Author: Edward Thomas CokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A Subaltern's Furlough
Author: Edward Thomas CokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New-Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
Author: Edward Thomas CokePublisher: New York : J. & J. Harper
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
His and Hers
Author: Roger HorowitzPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813918020
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This volume will be of interest to historians in a wide range of fields.
A Subaltern's Furlough
Author: Edward Thomas CokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Manhattan Phoenix
Author: Daniel S. LevyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195382374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn.In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it "spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible - the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and NewJersey." The fire Disosway witnessed devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same number of acres as the World Trade Center bombing, Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after it emerged from the devastating fire of 1835 - a catastrophe that revealedhow truly unprepared and haphazardly organized it was - to become a world-class city merely a quarter of a century later. The one led to other. New York effectively had to start over.Daniel Levy's book charts Manhattan's almost miraculous growth while interweaving the lives of various New Yorkers who took part in the city's transformation. Some are well known, such as the land baron John Jacob Astor and Mayor Fernando Wood. Others less so, as with the African-American oystermanThomas Downing and the Bowery Theatre impresario Thomas Hamblin. The book celebrates Fire Chief James Gulick who battled the blaze, and celebrates the work of the architect Alexander Jackson Davis who built marble palaces for the rich. It chronicles the career of the merchant Alexander Stewart whoconstructed the first department store, follows the struggles of the abolitionist Arthur Tappan, and records of the efforts of the engineer John Bloomfield Jervis who brought clean water into homes. And this resurgence owed so much to the visionaries, such as Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux,who designed Central Park, creating a refuge that it remains to this day.Manhattan Phoenix reveals a city first in flames and then in flux but resolute in its determination to emerge as one of the world's greatest metropolises.
Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto
Author: Royal Astronomical Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
ManagingNonprofits.org
Author: Bennett L. HechtPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This book shows non-profit leaders how to be dynamic managers who lead their organisations whole-heartedly into the chaotic, competitive and dynamic digital marketplace and learn to harness the power of the digital world for nonprofit use.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
America and French Culture, 1750-1848
Author: Howard Mumford JonesPublisher: L. Carrier
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description