19th-century American History – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 10

Carol Kammen
Smut

In June, 1883, Jefferson and Helen Beardsley of Ithaca, New York, were indicted, tried, and sentenced for "selling and exhibiting obscene pictures." In Smut, historian Carol Kammen draws directl…

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Julie Kalman
The Kings of Algiers

A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and AmericaAt the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bacr…

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Andrea Friederici Ross
Sisters of Influence

This real-life Little Women is the fascinating story of three of the six Fay sisters between 1850 and 1920. In their day, they were known to many, but they have fallen into obscurity. Andrea Friederici Ro…

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Alexandra M Nickliss
Phoebe Apperson Hearst

In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics , Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women. A financial manager, businesswoman,…

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Renate Banik-Schweitzer
Planungsatlas Wien 1867-1918

Vienna's major development from a small Baroque residential city enclosed by fortifications to a modern European metropolis began after 1840. The most important infrastructural projects were the regulatio…

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John Tauranac
New York's Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers

The 1890s was the tail end of the Gilded Age. It was not a "Golden Age," it was a veneer, and although the decade is specifically called "The Gay Nineties," the gaiety was generally re…

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Felipe Galindo Feggo,
History Comics: Ellis Island

"Many Americans know someone who can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island. In addition to being part of the world-famous Statue of Liberty National Monument, this modest-sized piece of land once…

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Colonial Cyprus

An original, innovative, and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the island's colonial past. The book focuses on the oft…

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Rose Mary Wood
Chronicles of Cass County, Michigan

Along the Indiana border in Southwest Michigan lies Cass County, a place rich in historical significance.Nearly one thousand freedom seekers traveled through the area on their way to Canada. The first ren…

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Diana Peterson, Jodi Kiffmeyer
Hidden History of Eau Claire

"Eau Claire's history is a rich tapestry of tragedy, mystery, and everything in between. Time after time, a round-faced man with a bristly mustache appeared amongst loggers in late nineteenth-century…

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Allan Rohan Crite

The first major book about an artist of powerful significance to twentieth-century Black and American artThe artist Allan Rohan Crite (1910--2007) was a community leader, mentor, and tireless recorder of …

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Tom Wells
The Kissinger Tapes

A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and …

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Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker
The Other March Sisters

"Four sisters, each as different as can be. Through the eyes and words of Jo, their characters and destinies became known to millions. Meg, pretty and conventional. Jo, stubborn, tomboyish, and ambit…

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Andrew Porwancher
American Maccabee

A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives---and his legacyA scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally o…

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Steven Ujifusa
The Last Ships from Hamburg

"The story of the mass exodus of Jews out of Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century and the titans of industry who made it possible"--

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Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, Liz Parker
The Other March Sisters

"Four sisters, each as different as can be. Through the eyes and words of Jo, their characters and destinies became known to millions. Meg, pretty and conventional. Jo, stubborn, tomboyish, and ambit…

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David Mence
Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …

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Matthew Smalley,
Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature

"Examining how key US writers - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present - have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon, this book analyses the complex literary preaching th…

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Victoria Johnson
Glorious Country

From the author of American Eden---finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more---comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American ar…

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On the Overland Trails with William Clark

This account documents a young man's travel along the trails from St. Louis to Salt Lake City, accompanying the U.S. Army's Utah Expedition as a teamster, his captivity in Salt Lake City by the Nauvoo Leg…

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