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12 produkter
Frontiers
A Short History of the American West
Av John Mack Faragher, Robert V. Hine
Häftad, 2008
246 kr
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A concise edition of the authors' definitive history of the American West, updated and rewritten for a popular audience"From the Caribbean to Canada and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, this marvelous survey spotlights the unexpected twists and turns that occurred when peoples met and mingled and …
Daniel Boone
The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
Häftad, 1993
331 kr
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of …
Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays
Av Frederick Turner, John Mack Faragher
Häftad, 1999
544 kr
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“The best assembly of Turner’s essays now available. Faragher’s introductory and concluding commentaries add considerably to the import of the book.”—Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles “Still ranks as the most influential piece of writing on American history.”—Carlin Romano, …
American West
A New Interpretive History
Av Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
309 kr
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A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America “A classic for the twenty-first century, The American West stands as the best one volume treatment of the American West in a generation—a masterful overview, replete with triumph and tragedy, pain and …
Eternity Street
Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
Inbunden, 2016
348 kr
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Eternity Street tells the story of a violent place in a violent time: the rise of Los Angeles from its origins as a small Mexican pueblo. In a masterful narrative, John Mack Faragher relates a dramatic history of conquest and ethnic suppression, of collective disorder and interpersonal conflict. …
Great and Noble Scheme
The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
Häftad, 2006
240 kr
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In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of …
Women and Higher Education in American History
Av John Mack Faragher, Florence Howe
Häftad, 1988
279 kr
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Eternity Street
Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
Häftad, 2017
497 kr
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Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los …
Daniel Boone
The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
E-bok, 1993
256 kr
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America''s famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of …
Daniel Boone
The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
Ljudbok, 2008
335 kr
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In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America’s famous frontier hero, while illuminating the American hero-making process itself. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of …
California
An American History
Häftad, 2023
233 kr
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A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation “A masterful history.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who …
