Resultados de búsqueda: History from Birkitt's Books

Golden Valley Press, 2002-01-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 11x8x1. Signed by Author. Please note faults described in the text. Signed by authors on half-title page. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, inside cover has tape remnants stuck to it, front end- page appears to have been removed from the book. Internally clean, pages unmarked. On the border between Wyoming and South Dakota, the Black Hills were still a mysterious place to the white world long after the West was settled. Gen. George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills Expedition of 1874 changed everything. It sparked the last great gold rush in the continental U.S., giving birth to Deadwood but also violating the Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux. Their rage was unleashed on Custer and his Seventh Cavalry just two years later at the Little Big Horn. This significant and eventful expedition was also one of the best-documented in the Old West. At least ten of the explorers kept journals or filed reports. Five journalists wrote stories… Leer más

W.& G. Foyle Ltd, 2003-05-07. hardcover. Very Good. 7x5x0. Pictorial boards have minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Towards the Oxford Street end stands one of the really extraordinary enterprises of the book world — Foyles.Two brothers began this shop. By sheer genius they made it the busiest centre for the sale of books known to me. One may go at any time of day into any of the departments — and there seems no end to them — and find everywhere a packed concentration of students seeking books and advice. The atmosphere is that of a great, preoccupied busy-ness; the assistants are inexhaustible encyclopedias; whole ranges of cheap classics, new school books, histories, dictionaries, novels, and in fact everything, as far as everything can now be obtained, is at hand for the student's need. There is, of course, a rare book department in Foyles, where those more exclusive in taste can rove; but for the most part this… Leer más

Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001-03-01. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Jacket has minor shelf wear, binding tight, front endpage has a name written on the top, else pages clean and unmarked. This is a definitive book on the Westward Expansion of the United States from 1700 to 1900. Surprisingly readable, it is arranged by date with each setting nicely described.

Rome, Italy: Carucci, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Text in English and Italian. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 99 pages, illustrated in black and white and color.

WHS, 2001-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Godalming is a historic market town, civil parish and administrative centre of the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, 4 miles south-south-west of Guildford and 30.5 mi south-west of London. It traverses the River Wey in the Greensand Ridge – a hilly, wooded part of London's Metropolitan Green Belt.

Corning-Painted Post Historical Society, 1970-12-31. saddle_stitch. Good. 0x0x0. Moderate wear, soiling to wraps, stapled binding, front endpage has a bold blue shapie marking, else internally clean.

Editora Brasiliense, 1990. paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Text in Portugues. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. In Brazil there were extermination groups murdering children one a day. They are boys and girls routinely tortured and mistreated by groups tasked with "maintaining order". Such is the reality of marginalized minors. several Brazilian cities, as evidenced by the appalling report of journalist Gilberto Dimenstein, winner of the main journalism awards in the last three years and author of A República dos Padrinhos and Conexãg Cabo Frio, reportage books that moved the country and shook some foundations of power.

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas—the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast.This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting attitudes at the turn of the century when much of the Museum's collections was acquired.Visitors and off-site readers will learn about such related archival resources as documentation and photographs, past and… Leer más

Bison Books, 1980-10-01. Paperback. Very Good. 9x8x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. "Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado. . . . It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontiers an outstanding contribution to firearms literature. It sets its own standard."--New York Times. "A Glossary of Gun Terms, ample footnotes most skillfully arranged and illustrations beyond the dreams of avarice complement the text, which achieves the miracle of scholarship without tedium."--W.H. Hutchinson, San Francisco Chronicle. "Not the least interesting portions of the book are the notes and glossary and the excellent bibliography. Here [is] a book designed primarily for the serious collector or gun historian, but whose readable style should appeal even to the casual amateur. The collecting of old guns, whether privately or by a public institution, involves a certain responsibility. These guns, whose history is… Leer más

Washington State Univ Pr, 1996-08-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x6x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Barbara Oakley's riveting portrayal of espionage, lust, comic adventure, hard work - and harder drinking - brings to life a little-known episode of American history when two cold-warring nations got together to fish the north Pacific. The joint fishing venture saw a brief period of success during the 1980s when Americans caught fish within the two-hundred mile maritime limit, then passed them off at sea to Russian processing trawlers. Oakley served as a translator aboard the processing ships, and Hair of the Dog is her true-life story of volatile Russian and American fishermen forced to work together.Barbara Oakley proved to be a resourceful translator - one who could silence the KGB with a squirt gun or handle a mob of drunken Russians seeking nirvana at K-Mart in downtown Portland. She is an equally imaginative author who has provided one of those rarest of book finds:… Leer más

