Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Canal Streetcar Line Reintroduction, Canal Street from the Mississippi River to the Cemeteries, Spur Line to City Park, City of New Orleans, New Orleans Parish
Author: Environment Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Channels (Hydraulic engineering)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 84-12. Considers legislation to authorize canal construction from Mississippi River to Gulf of Mexico.
St. Louis River Front
Author: Saint Louis (Mo.). City Plan CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Act No. 159, Senate Bill No. 206
Author: New Orleans (La.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government by commission
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Time and Place in New Orleans
Author: Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 145561310X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Canal Street
Author: Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455601882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Ext: general view.
C & O Canal
Author: Barry MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Claude A. Swanson of Virginia
Author: Henry C. FerrellJr.Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Spanning most of the years of the one-party South, the public career of Virginian Claude A. Swanson, congressman, governor, senator, and secretary of the navy, extended from the second administration of Grover Cleveland into that of Franklin Roosevelt. His record, writes Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., in this definitive biography, is that of "a skillful legislative diplomat and an exceedingly wise executive encompassed in the personality of a professional politician." As a congressman, Swanson abandoned Cleveland's laissez faire doctrines to become the leading Virginia spokesman for William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic platform of 1896. His achievements as a reform governor are equaled by few Virginia chief executives. In the Senate, Swanson worked to advance the programs of Woodrow Wilson. In the 1920s, he contributed to formulation of Democratic alternatives to Republican policies. In Roosevelt's New Deal cabinet, he helped the Navy obtain favorable treatment during a decade of isolation. The warp and woof of local politics are well explicated by Ferrell to furnish insight into personalities and events that first produced, then sustained, Swan-son's electoral success. He examines Virginia educational, moral, and social reforms; disfranchisement movements; racial and class politics; and the impact of the woman's vote. And he records the growth of the Hampton Roads military-industrial complex, which Swanson brought about. In Virginia, Swanson became a dominant political figure, and Ferrell's study challenges previous interpretations of Virginia politics between 1892 and 1932 that pictured a powerful, reactionary Democratic "Organization," directed by Thomas Staples Martin and his successor Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., defeating would-be progressive reformers. A forgotten Virginia emerges here, one that reveals the pervasive role of agrarians in shaping the Old Dominion's politics and priorities.
Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912
Author: Rand DotsonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572336439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Tells the story of a city that for a brief period was widely hailed as a regional model for industrialization as well as the ultimate success symbol for the rehabilitation of the former Confederacy. In a region where modernization seemed to move at a glacial pace, those looking for signs of what they were triumphantly calling the "New South" pointed to Roanoke. No southern city grew faster than Roanoke did during the 1880s. A hardscrabble Appalachian tobacco depot originally known by the uninspiring name of Big Lick, it became a veritable boomtown by the end of the decade as a steady stream of investment and skilled manpower flowed in from north of the Mason-Dixon line. The first scholarly treatment of Roanoke's early history, the book explains how native businessmen convinced a northern investment company to make their small town a major railroad hub. It then describes how that venture initially paid off, as the influx of thousands of people from the North and the surrounding Virginia countryside helped make Roanoke - presumptuously christened the "Magic City" by New South proponents - the state's third-largest city by the turn of the century. Rand Dotson recounts what life was like for Roanoke's wealthy elites, working poor, and African American inhabitants. He also explores the social conflicts that ultimately erupted as a result of well-intended 3reforms4 initiated by city leaders. Dotson illustrates how residents mediated the catastrophic Depression of 1893 and that year's infamous Roanoke Riot, which exposed the faȧde masking the city's racial tensions, inadequate physical infrastructure, and provincial mentality of the local populace. Dotson then details the subsequent attempts of business boosters and progressive reformers to attract the additional investments needed to put their city back on track. Ultimately, Dotson explains, Roanoke's early struggles stemmed from its business leaders' unwavering belief that economic development would serve as the panacea for all of the town's problems.
