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.
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: 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: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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.
Описание: Examines the roles of music in the Westward Expansion and the diverse cultural landscape of the Old West, including Northern Cheyenne courtship flute makers, fiddle-playing explorers, dancing fur trappers, hymn-singing missionaries, frontier flutists, girls with guitars, wagon-driving balladeers, poetic cowboys, and preaching songsters.
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: Нет в наличии.
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: 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.
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.
In the late nineteenth century, European expansionism found one of its last homes in North America. While the American West was renowned for its lawlessness, the Canadian Prairies enjoyed a tamer reputation symbolized by the Mounties’ legendary triumph over chaos.
Westward Bound debunks the myth of Canada’s peaceful West and the masculine conceptions of law and violence upon which it rests by shifting the focus from Mounties and whisky traders to criminal cases involving women between 1886 and 1940. Lesley Erickson reveals that judges’ and juries’ responses to the most intimate or violent acts reflected a desire to shore up the liberal order by maintaining boundaries between men and women, Native peoples and newcomers, and capital and labour. Victims and accused could only hope to harness entrenched ideas about masculinity, femininity, race, and class in their favour. The results, Erickson shows, were predictable but never certain.
This fascinating exploration of hegemony and resistance in key contact zones draws prairie Canada into larger debates about law, colonialism, and nation building.
Описание: In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict in the history of the Americas. Like the Union in its conflict with the Confederacy, Brazil was faced with an enemy of inferior resources and manpower--in their case, Paraguay--that nonetheless proved extremely difficult to defeat. In both cases, the more powerful army had to create an elaborate war machine controlled by the central state to achieve victory.While it was not the official cause of either conflict, slavery weighed heavily on both wars. When volunteers became scarce, both the Union and Brazilian armies resorted to conscription and, particularly in the case of the Union Army, the enlistment of freedmen of African descent. The consequences of the Union’s recruitment of African Americans would extend beyond the war years, contributing significantly to emancipation and reform in the defeated South.Taken together, these two major powers’ experiences reveal much about state building, army recruitment, and the military and social impact of slavery. The many parallels revealed by this book challenge the assumption that the American Civil War was an exceptional conflict.
Описание: This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists' political tactics—petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians—and on their disruptions of slavery itself.Harrold begins with the abolition movement's relationship to politics and government in the northern American colonies and goes on to evaluate its effect in a number of crucial contexts-the U.S. Congress during the 1790s, the Missouri Compromise, the struggle over slavery in Illinois during the 1820s, and abolitionist petitioning of Congress during that same decade. He shows how the rise of ""immediate"" abolitionism, with its emphasis on moral suasion, did not diminish direct abolitionists' impact on Congress during the 1830s and 1840s. The book also addresses abolitionists' direct actions against slavery itself, aiding escaped or kidnapped slaves, which led southern politicians to demand the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a major flashpoint of antebellum politics. Finally, Harrold investigates the relationship between abolitionists and the Republican Party through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Автор: Douglass Frederick Название: Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents ISBN: 0813934362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813934365 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3742.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans. This volume gathers and interprets valuable selections from a variety of Douglass`s writings, including speeches, editorials, correspondence, and autobiographies.
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