Research Report, History of Loudoun Heights, 1813-1880
Author : Philip R. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
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Author : Philip R. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
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Author : Dave Gilbert
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : Alfred Goldberg
Publisher : Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2007-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.
Author : John M. Curran
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Clothing and dress
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Author : Merritt Roe Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0801454395
Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights the major problems of technical innovation and social adaptation in antebellum America. Merritt Roe Smith describes how positions of authority at the armory were tied to a larger network of political and economic influence in the community; how these relationships, in turn, affected managerial behavior; and how local social conditions reinforced the reactions of decision makers. He also demonstrates how craft traditions and variant attitudes toward work vis-à-vis New England created an atmosphere in which the machine was held suspect and inventive activity was hampered.Of central importance is the author's analysis of the drastic differences between Harpers Ferry and its counterpart, the national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, which played a pivotal role in the emergence of the new technology. The flow of technical information between the two armories, he shows, moved in one direction only— north to south. "In the end," Smith concludes, "the stamina of local culture is paramount in explaining why the Harpers Ferry armory never really flourished as a center of technological innovation."Pointing up the complexities of industrial change, this account of the Harpers Ferry experience challenges the commonly held view that Americans have always been eagerly receptive to new technological advances.
Author : Ted Ballard
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1782898565
Contains more than 20 maps, diagrams and illustrations Although "Fighting Joe" Hooker skillfully executes a well-conceived plan and out-flanks his adversary, months of offensive planning are shelved as he suddenly orders his army on the defensive. Lee seizes the initiative and achieves what has often been called his most brilliant victory. How could this happen when Hooker's army outnumbers that of Lee 2 to 1 and is far superior in artillery and logistics? Answers to these and other questions concerning leadership, communications, use of terrain, and the psychology of men in battle, are often found by personal reconnaissance of the battlefield. This book offers a staff ride briefing of Chancellorsville. Since 1906 staff rides have been used to in the education of U.S. Army officers to narrow the gap between peacetime training and war.
Author : Frank D. Haimbaugh
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
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Author : Charles Dalton
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
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Author : Klaus Wust
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813912141
Klaus Wust's comprehensive study of German settlement and integration in Virginia from 1608 until World War I proves to be a significant and colorful chapter in the state's history.
Author : Lucian Lamar Knight
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Georgia
ISBN :