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  • af R.E. Banta
    373,95 kr.

    " Originally part of the Rivers of America Series, The Ohio traces the river from its headwaters in Pittsburgh to the point it empties into the Mississippi, nearly a thousand miles and five states later.

  • - An Anthology of Early Writings
     
    373,95 kr.

    The readings in this anthology -- the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others -- are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier.

  • af Betty Bryant
    373,95 kr.

    As a political boss and a practitioner of what George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall referred to as "honest graft," Klair applied lessons of organization, innovation, manipulation, power, and control from the machine age to bring together diverse groups of Lexingtonians and Kentuckians as supporters of a powerful political machine.

  • af Darrel E. Bigham
    593,95 kr.

    Darrel Bigham examines these towns and villages from the 1790s, when the first settlements appeared, to the 1920s, when the modern pattern of life associated with automobiles, economic upheaval, and mass culture emerged.

  • af William E. Ellis
    373,95 kr.

    A sweeping cultural history, The Kentucky River reflects the rich tapestry of life along the banks. Advocates for the river achieved a victory in protecting the stunning Kentucky River Palisades between Boonesborough and Frankfort, and efforts continue to preserve the irreplaceable river for future generations.

  • - African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley
    af Joe William Trotter
    363,95 kr.

    Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class.

  • - African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley
    af Keith P. Griffler
    373,95 - 738,95 kr.

    Calibanic discourse, Coleman argues, so deeply and subconsciously influences the texts of black male writers that they are unable to cast off the oppression inherent in this discourse. Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban is the first book to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central perspective.

  • - Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley
    af Jens Lund
    368,95 kr.

    Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life.

  • - James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer
    af Charles C. Cole
    373,95 kr.

    Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely travel

  • af James E. Casto
    298,95 kr.

    To get a personal look at what it is like to work on the Ohio River, newspaperman James E. As engaging as it is informative, Towboat on the Ohio tells one of the many stories of the busy, hardworking Ohio River.

  • af James Coomer
    373,95 kr.

    When young James Coomer was offered a job as deckhand on the tugboat Pat Murphy at a dollar an hour, he took his first smell of diesel fuel and knew he was hooked.

  • - A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier
     
    448,95 kr.

    In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio.

  • - Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley
    af Darrel E. Bigham
    513,95 kr.

    This comprehensive history examines communities on the northern and southern shores of the Ohio River that developed as a consequence of the Civil War. Bigham describes how these communities were shaped by the presence or absence of slavery and how the abolition of slavery and the rise of free labor became the rule of law on both banks.