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  • Three Voyages

    Traduit par Charles E. Bennett ...
    This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America.Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States is uniquely valuable becausehe played a major role in each of the ventures—first, in 1562, as second in ... En savoir plus

    CHF 17.43

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    par J. D. Vance ...
    Hillbilly Elegy recounts Vice President J.D. Vance's powerful origin story...From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as the Vice President of the United States, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"You will not read a more importa... ... En savoir plus

    Avant CHF 10.98 Après CHF 7.20

  • These Truths

    A History of the United States

    par Jill Lepore ...
    **New York Times BestsellerIn the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.**Two hundred fifty years after the United States declared its independence and cast off tyranny, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.84

  • The Flight

    Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

    par Dan Hampton ...
    "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." — WALL STREET JOURNAL • From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh’s death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and prepared ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.99

  • Gotham

    A History of New York City to 1898

    Collection series The History of NYC Series
    To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 22.56

  • La Corporation

    par T.J. English ...
    Traduit par Pierre Guglielmina ...
    Collection series Documents, témoignages et essais d’actualité
    La Corporation, c’est le nom que s’est elle-même donné l’organisation mafieuse la plus prospère des États-Unis au cours de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. S’appuyant sur la communauté cubaine exilée en Floride, profondément humiliée par la déroute de la baie des Cochons, un ancien policier de La Havane, Pedro Miguel Battle, a bâti un empire financier à la vitesse de l’éclair à partir d’une ... En savoir plus

    CHF 11.00

  • We Carry Their Bones

    The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

    par Erin Kimmerle ...
    "With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground RailroadForensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.05

  • A Summer on the Plains, Illustrated.

    An Eastern Correspondent spends the summer on duty with Hancock's 1867 Indian Expedition, following Hancock and Custer as they attempt to make peace with the warring Indians on the plains. Good examples of real life in the Indian Wars. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 0.80

  • The Big Fella

    Babe Ruth and the World He Created

    par Jane Leavy ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive Babe Ruth biography—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:The Boston Globe | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus | Newsweek | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The ProgressiveWinner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal | ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.12

  • The Bookshop

    A History of the American Bookstore

    par Evan Friss ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGoodreads Choice Award Winner in History & BiographyOne of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024"A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.45

  • Bath Massacre

    America's First School Bombing

    par Arnie Bernstein ...
    "With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights"A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 11.07

  • Henry Hudson, un navigateur maudit

    L’exploration de la côte Est des Amériques

    Collection Livre 9 - Grandes Découvertes
    Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Henry Hudson et l’exploration de la côte Est des Amériques en moins d’une heure !Au début du mois de mai 1607, Henry Hudson, jeune capitaine anglais, lève l’ancre, chargé par la compagnie de Moscovie de trouver une nouvelle voie menant à l’Extrême-Orient par le nord-est. C’est le début d’une longue série d’expéditions qui mèneront l’explorateur aux ... En savoir plus

    CHF 15.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes of the Caribbean and the Americas

    The Stories Behind the Great Storms of the North Atlantic

    par Wayne Neely ...
    With modern weather forecasting, we can monitor, track, and predict the path of hurricanes like never before. But all you have to do is look at pictures of the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina or research the massive cleanup costs of Hurricane Sandy to realize that these storms can still have devastating consequences. Wayne Neely, a meteorologist at the Department of Meteorology in Nassau, Bahamas ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.61

  • American Political History

    A Very Short Introduction

    Collection series Very Short Introductions
    The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.44

  • A History of New York in 101 Objects

    par Sam Roberts ...
    “Delightfully surprising….A portable virtual museum…an entertaining stroll through the history of one of the world’s great cities” (Kirkus Reviews), told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, almost all reproduced in luscious, full color.Inspired by A History of the World in 100 Objects, Sam Roberts of The New York Times chose fifty objects that embody the narrative of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 18.35

  • Five Points

    The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood

    par Tyler Anbinder ...
    The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was ... En savoir plus

    CHF 16.45

  • Historic Walks in San Francisco

    18 Trails Through the City's Past

    par Rand Richards ...
    Eighteen self-guided walking tours down city streets that will take you back in time, with colorful stories about the buildings along the way and the people associated with them. Easy-to-follow maps, and dozens of historic photographs.You will read tales about such well-known figures as Jack London, Mark Twain, Ulysses S. Grant, the Emperor Norton, Lenny Bruce, and Janis Joplin, all of who played ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.05

  • Tahoe Tales of Historic Times & Unforgettable People

    Of Historic Times & Unforgettable People

    par Don Lane ...
    This manuscript is a collection of short stories that were originally prepared as part of a radio program that began in the early 1980s as a summer informational and educational program for Tahoe area residents and visitors. Between 1982 and 1985, the author presented over a hundred live radio features about Tahoes history and the environment over Tahoe radio station KTHO. Lane returned to the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.71

  • Phenix City

    par John Lyles ...
    Collection series Images of America
    From settling the Southern Frontier to its reputation as "wickedest city in America," the history of Phenix City is detailed through vintage images. Phenix City, Alabama, on the western bank of the Chattahoochee River across from Columbus, Georgia, was officially incorporated as Brownville in 1883. However, its history can be traced through Girard, Knights Station, Summerville, Fort Mitchell, the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.35 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Priest, a Prostitute, and Some Other Early Texans

    The Lives Of Fourteen Lone Star State Pioneers

    par Don Blevins ...
    This unique collection of short biographies of the Lone Star State’s most colorful characters includes headliners Father Miguel Muldoon, the Irish-Spanish Catholic priest and diplomat who helped convert Protestants in order to settle Austin, and six-foot-two prostitute and hotelkeeper Sarah Bowman, who fought as bravely as a man among the Rangers and was buried with full military honors. These are ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.55

  • The Dance of Freedom

    Texas African Americans during Reconstruction

    par Barry A. Crouch ...
    Collection series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American ... En savoir plus

    CHF 23.38

  • Metairie

    Collection series Images of America
    Metairie was the first suburb of New Orleans; an outgrowth to the west by young families seeking larger lots, open air, and affordable new housing. Those suburbanites shared much in common with previous generations of New Orleanians who had migrated westward from the original town (now the French Quarter) to high land along the Mississippi River and the Metairie Ridge. When Jefferson Parish was ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.50 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Boone's Wilderness Road

    Collection Livre 6 - Historic Highways
    Volume 6 of the series "Historic Highways of America". According to Wikipedia: "Archer Butler Hulbert (26 Jan 1873 – 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert then did newspaper work in Korea in 1897 and '98: he was editor of the Korean Independent (Seoul) and edited ... En savoir plus

    CHF 0.93 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Unbroken and Unbowed

    A History of Black Protest in America

    In this compelling and informative volume, Jimmie R. Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre-colonial times through the George Floyd protests of 2020. Hawkins breaks American history into five sections, with subsections highlighting how Black identity helped to shape protest during that period. These protests include slave ship mutinies, the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 15.69