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Author : CHARLES D. GREEN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033193006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)
Download or read book FIRE FIGHTERS OF HOUSTON, 1838-1915 written by CHARLES D. GREEN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles D Green
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015099289
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Fire Fighters of Houston, 1838-1915 written by Charles D Green and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charles D. Green
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484289061
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Fire Fighters of Houston, 1838-1915 (Classic Reprint) written by Charles D. Green and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fire Fighters of Houston, 1838-1915 The author deeply deplores his inability to secure official data during the period of the Republic - 1836 to 1845, and the ante-bellum period - 1845 to 1861 also his inability to mention many worthy men whose services were crowned with honor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles D. Green
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Fire Fighters of Houston, 1838-1915 written by Charles D. Green and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822977761
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Precious Commodity written by Martin V. Melosi and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalienable right of citizens, and if government is responsible for its distribution as a public good. Melosi provides historical background on the construction, administration, and adaptability of water supply and wastewater systems in urban America. He cites budgetary constraints and the deterioration of existing water infrastructures as factors leading many municipalities to seriously consider the privatization of their water supply. Melosi also views the role of government in the management of, development of, and legal jurisdiction over America’s rivers and waterways for hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation, and transportation access. Looking to the future, he compares the costs and benefits of public versus private water supply, examining the global movement toward privatization.
Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297231X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Effluent America written by Martin V. Melosi and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.
Author : Sandra Lord and Debe Branning
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467141305
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of Houston's Market Square Park written by Sandra Lord and Debe Branning and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to Market Square Park can pause on their stroll through the downtown centerpiece for a palpable experience of its past. Houston's first four city halls laid their foundations here, and relics of the square's heritage remain embedded in the sidewalks of the park. Chalk up a chance sneeze on Milam Street to the final ghostly gasp of dust from Robert Boyce's sawpits. Step from Congress Street into La Carafe, Houston's oldest commercial building, for the kind of atmosphere that even deceased bartenders are reluctant to leave. From the phantom tailors above Treebeard's to the forgotten mysteries of the town's founding, Sandra Lord and Debe Branning resurrect the history humming through the four blocks surrounding Market Square Park.
Author : Randal L. Hall
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344663X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book William Marsh Rice and His Institute written by Randal L. Hall and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1891 William Marsh Rice made a generous bequest in order to found the distinguished Houston institution that bears his name. Ironically, this very bequest helped to bring about his murder, an act of treachery perpetrated by a conniving attorney and Rice’s naïve, malleable manservant. This captivating tale—full of intrigue, legal twists and turns, and sensational revelations—an important part of the full biography of Rice himself, received its first careful historical investigation by Andrew Forest Muir, a longtime professor of history at Rice University who, beginning in 1957, performed the fundamental research that forms the basis for this biography. At the time of Muir’s death in 1969, the work remained incomplete. Subsequently, at the request of the Rice Historical Society, Sylvia Stallings Morris shaped the fruits of Muir’s labor into the first edition of this book, which was published in 1972. The new edition of William Marsh Rice and His Institute, edited by Randal L. Hall, returns this fine biography to print in connection with the celebration of the centennial of the opening of Rice University. Incorporating new and important sources unearthed since the publication of the original book, this revised edition retains all the flavor and meticulous care of the earlier work, especially the “finely crafted storytelling of Sylvia Stallings Morris Lowe and Andrew Forest Muir,” as characterized by Hall. Rice University students, faculty, staff, and alumni; scholars and students of Houston, Texas, and regional history; and those interested in the history of American higher education will all welcome William Marsh Rice and His Institute: The Centennial Edition.
Author : Fire Museum of Houston and Tristan Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467132985
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Houston Fire Department written by Fire Museum of Houston and Tristan Smith and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston's firefighting service began in 1838 with the founding of Protection Fire Company No. 1. As the city of Houston grew throughout the early and mid-19th century, volunteer companies formed and grew along with it. By 1895, city leaders decided to form the Houston Fire Department as a city department, culling the volunteer forces for men, stations, apparatus, and horses. The city grew in leaps and bounds, swallowing up neighborhoods, communities, and smaller cities along the way, with the fire department nipping at their heels. This brave force battled devastating fires throughout the years, most notably the Great Fifth Ward Fire in 1912, the 1943 Gulf Hotel Fire, the Woodway Square Apartment Conflagration in 1979 and the Southwest Inn Fire in 2013. What was once a smattering of volunteer fire brigades has grown into an imposing force of over 3,000 firefighters protecting over two million people in the fourth largest city in the United States.
Author : Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415034
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book This Corner of Canaan written by Randolph B. Campbell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell's collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state's southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell's pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for grassroots research and community studies in the field. More than any other scholar, Campbell has shaped our modern understanding of Texas. In this collection of seventeen original essays, Campbell's colleagues, friends, and students offer a capacious examination of Texas's history--ranging from the Spanish era through the 1960s War on Poverty--to honor Campbell's deep influence on the field. Focusing on themes and methods that Campbell pioneered, the essays debate Texas identity, the creation of nineteenth-century Texas, the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the remaking of the Lone Star State during the twentieth century. Featuring some of the most well-known names in the field--as well as rising stars--the volume offers the latest scholarship on major issues in Texas history, and the enduring influence of the most eminent Texas historian of the last half century.
Author : Steven A. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317301323
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Pragmatic Sustainability written by Steven A. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Pragmatic Sustainability proposes a pragmatic, discursive and pluralistic approach to thinking about sustainability.. Rather than suggesting a single solution to the problem of how to live sustainably, this collection discusses broader approaches to social and environmental change. Eight continuing authors and seven new ones adjust their dispositions toward rapidly changing and still unsustainable conditions, forging agreements and disagreements on five overlapping themes: the Grounds for Sustainability; the critique of Technological Culture; the need to conceive of Sustainability in Place; in Cities; finally asking how should we reimagine the fraught relationship between Civil Society, Industry and Regulation? Editor Steven A. Moore asks how a set of ideas now more than a century old remains relevant. A partial answer can be found in reconstructing the very modern ideas confronted by those who came to call themselves Pragmatists at the beginning of the twentieth century—evolution, ecology and design. Moore argues that we have yet to develop dispositions in theory and practice that critically integrate these ideas into sustainable development. In sum, this new edition provides a fresh and hopeful look at the wicked problems deliberated by almost anyone engaged in adapting to the always changing conditions of the built world.
Author : Robert E. Zeigler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Workingman in Houston, Texas, 1865-1914 written by Robert E. Zeigler and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Houston, the Bayou City written by David G. McComb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James E. Buchanan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Houston written by James E. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronology of events in the history of Houston from 1519 to 1970 and a selection of pertinent documents.
Author : Eugene Campbell Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by Eugene Campbell Barker and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorothy E. Justman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book German Colonists and Their Descendants in Houston written by Dorothy E. Justman and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839 Friedrich Usener settled in Houston, Texas.
