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Author : Griff Everett
Publisher : Young Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780955809804
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Samuel Slater - Hero Or Traitor? written by Griff Everett and published by Young Writers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Worcester Historical Museum
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584657774
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Landscape of Industry written by Worcester Historical Museum and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the cradle of American industrialization
Author : J. Alison Rosenblitt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246973
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War written by J. Alison Rosenblitt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive biography of E. E. Cummings’s early life, including his World War I ambulance service and subsequent imprisonment, inspirations for his inventive poetry. E. E. Cummings is one of our most popular and enduring poets, one whose name extends beyond the boundaries of the literary world. Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, Cummings is not often thought of as a war poet. But his experience in France and as a prisoner during World War I (the basis for his first work of prose, The Enormous Room) escalated his earliest breaks with conventional form the innovation with which his name would soon become synonymous. Intimate and richly detailed, The Beauty of Living begins with Cummings’s Cambridge upbringing and his relationship with his socially progressive but domestically domineering father. It follows Cummings through his undergraduate experience at Harvard, where he fell into a circle of aspiring writers including John Dos Passos, who became a lifelong friend. Steeped in classical paganism and literary Decadence, Cummings and his friends rode the explosion of Cubism, Futurism, Imagism, and other “modern” movements in the arts. As the United States prepared to enter World War I, Cummings volunteered as an ambulance driver, shipped out to Paris, and met his first love, Marie Louise Lallemand, who was working in Paris as a prostitute. Soon after reaching the front, however, he was unjustly imprisoned in a brutal French detention center at La Ferté-Macé. Through this confrontation with arbitrary and sadistic authority, he found the courage to listen to his own voice. Probing an underexamined yet formative time in the poet’s life, this deeply researched account illuminates his ideas about love, justice, humanity, and brutality. J. Alison Rosenblitt weaves together letters, journal entries, and sketches with astute analyses of poems that span Cummings’s career, revealing the origins of one of the twentieth century’s most famous poets.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular English Emigrants to the United States written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah S. Kilborne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451671814
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book American Phoenix written by Sarah S. Kilborne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of nineteenth-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry, who lost everything in a devastating flood—and his improbable, inspiring comeback to the pinnacle of the business world. In 1845 a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Endowed with rare knowledge in the art of dyeing and an uncanny business sense, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, quickly rising to prominence in the nation’s new luxury industry. Soon he opened his own factory and began turning out one of the bestselling silk brands in the country. Skinner was lauded as a pioneer in the textile industry and a manufacturer who knew no such word as fail. His business grew to sustain a bustling community filled with men, women, and children, living and working in the mill village of “Skinner-ville,” producing the country’s most glamorous, fashionable thread. Then, in 1874, disaster struck. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water burst through a nearby dam, destroying everything in its path, including Skinnerville. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s entire life’s work was swept away, and he found himself one of the central figures in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known. In this gripping narrative history, Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, tells an inspiring, unforgettable American story—of a town devastated by unimaginable catastrophe; an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs; and a man who had nothing—and everything—to lose as he struggled—and succeeded— to rebuild his life for a second time. American Phoenix offers a new twist on the American dream, reminding us that just when we thought the dream was over, it may have only just begun.
Author : M.E. Reilly-McGreen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423843X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Revolutionaries, Rebels and Rogues of Rhode Island written by M.E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but it has the tallest tales. It's home to many larger-than-life men with exciting stories of mutiny, revolt and daring. Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft tries to escape the grasp of the demonic "Night-Gaunts" that haunt him. Captain William Kidd, convicted of piracy and murder, is hung and left to rot as a warning for others pursuing a similar career path. And Samuel Slater, Father of the Industrial Revolution, may be a revolutionary in our eyes, but he is considered a treasonous rogue by the English. Travel with M.E. Reilly-McGreen as she follows up her book Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of Rhode Island with tales of the best and worst men The Ocean State has to offer.
Author : Eleanor Casella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019969396X
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology written by Eleanor Casella and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through international and multi-period chapters, this volume explores the origins and development of industrialisation from its emergence in 18th century Europe to its contemporary ubiquity. It interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialisation and its environmental and social legacy in our globalised world.
Author : David J. Kent
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149306388X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Lincoln: The Fire of Genius written by David J. Kent and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln had a lifelong fascination with science and technology, a fascination that would help institutionalize science, win the Civil War, and propel the nation into the modern age. Readers will learn through Lincoln: The Fire of Genius how science and technology gradually infiltrated Lincoln’s remarkable life and influenced his growing desire to improve the condition of all men. The book traces this progression from a simple farm boy to a president who changed the world. Counter to conventional wisdom, subsistence farming provides a considerable education in agronomic science, forest ecology, hydrology, and even a little civil engineering. Continuing through a lifetime of self-study, curiosity, and hard work, Lincoln became the only President with a patent, advocated for technological advancement as a legislator in Illinois and in Washington, and became the “go-to” western lawyer on technology, and patent cases during his legal career. During the Civil War, Lincoln drew upon his commitment to science and personally encouraged inventors while taking dramatic steps to institutionalize science via the Smithsonian Institution, create the National Academy of Sciences, and initiate the Department of Agriculture. Lincoln’s insistence on high-tech weaponry, balloon surveillance, strategic use of telegraphy, and railroad deployment positioned the North to achieve Union victory.
