Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Green Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The Troy Directory for the Year ...
Author: Directory for the Year ... of the Cities of Albany and Rensselaer
Author: Monitor Builders
Author: William Norwood Still (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vessels
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Saving Troy
Author: William B. PatrickPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9781438431543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A powerful account of the hazards, challenges, and dangers faced by America's first-responders.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: S. SteinbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270824
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1609
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
For the Common Good?
Author: Jason KaufmanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195148589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American history. In the forty years between the Civil War and the onset of World War I, more than half of all Americans participated in clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies. Today this period is held up as a model for how we might revitalize contemporary civil society. But was America's associational culture really as communal as has been assumed? What if these much-admired voluntary organizations served parochial concerns rather than the common good? Jason Kaufman sets out to dispel many of the myths about the supposed civic-mindedness of "joining" while bringing to light the hidden lessons of associationalism's history. Relying on deep archival research in city directories, club histories, and membership lists, Kaufman shows that organizational activity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolved largely around economic self-interest rather than civic engagement. And far from spurring concern for the collective good, fraternal societies, able to pick and choose members at will, fostered exclusion and further exacerbated the competitive interests of a society divided by race, class, ethnicity, and religion. Tracing both the rise and the decline of American associational life - a decline that began immediately after World War I, much earlier than previously thought - Kaufman argues persuasively that the end of fraternalism was a good thing. Illuminating both broad historical shifts - immigration, urbanization, and the disruptions of war, among them - and smaller, overlooked contours, such as changes in the burial and life insurance industries, Kaufman has written a bracing revisionist history. Eloquently rebutting those hailing America's associational past and calling for a return to old-style voluntarism, For the Common Good? will change the terms of debate about the history - and the future - of American civil society."--Publisher's description.
Troy
Author: Don RittnerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738523682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The New World, and especially New York, meant unparalleled opportunity for people in the 1600s with visions of expansion, colonization, and profit. Buying land from the Mohican tribe, the Dutch took control of much of the modern Empire State in the early part of this country's development. Under the patroonship of Kilian van Rensselaer, many pioneer farmers settled in the fertile land along the Hudson River. With each passing year, the number of Upstate settlers increased, and two villages emerged: Lansingburgh and Vanderheyden, soon to become Troy. Troy: A Collar City History chronicles the transformation of the city from an untamed wilderness inhabited by the early Mohican tribe into a vibrant, modern industrial metropolis. Troy's story is truly a complex drama, supported by a host of entrepreneurs, inventors, immigrant workers, labor leaders, scientists, athletes, and artists, against a changing backdrop of war, depression, industrial revolution, and prosperity. The city's most significant characters come alive within these pages, such as "Uncle Sam" Wilson, an early-nineteenth-century meat packager who served as the model for this nation's patriotic icon; Amos Eaton, the "father of geology" and founder of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Emma Willard, a pioneer in the field of female education; and Kate Mullaney, a leader in local female unionization. This unique volume explores the old cobblestone streets, the historic downtown district, and the many factories producing iron, stoves, paper boats, bells, and of course, detachable shirt collars.
The Iowa Year Book of Agriculture
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Vol. for 1900 includes also the Report of the Iowa State Fair for the year 1900.
Companion to the Almanac, Or, Year-book of General Information
Author: Year-book
Author: American Institute of Electrical EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description