Bøger i How Things Worked serien
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- How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
218,95 - 538,95 kr. By helping readers understand the financial history of this period and the way banking shaped the society in which ordinary Americans lived and worked, this book broadens and deepens our knowledge of the Early American Republic.
- Bog
- 218,95 kr.
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- How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
213,95 - 538,95 kr. A uniquely detailed exploration of life in the CCC, The New Deal's Forest Army compellingly demonstrates how one New Deal program changed America and gave birth to both contemporary forestry and the modern environmental movement.
- Bog
- 213,95 kr.
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- How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
213,95 - 443,95 kr. Payne's book will help students recognize the telltale signs of bubbles and busts, so that they may become savvier consumers and investors.
- Bog
- 213,95 kr.
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- How We Used to Get Ice
213,95 - 538,95 kr. Before the Refrigerator is ideal for history of technology classes, food studies classes, or anyone interested in what daily life in the United States was like between 1880 and 1930.
- Bog
- 213,95 kr.
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- How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century
243,95 - 443,95 kr. This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up.
- Bog
- 243,95 kr.
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- How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
213,95 - 398,95 kr. Colored Troops, Union military strategy, and race relations during and after the tumultuous Civil War.
- Bog
- 213,95 kr.
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- The Rise of Public Education in America
290,95 - 538,95 kr. By studying the origins of America's public schools, Neem urges us to focus on the defining features of democratic education: promoting equality, nurturing human beings, preparing citizens, and fostering civic solidarity.
- Bog
- 290,95 kr.
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- How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon
213,95 - 578,95 kr. The lively narrative will appeal to students of Texas and western history as well as anyone interested in cowboy culture.
- Bog
- 213,95 kr.
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- How European Immigrants Entered America
285,95 kr. Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life.
- Bog
- 285,95 kr.
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- How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains
213,95 - 443,95 kr. Based on contemporary accounts, settlers' reminiscences, and the work of other historians, Sod Busting dives deeply into the practical realities of how things worked to make vivid one of the quintessentially American experiences, breaking new land.
- Bog
- 213,95 kr.