Author: New York Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781429737739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Proceedings of the New York Historical Society (1849)
Author: New York Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781429737739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Proceedings of the New York Historical Society
Author: New-York Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year ...
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Reading Publics
Author: Tom GlynnPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
History in the United States, 1800-1860
Author: George H. CallcottPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421431041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Originally published in 1970. Professor Callcott's analysis of the rise of historical consciousness in the United States from 1800 to 1860 offers a new dimension to American historiography. Other books have provided insight into the works of Bancroft, Parkman, and others, but Callcott goes beyond to explain the meaning of the past itself rather than the contributions of particular historians. As the anatomy of an idea, this is an important contribution to American intellectual history; and as a study of humans' need for the past and their use of it, it is an important contribution to American social history. The author begins by analyzing the European and Romantic background for American historical thought. He then explores the rise of historical themes in literature, education, the arts, and scholarship. By describing the type of historical subject matter, the methods of writing history, the interpretive themes historians used, and the standards by which critics judged history, Callcott offers a new understanding of the social and personal meaning that history had for Americans at the time. The American people were especially convinced of the utility of history—its social use in supporting accepted values, its personal utility in extending human experience, and its philosophical value in pointing people toward ultimate reality. The idea of history possessed a remarkable coherence that reflected the preoccupations and aspirations of the young nation. Callcott also demonstrates, however, that when basic historical assumptions were challenged by controversy, the entire edifice collapsed.
The Monied Metropolis
Author: Sven BeckertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century New York City's powerful economic elite.