The Trade Card in Nineteenth-century America
Author : Robert Jay
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Robert Jay
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : John D. Wong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107150663
An innovative new study of the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world.
Author : Wendy Gamber
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801885716
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Author : Elizabeth B. Greene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : History
ISBN :
This book presents both nationally significant objects and ordinary items from everyday life to provide insight into 19th century American society, showing readers how the production, design, function, and use of these objects can inform our understanding of the period. Artifacts from 19th Century America examines a broad array of objects representing various aspects of 19th century American society. The objects have been chosen to illuminate daily life in a number of categories including cooking, entertainment, grooming, clothing and accessories, health, household items, religious life, work, and education. The book's 53 entries include a brief introduction to the background of the object, when and why it was made, and who used it, followed by a detailed description of the object itself. Finally, each entry provides a deep dive into the object's significance and how the object reveals clues about the social, political, economic, and intellectual life of the society in which it was produced and utilized. Students and general readers alike will not only learn about the time period but also learn to use the skills of material culture theory and method, including how to draw meaningful conclusions from each object about their historical context and significance.
Author : Ian R. Bartky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780804738743
This first comprehensive, scholarly history of timekeeping in America studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Time—the worldwide system of timekeeping by which we all live. The book describes the contributions of the railroad industry, university astronomers, clockmakers, and civil and electrical engineers.
Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780415923576
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Bruce D. Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Clipper ships
ISBN : 9780979469701
Author : J. Rosenbaum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 023011556X
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
Author : Robin Law
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521523066
This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa.
Author : Brian C. Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313024677
The nineteenth-century saw a significant transformation in the United States. In one short century, the nation had seen the populating of the Great Plains and West, the decimation of native Indian tribes, the growth of national transportation and communication networks, and the rise of major cities. The century also witnessed the destruction of the nation's forests, battles over land and water, and the ascent of agribusiness. With these changes in resource use patterns and values came a concordant shift in attitudes toward nature. Conservation and preservation emerged as watchwords for the 1900s. The century that started with an attitude of environmental conquest thus ended by embracing conservation and a new environmental awareness.