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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Eighty Years Progress of the United States
Author: Eighty Years Progress of the United States: Showing the Various Channels of Industry and Education ... with a Large Amount of Statistical Information ...
Author: The Fourth Turning
Author: William StraussPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767900464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
Eighty Years Progress of the United States: Agriculture, by C.L. Flint. Cultivation of cotton, by C.F. McCay. Commerce and trade, by T.P. Kettell. Social and domestic life, by F.B. Perkins. Arts of design, by T.A. Richards. Education, by H. Barnard
Author: Charles Louis FlintPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Eighty Years Progress of the United States: Mining industry, fur trade, hat manufacture, by J.T. Hodge. Travel and transportation, manufactures, building [etc.] by T.P. Kettell. Steam engine, by J.C. Merriam
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Author: Charles Louis FlintPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Eighty Years' Progress of British North America
Author: Henry Youle HindPublisher: L. Stebbins
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Eighty years' progress of British North America, by H.Y. Hind [and others].
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Author: America NorthPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Eighty-eight Years
Author: Patrick RaelPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820333956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself,” as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide. Rael immerses readers in the mix of social, geographic, economic, and political factors that shaped this unique American experience. He not only takes a far longer view of slavery's demise than do those who date it to the rise of abolitionism in 1831, he also places it in a broader Atlantic context. We see how slavery ended variously by consent or force across time and place and how views on slavery evolved differently between the centers of European power and their colonial peripheries—some of which would become power centers themselves. Rael shows how African Americans played the central role in ending slavery in the United States. Fueled by new Revolutionary ideals of self-rule and universal equality—and on their own or alongside abolitionists—both slaves and free blacks slowly turned American opinion against the slave interests in the South. Secession followed, and then began the national bloodbath that would demand slavery's complete destruction.
Eighty Years and More Reminiscences 1815 To 1897
Author: Elizabeth Cady StantonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781419217432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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My Eighty Years in Texas
Author: William Physick ZuberPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292750226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Almost a century and a half went into the making of My Eighty Years in Texas. It began as a diary, kept by fifteen-year-old William Physick Zuber after he joined Sam Houston’s Texas army in 1836, hoping he could emulate the heroism of American Revolutionary patriots. Although his hopes were never realized, Zuber recorded the privations, victories, and defeats of armies on the move during the Texas Revolution, the Indian campaigns, and, as he styled it, the Confederate War. In 1910, at the age of ninety, Zuber began the enormous task of transcribing his diaries and his memories for publication. After his death in 1913, the handwritten manuscript, Eighty Years in Texas: Reminiscences of a Texas Veteran from 1830 to 1910, was placed in the Texas State Archives, where it was used as a reference source by students and scholars of Texas history. Over a half century after Zuber’s death, Janis Boyle Mayfield finally brought his publication plans to fruition. Zuber details his early zest for learning and his laborious methods of self-education. He tells of the trials of organizing and teaching schools in the sparsely populated plains. He recalls the day-by-day happenings of a private soldier in the Texas army of 1836, the Texas Militia, and the Confederate army—including the mishaps of army life and the encounters with enemies from San Jacinto to Cape Girardeau. After the Civil War, his interest turns to the politics of Reconstruction, the veterans’ pension, and the founding of the Texas Veterans Association. This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing. Included as an appendix is “An Escape from the Alamo,” the account of Moses Rose for which Zuber, who was a prolific writer, was best known. A historiography of the Rose story, a bibliography of Zuber’s published and unpublished writings, annotation, and an introduction are provided by Llerena Friend.