A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brings to life one of the great figures in North American history, Samuel de Champlain, who founded Quebec 400 years ago and established a colony where respect for the native people and religious tolerance were practiced. B&w illustrations throughout.
This widely acclaimed and meticulously researched book is the first serious study of Paul Revere's famous ride. Fischer's exciting narrative offers new insight into the coming of the American Revolution.
Six months after Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. George Washington lost 90 percent of his army, and was driven across the Delaware River. Panic and despair spread through the states. As the ...
Civilizations Past and Present, written by specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, and East European history-- offers a clear and accessible analysis of diverse trends shaping world history. Civilizations Past and Present, now in its Twelfth Edition, is a survey text well known in the marketplace for its readability, offering a strong ...
Now in trade paperback, the sensational national bestseller that turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. These pages are filled with previously undisclosed facts about the lives and loves of the irch and famous--from royalty to movie and music stars to renowned artists.
Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indentifiable, Fischer argues, in areas as divers ...
This special educational edition of Anne Frank's unique diary, describing her family's plight during the Nazi persecution, is accompanied by substantial background material and photographs to help students to contextualise this teenager's account.
Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core of American life. Fischer examines liberty and ...
Civilizations Past and Present, written by specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, and East European history-- offers a clear and accessible analysis of diverse trends shaping world history. Civilizations Past and Present, now in its Twelfth Edition, is a survey text well known in the marketplace for its readability, offering a strong ...
For one-semester, undergraduate-level courses in Music for Children, Music in the Elementary School, Music in Childhood, Elementary Classroom Music, Elementary Music Methods. The Musical Classroom provides everything needed to teach the course is under one cover-music fundamentals, strategies for teaching music in the elementary classroom, over ...
The authors of the Eleventh Edition of Civilization Past and Present -- specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, and East European history-- weave the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis for today's students. Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey ...
At Matthew Haly's custom-upholstery studio in Manhattan's NoHo district, the demand for his work is incredibly high--and often, so is the price tag. That inexpensive flea-market find seemed great until you discovered just how much it would cost to have it reupholstered. But don't let the professional's price tag deter you. In "Matthew Haly's Book ...
Civilizations Past and Present, written by specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, and East European history-- offers a clear and accessible analysis of diverse trends shaping world history. Civilizations Past and Present, now in its Twelfth Edition, is a survey text well known in the marketplace for its readability, offering a strong ...
David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive - even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshalling an astonishing array of historical facts in ...
A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but also through the physical artefacts and folkways of ordinary people.
One of the most important figures in the art world of the 1960s, Andy Warhol was arguably the first celebrity artist. POPISM is Warhol's memoir of the time, and contains a number of different, often contradictory definitions of Pop art, a movement Warhol helped make famous as one of its most flamboyant leaders. Marked by a fascination with popular ...
A reader in aspects of religion traditionally ignored by religious studies, such as Native American religious history, African American Christianity, popular Catholicism, Mormons, Pentecostals, Judaism, feminist spirituality, fraternal orders, and voudou. Contributors include: Ramon A Gutierrez, David D. Hall, Daniel K. Richter, Albert J. Raboteau ...
/ The authors--specialists in Islamic, African, ancient, Russian and East European, and Japanese history--weave the diverse trends of world history into a clear analysis. / Examines all aspects of world history--social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic. / Widely popular as a highly readable survey text with strong narrative ...
The new edition of "Environmental and Natural Resources Economics" provides an accessible yet rigorous treatment of the subject, including the economics of sustainability. This up-to-date and innovative textbook is designed for economics majors as well as students in interdisciplinary programs, such as environmental science and policy. The new ...
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