Maury: 74 books
by Alfred Maury
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2014
L’exposition égyptienne du Champ de Mars Alfred Maury, écrivain français (1817–1892)
Ce livre numérique présente «L’exposition égyptienne du Champ de Mars», de Alfred Maury, édité en texte intégral. Une table...
by Alfred Maury
Language: French
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Des récens Progrès de la Chimie organique Alfred Maury, écrivain français (1817–1892)
Ce livre numérique présente «Des récens Progrès de la Chimie organique», de Alfred Maury, édité en texte intégral....
by Alfred Maury
Language: French
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 5, 2014
L’homme primitif Alfred Maury, écrivain français (1817–1892)
Ce livre numérique présente «L’homme primitif», de Alfred Maury, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement...
by Alfred Maury
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Du Mouvement moral des Sociétés Alfred Maury, écrivain français (1817–1892)
Ce livre numérique présente «Du Mouvement moral des Sociétés», de Alfred Maury, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières...
by Alfred Maury
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Les Dégénérescences de l’espèce humaine Alfred Maury, écrivain français (1817–1892)
Ce livre numérique présente «Les Dégénérescences de l’espèce humaine», de Alfred Maury, édité...
by Alfred Maury
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2014
La Géographie des Animaux Alfred Maury, écrivain français (1817–1892)
Ce livre numérique présente «La Géographie des Animaux», de Alfred Maury, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet...
The Power Makers
Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent...
A Call to Arms
Mobilizing America for World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war...
Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most...
Days of Defiance
Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over the next five months the United States drifted, stumbled,...
by Maury Maverick, Lynn Maverick Denzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Old Villita is reissued by Wings Press in celebration of the Tricentennial of the founding of San Antonio, Texas on May 5, 1718. It was originally published in 1939 by the City of San Antonio as part of the American Guide Series (Federal Writers Project, under the Work Projects Administration). It...
Stealing Games
How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of...
The Change Makers
From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From one of America's foremost business historians, a penetrating and engaging look at the qualities that create great entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs, even more than inventors, are essential to American business. While inventors produce ideas, entrepreneurs get things done, build the markets,...
by Maury Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood...