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Haunted Breckenridge (Paperback): Gail Westwood Haunted Breckenridge (Paperback)
Gail Westwood
R488 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Better Made in Michigan: - The Salty Story of Detroit's Best Chip (Paperback): Karen Dybis Better Made in Michigan: - The Salty Story of Detroit's Best Chip (Paperback)
Karen Dybis
R501 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A History of Yorktown and Its Victory Celebrations - Revival to Patriotism (Paperback): Kathleen Manley A History of Yorktown and Its Victory Celebrations - Revival to Patriotism (Paperback)
Kathleen Manley
R441 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

On October 19, 1781, General Cornwallis surrendered his British army to the combined American and French forces at Yorktown, Virginia. In addition to ending hostilities, this act represented the close of British colonial rule and the dawn of America's ascent as an independent country and eventual world power. The events of this revolutionary time were the foundation of a growing American identity, and tributes to the sacrifices and victories of these early patriots continue even today. Yorktown, Virginia, has been celebrating the surrender of the British in large, nationally renowned celebrations since its first anniversary. Local author Kathleen Manley chronicles the history of Yorktown and the victory celebrations that have been undertaken through the generations to remember this historic time in America's infancy.

Southern Oregon Timber: - The Kenneth Ford Family Legacy (Paperback): R. J. Guyer Southern Oregon Timber: - The Kenneth Ford Family Legacy (Paperback)
R. J. Guyer
R505 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Arizona's Historic Bridges (Paperback): Jerry A Cannon, Patricia D Morris Arizona's Historic Bridges (Paperback)
Jerry A Cannon, Patricia D Morris
R557 R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Tampa Bay Beer - A Heady History (Paperback): Mark Denote Tampa Bay Beer - A Heady History (Paperback)
Mark Denote; Foreword by Richard Gonzmart
R496 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (Hardcover): Mark David Hall Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (Hardcover)
Mark David Hall
R1,837 Discovery Miles 18 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Roger Sherman was the only founder to sign the Declaration and Resolves (1774), Articles of Association (1774), Declaration of Independence (1776), Articles of Confederation (1777, 1778), and Constitution (1787). He served on the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and he was among the most influential delegates at the Constitutional Convention. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he played important roles in determining the proper scope of the national government's power and in drafting the Bill of Rights. Even as he was helping to build a new nation, Sherman was a member of the Connecticut General Assembly and a Superior Court judge. In 1783, he and a colleague revised all of the state's laws. Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic explores Sherman's political theory and shows how it informed his many contributions to America's founding. A central thesis of the work is that Sherman, like many founders, was heavily influenced by Calvinist political thought. This tradition had a significant impact on the founding generation's opposition to Great Britain, and it led them to develop political institutions designed to prevent corruption, promote virtue, and protect rights. Contrary to oft-repeated assertions by jurists and scholars that the founders advocated a strictly secular polity, Mark David Hall argues persuasively that most founders believed Christianity should play an important role in the new American republic.

Memphis Zoo (Paperback): Robert W Dye Memphis Zoo (Paperback)
Robert W Dye
R561 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
South River (Paperback): Stephanie Bartz, Brian Armstrong, Nan Whitehead South River (Paperback)
Stephanie Bartz, Brian Armstrong, Nan Whitehead
R561 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 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
R561 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Martha's Vineyard: - A History (Paperback): Thomas Dresser Martha's Vineyard: - A History (Paperback)
Thomas Dresser
R509 R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Wild Women of Boston - Mettle and Moxie in the Hub (Paperback): Dina Vargo Wild Women of Boston - Mettle and Moxie in the Hub (Paperback)
Dina Vargo
R533 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Philadelphia Stories - America's Literature of Race and Freedom (Hardcover): Samuel Otter Philadelphia Stories - America's Literature of Race and Freedom (Hardcover)
Samuel Otter
R1,694 Discovery Miles 16 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The site of William Penn's 'Holy Experiment' in religious toleration and representative government, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential 'free' African American communities in the United States. The city was seen as a laboratory for social experimentation, one with international consequences. While historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand how writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Brockden Brown, George Lippard, and others were creating a distinctive literary tradition, one shaped by the city itself. Analyzing a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War, Otter shows how literary discourse intervened significantly in the period's intense debates about character, race, and nation. The book advances chronologically from the 1790s to the 1850s, and it is organized around the volatile issues the Philadelphia writing tradition responded to: contagion, riots, manners, and freedom. Throughout this exemplary work, Otter reveals how historical events produced a literature that wrestles with specific concerns: the city as specimen, the diagnosis and proper treatment for urban disorder, the effects of position on interpretation, the trials of character, the substance of action, the nature of human difference and similarity, and the vehemence of prejudice. Philadelphia Stories is a work that reveals (1) how the writers of Philadelphia defined the edge between freedom and slavery, altering the course of America's intellectual and national history, and (2) how the figure 'Philadelphia' stands for a place, a history, a tradition of the 'literary' that enriches and even clarifies the whole of American literary history.

