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Author : Thompson Westcott
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Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia written by Thompson Westcott and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thompson Westcott
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ISBN 13 : 9781104354787
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Download or read book The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia: With Some Notice of Their Owners and Occupants (1877) written by Thompson Westcott and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Detroit Public Library
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Total Pages : 916 pages
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Download or read book General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Thompson WESTCOTT
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Public Education Board
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Total Pages : 584 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Pedagogical Library written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Public Education Board and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grosvenor Library
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book An Indexed Catalogue of Books in the Department of Local History and Genealogy written by Grosvenor Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Clarke & Co
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Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca americana, 1878 written by Robert Clarke & Co and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Pessen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351492934
Total Pages : 401 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 401 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 : Mark E. Reinberger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418797
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Philadelphia Country House written by Mark E. Reinberger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable, beautifully illustrated study of the homes built by elite colonial Philadelphians as retreats—which balanced English models with developing local taste. Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century, Americans had developed their own version of the bourgeois English countryseat, a class of estate equally distinct in social function and form from townhouses, rural plantations, and farms. The metropolis of Philadelphia was surrounded by a particularly extraordinary collection of country houses and landscapes. Taken together, these estates make up one of the most significant groups of homes in colonial America. In this masterly volume, Mark Reinberger, a senior architectural historian, and Elizabeth McLean, an accomplished scholar of landscape history, examine the country houses that the urban gentry built on the outskirts of Philadelphia in response to both local and international economic forces, social imperatives, and fashion. What do these structures and their gardens say about the taste of the people who conceived and executed them? How did their evolving forms demonstrate the persistence of European templates while embodying the spirit of American adaptation? The Philadelphia Country House explores the myriad ways in which these estates—which were located in the country but responded to the ideas and manners of the city—straddled the cultural divide between urban and rural. Moving from general trends and building principles to architectural interiors and landscape design, Reinberger and McLean take readers on an intimate tour of the fine, fashionable elements found in upstairs parlors and formal gardens. They also reveal the intricate working world of servants, cellars, and kitchen gardens. Highlighting an important aspect of American historic architecture, this handsome volume is illustrated with nearly 150 photographs, more than 60 line drawings, and two color galleries.
Author : Thomas H. Keels
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231052
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Wicked Philadelphia written by Thomas H. Keels and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prim and proper Philadelphia has been rocked by the clash between excessive vice and social virtue since its citizens burned the city's biggest brothel in 1800. With tales of grave robbers in South Philadelphia and harlots in Franklin Square, Wicked Philadelphia reveals the shocking underbelly of the City of Brotherly Love. In one notorious scam, a washerwoman masqueraded as the fictional Spanish countess Anita de Bettencourt for two decades, bilking millions from victims and even fooling the government of Spain. From the 1843 media frenzy that ensued after an aristocrat abducted a young girl to a churchyard transformed into a brothel (complete with a carousel), local author Thomas H. Keels unearths Philadelphia's most scintillating scandals and corrupt characters in his rollicking history.
Author : Ryan K. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300196040
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Robert Morris's Folly written by Ryan K. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798 Robert Morris—“financier of the American Revolution,” confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator—plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin. Part biography, part architectural history, the book recounts Morris’s wild successes as a merchant, his recklessness as a land speculator, and his unrestrained passion in building his palatial, doomed mansion, once hailed as the most expensive private building in the United States but later known as “Morris’s Folly.” Setting Morris’s tale in the context of the nation’s founding, this volume refocuses attention on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure while also illuminating the origins of America’s ongoing, ambivalent attitudes toward the superwealthy and their sensational excesses.
Author : Long Island Historical Society. Library
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Total Pages : 826 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893 written by Long Island Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friederike Baer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814799809
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The Trial of Frederick Eberle written by Friederike Baer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-05-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is microhistory at its best. Friederike Baer has selected a single event and brilliantly used it to explore the larger culture and society of the time. With great clarity and insight Baer has investigated multicultural issues of language and the assimilation of immigrants that are as relevant for us today as they were to Americans two centuries ago. This is a very important and timely book.”Gordon S. Wood, Brown UniversityIn the summer of 1816, the state of Pennsylvania tried 59 German-Americans on charges of conspiracy and rioting. The accused had, according to the indictment, conspired to prevent with physical force the introduction of the English language into the largest German church in North America, Philadelphia’s Lutheran congregation of St. Michael’s and Zion. The trial marked the climax of an increasingly violent conflict over language choice in Philadelphia’s German community, with members bitterly divided into those who favored the exclusive use of German in their church, and those who preferred occasional services in English. At trial, witnesses, lawyers, defendants, and the judge explicitly linked language to class, citizenship, patriotism, religion, and violence. Mining many previously unexamined sources, including German-language writings, witness testimonies, and the opinions of prominent legal professionals, Friederike Baer uses legal conflict as a prism through which to explore the significance of language in the early American republic. The Trial of Frederick Eberle reminds us that debates over language have always been about far more than just language. Baer demonstrates that the 1816 trial was not a battle between Americans and immigrants, or German-speakers and English-speakers. Instead, the individuals involved in the case seized and exploited English and German as powerful symbols of competing cultural, economic, and social interests.
Author : Detroit Public Library
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Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thompson Westcott
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290895415
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia written by Thompson Westcott and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Total Pages : 992 pages
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Download or read book The Penn Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Ellis Thompson
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Total Pages : 992 pages
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Download or read book Penn Monthly written by Robert Ellis Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
