Author: General Conference of the Congregational Churches of ConnecticutPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Minutes of the General Conference of the Congregational Churches of Connecticut at the ... Annual Meeting
Author: General Conference of the Congregational Churches of ConnecticutPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Digest of the Executive Orders
Author: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book classifies the topics and subtopics of the Isthmian Canal Commission and executive committee meetings whereby the subjects are arranged alphabetically with chronological subtopics.
Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1750
Book Description
Catalogue of United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Preserving the Old Dominion
Author: James Michael LindgrenPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914503
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In 1889 tradition-minded women, including many from Virginia's most prominent families, formed the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), the first state preservation organization in the United States. And where better? After all, who else could so readily claim both colonial and Confederate heritage, both Jamestown and the White House of the Confederacy? In Preserving the Old Dominion cultural historian James Lindgren shows how the preservation movement strove to rebuild a revered past upon the foundations of its historic structures. While vividly capturing entertaining incidents - white-gloved pilgrimages, a Richmond costume ball, even a search for a Jamestown Rock to set back those arriviste New Englanders - and introducing battling (often with each other) preservationists, Lindgren also explores the serious consequences of these sometimes amusing efforts. He shows how the reinvention of the past shaped contemporary Virginia and the South. In a very real sense the battle between North and South was replayed at the end of the nineteenth century in a contest to control the nation's past. The AVPA's significance lies not only in the fact that it played a major role in the resurgence of conservatism in the late nineteenth-century South, but that it fits into a larger American picture where tradition-minded Americans tapped their history - whether imagined or real - to shape their identity. Preserving the Old Dominion incorporates history, anthropology, architecture, archaeology, religion, and politics; it will be of interest to historians in all fields as well as women's studies scholars.
Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909, Congressional
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
Book Description
Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909: Lists of congressional and departmental publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
Book Description
Guide to the Illinois Central Archives in the Newberry Library, 1851-1906
Author: Illinois Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Preparing for Blockade 1885-1914
Author: Stephen CobbPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131707615X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Today, the First World War is remembered chiefly for the carnage of the Western Front, but at the time the Royal Navy's blockade of Germany was a more frequent source of debate. For, even at a time of war, there were influential voices in Britain who baulked at a concept of economic warfare that hindered the free passage of goods on the high seas, and brought German society to the brink of famine. To further our understanding of these issues, this book looks at the background to the blockade, and the effects of its implementation in 1914. It argues that there was a widely shared, but largely unwritten, strategic culture within British naval circles which accepted that in a war with a major maritime power the British response would be to attack enemy trade. This is demonstrated by the fact that from at least the late 1880s the Royal Navy planned for the use of armed merchantmen to enforce an economic blockade of an enemy. This it did by entering into detailed arrangements with major British shipping companies for the design and subsidy of liners with the potential for use as merchant cruisers, and stockpiling their prospective armament. In line with the contemporary, Corbettian, view that seapower depends upon free communications, the book concludes by asserting that the primary role of the Grand Fleet in the First World War was to guarantee the ability of the merchant cruisers on the Northern Patrol to interdict German seaborne trade, rather than to engage in large set-piece battles.