Author: Bernard GilbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Gone to the War
Author: Bernard GilbertCatalogue of the Manuscript Maps, Charts, and Plans, and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Chemical, Color and Oil Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry, Technical
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
London
Author: Michael LeapmanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756669170
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Detachable col. fold-out map attached to flap of p. [3] of cover.
Metropolitan Management, Transportation and Planning
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division
Author: New York Public Library. Map DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Lincoln
Author: Gore VidalPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307784231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists. With a new Introduction by the author.
Manual of British Topography
Author: Colored Property
Author: David M. P. FreundPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226262774
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Northern whites in the post–World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial exclusivity of American suburbs, David M. P. Freund argues that previous attempts to answer this question have overlooked a change in the racial thinking of whites and the role of suburban politics in effecting this change. In Colored Property, he shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of residential exclusion—away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship. Freund begins his exploration by tracing the emergence of a powerful public-private alliance that facilitated postwar suburban growth across the nation with federal programs that significantly favored whites. Then, showing how this national story played out in metropolitan Detroit, he visits zoning board and city council meetings, details the efforts of neighborhood “property improvement” associations, and reconstructs battles over race and housing to demonstrate how whites learned to view discrimination not as an act of racism but as a legitimate response to the needs of the market. Illuminating government’s powerful yet still-hidden role in the segregation of U.S. cities, Colored Property presents a dramatic new vision of metropolitan growth, segregation, and white identity in modern America.