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Author : Daniel Garrison Brinton Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780404515249
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Ruggles of New York written by Daniel Garrison Brinton Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. G. Brinton Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Ruggles of New York written by D. G. Brinton Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin P. Kilroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (96 download)
Download or read book February 18, 1948. Dear Sirs: Will You Please Send to Me at My Residence, 124 West 72nd Street, New York, written by Edwin P. Kilroe and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Garrison Brinton Thompson
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ruggles of New York, a Life of Samuel B. Ruggles written by Daniel Garrison Brinton Thompson and published by New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited. This book was released on 1946 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Brian Phillips Murphy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291352
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Building the Empire State written by Brian Phillips Murphy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic. Brian Phillips Murphy follows the collaborations between political leaders and a group of unelected political entrepreneurs, including Robert R. Livingston and Alexander Hamilton, who persuaded legislative powers to grant monopolies corporate status in order to finance and manage civic institutions. Murphy shows how American capitalism grew out of the convergence of political and economic interests, wherein political culture was shaped by business strategies and institutions as much as the reverse. Focusing on the state of New York, a onetime mercantile colony that became home to the first American banks, utilities, canals, and transportation infrastructure projects, Building the Empire State surveys the changing institutional ecology during the first five decades following the American Revolution. Through sustained attention to the Manhattan Company, the steamboat monopoly, the Erie Canal, and the New York & Erie Railroad, Murphy traces the ways entrepreneurs marshaled political and financial capital to sway legislators to support their private plans and interests. By playing a central role in the creation and regulation of institutions that facilitated private commercial transactions, New York State's political officials created formal and informal precedents for the political economy throughout the northeastern United States and toward the expanding westward frontier. The political, economic, and legal consequences organizing the marketplace in this way continue to be felt in the vast influence and privileged position held by corporations in the present day.
Author : James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807140499
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Pretense Of Glory written by James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first modern biography of Nathaniel P. Banks, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., reveals the complicated and contradictory nature of the man who called himself the "fighting politician." Despite a lack of formal education, family connections, and personal fortune, Banks (1816--1884) advanced from the Massachusetts legislature to the governorship to the U.S. Congress and Speaker of the House. He learned early in his political career that the pretext of conviction can be more important than the conviction itself, and he practiced a politics of expedience, espousing popular beliefs but never defining beliefs of his own. A leader in the new Republican party, he developed a reputation as a compelling orator and a politician with a bright future. At the onset of the Civil War, Lincoln appointed Banks a major general, and, as Hollandsworth shows, the same pretext of conviction that served Banks so well in politics proved disastrous on the battlefield. He suffered resounding defeats in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, the Battle of Cedar Mountain, and the Red River Campaign. Illuminating the personal characteristics that stalled the promise of Banks's early political career and contributed to his dismal record as a commanding officer, Hollandsworth demonstrates how Banks's obsessive pretense of glory prevented him from achieving its reality.
Author : Martin H. Geyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199202389
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Mechanics of Internationalism written by Martin H. Geyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by American and European scholars traces the origins of modern internationalism and the emergence of global society in the nineteenth century. It offers a fresh approach to the study of international history by looking at the structural prerequisites of the thriving internationalism before the First World War. Thus it links political and social movements trying to reform society and politics by way of transnational co-operation with the process of internationalizing cultural, political, and economic practices. The volume is less concerned with classical diplomatic history than with the increased, yet ambivalent, transnational linking of societies. The subjects covered range from the creation of international standards, the search for a monarchical international, and the making of international women's organizations to the emergence of fashionable meeting places. The book provides a genuine historical perspective on present phenomena.
Author : Edward Pessen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351492934
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Riches, Class, and Power written by Edward Pessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure, life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.
Author : Elizabeth Blackmar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801499739
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 written by Elizabeth Blackmar and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the social forces behind the formation of the city's housing market and its relations to the development of a capitalist economy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Eric Homberger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105155
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Astor's New York written by Eric Homberger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Astor, queen of New York society in the decades before World War I, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy in the city. Mrs Astor's story, told here by Eric Homberger, sheds light on the origins, extravagant lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy.
Author : George R. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317454197
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60 written by George R. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s.
Author : William C. Loring
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810827660
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book An American Romantic-realist Abroad written by William C. Loring and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the work of George Templeton Strong, an American composer and painter.
Author : Thomas Jefferson Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Life and Letters of Judge Thomas J. Anderson and Wife, Including a Few Letters from Children and Others; Mostly Written During the Civil War; a History written by Thomas Jefferson Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Scobey
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592132355
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Empire City written by David M. Scobey and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, New Yorkers have joked about "The City's" interminable tearing down and building up. The city that the whole world watches seems to be endlessly remaking itself. When the locals and the rest of the world say "New York," they mean Manhattan, a crowded island of commercial districts and residential neighborhoods, skyscrapers and tenements, fabulously rich and abjectly poor cheek by jowl. Of course, it was not always so; New York's metamorphosis from compact port to modern metropolis occurred during the mid-nineteenth century. Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution.Author David Scobey paints a remarkable panorama of New York's uneven development, a city-building process careening between obsessive calculation and speculative excess. Envisioning a new kind of national civilization, "bourgeois urbanists" attempted to make New York the nation's pre-eminent city. Ultimately, they created a mosaic of grand improvements, dynamic change, and environmental disorder. Empire City sets the stories of the city's most celebrated landmarks--Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, the downtown commercial center--within the context of this new ideal of landscape design and a politics of planned city building. Perhaps such an ambitious project for guiding growth, overcoming spatial problems, and uplifting the public was bound to fail; still, it grips the imagination.
Author : Michael A. Gordon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721704
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Orange Riots written by Michael A. Gordon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Michael A. Gordon examines the causes and consequences of the tragic and bloody "Orange Riots" that rocked New York City in 1870 and 1871. On July 12 of both years, groups of Irish Catholics clashed with Irish Protestants marching to commemorate the victory of 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne that confirmed the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. The violence of 1870 left eight people dead; the following year, more than sixty died. Reconstructing the events of July 12 in those years, Gordon provides a riveting and richly detailed account of the riots. He maintains that they stemmed from more than religious hatred or generations of oppression in Ireland. Rather, both years bear witness to a struggle between two profoundly different visions of the promise of America: a re-creation of European social classes or a form of life liberated from the constraints and stratifications of the Old World. These visions were enmeshed n the turbulent ideological and political confrontations arising from industrialization and newly found immigrant power under New York City's notorious mayor, William Marcy "Boss" Tweed. Gordon concludes by showing how the riots sparked a reform movement that toppled Tweed from power and led to the restructuring of city politics in the 1870s.
Author : Alan L. Olmstead
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469648067
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book New York City Mutual Savings Banks, 1819-1861 written by Alan L. Olmstead and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These institutions were founded ostensibly for philanthropic purposes--to encourage and reward thrift on the part of society's lower classes. For purposes of analysis, Olmstead formulates an alternative hypothesis. Men organized mutuals for the same reason that impelled their other business ventures--the hope of profit. The author focuses on the internal operations of several banks and the important role they played in financing antebellum development. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
