Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2178
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Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2178
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Bituminous Coal Commission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
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Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages :
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Hawaii Statehood
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon BaumannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
The Herndon Family of Virginia
Author: John Goodwin HerndonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911619041
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Still Turning
Author: Christopher C. GillisPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623493358
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that bring water to the earth’s surface. Still Turning is the first book to explore the rise of the American windmill through the experience of this important company. Aermotor founder La Verne Noyes and engineer Thomas Perry developed and perfected the all-metal wind pump in the 1880s. Within a decade, the “mathematical windmill” began to dominate the market. Aermotor continued to expand and innovate. The ruggedness and simplicity of the American mechanical windmill has allowed it to outlast many newer water-pumping technologies over the years with minimal maintenance and oversight. Christopher C. Gillis traces this story and more, from the early days of the company to Aermotor’s present-day relevance as it continues to produce its iconic windmills. Still Turning is a significant contribution not only to the history of wind power but also to the history of American enterprise.
National Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: National Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Pension Appropriation Bill
Author: Vincent BoreingEnvironment, Health, and Safety
Author: Lari A. BishopPublisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Descendants of William and Sarah (Poe) Herndon, of Caroline County, Va., and Chatham County, N.C.
Author: Ruth Herndon ShieldsPublisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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William Herndon (1649-1722) emigrated from England to New Kent County, Virginia and married Catherine Digges. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere.