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From Newgate to Dannemora
The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796–1848
Häftad, 2009
559 kr
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A significant chapter in the history of American social reform is traced in this skillful account of the rise of the New York penitentiary system at a time when the United States was garnering international acclaim for its penal methods. Beginning with Newgate, an ill-fated institution built in New …
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District
An Industrial Epic
E-bok, 2011
1170 kr
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This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the …
Delta
The History of An Airline
Av W. David Lewis, Wesley Phillips Newton
Häftad, 2016
577 kr
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Beginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines had, by its fiftieth anniversary, down to become one of the largest companies in the industry and one of the most consistently profitable. First published in 1979, this is a comprehensive account of the growth …
Airway to Everywhere
A History of All American Aviation, 1937–1953
Av W. David Lewis, William Trimble
Häftad, 1988
725 kr
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This book chronicles the history of All American Aviation of western Pennsylvania, a commercial airline pioneer. The brainchild of self-styled inventor Dr. Lytle S. Adams and Richard C. du Pont, the company began as an airmail delivery carrier, taking advantage of the Experimental Air Mail Act …
Eddie Rickenbacker
An American Hero in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2006
588 kr
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Eddie Rickenbacker epitomized the American spirit in the twentieth century. Daring, skilled, and rugged-moving fast and defying death-he drove race cars in the early days of the automobile, then flew canvas-over-wooden-frame aeroplanes in the Great War, downing twenty-six enemy flyers and emerging …
Eddie Rickenbacker
An American Hero in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2008
346 kr
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Eddie Rickenbacker epitomized the American spirit in the twentieth century. Daring, skilled, and rugged-moving fast and defying death-he drove race cars in the early days of the automobile, then flew canvas-over-wooden-frame aeroplanes in the Great War, downing twenty-six enemy flyers and emerging …
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District
An Industrial Epic
Inbunden, 1994
528 kr
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This text argues that the rise of the Sloss Furnaces and Birmingham epitomised the emergence of the United States as a world economic power and the closing of a once-profitable ironmaking installation typified challenges that were facing America in the post-industrial age.
