Author: Nelson Manfred BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Water for the Cities
Author: Nelson Manfred BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
City Water, City Life
Author: Carl SmithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602251X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Annual Report of the Watering Committee for the year 1852, to the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Select and Common Councils (PHILADELPHIA). Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Annual Report of the Watering Committee for the Year ..., to the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Watering CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Technical Americana
Author: Evald RinkPublisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Journal of the Common Council, of the City of Philadelphia, for ...
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Common CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
American Bibliography: Items 1-50192
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Author index also includes a list of corrections.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Place index
Author: Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
Author: Andrew M. SchocketPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
During its first heady decades, the United States promised to become a fully democratic society with unprecedented liberty and opportunity. Yet, as political rights spread, a rising elite gained control over the sources of prosperity by means of the institution that has since come to symbolize capitalist America--the corporation. In this study, Andrew M. Schocket analyzes the establishment, growth, and operations of both commercial and municipal corporations in the nation's premier city, Philadelphia. From the 1780s through the 1820s, members of Philadelphia's privileged class formed corporations in order to consolidate their capital and political influence. By controlling regional transportation networks as well as banks and the municipal water supply, they exploited the ambitions of local farmers, artisans, and entrepreneurs who depended upon corporate services. Meanwhile, corporate insiders managed to insulate their decision-making not only from the public but even from the majority of their own stockholders. In short, in this leading commercial city with a reputation for innovation, a corporate aristocracy created a new form of power. At the same time, corporations answered needs that private individuals or partnerships could not--and government, uncertain of its own authority, would not--supply. Resolving the apparent contradiction between the spread of political democracy and the consolidation of economic power, Schocket provocatively argues that corporations helped to generate the relatively diffuse prosperity of the early national period. Though controlled by the few, they offered services that allowed middle-class entrepreneurs to flourish. This mixed legacy has resulted in the continuing ambivalence toward U.S. corporations today.