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  • Children of the American Jewish Ghetto
    Chaim M. Rosenberg
    Between 1881 and 1914, more than two million Jews came to America. Most were poor, from the stultifying shtetls of the Pale of Settlements of the Russian Empire, steeped in Jewish tradition and religion, and Yiddish-speaking. In New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago they formed overcrowded Jewish ghettoes, living in cramped walk-up apartments and finding low-pay work in...
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    58,56 €

  • John Lowell Jr. and His Institute
    Chaim M. Rosenberg
    This book examines the life and legacy of John Lowell Jr (1799–1836) through the establishment of the Lowell Institute, still active in Boston, which offers free education. ...
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    156,56 €

  • The International Harvester Company
    Chaim M. Rosenberg
    Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced ...
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    73,27 €

  • The Loyalist Conscience
    Chaim M. Rosenberg
    Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies of the people. By the ...
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    73,18 €

  • Losing America, Conquering India
    Chaim M. Rosenberg
    On October 19, 1781, British general Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War and conceding the independence of the United States of America. Britain soon overcame the humiliation of defeat by expanding its empire elsewhere. Five years after Yorktown, Cornwallis was installed as governor and commander of the army in I...
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    95,18 €

  • Yankee Colonies across America
    Chaim M Rosenberg / Chaim M. Rosenberg / Chaim MRosenberg
    This book describes how after a century and a half in New England, the Yankees—direct descendants of the Puritans who arrived between 1620 and 1640—established colonies across the western frontier and brought with them the values and institutions that make up today’s America. ...
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    157,75 €

  • Child Labor in America
    Chaim M. Rosenberg
    At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppress...
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    58,58 €

  • Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817
    Chaim M. Rosenberg / Chaim MRosenberg
    After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell, born in Massachusetts in 1775, was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf and the shops and warehouses close to the harbor. His work was instrumental in establishing domestic industry for the United Stat...
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    76,69 €