1912

Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545362689

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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1) by Lauren Tarshis Pdf

The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times bestselling series! Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck -- he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the first class storage cabin, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in this New York Times bestselling series. Readers will be transported by stories of amazing kids and how they survived!

Author : James Chace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743273558

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1912 by James Chace Pdf

Traces the events of the dramatic presidential election of 1912, citing the campaigns of four determined rivals and evaluating how the outcome has had a lasting impact on the Republican party and current-day politics. By the author of Acheson. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Author : James Chace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439188262

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1912 by James Chace Pdf

Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt’s return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates. When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a radical reformer on the Bull Moose ticket. Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson, the ex-president of Princeton, astonished everyone by seizing the Democratic nomination from the bosses who had made him New Jersey’s governor. Most revealing of the reformist spirit sweeping the land was the charismatic socialist Eugene Debs, who polled an unprecedented one million votes. Wilson’s “accidental” election had lasting impact on America and the world. The broken friendship between Taft and TR inflicted wounds on the Republican Party that have never healed, and the party passed into the hands of a conservative ascendancy that reached its fullness under Reagan and George W. Bush. Wilson’s victory imbued the Democratic Party with a progressive idealism later incarnated in FDR, Truman, and LBJ. 1912 changed America.

Author : Jim Blanchard
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553943

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Winnipeg 1912 by Jim Blanchard Pdf

At the beginning of the last century, no city on the continent was growing faster or was more aggressive than Winnipeg. No year in the city’s history epitomized this energy more that 1912, when Winnipeg was on the crest of a period of unprecedented prosperity. In just forty years, it had grown from a village on the banks of the Red River to become the third largest city in Canada. In the previous decade alone, its population had tripled to nearly 170,000 and it now dominated the economy and society of western Canada. As Canada’s most cosmopolitan and ethnically diverse centre, with most of its population under the age of forty, it was also the country’s liveliest city, full of bustle and optimism. In Winnipeg 1912 Jim Blanchard guides readers on a tour through this golden year when, as the Chicago Tribune proclaimed, “all roads lead to Winnipeg.” Beginning early New Year’s Day, as the city’s high society rang in 1912 at the Royal Alexandra Hotel, he visits the public and private side of the “Chicago of the North.” He looks into the opulent mansions of the city’s new elite and into its political backrooms, as well as into the crowded homes of Winnipeg’s immigrant North End. From the excited crowds at the summer Exhibition to the turbulent floor of the Grain Exchange, Blanchard gives us a vivid picture of daily life in this fast-paced city of new millionaires and newly arrived immigrants. Richly illustrated with more than seventy period photographs, Winnipeg 1912 captures a time and place that left a lasting impression on Canadian history and culture.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416547860

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The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

Focusing on the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, revisits the Progressive Era during which Roosevelt wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupt money brokers only to see it compromised by Taft.

Author : Owen Thetford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : UOM:39015022663184

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British Naval Aircraft Since 1912 by Owen Thetford Pdf

Author : Marshall Everett
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486310893

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The Story of the Wreck of the Titanic by Marshall Everett Pdf

An "instant" book, published soon after the sinking of the Titanic, this illustrated volume abounds in facts about the voyage and passengers as well as details of the wreck and survivors' accounts.

Author : Chris Turney
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781619021372

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1912 by Chris Turney Pdf

"The South Pole discovered" trumpeted the front page of The Daily Chronicle on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen's triumph over the tragic Robert Scott. Yet behind all the headlines there was a much bigger story. Antarctica was awash with expeditions. In 1912, five separate teams representing the old and new world were diligently embarking on scientific exploration beyond the edge of the known planet. Their discoveries not only enthralled the world, but changed our understanding of the planet forever. Tales of endurance, self–sacrifice, and technological innovation laid the foundations for modern scientific exploration, and inspired future generations. To celebrate the centenary of this groundbreaking work, 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica revisits the exploits of these different expeditions. Looking beyond the personalities and drawing on his own polar experience, Chris Turney shows how their discoveries marked the dawn of a new age in our understanding of the natural world. He makes use of original and exclusive unpublished archival material and weaves in the latest scientific findings to show how we might reawaken the public's passion for discovery and exploration

