Perspectives of italian industry = = Immagini dell'industria italiana

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910884201403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Roma, : Banca nazionale dell'agricoltura, 1977
• Descrizione fisica: 163 p. : ill. ; 32 cm
• Locazione: DARST
• Collocazione: 12.1927
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano; Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Testo in inglese e in italiano

America's beginnings : the dramatic events that shaped a nation's character / / Tony Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953574703321
• Autore: Williams Tony <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Williamsburg, VA, : in association with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, c2010
• ISBN: 979-82-16-20289-9; 1-283-94037-X; 1-4422-0489-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.2
• Soggetti: United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: America'a Beginnings; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I. Settlement; 1. Lost Colony; 2. Jamestown; 3. Starving Time; 4. First ; Representative Legislature in Britain's New World; 5. First Africans; 6. Mayflower Compact; 7. City Upon a Hill; 8. Indian Uprising of 1622; 9. Dissents of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams; 10. Pequot War; Part II. Colonies; 11. King Philip's War; 12. Bacon's Rebellion; 13. Glorious Revolution in America; 14. Salem Witch Trials; 15. Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721; 16. Great Awakening; 17. Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod; 18. Albany Plan of Union; 19. Great Meadows20. Braddock's March; 21. Royal Proclamation of 1763; Part III. Resistance; 22. Stamp Act; 23. Townshend Acts; 24. Boston Massacre; 25. Boston Tea Party; 26. Continental Congress; 27. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death; Part IV. War; 28. Lexington and Concord; 29. Bunker Hill; 30. Fort Ticonderoga; 31. Common Sense; 32. Declaration of Rights; 33. Declaration of Independence; 34. Crossing the Delaware; 35. Saratoga; 36. French Alliance; 37. Valley Forge; 38. Guilford Courthouse; 39. Yorktown; 40. Newburgh Conspiracy; 41. Peace Treaty of 1783; 42. Washington Surrenders His CommissionPart V. Nationhood; 43. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; 44. Annapolis Convention; 45. Shays' Rebellion; 46. Constitutional Convention; 47. Ratifying Conventions; 48. The Federalist; 49. Inauguration of George Washington; 50. Bill of Rights; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 key events-some known and some forgotten-that shaped colonial and revolutionary America, from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention.