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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal
Author: Herapath's Railway Magazine, Commercial Journal, and Scientific Review
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Author: James SpruntPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Fifty Years of Prison Service
Author: Zebulon Reed BrockwayPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliamsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520925181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions
Preservation Plan
Author: Lowell Historic Preservation Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
... An 8 year plan to preserve Lowell's historic and cultural resources in order to tell the story of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century; included in the plan are mills, institutions, residences, commercial buildings and canals; describes the areas covered; discusses preservation standards, public improvements, financing, related programs, etc.; provides architectural information, dates of construction, history, plans for building reuse, etc. of specific structures in the Lowell National Historic Park and Lowell Heritage State Park ...
American Exodus
Author: James Noble GregoryPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195071368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal both their economic trials and their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an 'Okie subculture' which is now an essential element of California's cultural landscape.
The Anthropology of Experience
Author: Victor Witter TurnerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252012495
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will be of special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolic anthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers.
A History of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America
Author: George Magruder BatteyPublisher:
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Category : Floyd County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description