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Author : Joseph Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Maine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105247597
Author : Harriet Eaton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195392685
After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church, with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp Hospital Association and made the widowed Eaton its relief agent in the field. One of many Christians who believed that patriotic activism could redeem the nation, Eaton quickly learned that war was no respecter of religious principles. Doing the work of nurse and provisioner, Eaton tended wounded men and those with smallpox and diphtheria during two tours of duty. She preferred the first tour, which ended after the battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, to the second, more sedentary, assignment at City Point, Virginia, in 1864. There the impositions of federal bureaucracy standardized patient care at the expense of more direct communication with soldiers. Eaton deplored the arrogance of U.S. Sanitary Commissioners whom she believed saw state benevolent groups as competitors for supplies. Eaton struggled with the disruptions of transience, scarcely sleeping in the same place twice, but found the politics of daily toil even more challenging. Conflict between Eaton and co-worker Isabella Fogg erupted almost immediately over issues of propriety; the souring working conditions leading to Fogg's ouster from Maine state relief efforts by late 1863. Though Eaton praised some of the surgeons with whom she worked, she labeled others charlatans whose neglect had deadly implications for the rank and file. If she saw villainy, she also saw opportunities to convert soldiers and developed an intense spiritual connection with a private, which appears to have led to a postwar liaison. Published here for the first time, the uncensored nursing diary is a rarity among medical accounts of the war, showing Eaton to be an astute observer of human nature and not as straight-laced as we might have thought. This hardcover edition includes an extensive introduction from the editor, transcriptions of relevant letters and newspaper articles, and a thoroughly researched biographical dictionary of the people mentioned in the diary.
Author : Judith A. McGaw
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Portland (Me.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4GTS
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Portland (Me.)
ISBN : CHI:47958187
Author : John C. Schmidt
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007891040
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382506889
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Essex Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
ISBN : UCAL:B3505641
Vol. 30 includes "The first half century of the Essex Institute," and "List of present members."
Author : S. B. Beckett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0332711765
Excerpt from The Portland Reference Book and City Directory: For 1850-51 In the portion of the Book appropriated as a city directory, there may be occasionally a name omitted, but not from any want of attention on our part. Careful men have been employed to canvass the several wards. 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 : Libby Bischof,Susan Danly,Earle G. Shettleworth
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781493082759
Maine has always played a rich and varied role in the art of photography. For hundreds of years, photographers, like other artists, have made their way to Maine to capture the natural beauty and human culture of the state. So, too, have many photographers come from Maine, and many contributions by Mainers have been made to the medium. Maine in Photography is the first comprehensive overview of the history of photography in the state. Providing basic knowledge of the most important people and institutions to have promoted photography, this volume also studies the ways in which photography has informed the understanding of the social and cultural history of Maine. Beginning with the earliest daguerreotype portraits of the 1840s, this history traces the growth of the medium—emphasizing key contributions, such as the Stanley brothers’ invention of the dry plate process—through to the present. Key topics addressed throughout the book include the importance of photography in documenting labor and economic life, the close relationship between photography and the growth of tourism, and the role of Maine photographers in advancing the medium as a fine art form. Published in conjunction with the Maine Photo Project, this is a unique and timely addition to the body of work on the importance of Maine to American art.
Author : Peter Bell Edinburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019193908
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015081704317
Author : Sylvester Breakmore Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4GTR
Author : Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0804738831
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Author : Edward Posnett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780399562815
"[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and sometimes breathtaking prose . . . an engrossing read." --NPR An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objects In this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world--eiderdown, vicuña fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edible birds' nests--that promise ways of using nature without damaging it. To the rest of the world these materials are mere commodities, but to their harvesters they are imbued with myth, tradition, folklore, and ritual, and form part of a shared identity and history. Strange Harvests follows the journeys of these uncommon products from some of the most remote areas of the world to its most populated urban centers, drawing on the voices of the people and little-known communities who harvest, process, and trade them. Blending history, travel writing, and interviews, Posnett sets these human stories against our changing economic and ecological landscape. What do they tell us about capitalism, global market forces, and overharvesting? How do local microeconomies survive in a hyperconnected world? Is it possible for us to live together with different species? Strange Harvests makes us see the world with wonder, curiosity, and new concern.