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Author : Robert Weible
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Continuing Revolution written by Robert Weible and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Cowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783849651503
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)
Download or read book A History of Lowell, Massachusetts written by Charles Cowley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cathy Stanton
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558495470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Lowell Experiment written by Cathy Stanton and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial development. One of the first cities in the United States to experience the ravages of deindustrialization, it was also among the first places in the world to turn to its own industrial and ethnic history as a tool for reinventing itself in the emerging postindustrial economy. The Lowell Experiment explores how history and culture have been used to remake Lowell and how historians have played a crucial yet ambiguous role in that process. The book focuses on Lowell National Historical Park, the flagship project of Lowell's new cultural economy. When it was created in 1978, the park broke new ground with its sweeping reinterpretations of labor, immigrant, and women's history. It served as a test site for the ideas of practitioners in the new field of public history--a field that links the work of professionally trained historians with many different kinds of projects in the public realm. The Lowell Experiment takes an anthropological approach to public history in Lowell, showing it as a complex cultural performance shaped by local memory, the imperatives of economic redevelopment, and tourist rituals--all serving to locate the park's audiences and workers more securely within a changing and uncertain new economy characterized by growing inequalities and new exclusions. The paradoxical dual role of Lowell's public historians as both interpreters of and contributors to that new economy raises important questions about the challenges and limitations facing academically trained scholars in contemporary American culture. As a long-standing and well-known example of culture-led re-development, Lowell offers an outstanding site for exploring questions of concern to those in the fields of public and urban history, urban planning, and tourism studies.
Author : Arthur Louis Eno
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Cotton was King written by Arthur Louis Eno and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick William Coburn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Lowell and Its People written by Frederick William Coburn and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780912627465
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Lowell written by Thomas Dublin and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of America's first large-scale planned industrial community, Lowell, Massachusetts. Illustrations include paintings, maps, drawings, and black and white and color photographs.
Author : Nina Sankovitch
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466878118
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Lowells of Massachusetts written by Nina Sankovitch and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time, Nina Sankovitch tells the story of this fascinating and powerful dynasty in The Lowells of Massachusetts. Though not without scoundrels and certainly no strangers to controversy , the family boasted some of the most astonishing individuals in America’s history: Percival Lowle, the patriarch who arrived in America in the seventeenth to plant the roots of the family tree; Reverend John Lowell, the preacher; Judge John Lowell, a member of the Continental Congress; Francis Cabot Lowell, manufacturer and, some say, founder of the Industrial Revolution in the US; James Russell Lowell, American Romantic poet; Lawrence Lowell, one of Harvard’s longest-serving and most controversial presidents; and Amy Lowell, the twentieth century poet who lived openly in a Boston Marriage with the actress Ada Dwyer Russell. The Lowells realized the promise of America as the land of opportunity by uniting Puritan values of hard work, community service, and individual responsibility with a deep-seated optimism that became a well-known family trait. Long before the Kennedys put their stamp on Massachusetts, the Lowells claimed the bedrock.
Author : Charles Cowley
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Lowell written by Charles Cowley and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1868 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowell was founded by the ‘Merrimac Manufacturing Company’ in 1822, and named after Francis C. Lowell. The village grew very rapidly from the first. In 1820 it was incorporated as a town and ten years later was chartered as a city. This book tells the story of this very important textile center from the beginning until the 1870s.
Author : C. S. Malerich
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250756553
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Factory Witches of Lowell written by C. S. Malerich and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. S. Malerich's The Factory Witches of Lowell is a riveting historical fantasy about witches going on strike in the historical mill-town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Faced with abominable working conditions, unsympathetic owners, and hard-hearted managers, the mill girls of Lowell have had enough. They're going on strike, and they have a secret weapon on their side: a little witchcraft to ensure that no one leaves the picket line. For the young women of Lowell, Massachusetts, freedom means fair wages for fair work, decent room and board, and a chance to escape the cotton mills before lint stops up their lungs. When the Boston owners decide to raise the workers’ rent, the girls go on strike. Their ringleader is Judith Whittier, a newcomer to Lowell but not to class warfare. Judith has already seen one strike fold and she doesn’t intend to see it again. Fortunately Hannah, her best friend in the boardinghouse—and maybe first love?—has a gift for the dying art of witchcraft. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Mary H. Blewett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Generation written by Mary H. Blewett and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.
Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231041676
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Women at Work written by Thomas Dublin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social origins study about the employment of women in the mills(1826-1860) enabled women to enjoy social and independence unknown to their mothers' generation.
Author : Cathy Stanton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Lowell Experiment written by Cathy Stanton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied and emulated as a model for capitalist industrial development. One of the first cities in the United States to experience the ravages of deindustrialization, it was also among the first places in the world to turn to its own industrial and ethnic history as a tool for reinventing itself in the emerging postindustrial economy. The Lowell Experiment explores how history and culture have been used to remake Lowell and how historians have played a crucial, yet ambiguous role in that process. The book focuses on Lowell National Historical Park, the flagship project of Lowell's new cultural economy. When it was created in 1978, the park broke new ground with its sweeping reinterpretations of labor, immigrant, and women's history.
Author : Richard P. Howe Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146710048X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Legendary Locals of Lowell written by Richard P. Howe Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nathan Appleton and his colleagues built their first textile mill on the banks of the Merrimack River in 1822, they were pursuing the vision of their departed mentor, Francis Cabot Lowell. The complex system of machinery, labor, management, and capital that resulted made the city that they named Lowell the centerpiece of America's Industrial Revolution. Changes in technology and commerce made the golden age of Lowell's mills short lived. Despite the success of businesses such as the patent medicine company of James C. Ayer, jobs remained scarce for decades. Hard times created strong leaders--people like Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, who sponsored the G.I. Bill, and writer Jack Kerouac, who added a new voice to the country's literary mix. More recently, Paul Tsongas inspired a new generation to transform Lowell into one of the most exciting mid-sized cities in post-industrial America and a world model of urban revitalization. Legendary Locals of Lowell tells the city's story through pictures of its people.
Author : Patrick M. Malone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Waterpower in Lowell written by Patrick M. Malone and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2010 Peter Neaverson Award, Association for Industrial Archaeology Patrick M. Malone demonstrates how innovative engineering helped make Lowell, Massachusetts, a potent symbol of American industrial prowess in the 19th century. Waterpower spurred the industrialization of the early United States and was the principal power for textile manufacturing until well after the Civil War. Industrial cities therefore grew alongside many of America’s major waterways. Ideally located at Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River, Lowell was one such city—a rural village rapidly transformed into a booming center for textile production and machine building. Malone explains how engineers created a complex canal and lock system in Lowell which harnessed the river and powered mills throughout the city. James B. Francis, arguably the finest engineer in 19th-century America, played a key role in the history of Lowell’s urban industrial development. An English immigrant who came to work for Lowell’s Proprietors of Locks and Canals as a young man, Francis rose to become both the company’s chief engineer and its managing executive. Linking Francis’s life and career with the larger story of waterpower in Lowell, Malone offers the only complete history of the design, construction, and operation of the Lowell canal system. Waterpower in Lowell informs broader understanding of urban industrial development, American scientific engineering, and the environmental impacts of technology. Its clear and instructional discussions of hydraulic technology and engineering principles make it a useful resource for a range of courses, including the history of technology, urban history, and American business history.
Author : Lowell Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439632316
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Lowell written by Lowell Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its birth in 1826, Lowell has thrived, declined, and been resurrected as a mill city. Today, it is celebrated for its rich history. These postcards from the 1890s to the 1940s display the energy of this industrial city and its native and immigrant population as it grew, built, worked, and played. Vintage cards capture both familiar mills along the Merrimack River and vanished businesses. Coupled with compelling narrative, they tell stories of a horse-drawn fire engine, textile mill workers, grand civic buildings, floods, and even the aftermath of an explosion.
Author : Martha K. Norkunas
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Monuments and Memory written by Martha K. Norkunas and published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her experience of working with the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, Norkunas examines issues of memory and history through work with public momuments and publically funded art. Lowell, Massachusetts, was America's first factory town.
Author : Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Living on the Boott written by Stephen A. Mrozowski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining documentary evidence, oral and architectural history, and environmental and material culture studies, they trace the deterioration of living conditions for mill workers and their families as owners began substituting native-born employees with immigrant laborers.
