Author: Jeannette Richardson ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
History of the Town of Stratford, New Hampshire, 1773-1925
Author: Jeannette Richardson ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
History of the Town of Stratford, New Hampshire, 1773-1925
Author: Jeannette Richardson ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
History of the Town of Stratford, New Hampshire, 1773-1925: Published by Vote of the Town
Author: Jeannette Richardson ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford, N.H.
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
History of the Town of Stratford, New Hampshire, 1733-1925
Author: Jeannette R. ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780832871412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2144
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
A Pictorial History of the Town of Stratford, New Hampshire
Author: A Pictorial History of the Town of Stratford, New Hampshire, on the Occasion of Her 200th Birthday, 1773-1973
Author: Stratford, N.H. Bicentennial committeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beyond the Farm
Author: J. M. OpalPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the federal republic in 1789, however, a new ethos of nation-making took hold in which ambition, properly cultivated, could rescue talent and virtue from the parochial needs of the family farm. Rather than an apology for an emerging market culture of material desire and commercial dealing, ambition became a civic project—a concerted reply to the localism of provincial life. By thus attaching itself to the national self-image during the early years of the Republic, before the wrenching upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, ambitious striving achieved a cultural dominance that future generations took for granted. Beyond the Farm not only describes this transformation as a national effort but also explores it as a personal journey. Centered on the lives of six aspiring men from the New England countryside, the book follows them from youthful days full of hope and unrest to eventual careers marked by surprising success and crushing failure. Along the way, J. M. Opal recovers such intimate dramas as a young man's abandonment by his self-made parents, a village printer's dreams of small-town fame, and a headstrong boy's efforts to both surpass and honor his family. By relating the vast abstractions of nation and ambition to the everyday milieus of home, work, and school, Beyond the Farm reconsiders the roots of American individualism in vivid detail and moral complexity.
The Story of American Railroads
Author: Stewart H. HolbrookPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486810070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This richly comprehensive history by a self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian features more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints of America's railway system. Stewart H. Holbrook presents a dramatic, highly readable chronicle of the development of the backbone of the country's commerce and industry. Abounding in episodes of ingenuity and achievement, the growth of the railway system required constant improvements in techniques, devices, and machines, from the first wood burner that traveled on wooden rails to modern streamliners and diesel-powered giants. In addition to technological innovations, the colossal enterprise required courage and resolve to battle challenges posed by nature as well as by political maneuvering and corruption. This fascinating survey draws upon many hitherto unknown original sources and new data, in addition to firsthand accounts from hundreds of brakemen, conductors, engineers, and other railroad employees. Sound and authoritative, it constitutes a definitive history of America's railroads.
A Pictorial History of the Town of Stratford, New Hampshire, on the Occasion of Her 200th Birthday, 1773-1973
Author: Stratford Bicentennial CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description