| |
To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-23
PDF, ePub
|
On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had ever been killed...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-15
PDF, ePub
|
A no-holds-barred biography of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads like a novel. In many ways, his rise, fall, and rise again is an iconic story: a young American politician of vaunting ambition,...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2015-03-31
ePub
Offre spéciale
-8%
12,99€
|
How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-08-01
PDF, ePub
|
The Horner Site
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-06-28
PDF sans DRM
|
Archaeology of Urban America: The Search for Pattern and Process is composed of three parts, namely, Strategies and Methods; Site Formation, Structure, and Pattern; and Artifact Analysis and Interpretation. The Strategies and Methods section centers on the general...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-05-19
PDF sans DRM
|
The American Frontier: An Archaeological Study of Settlement Pattern and Process focuses on general rules or laws for the evolution of all agrarian frontiers, emphasizing those that are expanding. A variety of frontiers is also discussed in addition to the agrarian type...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-05-19
PDF sans DRM
|
Studies in Archaeology: Shawnee Minisink: A Stratified Paleoindian-Archaic Site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania focuses on the excavation of the Shawnee Minisink and its connection with the lifestyles of the earliest inhabitants of North America. The...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-05-10
PDF sans DRM
|
Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley describes an archeological reconstruction of the preceding 11,000 years of an extraordinarily rich environment centered within the largest river system north of the Amazon. This book focuses on the lowlands of the...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-05-10
PDF sans DRM
|
Prehistoric Man and His Environments: A Case Study in the Ozark Highland offers a preliminary model for the paleoecology of the western Ozark Highland in Missouri for the last 35,000 years and an interpretation of how humans have adapted to and exploited the area for...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-05-10
PDF sans DRM
|
It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-05-09
PDF, ePub
|
On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "kneel-in" to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-09-24
PDF, ePub
|
In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-08-21
PDF, ePub
|
Religious Communication Association's Book of the Year
Hollywood and Christianity often seem to be at war. Indeed, there is a long list of movies that have attracted religious condemnation, from Gone with the Wind with its notorious "damn," to The Life of Brian and The...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-26
PDF, ePub
|
The unique political history of the Southern United States is rooted in the fact that it is the only region to have ever taken up arms against the national government. While the resources of the North prevailed after the four bloody years of the Civil War, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-02-17
PDF
|
When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue?
A wide-ranging account of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-04
PDF
|
When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue?
A wide-ranging account of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-04
ePub
|
What do Mark Twain, Neil Armstrong, and John McCain have in common? Theyre all descendants of a merry group of Scots-Irish braggarts that crossed the Atlantic from Ireland in the early 1700s and settled in Americas South. Also known as the "Other Irish," this wild bunch...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2011-11-01
ePub
|
When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern.When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accomplices...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-01
PDF, ePub
|
The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society.The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time.The essays...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-06
PDF, ePub
|