Rival Visions: How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic, Hardcover - Dustin Gish

The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and...

By helping readers understand the financial history of this period and the way banking shaped the society in which ordinary Americans lived and wor...

Reducere. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

Reducere. Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations...

This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capi...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...

Two great 'piano schools' had emerged, each having some of the greatest performers and composers of the day associated with them. Some of these com...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Bill LichtensteinIllustration(s): 282 colour and black and white photosNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 202...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Dael A. NorwoodIllustration(s): 21 halftones, 2 line drawingsNumber of pages: 312Collection: A...

This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from mu...

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Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Chris MortensenIllustration(s): 65 Halftones, colorNumber of pages: 164Collection: Special Publicatio...

The European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the present day. It is also inextricably linked with t...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Vanja MalloyJosef Albers (1888-1976) was an artist, teacher, and seminal thinker on the perception of color. A member of th...

Publisher: Encounter Books, USAAuthor(s): C. Bradley ThompsonNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 33Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. In 1804 Thomas Jefferson decided to study the gospels to see if he could distill the essence of Jesus' teachings into a concise book that could be ...

Reducere. Based on twenty years of collaborative fieldwork, Songs for Cabo Verde: Norberto Tavares's Musical Visions for a New Republic focuses on the musici...

This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from tho...

Reducere. Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs--individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells ...

Reducere. In Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare, David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic ...

Adalbert Cserni and his contemporaries the pioneers of archaeology in Alba Iulia and Beyond - Csaba Szabo, Viorica Rusu-Bolindet, Gabriel Tiberiu Rust

This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from mu...

Reducere. Between 1926 and his untimely death in 1929, Blind Lemon Jefferson was the largest-selling African-American blues singer in the United States. Blin...

Publisher: Palgrave USAAuthor(s): Jonathan DollimoreIllustration(s): notes, bibliography, indexesNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2003Dimensio...

The first half of the book is devoted to the poetry of Yannis Ritsos and includes several of his longer poems in their entirety. In the second half...

A fresh and revealing history of one of the most seminal events in American history as seen through fourteen diverse and dynamic figures. Martyn Wh...

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

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

DescriptionIn 1820, Thomas Jefferson worked for months, often by candlelight, carefully cutting the pages of several Bibles to remove the life stor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gish JenFor author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders' Guide to the Universe...

Reducere. Initially published in 1954 and revised in 1962, Metals and How to Weld Them is a standard reference in the field and provides the foundation of mo...

How China became the China we know today, through war and societal transformation.Publisher: Stone Bridge PressAuthor(s): Jing LiuIllustration(s): ...

Haruki Murakami and His Early Work first discusses Murakami Haruki's real-life activities and interests, such as his self-identity as a Japanese no...

DescriptionConflict on the early American Frontier This is the fascinating and bloody story of the American frontier of the eighteenth century-wher...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jamie LendinoAtari 8-bit computers are the first machines that truly bridged the divide between video game players and home...

Publisher: New Contemporaries (1988) LtdPublication date: 2007Dimensions: 198 x 248 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Reducere. In Killing the Planet: How A Financial Cartel Doomed Mankind, best-selling authors Rodney Howard-Browne and Paul L. Williams investigate the true m...

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Reducere. From scaly dragons to mischievous leprechauns, mythical creatures continue to capture the imaginations of human beings around the world. Appealing ...