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Carpet Capital

Author : Randall L. Patton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820324647
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Carpet Capital written by Randall L. Patton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, the carpet industry came to be identified with the Dalton region of northwest Georgia. Here, entrepreneurs hit upon a new technology called tufting, which enabled them to take control of this important segment of America’s textile industry, previously dominated by woven-wool carpet manufacturers in the Northeast. Dalton now dominates carpet production in the United States, manufacturing 70 percent of the domestic product, and prides itself as the carpet capital of the world. Carpet Capital is a story of revolutionary changes that transformed both an industry and a region. Its balanced and candid account details the rise of a home-grown southern industry and entrepreneurial capitalism at a time when other southern state and local governments sought to attract capital and technology from outside the region. The book summarizes the development of the American carpet industry from the early nineteenth century through the 1930s. In describing the tufted carpet boom, it focuses on Barwick Mills, Galaxy Mills, and Shaw Industries as representative of various phases in the industry’s history. It tells how owners coordinated efforts to keep carpet mills unorganized, despite efforts of the Textile Workers Union of America, by promoting a vision of the future based on individual ambition rather than collective security. Randall L. Patton and David B. Parker show that Dalton has evolved in much the same way as California’s Silicon Valley, experiencing both a rapid expansion of new firms started by entrepreneurs who had apprenticed in older firms and an air of cooperation both among owners and between mills and local government. Their close examination of this industry provides important insights for scholars and business leaders alike, enhancing our appreciation of entrepreneurial achievement and broadening our understanding of economic growth in the modern South.

Covenant of Care

Author : Alan M. Kraut
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813539102
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Covenant of Care written by Alan M. Kraut and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trouble in the Beth Israel Hospital Association"--The formative years -- From little house on the hill to modern institution -- A modern hospital surviving depression and war -- Medicine at the Beth, 1928-1947 -- The modern institution at midcentury -- Medical research at midcentury -- Redefining the Beth's community -- The changing shape of health care.

The Man Who Tried to Burn New York

Author : Nat Brandt
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475915845
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Tried to Burn New York written by Nat Brandt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-08-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a desperate attempt to bring the North to the bargaining table and end what was to the South a losing war, Confederate spies in Canada launch a plot to burn New York City on the day after Thanksgiving in 1864. A group of rebel officers, escapees from Union prison camps who had fled to neutral Canada for safety, reach the city by train and, in disguise, take rooms in various hotels in downtown New York. They fail but only because, unknowingly, they use a chemical mixture that requires oxygen. Smoke from the incipient fires they set is quickly discovered and the fires put out. In the dramatic search for the conspirators that follows, only one of them is caught, Robert Cobb Kennedy, a captain from Louisiana. He is tried, convicted and hanged... the last rebel executed by the North before the end of the war. The Man Who Tried to Burn New York won the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award in 1987.

Paper of Wreckage

Author : Susan Mulcahy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982164832
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Paper of Wreckage written by Susan Mulcahy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jaw-dropping and unputdownable oral history of the New York Post and the legendary tabloid’s cultural impact from the 1970s to today as recounted by the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. By the 1970s, the country’s oldest continuously published newspaper had fallen on hard times, just like its nearly bankrupt hometown. When the New York Post was sold to a largely unknown Australian named Rupert Murdoch in 1976, staffers hoped it would be the start of a new golden age for the paper. Now, after the nearly fifty years Murdoch has owned the tabloid, American culture reflects what Murdoch first started in the 1970s: a celebrity-focused, noisy, one-sided media empire that reached its zenith with Fox News. Drawing on extensive interviews with key players and in-depth research, this eye-opening, wildly entertaining oral history shows us how we got to this point. It’s a rollicking tale full of bad behavior, inflated egos, and a corporate culture that rewarded skirting the rules and breaking norms. But working there was never boring and now, you can discover the entire remarkable true story of America’s favorite tabloid newspaper.

The Mommy Myth

Author : Susan Jeanne Douglas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743259998
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Mommy Myth written by Susan Jeanne Douglas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the history of women in the United States in relation to motherhood.

Records and Briefs New York State Appellate Division

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Looking Forward, Looking Back

Author : Jana Pohl
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401200718
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Looking Forward, Looking Back written by Jana Pohl and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children, especially if it was caused by Anti-Semitism and poverty? What of the country of origin is remembered and what is forgotten, and what of the target country when the migration is imagined there a century later? Looking Forward, Looking Back examines today’s representation of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe to America around the turn of the last century. It explores the collective story that emerges when American authors look back at this exodus from an Eastern European home to a new one to be established in America. Focusing on children’s literature, it investigates a wide range of texts including young adult literature as well as picture books and hence sheds light on the dynamics of the verbal and the visual in generating images of the self and other, the familiar and the strange. This book is of interest to scholars in the field of imagology, children’s literature, cultural studies, American studies, Slavic studies, and Jewish studies.

