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Author : George Allen Fowlkes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCAL:B4140711
Author : Ross Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520975248
Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists’ financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy—Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow Homer—Ross Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and representing land, inspiring them to develop innovative figural, landscape, and marine paintings that radically reworked visual conventions. This approach moved beyond just aesthetics, however, and the book traces how artists creatively interrogated the economic, environmental, and cultural dynamics of American real estate capitalism. In doing so, Speculative Landscapes reveals how the provocative experience of land investment spurred painters to produce uniquely insightful critiques of the emerging real estate economy, critiques that uncovered its fiscal perils and social costs and imagined spaces outside the regime of private property.
Author : Dona Brown
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560987994
Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life. Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. She also examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications.
Author : Jim Patrick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499051445
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Islands
ISBN : UCAL:B5160713
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045397572
Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Cape Cod (Mass.)
ISBN : 9781400017348
Sketches Cape Cod's history, describes sights and tourist attractions in the area, and recommends hotels and restaurants.
Author : Frances Ruley Karttunen
Publisher : Spinner Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0932027938
"Contrary to what public history and popular literature might have led us to believe, Nantucket is historically an island of rich cultural diversity. Here, author Frances Ruley Karttunen introduces us to the original Nantucketers -- the Wampanoags -- as well as to African slaves, Pacific Islanders, Irish refugees, Azoreans, and Cape Verdeans who over the years have found a home on Nantucket. Here, too, is a look at the island's connection to Jamaica, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia -- all sources of people who have contributed to the island's economy and added dimensions to Nantucket's culture" -- Back cover.
Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400018987
Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.
Author : Frank Morral,Barbara Ann White
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625852359
The celebrated history of Nantucket's great whaling days often overshadows the fascinating changes that took place in the years following. Discover the story behind the Nantucket Civil War Monument--and learn about some named on it, some left off and some who may not belong. Meet the Cold Water Army of seven hundred schoolchildren who paraded against King Alcohol in hopes that the island would become a temperance oasis. Little remains of the bathing pavilion and water slide of the long-lost town of Coatue that once had big plans for expansion. With surprising facts and captivating tales, authors Frank Morral and Barbara Ann White explore these and other lost accounts of the faraway island.
Author : Steven Axelrod
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781464212482
It's wedding season on Nantucket, and two unwelcome guests are crashing the party... When people begin disappearing from the island, Nantucket Police Chief Henry Kennis is baffled. The victims are not random—they're all Nantucket High School alumni. And the only clues left behind are pennies dropped at the sites of the kidnappings. There's an old island tradition of tossing a penny from the ferry as you depart to ensure your eventual return... Has someone come back to the island with a sinister grudge to settle? Sippy Bascomb and Doug Fraker were childhood best friends—bonded as fellow victims of bullying at the hands of their classmates. The two men hadn't seen each other in years, but when Sippy comes across Doug's blog airing grievances from the past, the two reconnect and hatch a plan to return to the island. Both seek revenge, but Doug wants their tormentors to face a tribunal and appoints himself judge, jury, and executioner... When Henry's fiancée joins the missing, he enlists the aid of former intelligence agent Mitch Stone, a native who has returned to the island hoping for a peaceful retirement. The two men know they must find where their friends are being put on trial for their childhood crimes—before their deadly sentences can be carried out.
Author : R. H Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030019482159
Author : Jenny Masur
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439666036
Many of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Men and women, black and white, operatives and freedom seekers - all demonstrated courage, resourcefulness and initiative. Leonard Grimes, a free African American, was arrested for transporting enslaved people to freedom. John Dean, a white lawyer, used the District courts to test the legality of the Fugitive Slave Act. Anna Maria Weems dressed as a boy in order to escape to Canada. Enslaved people engineered escapes, individually and in groups, with and without the assistance of an organized network. Some ended up back in slavery or in jail, but some escaped to freedom. Anthropologist and author Jenny Masur tells their stories.
Author : Helen H. Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89072657588
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0141001828
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick. Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history. In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea, recently adapted into a major feature film starring Chris Hemsworth, is a book for the ages.