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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982375624Author Stacie Vander PolFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Pacific Publishing StudioPublisher Pacific Publishing StudioWeight(grams) 140g

Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling. Kafka argues that control over discipline became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990548713Author A GentlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Three WillowsPublisher Three WillowsWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788438035Author John P SchmalFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 463g

From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments. Yet the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is a relatively recent phenomenon - only during World War One did...

From the early years of the African slave trade to America, blacks have lived and laboured in urban environments. Yet the transformation of rural blacks into a predominantly urban people is a relatively recent phenomenon - only during World War One did...

In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment...

This book is the first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the United States. Part I includes three chapters by a historian, a sociologist, and an anthropologist summarizing the way research on immigrant women has developed in the...

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the leading activist men of letters in 20th-century America. Du Bois organized, protested, laid out programs, petitioned, and raised questions of long-term strategy and short-term tactics. He wrote detailed scholarly...

The links the conservative Right has sought to forge beyond the national over the last century have been too often neglected, and this volume sheds new light on transnationalism, the Right, and the ways the two interact.Book InformationISBN...

The joint efforts of Roosevelt and Mahan to secure U.S. prominence in the Western Hemisphere through sea power and to develop a navy capable of confronting powerful enemies in the Atlantic and Pacific altered hemispheric relations irrevocably and had...

This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837195414Author Morrell HealdFormat HardbackPage Count 361Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North...

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Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought...

Ethnic Differences, first published in 1989, explores how and why the Irish, Italians, Jews, and blacks of Providence, Rhode Island differed in their schooling and economic success. Drawing on evidence from thousands of students records of public,...

J. William Fulbright was the longest serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Both an intellectual and an internationalist, he had great influence over the course of American foreign relations in the 1960s and 1970s...

In the 1850s, Washington County, Oregon, gathered together a broad cross-section of antebellum America -- rich and poor, Northerners and Southerners, Protestant and Catholics, old natives and new immigrants. More than that, however, it left for...

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the Sixties can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820468143Author David K. O'RourkeFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615244365Author Rosalynn Shropshire-WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Shropshire-West PublishingPublisher Shropshire-West PublishingWeight(grams)...

Overall this is an outstanding compilation and one likely to be frequently consulted by students of American diplomacy. Booklist It is refreshing to find a work that really is `revised' and `expanded.' Findling has made a good reference work better by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674181014Author Marvin FelheimFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 667g

The mount of Captain Miles W. Keogh, Comanche was the legendary sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand. As such, the horse makes an electric connection between history and memory. In exploring the deeper meaning of the Comanche saga, His Very Silence...

Americans during the twentieth-century became more disconnected from the environment and nature than ever before. More Americans lived in cities rather than on farms; they became ever more reliant on technology to interact with the world around them and...

The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692827802Author Michael P HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Hart of America ProductionsPublisher Hart of America ProductionsWeight(grams) 268g

Besides reexamining in fresh perspective such well-known figures as Paul Revere, Nathan Hale, Benedict Arnold, and John Andre, the author, a former general staff intelligence officer in World War II, reveals the exploits and tribulations of scores of...

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062088734Author Ron SuskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 946Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 1016g

This must-have third revised and newly expanded edition of the only single reference source for information about state symbols features over 300 information updates plus three new chapters, updated license plate illustrations, and a newly formatted...

How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the daily proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate from 1858...

This book offers an analysis of every American presidential assassination and various attempted assassinations, examining the events surrounding each event and the people involved. The assassinations and attempted assassinations of American presidents...

The greatest threat to Western unity in the 1960s came not from a communist enemy but from an ally: France. De Gaulle challenged the dominance of the US by bringing crises to the EEC and NATO and seeking detente with the Soviet bloc. As this book shows,...

This printed book catalog provides detailed finding aids including descriptions and abstracts of the Center's collections of records and manuscripts. The Center's collection are composed primarily of the historical records of social welfare organizations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615141961Author David ChaltasFormat PaperbackImprint MCI PublishingPublisher MCI PublishingWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001012Author John DealFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 835g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674733152Author Lyman BeecherFormat HardbackPage Count 457Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 826g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674336667Author William Bennett MunroFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 336g