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Author : Diane Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781421429328
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (293 download)
Download or read book City Building on the Eastern Frontier written by Diane Shaw and published by . This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Shaw
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429314
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book City Building on the Eastern Frontier written by Diane Shaw and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the "rage for erecting villages is a perfect mania." The development of Rochester and Syracuse illuminates the national experience of internal economic and cultural colonization during the first half of the nineteenth century. Architectural historian Diane Shaw examines the ways in which these new cities were shaped by a variety of constituents—founders, merchants, politicians, and settlers—as opportunities to extend the commercial and social benefits of the market economy and a merchant culture to America's interior. At the same time, she analyzes how these priorities resulted in a new approach to urban planning. According to Shaw, city founders and residents deliberately arranged urban space into three segmented districts—commercial, industrial, and civic—to promote a self-fulfilling vision of a profitable and urbane city. Shaw uncovers a distinctly new model of urbanization that challenges previous paradigms of the physical and social construction of nineteenth-century cities. Within two generations, the new cities of Rochester and Syracuse were sorted at multiple scales, including not only the functional definition of districts, but also the refinement of building types and styles, the stratification of building interiors by floor, and even the coding of public space by class, gender, and race. Shaw's groundbreaking model of early nineteenth-century urban design and spatial culture is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the American city.
Author : M. T. Abraham
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788183240703
Total Pages : 1564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Man of the East Global Constitution World Under One Rule written by M. T. Abraham and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Willingham
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Starting Over written by William F. Willingham and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the early 1870s, Oregon's Long Creek Valley was an isolated oasis of bunch grass and wildlife surrounded by rugged, heavily timbered mountains. Among the valley's first white settlers, lured by the abundance of grass and water, were William F. Willingham's great-grandparents. During summer visits as a child, he listened to his elderly relatives' stories about growing up on the frontier. In Starting Over, the author draws on a range of sources to bring to life the people who scratched out a community based on cattle and sheep raising, kinship ties, and shared social values. Willingham shows how the development of Long Creek illuminates key aspects of the story of the last phase of the settling of the American frontier.
Author : Walter D. Ward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317288572
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad written by Walter D. Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad compares the evolution of several cities in the Near East from the time of Alexander the Great until the beginning of the Islamic 'Abbasid Dynasty. This volume examines both archaeological remains and literary sources to explain the diversity of imperial, cultural, and religious influences on urban life. It offers several case studies chosen from different regions of the Roman Near East, demonstrating that Greco-Roman and Islamic culture spread unevenly through these various cities, and that it is impossible to make broad generalizations. It argues instead that there were different patterns of urbanism that demonstrate a continued vitality of civic life up to the 'Abbasid revolution. Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad will be of particular interest to students of this period in the Ancient Near East, as well as those studying ancient cities and everyday life.
Author : Geoffrey Greatrex
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134756461
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628 written by Geoffrey Greatrex and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in almost constant conflict. This book, sequel to the volume covering the years 226-363 AD, provides translations of key texts on relations between the opposing sides, taken from a wide range of sources. Many have never before been available in a modern language, and all are fully set in context with expert commentary and extensive annotation. For more information please visit the author's supplementary website at http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~greatrex/ref.html
Author : Jane Kamensky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670018413
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (184 download)
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
Author : Carroll L. Engelhardt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452912971
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Gateway to the Northern Plains written by Carroll L. Engelhardt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian Carroll Engelhardt's Gateway to the Northern Plains chronicles the story of Fargo and Moorhead's growth. Once just specks on the vast landscape of the Northern Plains, these twin cities prospered, teeming with their own dynamic culture, economy, and politics. Moorhead developed first, boosted by railroad manager Thomas Hawley Canfield, who touted it as superior to Fargo. However, Northern Pacific Railway chose Fargo as its headquarters, and it became the "Gateway City" to North Dakota."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Daniel C. Peterson
Publisher : The Interpreter Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1545329834
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (453 download)
Download or read book Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 23 (2017) written by Daniel C. Peterson and published by The Interpreter Foundation. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 23 of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics including: "It Took a Village to Prepare for the Restoration," "Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 1: Evidence of an Imperfect, Authentic, Ancient Work of Scripture)," "The Council of Fifty and Its Minutes: A Review," "Improvisation and Extemporaneous Change in the Book of Mormon (Part 2: Structural Evidences of Earlier Ancient versus Later Modern Constructions)," "Opportunity Lost," "The Song I Cannot Sing," "'Their Anger Did Increase Against Me': Nephi’s Autobiographical Permutation of a Biblical Wordplay on the Name Joseph," "Scary Ghost Stories in the Light of Day," "The Great and Spacious Book of Mormon Arcade Game: More Curious Works from Book of Mormon Critics," "Experiencing Battle in the Book of Mormon," "Addressing Prickly Issues," "'This Son Shall Comfort Us': An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs," and "The Title of Liberty and Ancient Prophecy."
