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Author |
: Sam Watters |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0926494155 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780926494152 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gardens for a Beautiful America 1895-1935 by : Sam Watters
At the opening of the 20th century, Americans looked out their windows and saw a landscape that had radically changed since their countryside childhoods. Since the close of the Civil War, the nation had become a land of industrial cities. Smokestacks, bl
Author |
: Sam Watters |
Publisher |
: Acanthus PressLlc |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0926494430 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780926494435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Gardens, 1890-1930 by : Sam Watters
American Gardens, 1890 -1930: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest Regions is the first of three volumes to be published by Acanthus Press as the landscape component of its residential architecture series, Suburban Domestic Architecture. Presenting perio
Author |
: Andrew Jackson Downing |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2012-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393733594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393733599 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Andrew Jackson Downing: Essential Texts by : Andrew Jackson Downing
More than the founding father of landscape architecture, Andrew Jackson Downing was influential across the country during and after his lifetime. This collection curates the writings of Downing, with a slant towards his landscape and architectural texts, supplemented by a sample of others on horticulture and municipal beautification.
Author |
: Daniel S. Markey |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2013-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107045460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107045460 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Exit from Pakistan by : Daniel S. Markey
This book tells the story of the tragic and often tormented relationship between the United States and Pakistan. Pakistan's internal troubles have already threatened U.S. security and international peace, and Pakistan's rapidly growing population, nuclear arsenal, and relationships with China and India will continue to force it upon America's geostrategic map in new and important ways over the coming decades. This book explores the main trends in Pakistani society that will help determine its future; traces the wellsprings of Pakistani anti-American sentiment through the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations from 1947 to 2001; assesses how Washington made and implemented policies regarding Pakistan since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001; and analyzes how regional dynamics, especially the rise of China, will likely shape U.S.-Pakistan relations. It concludes with three options for future U.S. strategy, described as defensive insulation, military-first cooperation, and comprehensive cooperation. The book explains how Washington can prepare for the worst, aim for the best, and avoid past mistakes.
Author |
: John Barrington Bayley |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2013-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486267210 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486267210 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letarouilly on Renaissance Rome by : John Barrington Bayley
Drawn from five large volumes published between 1825 and 1882, this student's edition showcases the architectural splendor of Renaissance Rome for a new generation. Paul Letarouilly's original work constitutes the standard reference, presenting the most complete collection of plans, elevations, and details of great buildings and monuments designed by Michelangelo, Peruzzi, Vignola, Bernini, and many others.
Author |
: Jason Emerson |
Publisher |
: SIU Press |
Total Pages |
: 642 |
Release |
: 2012-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780809330553 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0809330555 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Giant in the Shadows by : Jason Emerson
Giant in the Shadows is the definitive biography of Robert T. Lincoln (1843-1926), the oldest son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln and their only child to live past age eighteen. Emerson, after nearly ten years of research, draws upon previously unavailable materials to cover Robert Lincoln's entire life in detail.
Author |
: Jay Feldman |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416583103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416583106 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis When the Mississippi Ran Backwards by : Jay Feldman
From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson family, and altered the course of the War of 1812. On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been destroyed but for a rare act of God—or, as some believed, of the Indian chief Tecumseh. That same day, the Mississippi River's first steamboat, piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt, powered itself toward New Orleans on its maiden voyage. The sky grew hazy and red, and jolts of electricity flashed in the air. A prophecy by Tecumseh was about to be fulfilled. He had warned reluctant warrior-tribes that he would stamp his feet and bring down their houses. Sure enough, between December 16, 1811, and late April 1812, a catastrophic series of earthquakes shook the Mississippi River Valley. Of the more than 2,000 tremors that rumbled across the land during this time, three would have measured nearly or greater than 8.0 on the not-yet-devised Richter Scale. Centered in what is now the bootheel region of Missouri, the New Madrid earthquakes were felt as far away as Canada; New York; New Orleans; Washington, DC; and the western part of the Missouri River. A million and a half square miles were affected as the earth's surface remained in a state of constant motion for nearly four months. Towns were destroyed, an eighteen-mile-long by five-mile-wide lake was created, and even the Mississippi River temporarily ran backwards. The quakes uncovered Jefferson's nephews' cruelty and changed the course of the War of 1812 as well as the future of the new republic. In When the Mississippi Ran Backwards, Jay Feldman expertly weaves together the story of the slave murder, the steamboat, Tecumseh, and the war, and brings a forgotten period back to vivid life. Tecumseh's widely believed prophecy, seemingly fulfilled, hastened an unprecedented alliance among southern and northern tribes, who joined the British in a disastrous fight against the U.S. government. By the end of the war, the continental United States was secure against Britain, France, and Spain; the Indians had lost many lives and much land; and Jefferson's nephews were exposed as murderers. The steamboat, which survived the earthquake, was sunk. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards sheds light on this now-obscure yet pivotal period between the Revolutionary and Civil wars, uncovering the era's dramatic geophysical, political, and military upheavals. Feldman paints a vivid picture of how these powerful earthquakes made an impact on every aspect of frontier life—and why similar catastrophic quakes are guaranteed to recur. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards is popular history at its best.
Author |
: Abby Sallenger |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2010-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781458759313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1458759318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Island in a Storm by : Abby Sallenger
Presents the story of the 1856 hurricane which decimated Isle Derniere, an island one hundred miles off the coast of New Orleans which served as a summer resort for the wealthy, and the tragic loss of life and environmental devastation which resulted from the disaster.
Author |
: Martha Brookes Brown Hutcheson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 1923 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89038470894 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spirit of the Garden by : Martha Brookes Brown Hutcheson
Author |
: John B. Hench |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2016-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501727276 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501727273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Books As Weapons by : John B. Hench
Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American books (in translation but also in English) ultimately distributed throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The British were doing similar work, which was uneasily coordinated with that of the Americans within the Psychological Warfare Division of General Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, under General Eisenhower's command. Books As Weapons tells the little-known story of the vital partnership between American book publishers and the U.S. government to put carefully selected recent books highlighting American history and values into the hands of civilians liberated from Axis forces. The government desired to use books to help "disintoxicate" the minds of these people from the Nazi and Japanese propaganda and censorship machines and to win their friendship. This objective dovetailed perfectly with U.S. publishers' ambitions to find new profits in international markets, which had been dominated by Britain, France, and Germany before their book trades were devastated by the war. Key figures on both the trade and government sides of the program considered books "the most enduring propaganda of all" and thus effective "weapons in the war of ideas," both during the war and afterward, when the Soviet Union flexed its military might and demonstrated its propaganda savvy. Seldom have books been charged with greater responsibility or imbued with more significance. John B. Hench leavens this fully international account of the programs with fascinating vignettes set in the war rooms of Washington and London, publishers' offices throughout the world, and the jeeps in which information officers drove over bomb-rutted roads to bring the books to people who were hungering for them. Books as Weapons provides context for continuing debates about the relationship between government and private enterprise and the image of the United States abroad. To see an interview with John Hench conducted by C-SPAN at the 2010 annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, visit: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/222522.