Author: Greenhouse Consultants IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Phase 1A Historical/archaeological Sensitivity Evaluation of the Alice Austen Place Development Project, Staten Island, New York
Author: Greenhouse Consultants IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Phase 1A Historical/archaeological Sensitivity Evaluation of the Gateway Development Project Staten Island, New York
Author: Greenhouse Consultants, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Phase 1A Historical/archaeological Sensitivity Evaluation of the Totten Village Development, Staten Island, New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Greenhouse Consultants IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
The Epic of New York City
Author: Edward Robb EllisPublisher:
ISBN: 0786714360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
In swift, witty chapters that flawlessly capture the pace and character of New York City, acclaimed diarist Edward Robb Ellis presents his masterpiece: a thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of America's largest metropolis. Ellis narrates some of the most significant events of the past three hundred years and more—the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's fatal duel, the formation of the League of Nations, the Great Depression—from the perspective of the city that experienced, and influenced, them all. Throughout, he infuses his account with the strange and delightful anecdotes that a less charming tour guide might omit, from the story of the city's first, block-long subway to that of the blizzard of 1888 that turned Macy's into one big slumber party. Playful yet authoritative, comprehensive yet intimate, The Epic of New York City confirms the words of its own epigraph, spoken by Oswald Spengler: "World history is city history," particularly when that city is the Big Apple.
Phase 1A Historical/archaeological Sensitivity Evaluation of the St. George Railyard Project
Author: Greenhouse Consultants, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Preservation and Social Inclusion
Author: Erica AvramiPublisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
ISBN: 9781941332603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive, through more diversity in the profession and enhanced community engagement. Bringing together a broad range of practitioners, this book documents historic preservation's progress toward inclusivity and explores further steps to be taken.
Phase IA Historical/archaeological Sensitivity Evaluation of the Surfside Village Development Project, Staten Island, New York
Author: Greenhouse Consultants IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
Author: Patricia SamfordPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817354549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book discusses the daily life and culture of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Enslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial Virginia populations, with most living on rural slave quarters adjacent to the agricultural fields in which they labored. Archaeological excavations into these home sites have provided unique windows into the daily lifeways and culture of these early inhabitants. subfloor pits be-neath the houses. The most common explanations of the functions of these pits are as storage places for personal belongings or root vegetables, and some contextual and ethnohistoric data suggest they may have served as West African-style shrines. Through analysis of 103 subfloor pits dating from the 17th through mid-19th centuries, Samford reveals how data on shape, location, surface area, and depth, as well as contextual analysis of artifact assemblages, can show how subfloor pits functioned for the enslaved. Archaeology reveals the material circumstances of slaves' lives, which in turn opens the door to illuminating other aspects of life: spirituality, symbolic meanings assigned to material goods, social life, individual and group agency, and acts of resistance and accommodation. about how West African, possibly Igbo, cultural traditions were maintained and transformed in the Virginia Chesapeake.
The Information
Author: James GleickPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307379574
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Phase IA Historical Archaeological Sensitivity Evaluation of the Victory Boulevard Development, Staten Island, New York
Author: Greenhouse Consultants IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (NY)
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description