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The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City - Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair (Paperback): Margaret... The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City - Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair (Paperback)
Margaret Creighton
R447 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, dazzled with its new rainbow-colored electric lights. It showcased an array of wonders, like daredevils attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, or the "Animal King" putting the smallest woman in the world and also terrifying animals on display. But the thrill-seeking spectators little suspected that an assassin walked the fairgrounds, waiting for President William McKinley to arrive. In Margaret Creighton's hands, the result is "a persuasive case that the fair was a microcosm of some momentous facets of the United States, good and bad, at the onset of the American Century" (Howard Schneider, Wall Street Journal).

The Beartooth Highway: A History of America's Most Beautiful Drive (Paperback): Jon Axline The Beartooth Highway: A History of America's Most Beautiful Drive (Paperback)
Jon Axline
R563 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Maine Nursing - Interviews and History on Caring and Competence (Paperback): Valerie Hart, Susan Henderson, Juliana... Maine Nursing - Interviews and History on Caring and Competence (Paperback)
Valerie Hart, Susan Henderson, Juliana L'Heureux, Ann Sossong
R591 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R97 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scotlandville (Paperback): Rachel L Emanuel Phd, Ruby Jean Simms Phd, Charles Vincent Phd Scotlandville (Paperback)
Rachel L Emanuel Phd, Ruby Jean Simms Phd, Charles Vincent Phd; Foreword by Mayor-President Melvin Holden
R641 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hell on Wheels - Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad (Paperback): Dick Kreck Hell on Wheels - Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad (Paperback)
Dick Kreck; Foreword by David Fridtjof Halaas
R517 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Overnight settlements, better known as 'Hell on Wheels, ' sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West

Classic Eateries of the Arkansas Delta (Paperback): Kat Robinson Classic Eateries of the Arkansas Delta (Paperback)
Kat Robinson; Photographs by Grav Weldon
R651 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R105 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hudson River State Hospital (Paperback): Joseph Galante, Lynn Rightmyer, Hudson River State Hospital Nurses Alumni Association Hudson River State Hospital (Paperback)
Joseph Galante, Lynn Rightmyer, Hudson River State Hospital Nurses Alumni Association
R618 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R108 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lost Amusement Parks of New York City - Beyond Coney Island (Paperback): Barbara Gottlock, Wesley Gottlock Lost Amusement Parks of New York City - Beyond Coney Island (Paperback)
Barbara Gottlock, Wesley Gottlock
R512 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Coney Island is an iconic symbol of turn-of-the-century New York, but many other amusement parks thrilled the residents of the five boroughs. Strategically placed at the end of trolley lines, railways, public beaches and waterways, these playgrounds for rich and poor alike first appeared in 1767. From humble beginnings, they developed into huge sites like Fort George, Manhattan's massive amusement complex. Each park was influenced by the culture and eclectic tastes of its owners and patrons--from the wooden coasters at Staten Island's Midland Beach to beer gardens on Queens' North Beach and fireworks blasting from the Bronx's Starlight Park. However, as real estate became more valuable, these parks disappeared. Rediscover the thrills of the past from the lost amusement parks of New York City.

Shays' Settlement in Vermont - A Story of Revolt and Archaeology (Paperback): Stephen D Butz Shays' Settlement in Vermont - A Story of Revolt and Archaeology (Paperback)
Stephen D Butz
R606 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R96 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
World War II Rhode Island (Paperback): Christian McBurney, Brian L Wallin, Patrick T. Conley, John W. Kennedy, Maureen A. Taylor World War II Rhode Island (Paperback)
Christian McBurney, Brian L Wallin, Patrick T. Conley, John W. Kennedy, Maureen A. Taylor
R591 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R97 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution (Paperback): Richard P Kollen The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution (Paperback)
Richard P Kollen
R660 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R111 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ghosts of Cambridge - Haunts of Harvard Square and Beyond (Paperback): Sam Baltrusis Ghosts of Cambridge - Haunts of Harvard Square and Beyond (Paperback)
Sam Baltrusis
R397 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As one of the nation's oldest cities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a tumultuous history filled with Revolutionary War beginnings, religious persecution and centuries of debate among Ivy League intelligentsia. It should come as no surprise that the city is also home to spirits that are entangled with the past and now inhabit the dormitories, local watering holes and even military structures of the present. Discover the apparitions that frighten freshmen in Harvard's Weld Hall, the Revolutionary War ghosts that haunt the estates of Tory Row and the flapper who is said to roam the seats of Somerville Theatre. Using careful research and firsthand accounts, author Sam Baltrusis delves into ghastly tales of murder, crime and the bizarre happenings in the early days of Cambridge to uncover the truth behind some of the city's most historic haunts.

