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Journal of Charlotte L. Forten
A Free Negro in the Slave Era
Av Charlotte L. Forten, Ray Allen Billington
Häftad, 1981
303 kr
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Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) was sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other young Philadelphia women: she was black, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded any person of color in her …
Limericks
Historical and Hysterical
Häftad, 1980
263 kr
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The book is divided into several parts: the historical uses of the limerick, concentrating on the American frontier and on World War II; limericks assembled from the files of the Society of the Fifth Line, and organization of scholars whose job it is to produce an original verse for each meeting of …
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise
The European Imagery of the American Frontier
Häftad, 1981
386 kr
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American History before 1877 with Questions and Answers
Häftad, 1988
616 kr
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This first part of Billington's popular American history has basic facts, names and dates underlined so that important information can be seen at a glance. Includes typical questions and answers, as well as helpful hints on how to prepare for examinations.
America's Frontier Heritage
Av Ray Allen Billington, William Cronon m. fl.
Häftad, 1975
557 kr
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The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner's famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. The pioneering experience, Turner suggested, accounted for some of the distinctive characteristics of the American …
Westward Expansion
A History of the American Frontier
Av Ray Allen Billington, Henry E. Huntington m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
635 kr
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When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's 'Westward Expansion' set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of …
People of the Plains and Mountains
Essays in the History of the West Dedicated to Everett Dick
Av Ray Allen Billington, Unknown
Inbunden, 1973
1095 kr
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Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding
Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books
Inbunden, 2016
2190 kr
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This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by …
Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding
Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books
Häftad, 2018
814 kr
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This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by …
Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding
Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books
E-bok, 2016
963 kr
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This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by …
Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding
Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books
E-bok, 2016
942 kr
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This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by …
America's Frontier Culture
Three Essays
Häftad, 2003
167 kr
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Here, Ray A. Billington outlines the three century-long process of westering that forged the American characteristics of resourcefulness, individualism and democracy, and upward social mobility.
