Author: Edwin Williams
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Vol. for 1835 includes the Hudson River guide.

Author: Edwin Williams
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Containing an almanac; civil and judicial list; with political, statistical and other information respecting the state of New York and the United States.

Author: Richard H. Shoemaker
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Sean Wilentz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199884005
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.

Author: Stephen P. Rice
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520926579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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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: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 746

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Author: James R. Heintze
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476608555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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This is the first comprehensive reference work on America's Independence Day. Bringing attention to persons, places, and events of historical significance, the book focuses on the Fourth of July as it has been commemorated over the span of more than two centuries, starting with the first celebrations: public readings of the Declaration of Independence that occurred within days of its signing. Biographical sketches feature presidents (and how each celebrated the Fourth) and other politicians, famous soldiers, educators, engineers, scientists, athletes, musicians, and literary figures. Other topics include parks, monuments and statues dedicated on the Fourth; famous speeches and the personalities behind their stories; and general subjects of interest including education, abolition, temperance, African Americans, Native Americans, wars, transportation and holiday catastrophes.

Author: American Institute of the City of New York. Library
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Category : Libraries, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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