State Local category: 1635 books
by Arthur C. Nelson, Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer, James C. Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book addresses market demand-based permitting and building planning in municipalities and counties. It reviews implications for property rights, protecting the local economy, and preventing development in excess of market needs. The book shows how market demand-based planning and permitting could...
The Taxi-Dance Hall
A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls.
Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction...
Flames after Midnight
Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a coworker's whispered words, "Kirven is where they burned the [Negroes]," that set Monte Akers to work at discovering the true story behind a young white woman's brutal murder and the burning alive...
by Keith A. Herkalo
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Both Roosevelt and Churchill recognized the importance of the land and naval battles of Plattsburgh. Many other, more famous, engagements were ruses meant to divert U.S. troops away from the prize Plattsburgh would afford: a clear pathway into New England. If not for the exemplary skills of two young...
Hell's Half Acre
The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend – Hell’s Half Acre – a wild ’n woolly accumulation of bordellos, cribs, dance houses, saloons, and gambling parlors.
Tenderloin districts were a fact of life in every major town...
A Place to Remember
Using History to Build Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1999
Well-known public historian Robert Archibald's personal exploration of the intersections of history, memory, and community reveals how we participate in the making and sustaining of community as well as how we remember the community that shaped us. Writing in a rich literary narrative, Archibald blends...
by Juan Bautista Chapa
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In the seventeenth century, South Texas and Northeastern Mexico formed El Nuevo Reino de León, a frontier province of New Spain. In 1690, Juan Bautista Chapa penned a richly detailed history of Nuevo León for the years 1630 to 1690. Although his Historia de Nuevo León was not published until 1909,...
"Fear God and Walk Humbly"
The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
James Mallory was an uncommon Southerner. Most inhabitants of the Old South, especially the plain folk, devoted more time to leisurely activities--drinking, gambling, hunting, fishing, and just loafing--than did Mallory, a workaholic agriculturalist, who experimented with new plants, orchards, and...
My Sonoma
Valley of the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
My Sonoma – Valley of the Moon by Bill Lynch is an insider’s look at life in Jack London’s famous Valley of the Moon, where the California Bear Flag was first raised and where the California wine industry was born.
Written by the former editor and publisher of The Sonoma Index-Tribune,...
by Stephen M. Ostrander
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume II)
During the whole period of the Revolution Brooklyn had been peculiarly disturbed. More than any other of the county towns, it had been distracted and prostrated. Farms had been pillaged and the property of exiled Whigs given...
The Story of Heritage Village
Celebrating 25 Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
With the humble beginning of two historic buildings acquired in 1986, the Montcalm Heritage Village has grown to include more than 25 original and reconstructed structures and hundreds of artifacts from local areas depicting life in Michigan at the turn of the 1800s to 1900s. The Village comes alive...
by Alan Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Anyone who has ever read Alan Rhodes' writing knows this guy can be really funny and a bit serious at the same time. Whether he's examining the issue of growth or exhorting the importance of free speech, he can make nearly anyone laugh—often at ourselves.
Returning to the Branch is gathered...
Will I Make a Difference?
Community Service Through Rotary
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Author Nancy Eidsvik, MA, was the first woman ever elected to serve as the president of her local Rotary Club, and she undertook this community-based action research study to examine how the Rotary Club of Prince Rupert could best expand its volunteer service to the community. Her research, originally...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Effective governance is a crucial aspect of all modern nations. Through various collaborative efforts and processes, nations can enhance their current governance systems. The Handbook of Research on Sub-National Governance and Development is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material...