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  • - How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
    af Sharon Ann (Providence College) Murphy
    213,95 - 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.

  • - How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
    af Benjamin F. Alexander
    213,95 - 533,95 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.

  • - How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
    af Phillip G. (St. Bonaventure University) Payne
    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.

  • - How We Used to Get Ice
    af Jonathan Rees
    213,95 - 533,95 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.

  • - How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century
    af Sean Patrick Adams
    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.

  • - How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
    af John David Smith & Bob Luke
    213,95 - 398,95 kr.

    Colored Troops, Union military strategy, and race relations during and after the tumultuous Civil War.

  • - The Rise of Public Education in America
    af Johann N. Neem
    283,95 - 533,95 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.

  • - How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon
    af Tim Lehman
    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.

  • - How European Immigrants Entered America
    af Ronald H. (Georgia Institute of Technology) Bayor
    277,95 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.

  • - How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains
    af David B. Danbom
    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.