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Author : Christopher Colles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Roads
ISBN : LCCN:06106351
Author : Ben A. Smith,James W. Vining
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313052934
The first major work to identify the original generation of American geographers—teachers, writers, surveyors, cartographers, engravers, and others—who made significant contributions to the field of geography during the early years of the republic. As such, it represents a powerful research tool for scholars interested in learning about this group and the products of their labors. A comprehensive and inclusive reference work, this book depicts the individuals who engaged in the establishment and description of the United States. It includes information on people who were involved in activities that led to a remarkable body of information, maps, and literature of a geographic nature about the country.
Author : Margaret Batschelet
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0810823187
"...useful to researchers in the history of science and in early American history." --ARBA
Author : Trish Loughran
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231511230
"In the beginning, all the world was America." John Locke In the beginning, everything was America, but where did America begin? In many narratives of American nationalism (both popular and academic), the United States begins in print-with the production, dissemination, and consumption of major printed texts like Common Sense , the Declaration of Independence, newspaper debates over ratification, and the Constitution itself. In these narratives, print plays a central role in the emergence of American nationalism, as Americans become Americans through acts of reading that connect them to other like-minded nationals. In The Republic in Print, however, Trish Loughran overturns this master narrative of American origins and offers a radically new history of the early republic and its antebellum aftermath. Combining a materialist history of American nation building with an intellectual history of American federalism, Loughran challenges the idea that print culture created a sense of national connection among different parts of the early American union and instead reveals the early republic as a series of local and regional reading publics with distinct political and geographical identities. Focusing on the years between 1770 and 1870, Loughran develops two richly detailed and provocative arguments. First, she suggests that it was the relative lack of a national infrastructure (rather than the existence of a tightly connected print network) that actually enabled the nation to be imagined in 1776 and ratification to be secured in 1787-88. She then describes how the increasingly connected book market of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s unexpectedly exposed cracks in the evolving nation, especially in regards to slavery, exacerbating regional differences in ways that ultimately contributed to secession and civil war. Drawing on a range of literary, historical, and archival materials-from essays, pamphlets, novels, and plays, to engravings, paintings, statues, laws, and maps The Republic in Print provides a refreshingly original cultural history of the American nation-state over the course of its first century.
Author : Brooke Hindle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780807838648
This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology. Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Henrietta M. Lily,Robert Zillman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448857869
New York State has many unique geographical qualities and resources that have helped make it a leader in business and industry. This fascinating book traces the history of the states industrial growth from its earliest colonial occupation by the Dutch to the development of factories and infrastructure that make New York the flourishing hub it is today. This helpful resource features primary source documents and maps from New Yorks history.
Author : Judith A. McGaw
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839980
This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and technical considerations while laying out a turnpike, the woman of child-bearing age employing herbal contraceptives, and the neighbors of a polluted urban stream debating issues of property, odor, and health. These cases and others drawn from brewing, mining, farming, and woodworking enable the authors to address recent historiographic concerns, including the environmental aspects of technological change and the gendered nature of technical knowledge. Brooke Hindle's classic 1966 essay on early American technology is also reprinted, and his view of the field is reassessed. A bibliographical essay and summary of Hindle's bibliographic findings conclude the volume. The contributors are Judith A. McGaw, Robert C. Post, Susan E. Klepp, Michal McMahon, Patrick W. O'Bannon, Sarah F. McMahon, Donald C. Jackson, Robert B. Gordon, Carolyn C. Cooper, and Nina E. Lerman.
Author : Konstantin Dierks
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812221817
In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world.
Author : U.S. Customs Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002963642F
Author : John P. Snyder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226767475
Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.
Author : Scott W. Anderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501775710
Pricing the Land reconstructs the complicated history of buying and selling land along the New York frontier after the American Revolution. Scott W. Anderson focuses on the prices bid for lots in central New York that had been set aside for veterans of the war (the New Military Tract) and within the Cayuga Reservation created by treaty in 1789, comprising a hundred square miles of land on both shores of the northern end of Cayuga Lake. He considers several factors that affected the value of this land: the scarcity of money in early America; the role that Alexander Hamilton's assumption policy played in encouraging debt speculation; the sale of huge tracts by New York and Massachusetts to investment syndicates; and the struggles of settlers across the New York frontier to escape debt, bondage, and poverty. Anderson, who served as an expert witness in the Cayuga Land Claim trials of 1999 to 2001 that awarded the Cayuga Nation $247.9 million in compensation and damages (a judgment overturned in 2005), developed new methodological tools for determining a better estimate of the value of this land. In Pricing the Land, he concludes that the only accurate measure of worth lay in the settlers' ability to pay their rents or debts, which was only possible once the Market Revolution reached central New York. As a result of his historical recovery, Anderson finds that the Cayuga Nation might have been entitled to twice the amount they were awarded in their lawsuit.
Author : George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : 0674367618
Author : Richard Beeman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812976847
In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provoke conflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented book takes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and fragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania, noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."
Author : M. G. Lay
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0813526914
This is the first comprehensive history of the world's roads, highways, bridges, and the people and vehicles that traverse them, from prehistoric times to the present. Encyclopedic in its scope, fascinating in its details, Ways of the World is a unique work for reference and browsing. Maxwell Lay considers the myriad aspects of roads and their users: the earliest pathways, the rise of wheeled vehicles and animals to pull them, the development of surfaced roads, the motives for road and bridge building, and the rise of cars and their influence on roads, cities, and society. The work is amply illustrated, well indexed and cross-referenced, and includes a chronology of road history and a full bibliography. It is indispensable for anyone interested in travel, history, geography, transportation, cars, or the history of technology.
Author : Barbara J. Mitnick
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0813536022
This remarkably comprehensive anthology brings new life to the rich and turbulent late 18th-century period in New Jersey. Originally conceived for the state's 225th Anniversary of the Revolution Celebration Commission.
