Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385437466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Illustrated Price-list for Spring of 1881
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385437466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385437466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Perry & co's monthly illustrated price current
Author: Perry and co, ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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American Agriculturist
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Gardening Illustrated
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Illustrated Price-list for Spring of 1881
Author: W.S. Fogg & Son (New York, N.Y.)
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Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Beds
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Iron Age
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Category : Hardware
Languages : en
Pages : 1690
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Category : Hardware
Languages : en
Pages : 1690
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Shantytown, USA
Author: Lisa Goff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The word “shantytown” conjures images of crowded slums in developing nations. Though their history is largely forgotten, shantytowns were a prominent feature of one developing nation in particular: the United States. Lisa Goff restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in America’s urban landscape, showing how the basic but resourcefully constructed dwellings of America’s working poor were not merely the byproducts of economic hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. In the nineteenth century, poor workers built shantytowns across America’s frontiers and its booming industrial cities. Settlements covered large swaths of urban property, including a twenty-block stretch of Manhattan, much of Brooklyn’s waterfront, and present-day Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. Names like Tinkersville and Hayti evoked the occupations and ethnicities of shantytown residents, who were most often European immigrants and African Americans. These inhabitants defended their civil rights and went to court to protect their property and resist eviction, claiming the benefits of middle-class citizenship without its bourgeois trappings. Over time, middle-class contempt for shantytowns increased. When veterans erected an encampment near the U.S. Capitol in the 1930s President Hoover ordered the army to destroy it, thus inspiring the Depression-era slang “Hoovervilles.” Twentieth-century reforms in urban zoning and public housing, introduced as progressive efforts to provide better dwellings, curtailed the growth of shantytowns. Yet their legacy is still felt in sites of political activism, from shanties on college campuses protesting South African apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The word “shantytown” conjures images of crowded slums in developing nations. Though their history is largely forgotten, shantytowns were a prominent feature of one developing nation in particular: the United States. Lisa Goff restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in America’s urban landscape, showing how the basic but resourcefully constructed dwellings of America’s working poor were not merely the byproducts of economic hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. In the nineteenth century, poor workers built shantytowns across America’s frontiers and its booming industrial cities. Settlements covered large swaths of urban property, including a twenty-block stretch of Manhattan, much of Brooklyn’s waterfront, and present-day Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. Names like Tinkersville and Hayti evoked the occupations and ethnicities of shantytown residents, who were most often European immigrants and African Americans. These inhabitants defended their civil rights and went to court to protect their property and resist eviction, claiming the benefits of middle-class citizenship without its bourgeois trappings. Over time, middle-class contempt for shantytowns increased. When veterans erected an encampment near the U.S. Capitol in the 1930s President Hoover ordered the army to destroy it, thus inspiring the Depression-era slang “Hoovervilles.” Twentieth-century reforms in urban zoning and public housing, introduced as progressive efforts to provide better dwellings, curtailed the growth of shantytowns. Yet their legacy is still felt in sites of political activism, from shanties on college campuses protesting South African apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
The Automotive Manufacturer
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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The American Stationer
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Category : Stationery trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Category : Stationery trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Maritime Notes and Queries
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Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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