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Category : Nashville (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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John L. Mitchell's Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory
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Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860-61
Author: John L. Mitchell
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Nashville City and Business Directory ...
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Category : Nashville (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : Nashville (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The Development and Growth of City Directories
Author: A. V. Williams
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Compilation of directory publications by major city, worldwide, before 1913.
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Compilation of directory publications by major city, worldwide, before 1913.
Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
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The Papers
Author: Andrew Johnson
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870492730
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870492730
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Papers of Andrew Johnson
Author: Andrew Johnson
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870493461
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870493461
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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More Generals in Gray
Author: Bruce S. Allardice
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807131480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy's "other" generals -- men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and who had been virtually forgotten as a consequence. Explaining that the process of becoming a general was fraught with politics, lobbying, intrigue, accident, mismanagement, and chance, Allardice identifies six main categories of legitimate claimants to the rank of Confederate General -- two more than historians have traditionally recognized. He presents a substantial biographical sketch of 137 generals not found in Warner's original and a short bibliography of each. For the vast majority, his is the first treatment ever published.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807131480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy's "other" generals -- men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and who had been virtually forgotten as a consequence. Explaining that the process of becoming a general was fraught with politics, lobbying, intrigue, accident, mismanagement, and chance, Allardice identifies six main categories of legitimate claimants to the rank of Confederate General -- two more than historians have traditionally recognized. He presents a substantial biographical sketch of 137 generals not found in Warner's original and a short bibliography of each. For the vast majority, his is the first treatment ever published.
Finding List
Author: Newark Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Pages : 140
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Troubled Waters
Author: Paul F. Paskoff
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807132683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. This daunting array of river hazards required a similarly broad range of efforts to remove or at least ameliorate them. Against a variety of obstacles -- natural, political, and technological -- the river improvements program succeeded in reducing the rate of steamboat loss, even as steamboat traffic dramatically increased. Its success, Paskoff argues, demonstrates that the federal government was far more active than generally thought in promoting economic growth and development in the years leading up to the Civil War.The river improvements program was one of the most volatile issues in national, sectional, and state politics, touching on questions of economic development, constitutional law, partisan politics, and sectional rivalry. Paskoff examines the controversial program from its beginnings during the early republic to 1844, giving careful attention to the policies of Andrew Jackson's administration. He explores the array of objections to the program -- some grounded in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and others in a concern over alleged federal wantonness, corruption, and waste -- and follows the political story through the administration of James K. Polk forward to secession. Paskoff also explains the fiscal, economic, and technological aspects of the hazard problem and its solution, analyzing the federal government's fiscal condition, its capacity to undertake such an ambitious program, and the influence of conditions in the larger economy, including effects of the Mexican War, upon the federal government's finances.Paskoff's lively analysis rests on a bedrock of impressive quantitative evidence, including databases containing every documented steamboat wreck -- more than 1,200 -- on American rivers, lakes, and coastal waters; construction and engine data for more than 600 steamboat packets; and all relevant federal appropriations and expenditures measures, more than 2,300 spending projects in all. Vigorously researched and vividly told, Troubled Waters is an essential contribution to the history of internal improvements in the antebellum United States.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807132683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. This daunting array of river hazards required a similarly broad range of efforts to remove or at least ameliorate them. Against a variety of obstacles -- natural, political, and technological -- the river improvements program succeeded in reducing the rate of steamboat loss, even as steamboat traffic dramatically increased. Its success, Paskoff argues, demonstrates that the federal government was far more active than generally thought in promoting economic growth and development in the years leading up to the Civil War.The river improvements program was one of the most volatile issues in national, sectional, and state politics, touching on questions of economic development, constitutional law, partisan politics, and sectional rivalry. Paskoff examines the controversial program from its beginnings during the early republic to 1844, giving careful attention to the policies of Andrew Jackson's administration. He explores the array of objections to the program -- some grounded in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and others in a concern over alleged federal wantonness, corruption, and waste -- and follows the political story through the administration of James K. Polk forward to secession. Paskoff also explains the fiscal, economic, and technological aspects of the hazard problem and its solution, analyzing the federal government's fiscal condition, its capacity to undertake such an ambitious program, and the influence of conditions in the larger economy, including effects of the Mexican War, upon the federal government's finances.Paskoff's lively analysis rests on a bedrock of impressive quantitative evidence, including databases containing every documented steamboat wreck -- more than 1,200 -- on American rivers, lakes, and coastal waters; construction and engine data for more than 600 steamboat packets; and all relevant federal appropriations and expenditures measures, more than 2,300 spending projects in all. Vigorously researched and vividly told, Troubled Waters is an essential contribution to the history of internal improvements in the antebellum United States.