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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina
Author: Le Page du Pratz
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Fear God and Take Your Own Part
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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"This book is based primarily upon, and mainly consists of, matter contained in articles [published] ... in the Metropolitan magazine during the past fourteen months. It also contains or is based upon an article contributed to the Wheeler Syndicate, a paper submitted to the American Sociological Congress and one or two speeches and public statements. In addition there is much new matter."--Introductory note.
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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"This book is based primarily upon, and mainly consists of, matter contained in articles [published] ... in the Metropolitan magazine during the past fourteen months. It also contains or is based upon an article contributed to the Wheeler Syndicate, a paper submitted to the American Sociological Congress and one or two speeches and public statements. In addition there is much new matter."--Introductory note.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library. Library Company
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth
Author: Sean Patrick Adams
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421400510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, “Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!” With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation’s coal trade. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia’s leadership in the American coal industry had completely unraveled while Pennsylvania, at first slow to exploit its vast reserves of anthracite and bituminous coal, had become the country’s leading producer. Sean Patrick Adams compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role. Virginia’s failure to exploit the rich coal fields in the western part of the state can be traced to the legislature’s overriding concern to protect and promote the interests of the agrarian, slaveholding elite of eastern Virginia. Pennsylvania’s more factious legislature enthusiastically embraced a policy of economic growth that resulted in the construction of an extensive transportation network, a statewide geological survey, and support for private investment in its coal fields. Using coal as a barometer of economic change, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in American industrial development.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421400510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, “Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!” With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation’s coal trade. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia’s leadership in the American coal industry had completely unraveled while Pennsylvania, at first slow to exploit its vast reserves of anthracite and bituminous coal, had become the country’s leading producer. Sean Patrick Adams compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role. Virginia’s failure to exploit the rich coal fields in the western part of the state can be traced to the legislature’s overriding concern to protect and promote the interests of the agrarian, slaveholding elite of eastern Virginia. Pennsylvania’s more factious legislature enthusiastically embraced a policy of economic growth that resulted in the construction of an extensive transportation network, a statewide geological survey, and support for private investment in its coal fields. Using coal as a barometer of economic change, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in American industrial development.
Bulletin
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Nicholas Biddle in Greece
Author: Nicholas Biddle
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271009148
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In the course of a sojourn to Europe, Biddle sailed to Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Half of the journal he kept on the trip has only recently been discovered, and the other half is known to only a few people because it is still in private hands. Taken together, these two journals (plus the four extant letters that Biddle wrote to his family in Philadelphia) are a mine of information about the formative influences on his career, about the politics and personalities of Napoleon's Europe, about the condition of Greece and its ancient monuments under the Turkocratia, and even about the American naval war against the Barbary pirates. Despite being written by a twenty-year-old, these journals are remarkable for their literary quality and their general liveliness. Perhaps because they were not written to be published, they have a freshness and honesty lacking in more formal works of travel.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271009148
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In the course of a sojourn to Europe, Biddle sailed to Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Half of the journal he kept on the trip has only recently been discovered, and the other half is known to only a few people because it is still in private hands. Taken together, these two journals (plus the four extant letters that Biddle wrote to his family in Philadelphia) are a mine of information about the formative influences on his career, about the politics and personalities of Napoleon's Europe, about the condition of Greece and its ancient monuments under the Turkocratia, and even about the American naval war against the Barbary pirates. Despite being written by a twenty-year-old, these journals are remarkable for their literary quality and their general liveliness. Perhaps because they were not written to be published, they have a freshness and honesty lacking in more formal works of travel.