Author: Samuel WyldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Practical Surveyor, Or, the Art of Land-Measuring Made Easy ... The Second Edition: Corrected and Enlarged by a Careful Hand
Author: Samuel WyldThe Practical Surveyor, Or, The Art of Land-measuring, Made Easy ... To which is Added, an Appendix, Shewing how to Draw the Plan of Buildings, &c. in Perspective, Etc. [The Preface Signed: S. W.]
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Author: The Practical Surveyor, Or the Art of Land-measuring Made Easy ... The Fifth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by a Careful Hand, Etc
Author: Samuel WyldThe Practical Surveyor, Or, the Art of Land-Measuring, Made Easy ... Likewise, a New Method of Protracting Observations Made with the Meridian ... To which is Added, an Appendix, Shewing how to Draw Buildings, Etc. [With Plans.]
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Author: Samuel WYLDThe Practical Surveyor, Or The Art of Land-measuring Made Easy ... The Fourth Edition: Corrected and Enlarged by a Careful Hand, Etc
Author: Samuel WYLDThe Practical Surveyor, Or, The Art of Land-measuring Made Easy ...
Author: Samuel WyldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Practical Surveyor
Author: Samuel WyldPublisher: The Invisible College Press, LLC
ISBN: 9781931468060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America
Author: Jennifer Van HornPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469629577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
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Author: Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599673714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Roads to Power
Author: Jo GuldiPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264134
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life. Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.