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Author: Charles Winslow BURPEEPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 363
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A Century in Hartford. Being the History of the Hartford County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Etc. [With Plates.].
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Author: Charles Winslow BURPEEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
One Hundred Years of Hartford's Courant
Author: J. Eugene SmithPublisher:
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Category : Connecticut courant
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Confronting Urban Legacy
Author: Xiangming ChenPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073914944X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very large global cities but also maintains a void in students’ learning. This book specifically explores the transformative relationship between globalization and urban transition in Hartford, Connecticut, while including crucial comparative chapters on other forgotten New England cities: Portland, Maine, along with Lawrence and Springfield, Massachusetts. Hartford’s transformation carries a striking imprint of globalization that has been largely missed: from its 17th century roots as New England first inland colonial settlement, to its emergence as one of the world’s most prosperous manufacturing and insurance metropolises, to its present configuration as one of America’s poorest post-industrial cities, which by still retaining a globally lucrative FIRE Sector is nevertheless surrounded by one of the nation’s most prosperous metropolitan regions. The myriad of dilemmas confronting Hartford calls for this book to take an interdisciplinary approach. The editors’ introduction places Hartford in a global comparative perspective; Part I provides rich historical delineations of the many rises and (not quite) falls of Hartford; Part II offers a broad contemporary treatment of Hartford by dissecting recent immigration and examining the demographic and educational dimensions of the city-suburban divide; and Part III unpacks Hartford’s current social, economic, and political situation and discusses what the city could become. Using the lessons from this book on Hartford and other underappreciated secondary cities in New England, urban scholars, leaders, and residents alike can gain a number of essential insights—both theoretical and practical.
A Century in Hartford
Author: Charles Winslow BurpeePublisher:
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Category : Hartford (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
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Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Remembering the Old Neighborhood
Author: Mary M. DonohuePublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A history of Jewish farming and farmers in Connecticut.
Half-century History of the Farmington Avenue Congregational Church
Author: Hartford, Connecticut. Farmington Avenue Congregational ChurchPublisher:
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Category : Hartford (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Life in West Hartford
Author: Tracey M. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692182406
Category : Community life
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Tells the story of the West Hartford, Connecticut community from first settlement to the present day. How does the identity of a community grow? Who are the people whose voices have not been heard? And how did the powerful use their voices? Who spoke and worked for equality, democracy, and justice as delineated in our Declaration of Independence? Local history gives us a window into how life in a democracy works. -- cover
Vanished Downtown Hartford
Author: Daniel SternerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614239339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Early nineteenth-century illustrations of Hartford, Connecticut, show church steeples towering over the Victorian homes and brownstone facades of businesses around them. The modern skyline of the town has lost many of these elegant steeples and their quaint and smaller neighbors. Banks have yielded to newer banks, and organizations like the YMCA are now parking lots. In the 1960s, Constitution Plaza replaced an entire neighborhood on Hartford's east side. The city has evolved in the name of progress, allowing treasured buildings to pass into history. Those buildings that survive have been repurposed--the Old State House, built in 1796, is one of the oldest and has found new life as a museum. Yet the memory of these bygone landmarks and scenes has not been lost. Historian Daniel Sterner recalls the lost face of downtown and preserves the historic landmarks that still remain with this nostalgic exploration of Hartford's structural evolution.
Hartford 1881
Author: Margaret F. SaxPublisher:
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Category : Hartford (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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