Author: Pliny MilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Advantages of Ocean Steam Navigation, Foreign and Coastwise, to the Commerce of Boston, and the Manufactures of New England
Author: Pliny MilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Advantages of Ocean Steam Navigation, Foreign and Coastwise, to the Commerce of Boston
Author: Pliny MilesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375160100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
The American Postal Network, 1792-1914 Vol 2
Author: Richard R JohnPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040251048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
Invented Cities
Author: Mona DomoshPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300074918
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Why do cities look the way they do? In this intriguing new book, Mona Domosh seeks to answer this question by comparing the strikingly different landscapes of two great American cities, Boston and New York. Although these two cities appeared to be quite similar through the eighteenth century, distinctive characteristics emerged as social and economic differences developed. Domosh explores the physical differences between Boston and New York, comparing building patterns and architectural styles to show how a society's vision creates its own distinctive urban form. Cities, Domosh contends, are visible representations of individual and group beliefs, values, tensions, and fears. Using an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses economics, politics, architecture, historical and cultural geography, and urban studies, Domosh shows how the middle and upper classes of Boston and New York, the "building elite," inscribed their visions of social order and social life on four landscape features during the latter half of the nineteenth century: New York's retail district and its commercial skyscrapers, and Boston's Back Bay and its Common and park system. New York's self-expression translated into unlimited commercial and residential expansion, conspicuous consumption, and architecture designed to display wealth and prestige openly. Boston, in contrast, focused more on culture. The urban gentry limited skyscraper construction, prevented commercial development of Boston Common, and maintained homes and parks near the business district. Many fascinating lithographs illustrate the two cities' contrasting visions.
The Milne Papers
Author: Professor John BeelerPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409446867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
Centred upon a man who never participated in combat operations during his sixty-year naval career, this volume depicts the routine peacetime operations of the mid-Victorian Royal Navy. The documents that comprise this volume deal with topics of interest to scholars of international relations, Anglo-American affairs, the U.S. Civil War and the slave trade. Other aspects addressed include naval medicine, steam-era logistics and other elements of the Royal Navy's modernization pertaining to its materiel, personnel and administration.
The Milne Papers
Author: John BeelerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351885642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 749
Book Description
Centred upon a man who never participated in combat operations during his sixty-year naval career, this volume depicts the routine peacetime operations of the mid-Victorian Royal Navy, operations that have received short shrift in naval histories, even though they have constituted the bulk of the service's mission during the past two centuries. Not surprisingly, the Navy operated in support of the liberal state and its agenda, as many of the documents in this collection make clear. Following the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, both Britain and the United States moved quickly to exploit new trade opportunities and for the next seventy years it was the Royal Navy that enforced the Doctrine, to the benefit of British commercial interests, but also to those of the United States and of any other country engaged in legitimate trade in the hemisphere. The service took the lead in combating piracy and the slave trade, and upheld the rule of law across global trade routes. The documents that comprise this volume therefore deal with topics of interest to scholars of international relations, Anglo-American affairs, the U.S. Civil War and the slave trade. Other aspects addressed include naval medicine, steam-era logistics and other elements of the Royal Navy's modernization pertaining to its materiel, personnel, and administration.
Documents
Author: Boston (Mass.). School CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Documents of the School Committee of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). School CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
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