Author: Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1861Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Harvard College Alumni Writings. Class of 1861
Author: Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1861Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments
Author: Harvard UniversityThe New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Writings on American History
Author: Report of the Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College Appointed to Visit the Library
Author: Harvard University. Board of OverseersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Enterprising Elite
Author: Robert F. DalzellPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674257658
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
More than any other single group of individuals, the Boston Associates were responsible for the sweeping economic transformation that occurred in New England between 1815 and 1861. Through the use of the corporate form, they established an extensive network of modern business enterprises that were among the largest of the time. Their most notable achievement was the development of the Waltham-Lowell system in the textile industry, but they were also active in transportation, banking, and insurance, and at the same time played a major role in philanthropy and politics. Evaluating each of these efforts in turn and placing the Associates in the context of the society and culture that produced them, the author convincingly explains the complex motives that led the group to undertake initiatives on so many different fronts. Dalzell shows that men like Francis Cabot Lowell, Nathan Appleton, and Amos and Abbott Lawrence are best understood as transitional figures. Although they used modern methods when it suited their interest, they were most concerned with protecting the positions they had already won at the top of a traditional social order. Thus, for all the innovations they sponsored, their commitment to change remained both partial and highly selective. And while something very like an industrial revolution did occur in New England during the nineteenth century, paradoxically the Associates neither sought nor welcomed it. On the contrary, as time passed they became increasingly preoccupied with combating the forces of change. In addition to the light it sheds on a crucial chapter of business history, this gracefully written study offers fresh insights into the role and attitudes of elites during the period. Furthermore it contradicts some of the prevailing thought about entrepreneurial behavior in the early phases of industrialization in America.
The Harvard Graduates' Magazine
Author: William Roscoe ThayerPublisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Giant in the Shadows
Author: Jason EmersonPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809330555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Giant in the Shadows is the definitive biography of Robert T. Lincoln (1843-1926), the oldest son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln and their only child to live past age eighteen. Emerson, after nearly ten years of research, draws upon previously unavailable materials to cover Robert Lincoln's entire life in detail.
The Death of Reconstruction
Author: Heather Cox RichardsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. Northern support for freed blacks and Reconstruction weakened in the wake of growing critiques of the economy and calls for a redistribution of wealth. Using newspapers, public speeches, popular tracts, Congressional reports, and private correspondence, Richardson traces the changing Northern attitudes toward African-Americans from the Republicans' idealized image of black workers in 1861 through the 1901 publication of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery. She examines such issues as black suffrage, disenfranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching, and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. She reveals a growing backlash from Northerners against those who believed that inequalities should be addressed through working-class action, and the emergence of an American middle class that championed individual productivity and saw African-Americans as a threat to their prosperity. The Death of Reconstruction offers a new perspective on American race and labor and demonstrates the importance of class in the post-Civil War struggle to integrate African-Americans into a progressive and prospering nation.
Annual report of the president of Harvard College to the overseers exhibiting the state of the institution
Author: Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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