One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O’Malley (1903–79) is best remembered—and still reviled by many—for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O’Malley story leading up to the Dodgers’ move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man. When he entered the public eye, the self-constructed family background and early life he presented was gilded. Later his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters, who hated him for moving the Dodgers.
In Mover and Shaker Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of O’Malley’s life. He also departs from the overly sentimentalized accounts of O’Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman, who was a major force in baseball for three decades and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game.
Автор: Ross Nancy Wilson Название: Westward the Women ISBN: 1943328080 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943328086 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: New edition of a classic. WestWinds Press is proud to introduce to a new generation Nancy Wilson`s Ross`s lively history of some of the remarkable pioneer women of the American West.
Автор: Austin Gloria Название: Westward Ho: Concord Coach - Staging and Freighting ISBN: 1733986057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733986052 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2934.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Western Migration was a monumental movement that helped spur our nation's transportation into gear. Westward Ho Concord Coach- Staging and Freighting will give you an insight on how pioneers, mountain men, and famous historical figures traveled their way to a better life. This book exposes the reality of how horses were crucial in surviving harsh journeys such as the Oregon Trail and the Gold Rush. Between these binds, you will learn about the advancement of stagecoaches and their significance to modern day transportation.
Автор: Billington, Ray Allen Huntington, Henry E. Ridge, Martin Название: Westward expansion ISBN: 0826319815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826319814 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4744.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington`s Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book`s reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of the fifth edition focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier.
Автор: Crutchfield, James A. Название: The Settlement of America ISBN: 0765619849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765619846 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 41342.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this book, you will read about the reasons why the Mormons decided to move west. What was in the west of the US, particularly Utah? Which route did they take? Did all them get to their destination safely? Who were Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and what was their role in this migration? Know the answers by reading this book.
Автор: Ross Nancy Wilson Название: Westward the Women ISBN: 194332834X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943328345 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: New edition of a classic. WestWinds Press is proud to introduce to a new generation Nancy Wilson`s Ross`s lively history of some of the remarkable pioneer women of the American West.
Автор: Fischer, David Hackett Kelly, James C. Название: Bound away ISBN: 0813917743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813917740 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but also through the physical artefacts and folkways of ordinary people.
Автор: Sophie Greenspan Название: Westward with Fremont: The Story of Solomon Carvalho ISBN: 082761313X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780827613133 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In 1853, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, proud descendant of a Sephardic Jewish family, accepted the invitation of Col. John Charles Fremont to accompany him on his fifth expedition of discovery through the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. As the photographer and artist of the Fremont expedition, Carvalho provided the visual proof that the northern route through the Rockies could be used for the railroad that was being planned to link East and West. Fremont required this evidence to foil those who favored a route through the southern slaveholding states.
Carvalho performed exceedingly well under extreme stress and danger. His photographs document the scenery and the Indian tribes that lived in the area between modern Kansas and Utah. His interest in science helped the colonel in recording the topography of the region and its meteorology. The paths of Carvalho and Fremont crossed again when the latter became the first Republican candidate for the presidency. To help the colonel, Carvalho published a book with an account of the expedition that ultimately became a best seller.
Carvalho retained the pioneering instinct for the rest of his life, even in his later business career. He remains an honored figure in the history of the United States, typifying those who have served both the country at large and the Jewish community.
Westward with Fremont tells the exciting story of one of the great legendary figures in American Jewish history.
Описание: The State and the Awajún: Frontier Expansion in the Upper Amazon, 1541-1990 demonstrates how the indigenous people of Amazonia have been subjected to a series of regional, national, and international socioeconomic and political processes that have shaped their lives. The text explores how extractive economies in Amazonia have provided fleeting periods of elite prosperity, but ultimately at the expense of the regions biocultural diversity. Beginning in 1541 and progressing chronologically, the text details significant instances of conquest, resistance, development, and policy. Students learn about the Awajún people and the indigenous policies that have impacted their lives and land since early encounters with explorers and missionaries. The text addresses colonial social control, Juan de Salinas Loyola and the conquest of the upper Amazon, the emergence of the Peruvian nation-state, and the geo-politics of Amazonian frontier expansion. The effect of populism on indigenous policy, military colonization, and the dynamics of contemporary Awajún society are also addressed, among other critical topics. The State and the Awajún is an ideal text for courses in anthropology and South American history, especially those with focus on the social and political effects of frontier expansion.
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state’s indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy in Amazonia and the subsequent process of indigenous political mobilization, Seth Garfield bridges historical and anthropological approaches to reconsider state formation and ethnic identity in twentieth-century Brazil. Garfield explains how state officials, eager to promote capital accumulation, social harmony, and national security on the western front, sought to delimit indigenous reserves and assimilate native peoples. Yet he also shows that state efforts to celebrate Indians as primordial Brazilians and nationalist icons simultaneously served to underscore and redefine ethnic difference. Garfield explores how various other social actors—elites, missionaries, military officials, intellectuals, international critics, and the Indians themselves—strove to remold this multifaceted project. Paying particular attention to the Xavante’s methods of engaging state power after experience with exile, territorial loss, and violence in the “white” world, Garfield describes how they emerged under military rule not as the patriotic Brazilians heralded by state propagandists but as a highly politicized ethnic group clamoring for its constitutional land rights and social entitlements. Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil will interest not only historians and anthropologists but also those studying nationbuilding, Brazil, Latin America, comparative frontiers, race, and ethnicity.
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state’s indigenous policy. Offering a window onto Brazilian developmental policy in Amazonia and the subsequent process of indigenous political mobilization, Seth Garfield bridges historical and anthropological approaches to reconsider state formation and ethnic identity in twentieth-century Brazil. Garfield explains how state officials, eager to promote capital accumulation, social harmony, and national security on the western front, sought to delimit indigenous reserves and assimilate native peoples. Yet he also shows that state efforts to celebrate Indians as primordial Brazilians and nationalist icons simultaneously served to underscore and redefine ethnic difference. Garfield explores how various other social actors—elites, missionaries, military officials, intellectuals, international critics, and the Indians themselves—strove to remold this multifaceted project. Paying particular attention to the Xavante’s methods of engaging state power after experience with exile, territorial loss, and violence in the “white” world, Garfield describes how they emerged under military rule not as the patriotic Brazilians heralded by state propagandists but as a highly politicized ethnic group clamoring for its constitutional land rights and social entitlements. Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil will interest not only historians and anthropologists but also those studying nationbuilding, Brazil, Latin America, comparative frontiers, race, and ethnicity.
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