The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War, Hardcover - Robert J. Gordon

Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

Reducere. Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he p...

Reducere. The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a respon...

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

DANDYISM. The Rise and Fall of a Concept - Petru Stefan Ionescu

Reducere. Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven m...

The Maximalist considers Tony O'Reilly's life and influence, exploring the events and personalities behind his decline from a position of enormous ...

Reducere. Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750, 000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical pro...

Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge lives a boring life on the Island in the Middle of Everything, but she longs for adventure. And she soon gets it whe...

Reducere. Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we...

Reducere. With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized ...

The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chr...

Publisher: Mortons Media GroupAuthor(s): Nick PiggottNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 304 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Eminent Corporations. The Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation - Andrew Simms, David Boyle

DescriptionMany people know about Wessex, the "Last Kingdom" of the Anglo-Saxons in defense against the Northmen, But another kingdom, Mercia, once...

SIX STARRED REVIEWS Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh--one of America's most celebrated heroes and complicated men--in this riveting biog...

Reducere. On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company's offic...

In 1851 Isaac Singer brought onto the market the first practical sewing machine in history. He had combined all the ideas that had gone before to m...

Reducere. It's 1990 and the World Wide Web is making its way into homes all across the world. Everyone wants in on the action, including Charles - a PhD stud...

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's ...

Reducere. A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on th...

"Lively and absorbing. . . -- The New York Times Book Review Engrossing. --Wall Street Journal "Entertaining and well-researched . . . " --Houston ...

The story of how the dollar rose to global dominance in the twentieth century - and an assessment of what the future holds for the world's most imp...

New B-format paperback - The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom,...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Carol LeonnigNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 235 x 43Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign po...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chr...

Reducere. Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of ...

Reducere. The explosive story of the illegal gold trade from South America, and the three Miami businessmen who got rich on it--until it all came crashing do...