How Things Worked – serie
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19 produkter
Home Fires
How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2014
319 kr
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Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs …
Encountering Ellis Island
How European Immigrants Entered America
Häftad, 2014
344 kr
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America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892-1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal …
Sod Busting
How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains
Inbunden, 2014
570 kr
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Prairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom tells the story of Great Plains settlement in a way it has seldom been told before. Stretching beyond the sweeping …
Sod Busting
How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains
Häftad, 2014
280 kr
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Prairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom tells the story of Great Plains settlement in a way it has seldom been told before. Stretching beyond the sweeping …
Crash!
How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
Inbunden, 2016
570 kr
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Speculation - an economic reality for centuries-is a hallmark of the modern US economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist, by popular delusions and the madness of crowds, or do failed regulations play a greater part? And why is it that investors never seem to learn …
Crash!
How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
Häftad, 2016
280 kr
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Speculation - an economic reality for centuries-is a hallmark of the modern US economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist, by popular delusions and the madness of crowds, or do failed regulations play a greater part? And why is it that investors never seem to learn …
Other People's Money
How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
Inbunden, 2017
687 kr
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Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies-worth something...or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people …
Other People's Money
How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
Häftad, 2017
264 kr
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Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies-worth something...or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people …
Democracy's Schools
The Rise of Public Education in America
Häftad, 2017
351 kr
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At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It's a story in which ordinary people in towns across the country …
New Deal's Forest Army
How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
Inbunden, 2018
640 kr
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How the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed …
Before the Refrigerator
How We Used to Get Ice
Inbunden, 2018
661 kr
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How increased access to ice—decades before refrigeration—transformed American life.During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before …
Up the Trail
How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon
Av Tim Lehman
Inbunden, 2018
720 kr
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How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero?Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two …
Up the Trail
How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon
Av Tim Lehman
Häftad, 2018
280 kr
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How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero?Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two …
Home Fires
How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2014
457 kr
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Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs …
Soldiering for Freedom
How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Inbunden, 2014
403 kr
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After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the …
Soldiering for Freedom
How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Häftad, 2014
208 kr
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After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the …
Democracy's Schools
The Rise of Public Education in America
Inbunden, 2017
551 kr
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At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It's a story in which ordinary people in towns across the country …
New Deal's Forest Army
How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
Häftad, 2018
208 kr
Tillfälligt slut
How the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed …
Before the Refrigerator
How We Used to Get Ice
Häftad, 2018
208 kr
Tillfälligt slut
How increased access to ice—decades before refrigeration—transformed American life.During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before …
