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Aspirations and Anxieties presents the thoughts and actions of the first generation of factory workers in New England. It shows the various ways in which different kinds of factory workers handled their new experiences in numerous settings - in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190921668Author Michael McGerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 216mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912006239Author Moses CruikshankFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Beautiful images and evocative essays tell the backstory of the essential places, events, foods, and things that together convey the personalitiy of the Treasure State.About the AuthorBert Gildart is the author of over 400 magazine and newspaper feature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889963983Author George GrinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Forging A Fateful Alliance is an important study of the Vietnam War and American higher education - revealing how secret and semi-secret institutional involvement in that conflict led to public disclosures that undermined the integrity of academe. After...

This is the last volume in the five-volume ""History of Missouri"" series. It focuses on social, economic, and political life and provides an in-depth analysis of both rural Missouri and urban development during a time of rapid growth and change in the...

To many people in South Florida, an ""old-timer"" is someone who has lived there for more than five years. ""Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida"" considers the culture history of the real South Florida ""old-timers"" dating from 10,000 BC to the...

A comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes regionBook InformationISBN 9780472064472Author Charles E. ClelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Michigan RegionalPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555664749Author Caroline BancroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House

A prolific writer of prose, poetry, and regional history, Carl Carmer first gained national attention with Stars Fell n Alabama, a book about Alabama folkways. But it is his writings about upstate New York, where he was born and lived for much of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967166254Author Helen HamlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Islandport PressPublisher Islandport Press

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created by the U.S. government during World War II to aid in the construction of the first atomic bomb. Drawing on oral history and previously classified material, this book portrays the patterns of daily life in this unique...

Now available in a new and enlarged edition is the popular fourth-grade textbook, Missouri: Then and Now. Closely correlated with Missouri's Official Course Content Standards and profusely illustrated, with color pictures and maps distributed throughout...

A collection of some 600 excerpts from contemporary essays and letters, plus numerous b&w photos and reproductions, capturing a panoramic picture of the city from Dutch days to the 1950s. Pieces by authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens,...

A collection of some 600 excerpts from contemporary essays and letters, plus numerous b&w photos and reproductions, capturing a panoramic picture of the city from Dutch days to the 1950s. Pieces by authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens,...

Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham is not blind to the damage industry has done-both to people and to the environment, but she shows us that there is also a rich...

A chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama's most overlooked and least studied regions. Much of Alabama's written history concentrates on the Tennessee Valley, the hill counties, and the Black Belt, while the piney woods of south central and...

A look into the 1913 subway expansion project that "proved the city's physical salvation" In 1910, New York City was bursting at the seams as more and more people crowded into a limited supply of housing in the tenement districts of Manhattan and the...

Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage examines the complex web of public history, race, cultural identity, and tourism in Luray, Virginia, a rural Southern town. The 'texts' associated with this town's public history_tourist brochures, promotional...

Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage examines the complex web of public history, race, cultural identity, and tourism in Luray, Virginia, a rural Southern town. The "texts" associated with this town's public history-tourist brochures, promotional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738575544Author David CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738568065Author Wade ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary immigrants who have often been ignored in the historical record, he demonstrates that German newcomers arrived...

This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence. It focuses on the dramatic hanging and burning of Thomas Jeremiah, a free black harbor pilot and firefighter accused by...

Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift beneath their feet. The conflict over slavery that led to the Civil War forced them to confront the difficult problems of nationalism. What made a nation a nation? Could an...

The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping...

The California coastline has long been of interest to archaeologists. This book directs attention to the largely ignored Pecho Coast, a rugged, isolated 20 km long peninsula between modern-day Morro Bay and Pismo Beach. Archaeological work along this...

Eastern North America is one of only a handful of places in the world where people first discovered how to domesticate plants. In this book, anthropologist Shane Miller uses two common, although unconventional, sources of archaeological data-stone tools...

Generations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street's legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden-known in its first century as a "gambling hell" and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid...

The American Southwest is characterised by environmentally and culturally diverse landscapes, which include the northern Rio Grande valley as it cuts through north-central New Mexico from Taos to Albuquerque. The region has a long and rich history of...

Chinese St. Louis offers the first empirical study of a Midwestern Chinese American community from its nineteenth-century origins to the present. As in many cities, Chinese newcomers were soon segregated in an enclave; in St. Louis the enclave was called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543531305Author Erin EdisonFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pebble BooksPublisher Pebble BooksWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 206mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467113632Author Karren PellFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

In a city with a long history of high social barriers and forbidding aristocratic preserves, Philadelphia Jews, in the last half of the twentieth century, became a force to reckon with in the cultural, political and economic life of the region. From the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931968454Author Abe ZaidanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint The University of Akron PressPublisher The University of Akron PressWeight(grams) 694g

A colorful history of one of the city's most beloved neighborhoods-now back in print!The Minneapolis lake district, which includes Lowry Hill, Kenwood, Lake of the Isles, and East Calhoun, has always attracted a unique mix of people. Some came to make...

From Blackbeard's den at Ocracoke, to the Hills of the Seven Sisters at Nags Head, to the misty swamps of Shallote, there is hardly an inch of territory along North Carolina's coast without a legend attached to it. Inlanders may be skeptical regarding...

Following the success of Quirky Berkeley, "arbiter of the eccentric" (The New York Times) Tom Dalzell returns to take readers on a tour of even more artwork that peppers the proudly idiosyncratic Northern California city. Stroll along iconic Telegraph...

The first of William Gilmore Simms's Border Romance series, this is a vividly accurate and entertaining account of two very different societies in frontier Georgia during the height of the gold-rush era.Book InformationISBN 9781557282743Author William G...