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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book America at the Wheel written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Weber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451695020
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Life Is a Wheel written by Bruce Weber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on his popular series in the New York Times chronicling his cross-country bicycle trip, bestselling author Bruce Weber shares his adventures from his solo ride across the USA. Riding a bicycle across the US is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few achieve. Bestselling author and New York Times reporter Bruce Weber made the trip, solo, over the summer and fall of 2011--at the age of fifty-seven. Expanding upon his popular series published in The New York Times, Life Is a Wheel is the witty and inspiring account of his journey, where he extols the pleasures of cycling and reflects on what happened on his adventure, in the world, in the country, and in his life. The story begins on the Oregon coast with a middle-aged man wondering what he's gotten himself into and ends in triumph on the George Washington Bridge, wondering how soon he might try it again. Part travelogue, part memoir, part paean to the bicycle as a simple and elegant mode of both mobility and self-expression--and part wry and panicky account of a fifty-seven-year-old man's attempt to stave off mortality--Life Is a Wheel is an elegant and entertaining escape for any armchair traveler"--
Author : John Samuel Ezell
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Fortune's Merry Wheel written by John Samuel Ezell and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographical essay": pages [285]-398. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [299]-323).
Author : Courtney Milne
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781556709579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Sacred Places in North America written by Courtney Milne and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1999-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the 1990 autumn equinox, Courtney Milne climbed into the bucket of a hydraulic lift and was hoisted forty feet into the air beside the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in northern Wyoming. From that perspective, it seemed to him as though the Big Horn wheel linked the distant plains with the heavens. And so, the wheel became the starting point of his photographic journey as he followed each spoke across the continent in search of sacred landscapes.
Author : M. Ann Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773555331
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Muscle on Wheels written by M. Ann Hall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majestic high-wheel bicycle, with its spider wheels and rubber tires, emerged in the mid-1870s as the standard bicycle. A common misconception is that, bound by Victorian dress and decorum, women were unable to ride it, only taking up cycling in the 1880s with the advent of the chain-driven safety bicycle. On the contrary, women had been riding and even racing some form of the bicycle since the first vélocipèdes appeared in Europe early in the nineteenth century. Challenging the understanding that bicycling was a purely masculine sport, Muscle on Wheels tells the story of women's high-wheel racing in North America in the 1880s and early 1890s, with a focus on a particular cyclist: Louise Armaindo (1857–1900). Among Canada's first women professional athletes and the first woman who was truly successful as a high-wheel racer, Armaindo began her career as a strongwoman and trapeze artist in Chicago in the 1870s before discovering high-wheel bicycle racing. Initially she competed against men, but as more women took up the sport, she raced them too. Although Armaindo is the star of Muscle on Wheels, the book is also about other women cyclists and the many men – racers, managers, trainers, agents, bookmakers, sport administrators, and editors of influential cycling magazines – who controlled the sport, especially in the United States. The story of working-class Victorian women who earned a living through their athletic talent, Muscle on Wheels showcases an exciting moment in women's and athletic history that is often forgotten or misconstrued.
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Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Commercial America written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. War Department
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Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book America's Munitions 1917-1918 written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katrina Dyonne Thompson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096118
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Ring Shout, Wheel About written by Katrina Dyonne Thompson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations, whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the enslaved. As Thompson shows, however, blacks' "backstage" use of musical performance often served quite a different purpose. Through creolization and other means, enslaved people preserved some native musical and dance traditions and invented or adopted new traditions that built community and even aided rebellion. Thompson shows how these traditions evolved into nineteenth-century minstrelsy and, ultimately, raises the question of whether today's mass media performances and depictions of African Americans are so very far removed from their troublesome roots.
Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1888729198
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Sacred Places, North America written by Brad Olsen and published by CCC Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed, along with the latest academic theories and insightful metaphysical ruminations. Detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions are also included.
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Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book American Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine J. Parkin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249534
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Women at the Wheel written by Katherine J. Parkin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women at the Wheel explores women's historical experience with automobiles. Katherine Parkin argues that in every regard, from learning to drive to repairing cars, from being a passenger to taking the wheel, women had a distinct experience with cars in American culture.
Author : John H. White
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801827477
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The American Railroad Passenger Car written by John H. White and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed since its publication as the definitive - and most opulent - book on the subject, The American Railroad Passenger Car is now made available in an unabridged two-part softcover edition.
Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307379914
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Driving Home written by Jonathan Raban and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2010 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Picador, 2010.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Native American Affairs
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Indian Religious Freedom Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Native American Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce D. Epperson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645623X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Peddling Bicycles to America written by Bruce D. Epperson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period from 1876 to the beginning of World War I. It looks particularly at the life and career of the industry's most significant personality during this era, Albert Augustus Pope. After becoming enamored with English high-wheeled bicycles during a visit to the Philadelphia World's Fair in 1876, Pope soon started paying Hartford, Connecticut's Weed Sewing Machine Company to make his own brand of high-wheeler, the "Columbia," the first to be manufactured in America in significant numbers. A decade later, Pope bought out that company, and ten years after that, Hartford's Park River was lined with five of Pope's factories. This book tells the story of the Pope Manufacturing Company's meteoric rise and fall and the growth of an industry around it.
Author : Candacy A. Taylor
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356578
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Overground Railroad written by Candacy A. Taylor and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical exploration of the Green Book offers “a fascinating [and] sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades” (The New York Times Book Review). Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. It took courage to be listed in the Green Book, and Overground Railroad celebrates the stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. Author Candacy A. Taylor shows the history of the Green Book, how we arrived at our present historical moment, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in America. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Monetary and Fiscal Policy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Restoring America's Defense Industrial Base written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Monetary and Fiscal Policy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
