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Author : James Howard Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (693 download)
Download or read book A Financial History of the City of Pittsburgh, 1816-1910 written by James Howard Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021846457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh In 1816 written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This local history book explores the city of Pittsburgh in 1816, a pivotal year in the city's development. The book details the political, social, and economic conditions of the time, and provides insights into the daily lives of Pittsburgh's residents. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation of the city's heritage and how historical events have shaped the city we know today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffry M Diefendorf
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822972778
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book City, Country, Empire written by Jeffry M Diefendorf and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the urgently expanding field of environmental history, two trends are emerging. Research has internationalized, crossing political and historical borders. And urban spaces are increasingly seen as part of, not apart from, the global environment. In this book, Jeffry Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey have gathered much of the important work pushing the field in new directions. Eleven essays by prominent and regionally diverse scholars address how human and natural forces collaborate in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires. The Cities section features essays that examine pollution and its aftermath in Pittsburgh, the Ruhr Valley (Germany), and Los Angeles. These urban areas are far apart on the globe but closely linked in their histories of how human decision making has affected the environment. Changing rural and suburban spaces are the focus of Countryside. Elizabeth Blackmar "follows the money" in order to understand why the financing of suburban mall developments makes local resistance difficult. Studies of the fractious history of the creation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon and the ongoing impact of hydraulic mining in the early California goldmining era emphasize the misuse of technology in rural spaces. Such misuse is a central idea of Empires. In "When Stalin Learned to Fish," Paul R. Josephson tells the story of Soviet fishing technology designed to "harness fish to the engine of socialism." Other essays explore the failures of Western agricultural technology in Africa and the relationship between such technology and disease in European attempts to conquer the Caribbean. In a stirring, wide-ranging consideration of the neo-European colonies (the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand), Thomas R. Dunlap observes the ongoing, unsettled interaction of lands and dreams. An afterword by Alfred W. Crosby, an eminent scholar of environmental history, closes the book with a broad and insightful synthesis of the history and future of this critical field.
Author : University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School
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Total Pages : 1426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with an Appendix Upon the Graduate Activities of the University written by University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel P. Hays
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971488
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book City At The Point written by Samuel P. Hays and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1991-03-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes the literature and assesses how that knowledge relates to our broader understanding of the processes of urbanization and urbanism. This book is especially useful for undergraduate and graduate courses on environmental politics and policy making, or as a supplement for courses on public policy making generally.
Author : Peter R. Shergold
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822976986
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Working-Class Life written by Peter R. Shergold and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the commonly held theory that American workers had a far superior standard of living than their European counterparts in the early twentieth century. Peter R. Shergold bases his study on the cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Birmingham, England, and compares statistical data on wage rates, labor hours, family income, retail prices, diet and budgets. He also presents information from medical investigators, travelers, charity workers, business organizations, diaries, speeches and a wide variety of other sources to breathe human life into his statistical data. Shergold reveals that skilled Americans did earn higher wages than the British, yet unskilled workers did not, while Americans worked longer hours, with a greater chance of injury, and had fewer social services.
Author : Joel A. Tarr
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972867
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Devastation and Renewal written by Joel A. Tarr and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every city has an environmental story, perhaps none so dramatic as Pittsburgh's. Founded in a river valley blessed with enormous resources-three strong waterways, abundant forests, rich seams of coal-the city experienced a century of exploitation and industrialization that degraded and obscured the natural environment to a horrific degree. Pittsburgh came to be known as "the Smoky City," or, as James Parton famously declared in 1866, "hell with the lid taken off."Then came the storied Renaissance in the years following World War II, when the city's public and private elites, abetted by technological advances, came together to improve the air and renew the built environment. Equally dramatic was the sweeping deindustrialization of Pittsburgh in the 1980s, when the collapse of the steel industry brought down the smokestacks, leaving vast tracks of brownfields and riverfront. Today Pittsburgh faces unprecedented opportunities to reverse the environmental degradation of its history. In Devastation and Renewal, scholars of the urban environment post questions that both complicate and enrich this story. Working from deep archival research, they ask not only what happened to Pittsburgh's environment, but why. What forces-economic, political, and cultural-were at work? In exploring the disturbing history of pollution in Pittsburgh, they consider not only the sooty skies, but also the poisoned rivers and creeks, the mined hills, and scarred land. Who profited and who paid for such "progress"? How did the environment Pittsburghers live in come to be, and how it can be managed for the future?In a provocative concluding essay, Samuel P. Hays explores Pittsburgh's "environmental culture," the attitudes and institutions that interpret a city's story and work to create change. Comparing Pittsburgh to other cities and regions, he exposes exaggerations of Pittsburgh's environmental achievement and challenges the community to make real progress for the future. A landmark contribution to the emerging field of urban environmental history, Devastation and Renewal will be important to all students of cities, of cultures, and of the natural world.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh in 1816 written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1600 pages
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Download or read book Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations, Degrees Granted, and Bibliography of Publications for the Sessions of ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph F Rishel
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972786
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Founding Families Of Pittsburgh written by Joseph F Rishel and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that Pittsburgh's elite upper class succeeded in creating the institutions needed to sustain a local aristocracy and possessed the ability to adapt its accumulated advantages to social and economic changes.
Author : Carnegie Library Pittsburgh
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ISBN 13 : 9789357914918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh in 1816; Compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of the City Charter written by Carnegie Library Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh in 1816; Compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of the City Charter, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
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Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309181313
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Regional Cooperation for Water Quality Improvement in Southwestern Pennsylvania written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Pittsburgh and surrounding area of southwestern Pennsylvania face complex water quality problems, due in large part to aging wastewater infrastructures that cannot handle sewer overflows and stormwater runoff, especially during wet weather. Other problems such as acid mine drainage are a legacy of the region's past coal mining, heavy industry, and manufacturing economy. Currently, water planning and management in southwestern Pennsylvania is highly fragmented; federal and state governments, 11 counties, hundreds of municipalities, and other entities all play roles, but with little coordination or cooperation. The report finds that a comprehensive, watershed-based approach is needed to effectively meet water quality standards throughout the region in the most cost-effective manner. The report outlines both technical and institutional alternatives to consider in the development and implementation of such an approach.
Author : American Historical Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book Pittsburgh History written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert V. Bruce
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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book 1877 written by Robert V. Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
