Results for: Progressive Era (US)
Dictionary of Races or Reoples. Seante, 61st Congress, 3rd session. Document no. 662.
Dillingham, William P chairman of the Immigration Commission.
Washington DC: The Immigration Commission, 1910.
Octavo in library binding with covers from original pamphlet pasted on front and back boards. Ex-libray with al marks and stampsp associated with that condition. Last endpaper mostly torn out, and rear pocket roughtly removed. Bookplate of library and metal security strips present. Pages slightly browned, more so at front and back. Title page has weat to edges and 2 small tears at top and bottom, ast page has a taped tear. Next to last endpaper has 2 untaped tears. 150 p. An alphbetica listing of people with US-related immigration comments and statistics sprinkled throughout. An interesting window into governmental views on types of peoples coming to the United States in the heyday of immigration.
Price: $30.00
Lewis Hine : Photographs of Child Labor in the New South.
Hine, Lewis. Edited by John R. Kemp.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear to edges with some small tears and some scuffing to covers. Dj's back cover is especially scuffed and worn. 107 pages with illustrations and notes. A collection of 80 photographs by the noted photographer and Progressive crusader Lewis Hine on the evils of child labor in the South.
Price: $85.00
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.
Morris, Edmund.
New York, NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979.
Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. No statement of printing on copyright page. Dust jacket has $15.95 on flap. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Edges & corners have slight wear, with slight bumping to lower corners. Foredge has 2 brown small spots, one darker than the other. Dj has some browning at top. Generic bookplate of a former owner on pastedown. A note in pen at rear pastedown. 886 pages with illustrations, bibiography, endnotes, and index. An excellent work on the early years of Theodore Roosevelt from his asthmatic youth to his days as a Rough Rider to his acession to the presidency with the assassination of McKinley (1858-1901).
Price: $65.00
The Just Polity : Populism, Law, and Human Welfare.
Pollack, Norman.
Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and slight rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has light wearand rubbing to edges with slight scuffing to covers. Minor foxing and small stainmark on upper edges of pages. Some pencil underlining and a small amount of pink highlighting in text. 376 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of Populism and its reaction to the "American political economy" (front inner flap of dj).
Price: $18.00
The Great Departure : The United States and World War I, 1914 - 1920.
Smith, Daniel M.
New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1965.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with a few nicks and minor tears and some light scuffing to covers. 221 pages with maps, footnotes, list for further reading, and index. A study of American diplomacy leading to and during World War I.
Price: $20.00
