American Light
Author: John Wilmerding
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
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American Smoke
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0865478678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The award-winning author of Downriver shares observations from his misadventures in America, during which he obsessively followed in the footsteps of such writers as Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs to experience firsthand the foibles of landmark regions. 15,000 first printing.
American Lucifers
Author: Jeremy Zallen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2019-08-19
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1469653338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.
Sister Revolutions
Author: Susan Dunn
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780571199006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comparing the two great revolutions of the eighteenth century, the author concludes that despite their common philosophical origins, the Americans stressed individual liberty while the French emphasized public order and cohesion.
North American Lighthouses Coloring Book
Author: John Batchelor
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1995-02-23
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780486283128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Detailed drawings re-create 36 famous lighthouses of the United States and Canada, including those in Cape Hatteras, Montauk Point, Cape Cod, West Quoddy Head, Tybee Island, and other places along the shorelines of North America. Captions accompanying these accurately rendered illustrations provide valuable background information on location, height, and date of construction of each lighthouse.
Cooking Light Lighten Up America
Author: Editors of Cooking Light Magazine
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 0848744888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cooking Light Lighten Up, America! is a celebration and discovery of regional American cooking, and the permission to eat the foods you love-it's the soul of American cooking made light. This collection of America's favorite fare offers healthy versions of classics new and old, memory-making recipes from all walks of life and regions, and returns the most beloved American dishes to the table. Lighten Up, America! follows Allison Fishman Task as she embarks on a cross-country road trip in search of the country's favorite classic dishes. Allison shows the reader how to take these regional recipes and make them lighter and healthier with a few simple substitutions and smart cooking techniques. From caramel-pecan sticky buns to reuben sandwiches to fried green tomatoes, this book teaches how to turn what might have been once-in-awhile favorites into everyday classics. Highlights Include: Classic American Dishes Made Lighter: Readers will rediscover regional American cooking and eat the food they love through more than 150 delicious recipes from coast to coast. All with complete nutrition analysis. Regional Culinary Traditions: Join Allison as she tells delightful and tantalizing stories behind some of our most beloved regional dishes. Each story gives insight into regional flavor and color while celebrating iconic fare like Memphis barbecue, New Orleans gumbo, and Iowa pork tenderloin sandwiches. Insider's View of Festivals and Food Fairs: Allison also visits food fairs and festivals, so you'll get a behind- the-scenes look at some of the more unusual foods this great country has to offer such as wild boar nachos, bear meatloaf, and dandelion soup. Food Born In America: Allison will share inspiring stories about the many American entrepreneurs and home cooks who conceived and popularized recipes and ingredients. Take the Philly cheesesteak, cobb salad, and stove top stuffing-just to name a few-all crafted through the ingenuity of American food lovers.
American Sunshine
Author: Daniel Freund
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0226262839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedies for America’s new dark age. Architects, city planners, and politicians made access to sunlight central to public housing and public health. and entrepreneurs, dairymen, and tourism boosters transformed the pursuit of sunlight and its effects into a commodity. Within this historical context, Freund sheds light on important questions about the commodification of health and nature and makes an original contribution to the histories of cities, consumerism, the environment, and medicine.
The Properties of Perpetual Light
Author: Julian Aguon
Publisher: University of Guam Press
Published: 2021-03-29
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781935198369
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part memoir, part manifesto, The Properties of Perpetual Light is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience, and power--a coming-of-age story and a call for justice.
New American Light Cuisine
Author: Theriot, Jude W.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781455609277
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American Light Trucks and Utility Vehicles, 1967-1989
Author: J. “Kelly” Flory, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 1472
ISBN-13: 1476626529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The truck's role in American society changed dramatically from the 1960s through the 1980s, with the rise of off-roaders, the van craze of the 1970s and minivan revolution of the 1980s, the popularization of the SUV as family car and the diversification of the pickup truck into multiple forms and sizes. This comprehensive reference book follows the form of the author's popular volumes on American cars. For each year, it provides an industry overview and, for each manufacturer, an update on new models and other news, followed by a wealth of data: available powertrains, popular options, paint colors and more. Finally, each truck is detailed fully with specifications and measurements, prices, production figures, standard equipment and more.
