Author: Lemuel ShattuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Report to the Committee of the City Council Appointed to Obtain the Census of Boston for the Year 1845
Author: Lemuel ShattuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Report to the Committee of the City Council Appointed to Obtain the Census of Boston for the Year 1845
Author: Lemuel ShattuckReport to the Committee of the City Council Appointed to Obtain the Census of Boston for the Year 1845 Embracing Collateral Facts and Statistical Researches, Illustrating the History and Condition of the Population, and Their Means of Progress and Prospe
Author: Report to the Committee of the City Council Appointed to Obtain the Census of Boston for the Year 1845, Embracing Collateral Facts and Statical Researches, Illustrating the History and Condition of the Population, and Their Means of Progress and Prosperity
Author: Lemuel SHATTUCKIndex to the City Documents, 1834-1891
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Index to the City Documents, 1834 to 1909
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
City Documents
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance
Author: Michele R CostelloPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317323955
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In life, Benjamin Franklin sought to manage debt, organize credit, build capital and promote virtue. After death, he continued this work by leaving a codicil to his last will and testament, bequeathing £2,000 to Boston and Philadelphia. This study examines Franklin’s codicil and the financial history of America over the 200 years since his death.
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Author: Riches, Class, and Power
Author: Edward PessenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351492934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure, life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.