Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
The Imprint Catalog in the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Imprint
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Place index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: Proceedings
Author: New Jersey Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society
Author: New Jersey Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A Bibliography of Morristown Imprints, 1798-1820
Author: Douglas Crawford McMurtriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920
Author: Farley GrubbPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136682503
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the health outcomes for the passengers, and identifying the characteristics of the immigrants in terms of family, age, and occupational compositions and educational attainments. Secondly he details how immigrant servitude worked, by identifying how important it was to passenger financing, how shippers profited from carrying immigrant servants, how the labor auction treated immigrant servants, and when and why this method of financing passage to America came to an end.
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
Author: Tamara Plakins ThorntonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.