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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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The United States Catalog
Author: Mary Burnham
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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City of the Century
Author: Donald L. Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684831384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684831384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s.
Geography of the Upper Illinois Valley and History of Development (Classic Reprint)
Author: Carl Ortwin Sauer
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528568463
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Excerpt from Geography of the Upper Illinois Valley and History of Development Igneous bowlder containing large crystals that have resisted weathering Very recent gully in pasture on Kickapoo Creek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528568463
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Excerpt from Geography of the Upper Illinois Valley and History of Development Igneous bowlder containing large crystals that have resisted weathering Very recent gully in pasture on Kickapoo Creek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages
Author: Houari Touati
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226808777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world, which at the time extended from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a coherent identity. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed to the desert to learn Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who mapped the Muslim world, and the students who ventured to study with holy men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, discomforts, and dangers, emerges in this study as both a means of spiritual growth and a metaphor for progress. Touati’s book will interest a broad range of scholars in history, literature, and anthropology.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226808777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world, which at the time extended from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a coherent identity. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed to the desert to learn Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who mapped the Muslim world, and the students who ventured to study with holy men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, discomforts, and dangers, emerges in this study as both a means of spiritual growth and a metaphor for progress. Touati’s book will interest a broad range of scholars in history, literature, and anthropology.
Kaskaskia
Author: David MacDonald
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Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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"This book tells the history of Kaskaskia, Illinois, from its founding to its time as the territorial capital and then the first state capital, through its disasters--earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and epidemics--and finally to its disappearance when the Mississippi River washed it away"--
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Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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"This book tells the history of Kaskaskia, Illinois, from its founding to its time as the territorial capital and then the first state capital, through its disasters--earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and epidemics--and finally to its disappearance when the Mississippi River washed it away"--
Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3260
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Languages : en
Pages : 3260
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Subject Guide to Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3054
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Languages : en
Pages : 3054
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A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography,mythology and Geography
Author: William Smith
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Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
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Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
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The City
Author: Robert Ezra Park
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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