The Library of Congress Main Reading Room Reference Collection Subject Catalog
Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office. Library System
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Periodicals
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Author : Library of Congress. Humanities and Social Sciences Division
Publisher : Library of Congress
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Gayle J. Hardy (Davis)
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1996-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313078661
Revised and updated, this compendium helps readers identify and understand the scope of key government reference sources-traditional books (including publications catalogs and telephone directories); information clearinghouses; and materials in new formats, such as CD-ROMs, datafiles, and Internet sites. The authors focus on free information and depository materials-both readily available through toll-free phone numbers, mail or e-mail requests to agencies, or federal depository library collections. Materials are fully described in annotations that differentiate between similar materials, identify typical citation formats, and note common abbreviations
Author : Kip Sperry
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806308463
This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.
Author : Bruce A. Ragsdale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674246381
A fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the Òrespectability & importance which we ought to hold in the world.Ó Washington at the Plow depicts the Òfirst farmer of AmericaÓ as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in crop rotation. A tireless experimentalist, Washington pulled up his tobacco and switched to wheat production, leading the way for the rest of the country. He filled his library with the latest agricultural treatises and pioneered land-management techniques that he hoped would guide small farmers, strengthen agrarian society, and ensure the prosperity of the nation. Slavery was a key part of WashingtonÕs pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting system of slave supervision. But Washington eventually found that forced labor could not achieve the productivity he desired. His inability to reconcile ideals of scientific farming and rural order with race-based slavery led him to reconsider the traditional foundations of the Virginia plantation. As Bruce Ragsdale shows, it was the inefficacy of chattel slavery, as much as moral revulsion at the practice, that informed WashingtonÕs famous decision to free his slaves after his death.
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Page : 836 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Government publications
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Government publications
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Page : 808 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Latin America
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Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Library architecture
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