LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william j phalen

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  • The First War of United States
    William J. Phalen / William JPhalen
    Friends sometimes have problems with one another, the reasons are myriad, because after all, they are human beings and therefore subject to all of humanities foibles, and since that is the case, if two people can have a disagreement, so can two nations. This book relates the situation between two of these countries, the United States and France.Twenty years before these problem...
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    17,31 €

  • Coney Island
    William J. Phalen
    Before the Civil War, Coney Island boasted a beach, a dozen small hotels with ramshackle bathhouses, some chowder stands and a few saloons. After the war, it was taken over by powerful individuals who made its 0.7 square miles a domain of the wealthy. By 1905, with the population of New York City at four million, the city’s amusement park builders designed an entertainment w...
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    42,93 €

  • How the Telegraph Changed the World
    William J. Phalen
    Invented in the 1830’s, the telegraph soon became indispensable. By 1851 there were more than 50 companies providing telegraphic service in the United States alone. The telegraph played a pivotal role in warfare beginning with the American Civil War, featured prominently in the creation of the first large American corporation, Western Union, and made possible long distance c...
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    42,88 €

  • The Consequences of Cotton in Antebellum America
    William J. Phalen
    In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that 'without cotton, you have no modern industry.' Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brought wealth, power and prosperity to both America and Europe. Giant industries in the northern U.S., extensive shipping networks up and down the Atlantic Coast and to Europe, new inventions and revised applications of old machines-...
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    42,92 €

  • American Evangelical Protestantism and European Immigrants, 1800-1924
    William J. Phalen / William J. Phalen
    Few topics are as pertinent to the American political scene as immigration. This timely book examines the attitude of American Evangelical Protestants toward European immigration into the United States before the Immigration Act of 1924. Of particular interest are the effects, as seen by evangelicals, that immigration had in the cities, in education, in politics, and in the ...
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    57,31 €