Local History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Len Gougeon
Old England, New England, and the Civil War

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equal…

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Amanda Bellows
The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary---and often overlooked---adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the b…

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Karin A Martin
Get Plum Island!

An environmental history of resistance, negotiation, and conservation on the Massachusetts coastAn hour north of Boston, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge occupies the southern three-quarters of Plum …

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Angela Miller Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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Christopher Everette Cenac
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 2: The Bowie Brothers and Bayou Buffalo, Dularge

This second installment in a planned four-volume series chronicles the saga of one of the most rural and rustic regions of coastal Louisiana---Bayou DuLarge. In a story that has its origin centuries ago, …

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Glen Hvenegaard, Jeremy Mouat, Heather Marshall
Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta

Frank Farley (1870-1949) was a passionate naturalist and enthusiastic booster for rural development in western Canada. He supported and managed newly designated migratory bird sanctuaries, networked with …

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Sue Consolo-Murphy
The Bears of Grand Teton

Sue Consolo-Murphy's autobiographical narrative traces the history of bear management in Grand Teton National Park and the Jackson Hole area, considering in particular bears' interaction with livestock.

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Alexander
A Quiet Challenge

The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politicsIn 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919--2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected …

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Todd M Compton
A Frontier Life

Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies Winner of the Evans Biography Award, the John Whitmer Historical Society Best Biography Award, and the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book AwardFrontier…

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Karin A Martin
Get Plum Island!

An environmental history of resistance, negotiation, and conservation on the Massachusetts coastAn hour north of Boston, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge occupies the southern three-quarters of Plum …

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Bruce Goldfarb
The Worst Day

A REAL-LIFE DISASTER MOVIE: A minute-by-minute account of 2 simultaneous catastrophes during a 1982 blizzard---and the extraordinary courage of civilians and first responders For fans of Deep Survival and…

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Alexander
A Quiet Challenge

The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politicsIn 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919--2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected …

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Angela Miller Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy communityFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant r…

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And So We Moved to Petaca

A sublime photographic chronicle of the efforts of several counterculture families to adopt a traditional Nuevomexicano life in the tiny village of Petaca, New Mexico, in the early 1970s.In the early 1970…

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Carver Clark Gayton
Odyssey of a Seattle Native Son

The autobiography of a local and national leader in education and civil rightsCarver Clark Gayton's story bears witness to Seattle's experience of race and the importance of family, teachers, teamwork, an…

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Robert Jarvenpa
Declared Defective

Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twe…

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Ramona Bennett Bill
Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe

A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the NorthwestA relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other Northwes…

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Ron Chew
My Unforgotten Seattle

An insider's look at the making of a city's Asian American communityThird-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian Americ…

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