City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago, Robert G. Spinney
Автор: Robert G. Spinney Название: City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago ISBN: 1501749595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501749599 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6264.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city--from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world.
In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the twenty-first century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past. How did the pungent swamplands that the Native Americans called the wild-garlic place burgeon into one of the world's largest and most sophisticated cities? What is the real story behind the Great Chicago Fire? What aspects of American industry exploded with the bomb in Haymarket Square? Could the gritty blue-collar hometown of Al Capone become a visionary global city?
A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. Spinney brings it to life and highlights the key people, moments, and special places--from Fort Dearborn to Cabrini-Green, Marquette to Mayor Daley, the Union Stock Yards to the Chicago Bulls--that make this incredible city one of the best places in the world.
-- "Journal of Illinois History"
Автор: Spinney, Laura Название: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 ISBN: 1910702374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910702376 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 3300.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With a death toll of 50 to 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. This book recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa.
Автор: Mitchell, Gladys Название: Groaning Spinney ISBN: 0099583984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099583981 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Christmas in the Cotswolds brings with it the apparition of a country parson, a series of poison pen letters, and a woman`s body frozen in the snow. The eminent psychoanalyst and superior sleuth Mrs Bradley has a theory about who`s behind all three and sets about a plan to ensnare the unseasonal villain.
Автор: Spinney, Laura Название: Pale Rider ISBN: 1910702382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910702383 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster in all of recorded history. The author recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa.
Автор: Spinney, Laura Название: Pale Rider ISBN: 1784702404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784702403 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century`s greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. `Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story...
Автор: Spinney Diana Название: Fourteen Years Behind the Wall: They Said Thank You ISBN: 0578611007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578611006 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3677.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
They Said Thank You is the memoir of a former prison teacher who wants to set the record straight about inmates. In all of her years teaching, only the inmates said 'thank you.' In 1999, Diana Spinney helped to set up the education classes at the new prison in Burlington, CO. Soon she was the GED instructor. During her 14 years, 933 inmates earned a GED. This is the story about how they said 'thank you' and taught the teacher who they really were.
Описание: Title: Report of the examination of the Shakers of Canterbury and Enfield before the New-Hampshire legislature: at the November session, 1848, including the testimony at length: several extracts from Shaker publications: the bill which passed the House of representatives: the proceedings in the Pillow case: together with the letter of James W. Spinney.
Author: James W Spinney
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP00005500
CollectionID: CTRG10134010-B
PublicationDate: 18490101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Cover-title: Shaker examination before the New-Hampshire legislature, November session, 1848.
Описание: In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth century. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted--and often permanently altered--global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true "lost generation." Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity.
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