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Historic Watermills of North America

Author : Ken Boyd
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320156
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Historic Watermills of North America written by Ken Boyd and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 112 full-color artistic photographs of watermills still standing on the North American landscape The scenic beauty of the watermill is undeniable. The iconic waterwheel has inspired romantics for generations with their warmth and charm. Watermills were once ubiquitous landmarks along brooks, creeks, and rivers across North America. Today, only a scattering of the old watermills grace the countryside, but through these mills, and the turning of their wheels and the whirling of their stones, a small but spectacular part of history lives on. Through stunningly beautiful images, Historic Watermills of North America: A Visual Preservation presents 112 watermills still standing on the North American landscape. With idealized full-color photographs, Ken Boyd nostalgically hearkens back to a time after European settlement when these structures were the very heart of the communities whose livelihoods they made possible. These mills turned the power of flowing water into mechanical energy to grind corn and wheat into meal and flour, saw timber, loom wool and cotton cloth, and more for the benefit of their operators and communities. At one time vital to their surrounding regions, most of these surviving mills are in rural areas that have been passed over by modern development. Their designs are as individual as their makers, and their settings are as varied as the landscape. Some have been converted into homes or museums or are part of local tourist attractions. Others have been abandoned but give witness to the significance of their heydays, and others are still in use, doing the same work they have done for generations. Boyd’s beautifully rendered photographs preserve these extant structures and represent a variety of watermills across the United States and Canada. Each mill photograph is accompanied by a description providing the name of the mill, its location, date of construction, and brief comments highlighting its most noteworthy features. Additional photographs and commentary in the afterword explore the inner workings of watermills.

Mills of Humboldt County, 1910-1945

Author : Fortuna Depot Museum Susan J.P. O’Hara and Alex Service
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467127760
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Mills of Humboldt County, 1910-1945 written by Fortuna Depot Museum Susan J.P. O’Hara and Alex Service and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequoia sempervirens, California coastal redwood, was Humboldt County's economic mainstay from the 1850s onwards. By the early 20th century, harvesting "red gold" was the major industry along California's North Coast, with Humboldt at the forefront of the industry. The first half of the 20th century saw technological changes in logging and milling. New uses for redwood included cigar boxes, "presto-logs," and core logs for plywood. The industry began reforestation practices, growing their own seedlings as early as 1907. World War I and the Great Depression impacted the industry, as did activism to preserve the redwoods. In the 1930s, the largest stand of old-growth redwoods was preserved, and the turmoil of the 1935 strike resulted in several strikers being killed in Eureka. This book explores Humboldt's early-20th-century lumber industry and day-to-day realities of life in the mills and woods in an era underrepresented in published logging history.

Early American Mills

Author : Martha Zimiles
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Early American Mills written by Martha Zimiles and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1973 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Paper Mills, 1690-1832

Author : John Bidwell
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659645
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book American Paper Mills, 1690-1832 written by John Bidwell and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of early papermaking in America

Practical Milling

Author : Benjamin William Dedrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Practical Milling written by Benjamin William Dedrick and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colonial Latin America

Author : Kenneth Mills
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742574075
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Latin America written by Kenneth Mills and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of which have been translated and presented originally for this collection. Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a revision of SR Books' popular Colonial Spanish America. The new edition welcomes a third co-editor and, most significantly, embraces Portuguese and Brazilian materials. Other fundamental changes include new documents from Spanish South America, the addition of some key color images, plus six reference maps, and a decision to concentrate entirely upon primary sources. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its use of primary sources to focus upon people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects. The book's illustrations and documents are accompanied by introductions which provide context and invite discussion. These sources feature social changes, puzzling developments, and the experience of living in Spanish and Portuguese American colonial societies. Religion and society are the integral themes of Colonial Latin America. Religion becomes the nexus for much of what has been treated as political, social, economic, and cultural history during this period. Society is just as inclusive, allowing students to meet a variety of individuals-not faceless social groups. While some familiar names and voices are included-conquerors, chroniclers, sculptors, and preachers-other, far less familiar points of view complement and complicate the better-known narratives of this history. In treating Iberia and America, before as well as after their meeting, apparent contradictions emerge as opportunities for understanding; different perspectives become prompts for wider discussion. Other themes include exploration and contact; religious and cultural change; slavery and society, miscegenation, and the formation, consolidation, reform, and collapse of colonial institutions of government and the Church, as well as accompanying changes in economies and labor. This sourcebook allows students and teachers to consider the thoughts and actions of a wide range of people who were making choices and decisions, pursuing ideals, misperceiving each other, experiencing disenchantment, absorbing new pressures, breaking rules as well as following them, and employing strategies of survival which might involve both reconciliation and opposition. Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History has been assembled with teaching and class discussion in mind. The book will be an excellent tool for Latin American history survey courses and for seminars on the colonial period.

Daughter of the Boycott

Author : Karen Gray Houston
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641603062
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the Boycott written by Karen Gray Houston and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in a confrontation after he tried to board a city bus. Thomas Gray, who had played football with Hilliard when they were kids, was outraged by the unjustifiable shooting. Gray protested, eventually staging a major downtown march to register voters, and standing up to police brutality. Five years later, he led another protest, this time against unjust treatment on the city's segregated buses. On the front lines of what became the Montgomery bus boycott, Gray withstood threats and bombings alongside his brother, Fred D. Gray, the young lawyer who represented Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the rarely mentioned Claudette Colvin, a plaintiff in the case that forced Alabama to desegregate its buses. An incredible story of family in the pivotal years of the civil rights movement, Daughter of the Boycott is the reflection of Thomas Gray's daughter, award-winning broadcast journalist Karen Gray Houston, on how her father's and uncle's selfless actions changed the nation's racial climate and opened doors for her and countless other African Americans.

