Search Results - "Preluders"

American empire Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization / by Smith, Neil

“…Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The political trial of Benjamin Franklin a prelude to the American Revolution / by Penegar, Kenneth Lawing

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Lincoln and the election of 1860 by Green, Michael S.

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to a turning point -- Tasting a candidacy -- Everybody's second choice -- From candidate to leader -- The making of the president, 1860.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Fine & dandy the life and work of Kay Swift / by Ohl, Vicki, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude -- Professional and personal choices -- Highbrow/lowbrow in New York City -- Fine and dandy -- Stagestruck : the ballet to Radio City -- Gershwin obsession -- New frontiers -- She'll have Manhattan -- Challenges -- The show won't fold in Philadelphia -- Keep on keepin' on -- Finale.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Spying in America espionage from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the Cold War / by Sulick, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…The atomic bomb spies : prelude to the cold war.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Atlanta and environs a chronicle of its people and events. Volume I / by Garrett, Franklin M. (Franklin Miller), 1906-

Table of Contents: “…section 1. A prelude to the coming of the white man -- section 2. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Jean-Henry D'Anglebert and the Seventeenth-Century Clavecin School / by Jerold, Beverly, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…-Lambert and Rousseau -- Transcriptions, arrangements, and variations -- The organ works -- Classical suite order in France -- The unmeasured preludes -- The keyboard dances -- Appendix 1 : sources and editions -- Appendix 2 : newly discovered pieces by D'Anglebert -- Appendix 3 : transcriptions by D'Anglebert.…”
Full text available:

John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court circuit riding in the old Southwest / by Brown, Steven Preston

Table of Contents: “…The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley -- Logans, law, and political futility -- Alabama fever and Georgia faction -- The politics of political change -- Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington -- The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842 -- Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852 -- The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Damming Grand Canyon the 1923 USGS Colorado River expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Damming Grand Canyon The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.…”
Full text available:

Damming Grand Canyon : The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.…”
Full text available:

The new Black politician Cory Booker, Newark, and post-racial America / by Gillespie, Andra

Table of Contents: “…The Clash of Two Black Americas -- Black Political Entrepreneurship, 21st Century Style : The Theory of Elite Displacement -- Prelude : The Rise of Cory Booker -- Losing : The 2002 Mayoral Election -- pt. 2. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Red cosmos K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry / by Andrews, James T., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude before Tsiolkovskii: Russian rocketry from Peter the Great to the nineteenth century -- Introduction envisioning the cosmos: K. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

I'll be here in the morning the songwriting legacy of Townes Van Zandt / by Atkinson, Brian T.

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Vince Bell -- Guy Clark -- Ray Wylie Hubbard -- Peter Rowan -- Rodney Crowell -- Kris Kristofferson -- Verse: Cory Chisel -- Billy Joe Shaver -- Chip Taylor -- Tom Russell -- Graham Leader and Heartworn Highways -- Steve Young -- Verse: Jay Farrar -- Ramblin' Jack Elliott -- David Olney -- Todd Snider -- Shawn Camp -- Chorus: Ben Nichols -- James McMurtry -- Lucinda Williams -- Lyle Lovett -- John Gorka -- Bridge: Bianca Deleon -- Michael Timmins -- Kelly Joe Phelps -- Steve Turner -- David Broza -- Michael Weston King -- Verse: Jewel -- Dave Alvin -- Josh Ritter -- Scott Avett -- Jim James -- Adam Duritz -- Kasey Chambers -- Chorus: Darden Smith -- Kevin Russell -- Terri Hendrix -- Butch Hancock -- Jack Ingram -- Coda: Grace Potter.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Mrs. Dred Scott a life on slavery's frontier / by VanderVelde, Lea

Table of Contents: “…Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Princess Noire the tumultuous reign of Nina Simone / by Cohodas, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…: September 1947-May 1950 -- Prelude to a fugue : June 1950-May 1954 -- The arrival of Nina Simone : June 1954-June 1956 -- Little girl blue : July 1956-December 1958 -- A fast rising star : 1959 -- Simone-ized : 1960 -- You can't let them humiliate you : January 1961-December 13, 1961 -- Respect : December 14, 1961-December 1962 -- Mississippi goddam : 1963 -- Don't let me be misunderstood : 1964 -- My skin is black : 1965 -- Images : 1966 -- My only groove is moods : 1967 -- Black gold : 1968 -- To be young, gifted and black : 1969 -- I have become more militant : 1970 -- Definite vibrations of pride : 1971 -- This ain't no Geraldine up here : 1972 -- Where my soul has gone : 1973-1976 -- I am not of this planet : 1977-1978 -- Loving me is not enough : 1979-1981 -- Fodder on her wings : 1982-1988 -- Nina's back-- again : 1989-1992 -- A single woman : 1993-1999 -- The final curtain : 2000-2003.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Catalogue raisonné as memoir a composer's life / by Argento, Dominick

Table of Contents: “…-- Tria Carmina Paschalia -- Postcard from Morocco -- A ring of time -- Jonah and the whale -- To be sung upon the water -- A water bird talk -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf -- The voyage of Edgar Allan Poe -- In praise of music -- Miss Havisham's fire -- A thanksgiving to God, for his house -- Let all the world in every corner sing -- Miss Havisham's wedding night -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Fire variations -- I hate and I love (Odi et Amo) -- The Andrée exposition -- Prelude for Easter dawning -- Casa Guidi -- Casonova's homecoming -- Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe -- Capriccio for clarinet and orchestra -- Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi) -- The aspern papers -- Easter day -- The angel Israfil -- A Toccata of Galuppi's -- Everyone sang -- The dream of Valentino -- To God "in memoriam M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Historical Anthology of Music by Women /

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- "Allegro," from Trio for violin, cello, and piano (1921) -- Germaine Tailleferre / by Leonie Rosentiel -- "Modere sans lenteur," from Sonata in C-sharp minor for violin and piano (1923) -- Ruth Crawford Seeger / by Judith Tick -- Prelude No. 2, for piano (1924) -- "Rat Riddles," from Three Songs for Contralto, Oboe, Percussion, and Orchestral Ostinati (1930) -- "Andante" and "Allegro possibile," from String Quartet (1931) -- Miriam Gideon / by Barbara A. …”
Full text available:

Berlioz in Time : From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown / by Bloom, Peter

Full text available: