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If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. By comparison, the coal industry was embarrassingly primitive. This book shows how disorder in the coal industry disrupted the strategic plans of the railroads. Series: Culture, Labor, History. Num Pages: 287 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; HBJK; HBTB; KNGT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814764985
ISBN
9780814764985
Condition: New

€ 62.30

Hardback. "A majestic work, moving from the Cold War to now. .. An essential critique of the world of the 21st century." Professor William S. Lucas, University of Birmingham Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FCA; 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745323893
ISBN
9780745323893
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.01
€ 83.19

hardcover. From 1917 to 1920 the Woman's Land Army (WLA) brought thousands of city workers, society women, artists, business professionals, and college students into rural America to take over the farm work after men were called to wartime service. Num Pages: 352 pages, 64 b&w photos, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Potomac Books, Inc. United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781597972734
ISBN
9781597972734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.94

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Color photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBN; WBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 218 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1298.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Running Press,U.S.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762445653
ISBN
9780762445653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.53

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. The author describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803295506
ISBN
9780803295506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Hardcover. A collection of essays that explores the self-expression of travel writers like Isabella Bird by giving geographic context to their work. It examines relationships among nineteenth-century American expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth century. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 black-&-white illustrations, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631675
ISBN
9780815631675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.29

Hardback. Num Pages: 474 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1QFE; GTF; JFFJ; JPSN2; LNDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 889.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
T.M.C. Asser Press Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9789462651647
ISBN
9789462651647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.27

Hardback. "Combines perfectly precise analysis with a literary form of expression, clearness of thought and language."-Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HPCF; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823213023
ISBN
9780823213023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.24

Hardcover. Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the 18th century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. This book details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226096704
ISBN
9780226096704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.95

Paperback. Chronicles the first four decades of Mahattan, Kansas, as it grew from tent to town. Captures the origins and early life of this quintessential Kansas city in an engaging and informative history. Num Pages: 284 pages, 45 Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JH; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700621408
ISBN
9780700621408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.44

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 468 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647951
ISBN
9780691647951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 226.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 127 photos & 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 215 x 5. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
Edition
UK ed.
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888395986
ISBN
9780888395986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.41

Paperback. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, this title addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 470 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 84 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
470
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520267787
ISBN
9780520267787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Written by lawyer turned bestselling author Garrett Wilson, "Frontier Farewell" unravels the gruesome toll wrought by the overhunting and extinction of the buffalo and exposes the false mythology of the Old West. Num Pages: 525 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 824.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889773615
ISBN
9780889773615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBT; WBN; WBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 202 x 12. Weight in Grams: 24.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762797547
ISBN
9780762797547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.62

Hardcover. Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revolution, Patrick Spero recasts the importance of frontiers, as eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians would have understood them, to the development of colonial America and the origins of American Independence. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248616
ISBN
9780812248616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.25

Paperback. Plays with caricatures in reverse by making "gringos" and "WASPs", rather than Latin Americans, the objects of ridicule. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DD; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Talon Books,Canada Canada
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889227057
ISBN
9780889227057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.03

Hardcover. The first issue of the Pittsburgh Gazette was published on Saturday, August 12, 1786. Nearly 220 years later, it lives on as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. By focusing on what stories were reported -and how - this book adds a to the history of Pittsburgh and its people. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; HBTB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 934.
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822942481
ISBN
9780822942481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 45.86

paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801474125
ISBN
9780801474125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardcover. An irreplaceable portrait of George W. Bush Series: Focus on American History Series. Num Pages: 226 pages, 149 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; AJCP; HBJK; HBLX; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 314 x 286 x 28. Weight in Grams: 2216.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292745476
ISBN
9780292745476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.12

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