Shapes of American Ballet - Teachers and Training before Balanchine (Hardcover): Jessica Zeller Shapes of American Ballet - Teachers and Training before Balanchine (Hardcover)
Jessica Zeller
R3,742 Discovery Miles 37 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine, Jessica Zeller introduces the first few decades of the twentieth century as an often overlooked, yet critical period for ballet's growth in America. While George Balanchine is often considered the sole creator of American ballet, numerous European and Russian emigres had been working for decades to build a national ballet with an American identity. These pedagogues and others like them played critical yet largely unacknowledged roles in American ballet's development. Despite their prestigious ballet pedigrees, the dance field's exhaustive focus on Balanchine has led to the neglect of their work during the first few decades of the century, and in this light, this book offers a new perspective on American ballet during the period immediately prior to Balanchine's arrival. Zeller uses hundreds of rare archival documents to illuminate the pedagogies of several significant European and Russian teachers who worked in New York City. Bringing these contributions into the broader history of American ballet recasts American ballet's identity as diverse-comprised of numerous Euro-Russian and American elements, as opposed to the work of one individual. This new account of early twentieth century American ballet is situated against a bustling New York City backdrop, where mass immigration through Ellis Island brought the ballet from European and Russian opera houses into contact with a variety of American forms and sensibilities. Ballet from celebrated Euro-Russian lineages was performed in vaudeville and blended with American popular dance styles, and it developed new characteristics as it responded to the American economy. Shapes of American Ballet delves into ballet's struggle to define itself during this rich early twentieth century period, and it sheds new light on ballet's development of an American identity before Balanchine.

Wild Women of Prescott, Arizona (Paperback): Jan Mackell Collins Wild Women of Prescott, Arizona (Paperback)
Jan Mackell Collins
R511 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
1960s Austin Gangsters - Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital (Paperback): Jesse Sublett 1960s Austin Gangsters - Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital (Paperback)
Jesse Sublett
R511 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
On This Day in Connecticut History (Paperback): Gregg Mangan On This Day in Connecticut History (Paperback)
Gregg Mangan
R598 R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Cumberland Island (Paperback): Patricia Barefoot Cumberland Island (Paperback)
Patricia Barefoot
R537 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Rich in history, wildlife, and beautiful coastal landscapes, Georgia's Cumberland Island attracts many an island tourist and nature lover. The island's well-preserved marshes, tidal creeks, and dune fields provide this hidden oasis with a rare natural charm. The area is also home to a wide variety of animal species, including loggerhead turtles, bob cats, manatees, and alligators, just to name a few. Though Cumberland is best known for being the nation's largest wilderness island, its history -- dating back to the 16th century -- also includes a period of use as a mission by the Franciscans. Among its historic sites are the magnificent ruins of Dungeness, the house built by the Carnegie family during the latter part of the 19th century, as well as the romantic Greyfield Inn. This pictorial history of Cumberland Island illustrates the people, places, and events that have shaped the area's cultural and natural history. The island's rare solitude and beauty, which have resulted from conservation and preservation efforts in the area, are captured in this carefully detailed book for all lovers of nature and history to enjoy. Though the island permits only very limited human traffic, these images allow the reader to appreciate the Cumberland landscape -- laced with wild animals, pirate coves, English forts, and an African-American "settlement" -- from afar.

Only Yesterday and Since Yesterday - A Popular History of the '20's and '30's (Hardback) (Hardcover):... Only Yesterday and Since Yesterday - A Popular History of the '20's and '30's (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Frederick Lewis Allen
R964 Discovery Miles 9 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Brief History of Orillia - Ontario's Sunshine City (Paperback): Dennis Rizzo A Brief History of Orillia - Ontario's Sunshine City (Paperback)
Dennis Rizzo; Foreword by John Forrest
R501 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

First populated by the Huron, Iroquois and Chippewa Nations, Orillia is now a well-loved, year-round recreation destination. Its history is deeply tied to its water. Situated in the narrows where Lake Simcoe flows into Lake Couchiching, Orillia was a gathering place for centuries before Europeans used it to bring furs to market. Sir John Simcoe, first governor of Upper Canada, fostered permanent settlement of the area. A gateway to the Muskoka region, it has been home to lumber, manufacturing, and artistic endeavours. Today, summer cottagers and winter athletes alike enjoy the Sunshine City and its more than twenty annual festivals. Local author Dennis Rizzo tells the fascinating and diverse history of Orillia, Ontario.

Forgotten Chicago (Paperback): John Paulett, Ron Gordon Forgotten Chicago (Paperback)
John Paulett, Ron Gordon
R558 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Chicago has long been regarded as home to some of the world's most impressive architecture. Responding to the Great Fire of 1871, Chicagoans rebuilt the city, creating a radically new architectural style. Chicago continued to grow and evolve through the 20th century, but many of its architectural masterpieces have been lost, some to modernization, and others simply to the ravages of time. Forgotten Chicago preserves the unique story of many of Chicago's famed architectural wonders. Included are the old Northwestern Train station, the Coliseum, the Chicago Stadium, old Comiskey Park, and Soldier Field. Many of the smaller treasures of the city will also be found here, including some of Chicago's most famous diners.

A Culinary History of Kentucky - Burgoo, Beer Cheese and Goetta (Paperback): Fiona Young-Brown A Culinary History of Kentucky - Burgoo, Beer Cheese and Goetta (Paperback)
Fiona Young-Brown
R533 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Pull up a chair to the kitchen table and enjoy a delicious adventure through Bluegrass food history. Kentucky's cuisine can be traced back to Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, English and German roots, among others. A typical Kentucky meal might have the standard meat and three, but there are many dishes that can't be found anywhere else. Poke sallet, despite its toxic roots and berries, is such a favorite in parts of eastern Kentucky that an annual festival celebrates it. Find recipes for dishes from burgoo to hog to moonshine and frogs. Join author Fiona Young-Brown as she details all the delectable delights sure to make the mouth water.

African Americans of Tampa (Paperback): Ersula Knox Odom African Americans of Tampa (Paperback)
Ersula Knox Odom
R561 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Life Along the Apalachicola River (Paperback): Jim McClellan Life Along the Apalachicola River (Paperback)
Jim McClellan
R486 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R36 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Early Poverty Row Studios (Paperback): E. J. Stephens, Marc Wanamaker Early Poverty Row Studios (Paperback)
E. J. Stephens, Marc Wanamaker
R561 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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