Book Description
Vol. for 1906/07 includes proceedings of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Institute.
Author : American Institute of Architects
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Architects
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Vol. for 1906/07 includes proceedings of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Institute.
Author : Ann D. Gordon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0813553458
The “hush” of the title comes suddenly, when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. It is sudden because Stanton, despite near blindness and immobility, wrote so intently right to the end that editors had supplies of her articles on hand to publish several months after her death. It is sudden because Anthony, at the age of eighty-five, set off for one more transcontinental trip, telling a friend on the Pacific Coast, “it will be just as well if I come to the end on the cars, or anywhere, as to be at home.” Volume VI of this extraordinary series of selected papers is inescapably about endings, death, and silence. But death happens here to women still in the fight. An Awful Hush is about reformers trained “in the school of anti-slavery” trying to practice their craft in the age of Jim Crow and a new American Empire. It recounts new challenges to “an aristocracy of sex,” whether among the bishops of the Episcopal church, the voters of California, or the trustees of the University of Rochester. And it sends last messages about woman suffrage. As Stanton wrote to Theodore Roosevelt on the day before she died, “Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men, in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.” With the publication of Volume VI, this series is now complete.
Author : BRITISH MISSIONS.
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 1853
Category :
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Author : New York State Bar Association
Publisher :
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Bar associations
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Author : Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 1917
Category : United States
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Author : Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300098278
Annotation Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. Urban historian Robert Fogelson gives a riveting account of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about it--changed between 1880 and 1950. Recreating battles over subways and skyscrapers, the introduction of elevated highways and parking bans, and other controversies, this book provides a new and often starling perspective on downtown's rise and fall.
Author : James B. McSwain
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0807169145
Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
Author : National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Radiation
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Author : Jean Reith Schroedel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315485206
The underlying theoretical premise of this text is that the separation between the executive and legislative functions has important policy consequences and has influenced legislative outcomes. The study analyzes the pattern of interaction on banking bill introductions over the past 150 years.
Author : Joseph A. McCartin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 146961703X
Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin explores the political, economic, and social forces that gave rise to this conflict and shows how rising labor militancy and the sudden erosion of managerial control in wartime workplaces combined to create an industrial crisis. The search for a resolution to this crisis led to the formation of an influential coalition of labor Democrats, AFL unionists, and Progressive activists on the eve of U.S. entry into the war. Though the coalition's efforts in pursuit of industrial democracy were eventually frustrated by powerful forces in business and government and by internal rifts within the movement itself, McCartin shows how the shared quest helped cement the ties between unionists and the Democratic Party that would subsequently shape much New Deal legislation and would continue to influence the course of American political and labor history to the present day.