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Canaries and Cage-Birds - The Food, Care, Breeding, Diseases and Treatment of All House Birds ... by George Henry Holden
Category: Animals & Nature
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, l ...Show more
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War by George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson (Princeton University)
Category: History
From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom," a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to men ...Show more
Journey to Horseshoe Bend by Theodor George Henry Strehlow
Category: Biography
Journey to Horseshoe Bend was first published in 1969 and has been out of print for almost forty years. An Australian literary classic, it was written by TGH (Ted) Strehlow, author of the monumental Songs of Central Australia. It describes the final days of his father, Pastor Carl Strehlow, head of the ...Show more
PROGRESS & POVERTY by GEORGE HENRY
Category: Business | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century Ser.
In Progress and Poverty, economist Henry George scrutinizes the connection between population growth and distribution of wealth in the economy of the late nineteenth century.The initial portions of the book are occupied with refuting the demographic theories of Thomas Malthus, who asserted that the vast ...Show more
Progress and Poverty by Henry George
Category: Politics
First published in 1879, "Progress and Poverty" is the ground-breaking treatise on the relationship between industrialization and poverty by Henry George, the American social theorist and economist. A huge commercial success when it was published and one of the best-selling books in America in the late ...Show more
Progress and Poverty - An Inquiry into the Cause of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: the Remedy by Henry George
Category: History
Born in 1839, Henry George learned about poverty early in life, first as a boy-sailor and afterwards by working as a type-setter with a wife and children to support. A talented writer, he gradually rose to become managing editor of the San Francisco Times, and later set up his own crusading journal, the ...Show more
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