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The American Biographical Dictionary

By: William Allen

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The American Biographical Dictionary

By: William Allen

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382330709

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9783382330705

The Baptist Encyclopædia

Part 1

By: William Cathcart

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The Baptist Encyclopædia

Part 1

By: William Cathcart

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385440815

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9783385440814

The American Genealogist Being a Catalogue of Family Histories

By: William H. Whitmore

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The American Genealogist Being a Catalogue of Family Histories

By: William H. Whitmore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382834197

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Americans All - A Human Study of America's Citizens from Europe

By: William Seabrook

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Americans All - A Human Study of America's Citizens from Europe

By: William Seabrook

This vintage work contains an interesting and informative human study of America's citizens from Europe. It is not intended to be a statistical immigration treatise, but rather it aims to show in common, close-up, personal terms, what kind of people Americans of foreign-language origin, were. It aims to show how they contributed to the American scene, how they lived in the land of their adoption, and how they were viewed and treated there. The chapters of this book include: 'Native American Home Town: 1938 Model', 'Scandinavian American', 'German Americans', 'Polish Americans', and 'Russian Americans'. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Read Books Ltd

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144749489X

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9781447494898

Between Raid and Rebellion

The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916

By: William Jenkins

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Between Raid and Rebellion

The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916

By: William Jenkins

Winner: Joseph Brant Award (2014), Ontario Historical Society Winner: Clio Prize (Ontario) (2014), Canadian Historical Association Winner: The James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize (2014), American Conference for Irish Studies Winner: Geographical Society of Ireland Book of the Year Award (2013-2015) In Between Raid and Rebellion, William Jenkins compares the lives and allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter Rising. Highlighting the significance of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto and from Munster to Buffalo, he distinguishes what it meant to be Irish in a loyal dominion within Britain’s empire and in a republic whose self-confidence knew no bounds. Jenkins pays close attention to the transformations that occurred within the Irish communities in these cities during this fifty-year period, from residential patterns to social mobility and political attitudes. Exploring their experiences in workplaces, homes, churches, and meeting halls, he argues that while various social, cultural, and political networks were crucial to the realization of Irish mobility and respectability in North America by the early twentieth century, place-related circumstances were linked to wider national loyalties and diasporic concerns. With the question of Irish Home Rule animating debates throughout the period, Toronto’s unionist sympathizers presented a marked contrast to Buffalo’s nationalist agitators. Although the Irish had acclimated to life in their new world cities, their sense of feeling Irish had not faded to the degree so often assumed. A groundbreaking comparative analysis, Between Raid and Rebellion draws upon perspectives from history and geography to enhance our understanding of the Irish experiences in these centres and the process by which immigrants settle into new urban environments.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773589031

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9780773589032

The Last Silent Picture Show

Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s

By: William M. Drew

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The Last Silent Picture Show

Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s

By: William M. Drew

This book details the fate of an entire art form—the silent cinema—in the United States during the 1930s and how it managed to survive the onslaught of sound.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810876817

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9780810876811

The White House Looks South

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson

By: William E. Leuchtenburg

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The White House Looks South

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson

By: William E. Leuchtenburg

Perhaps not southerners in the usual sense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson each demonstrated a political style and philosophy that helped them influence the South and unite the country in ways that few other presidents have. Combining vivid biography and political insight, William E. Leuchtenburg offers an engaging account of relations between these three presidents and the South while also tracing how the region came to embrace a national perspective without losing its distinctive sense of place. According to Leuchtenburg, each man "had one foot below the Mason-Dixon Line, one foot above." Roosevelt, a New Yorker, spent much of the last twenty-five years of his life in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he built a "Little White House." Truman, a Missourian, grew up in a pro-Confederate town but one that also looked West because of its history as the entrepôt for the Oregon Trail. Johnson, who hailed from the former Confederate state of Texas, was a westerner as much as a southerner. Their intimate associations with the South gave these three presidents an empathy toward and acceptance in the region. In urging southerners to jettison outworn folkways, Roosevelt could speak as a neighbor and adopted son, Truman as a borderstater who had been taught to revere the Lost Cause, and Johnson as a native who had been scorned by Yankees. Leuchtenburg explores in fascinating detail how their unique attachment to "place" helped them to adopt shifting identities, which proved useful in healing rifts between North and South, in altering behavior in regard to race, and in fostering southern economic growth. The White House Looks South is the monumental work of a master historian. At a time when race, class, and gender dominate historical writing, Leuchtenburg argues that place is no less significant. In a period when America is said to be homogenized, he shows that sectional distinctions persist. And in an era when political history is devalued, he demonstrates that government can profoundly affect people's lives and that presidents can be change-makers.

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LSU Press

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0807151424

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9780807151426

The Letters of William Gaddis

Revised Edition

By: William Gaddis

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The Letters of William Gaddis

Revised Edition

By: William Gaddis

A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life. UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and also reveal the extent to which he drew upon events in his life for his fiction. Here we see him forging his first novel, The Recognitions (1955), while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award–winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter’s Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to produce A Frolic of His Own (1994). Resuming his lifelong obsession with mechanization and the arts, he finishes a last novel, Agapē Agape (published in 2002), as he lies dying. This newly revised edition includes clarifying notes by Gaddis scholar Steven Moore, as well as an afterword by the author’s daughter, Sarah Gaddis.

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New York Review of Books

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1681375842

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9781681375847

River-Horse

A Voyage Across America

By: William Least Heat-Moon

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A Voyage Across America

By: William Least Heat-Moon

New York Times bestseller: “A coast-to-coast journey by way of great rivers, conducted by a contemporary master of travel writing” (Kirkus Reviews). In this memoir brimming with history, humor, and wisdom, the author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth “voyages across the country, from Atlantic to Pacific, almost entirely by its rivers, lakes and canals in a small outboard-powered boat” (San Francisco Chronicle). Setting off from New York Harbor aboard the boat he named Nikawa (“river horse” in Osage), in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria, Oregon, William Least Heat-Moon and his companion, Pilotis, struggle to cover some five thousand watery miles—more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed—often following in the wakes of our most famous explorers, from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark. En route, the voyagers confront massive floods, submerged rocks, dangerous weather, and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield incomparable pleasures: strangers generous with help and eccentric tales, landscapes unchanged since Sacagawea saw them, riverscapes flowing with a lively past, and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. “Fizzes with intelligence and high spirits.” —Outside “Propels the reader with historical vignettes, ecological and geological detail, and often hilarious encounters with local eccentrics.” —Time

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HMH

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0547523688

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9780547523682

The Fortieth Congress of the United States

Vol. 2

By: William Horatio Barnes

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The Fortieth Congress of the United States

Vol. 2

By: William Horatio Barnes

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382118599

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Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Judith E. Carman,William K. Gaeddert,Rita M. Resch

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Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Judith E. Carman,William K. Gaeddert,Rita M. Resch

Originally created as a teaching tool, this bibliography has taken on a second life as a research tool for various facets of American art song, including, in this edition, both current and historical discography.

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0810841371

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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

By: William R. Handley

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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

By: William R. Handley

In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139440152

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Book's by William A Chanler

The American Biographical Dictionary

The American Biographical Dictionary

The Baptist Encyclopædia

The Baptist Encyclopædia

The American Genealogist Being a Catalogue of Family Histories

The American Genealogist Being a Catalogue of Family Histories

Americans All - A Human Study of America's Citizens from Europe

Americans All - A Human Study of America's Citizens from Europe

Between Raid and Rebellion

Between Raid and Rebellion

The Last Silent Picture Show

The Last Silent Picture Show

The White House Looks South

The White House Looks South

The Letters of William Gaddis

The Letters of William Gaddis

River-Horse

River-Horse

The Fortieth Congress of the United States

The Fortieth Congress of the United States

Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999

Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999

Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

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