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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Mercantile Library Reporter
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Annual report of the board of directors of the Mercantile Library Association of the city of New York
Author: Mercantile Library Association (New York, NY)
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Boston. [With supplement.]
Author: Mercantile Library Association (BOSTON, Massachusetts)
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Pages : 76
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Supplement to the Catalogue of the Mercantile Library Association of Boston
Author: Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Pages : 60
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The Clerk's Tale
Author: Thomas Augst
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679573X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it? Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679573X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it? Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America.
Historical Sketch of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia, and the 93d Annual Report
Author: Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The 39th report, 1862 contains the charter, by-laws, library rules, and list of subscribers and stockholders; the 42d, 1865 and 45th, 1868, List of members; the 46th, 1869, Amended charter; 77th, 1900, List of stockholders with addresses.
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The 39th report, 1862 contains the charter, by-laws, library rules, and list of subscribers and stockholders; the 42d, 1865 and 45th, 1868, List of members; the 46th, 1869, Amended charter; 77th, 1900, List of stockholders with addresses.
The Reporter's Guide
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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New York Teacher
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Category : Teachers' unions
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Teachers' unions
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The Massachusetts Teacher
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Dictionary Wars
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.