The Electric Car in America, 1890-1922: A Social History, Paperback - Kerry Segrave

DescriptionThe electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorless, noiseless and mechanically simple, ...

Revealing the fascinating social history of bricks in Britain!

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, B...

A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War

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Reducere. During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, ham radio went from being an experiment to virtually an art form. Because of the few governm...

Reducere. 539Are you considering buying an electric vehicle? There are over 25 battery EVs from which to choose including pickup trucks, SUVs and sedans. Thi...

Reducere. Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses t...

From leeches to lice, bowels to bedpans, nurses relate their experiences of hospital wards in the 20th century.

Reducere. Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as follies, from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration...

Presents US History from 1900 to 1945. This work features a historical narrative that looks at the period from the 1890s to 1945. It is a synthesis...

Contributor(s): Author: Roger DanielsIn the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States--a greater numb...

Reducere. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching a...

Reducere. Discover The Important Information About Electric Cars Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device You're about to discover the cruc...

Reducere. FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best boo...

Reducere. Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dyi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe early years of the twentieth century were a difficult period for Big Business. Corporate monopolies, the brutal exploitation of labo...

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...

Reducere. Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial ca...

Reducere. The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody creation of th...

One of the most devastating portraits ever drawn of a human society - life in Hitler's Germany during the Third ReichPublisher: Orion Publishing Co...

The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800 - Patrick Joyce

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Contributor(s): Editor: Keith WrightsonThe rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has b...

Reducere. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Arie...

A comprehensive study of Iceland's social and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power. It is of interest t...

Reducere. The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, indepe...

Reducere. The first scholarly history of the iconic Anabaptist text. Approximately 2, 500 Anabaptists were martyred in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-centu...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jeannie N. ShinozukaIllustration(s): 17 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dim...

Reducere. Here, for the first time, the development of pastoral care as a discipline has been documented. Dr. Holifield details the shift in emphasis from sa...

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Reducere. DescriptionWhen the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to 'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society cre...

Reducere. In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Ara...

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social h...

Americans love "this year's model, " relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to Amer...

Reducere. Equality is a fundamental American value. The nation's Declaration of Independence declared equality as a self-evident foundation for political lif...

Reducere. A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to ...

The epic tale of the House of Orange-Nassau, from 1772 to 1890.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Jeroen van ZantenIllustration(s): 64 illustratio...

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The last place most 19th-century settlers wanted to move was the swampy, fever-ridden Toledo area. However, with the assistance of Irish and German...

Reducere. Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra In America presents an overview of the fascist influence in America. While Eisenhower's troops...

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to t...