Sacramento Beer - A Craft History (Paperback): Justin Chechourka Sacramento Beer - A Craft History (Paperback)
Justin Chechourka; Foreword by Daniel Moffatt - Fountainhead Brewing Company
R591 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R97 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The 1910 Wellington Disaster (Paperback): Deborah Cuyle, Rodney Fletcher The 1910 Wellington Disaster (Paperback)
Deborah Cuyle, Rodney Fletcher
R641 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life Along the Apalachicola River (Paperback): Jim McClellan Life Along the Apalachicola River (Paperback)
Jim McClellan
R555 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ghosts of Santa Barbara and the Ojai Valley (Paperback): Evie Ybarra Ghosts of Santa Barbara and the Ojai Valley (Paperback)
Evie Ybarra
R560 R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Save R86 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke - Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western (Paperback): Sheree Scarborough,... African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke - Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western (Paperback)
Sheree Scarborough, Historical Society of Western Virginia; Afterword by C. W. Sullivan, George Kegley; Foreword by Theodore Carter Delaney
R517 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the two histories are intertwined. The lives of Roanoke's black railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. Older generations toiled through labor-intensive jobs such as janitors and track laborers, paving the way for younger African Americans to become engineers, conductors and executives. Join author Sheree Scarborough as she interviews Roanoke's African American railroad workers and chronicles stories that are a powerful testament of personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.

Oil and Nation - A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector (Paperback): Stephen C. Cote Oil and Nation - A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector (Paperback)
Stephen C. Cote
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia's oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Bolivia's transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and natural gas continue to steer the country under the government of Evo Morales, who renationalized hydrocarbons in 2006 and has used revenues from the sector to reduce poverty and increase infrastructure development in South America's poorest country. The book advances chronologically from Bolivia's earliest petroleum pioneers in the nineteenth century until the present, inserting oil into historical debates about Bolivian ethnic, racial, and environmental issues, and within development strategies by different administrations. While Bolivia is best known for its tin mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company as a way to modernize the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers and toward an oil-powered future.

Lawrence (Paperback): Virgil W. Dean Lawrence (Paperback)
Virgil W. Dean
R641 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Connecticut Rock 'n' Roll - A History (Paperback): Tony Renzoni Connecticut Rock 'n' Roll - A History (Paperback)
Tony Renzoni
R600 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R96 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Polemics, literature, and knowledge in eighteenth-century Mexico - A New World for the Republic of Letters (Paperback): Jose?... Polemics, literature, and knowledge in eighteenth-century Mexico - A New World for the Republic of Letters (Paperback)
José Francisco Robles
R2,934 Discovery Miles 29 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico is the first study to comprehensively analyse the configuration of the idea of the Republic of Letters in an eighteenth-century Latin American country. Taking a multisided approach to Mexican culture of the era, this book's analysis of literary texts engages with an exploration of such concepts as the Republic of Letters and the archive, as well as their connections to transatlantic polemics on knowledge production in the New World and debates on philosophical systems of learning. It furthermore draws upon the history of science in Mexico in order to trace the development of scientific thought and its influence on culture, religion, and fiction. This study proposes that eighteenth-century Mexican writers sought to establish a place within a global scholarly community for their local literary republic through the formation of scholarly networks, the historical exploration of the past and present, and the creation of new epistemological approaches to literary production inspired by Enlightenment ideas. This book invites those devoted to the study of eighteenth-century cultures to engage in an examination of a lesser-explored scholarly territory and its networks, and to think about how it was heterogeneously constructed by many-sided polemics and debates which manifested in a broad range of literary works.

A History of Dupont Circle - Center of High Society in the Capital (Paperback): Stephen A Hansen A History of Dupont Circle - Center of High Society in the Capital (Paperback)
Stephen A Hansen; Foreword by John De Ferrari
R674 R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Save R110 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Discover the remarkable history of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.

The Folly and the Glory - America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945-2020 (Paperback): Tim Weiner The Folly and the Glory - America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945-2020 (Paperback)
Tim Weiner
R517 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alabama and the Civil War - A History & Guide (Paperback): Robert C Jones Alabama and the Civil War - A History & Guide (Paperback)
Robert C Jones
R591 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R97 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Haunted History of Old San Antonio (Paperback): Lauren M Swartz, James A. Swartz Haunted History of Old San Antonio (Paperback)
Lauren M Swartz, James A. Swartz
R494 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R92 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the saying goes, "dead men tell no tales." Or do they? From its humble beginnings as a Spanish settlement in 1691 to the bloody battle at the Alamo, San Antonio's history is rich in haunting tales. Discover Old San Antonio's most haunted places and uncover the history that lies waiting for those who dare to enter their doorways. Take a peek inside the Menger Hotel, the "Most Haunted Hotel in Texas," and just a block away, peer into the Emily Morgan Hotel, one of the city's first hospitals and where many men and women lost their lives. Explore the San Fernando Cathedral, where people are buried within the walls and visitors claim to see faces mysteriously appear. Uncover the legends behind Bexar County Jail. Join authors James and Lauren Swartz and decide for yourself what truly lurks behind the Alamo City's fabled past.

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