Taxing America

Author : Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521795449
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Taxing America written by Julian E. Zelizer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Wilbur D. Mills' role in shaping the national tax agenda 1958-74.

Robert Mills

Author : John M. Bryan
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568982960
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Robert Mills written by John M. Bryan and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps most interesting is the range of buildings and machines that Mills designed - from monuments and local courthouses, to prisons and churches, bridges and canals, to rotary piston engines and fireproof masonry vaults - all during a revolutionary era of building technology in America.".

Like a Family

Author : Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807882941
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Like a Family written by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice

Historic Mills of West Virginia

Author : Tracy Lawson
Publisher : 35th Star Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1737857588
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Historic Mills of West Virginia written by Tracy Lawson and published by 35th Star Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ancient times, people used mills to process grain, and a mill was often the first structure planned and built in a new community. At the close of the American Revolution, it was believed that every village and town in the United States had access to a water-powered mill. Hundreds, if not thousands, of mills once dotted the hills and glades of what is now West Virginia. Though the vast majority are gone, towns all over the Mountain State bear the names of the mills that put them on the map. History buffs, nature photographers, and outdoor enthusiasts, you are invited to come along on an adventure: hit the Country Roads in search of fifty-three historic water mills built between 1735 and 1976. Together, these structures tell the story of West Virginia’s agricultural and industrial past. A few are still in operation. Some are in ruins. Many are preserved in their original state, and still others have taken on roles as private residences, shops, and museums. Whether operational or abandoned to decay, the historic mills of West Virginia stand in testament to the ingenuity and independent spirit of those entrepreneurs who were millers, but also bankers, economists, and mechanical engineers. This book features over one hundred illustrations, regional and county maps with the mill locations marked, and QR codes that give instant access to driving directions.

The World Colonization Made

Author : Brandon Mills
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812252500
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The World Colonization Made written by Brandon Mills and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in the nineteenth-century United States. But for Brandon Mills, the ACS was part of a much wider pattern of national and international expansion. Similar efforts on the part of the young nation to create, in Thomas Jefferson's words, an "empire of liberty," spanned Native removal, the annexation of Texas and California, filibustering campaigns in Latin America, and American missionary efforts in Hawaii, as well as the founding of Liberia in 1821. Mills contends that these diverse currents of U.S. expansionism were ideologically linked and together comprised a capacious colonization movement that both reflected and shaped a wide range of debates over race, settlement, citizenship, and empire in the early republic. The World Colonization Made chronicles the rise and fall of the colonization movement as a political force within the United States—from its roots in the crises of the Revolutionary era, to its peak with the creation of the ACS, to its ultimate decline with emancipation and the Civil War. The book interrogates broader issues of U.S. expansion, including the progression of federal Indian policy, the foundations and effects of the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny, and the growth of U.S. commercial and military power throughout the Western hemisphere. By contextualizing the colonization movement in this way, Mills shows how it enabled Americans to envision a world of self-governing republics that harmonized with racial politics at home.

Amoskeag

Author : Tamara K. Hareven
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874517361
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Amoskeag written by Tamara K. Hareven and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company shaped the social, ethnic, and economic existence of Manchester, New Hampshire during America's rise as a manufacturing power.

American Textile Colossus

Author : Jay J. Lambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964124820
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book American Textile Colossus written by Jay J. Lambert and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Textile Colossus: The Story of Fall River, Massachusetts, its Cotton Manufacturing Industry, and its People is by Jay J. Lambert, president of the Board of Directors of the Fall River Historical Society. Jay devoted over a decade painstakingly researching and writing this major contribution to the history of the American textile industry. This book can be regarded as a definitive work on the subject. American Textile Colossus is a sweeping saga of Fall River's old cotton textile industry - the mills, the managerial hierarchy, the workforce, and the events and issues that shaped their lives. Documenting the cotton textile industry from the local perspective of Fall River, it is an unpretentious effort to understand the city's role in the industrialization of America.

Landmarks of American Women's History

Author : Page Putnam Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195145011
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of American Women's History written by Page Putnam Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a variety of landmarks and buildings that represent women's experiences and accomplishments throughout history.

The Saxonville Mills

Author : Kevin A. Swope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578102979
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Saxonville Mills written by Kevin A. Swope and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of the Saxonville Mills from the 17th century through the 20th century, with a colorful and fascinating section devoted to the current tenants of the nine buildings that make up the Saxonville Industrial Park of 2012.The history of the mills has been carefully researched and wonderfully written by Framingham History Center Board Member Kevin A. Swope, and is packed with hundreds of historical photographs. Award winning photographer Lynne Damianos has explored the mill complex from deep underground to high above the streets of Saxonville to capture unique images of these historic buildings. Designer Lisa Breslow Thompson has created an eye-catching design and James Parr contributed his talents as editor. 8.5 square, 206 pages, 300 photographs.

Manchester

Author : Gary Samson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439627444
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Manchester written by Gary Samson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and moving book brings to life the industrial and immigrant experience which gave birth to Manchester in the nineteenth century and continued to shape the city's destiny well into the twentieth century. More than a hundred years ago, thousands of immigrants from Europe and Canada were drawn to the mills of Manchester by the promise of a better life. In stirring photographs and text, Manchester: The Mill and the Immigrant Experience examines the aspirations, the struggles, and the everyday adventures of Manchester's immigrant families. Reaffirming the power of photography to move and inform us, Manchester: The Mills and the Immigrant Experience creates a vivid picture of life during nearly a century of rapid industrial change. We join the bustle of Elm and Hanover Streets in the 1880s, witness children working at the mighty Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, enter a Greek coffeehouse in the early 1900s, get caught up in the bitter labor strikes of the 1920s, and meet unusual local figures such as the Hermit of Mosquito Pond.