Author: Kevin O'ConnorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875808079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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House of Hemp and Butter
Author: Kevin O'ConnorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875808079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The House of Hemp and Butter
Author: Kevin C. O'ConnorPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501747703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensable port. Because the city was situated in what was initially remote and inhospitable territory, surrounded by pagans and coveted by regional powers like Poland, Sweden, and Muscovy, it was also a fortress encased by a wall. The House of Hemp and Butter begins in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands. It ends in 1710 with an account of the greatest war Livonia had ever seen, one that was accompanied by mass starvation, a terrible epidemic, and a flood of nearly Biblical proportions that devastated the city and left its survivors in misery. Readers will learn about Riga's people—merchants and clerics, craftsmen and builders, porters and day laborers—about its structures and spaces, its internal conflicts and its unrelenting struggle to maintain its independence against outside threats. The House of Hemp and Butter is an indispensable guide to a quintessentially European city located in one of the continent's more remote corners.
Crossing Broadway
Author: Robert W. SnyderPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.
Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Public Property and Private Power
Author: Hendrik HartogPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501732471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Brief History of Tallinn
Author: Raimo PullatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Estonia
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Appendix to the Journal of the House of the Representatives
Author: New Zealand. Legislature. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Tallinn Through the Ages
Author: Raimo PullatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tallinn (Estonia)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description