Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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A Clearing In The Distance
Author: Witold RybczynskiPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439125104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, and Boston's Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He managed California's largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as the executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross. Rybczynski's passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsted's immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance, the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure.
The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
Author: James L. HustonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807159204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James L. Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and ignited the American Civil War. This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that northern industrialization and urbanization led to clashes between North and South. Rather, Huston argues that the ideological chasm between plantation owners in the South and family farmers in the North led to the political eruption of 1854-56 and the birth of a sectionalized party system. Huston shows that over 70 percent of the northern population-by far the dominant economic and social element-had close ties to agriculture. More invested in egalitarianism and personal competency than in capitalism, small farmers in the North operated under a free labor ideology that emphasized the ideals of independence and mastery over oneself. The ideology of the plantation, by contrast, reflected the conservative ethos of the British aristocracy, which was the product of immense landed inequality and the assertion of mastery over others. By examining the dominant populations in northern and southern congressional districts, Huston reveals that economic interests pitted the plantation South against the small-farm North. The northern shift toward Republicanism depended on farmers, not industrialists: While Democrats won the majority of northern farm congressional districts from 1842 to 1853, they suffered a major defection of these districts from 1854 to 1856, to the antislavery organizations that would soon coalesce into the Republican Party. Utilizing extensive historical research and close examination of the voting patterns in congressional districts across the country, James Huston provides a remarkable new context for the origins of the Civil War.
American Farmers' Magazine
Author: Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
ISBN: 9781404746701
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
New York's Newsboys
Author: Karen M. StallerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190886625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
New York's Newsboys is a lively historical account of Charles Loring Brace's founding and development of the Children's Aid Society to combat a newly emerging social problem, youth homelessness, during the nineteenth century. Poor children slept on the docks, pilfered, and peddled cheap wares to survive, activities which frequently landed them in prison-like juvenile asylums. Brace offered a radical alternative, the Newsboys' Lodging House. From there he launched a network of additional programs, each respecting his clients' free will, contrasting with the policing interventions favored by other reformers. Over four decades Brace built a comprehensive child welfare agency which sought to alleviate suffering, prevent delinquency, and divert children from a life of poverty. Using primary documents and analysis of over 700 original CAS case records, New York's Newsboys offers a new way to look at the foundational roots of social work and child welfare in the United States. In this book, Karen Staller argues that the significance of this chapter in history to the profession, the city of New York, and the country has been under appreciated.
The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
Author: Magazine of Horticulture, Botany and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
Author: Charles Mason HoveyPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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