Rum Across the Border: The Prohibition Era in Northern New York, Paperback - Allan S. Everest

Reducere. During the boisterous days of American Prohibition, the Lake Chaplain region of New York State teemed with bootleggers, all hoping to make a fast b...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Diana S. KimIllustration(s): 20 b/w illus. 6 tables. 6 maps.Number of pages: 336Collectio...

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Reducere. Led by two childhood pals, Thomas Snake"" Kinney and Tom Egan, the Egan's Rats emerged from St. Louis's Irish slums. They learned their trade the o...

DescriptionA critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the mil...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael A. LernerIn 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibiti...

Reducere. Temperance workers had their work cut out for them in the Upper Peninsula. It was a wild and woolly place where moonshiners, bootleggers and rumrun...

Amory Ames is excited to be bridesmaid at her friend's New York wedding. But when a guest is found dead, Amory and husband Milo are drawn into New ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Myria GeorgiouIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Collection: Critical Cultural ...

Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th...

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Reducere. Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, ...

Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): Allan S WrightIllustration(s): 16 pages of colour photos; 16 pages of colour photosNumber of pages: 464Public...

Reducere. Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 19...

Reducere. Despite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of cultural mythology has arisen around them. T...

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Reducere. Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the authors experience as a m...

Reducere. Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent stru...

Reducere. Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to "build a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico bord...

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Reducere. Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career. Famous for being a crack sho...

Reducere. A photographic guide laced with insider knowledge to one of Northern New Mexico's most spectacular scenic byways. The Enchanted Circle is an 83-mil...

Novelist and traveller Jeremy Page takes a walk through the Lincolnshire fens and along the Norfolk coast, in search of something within himself, a...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): James T. LapsleyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover type:...

DescriptionThe 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William C. ChittickThis is the most accessible work in English on the greatest mystical poet of Islam, providing a survey o...

DescriptionThis is the first comprehensive study of African American politics from the end of the 1960s civil rights era to the present. Not an opt...

Reducere. This collection of essays represents the first in a series of two volumes that set out to reflect the state of the art of antitrust thinking in dig...

Reducere. Predicting the decline of Japan and the re-emergence of the United States as the most powerful economy on the planet, the Harvard economist offers ...

Reducere. Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership, state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind laws that trap black Ameri...

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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 ...

DescriptionHow transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodi...

Publisher: Northern Heritage ServicesAuthor(s): Godfrey WatsonIllustration(s): 16 pages of full colourNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2013Dim...

Reducere. DescriptionTombstone, Arizona is one of the most famous of the mining boomtowns. It was also one of the most violent. Within the confines of this o...

From anti-war walkouts to anarchist youth newspapers, rallies against educational privatization, and workshops on fair trade, teenage girls are act...

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THE RUNAWAY: You may have seen the TV. That doesn't mean you know the full story.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Martina ColeNumber ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat does it mean to choose to move to a new country, versus migration by necessity? What does it look like to lack options as a migrant...

An unforgettable encounterPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Lucy RyderNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 109 x 171 x...

Texas Guinan was the queen of New York's speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters and welcomed some of the c...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Amy S WhartonIllustration(s): black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figuresNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. Bullets in The Fire - The Saga of New York RedA sexually liberated young woman, Erma Louise Hill, comes of age during the depression under difficul...

Reducere. "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itsel...

The Coast to Coast Walk remains Britain's favourite long-distance walk. This book lets you savour 192 glorious miles from St Bees on the Cumbrian C...