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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
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Charles Morris
In this fascinating volume, Morris profiles some of the most important figures in New York history, from the city's earliest days to the present. Through detailed biographical sketches and vivid…
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This extensively researched volume offers biographical sketches and portraits of many well-known citizens of Hunterdon and Warren Counties in New Jersey. With detailed information about all the presidents of the…
Daniela Weil
In 1654, the first group of refugee Jews, fleeing persecution, arrived in America from Brazil. In New Amsterdam, they began a legal fight for religious and civil rights that helped…
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Valerie H. McKito
Challenges the traditional perception that Loyalists were ostracized as traitors to the United States, after the American Revolution.
Joseph Meredith Toner Collection DLC,Isaac S Lyon
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Gideon Granger
Title: Address of the New-York Young Men’s Anti-slavery Society: to their fellow-citizens.
Author: New York Young Men’s Anti-slavery Society.
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography…
George E Matthews
This impressive work offers biographical sketches and portraits of over 500 of New York's most influential men. From industrialists to philanthropists, this book documents the accomplishments and contributions of the…
Published in 1898, this volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the most prominent citizens of New York in the last decade of the 19th century. Featuring biographical…
Elizabeth Gibson,Dennis Kenney
This book is a welcome study of the impact of citizen action on crime and on the fear of crime.
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Jason K. Duncan
Based on careful work with rare archival sources, this book fills a gap in the history of New York Catholicism by chronicling anti-Catholic feeling in pre-Revolutionary and early national periods.
Ivy Ledbetter Lee, N y )
Committee Of Ten Citizens of Brooklyn
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in…
Hirokazu Yoshikawa (New York University, USA)
Originally published in hardcover in 2011.
Alexander 1757-1804 Hamilton
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
John Neilson Taylor
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
Citizens' Committee on Teachers' Salarie
John Austin Stevens
Proceedings at the Mass Meeting of Loyal Citizens, on Union Square, New-York, - 15th day of July, 1862, under the auspices of the Chamber of commerce of the state of…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Lawrence S. Rothenberg (University of Rochester, New York)
Lawrence Rothenberg examines some of the most elusive aspects of interest group operations through an in-depth study of one of the largest interest groups in Washington, Common Cause.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.
Seward William Henry
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
George E Matthews & Co
A Collection Of Biographies And Portraits Of Citizens Of The Empire State Prominent In Business, Professional, Social, And Political Life During The Last Decade Of The Nineteenth Century.
Robert Clarkson Brooks,N y )
William W. Buzbee
This informative narrative of environmental, political, and legal conflict describes what really happened during the battles over the Westway highway project, providing a new understanding of how modern legal frameworks…
Henry W Bellows
The state and the nation - sacred to Christian citizens - A sermon preached in All Soul’s Church, New York is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of…
Under The Auspices Of The Chamber Of Commerce Of The State Of New York, The Union Defense Committee Of The Citizens Of New York, The Common Council Of The City…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…