Author : Howard P. Chudacoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315511045
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of American Urban History, (S2PCL) written by Howard P. Chudacoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, and political power cope with the urban environment, struggle to make a living, participate in communal institutions, and influence the direction of cities and urban life. An absorbing book, The Evolution of American Urban Society surveys the dynamics of American urbanization from the sixteenth century to the present, skillfully blending historical perspectives on society, economics, politics, and policy, and focusing on the ways in which diverse peoples have inhabited and interacted in cities. Key topics: Broad coverage includes: the Colonial Age, commercialization and urban expansion, life in the walking city, industrialization, newcomers, city politics, the social and physical environment, the 1920s and 1930s, the growth of suburbanization, and the future of modern cities. Market: An interesting and necessary read for anyone involved in urban sociology, including urban planners, city managers, and those in the urban political arena.
Author : Domenic Vitiello
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812242246
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made written by Domenic Vitiello and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made recounts the history of America's first stock exchange and the ways it shaped the growth and decline of the city around it. Founded in 1790, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, its member firms, and the companies they financed had profound impacts on the city's place in the world economy. At its start, the exchange and its members helped spur the development of the early United States, its financial sector, and its westward expansion. During the nineteenth century, they invested in making Philadelphia the center of industrial America, raising capital for the railroads and coal mines that connected cities to one another and built a fossil fuel-based economy. After financing the Civil War, they underwrote the growth of the modern metropolis, its transportation infrastructure, utility systems, and real estate development. At the turn of the twentieth century, stagnation of the exchange contributed to Philadelphia's loss of power in the national and world economy. This original interpretation of the roots of deindustrialization holds important lessons for other cities that have declined. The exchange's revival following World War II is a remarkable story, but it also illustrates the limits of economic development in postindustrial cities. Unlike earlier eras, the exchange's fortunes diverged from those of the city around it. Ultimately, it became part of a larger, global institution when it merged with NASDAQ in 2008. Far more than a history of a single institution, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made traces the evolving relationship between the exchange and the city. For people concerned with cities and their development, this study offers a long-term history of the public-private partnerships and private sector-led urban development popular today. More generally, it traces the networks of firms and institutions revealed by the securities market and its participants. Herein lies a critical and understudied part of the history of metropolitan economic development.
Author : Peter J. Larkham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317812514
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Shapers of Urban Form written by Peter J. Larkham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the forces, people, and institutions that have shaped cities from the Middle Ages to the present day. Larkham and Conzen collect new essays in "urban morphology," the people-centered predecessor to contemporary theories of top-down urban design. Shapers of Urban Form focuses on the social processes that create patterns of urban forms in four discrete periods: Pre-modern, early modern, industrial-era and postmodern development. Featuring studies of English, American, Western and Eastern European, and New Zealand urban history and urban form, this collection is invaluable to scholars of urban design and town planning, as well as urban and economic historians.
Author : Robert Haug
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178831722X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Eastern Frontier written by Robert Haug and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan – which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoral-nomads. Given its peripheral location, the history of the 'eastern frontier' in this period has often been shown through the lens of expanding empires. However, in this book, Robert Haug argues for a pre-modern Central Asia with a discrete identity, a region that is not just a transitory space or the far-flung corner of empires, but its own historical entity. From this locally specific perspective, the book takes the reader on a 900-year tour of the area, from Sasanian control, through the Umayyads and Abbasids, to the quasi-independent dynasties of the Tahirids and the Samanids. Drawing on an impressive array of literary, numismatic and archaeological sources, Haug reveals the unique and varied challenges the eastern frontier presented to imperial powers that strove to integrate the area into their greater systems. This is essential reading for all scholars working on early Islamic, Iranian and Central Asian history, as well as those with an interest in the dynamics of frontier regions.
Author : Adam Costanzo
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353892
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book George Washington's Washington written by Adam Costanzo and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capital on the Potomac. 'George Washington's Washington' is not simply a history of the city during the first president's life but a history of his vision for the national capital and of the local and national conflicts surrounding this vision's acceptance and implementation.
Author : Kirsten E. Wood
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469675552
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Accommodating the Republic written by Kirsten E. Wood and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the nation's rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote innovative businesses, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favored causes—often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol for which the period is justly famous. White men's unrivaled freedom to use taverns for their own pursuits of happiness gave everyday significance to citizenship in the early republic. Yet white men did not have taverns to themselves. Sharing tavern spaces with other Americans intensified white men's struggles to define what, and for whom, taverns should be. At the same time, temperance and other reform movements increasingly divided white men along lines of party, conscience, and class. In both conflicts, some improvement-minded white men found common cause with middle-class white women and Black activists, who had their own stake in rethinking taverns and citizenship.
Author : Asuman Lätzer-Lasar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110641275
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Urban Religion in Late Antiquity written by Asuman Lätzer-Lasar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with “lived religion” in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity. Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement of religious communication and city life during an arc of time that is characterised by dramatic and even contradicting developments. Bringing together textual analyses and archaelogical case studies in a comparative perspective, the volume zooms in on the historical context of the advanced imperial and late antique Mediterranean space (2nd–8th centuries CE).
Author : David H. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire written by David H. French and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
