Author: Paul T. Hellmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2245
Book Description
The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.
America Town
Author: Mark L. Gillem
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Covers the land development and architectural policies and practices that the US military follows worldwide in planning, building, and expanding installations of untold extent in 140 countries.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Covers the land development and architectural policies and practices that the US military follows worldwide in planning, building, and expanding installations of untold extent in 140 countries.
The Lost Continent
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: VNR AG
ISBN: 9780060161583
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Publisher: VNR AG
ISBN: 9780060161583
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Sixpence House
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Sixpence House is an engaging meditation on what books mean to us, and how their meaning can resonate long after they have been abandoned by their public."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Sixpence House is an engaging meditation on what books mean to us, and how their meaning can resonate long after they have been abandoned by their public."--BOOK JACKET.
Historical Gazetteer of the United States
Author: Paul T. Hellmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2245
Book Description
The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2245
Book Description
The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.
The History of the Bucaniers of America
Author: A. O. Exquemelin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents
Author:
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Gone Home
Author: Karida L. Brown
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469647044
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian coal towns, Brown offers a sweeping look at race, identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond. Drawn from over 150 original oral history interviews with former and current residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, Brown shows that as the nation experienced enormous transformation from the pre- to the post-civil rights era, so too did black Americans. In reconstructing the life histories of black coal miners, Brown shows the mutable and shifting nature of collective identity, the struggles of labor and representation, and that Appalachia is far more diverse than you think.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469647044
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian coal towns, Brown offers a sweeping look at race, identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond. Drawn from over 150 original oral history interviews with former and current residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, Brown shows that as the nation experienced enormous transformation from the pre- to the post-civil rights era, so too did black Americans. In reconstructing the life histories of black coal miners, Brown shows the mutable and shifting nature of collective identity, the struggles of labor and representation, and that Appalachia is far more diverse than you think.
The Englishman's illustrated guide book to the United States and Canada [by M. Gibbs]. With appendix containing the shooting and fishing grounds of North America
Author: Montgomery Gibbs
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Town Journal
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Who's who in Colored America
Author:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description