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Breaking Loose Together
The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers, many of them religious radicals inspired by the...
Women's Work in the Civil War (Civil War Classics)
Profiles in Strength During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. While men fought the battles, it was the women who fought the...
Boardwalk Empire
The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, HBO Series Tie-In Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE HBO SERIES
Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars, and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch...
Fox: Buffalo Swamp to Marcellus Shale
The History of Fox Township Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
From woolly mammoths, through wolves and mountain lions, to the largest elk herd in the East. It begins in the heat of the tropics and continues through Ice Age Pennsylvania, from "King Coal" to Marcellus Shale. It is a story of Native Americans, pioneers and immigrants struggling for survival....
City
Urbanism and Its End
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early urbanist” decades...
What's Good for Business
Business and American Politics since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the authors in this book demonstrate that business has mobilized to shape public policy and government institutions,...
Very New Orleans
A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The exquisite antebellum mansions of the Garden District. Giant oaks stretching across boulevards and back in time to before the Civil War. The decadence of Bourbon Street. The vibrant sounds of jazz, blues, and Cajun music coming from every doorway or right from the street. Lacy iron balconies that...
by Howard Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
This the autobiographical work of Howard Evans (1839–1915) who was a British Radical and Nonconformist journalist. The book paints a vivid picture of conditions in the 19th century and how courageous reformers like John Stuart Mill, himself and his associate W. Randal Cremer stood for human rights...
Fiscal Decentralization Reform in Cambodia
Progress over the Past Decade and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This report reviews Cambodia's progress in fiscal decentralization since passing the Law on Administrative Management of the Capital, Provinces, Municipalities, Districts and Khans (Organic Law, 2008) and commencing the National Program for Democratic Development, 2010–2019 (which was extended to...
by Clayton Colman Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. II was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notably Clayton Colman Hall. The book is relevant today because of its unique views of the development...
When Darkness Falls
Tales of San Antonio Ghosts and Hauntings
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Once again, well-known ghost story writer Docia Williams brings us an all-new book about recent ghost sightings and mysterious happenings in the Alamo City. A chilling book for those wanting a guide to places where spirits are known to rendezvous or for those who just like a good ghost story.
by Francis J. Haddy, Theresa B. Haddy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Much has been written of the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota in August of 1862, but little has been written about the physicians who were caught up in it. This book is an attempt to correct the omission. There were seven major battles on the Minnesota River in 1862-Lower Sioux Agency, Redwood Ferry, Upper...
by Stewart H. Holbrook
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
From the brick-paved streets of Boston and New England, to the deserts of Arizona, to the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest, beloved author and columnist Stewart Holbrook takes his readers down uncharted paths in a series of delightful pieces. Little Annie Oakley and Other Rugged People is pure...
Eminent Pittsburghers
Profiles of the City's Founding Industrialists
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
These biographical essays, many reprinted from The Pittsburgh Quarterly, describe the men who transformed Pittsburgh into one of the leading industrial cities in the world. Included here are such essays as "The Amazing Career of George Westinghouse," "The Judge and the Little Boy: The...