history is everywhere, not only in historic house museums named for women but also in hom...

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to cr...

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 ...

DescriptionAcross the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apa...

Covering the history of Renaissance Florence from the fourteenth century to the beginnings of the Medici duchy, Trexler traces collective ritual be...

Collection of original articles that examines issues in reconstructing archaeological sites fo the public, both physically and virtually.

At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a rob...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of 911 is complicated. Over 240 million calls are made to the 911 system every year. The Romans organized fire watches and had...

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...

This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere'. Focusing on the petition-lik...

Reducere. Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, te...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Susan DuFresneThe History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools is a book intended to challenge the authority of t...

DescriptionHow public land has been stolen from us. Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the bi...

Reducere. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in ...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Kenneth M. GoldIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 315Collection: History of Schools and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe last Public Enemy No. 1 of the Depression era, Alvin "Creepy" Karpis reportedly compiled a record of fifty-four aliases, fifteen ban...

Reducere. In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-Americ...

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

Reducere. In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind--the distortions of reality...

Reducere. Americans have been intrigued with the idea of finding gold deposits since the California Gold Rush of 1848. There is a thrill to finding that firs...

In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European minin...

Reducere. From a country path in Carnation to a riverside walk in Redmond...a nearby mountain lake in North Bend to an art-filled urban park in downtown Bell...

Negro students, as they were called in the era of interest, were locked out of the Prince Edward County, Virginia, public schools from September 19...

How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced...

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

A collection of photographs of the Fleet Air Arm, illustrating the activities, ships and aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm and its predecessor the Roya...