American History - Post-Medieval

Extracting Stone: The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes [Paperback]

Anne S. Dowd (Author); Mary Beth D. Trubbitt (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781785706240
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 5
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This exciting new addition to the the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from ... .... Learn More

Cahokia: City of the Cosmos [Paperback]

John Kelly (Author); James A. Brown (Author)

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ISBN: 9781785708855
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 6
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The large American Indian city of Cahokia sits amidst a diverse natural landscape within the larger central Mississippi river valley. Well positioned on the rich agricultural soils of the Mississippi river bottomlands of the Amercan Bottom i... .... Learn More

Paved Roads & Public Money: Connecticut Transportation in the Age of Internal Combustion [Hardback]

Richard DeLuca (Author)

£25.95

ISBN: 9780819573032
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Driftless Connecticut
Drawing on a wide array of primary material, civil engineer Richard DeLuca examines how land, law, and technology have shaped Connecticut and its transportation systems, including aviation, roads, bridges, ferries, steamboats, canals, railroads, e... .... Learn More

To Risk It All: The Capture of Fort Duquesne, and the Course of Empire in the Ohio Country [Hardback]

Michael N. McConnell (Author)

£27.00

ISBN: 9780822946328
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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General John Forbes’s campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years’ War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why... .... Learn More

Duty, Honor, County: The Life of Arthur McArthur Jr. [Hardback]

A.K. Brackob (Author)

£29.99

ISBN: 9781592110247
Published by : Vita Histria
On September 15, 1906 Arthur MacArthur Jr. became the twelfth man in the history of the United States Army to be awarded the rank of Lieutenant General, the highest rank in the Army up to that time. This great honor, which marked the culmination o... .... Learn More

"And So the Tomb Remained": Exploring Archaeology and Forensic Science within Connecticut's Historical Family Mausolea [Paperback]

Nick Bellantoni (Author)

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ISBN: 9781789255027
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 16

Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. The desire was to be interred within burial vaults rather than have their wooden coffins laid into the earth in di... .... Learn More

Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry [Paperback]

Kenneth Warren (Author)

£21.50

ISBN: 9780822966210
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
The southwestern Pennsylvania town of Connellsville lay in the middle of a massive reserve of high quality coal. Connellsville coal was so soft and easily worked that one man and a boy could cut and load ten tons of it in ten hours. This region be... .... Learn More

Forgotten Voices: The Hidden History of a New England Meetinghouse [Paperback]

Carolyn Wakeman (Author)

£18.50

ISBN: 9780819579232
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, Facing the Past uncovers a hidden past. It begins with the displacement of Indigenous people in the area before Europeans arrived, continues with disputes over worship and witchc... .... Learn More

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North [Paperback]

Mary Lou Finley (Editor); Bernard LaFayette (Editor); James R. Ralph (Editor); Pam Smith (Editor); Mary Lou Finley (Other)

£23.00

ISBN: 9780813175003
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northe... .... Learn More

Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976-2016 [Hardback]

Bryan M. Jack (Editor); Oliver Gruner (Other); Daniel Farrell (Other); Erik Alexander (Other); Caroline Schroeter (Other)

£38.00

ISBN: 9780813176444
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Hollywood films have been influential in the portrayal and representation of race relations in the South and how African Americans are cinematically depicted in history, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) to The Hel... .... Learn More