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  • Yardley

    by Vince Profy ...
    Series series Images of America
    Yardley revisits the 200 year history of the borough through photographs. In the eighteenth century, a ferry and mill marked the crossroads beginnings of Yardleyville in Makefield Township. New modes of transportation transformed the village, commerce and industry flourished, and the population increased substantially. Soon the people of Yardley yearned for their own government--their own town- ... Read more

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    America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad

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    Perfect for fans of the Emmy Award–winning series Downton Abbey, whose creator, Julian Fellowes, raved that Sisters of Fortune is “absolutely fascinating”—a real-life Jane Austen story, that follows the fabulous Caton sisters, the first American heiresses to take Europe by storm.Based on intimate and previously unpublished letters written by the sisters, this is a portrait of four lively and ... Read more

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  • Law & Disorder

    The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD

    by Bruce Chadwick ...
    Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high. The staggering amount of crime threatened to topple a city that was experiencing meteoric growth ... Read more

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  • Men's Lives

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore. ... Read more

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  • A First Class Temperament

    The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928

    by Geoffrey C. Ward ...
    In this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the brink of the presidency with a richness of detail and vivid sense of time, place, and personality usually found only in fiction.In these pages, FDR ... Read more

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  • The Democratic Republicans of New York

    The Origins, 1763-1797

    by Alfred F. Young ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Through an intensive study of party origins in the state of New York, this volume reexamines and reevaluates the whole of the Democratic Republican movement. It will compel changes in present concepts of anti-Federalist and Republican connections with banking, mercantile, land-speculation, and manufacturing interests.Originally published in 1967.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring ... Read more

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  • Seaweeds

    A Color-Coded, Illustrated Guide to Common Marine Plants of the East Coast of the United States

    by C. J. Hillson ...
    Automobiles, interstate highways, shorter work weeks, longer vacations, and higher salaries have all combined to bring the seashore closer to man. Where once a visit to the shore was only a dream for many, or a once-in-a-lifetime trip for others, the varied oceanic life that has held man's interest for centuries is now just beyond the garage doors of the American family. The same curiosity that ... Read more

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  • Manhattan Projects

    The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York

    by Samuel Zipp ...
    Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in ... Read more

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  • North Brunswick

    by North Brunswick Historical Committee ...
    Series series Images of America
    North Brunswick, a large town spread over 12 square miles, has a rich history extending back to the early 1600s, when its only occupants were members of the Lenni-Lenape tribe. Some of the earliest establishments included the Black Horse Tavern building, which in 1670 was a stagecoach stop, and the Lion Tavern. By 1750, a gristmill operated near where a dam is currently located on Farrington Lake ... Read more

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  • Empire of Water

    An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

    by David Soll ...
    Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water ... Read more

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  • An Albany Saga

    by Bill Swire ...
    Mr. Swire’s An Albany Saga is a collection of essays reflecting American life, especially Albany, New York from 1930-1990. An Albany Saga is a memoir written in six sections: Beginnings, Decisions, Snowed In, Connecting Pieces of the Albany Puzzle, Building a Business, and A Little Bit About a Lot of Things ... Read more

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  • Progressive Inequality

    Rich and Poor in New York, 1890–1920

    by David Huyssen ...
    The Progressive Era has been depicted as a seismic event in American history—a landslide of reform that curbed capitalist excesses and reduced the gulf between rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this popular consensus, demonstrating how income inequality’s growth prior to the stock market crash of 1929 continued to aggravate class divisions. As David Huyssen makes ... Read more

    $44.99 USD