Author: Josiah Seymour CurreyPublisher:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Chicago: Its History and Its Builders
Author: Josiah Seymour CurreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Chicago: Its History and Its Builders ...
Author: Josiah Seymour CurreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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CHICAGO, ITS HISTORY AND ITS BUILDERS,
Author: JOSEPH SEYMOUR. CURREYPublisher:
ISBN: 9780656082483
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Chicago, Its History and Its Builders
Author: Josiah Seymour CurreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Chicago
Author: J Seymour CurreyPublisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781345250916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Chicago
Author: J. Seymour CurreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330561669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Excerpt from Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, Vol. 2: A Century of Marvelous Growth The four years following the events narrated in the last chapter of the preceding volume were years of intense political excitement. The deep feeling of resentment prevailing throughout the North caused by the enactment of the Fugitive Slave law was not allayed but settled into a permanent conviction that slavery must be exterminated. Even Lincoln. had at last awakened from his conservatism and had declared that the country could not continue to exist "half slave and half free." Talk of disunion among the Southern statesmen already filled the air and one of the remembered phrases of Lincoln's "lost speech" was that memorable utterance, "We wont go out of the Union, and you shan't." Douglas had been the chief instrument in carrying through the bill organizing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, one clause of which repealed the Missouri Compromise. This was May 30th, 1854. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Chicago: Its History and its Builders, Volume 3
Author: Josiah Seymour CurreyPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849648869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Maybe there has never been a more comprehensive work on the history of Chicago than the five volumes written by Josiah S. Currey - and possibly there will never be. Without making this work a catalogue or a mere list of dates or distracting the reader and losing his attention, he builds a bridge for every historically interested reader. The history of Windy City is not only particularly interesting to her citizens, but also important for the understanding of the history of the West. This volume is number three out of five and covers topics like the World's Fair, Water supply, Parks, the Iroquois Fire, Arts, Bench and Bar and many more.
Chicago, Its History and Its Builders, Vol. 1
Author: J. Seymour CurreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331417606
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Excerpt from Chicago, Its History and Its Builders, Vol. 1: A Century of Marvelous Growth There is perhaps nothing which so clogs and hampers a historical account as an attempt on the part of a writer to mention everything in the chain of events which spreads out like a panorama to his gaze, but which if treated would amount to a mere catalogue, a list of dates, "first things," and much more that tends to distract the reader and exhaust his attention. It is a wise man who can discriminate between the essentials and the merely incidental occurrences, and who can assign the due proportion to each. Better work will be done by making a clear presentation of fewer matters, rather than a diffused account of many. As the French say, "the secret of wearying is to say all," which, if indeed it is in some measure accomplished, results in a compendium of tedious prolixity. "Any one who has investigated any period," says Rhodes, "knows how the same facts are told over and over again, in different ways, by various writers," and among them all one must choose from the mass of verbiage and make condensations. Thucydides, the famous Greek historian, wrote a history of the Peloponnesian war covering a period of twenty-four years. This history is a model of compressed narrative, and in his time there was little or no help to be derived from written documents. "Of the events of the war," wrote Thucydides, "I have not ventured to speak from any chance information, nor according to any notion of my own; I have described nothing but what I either saw myself, or learned from others of whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry. The task was a laborious one, because eye witnesses of the same occurrences gave different accounts of them, as they remembered or were interested in the actions of one side or the other." Comparing Thucydides with Tacitus, Rhodes says, that they are "superior to the historians who have written in our century, because, by long reflection and studious method, they have better digested their materials and compressed their narrative. Unity in narration has been adhered to more rigidly. They stick closer to their subject. They are not allured into the fascinating bypaths of narration, which are so tempting to men who have accumulated a mass of facts, incidents, and opinions." Criticising a historian addicted to giving a multiplicity of details, an eminent writer said that in many portions of his too elaborated history "he describes a large number of events about which no sensible man can in the least care either how they happened, or whether indeed they happened at all or not." We live indeed in an age of newspapers and magazines when not only great events but a vast "number of trivial incidents are now recorded, and this dust of time gets in our eves." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Chicago
Author: Josiah Seymour CurreyPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294209461
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Chicago: Its History And Its Builders, A Century Of Marvelous Growth, Volume 3; Chicago: Its History And Its Builders, A Century Of Marvelous Growth; Josiah Seymour Currey Josiah Seymour Currey The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1912 History; United States; State & Local; Midwest; Chicago (Ill.); History / United States / State & Local / Midwest; Travel / United States / Midwest / East North Central
Chicago
Author: Josiah Seymour CurreyPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781406951394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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