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Book Synopsis Victorine du Pont by : Leonard C. Spitale
Download or read book Victorine du Pont written by Leonard C. Spitale and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through correspondence with friends and relatives from the ages of eight to sixty-eight, Victorine unwittingly chronicled the first sixty years of the du Pont saga in America. As she recovered from personal tragedy, she became first tutor of her siblings and relations. This biography makes the case that Victorine has had the broadest—and most enduring—influence within the entire du Pont family of any family member. The intellectual heir of her venerable grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, although Victorine grew up in an age where women's opportunities were limited, her pioneering efforts in education, medicine, and religion transformed an entire millworkers’ community.
Book Synopsis Disorderly Conduct by : Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Download or read book Disorderly Conduct written by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and published by Galaxy Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist history. Throughout Disorderly Conduct, Smith-Rosenberg startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner emotional life now take on a new meaning.
Book Synopsis Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence by :
Download or read book Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence by :
Download or read book Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reading Austen in America by : Juliette Wells
Download or read book Reading Austen in America written by Juliette Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame. Drawing on a range of sources that have never before come to light, Juliette Wells solves the long-standing bibliographical mystery of how and why the first Austen novel printed in America-the 1816 Philadelphia Emma-came to be. She reveals the responses of this book's varied readers and creates an extended portrait of one: Christian, Countess of Dalhousie, a Scotswoman living in British North America. Through original archival research, Wells establishes the significance to reception history of two transatlantic friendships: the first between ardent Austen enthusiasts in Boston and members of Austen's family in the nineteenth century, and the second between an Austen collector in Baltimore and an aspiring bibliographer in England in the twentieth.
Download or read book Du Pont Dynasty written by Gerard Colby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the author Their name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts, from their mansions in northern Delaware’s “Chateau Country,” have long been leaders in the relentless drive to turn the United States into a plutocracy. The Du Pont story in this country began in 1800. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, official keeper of the gunpowder of corrupt King Louis XVI, fled from revolutionary France to America. Two years later he founded the gunpowder company that called itself “America’s armorer”—and that President Wilson’s secretary of war called a “species of outlaws” for war profiteering. Du Pont Dynasty introduces many colorful characters, including “General” Henry du Pont, who profited from the Civil War to build the Gunpowder Trust, one of the first corporate monopolies; Alfred I. du Pont, betrayed by his cousins and pushed out of the organization, landing in social exile as the powerful “Count of Florida”; the three brothers who expanded Du Pont’s control to General Motors, fought autoworkers’ right to unionize, and then launched a family tradition of waging campaigns to destroy FDR’s New Deal regulatory reforms; Governor Pete du Pont, who ran for president and backed Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Republican Revolution; and Irving S. Shapiro, the architect of Du Pont’s ongoing campaign to undermine effective environmental regulation. From plans to force President Roosevelt from office, to munitions sales to warlords and the rising Nazis, to Freon’s damage to the planet’s life-protecting ozone layer, to the manufacture of deadly gases and the covered-up poisoning of Du Pont workers, to the reputation the company earned for being the worst polluter of America’s air and water, the Du Pont reign has been dappled with scandal for centuries. Culled from years of painstaking research and interviews, this fully documented book unfolds like a novel. Laying bare the bitter feuds, power plays, smokescreens, and careless unaccountability that erupted in murder, Colby pulls back the curtain on a dynasty whose formidable influence continues to this day. Suppressed in myriad ways and the subject of the author’s landmark federal lawsuit, Du Pont Dynasty is an essential history of the United States.
Book Synopsis Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence ... by : Bessie Gardner Du Pont
Download or read book Life of Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence ... written by Bessie Gardner Du Pont and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry F. Du Pont and Winterthur by : Ruth Lord
Download or read book Henry F. Du Pont and Winterthur written by Ruth Lord and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Henry du Pont and the museum of Americana he envisioned.
Book Synopsis Colonial families of Philadelphia by : John W. Jordan
Download or read book Colonial families of Philadelphia written by John W. Jordan and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1911 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colonial Families of Philadelphia by : John Woolf Jordan
Download or read book Colonial Families of Philadelphia written by John Woolf Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Duncan Phyfe written by Peter M. Kenny and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designing high-quality furniture for New York's moneyed elite, Phyfe would come to count among his clients some of the nation's wealthiest and most storied families. This richly illustrated volume covers the full chronological sweep of the craftsman's distinguished career, from his earliest furniture-- which bears the influence of his 18th-century British predecessors Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Hope--to his late simplified designs in the Grecian Plain. More than sixty works by Phyfe and his workshop are highlighted, including rarely seen pieces from private collections and several newly discovered documented works. Additionally, essays by leading scholars bring to light new information on Phyfe's life, his workshop production, and his roster of illustrious patrons. What unfolds is the story of Phyfe's remarkable transformation from a young immigrant craftsman to an accomplished master cabinetmaker and an American icon."--Publisher's website.
Book Synopsis Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by : Daniel Gerster
Download or read book Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Daniel Gerster and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of pupils attended boarding schools in various places across the globe. Their experiences were vastly different, yet they all had in common that they were separated from their families and childhood friends for a period of time in order to sleep, eat, learn and move within the limited spatial sites of the boarding school. This book frames these ‘boarding schools’ as a global and transcultural phenomenon that is part of larger political and social developments of European imperialism, the Cold War, and independence movements. Drawing together case studies from colonial South Africa, colonial India, Dutch Indonesia, early twentieth-century Nigeria, Fascist Spain, Ghana, Nazi Germany, nineteenth-century Ireland, North America and the Soviet Union, this edited collection examines the ways in which boarding schools extracted pupils from their original social background in order to train, mold and shape them so that they could fit into the perceived position in broader society. The book makes the broader argument that framing boarding schools as a global phenomenon is imperative for a deepened understanding of the global and transnational networks that linked people as well as ideas and practices of education and childhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, a History, 1802-1902 by : Bessie Gardner Du Pont
Download or read book E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, a History, 1802-1902 written by Bessie Gardner Du Pont and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Powder, White Lace by : Margaret M. Mulrooney
Download or read book Black Powder, White Lace written by Margaret M. Mulrooney and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new edition of the book is being published to remind readers of the rich materials available on the du Pont workers, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America. Explosives work was dangerous, but the du Ponts provided a host of benefits to their workers. As a result, the Irish remained loyal to their employers, convinced by their everyday experiences that their interests and the du Ponts' were one and the same. Employing a wide array of sources, Mulrooney turns away from the worksite and toward the domestic sphere, revealing that powder mill families asserted their distinctive ethno-religious heritage at the same time as they embraced what U.S. capitalism had to offer.
Book Synopsis Alfred I. Du Pont by : Joseph Frazier Wall
Download or read book Alfred I. Du Pont written by Joseph Frazier Wall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly written biography, Wall ranges from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemour's spectacular rise in pre-Revolutionary France, to the family's migration to America and the founding of the Du Pont Company, to Alfred's death in 1935, charting the growth of one of America's great industrial dynasties. Illustrated.
Book Synopsis Private Philanthropy and Public Education by : Robert J. Taggart
Download or read book Private Philanthropy and Public Education written by Robert J. Taggart and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Delaware's experience of educational modernization led by Pierre S. du Pont, from a local-based collection of school districts to a coherent state system that by the 1930s ranked near the top in the nation.
Book Synopsis American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum by : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
Download or read book American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum written by Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and published by Winterthur Museum. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading authority on early American paintings describes 80 of the most significant paintings collected by Henry Francis du Pont, including oils & watercolors by major artists, portraits of great historical importance, & stirring pictures of marine & military subjects.
