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Author : Various
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5043104074
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kurt C. Schlichting
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421425246
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Waterfront Manhattan written by Kurt C. Schlichting and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail . . . a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America’s most important city.” —Civil Engineering With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world’s busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place where millions of immigrants entered the Promised Land. In Waterfront Manhattan, Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York’s priceless asset. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entirely and sparking a battle between shipping companies, the railroads, and ferries for access to the waterfront. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the City of New York regained control of the waterfront, but a whirlwind of forces beyond the control of either public or private interests—technological change in the form of the shipping container and the jet airplane—devastated the city’s maritime world. The city slowly and painfully recovered. Visionaries reimagined the waterfront, and today the island is almost completely surrounded by parkland, the world of piers and longshoremen gone, replaced by luxury housing and tourist attractions. Waterfront Manhattan is “an impressive narrative which is sure to shed light on this underappreciated aspect of New York City history” (Global Maritime History). “An important book. There is much to ponder on the future of New York City’s harbor.” —Journal of American History
Author : Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189721
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book While Father Is Away written by Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Father is Away reveals the intimate story of a British-American's role in the American Civil War. William Bradbury's letters home provide a rare window on the unique relationships among husband, wife, and children while a father was away at war. Yorkshire attorney turned Union volunteer soldier Bradbury became a "privileged private" with extraordinary access to powerful Union generals including Daniel Butterfield, future president Benjamin Harrison, and Clinton B. Fisk, the region's administrator for the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction. The letters also provide an in-depth look at this driven land speculator and manager for the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway. As a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Manchester Guardian, Bradbury was both eyewitness to and participant in the shaping of events in the world as it moved west.
Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603444726
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine written by James P. Delgado and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, while vacationing on Panama’s Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado came upon the hulk of a mysterious iron vessel, revealed by the ebbing tides in a small cove at Isla San Telmo. Local inquiries proved inconclusive: the wreck was described as everything from a sunken Japanese "suicide" submarine from World War II to a poison-laden "craft of death" that was responsible for the ruin of the pearl beds, decades before. His professional interest fully aroused, Delgado would go on to learn that the wreck was the remains of one of the first successful deep-diving submersibles, built in 1864 by Julius H. Kroehl, an innovator and entrepreneur who initially sought to develop his invention for military use during the Civil War. The craft’s completion coming too late for that conflict, Kroehl subsequently convinced investors that it could be used to harvest pearls from the Pacific beds off Panama, in waters too deep for native pearl divers to reach. In Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine, Delgado chronicles the confluence of technological advancement, entrepreneurial aspiration, American capitalist ambition, and ignorance of the physiological effects of deep diving. As he details the layers of knowledge uncovered by his work both in archival sources and in the field excavation of Kroehl’s ill-fated vessel, Delgado weaves the tangled threads of history into a compelling narrative. This finely crafted saga will fascinate and inform professional archaeologists and researchers, naval historians, students and aficionados of maritime exploration, and interested general readers.
Author : David Greven
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813951038
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book All the Devils Are Here written by David Greven and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics. Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in King Lear informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in Moby-Dick. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.
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Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Rosenthal
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables written by Bernard Rosenthal and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembles a range of criticism on THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES from its earliest reception to contemporary times
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Index to Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Payne Thompson
Publisher : New Orleans : Press of Perry & Buckley Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Index to a Collection of Americana written by Thomas Payne Thompson and published by New Orleans : Press of Perry & Buckley Company. This book was released on 1912 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Kirkham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719044755
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Gendered Object written by Pat Kirkham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EU security governance assesses the effectiveness of the EU as a security actor. The book has two distinct features. Firstly, it is the first systematic study of the different economic, political and military instruments employed by the EU in the performance of four different security functions. The book demonstrates that the EU has emerged as an important security actor, not only in the non-traditional areas of security, but increasingly as an entity with force projection capabilities. Secondly, the book represents an important step towards redressing conceptual gaps in the study of security governance, particularly as it pertains to the European Union. The book links the challenges of governing Europe's security to the changing nature of the state, the evolutionary expansion of the security agenda, and the growing obsolescence of the traditional forms and concepts of security cooperation.
Author : Thomas James Wise
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin, LL. D. written by Thomas James Wise and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lardas Modern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226533239
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Secularism in Antebellum America written by John Lardas Modern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts, railroads, Sing Sing, sex machines - these are just a few of the phenomena that appear in this pioneering account of religion and society in 19th-century America.
Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871698469
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)
Download or read book The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was America's leading ethnologist in his day, & his scholarship played a role of exceptional importance during the critical period of the 1860s-1880s when anthropology was beginning to crystalize as a specialized field of research. Contents of this vol.: Lewis Henry Morgan & His Library; Morgan's Life & Works; The Library & Its Contents; Analysis of the Collection; Explanation of the Inventory, Catalogue, & Register; Bibliography of Morgan's Publications; The Inventory; The Catalogue; & Register of the Morgan Papers. Illus.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Bookmart written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 810 pages
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Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030727943X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Toothpick written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil. From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of the American wooden toothpick industry, ensured toothpicks appeared in every restaurant, the toothpick has been an omnipresent, yet often overlooked part of our daily lives. Here, with an engineer's eye for detail and a poet's flair for language, Henry Petroski takes us on an incredible tour of this most interesting invention. Along the way, he peers inside today's surprisingly secretive toothpick-manufacturing industry, and explores a treasure trove of the toothpick's unintended uses and perils, from sandwiches to martinis and beyond.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