Gateway to the Promised Land

Author : Mario Maffi
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814755097
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Gateway to the Promised Land written by Mario Maffi and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural diversity of America is often summed up by way of a different metaphors: Melting Pot, Patchwork, Quilt, Mosaic--none of which capture the symbiotics of the city. Few neighborhoods personify the diversity these terms connote more than New York City's Lower East Side. This storied urban landscape, today a vibrant mix of avant garde artists and street culture, was home, in the 1910s, to the Wobblies and served, forty years later, as an inspiration for Allen Ginsberg's epic Howl. More recently, it has launched the career of such bands as the B-52s and been the site of one of New York's worst urban riots. In this diverse neighborhood, immigrant groups from all over the world touched down on American soild for the first time and established roots that remain to this day: Chinese immigrants, Italians, and East European Jews at the turn of the century and Puerto Ricans in the 1950s. Over the last hundred years, older communities were transformed and new ones emerged. Chinatown and Little Italy, once solely immigrant centers, began to attract tourists. In the 1960s, radical young whites fled an expensive, bourgeois lifestyle for the urban wilderness of the Lower East Side. Throughout its long and complex history, the Lower East Side has thus come to represent both the compulsion to assimilate American culture, and the drive to rebel against it. Mario Maffi here presents us with a captivating picture of the Lower East Side from the unique perspective of an outsider. The product of a decade of research, Gateway to the Promised Land will appeal to cultural historians, urban, and American historians, and anyone concerned with the challenges America, as an increasingly multicultural society, faces.

Somewhere at Se

Author : Richard Browner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440140650
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Somewhere at Se written by Richard Browner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does anyone come to realize the full potential of his or her life?Childhood is long and confusing and accompanied by few tools with which to accurately measure certainty. For some the process is revealed early on, for others life simply unfolds and recognition comes later. There is no one, universal answer, but with time and patience and a developing sense of self-acceptance, the segments of life's uncertainties can be knitted together into fulfilling whole.

Freakery

Author : Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814782224
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Freakery written by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered spectators an icon of bodily otherness whose difference from them secured their own membership in a common American identity--by comparison ordinary, tractable, normal. Rosemarie Thomson's groundbreaking anthology probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; contemporary relocations of freak shows; and theoretical analyses of freak culture. Essays address such diverse topics as American colonialism and public presentations of natives; laughing gas demonstrations in the 1840's; Shirley Temple and Tom Thumb; Todd Browning's landmark movie Freaks; bodybuilders as postmodern freaks; freaks in Star Trek; Michael Jackson's identification with the Elephant Man; and the modern talk show as a reconfiguration of the freak show. In her introduction, Thomson traces the freak show from antiquity to the modern period and explores the constitutive, political, and textual properties of such exhibits. Freakery is a fresh, insightful exploration of a heretofore neglected aspect of American mass culture.

Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats

Author : Christine M. Hunter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730258
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats written by Christine M. Hunter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats is a delightfully illustrated and readable introduction to the evolution of America's housing forms and the ways that they shape - and limit - the neighborhoods around them.

Photography and the USA

Author : Mick Gidley
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861898835
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Photography and the USA written by Mick Gidley and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ansel Adams to Carleton Watkins, Diane Arbus to Weegee, Richard Avedon to James VanDerZee, American photographers have recorded their vast, multicultural nation in images that, for more than a hundred years, have come to define the USA. In Photography and the USA, Mick Gidley explores not only the medium of photography and the efforts to capture key events and moments through photographs, but also the many ways in which the medium has played a formative role in American culture. Photography and the USA encompasses the major movements, figures and works that are crucial to understanding American photography, but also pays attention to more obscure aspects of photography’s history. Focusing on works that reveal many different facets of America, its landscapes and its people, Gidley explores the ambiguities of American history and culture. We encounter images that range from an anti-lynching demo in 1934 to Dorothea Lange’s poster “All races serve the crops in California;” an early photographic view of Niagara Falls against the painstaking detail of Edward Weston’s Pepper, No. 30; a fireman’s fight in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to the Ground Zero images of 2001 by Joel Meyerowitz; an 1890s “Wanted” image to Elliot Erwitt’s shot of the Nixon–Kruschchev “Kitchen Debate.” Organizing his narrative around the themes of history, technology, the document and the emblem, Mick Gidley not only presents a history of photography, but also reveals the complexities inherent in reading photographs themselves. A concise yet comprehensive overview of photography in the United States, this book is an excellent introduction to the subject for American Studies or visual arts students, or for anyone interested in US history or culture.

American Heritage

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book American Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fever and Thirst

Author : Gordon Taylor
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897335724
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Fever and Thirst written by Gordon Taylor and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Americans to work with the people of the Middle East were neither spies nor soldiers. They were, in fact, teachers, printers, and missionaries; and one was a country doctor from Utica, NY. In June of 1835 Asahel Grant, M.D. and his bride, Judith, sailed from Boston to heal the sick and save the world. Fever and Thirst tells the story of Asahel Grant: explorer, physician, author and the first American to become enmeshed in the struggles of northern Iraq.

The Golden Heritage

Author : Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Heritage written by Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jews of Weequahic

Author : Linda B. Forgosh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738557632
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Jews of Weequahic written by Linda B. Forgosh and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as Newark's "Jewish Frontier," Weequahic was home to 35,000 Jewish residents from the 1930s to the 1960s. Homes built on farm lots, known as Lyons Farms, attracted the city's upwardly mobile Jewish families. Weequahic High School still remains at the heart of the community, drawing generations of alumni for annual reunions and events. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth, a Weequahic High School graduate, found inspiration in the community, documenting its intricacies in his work. The high school still houses a mural, The Enlightenment of Man, painted by New Deal painter Michael Lenson. This mural is regarded as one of the most important pieces of public art in the state. Jews of Weequahic captures the life of this vibrant community that has become one of Newark's legendary neighborhoods.

Texas Folklore Society: 1943-1971

Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780929398785
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Texas Folklore Society: 1943-1971 written by Francis Edward Abernethy and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a society that you join because you want to. The purpose of the society is to collect and make known to he public sons and ballads, superstitions, games, plays, and proverbs.