The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history -- and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism
As historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FD……続きを見る
The history of the ubiquitous pine tree is wrapped up with the history of early Americaーand in the hands of a gifted storyteller becomes a compelling read, almost an adventure story.
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Die 101 Fragen zur amerikanischen Geschichte sind kein herkömmliches Geschichtsbuch. Sie wollen nicht enzyklopädisch informieren, sondern Lust auf Amerikas Geschichte machen. Selbstverständlich widm……続きを見る
In this ebook you will meet one of the most beautiful environmental texts ever written. It was elaborated based on the oration spoken by Chief Seattle, patriarch of the Duwamish and Suquamish Indian……続きを見る
This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural mate……続きを見る
First published in 1861, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, is the story of a woman who overcomes the odds to save her family is similar. Under the pseudonym Lin……続きを見る
The Anti-Gallic Letters by Adam Thom was published in 1836 based on Thom's editorials in Montreal Herald written under the pseudonym "Camillus" in the previous two years. They were never reprinted, ……続きを見る
著者:David M. Keithly
出版社: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
発売日: 2019年09月25日
Instant interpretive history is a difficult and demanding task, and certainly more of an art than some would suggest. USA and the World describes not only what happened, but puts events in the conte……続きを見る
The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century……続きを見る
This is the story of the rise and eventual disappearance of approximately thirty German weekly newspapers during a period of slightly more than eighty years. It describes the successes and difficult……続きを見る
An utterly compelling story of how the cultural, social, and political practices of Native Americans transformed the way life is lived throughout the world, with a new introduction by the author
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The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forc……続きを見る
More than an account of the human delusion and fortitude in penetrating one of the most inhospitable areas of the world, Arctic Obsession goes beyond the gripping history of northern exploration, of……続きを見る
When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left Eng……続きを見る
Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services. Call in Pinkerton’s is the history of the agency’s work on behalf ……続きを見る
The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.
The ‘perfect storm’ is a on……続きを見る
He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kidーwhose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaughーled a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed.
A relative of Longabaug……続きを見る
Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.
They bowed their heads to give thanks.
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著者:Jack W Brink
出版社: Athabasca University Press
発売日: 2008年02月01日
At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of t……続きを見る
著者:Various
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年01月01日
Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literatureーin……続きを見る
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The Call of the Wild is a novel by American author Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rushーa period when strong sled……続きを見る
The first of seven (to date) concise, comprehensive histories of California coastal towns, this HarborTown History of Catalina Island offers the tale of a lovely island, from its beginnin……続きを見る
著者:Peter Benson
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2011年10月31日
Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antito……続きを見る
著者:Various
出版社: Original Narratives of Early American History Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States 1528-1543.
発売日: 2013年05月30日
Original Narratives of Early American History
Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States 1528-1543.
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
THE NARRATIVE OF ALVA……続きを見る
著者:Barbara W. Tuchman
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年06月22日
Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.
In The First Sa……続きを見る
著者:Charles McCann
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年03月01日
The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteent……続きを見る
著者:Eric Mills
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
First published in 1989, Eric L. Mills’s comprehensive history of biological oceanography has been praised as ‘superb’ (BioScience) and ‘proof that history need not be dull’ (The Northern Mariner). ……続きを見る
著者:Lynn R. Williams
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
Lynn Williams remains one of the most influential North American union leaders of the twentieth century. His two terms as president of the United Steelworkers of America, from 1983 until 1994, cappe……続きを見る
Among the most exclusive ebooks on American History this book gives you surefire facts that your textbook got wrong about Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington,……続きを見る
著者:John G. Reid
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
In examining the history of northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, it is important to take into account diverse influences and experiences. Not only was the relationsh……続きを見る