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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738548319Author M. David DesoucyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934598115Author Lauren ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Union Park PressPublisher Union Park PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

This compact yet comprehensive account of Chicago's history links key events in the city's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250214553Author Tom ClavinFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502375773Author Kerby JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The remarkable story of the money sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 is one that is often told and remembered by people in both nations. This gift was sent to the Irish from the Choctaw at the height of the potato famine in Ireland, just sixteen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890156100Author Bill O'NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 159mm * 20mm

In June 1964, over 1,000 volunteers - most of them white, northern college students - arrived in Mississippi to campaign for black enfranchisement and teach at `freedom schools' as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent...

From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the...

Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of...

Life in Wales in the mid-nineteenth century proved grim for many of its farmers. Large landowners controlled most of the arable land, tracts of which they rented out to tenant farmers. Corn laws prohibited importation of cheap food and drove up domestic...

Marlene Trestman's Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was the first purpose-built Jewish orphanage in the nation...

Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250113894Author Frances DinkelspielFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 292g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571681522Author TodishFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter-the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he collected...

The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska's peoples and the development of its economy have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956413038Author Melissa L CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Hoodoo Books LLCPublisher Hoodoo Books LLCWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637167762Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588343505Author Mark SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Winner of the 2019 Certificate of Excellence and MUSE Medallion from the Cat Writers Association The nineteenth century was a rough time to be a stray cat in New York City. The city's human residents dealt with feline overpopulation by gassing unwanted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Regional Book) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781626400917Author Frances AndertonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060572006Author Author and Historian Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401129Author Nikolai BlaumFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979606601Author Ann Ratliff RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467128636Author A. Bowdoin Van RiperFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816539604Author Andrew CurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 144g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540215642Author David KunzFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...

In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, ""Freedom's Coming"" puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology...

Atlanta Underground presents a city history through the lens of its buried and paved-over urban landscape. Atlanta has been built, rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt so many times that it has created an artificial surface dozens of feet above the original...

Edward Zane Carroll Judson aka Ned Buntline (1821-1886) was responsible for creating a highly romantic and often misleading image of the American West, albeit one that the masses found irresistible in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Some scholars...

In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141918Author Dwayne W. PickettFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Fresh Kills-a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island-was once the world's largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City's refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble...

Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples' formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North's isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of...

Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City's long history of social activism from the 1650's to the 2010's. Bringing these passionate histories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193819Author Stew ThornleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490946Author Sherman BillingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878423545Author Stephen M VoynickFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing...

Few cities have seen the rise and fall that Detroit has. At its height, it was the fourth largest city in the U.S. with 1.85 million residents. Today there are less than 700,000. In 2013, the city declared bankruptcy, making it the largest municipal...