Author: John S. SalmonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Washington Iron Works of Franklin County, Virginia, 1773-1850
Author: John S. SalmonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Buying into the World of Goods
Author: Ann Smart MartinPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080189848X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Cowinner, 2008 Fred Kniffen Book Award. Pioneer America Society/Association for the Preservation of Landscapes and Artifacts How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin provides answers to these questions by examining the texture of trade on the edge of the upper Shenandoah Valley between 1760 and 1810. Reconstructing the world of one country merchant, John Hook, Martin reveals how the acquisition of consumer goods created and validated a set of ideas about taste, fashion, and lifestyle in a particular place at a particular time. Her analysis of Hook's account ledger illuminates the everyday wants, transactions, and tensions recorded within and brings some of Hook's customers to life: a planter looking for just the right clock, a farmer in search of nails, a young woman and her friends out shopping on their own, and a slave woman choosing a looking glass. This innovative approach melds fascinating narratives with sophisticated analysis of material culture to distill large abstract social and economic systems into intimate triangulations among merchants, customers, and objects. Martin finds that objects not only reflect culture, they are the means to create it.
Books on Early American History and Culture, 1986-1990
Author: Raymond D. IrwinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313074658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A companion volume to Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995, this work covers scholarship on early American history, including North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. This annotated bibliography surveys over 1,000 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogs, and reference works published between 1986 and 1990. In thirty-two thematic sections, the book covers such topics as colonization, rural life and agriculture, and religion. This useful guide organizes the recent explosion of scholarly literature on pre-colonial, colonial, and early Republican America.
The Texture of Industry
Author: Robert Boyd GordonPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195111419
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual work-places and how people worked. Workers seldom wrote about their daily employment. However, they did leave behind their tools, products, shops, and factories as well as the surrounding industrial landscapes and communities. In this book, Gordon and Malone look at the industrialization of North America from the perspective of the industrial archaeologist. Using material evidence from such varied sites as Indian steatite quarries, automobile plants, and coal mines, they examine manufacturing technology, transportation systems, and the effects of industrialization on the land. Their research greatly expands our understanding of industry and focuses attention on the contributions of anonymous artisans whose skills shaped our industrial heritage.
I-73 Location Study Between Roanoke and the North Carolina State Line, Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Henry and Roanoke Counties
Author: Virginia Genealogies
Author: Virginia State Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers
Author: Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This new, revised and expanded edition includes 212 new markers, many of which reflect the Native-American, African-American, and social history. A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers brings together the texts of more than 1,600 official state historical markers that have been placed along Virginia's highways since 1926, including even those markers that have been removed. A grid map and three separate indexes assist the reader in locating each marker. One index is alpabetical by title, one by subject matter, and one by county and independent city. Travelers along Virginia's highways will find this guide both useful and informative. The great legacy of Virginia's past is revealed on these markers, making this book both a handy reference and a stimulus to greater study of the history of the commonwealth.
America, History and Life
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Bland-Cannon
Author: John T. KneebonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This book "is a multivolume historical reference work intended for teachers, students, librarians, historians, journalists, genealogists, museum professionals, and other researchers who have a need for biographical information about those Virginians who, regardless of place of birth or death, made significant contributions to the history or culture of their locality, state, or nation. ..., Virginia is defined by the state's current geographic boundaries, plus Kentucky prior to statehood in 1792 and West Virginia prior to statehood in 1863. With a few exceptions, no person is included who did not live a significant portion of his or her life in Virginia."--P. vi.