University of Illinois Press, 2008-06-25. hardcover. Good/Missing. 7x0x10. No jacket, minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. The National Barn Dance was the nation's most popular country music radio show during the 1930s and 1940s. The pioneering radio program defined country and western entertainment until the Grand Ole Opry and rock 'n' roll supplanted it in the 1950s. Broadcast for more than three decades from Chicago on WLS's powerful 50,000-watt signal, the show reached listeners throughout the Midwest, the East Coast, and South, delivering popular entertainment to both rural and urban areas while celebrating the fading folk traditions of an increasingly urbanized America.The Hayloft Gang draws on the colorful commentary of performers and former listeners to analyze the National Barn Dance, its audience, and its impact. Contributors trace the history of barn dance radio, explore the paradox of a foundational country music program broadcast from a major city,… Leer más

Lookturn, LTD, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, slight creasing to wraps, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 290 pages, profusely illustrated with B&W and color photographs. Contents include: BAA group, Global Perspectives, History; Airport Operations; Airline Perspectives; Airline Operations; Airline Maintenance; Property; Facilities; Retail; Passengers; Community; Future.

William Reese Company, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. No dust jacket (as issued), blue cloth boards have minor wear, and have a brown discoloration near the spine, binding sound, internally clean. The long awaited substantial revision and reorganisation of this important bibliography of Pacific voyages, jointly published with W. Reese Company of New Haven. Since its original publication in three volumes between 1974 and 1983, the Hill catalogue has been an essential reference for anyone interested in Pacific Voyages, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, and the South Seas. The first edition has long been out of print and commands high prices in the antiquarian market.

Ediciones Universal, 1992-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Text in Spanish. Volume I. History of Medicine in Cuba: Hospitals and Benefit Centers in Colonial Cuba. Minor shelf wear, slight creasing to bottom corner, binding tight, gift inscription on front endpage, else pages clean and unmarked. A history of

Nimbus Pub, 2002-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Homeport revisits the remarkable events that for more than two centuries have shaped the distinctive Saint John region in the southern New Brunswick. Abundant land, fish, and timber and a prime Bay of Fundy location have attracted Mi'kmaq hunters, European explorers, Loyalist settlers, nineteenth-century seafarers, and immigrants to Saint John's shores.

Southern Heritage Pr, 1988. paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Moderate wear and soiling to wraps, binding sound, pages lightly age-toned. Supporters of the British Crown found life in the colonies rigorous in the years prior to, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The hazards of war and the inequities of peace forced many American Loyalists into Bahamian exile. Homeward Bound is their story In the wild and turbulent Carolinas in the 1760s, colonial officials battled the first stirrings of rebellion. The Sons of Liberty were born. Tarred and feathered Loyalists were paraded in dung carts through the well-planned streets of Savannah and past the bustling shops of Charleston. Their fortunes reduced, Loyalists retreated behind British lines at New York City and in East Florida. Fortunes of war had been difficult; the results of peace were even harder to bear. In 1783, Great Britain and Spain exchanged East Florida for the Bahama Islands. Many refugees rejected the cold regions of Nova Scotia in favour of… Leer más

Helion and Company, 2014-09-19. Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. "In December of 1914, veteran Boer commander General Louis Botha landed his forces on the coast of German South West Africa to finish off the colony's Schutztruppe defenders. In August, the South Africans had started off badly with a disastrous battle at Sandfontein and an internal rebellion that could have torn the Union of South Africa apart. Botha's campaign would eventually lead to victory, but it would not be easy. Overshadowed and largely forgotten by the battles in Europe, this was one of the more distant and now almost forgotten episodes of World War I. But from August 1914 to July 1915, a small German force of 4,000 faced nearly 75,000 Allied troops of the Union of South Africa, Britain, and colonial Rhodesia in a fight that was pivotal in the history of southern Africa. This loss on the battlefield would cost Germany her most prized African possession and… Leer más

Hrvatska matica iseljenika, 1997-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 0x0x0. PLEASE NOTE: SIGNIFICAN CONDITION ISSUE - BINDING BROKEN, SOME SIGNATURES ARE COMING LOOSE. Scarce, minor wear to covers, binding broken, some pages coming loose, but all present.

Movement Publications, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. 7x4x0. 1981 Movement Publications. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 9 PP with 16 b/w illustrations. Has a map with the 3 voyages shown.

Tuttle, 1979-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Jacket has light wear, now enclosed in a protective mylar jacket, binding sound, internally clean. "The Narrative of English missionary William Ellis is particularly important, as it was the first book written about the Hawaiian Islands and the first serious notice of the Islands since Captain Cook's discovery of them forty-eight years earlier