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  • Ditch of Dreams

    The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida's Future

    by Steven Noll, David Tegeder ...
    Series series The Florida History and Culture Series
    For centuries, men dreamed of cutting a canal across the Florida peninsula. Intended to reduce shipping times, it was championed in the early twentieth century as a way to make the mostly rural state a center of national commerce and trade.Rejected by the Army Corps of Engineers as "not worthy," the project received continued support from Florida legislators. Federal funding was eventually ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • The Appalachian Trail

    A Biography

    by Philip D'Anieri ...
    The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century.The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it, and captured national attention by hiking it ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crabgrass Frontier

    The Suburbanization of the United States

    by Kenneth T. Jackson ...
    This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The History of the USA Year by Year

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Year by Year
    Discover the extraordinary story of the United States of America – from its fight for independence to its 250th anniversary.This captivating and richly illustrated book takes you on a year-by-year journey through US history, starting with the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the hard-fought battles of the Revolutionary War.Explore the crafting of the US Constitution, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lies of the Land

    Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn't

    by Steven Conn ...
    A "piercing, unsentimental" history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis ( The New Yorker).It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Downtown

    Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950

    by Robert M. Fogelson ...
    Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: "Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience." — BooklistWritten by one of this country's foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown—and the way Americans thought about downtown—changed over time. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chicago

    A Biography

    by Dominic A. Pacyga ...
    Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a "City on the Make." Carl Sandburg dubbed it the "City of Big Shoulders." Upton Sinclair christened it "The Jungle," while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it "the Second City."At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    by Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A World History of Rubber

    Empire, Industry, and the Everyday

    by Stephen L. Harp ...
    A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the fascinating story of one commodity.Divides the coverage into themes of race, migration, and labor; gender on plantations and in factories; demand and everyday consumption; World Wars and nationalism; ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Acts of God

    The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    As the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain began to pour into New Orleans, people began asking the big question--could any of this have been avoided? How much of the damage from Hurricane Katrina was bad luck, and how much was poor city planning? Steinberg's Acts of God is a provocative history of natural disasters in the United States. This revised edition features a new ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Divided Highways

    Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life

    by Tom Lewis ...
    "Lewis describes in a convincing, lively, and well-documented narrative the evolution of America’s roadway system from one of the world’s worst road networks to its best."—John Pucher, Journal of the American Planning AssociationIn Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Empire of Rubber

    Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

    by Gregg Mitman ...
    An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook