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7 produkter
William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours
On the Past and Future of the Black City in America
Av Roger Lane
Inbunden, 1991
2139 kr
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In the fifty years after the Civil War, Philadelphia was the archetypical city for American blacks. Not only did it have the largest black population in actual numbers, but it was also the preferred destination in the North for blacks migrating from the South after the Civil War. The focus of the …
William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours
On the Past and Future of the Black City in America
Av Roger Lane
E-bok, 1991
1284 kr
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Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of …
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860–1900
Av Roger Lane
Häftad, 1989
371 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, life became more stable and orderly for most American city dwellers, but not for blacks. Roger Lane offers a historical explanation for the rising levels of black urban crime and family instability during this paradoxical era. Philadelphia serves as test case because …
Violent Death in the City
Suicide, Accident and Murder in Nineteenth-century Philadelphia
Av Roger Lane
Häftad, 1999
467 kr
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Riot, Rout, and Tumult
Readings in American Social and Political Violence
Inbunden, 1978
855 kr
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Cranborne Chase
A Secret Landscape
Häftad, 2023
187 kr
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Cranborne Chase is an area of chalk highland and valleys traversing Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Royalty once came here to hunt deer and other game in an area that became known as the Chase. It remains a landscape that feels like a painting of the past, with open chalk downland, wide expansive …
Heswall Through Time
Häftad, 2015
244 kr
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With spectacular views across the River Dee, and surrounded by stunning countryside, Heswall has long been one of the Wirral Peninsula’s most sought-after locations. First recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the townships of Heswall and Gayton grew rapidly from the late 1800s onwards as new …