Author : John David Smith,J. Vincent Lowery
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813142739

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The Dunning School by John David Smith,J. Vincent Lowery Pdf

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857--1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction -- volumes that generally sympathized with white southerners, interpreted radical Reconstruction as a mean-spirited usurpation of federal power, and cast the Republican Party as a coalition of carpetbaggers, freedmen, scalawags, and former Unionists. Edited by the award-winning historian John David Smith and J. Vincent Lowery, The Dunning School focuses on this controversial group of historians and its scholarly output. Despite their methodological limitations and racial bias, the Dunning historians' writings prefigured the sources and questions that later historians of the Reconstruction would utilize and address. Many of their pioneering dissertations remain important to ongoing debates on the broad meaning of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the evolution of American historical scholarship. This groundbreaking collection of original essays offers a fair and critical assessment of the Dunning School that focuses on the group's purpose, the strengths and weaknesses of its constituents, and its legacy. Squaring the past with the present, this important book also explores the evolution of historical interpretations over time and illuminates the ways in which contemporary political, racial, and social questions shape historical analyses.

Author : Logan Marshall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783845712574

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The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall Pdf

Das wohl größte Unglück der modernen Schifffahrt, der Zusammenstoß der Titanic mit einem Eisberg im Nordatlantik im Jahre 1912, ist beispiellos in der Geschichte. Diese Kathastrophe, bei der weit mehr als die Hälfte der Passagiere den Tod fanden, hinterließ Fragen und Zweifel, aber auch ein Apell an Konstrukteure und Kapitäne. Denn wäre etwas weniger Größenwahn und Leichtsinn und mehr Vorsicht und Respekt vor dem Meer und seinen Tücken Antrieb für die Fahrt der Titanic gewesen, sie hätte Amerika planmäßig erreichen können. Das vorliegende Buch von Logan Marshall enthält spannende Geschichten über dieses Unglück wie auch weiterer Schiffsunglücke, welche ungemein packend und authentisch erzählt sind und somit bis heute interessantes Lesematerial darstellen. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine englischsprachige Ausgabe.

Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015059307192

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Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein Pdf

This tribute to Einstein's genius opens with a brief essay by Hanoch Gutfreund, a chronology of Einstein's life, a selection of quotes by Einstein, and, to introduce the manuscript, a detailed description of the manuscript, its contents, publication history, and provenance.

Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Graphix
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1646973739

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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic 1912 by Lauren Tarshis Pdf

A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912. Kirkus writes, ''The fast pace and intrinsically fascinating disaster story will keep readers turning the pages.'' Includes a nonfiction section with historical photos.

Author : Francis K. Mason
Publisher : Naval Inst Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1557500827

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The British Fighter Since 1912 by Francis K. Mason Pdf

This popular and highly-acclaimed series includes an abundance of photos, accurate line drawings, fascinating evaluations of aircraft design, and complete histories of aircraft manufacturers.

Author : Jonathan Truitt,Stephany Slaughter
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469672427

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Mexico in Revolution, 1912-1920 by Jonathan Truitt,Stephany Slaughter Pdf

The year is 1921, and Francisco Madero is president of Mexico. Just last year he and his top general ousted the long-standing president (some say dictator), Porfirio Diaz, who is now in exile. But the country is far from stable. A basic cultural rift between the elite and the poor portends unrest and a sequence of revolts. Students are assigned to play characters that are charged with stabilizing their country and preventing further civil war. The goal is to reform Mexico and make it a better nation for all of its inhabitants—but Mexicans and foreigners worry that without a firm hand, Mexico's governance might spiral out of control. At what cost will progress come?

Author : Alan Sharp,Glyn Stone,Professor Glyn A Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134690725

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Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century by Alan Sharp,Glyn Stone,Professor Glyn A Stone Pdf

Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century is a collection of studies on the key episodes of the difficult and often discordant Anglo-French exchange over the past century. The authors critically re-evaluate: * the role of Spain in Anglo-French relations up to 1918 * the missed opportunity of the 1920s with the failure of France and Britain to find sufficient common ground and co-operation * the short-lived Anglo-French alliance and the Second World War * the degree of Anglo-French Imperial co-operation * the Suez Crisis * British and French policies on European Integration.