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Bowens Picture Of Boston Or The Citizens And Strangers Guide
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Book Synopsis Bowen's Picture of Boston, or the Citizen's and stranger's guide ... Embellished with engravings by : Abel BOWEN
Download or read book Bowen's Picture of Boston, or the Citizen's and stranger's guide ... Embellished with engravings written by Abel BOWEN and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bowen's Picture of Boston, Or The Citizen's and Stranger's Guide to the Metropolis of Massachusetts, and Its Environs ... by : Abel Bowen
Download or read book Bowen's Picture of Boston, Or The Citizen's and Stranger's Guide to the Metropolis of Massachusetts, and Its Environs ... written by Abel Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bowen's Picture of Boston by : Abel Bowen
Download or read book Bowen's Picture of Boston written by Abel Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis City of Second Sight by : Justin T. Clark
Download or read book City of Second Sight written by Justin T. Clark and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades before the U.S. Civil War, the city of Boston evolved from a dilapidated, haphazardly planned, and architecturally stagnant provincial town into a booming and visually impressive metropolis. In an effort to remake Boston into the "Athens of America," neighborhoods were leveled, streets straightened, and an ambitious set of architectural ordinances enacted. However, even as residents reveled in a vibrant new landscape of landmark buildings, art galleries, parks, and bustling streets, the social and sensory upheaval of city life also gave rise to a widespread fascination with the unseen. Focusing his analysis between 1820 and 1860, Justin T. Clark traces how the effort to impose moral and social order on the city also inspired many—from Transcendentalists to clairvoyants and amateur artists—to seek out more ethereal visions of the infinite and ideal beyond the gilded paintings and glimmering storefronts. By elucidating the reciprocal influence of two of the most important developments in nineteenth-century American culture—the spectacular city and visionary culture—Clark demonstrates how the nineteenth-century city is not only the birthplace of modern spectacle but also a battleground for the freedom and autonomy of the spectator.
Book Synopsis Historic Real Estate by : Whitney Martinko
Download or read book Historic Real Estate written by Whitney Martinko and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. From Indigenous mounds in the Ohio Valley to Independence Hall in Philadelphia; from Benjamin Franklin's childhood home in Boston to St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina; from Dutch colonial manors of the Hudson Valley to Henry Clay's Kentucky estate, early advocates of preservation strove not only to place boundaries on competitive real estate markets but also to determine what should not be for sale, how consumers should behave, and how certain types of labor should be valued. Before historic preservation existed as we know it today, many Americans articulated eclectic and sometimes contradictory definitions of architectural preservation to work out practical strategies for defining the relationship between public good and private profit. In arguing for the preservation of houses of worship and Indigenous earthworks, for example, some invoked the "public interest" of their stewards to strengthen corporate control of these collective spaces. Meanwhile, businessmen and political partisans adopted preservation of commercial sites to create opportunities for, and limits on, individual profit in a growing marketplace of goods. And owners of old houses and ancestral estates developed methods of preservation to reconcile competing demands for the seclusion of, and access to, American homes to shape the ways that capitalism affected family economies. In these ways, individuals harnessed preservation to garner political, economic, and social profit from the performance of public service. Ultimately, Martinko argues, by portraying the problems of the real estate market as social rather than economic, advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to make it moral.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time: Bedinger to Brownell by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time: Bedinger to Brownell written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Exchange Artist by : Jane Kamensky
Download or read book The Exchange Artist written by Jane Kamensky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KAMENSKY/EXCHANGE ARTIST
Book Synopsis A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Americana by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Books relating to America by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book Dictionary of Books relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Book Synopsis A Guide to Massachusetts Local History by : Charles Allcott Flagg
Download or read book A Guide to Massachusetts Local History written by Charles Allcott Flagg and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Library of H. Peirce of Philadelphia ... by : Harold Peirce
Download or read book The Library of H. Peirce of Philadelphia ... written by Harold Peirce and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Private Library of Harold Peirce of Philadelphia by : Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)
Download or read book Private Library of Harold Peirce of Philadelphia written by Stan. V. Henkels (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eden on the Charles by : Michael Rawson
Download or read book Eden on the Charles written by Michael Rawson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships—social, cultural, political, economic, and legal—were established during America’s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America’s first cities. Eden on the Charles explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” to the process of urbanization—and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston’s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city’s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston’s history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that—for better or worse—have defined urban America to this day.
Book Synopsis Remaking American Communities by : David C. Soule
Download or read book Remaking American Communities written by David C. Soule and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. Comprehensive enough for high school students and also appropriate for college undergraduates, Remaking American Communities delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by turning to some of America's top thinkers on the problem, including Robert Yaro, president of the Regional Plan Association. Other cutting-edge essays include a foreword about the emergence of sprawl by nationally syndicated columnist Neal Peirce, views about race and class by former mayor of Albuquerque David Rusk, and a discussion of transportation dynamics by Curtis Johnson, president of the Citistates Group. ø The essays in this collection explore the core issues of sprawl and the agenda for dealing with it. Complete with a glossary, resources, and contact information for smart-growth alliances, this book is extremely user-friendly. David C. Soule offers an unbiased viewpoint of this national phenomenon in a way that will be accessible to students and those with little background in the issue.
Book Synopsis Deciphering Poe by : Alexandra Urakova
Download or read book Deciphering Poe written by Alexandra Urakova and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founder of the detective genre and author of works on cryptography, Edgar Allan Poe possessed what Shawn Rosenheim called a “cryptographic imagination.” Not only was Poe’s work influenced by secret writing, it inspired future critics to search his texts for secret clues and that fostered new modes of reading. Poe’s acclaimed complexity owes as much to a long and sophisticated tradition of his interpretative reading as it does to the “undercurrent of meaning” ciphered in his texts. Grounded in previous scholarly work, Deciphering Poe: Contexts, Subtexts, Subversive Meanings explores the hoaxing and subversive nature of Poe’s art and expands this contextual framework. Contributors to the volume offer a highly nuanced picture of Poe’s engagement in the major discourses of the time—religious, philosophical, social, and literary. Twelve essays of the collection discuss Poe’s debt to baroque tradition, his response to Catholicism, his tribute to philosophical idea of sublimity, his complex response to racial issues, and his controversial afterlife reception. The volume includes new readings of Poe’s texts explicitly using codes, secret writing or techniques of detection—“The Gold Bug,” The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, and the Dupin tales. The essays in the collection were originally presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association’s Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in October 2009. The contributors are Poe scholars from the United States, France, Germany, and Canada: Amy C. Branam, Lauren Curtright, Daniel Fineman, William E. Engel, John C. Havard, Henri Justin, John Edward Martin, Sean Moreland, Philip E. Phillips, Stephanie Sommerfeld, and Timothy N. Towslee.
