Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
George W. Hawes' Michigan State Gazetteer, and Business Directory, For...
Author: George W. Hawes' Ohio State Gazetteer and Business Directory for ...
Author: George W. HawesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory
Author: Ohio State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860-61
Author: George W. HawesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for ...
Author: Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860-61
Author: John L. MitchellWhat Jane Knew
Author: Maureen KonklePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon married Jane, "discovered" the family's writings, and began soliciting them for traditional Anishinaabe stories. But what began as literary play became the setting for political struggle. Jane and her family wrote with attention to the beauty of Anishinaabe narratives and to their expression of an Anishinaabe world that continued to coexist with the American republic. But Schoolcraft appropriated the stories and published them as his own writing, seeking to control their meaning and to destroy their impact in service to the "civilizing" interests of the United States. In this dramatic story, Maureen Konkle helps recover the literary achievements of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her kin, revealing as never before how their lives and work shed light on nineteenth-century struggles over the future of Indigenous people in the United States.
John L. Mitchell's Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory
Author: Edison
Author: Paul IsraelPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471362700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Ein Bestseller jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe! Die gebundene Ausgabe erzielte hervorragende Kritiken im Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, The Independent und in der Sunday Times - um nur einige zu nennen. Israel hatte erstmals Zugang zu Werkstatt-Tagebüchern, Briefen und mehr als fünf Millionen Seiten Archivmaterial. Auf der Basis dieser Informationen hat er die erste maßgebende Biographie von Edison verfaßt. Zum ersten Mal wird Edisons Karriere als Erfinder systematisch untersucht und bewertet. Im Detail wird erforscht, wie er u.a. mit der Erfindung des elektrischen Lichts, der Photographie und mehr als tausend anderen Dingen das 20. Jahrhundert prägte. Dies ist auch die erste Biographie, die Edison im Zusammenhang mit dem rapiden industriellen Wandel betrachtet, indem die Auswirkungen dieses Wandels auf seine Erfindungen beschrieben werden. Dieses Buch liefert eine Fülle neuer Informationen über Edison und seine Erfindungen. Eine interessante und spannende Lektüre. (y03/00)
West to Far Michigan
Author: Kenneth E. LewisPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
West to Far Michigan is a study of the lower peninsula's occupation by agriculturalists, whose presence forever transformed the land and helped to create the modern state of Michigan. West to Far Michigan traces changes and patterns of settlement crucial to documenting the large-scale development of southern Michigan as a region.