Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History
Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of New York City
Author: Kenneth T. JacksonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182570
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 4282
Book Description
Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Black Women Abolitionists
Author: Shirley J. YeePublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870497360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
The Remembered Gate
Author: Barbara J. BergPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195027044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
From the Blurb: In this groundbreaking chronicle of the beginning of woman's emancipation Barbara Berg refutes the traditional interpretation that the women's movement emerged from the experiences of female abolitionists. Instead, she place the inception of feminism in the earliest years of the nineteenth century. Dr. Berg finds its roots in the complex responses to intricate social change that accompanied the urbanization of America, maintaining that the rise of the industrial city precipitated the subordination of women. Quietly tucked inside, the woman was expected to preserve the home as a haven of peacefulness and order-an artificial environment to compensate for the jarring world outside. Thus women fell victim to the "woman-belle ideal"--The monolithic creed that held women inferior, denying them access to the provinces of knowledge, responsibility, and dignity. Berg shows how women perceived and responded to this situation through an analysis of female invalidism, diaries, and works of fiction. In time, resigned listlessness gave way to an anguished search for identity, as women threw themselves into voluntary benevolent associations, activities that set the stage for a compelling feminist ideology. These activities took women outside the home, creating a context for the recognition of their oppression and helping them muster the spirit to elevate their self-image and, ultimately, their place in society. The effects of urban growth on the transformation of women's consciousness became evident through a study of the extant records of more than 150 female voluntary societies that flourished between 1800 and 1860. Newspaper accounts, municipal records, city guidebooks, and even popular songs reveal the gradual transformation of the ideas of women and men about themselves, each other, and their society. This book is the latest volume in The Urban Life in America series, edited by Richard C. Wade.
Better Times
Author: Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal
Author: New York State Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
New York History
Author: New York State Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Revealing Documents
Author: Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Book catalog, Pio-State L
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description