Author : Prabir Purkayastha
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1685900712
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Knowledge as Commons: Toward Inclusive Science and Technology written by Prabir Purkayastha and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful contribution to the debate on intellectual property Knowledge as Commons traces the historical path towards the privatization of knowledge, situating science, technology and the emergence of modern nations in a larger historical framework. Author Prabir Purkayastha asks: Do the needs of society drive science and technology? Or do developments in science and technology provide the motor force of history? Has this relationship changed over time? Purkayastha shows us that, with profit as its sole aim, capital claims to own human knowledge and its products, fencing them in with patents and intellectual property rights. Neoliberal institutions and policy diktats from the West have installed a global system in which knowledge, that limitless resource, is made artificially scarce—while limited resources such as water and clean air are treated as though they were infinite. Arguing that rapid technological change, from pharmaceuticals to electronics, should be an opportunity to deliver quicker cures, affordable access, and global cooperation in the production of knowledge, Purkayastha examines the consequences of this privatization for universities, healthcare, distributive justice, the domestic politics of developing countries, and their prospects vis-à-vis the West.
Author : David Daokui Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813345209
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Economic Lessons from China’s Forty Years of Reform and Opening-up written by David Daokui Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book first shows that the past 40 years of China's economic reform and opening up represents the greatest magnitude of economic growth in history. Based on field trips, extensive and intensive interviews and literature surveys, this book argues that there are five general lessons for a rapid growing economy from China's economic reform and opening up, all in the area of the relationship between the government and the economy. First, the local governments need to be incentivized to help rapid entry and development of enterprises. Second, local governments need to be incentivized to help rapid land conversion from agricultural to non-agricultural. Third, financial deepening is vital; that is, inducing households to hold more and more financial assets in local currency. Financial deepening is essential to convert savings into investments. This requires financial stability, which is crucial. Fourth, the learning through opening up is the key to endogenous economic growth. The fundamental benefit of opening up is learning rather than enjoying comparative advantage. The fifth and final lesson from China is that the central government must proactively manage the macroeconomy. The rationale is that enterprises compete with each other in games of industrial organization. In order to resolve this problem, proactive measures including market-oriented means, administrative orders and reform measures should be implemented. Overall, the main lesson from China's past 40 years of reform and opening up is that proper incentives and behavior of the government, local and central, are important for economic growth. China has been conducting reforms in this regard and as a result, the government more or less has been playing the role of a "helping hand" regarding economic growth, although China's economic system is far from perfect and many reforms are still needed.
Author : Ruth King Freymann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Kings written by Ruth King Freymann and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Iacobacci
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359783007
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Fabric of a Nation written by Robert Iacobacci and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allison Marsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440853339
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Factory written by Allison Marsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book goes beyond the assembly line to examine the physical environment of the industrial landscape. What machines are used to make cars and computer chips? Who are the people who make the products? When did robots replace humans on the assembly line? Why are factories configured the way they are? The Factory: A Social History of Work and Technology answers these questions and more, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look into the wonders of mass production. The book traces the history of the factory from the first small cottage workshop through the Industrial Revolution to the large, clean room it is today. It also examines the people behind the machines and how their roles have been defined by the design of factory buildings. Lastly, it illustrates the broader world of industrialization in relation to the effects it has had on workers and the consumer society that feeds it.
Author : Paul F. Caranci
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236232
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book North Providence written by Paul F. Caranci and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1765, settlers to the west of Providence petitioned to form their own township. Their prayers were answered, and North Providence, Rhode Island, was born. While it sheltered religious dissenters, North Providence was also the sparking point of the Industrial Revolution--native sons and industrialists Samuel Slater and Zachariah Allen reinvented the cotton industry and altered the course of the nation. In this history of North Providence, author Paul F. Caranci celebrates the town's colorful characters and provides walking tours for the villages of Lymansville, Allendale, Centredale and Fruit Hill. Learn how North Providence native Stephen Olney became a Revolutionary War hero when he pulled an injured James Monroe from the battlefield and how Frank C. Angell became a spokesman for Centredale. Caranci reveals the unique history of North Providence and the people who shaped it.
Author : Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1015 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Energy in American History written by Jeffrey B. Webb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics"--
Author : Danielle Thorne
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620236370
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution written by Danielle Thorne and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries saw a period of technological, historical, and even social advancements. Men like James Hargreaves and Eli Whitney worked to make life easier for the working class, inventing machines like the spinning jenny and the cotton gin. But men weren’t the only luminaries of the Industrial Revolution: women of all ages from the joined in the revolution to further advance society. Margaret Elizabeth Knight brought paper bags to the world, and Elizabeth Magie’s interest in politics and economics gave us the much beloved game of Monopoly. And what would we do without Tabitha Babbitt’s circular saw or Josephine Cochran’s dishwasher? In today’s modern world, we often take important inventions like these for granted, but with their female inventors, we’d be living vastly different lives. A part of the Hidden in History series, “The Untold Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution” shares the stories of women who should be remembered for their remarkable talents, ingenious inventions, and hard work, but have been previously overshadowed and forgotten to history.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2744 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 2744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
