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Author : George Maurice Abbot
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Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book A Short History of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by George Maurice Abbot and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William S. Reese
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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book The Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints written by William S. Reese and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean D. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192573411
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries written by Sean D. Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.
Author : Edwin Wolf
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9780914076735
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (767 download)
Download or read book At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin written by Edwin Wolf and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on 1976 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Le Page du Pratz
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina written by Le Page du Pratz and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erika Piola
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027105252X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia on Stone written by Erika Piola and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays examining the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. Analyzes the social, economic, and technological changes in the local trade from 1828 to 1878"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean Patrick Adams
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421400510
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth written by Sean Patrick Adams and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, “Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!” With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation’s coal trade. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia’s leadership in the American coal industry had completely unraveled while Pennsylvania, at first slow to exploit its vast reserves of anthracite and bituminous coal, had become the country’s leading producer. Sean Patrick Adams compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role. Virginia’s failure to exploit the rich coal fields in the western part of the state can be traced to the legislature’s overriding concern to protect and promote the interests of the agrarian, slaveholding elite of eastern Virginia. Pennsylvania’s more factious legislature enthusiastically embraced a policy of economic growth that resulted in the construction of an extensive transportation network, a statewide geological survey, and support for private investment in its coal fields. Using coal as a barometer of economic change, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in American industrial development.
Author : David H. Stam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136777849
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book International Dictionary of Library Histories written by David H. Stam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the format of Fitzroy Dearborn's highly successful International Dictionary of Historic Places and International Dictionary of University Histories, the International Dictionary of Library Histories provides basic information for each institution - location and holdings - followed by an extensive (1,000-5,000 word) essay on its history as well as a Further Reading list. In addition, the dictionary includes introductory articles on the history of various types of libraries and a library history in various regions of the world. The dictionary profiles more than 200 institutions from around the world, including the world's most important research libraries and other libraries with globally or regionally notable collections, innovative traditions, and significant and interesting histories. The essays take advantage of the growing scholarship of library history to provide insightful overviews of each institution, including not only the traditional values of these libraries but their innovations as well, such as developments in automated systems and electronic delivery. The profiles will emphasize the unique materials of research in these institutions - archives, manuscripts, personal and institutional papers. The introductory articles on types of libraries include topics ranging from theological libraries to prison libraries, from the ancient to the digital. An international team of more than 200 leading scholars in the field have contributed essays to the project.
Author : Francis 4
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ISBN 13 : 9780990694793
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Download or read book Ghost River written by Francis 4 and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence A. Peskin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801887505
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Revolution written by Lawrence A. Peskin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While much has been written about the industrial revolution," writes Lawrence Peskin, "we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries." This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals. In Manufacturing Revolution Peskin deviates from both dominant paradigms by closely examining the words and deeds of individual Americans who made things in their own shops, who met in small groups to promote industrialization, and who, on the local level, strove for economic independence. In speeches, petitions, books, newspaper articles, club meetings, and coffee–house conversations, they fervently discussed the need for large-scale American manufacturing a half-century before the Boston Associates built their first factory. Peskin shows how these economic pioneers launched a discourse that continued for decades, linking industrialization to the cause of independence and guiding the new nation along the path of economic ambition. Based upon extensive research in both manuscript and printed sources from the period between 1760 and 1830, this book will be of interest to historians of the early republic and economic historians as well as to students of technology, business, and industry.
Author : Historical Records Survey of Pennsylvania
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of the Du Simitière Papers in the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Historical Records Survey of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Thomas Scharf
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Total Pages : 916 pages
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Download or read book History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 written by John Thomas Scharf and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book The Anti-slavery Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Charter, Laws, and Catalogue of Books, of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon Ann Murphy
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801899478
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Investing in Life written by Sharon Ann Murphy and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America. Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also analyzes changing roles for women; the attempts to adapt slavery to an urban, industrialized setting; the rise of statistical thinking; and efforts to regulate the business environment. Her research directly challenges the conclusions of previous scholars who have dismissed the importance of the earliest industry innovators while exaggerating clerical opposition to life insurance. Murphy examines insurance as both a business and a social phenomenon. She looks at how insurance companies positioned themselves within the marketplace, calculated risks associated with disease, intemperance, occupational hazard, and war, and battled fraud, murder, and suicide. She also discusses the role of consumers?their reasons for purchasing life insurance, their perceptions of the industry, and how their desires and demands shaped the ultimate product. Winner, Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference Praise for Investing in Life “A well-written, well-argued book that makes a number of important contributions to the history of business and capitalism in antebellum America.” —Sean H. Vanatta, Common Place “An intriguing, instructive history of the establishment and development of the life insurance industry that reveals a good deal about changing social and commercial conditions in antebellum America . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Author : National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of Research Programs
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Division of Research Programs written by National Endowment for the Humanities. Division of Research Programs and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
