Delware: A Bicentennial History

History

Hoffecker, Carol E.

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

<p>Is an excellent and fascinating history of this mid-sized city during its important years of growth. Along with scholarly research, Hoffecker writes engaging stories about the leading people and events that transformed Wilmington into an important industrial center. Hoffecker describes how changes in social institutions, housing, and the workplace affected the lives of common people in Wilmington during this period.</p>

Wilmington, Delaware: portrait of an industrial city, 1830-1910

Published for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation by the University Press of

In 1988 the University of Delaware sponsored a conference to honor the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River. American scholars in the fields of colonial history, cultural anthropology, and geography as well as colleagues from Sweden and Finland present essays that collectively represent the best modern scholarship on topics related to this short-lived but important settlement.

New Sweden in America

Waldron, Richard

UNKNO

This biography of Williams discusses, among other things, how his revelations of a "mess in Washington" helped to elect Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Presidency in 1952. Known as the "conscience of the Senate, " Williams demonstrated that steadfast allegiance to principled integrity can produce results and earn the respect of voters and politicians alike. Illustrated.

Honest John Williams

First edition. "This book chronicles the changes that characterize the peculiar transformation of Wilmington, Delaware, from a declining manufacturing center into the corporate headquarters of American's leading chemical companies." Presentation from the author on the title page. viii, 294 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Corporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century

Temple Univ Pr

<p>Examines the history of Delaware, from its first inhabitants and the arrival of European settlers to the effect of modern times on its business and government.</p>

Delaware, the First State

Travel

United States

Middle Atlantic Pr

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