Author: American Geographical and Statistical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: American Geographical and Statistical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New York. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Civic Discipline
Author: Karen M. MorinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317165675
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The American Geographical Society was the pre-eminent geographical society in the nineteenth-century U.S. This book explores how geographical knowledge and practices took shape as a civic enterprise, under the leadership of Charles P. Daly, AGS president for 35 years (1864-1899). The ideals and programmatic interests of the AGS link to broad institutional, societal, and spatial contexts that drove interest in geography itself in the post-Civil War period, and also link to Charles Daly's personal role as New York civic leader, scholar, revered New York judge, and especially, popularizer of geography. Daly's leadership in a number of civic and social reform causes resonated closely with his work as geographer, such as his influence in tenement housing and street sanitation reform in New York City. Others of his projects served commercial interests, including in American railroad development and colonization of the African Congo. Daly was also New York's most influential access point to the Arctic in the latter nineteenth century. Through telling the story of the nineteenth-century AGS and Charles Daly, this book provides a critical appraisal of the role of particular actors, institutions, and practices involved in the development and promotion of geography in the mid-nineteenth century U.S. that is long overdue.
Journal of the Statistical Society
Author: Statistical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Astronomical Observations Made at the U. S. Naval Observatory
Author: James Melville GillissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
Pacific Coast Pilot
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Coldest Crucible
Author: Michael F. RobinsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226721876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In the late 1800s, “Arctic Fever” swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost their lives en route. Yet failure did little to dampen the enthusiasm of new explorers or the crowds at home that cheered them on. Arctic exploration, Michael F. Robinson argues, was an activity that unfolded in America as much as it did in the wintry hinterland. Paying particular attention to the perils facing explorers at home, The Coldest Crucible examines their struggles to build support for the expeditions before departure, defend their claims upon their return, and cast themselves as men worthy of the nation’s full attention. In so doing, this book paints a new portrait of polar voyagers, one that removes them from the icy backdrop of the Arctic and sets them within the tempests of American cultural life. With chronological chapters featuring emblematic Arctic explorers—including Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, and Robert Peary—The Coldest Crucible reveals why the North Pole, a region so geographically removed from Americans, became an iconic destination for discovery.