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Author : Asa Greene
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Perils of Pearl Street written by Asa Greene and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian P. Luskey
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814753108
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book On the Make written by Brian P. Luskey and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of independent men—while making sense of a volatile capitalist economy and fluid urban society—was fraught with uncertainty. In On the Make, Brian P. Luskey illuminates at once the power of the ideology of self-making and the important contests over the meanings of respectability, manhood, and citizenship that helped to determine who clerks were and who they would become. Drawing from a rich array of archival materials, including clerks’ diaries, newspapers, credit reports, census data, advice literature, and fiction, Luskey argues that a better understanding of clerks and clerking helps make sense of the culture of capitalism and the society it shaped in this pivotal era.
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317362268
Total Pages : 1324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Author : Duyckinck (Evert)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of American Literature written by Duyckinck (Evert) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375177232
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of American Literature written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Author : Evert Augustus Duyckinck
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Cyclopædia of American Literature written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evert Augustus Duyckinck
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evert Augustus Duyckinck
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
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Download or read book Cyclopaedia of American Literature written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of American Literature Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by New York : C. Scribner. This book was released on 1856 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura F. Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197568572
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Only the Clothes on Her Back written by Laura F. Edwards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
Author : Thomas L. Lawrence
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977275087
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Old South Brooklyn Entrepreneur Anson Blake 1789-1868 written by Thomas L. Lawrence and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old South Brooklyn Entrepreneur is far more than a financial and commercial biography of Anson Blake 1789-1868. It provides many details of local history, not only of South Brooklyn (today’s Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Boerum Hill and Gowanus) before the Civil War, but of New York City’s economic history, including Anson Blake’s speculation in Wall Street area lands and buildings. Blake also speculated in Upstate New York’s Black River Canal region of Oneida, Hamilton and Herkimer counties where Anson Blake wanted a railroad to be built through his lots. Many interesting illustrations and photographs depict facets of Manhattan and Brooklyn history — including Blake’s early land and building speculation enterprises in South Brooklyn adjacent to the terminus of the original Long Island Railroad, and the Atlantic Street and Hamilton Avenue ferries. This book describes New York’s and Brooklyn’s history during the second quarter of America’s 19th century.
Author : Hans Bergmann
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566393584
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)
Download or read book God in the Street written by Hans Bergmann and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fast changing culture of antebellum New York, writers of every stripe celebrated "the City" as a stage for the daily urban encounter between the familiar and the inexplicable. Probing into these richly varied texts, Hans Bergmann uncovers the innovations in writing that accompanied the new market society— the penny newspapers' grandiose boastings, the poetic catalogues of Walt Whitman, the sentimental realism of charity workers, the sensationalism of slum visitors, and the complex urban encounters of Herman Melville's fiction. The period in which New York, the city itself, became firmly established as a subject invented a literary form that attempts to capture the variety of the teeming city and theflaneur, the walking observer. But Bergmann does not simply lead a parade of images and themes; he explores the ways in which these observers understood what was happening around them and to them, always attentive to class struggle and race and gender issues.God in the Streetshows how the penny press and Whitman's New York poetry create a new mass culture hero who interprets and dignifies the city's confusions. New York writers, both serious and sensationalist, meditate upon street encounters with tricksters and confidence-men and explore the meanings of encounters. Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrinever" underlines the unrelenting isolation and inability to control the interpreter. Bergmann reinterprets Melville'sThe Confidence Manas an example of how a complex literary form arises directly from its own historical materials and is itself socially symbolic. Bergmann sees Melville as special because he recognizes his inability to make sense of the surface of chaotic images and encounters. In mid-century New York City, Melville believes God is in the street, unavailable and unrecognizable, rather than omnipresent and guiding. Author note:Hans Bergmannis Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University.
Author : Percy Rivington Pyne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of the ... Collection of Views of New York and Other American Cities, Historical China and Books Relating to New York written by Percy Rivington Pyne and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy B. Spears
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070668
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)
Download or read book 100 Years on the Road written by Timothy B. Spears and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.
Author : Clifton Hood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154295X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Privilege written by Clifton Hood and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's upper class has been drawn into the larger story of the city both through class conflict and through their role in building New York's cultural and economic foundations. In Pursuit of Privilege describes the famous and infamous characters and events at the center of this extraordinary history, from the elite families and wealthy tycoons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the Wall Street executives of today. From the start, upper-class New Yorkers have been open and aggressive in their behavior, keen on attaining prestige, power, and wealth. Clifton Hood sharpens this characterization by merging a history of the New York economy in the eighteenth century with the story of Wall Street's emergence as an international financial center in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the dominance of New York's financial and service sectors in the 1980s. Bringing together several decades of upheaval and change, he shows that New York's upper class did not rise exclusively from the Gilded Age but rather from a relentless pursuit of privilege, affecting not just the urban elite but the city's entire cultural, economic, and political fabric.
Author : St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue, Systematic and Analytical, of the Books of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association written by St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Zakim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654589X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Accounting for Capitalism written by Michael Zakim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim has written their story, a social history of capital that seeks to explain how the “bottom line” became a synonym for truth in an age shorn of absolutes, grafted onto our very sense of reason and trust. This is a big story, told through an ostensibly marginal event: the birth of a class of “merchant clerks” in the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century. The personal trajectory of these young men from farm to metropolis, homestead to boarding house, and, most significantly, from growing things to selling them exemplified the enormous social effort required to domesticate the profit motive and turn it into the practical foundation of civic life. As Zakim reveals in his highly original study, there was nothing natural or preordained about the stunning ascendance of this capitalism and its radical transformation of the relationship between “Man and Mammon.”
