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The Life of a Backwoodsman; Or, Particulars of the Emigrant's Situation In Settling On the Wild Land of Canada

By: John William Bannister,John James Edmonstoune Linton,Fred G. Ketcheson

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The Life of a Backwoodsman; Or, Particulars of the Emigrant's Situation In Settling On the Wild Land of Canada

By: John William Bannister,John James Edmonstoune Linton,Fred G. Ketcheson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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3385116031

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9783385116030

Reports of the Late John Smeaton

By: John Smeaton

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Reports of the Late John Smeaton

By: John Smeaton

Published 1812-14, this illustrated four-volume set contains the reports and technical papers of Britain's foremost eighteenth-century civil engineer.

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509

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Cambridge University Press

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1108069770

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9781108069779

Forging America

Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution

By: John Bezis-Selfa

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Forging America

Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution

By: John Bezis-Selfa

Stacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states. Initially constructed more than two hundred years ago, they housed blast furnaces that converted rock and wood into the iron that enabled the United States to secure its national independence. By the eve of the Revolutionary War, furnaces and forges in the American colonies turned out one-seventh of the world's iron.Forging America illuminates the fate of labor in an era when industry, manhood, and independence began to take on new and highly charged meanings. John Bezís-Selfa argues that the iron industry, with its early concentrations of capital and labor, reveals the close links between industrial and political revolution. Through means ranging from religious exhortation to force, ironmasters encouraged or compelled workers—free, indentured, and enslaved—to adopt new work styles and standards of personal industry. Eighteenth-century revolutionary rhetoric hastened the demise of indentured servitude, however, and national independence reinforced the legal status of slavery and increasingly defined manual labor as "dependent" and racially coded. Bezís-Selfa highlights the importance of slave labor to early American industrial development. Research in documents from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries led Bezís-Selfa to accounts of the labor of African-Americans, indentured servants, new immigrants, and others. Their stories inform his highly readable narrative of more than two hundred years of American history.

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294

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Cornell University Press

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1501722190

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9781501722196

Kristina

A Novel

By: John Sager

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Kristina

A Novel

By: John Sager

Kristina Mikhailovna Fedorova, or simply ‘Kristina,’ as she is known to her many friends. She’s beautiful, she’s talented and as the Russian embassy’s Cultural Attaché, she is the CIA’s best-kept secret. The story follows her from childhood, through a marriage cut short by her husband’s demise, to one of Russia’s most-admired performers, all the while increasing her know-how and talent. Toward the end, she becomes the performer most sought after by the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, Washington, D.C.’s most prestigious venue for art and music.

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103

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AuthorHouse

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1665555149

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9781665555142

Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World

By: John McCusker

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Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World

By: John McCusker

Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. Topics treated range from early attempts in medieval England to measure the carrying capacity of ships, through the advent in Renaissance Italy and England of business newspapers that reported on the traffic of ships, cargoes and market prices, to the state of the economy of France over the two hundred years before the French Revolution and of the British West Indies between 1760 and 1790. Included is the story of Thomas Irving who challenged and thwarted the likes of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

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300

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Routledge

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1134703406

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9781134703401

Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile

Sports Myth and Sports History

By: John Bale

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Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile

Sports Myth and Sports History

By: John Bale

Roger Bannister was the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. Fifty years on, his status, not just as a champion athlete but also as a true British hero, a gentleman and an amateur from a 'golden era' in sport, retains its unblemished appeal. Until now there has been little criticism and even less close historical study of Bannister and his achievement. This book redresses the balance, presenting a revisionist history of Sir Roger Bannister and in doing so providing fresh insights into the making of this British 'champion'. This book does more than detail the history of a sporting giant. It invites the reader to reconsider the very words often used to describe him - notably 'hero' and 'gentleman amateur'. Informed by contemporary sport science, the text also questions the significance of the four-minute mile. Providing fascinating insights into the history of track racing as well as athletic training methods and the beginnings of sport science, this is not just a testimonial to the legend of Roger Bannister, but instead is the first rigorous historical study of his sporting life and the man behind the legend. It reveals him as an ambivalent athlete, highly achievement-orientated and scientific, but also in love with the freedom of running sensuously in nature, in contrast to the constraints of modern sport.

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160

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Routledge

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1134281366

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9781134281367

Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820

A Calendar of Performances

By: John C. Greene

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Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820

A Calendar of Performances

By: John C. Greene

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

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801

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611461146

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9781611461145

Book's by John William Bannister

The Life of a Backwoodsman; Or, Particulars of the Emigrant's Situation In Settling On the Wild Land of Canada

The Life of a Backwoodsman; Or, Particulars of the Emigrant's Situation In Settling On the Wild Land of Canada

Reports of the Late John Smeaton

Reports of the Late John Smeaton

Forging America

Forging America

Kristina

Kristina

Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World

Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World

Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile

Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile

Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820

Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820

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