The Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth-Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal, Hardcover - Michael Doyle

Reducere. The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of F...

Pearson's canal companions encourage visitors, explain the lie of the land and provide a lasting souvenir of journeys made. This new 9th edition of...

Reducere. Bunny Rabbit has lost her toy duck So Bunny and her brothers jump in their boat and head down the river in search of Little Duck. Their journey tak...

In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, likely to be definitive for many years to come (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian Jonatha...

Reducere. By the Wand of Some Magician addresses the severe impact of railroad technology upon its arrival into Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century that in...

... an extraordinary and richly contextualized biography that highlights the engagement and agency of a little-known African American activist who ...

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of t...

THE INFIDEL: The SS Occult Conspiracy is a supernatural historical thriller set inside Nazi Germany. Not a doctrinaire Nazi, SS Lieutenant Ernst Te...

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 ...

The Hammers of Towan: A Nineteenth-Century Cornish Family, centres around the life of Appleby's great-grandfather Philip Henry Hammer, his three wi...

Reducere. These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together...

Reducere. This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. ...

The River ThamesIncluding the River Wey, Basingstoke Canal and Kennet and Avon CanalPublisher: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson LtdAuthor(s): Chris Co...

Features facts and figures, insights and entertainment, wit and wisdom: from Brentford to Burscough, from Shardlow to Sharpness, from Tipton to Tod...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political is...

This history of Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War weaves together political, economic, social and cultural developments.

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of human settlement in the re...

In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the c...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823, only five years after publication, Shelley...

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

Reducere. 1. The Termination Proclamation 2. Your Poison Throne 3. Moonrise (Through Mirrors Of Death) 4. And The Maiden Spoke 5. Emptiness Unobstructed 6. T...

Reducere. It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern ad...

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remai...

Reducere. Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200, 000 free black women...

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values th...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Carole laFavorNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 15Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Patrick DeveneyThis is the fascinating story of Paschal Beverly Randolph, an African American who carved his own eccen...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a ...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

Publisher: Froglets Publications LtdAuthor(s): Bob OgleyIllustration(s): 250ill.(some col.).Number of pages: 256Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 2...

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of ...

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical ca...

Reducere. The development of the piano, together with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This stud...

A history of nineteenth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA.Publisher: D ...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...