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SHOUTS: BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ADDITIONAL READING


Bailey, Thomas A. The Lusitania Disaster: an episode in modern warfare and diplomacy. New York: Free Press, 1975.

Bass, Herbert J. America’s Entry into World War I: submarines, sentiment, or security. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

Barrick, Mac E. German-American Folklore. Little Rock, Arkansas: August House, 1987.

Bayor, Ronald H. ed. The New York Irish. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Bromley, George W. Atlas of the City of New York: Borough of the Bronx. G.W. Bromley, Philadelphia. 1911-1913.

Burgess, John W. The Reconciliation of Government with Liberty. New York: Scribner’s, 1915.

Comfort, Randall. History of the Bronx Borough. Northside News Press, New York, 1906.

Cook, Harry T. The Borough of the Bronx 1639-1913: its marvelous development and historical surroundings. New York: Published by the author, 1913.

Creel, George. How We Advertised America. New York: Harper, 1920.

Ellis, Edward Robb. Echoes of Distant Thunder: Life in the United States 1914-1918. New York:

Coward, McCann& Geoghegan, 1975. 

Erie, Steven P. Rainbow’s End: Irish-Americans and the dilemmas of urban machine politics, 1840-1985. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Gallus, Thomas. American Beer: Glimpses of its history and description of its manufacturing. New York: New York Brewers Association, 1909.

Geitz, Henry. German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995.

Golway, Terry. Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America’s Fight for Ireland’s Freedom. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1998.

Groce, Nancy. Musical Instrument Makers of New York: A Directory of the Eighteenth-And Nineteenth-Century Urban Craftsmen. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 1991.

Hermalyn, Gary. Landmarks of the Bronx. New York: Bronx Historical Society, 1989.

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire: 1875-1914. London: Abacus, 1994.

Homberger, Eric, ed. The Historical Atlas of New York City. New York; Henry Holt, 1914.

Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Jenkins, Stephen. Story of The Bronx: From the Purchase Made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912.  

Kee, Robert. The Laurel and the Ivy: the story of Charles Stuart Parnell and Irish Nationalism. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993.  

Kolata, Gina. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.  

Lang, Barbara. The Process of Immigration in German-American Literature from 1850 to 1900: a change in ethnic self-definition. Munich, Germany: W. Fink, 1988.  

Lewinson, Edwin R. John Purroy Mitchel, boy mayor of New York. New York: Astra Books, 1965.  

Luebke, Frederick C. Bonds of Loyalty: German-Americans and World War I. Dekalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1974.

Nadel, Stanley. Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-80. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

McNamara, John. History in Asphalt. Bronx County Historical Society, Revised edition, 1993.

North Side Board of Trade. The Great North Side or Borough of the Bronx. Knickerbocker Press,  New York, 1897.

Nolan, Janet. Ourselves Alone: women’s emigration from Ireland, 1815-1920. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

O’Grady, Joseph P. The Immigrants’ Influence on Wilson’s Peace Policies. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967.

O’Connor, Richard. The German-Americans: an informal history. Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1968,

O’Leary, Jeremiah A. The Fable of John Bull and Uncle Sam. The American Truth Society, New York, 1916.

O’Leary, Jeremiah A. My Political Trial and Experiences. Jefferson Publishing Co. New York, 1919.

Panayi, Panikos. Minorities in Wartime: National and Racial Groupings in Europe, North America and Australia during the Two World Wars. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1993.

Parke, Davis & Co. The Treatment of Rheumatic Infections. Detroit: Parke, Davis & Co, 1913.

Paul, John R.Rheumatic Fever: Studies of the Epidemiology, Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Disease During the First Three Decades. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, vol. 13(1) October 1940.

Persons, Warren. Beer and Brewing in America: an economic sturdy. New York: United States Brewers Association, 1940.

Pochmann, Henry A. German Culture in America: philosophical and literary influences. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.

Ritter, Lawrence S. The Glory of Their Times: The story of the early days of baseball told by the men who played it. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984.

Romein, Jan Marius. The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1978.

Roosevelt, Theodore. The Foes of Our Own Household. New York: George H. Doran, 1917.

Sammons, Jeffrey T. Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Schick, Sandor Evan. Neighborhood Change in the Bronx, 1905-1960. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms
International, 1988.

Schneider, Dorothee. Trade Unions and the Community: the German working class in New York City, 1870-1900. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Simpson, Colin. The Lusitania. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Skaggs, William Henry. German Conspiracies in America, from an American point of view. London: T.F. Unwin Ltd., 1915.

Smith, F. Hopkinson. A Day at Laguerre’s. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1912.

Soillane, Daniel. History of the American Pianoforte. New York: DaCapo Press, 1969.

Sullivan, Mark. Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925, Vol. v. Over Here 1914-1918. New York: Scribner’s, 1933.

Tansill, Charles, C. America Goes to War, Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1938.

Tansill, Charles C. America and the Fight for Irish Freedom, 1866-1922. New York: Devin-Adair Co, 1957.

Ultan, Lloyd. The Bronx in the Innocent Years 1890-1925.  Bronx County Historical Society, 1991.

United States Naval Institute. Boxing. Annapolis: Unites States Naval Institute, 1950.

Van Schaack, Eric. The Coming of the Hun! American Fears of a German Invasion. The Journal of American Culture, vol. 28, no. 9, September 2005. 

Vidal, Gore. Hollywood. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.   Viereck, George S. Spreading Germs of Hate, H. Liveright. 1930.  

Villard, Oswald G. Germany Embattled, an American interpretation. New York: Scribner, 1915.  

Walker, Mickey (with Joe Reichler). Mickey Walker: The Toy Bulldog and His Times. New York: Random House, 1961.  

Walsh, James J. The History of Medicine in New York, three centuries of medical progress. New York: National Americana Society, 1919.  

Walz, John. German Influence in American Education and Culture. Philadelphia: Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, 1936.

Wells, James Lee. The Bronx and Its People, a History, 1609-1927. The Lewis Historical Publishing Company. New York, 1927.

Wilson, H.B. Rheumatic Fever. New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1940

Wittke, Carl Frederick. German-Americans and the World War. Columbus: The Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, 1936.

Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.


Note: On Breweries and Brewing: the Home Brew Digest website has all one needs to know about the essence of beer and the technicalities of the brewing process.
http://hbd.org/brewery/index.html

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