Anbieter: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. crisp clean w/light shelfwear/edgewear - may have remainder mark Standard-sized. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 190083801X-03
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Anbieter: BOOK'EM, LLC, Port Orchard, WA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Pale yellow pictorial jacket , boards and pages pristine and binding firm, price not clipped, "New perspectives in American History". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9942875
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Anbieter: Bingo Used Books, Vancouver, WA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. hardback in fine condition with fine dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 129296
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Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st. 320 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: PART I: SPAIN'S COMPRESSION STRUCTURE; 1. The Spanish Initiative; 2. Preparation for Empire: Early Construction Work on the Peninsula; The Medieval Builders; 3. Building the Castilian Compression Structure; Strengthening the Structure; New Institutional Tie-Beams; Final Testing; 4. Laying Out the First Site-Lines in the New World; Initial Reconnaissance: Spain's Discovery of the West Atlantic and the Caribbean, 1492; 1519; 5. Design Enlargement; The Need for Increased Compression; The Implications of "Scaling Up"; 6. Extending the Ground-Plan of Empire; Continental Expansion: The Land and the Rivers, 1519; 1543; The Problems of Coordinating the Ground-Plan; 7. Spain Crosses the Pacific: Delimiting the Western Perimeter of Empire; The Insertion of a New Tie-Beam; 8. Oceans Apart: Spain's Search for Certainty in the New World; Weight and Mass; Prestressing; Beams and Cantilevers; Joints; Resilience and Fracture; Spain's "Reduced Risk" Construction Policies: Administration, Church, Town, Immigration, Trade, Overland Transport; Its enduring perception as "interoceanic" travel; 9. The Survival of Empire; New Survey Work and New Construction; PART II: THE UNITED STATES' TENSION STRUCTURE; 10. The English Initiative; Laying Out the First Site-Lines and Starting Construction; 11. The Failure of the First Tension Structure; 12. A Newly Designed Tension Structure: The Invention of Federalism; Utility; Economy; Expansion; 13. Spain's Influence on the Early U.S. Perimeter Ground-Plan: Part I; The Mississippi "Coast"; 14. Spain's Influence on the Early U.S. Perimeter Ground-Plan: Part II; The Development of Transoceanic Empire; New England Enters the Pacific; 15. The First Phase of Land Empire; Spanning the Interior: The Problems of Diverging Styles of Construction, 1800-1860; New Bridging and Trussing Skills Strengthen the North and West; Pseudo-Tension and Greater Compression Weaken the Deep South; Echoes of Imperial Spain; 16. The Extension of Land Empire in the Trans-Mississippi West; Structural Engineering After the Civil War; Strengthening the Foundations, Supports, Spans and Surfaces; The Structural Significance of the Work "Transcontinental"; 17. After word and Conclusion; Design and Construction in the New World; Contrasts in Interpretation: Responses to Risk; Contrast on the Peripheries of Empire; Cross-bracing; Maintaining and Strengthening the United States' Tension Structure: Structural Analysis; Tension Structure: Structural Analysis; Critical Load; Americanization; The Language Component. Size: 8vo. Collectible. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 018166
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Anbieter: Winghale Books, South Kelsey, LINCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 320 pages. Very clean hardback with a dust jacket. (The Master Builders: Structures of Empire in the New World - New perspectives on American history series). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 508005
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Anbieter: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. Hbk 320pp. illust. maps an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj as new. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AMH832
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