Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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The Civic Activities of the City of Philadelphia, April 1907 to November 1911
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Garbage In The Cities
Author: Martin V. MelosiPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972689
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark study, Garbage in the Cities, Martin Melosi offered the first history of efforts begun in the Progressive Era to clean up this mess.Since it was first published, Garbage in the Cities has remained one of the best historical treatments of the subject. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that expand the discussion of developments since World War I. It also offers a discussion of the reception of the first edition, and an examination of the ways solid waste management has become more federally regulated in the last quarter of the twentieth century.Melosi traces the rise of sanitation engineering, accurately describes the scope and changing nature of the refuse problem in U.S. cities, reveals the sometimes hidden connections between industrialization and pollution, and discusses the social agendas behind many early cleanliness programs. Absolutely essential reading for historians, policy analysts, and sociologists, Garbage in the Cities offers a vibrant and insightful analysis of this fascinating topic.
The City of First
Author: George MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Who's who in America
Author: John W. LeonardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2504
Book Description
Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
The Frontier Club
Author: Christine BoldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199913021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the origins and evolution of the western genre, revealing how a group of prominent eastern aristocrats-a cadre she terms "the frontier club" -created and propagated the myth of the Wild West to advance their own self-interest as well as larger systems of privilege and exclusion. Mining institutional archives, personal papers, novels, and films, The Frontier Club excavates the hidden social, political, and financial interests behind the making of the modern western. It re-reads frontier-club fiction, most notably Owen Wister's bestseller The Virginian, in relation to federal policies and cultural spaces (from exclusive gentlemen's clubs to national parks to zoos); it casts new light on key clubmen, both the famous and the forgotten-figures such as Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, Silas Weir Mitchell, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Frederic Remington-while recovering the women on whom these men depended and without whom this version of the popular West would not exist; and it considers the costs of the frontier-club formula, in terms of its impact on Indigenous peoples and its marginalization of other popular voices, including western writings by African Americans, women, and working-class white men. An engaging cultural history that covers print culture, big-game hunting, politics, immigration, Jim Crow segregation, and environmental conservation at the turn of the twentieth century, The Frontier Club provides a welcome new perspective on the enduring American myth of the Wild West.
The Insurance Press
Author: Toronto Architect Edmund Burke
Author: Angela CarrPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773564861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Burke's career spanned a key period in Canadian architecture as the profession transcended its colonial beginnings to reach maturity with Canadian-born practitioners who converted both American architectural developments and European traditions into forms appropriate to the new Canadian federation. Burke's contributions to Canadian architecture include introducing the technology of the "Chicago men" to Canada and helping to establish a formal professional organization for architects in Ontario. Carr documents a comprehensive selection of Burke's works, including his firm's famous Robert Simpson store in Toronto, the first curtain-wall construction in Canada. She places Burke's life and career within the larger social context, addressing the influence of American architects and architecture, the sociology of professions, the organization of architectural offices, and the history of particular building forms. Toronto Architect Edmund Burke is not only a study of Burke's life and work; it is also an insightful look into the history of Canadian architecture.
City Club Bulletin
Author: City Club of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civic improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
City Club Bulletin; Issued by the City Club of Philadelphia
Author: City Club of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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