Category: State Local

By Granville Davisson Hall

ISBN-10: 1572330708

ISBN-13: 9781572330702

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By Frederick D. Williams

ISBN-10: 0870132628

ISBN-13: 9780870132629

By Duane A. Smith

Colorado historical past. an exceptional hardcover reproduction. Tight binding. fresh, unmarked pages. high quality jacket; mild put on and backbone sunning. no longer ex-library. listed with bibliography. 268pg. Shipped Weight: lower than 1 kilogram. classification: Western reviews; ISBN: 0806121807. ISBN/EAN: 9780806121802. stock No: 013641.

By Jerald T. Milanich

ISBN-10: 0813012724

ISBN-13: 9780813012728

 This list of precolumbian Florida brings to lifestyles the 12,000-year tale of the local American Indians who lived within the state.  utilizing details accrued via archaeological investigations, many performed given that 1980, Jerald Milanich describes the indigenous cultures and explains why they built as they did.  In a richly illustrated publication that might entice profes-sional and avocational archaeologists, students, travelers, and native historical past buffs, Milanich introduces the cloth historical past of the 1st Floridians during the interpretation of artifacts and archaeological sites.  Weaving jointly discoveries from such websites because the Lake Jackson mounds within the panhandle, Crystal River at the Gulf coast, and Granada at the Miami River, he relates the lengthy histories of the local teams whose descendants have been decimated through the eu conquest of the 16th and 17th cen-turies.   

By Clifford R. Murphy

ISBN-10: 0252038673

ISBN-13: 9780252038679

By Brian J. Cudahy

ISBN-10: 0823212785

ISBN-13: 9780823212781

This colourful heritage will entice borth the reader and transportation historian. Brian Cudahy's skillful narrative is mixed with a wealth of interval photos. the 1st entire historical past of public transportation in North the USA to be released in additional than 60 years, the e-book strains the grwoth of city mass transit from the horse-drawn road vehicles of the 1830's in the course of the improvement of cable automobiles, electrical highway automobiles, subways, and buses, to the hot gentle rail structures which are enjoying a key position in trendy city transit renaissance. The e-book isn't really sure to any nation-state and examines transit rail structures during the usa and Canada.

By Robert S. Weddle

ISBN-10: 0585174148

ISBN-13: 9780585174143

ISBN-10: 0890966613

ISBN-13: 9780890966617

During this crowning contact to his ancient trilogy, Robert S. Weddle resumes the dramatic voyage of discovery and exploration within the Gulf of Mexico (the Spanish Sea) and alongside its coast. Combining thorough learn with based narrative, altering Tides treats the reader to political intrigue, stories of hurricanes and shipwrecks, and the wealthy historiography that marks the interval among 1763 and 1803. The e-book opens with a chain of territorial transfers that drove France from the North American continent and introduced a flurry of exploration by way of Spain and England, each one wanting to survey its new territory and align its defenses. Spanish reconnaissance of the Texas barrier islands and lagoons in keeping with a rumored English hazard and 3 voyages to survey and map the Gulf Coast west of the Mississippi River display overseas competition as a spur to exploration. the tale concludes with Spain's retrocession of Louisiana to France and the rapid sale of the territory to the us, a milestone towards the younger nation's show up future. utilizing assets formerly underutilized via historians, Weddle increases new questions relating occasions of the past due eighteenth century and the politics that drove them, with emphasis on exploration and mapping within the Gulf. students and scholars of Texas background, Spanish borderlands, and colonial the USA and Latin the US will price this ultimate installment in Weddle's meticulous, well-researched, and expertly written research.

By Scott G. Ortman

ISBN-10: 1607811723

ISBN-13: 9781607811725

By Elmer Schwieder

ISBN-10: 0813801044

ISBN-13: 9780813801049

ISBN-10: 0813801052

ISBN-13: 9780813801056

ISBN-10: 0813824907

ISBN-13: 9780813824901

ISBN-10: 1587295784

ISBN-13: 9781587295782

ISBN-10: 1587298058

ISBN-13: 9781587298059

Now again in print with a brand new essay, this vintage of Iowa historical past makes a speciality of the outdated Order Amish Mennonites, the state’s such a lot certain non secular minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder started their examine with the most important staff of outdated Order Amish within the country, the neighborhood close to Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they prolonged their stories and friendships in later years to different outdated Order settlements in addition to the marginally much less conservative Beachy Amish. a unusual humans explores the starting place and progress of the outdated Order Amish in Iowa, their spiritual practices, financial association, kinfolk lifestyles, the formation of recent groups, and the very important factor of schooling. incorporated are also appendixes giving the 1967 “Act with regards to obligatory tuition Attendance and academic Standards”; a pattern “Church association monetary Agreement,” demonstrating the group’s strange yet effective mutual economic system; and the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of religion, whose eighteen articles disguise all of the easy non secular tenets of the previous Order Amish. Thomas Morain’s new essay describes exterior and inner matters for the Iowa Amish from the Nineteen Seventies to at the present time. the expansion of utopian Amish groups around the state, adjustments in profession (although The Amish listing nonetheless lists buggy store operators, wheelwrights, and one lone horse dentist), the present kingdom of schooling and overall healthiness care, and the unsleeping stability among glossy and standard methods are mirrored in an essay that describes how the outdated Order commitment to Gelassenheit—the yielding of self to the pursuits of the bigger community—has served its individuals good into the twenty-first century.

By Michelle Burnham

ISBN-10: 1584656174

ISBN-13: 9781584656173

"Folded Selves" notably refigures conventional pics of seventeenth-century New England literature and tradition through situating colonial writing in the spatial, transnational, and monetary contexts that characterised the early-modern "world process" theorized by means of Immanuel Wallerstein and others. Michelle Burnham rethinks American literary heritage and the politics of colonial dissent, and her booklet breaks new flooring in making the industrial relatives of funding, credits, and exchange principal to this new framework for early American literary and cultural examine. Transcontinental colonialism and mercantile capitalism underwrote not only the rising international process yet New international writing - suggesting that early sleek literary aesthetics and the early glossy economic system helped to sponsor one another. Burnham locates in New England's literature of dissent - from Ma-re Mount to the Salem witchcraft trials - a power use of monetary language, in addition to competing economies of favor. The brilliance of Burnham's research is that it exposes the transoceanic fabric and advertisement matters of colonial America's literature and tradition of dissent.