Author: Benjamin Sacks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eureka (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Carson Mansion & Ingomar Theatre
Author: Benjamin Sacks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eureka (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eureka (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Exploring Everyday Landscapes
Author: Annmarie Adams
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870499838
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"Drawn from two conferences of the Vernacular Architecture Forum--one held in Charleston in 1994, and the other in Ottawa in 1995"--Back cover.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870499838
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"Drawn from two conferences of the Vernacular Architecture Forum--one held in Charleston in 1994, and the other in Ottawa in 1995"--Back cover.
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Author: Joan M. Marter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195335791
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 3140
Book Description
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195335791
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 3140
Book Description
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
What To Do In Eureka
Author:
Publisher: Hauser Publishing
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher: Hauser Publishing
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
When Money Grew on Trees
Author: Greg Gordon
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080614548X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron. Although he began his career as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates, successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman. Against the backdrop of western expansion and nation-building, his life dramatically demonstrates how individuals—more than the impersonal forces of political economy—shaped capitalism in this country, and in doing so, transformed the forests of the West from functioning natural ecosystems into industrial landscapes. In revealing Hammond’s instrumental role in converting the nation’s public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government and the modern corporation. Combining environmental, labor, and business history with biography, When Money Grew on Trees challenges the conventional view that the development and exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the East Coast. The West, Gordon suggests, was perfectly capable of exploiting itself, and in his book we see how Hammond and other regional entrepreneurs dammed rivers, logged forests, and leveled mountains in just a few decades. Hammond and his like also built cities, towns, and a vast transportation network of steamships and railroads to export natural resources and import manufactured goods. In short, they established much of the modern American state and economy.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080614548X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron. Although he began his career as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates, successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman. Against the backdrop of western expansion and nation-building, his life dramatically demonstrates how individuals—more than the impersonal forces of political economy—shaped capitalism in this country, and in doing so, transformed the forests of the West from functioning natural ecosystems into industrial landscapes. In revealing Hammond’s instrumental role in converting the nation’s public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government and the modern corporation. Combining environmental, labor, and business history with biography, When Money Grew on Trees challenges the conventional view that the development and exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the East Coast. The West, Gordon suggests, was perfectly capable of exploiting itself, and in his book we see how Hammond and other regional entrepreneurs dammed rivers, logged forests, and leveled mountains in just a few decades. Hammond and his like also built cities, towns, and a vast transportation network of steamships and railroads to export natural resources and import manufactured goods. In short, they established much of the modern American state and economy.
United States Theatre
Author: Robert Silvester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
City of Wood
Author: James Michael Buckley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477330240
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
"In City of Wood, architectural historian James Buckley explores San Francisco's rapid urban development as a product of the physical and economic transformation of the natural environment of the American West. San Francisco is best known as a product of the gold and silver that were mined from California's mountains and streams, but as Buckley shows, the city's growth was in fact fueled by a wide range of natural resources that could be converted into marketable commodities. City of Wood investigates the architecture of a typical Western resource industry--redwood lumber--to determine how the exploitation of California's natural resources shaped the built environment of both San Francisco and its broader hinterland"--
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477330240
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
"In City of Wood, architectural historian James Buckley explores San Francisco's rapid urban development as a product of the physical and economic transformation of the natural environment of the American West. San Francisco is best known as a product of the gold and silver that were mined from California's mountains and streams, but as Buckley shows, the city's growth was in fact fueled by a wide range of natural resources that could be converted into marketable commodities. City of Wood investigates the architecture of a typical Western resource industry--redwood lumber--to determine how the exploitation of California's natural resources shaped the built environment of both San Francisco and its broader hinterland"--
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2d Ed., Enl
Author: Avery Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Building the Redwood Region
Author: James Michael Buckley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description