Early American Mills
Author : Martha Zimiles
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Robert Mills
Author : John M. Bryan
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2001-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568982960
Book Description
Perhaps most interesting is the range of buildings and machines that Mills designed - from monuments and local courthouses, to prisons and churches, bridges and canals, to rotary piston engines and fireproof masonry vaults - all during a revolutionary era of building technology in America.".
Early American Coffee Mills
Author : Michael L. White
Publisher : Whitespace Pub
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1993-11-01
Category : Coffee mills
ISBN : 9780963920102
Book Description
The World Colonization Made
Author : Brandon Mills
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0812252500
Book Description
According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in the nineteenth-century United States. But for Brandon Mills, the ACS was part of a much wider pattern of national and international expansion. Similar efforts on the part of the young nation to create, in Thomas Jefferson's words, an "empire of liberty," spanned Native removal, the annexation of Texas and California, filibustering campaigns in Latin America, and American missionary efforts in Hawaii, as well as the founding of Liberia in 1821. Mills contends that these diverse currents of U.S. expansionism were ideologically linked and together comprised a capacious colonization movement that both reflected and shaped a wide range of debates over race, settlement, citizenship, and empire in the early republic. The World Colonization Made chronicles the rise and fall of the colonization movement as a political force within the United States—from its roots in the crises of the Revolutionary era, to its peak with the creation of the ACS, to its ultimate decline with emancipation and the Civil War. The book interrogates broader issues of U.S. expansion, including the progression of federal Indian policy, the foundations and effects of the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny, and the growth of U.S. commercial and military power throughout the Western hemisphere. By contextualizing the colonization movement in this way, Mills shows how it enabled Americans to envision a world of self-governing republics that harmonized with racial politics at home.
Like a Family
Author : Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807882941
Book Description
Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice
American Paper Mills, 1690-1832
Author : John Bidwell
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1584659645
Book Description
A comprehensive account of early papermaking in America
The Roller Mill
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Flour mills
ISBN :
Book Description
American Environmental History
Author : Dan Allosso
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781981731732
Book Description
An expanded, new and improved American Environmental History textbook for everyone! After years of teaching Environmental History at a major East Coast University without a textbook, Dr. Dan Allosso decided to take matters into his own hands. The result, American Environmental History, is a concise, comprehensive survey covering the material from Dan's undergraduate course. What do people say about the class and the text? "This was my first semester and this course has created an incredible first impression. If all of the courses are this good, I am going to really enjoy my time here. The course has completely changed the way I look at the world." (Student in 2014 class) "One of the few classes I'm really sad is ending, the subject matter is fascinating and Dan is a great guide to it. His approach should be required of all students as it teaches an appreciation for a newer and better way of living." (Student in 2014 class) "Allosso's lectures are fantastic. The best I have ever had. So impressed. The material is always extremely interesting and well-presented." (Student in 2015 class) "It is just a perfect course that I think should be mandatory if we want to save our planet and live responsibly." (Student in 2015 class) "A rare gem for an IB ESS teacher or any social studies teacher looking for an 11th or 12th grade supplementary text that aims to provide an historical context for the environmental reality in America today. Highly recommended." (District Curriculum Coordinator, 2016) "I was so impressed with this material that I am using it as a supplement for a course I teach at my college." (History and Environmental Studies Professor, 2017) Beginning in prehistory and concluding in the present, American Environmental History explores the ways the environment has affected the choices that became our history, and how our choices have affected the environment. The dynamic relationship between people and the world around them is missing from mainstream history. Putting the environment back into history helps us make sense of the past and the present, which will help guide us toward a better future. More information and Dan's blog are available at environmentalhistory.us
The Early American Industrial Revolution, 1793-1850
Author : Katie Bagley
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736815574
Book Description
Follows the development of the American Industrial Revolution from 1793 to 1850, including the major industrial inventions and advances of the time period.
Daughter of the Boycott
Author : Karen Gray Houston
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1641603062
Book Description
In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in a confrontation after he tried to board a city bus. Thomas Gray, who had played football with Hilliard when they were kids, was outraged by the unjustifiable shooting. Gray protested, eventually staging a major downtown march to register voters, and standing up to police brutality. Five years later, he led another protest, this time against unjust treatment on the city's segregated buses. On the front lines of what became the Montgomery bus boycott, Gray withstood threats and bombings alongside his brother, Fred D. Gray, the young lawyer who represented Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the rarely mentioned Claudette Colvin, a plaintiff in the case that forced Alabama to desegregate its buses. An incredible story of family in the pivotal years of the civil rights movement, Daughter of the Boycott is the reflection of Thomas Gray's daughter, award-winning broadcast journalist Karen Gray Houston, on how her father's and uncle's selfless actions changed the nation's racial climate and opened doors for her and countless other African Americans.
