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Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book The Spider and the Fly written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : One Who Knows
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385207487
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book The Spider and the Fly written by One Who Knows and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079229
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (792 download)
Download or read book Victorian Cities written by Asa Briggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-03-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well.
Author : William A. Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469608987
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Civil War Era written by William A. Blair and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor. The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 3, Number 3 September 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture Steven Hahn Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State Beth Schweiger The Literate South: Reading before Emancipation Brian Luskey Special Marts: Intelligence Offices, Labor Commodification, and Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century America Review Essay Nicole Etcheson Microhistory and Movement: African American Mobility in the Nineteenth Century Book Reviews Books Received Professional Notes Megan Kate Nelson Looking at Landscapes of War Notes on Contributors The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century
Author : Gwendolyn Wright
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307817113
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Building The Dream written by Gwendolyn Wright and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves? Why were all the walls in nineteenth-century tenements painted white? Why did the parlor suddenly disappear from middle-class houses at the turn of the century? How did the federal highway system change the way millions of Americans raised their families? Building the Dream introduces the parade of people, policies, and ideologies that have shaped the course of our daily lives by shaping the rooms we have grown up in. In the row houses of colonial Philadelphia, the luxury apartments of New York City, the prefab houses of Levittown, and the public-housing towers of Chicago, Wright discovers revealing clues to our past and a new way of looking at such contemporary issues as integration, sustainable energy, the needs of the elderly, and how we define "family."
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Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Macek
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452908694
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Urban Nightmares written by Steve Macek and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Loren Hartley
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659297
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Evangelicals at a Crossroads written by Benjamin Loren Hartley and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Boston revivalism and social reform
Author : Christopher Breu
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816644346
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Hard-boiled Masculinities written by Christopher Breu and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive behavior, and an amoral worldview. This ideal of a hard-boiled masculinity can be seen in the pages and, even more vividly, on the covers of magazines such as Black Mask, which shifted from Victorian-influenced depictions of men in top hats and mustaches in the early 1920s to the portrayal of much more overtly violent and muscular men. Looking closely at this transformation, Christopher Breu offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace and traces the changes in its cultural conception as it moved back and forth across the divide between high and low culture as well as the color line that bifurcated American society. Examining the work of Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, and William Faulkner, as well as many lesser-known writers for the hypermasculine pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, Breu illustrates how the tough male was a product of cultural fantasy, one that shored up gender and racial stereotypes as a way of lashing out at the destabilizing effects of capitalism and social transformation. Christopher Breu is assistant professor of English at Illinois State University.
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Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott W. Berg
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0804197849
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Burning of the World written by Scott W. Berg and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthralling story of the Great Chicago Fire and the power struggle over the city’s reconstruction in the wake of the tragedy In October of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the “big one”—a massive, uncontrollable fire that would decimate the city. There hadn’t been a meaningful rain since July, and several big blazes had nearly outstripped the fire department’s scant resources. On October 8, when Kate Leary’s barn caught fire, so began a catastrophe that would forever change the soul of the city. Leary was a diligent, hardworking Irish woman, no more responsible for the fire than anyone else in the city at that time. But the conflagration that spread from her property quickly overtook the neighborhood, and before too long the floating embers had spread to the far reaches of the city. Families took to the streets with everything they could carry. Grain towers threatened to blow. The Chicago River boiled. Over the course of the next forty-eight hours, Chicago saw the biggest and most destructive disaster the United States had ever endured, and Leary would be its scapegoat. Out of the ashes rose not just new skyscrapers, tenements, and homes, but also a new political order. The city’s elite saw an opportunity to rebuild on their terms, cracking down on crime and licentiousness and fortifying a business-friendly environment. But the city’s working class recognized a naked power grab that would challenge their traditions, hurt their chances of rebuilding, and move power out of elected officials’ hands and into private interests. As quickly as the firefight ended, another battle for the future of the city began between the town’s business elites and the poor and immigrant working class. An enrapturing account of the fire’s devastating path and an eye-opening look at its aftermath, The Burning of the World tells the story of one of the most infamous calamities in history and the powerful transformation that followed.
Author : Juan R. Garc’a
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816515851
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932 written by Juan R. Garc’a and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in this century, a few Mexican migrants began streaming northward into the Midwest, but by 1914--in response to the war in Europe and a booming U.S. economy--the stream had become a flood. Barely a generation later, this so-called Immigrant Generation of Mexicans was displaced and returned to the U.S. Southwest or to Mexico. Drawing on both published works and archival materials, this new study considers the many factors that affected the process of immigration as well as the development of communities in the region. These include the internal forces of religion, ethnic identity, and a sense of nationalism, as well as external influences such as economic factors, discrimination, and the vagaries of U.S.-Mexico relations. Here is a book that persuasively challenges many prevailing assumptions about Mexican people and the communities they established in the Midwest. The author notes the commonalities and differences between Mexicans in that region and their compadres who settled elsewhere. He further demonstrates that although Mexicans in the Midwest maintained a strong sense of cultural identity, they were quick to adopt the consumer culture and other elements of U.S. life that met their needs. Focusing on a people, place, and time rarely covered before now, this wide-ranging work will be welcomed by scholars and students of history, sociology, and Chicano studies. General readers interested in ethnic issues and the multicultural fabric of American society will find here a window to the past as well as new perspectives for understanding the present and the future.
Author : Marcus Klein
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299143046
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes written by Marcus Klein and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marcus Klein makes major contributions to American studies, literary criticism, and intellectual and social history. In a perfectly crystalline and crystallized way, he brilliantly exhibits how the American imagination was rapidly, unexpectedly, and utterly transformed as we made for the twentieth century. Klein demonstrates how immigration, popular literature, the rise of ethnicity, new psychological fears, and old fables mixed together to make modern America. No one has seen the underside of the American imagination so clearly and originally; but once we are allowed to see what Klein does, our understanding of our history and its vicissitudes is changed for good."--Jay Martin, University of Southern California
Author : General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library
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Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Apprentices' Library written by General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Mercantile Library Association
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Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco written by San Francisco (Calif.). Mercantile Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mercantile Library Association (San Francisco, Calif.). Library
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Total Pages : 976 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco written by Mercantile Library Association (San Francisco, Calif.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
