Artisans and Merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, 1780-1820: N-Z and other appendices
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Alexandria (Va.)
ISBN : 9781556133893
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Alexandria (Va.)
ISBN : 9781556133893
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
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Information was compiled from newspapers, land records, directories, censuses, published and unpublished materials. The entry gives name, occupation, and other information if available.
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
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A master directory to the people who peddled their services and wares in early Alexandria compiled from newspapers, property records, city directories, and census records. M0598HB - $32.85
Author : T. Michael Miller
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Page : 595 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Alexandria (Va.)
ISBN : 9780788402487
This book "was compiled to present a political, social and mercantile overview of Alexandria, D.C. during the 1820s". -- Pref.
Author : Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Artisans
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Author : Edward Pulliam
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 1467154768
Author : Thomas W. Cuddy
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759112290
Revolutionary Economies explores the roots of American capitalism through the archaeology and history of the Chesapeake Bay region. Thomas W. Cuddy looks at the archaeological evidence concerning revolutionary-period bakeries and bakers (some of whom had been students of Adam Smith in Scotland) in Annapolis, Maryland and Alexandria, Virginia to examine the development of local production systems that characterized these important early American urban centers. Revolutionary Economies charts the stages of production from household manufacturing to larger workshops to mechanized factories and opens a window on the country's economic history. The volume's blend of archaeology, history, and economics makes it a prototypical study in historical archaeology.
Author : Joshua D. Rothman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1541616596
An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America. Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South—were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.
Author : Mary V. Thompson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813927633
Mount Vernon researcher Mary Thompson endeavors to get beyond the current preoccupation with whether Washington and other founders were or were not evangelical Christians to ask what place religion had in their lives. Thompson follows Washington and his family over several generations, situating her inquiry in the context of new work on the place of religion in colonial and postrevolutionary Virginia and the Chesapeake. --from publisher description.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0691185174
The Louisiana Purchase dominates the months covered in this volume. Jefferson departs for Monticello to enjoy a needed respite after the busy three and a half months he has just spent in the nation's capital. Shortly before leaving Washington, he has a last meeting with his cabinet, after which he issues a proclamation to reconvene Congress on 17 October, three weeks early. It is the "great and weighty" business of the French government’s stunning offer to transfer all of the Louisiana Territory to the United States that necessitates this important gathering. The event brings Jefferson enthusiastic congratulations from his friends and fellow Republicans. With Jefferson’s great success, however, comes the reality of getting the agreement with France approved and implemented. The boundaries of the territory ceded are not even clear. In private letters to his trusted advisers, Jefferson discusses the proper course of action. Should both houses of Congress be called to consider the French offer? Is it prudent to make the substance of a treaty public? And perhaps most vexing, does this executive action require an amendment to the Constitution? Some Federalists criticize the plan, but an expansion of the nation’s territory, proponents argue, will raise America’s stature in the eyes of the world. With the widening of the country’s borders, Jefferson’s project to send an exploratory party westward seems even timelier. William Clark accepts Meriwether Lewis’s invitation to join the expedition, and on the last day of August Lewis begins his journey down the Ohio River, the building of his boat finally complete.