Download Full eBooks in PDF
Catalogue Of The Library Of The Mechanics Institute Of The City Of New York Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Catalogue Of The Library Of The Mechanics Institute Of The City Of New York book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Mechanics' institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018738856
Author : New York (N y ) Mechanics' Institute
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357853009
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : New York Mechanics' Institute
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 033182051X
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Library of the Mechanics' Institute, of the City of New York, Regulations of the Reading Room and Library, and Circular to the Public British India, Historical and Descriptive Account of, by Mur ray, Wilson, Jameson, ac, 3 vols, 18mo. New-york. 1836. Vol. 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Stephen P. Rice
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520926578
In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners—and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed—and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
Author : J. Rosenbaum,S. Beckert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230115569
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : 0810821230
Author : Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433069263881
Author : Mechanics' Institute (Orillia, Ont.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Library catalogues
ISBN : 0665891067
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082987713
Author : William J. Astore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351914185
Scottish theologian, educator, astronomer and popularizer of science, Thomas Dick (1774-1857) promoted a Christianized form of science to inhibit secularization, to win converts to Christianity, and to persuade evangelicals that science was sacred. His devotional theology of nature made radical claims for cultural authority. This book presents the first detailed analysis of his life and works. After an extended biographical introduction, Dick's theology of nature is examined within the context of natural theology, and also his views on the plurality of worlds, the nebular hypothesis and geology. Other chapters deal with Dick's use of aesthetics to shape social behaviour for millennial purposes, and with the publishing history of his works, their availability and their reception. In the final part, the author explores Dick's influence in America. His pacifism won him Northern evangelical supporters, while his writings dominated the burgeoning field of popular science, powerfully shaping science's cultural meaning and its uses.
Author : Steve Fraser,Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674263598
Ruling America offers a panoramic history of our country's ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by the people? In a series of thought-provoking essays, leading scholars of American history examine every epoch in which ruling economic elites have shaped our national experience. They explore how elites came into existence, how they established their dominance over public affairs, and how their rule came to an end. The contributors analyze the elite coalition that led the Revolution and then examine the antebellum planters of the South and the merchant patricians of the North. Later chapters vividly portray the Gilded Age "robber barons," the great finance capitalists in the age of J. P. Morgan, and the foreign-policy "Establishment" of the post-World War II years. The book concludes with a dissection of the corporate-led counter-revolution against the New Deal characteristic of the Reagan and Bush era. Rarely in the last half-century has one book afforded such a comprehensive look at the ways elite wealth and power have influenced the American experiment with democracy. At a time when the distribution of wealth and power has never been more unequal, Ruling America is of urgent contemporary relevance.
Author : Boudien de Vries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351951104
In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the working and middle classes. The result of this is the assertion that the more associations existing in a particular society, the deeper democracy becomes entrenched. In order to test this hypothesis, this volume brings together essays by an international group of urban historians who examine the construction of civil society from associational activity in the urban place. From their studies, it soon becomes clear that such simple propositions do not adequately reflect the dynamics of nineteenth-century urban society and politics. Urban associations were ideological in purpose and deliberately discriminatory and as such set the boundaries of civil society. Thus competing and segmented associations were not only an indication of pluralism and strength, but also highlighted a fundamental weakness when faced down by the interests of the state. Through a wide array of urban associations in a broad range of settings, comprising Austria and Bratislava, France and Italy, the Netherlands, Austro-Hungary, England, Scotland and the US, this volume reflects on the construction of class, nation and culture in the associations of the nineteenth-century urban place. In so doing it shows that a deep and interlocking civil society does not automatically lead to a rise in democratic activity. Expansion of the networks of urban association could equally result in greater subdivision and to the fragmentation and isolation of certain groups. Partition as much as coherence is our understanding of civil society and associations in the nineteenth-century urban place.
Author : General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047070334
Author : James Poskett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226820644
Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.
Author : Robert Singerman
Publisher : University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library & Information Science
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015037786103
