The Voyageur in the Illinois Country: The Fur Trade's Professional Boatmen in Mid America, Paperback - Margaret Kimball Brown

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French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini's influence on British musical life through his m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer S. H. BrownFor two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Rachel E. BlackNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 25Cover type: Pa...

DescriptionMid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s t...

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DescriptionThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important the...

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

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In Formative Assessment in the Disciplines, Margaret Heritage and E. Caroline Wylie explore the interconnection of ambitious teaching, formative as...

Reducere. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Paperback

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Linda GordonNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 28Cover type: Paper...

Features short fictions and prose poems such as bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves; the pretensions of the male chef ...

Margaret Atwood's superb exploration of stories and storytelling, myths and their reinventions, fiction and fact, the weirdness of nature, and the ...

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Reducere. Award NameMidwest Book Award (MIPA)Award categoryBiographyDescriptionEdward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antis...

Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas DawidoffIn a series of indelible portraits of country music stars, Dawidoff reveals, among others, Jimmie Rodgers,...

This is a tale of a woman and two children on an adventure through a busy day in the natural world. The poem identifies many colorful critters, the...

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Can there ever be a United Kingdom? In the days following the Brexit vote, a team from the National Theatre of Great Britain spoke to people nation...

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DescriptionEthnomusicologists have journeyed from Bali to Morocco to the depths of Amazonia to chronicle humanity's relationship with music. Margar...

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From a writer who traded her single life in the big city to marry a farmer, this is a true story of about falling in love with a man and with a dif...

Publisher: Brown & BrownAuthor(s): Margaret BrownNumber of pages: 16Collection: Readers with Exercises S.Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 112 x 15...

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The complete story of the origins and evolution of the black American blues tradition, drawing extensively on oral history interviews.

Focusing on the immigrant family, this title brings together documents and commentary that is suitable for teaching United States history survey co...

A photographic celebration of British wildlife and the country way of life.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): The editors of Country Liv...

Reducere. In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institutio...

Examines the lost films and directors of the 1950s. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, the author's 1950s film world unv...

A discussion of current practices in modern dance trainingPublisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Melanie BalesNumber of pages: 280Public...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Sofia Ali-KhanNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 40Cover type: HardbackRed...