Great Cities of the United States - Historical Descriptive Commercial Industrial

Southworth Gertrude Van Duyn, Kramer Stephen Elliott

Synopsis

Just as the history of a country is largely the history of its great men, so the geography of a country is largely the story of its great cities.
How much more easily history is grasped and remembered when grouped around attractive biographies. With great cities as the centers of geography-study, what is generally considered a dry, matter-of-fact subject can be made to attract, to inspire, and to fix the things which should be remembered.
This book, “Great Cities of the United States,” includes the ten largest cities of this country, together with San Francisco, New Orleans, and Washington.

Disponible depuis: 11/07/2022.

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