age ~87
from Salem, OR
Naturally identified with the Big Apple, New York City cabdrivers hold a special place in the American folk culture writ large. Cabbies proverbially counsel, console, and confound, all the while flitting through the snarling traffic and bustling masses of the nation's largest city. Variously seen as...
Author
Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
225
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN #
080188554X
EAN Code
9780801885549
ISBN #
6
The cartmen—unskilled workers who hauled goods on one horsecarts—were perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. The forerunners of the Teamsters Union, these white-frocked laborers moved almost all of the nation’s possessions, touching the lives of virtually every American. Ne...
Author
Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
NYU Press
ISBN #
0814724612
EAN Code
9780814724613
ISBN #
4
New Jersey: A History of the Garden State presents a fresh, comprehensive overview of New Jersey’s history from the prehistoric era to the present. The findings of archaeologists, political, social, and economic historians provide a new look at how the Garden State has evolved.The state has a rich N...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
336
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN #
0813554098
EAN Code
9780813554099
ISBN #
9
A very early example of the escaped slave memoir genre and a rare account of northern slavery. The slavery narratives of freedmen were a staple in the armamentarium of American abolitionists, since the narratives' authors could testify directly on the evils and hardships of their servitude, putting ...
Author
Peter Wheeler
Binding
Paperback
Pages
279
Publisher
University Alabama Press
ISBN #
081735543X
EAN Code
9780817355432
ISBN #
7