Author: George Parsons Lathrop
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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History of the Union League of Philadelphia, from Its Origin and Foundation to the Year 1882
Author: George Parsons Lathrop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Union League of Philadelphia. Officers ... Minutes of Annual Meeting[s] ...
Author: Union League (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The Union League Movement in the Deep South
Author: Michael W. Fitzgerald
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Led by a coalition of blacks and whites with funding from congressional radicals, the Union League was a secret society whose express purpose was to bring freedmen into the political arena after the Civil War. Angry and resentful of the lingering vestiges of the plantation system, freedmen responded to the League’s appeals with alacrity, and hundreds of thousands joined local chapters, speaking and acting collectively to undermine the residual trappings of slavery in plantation society. League actions nurtured instability in the work force, which eventually compelled white planters to relinquish direct control over blacks, encouraging the evolution from gang labor to decentralized tenancy in the southern agricultural system as well as the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. In this impressive work—the first full-scale study of the effect the Union League had on the politicization of black freedmen—Michael W. Fitzgerald explores the League’s influence in Alabama and Mississippi and offers a fresh and original treatment of an important and heretofore largely misunderstood aspect of Reconstruction history.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Led by a coalition of blacks and whites with funding from congressional radicals, the Union League was a secret society whose express purpose was to bring freedmen into the political arena after the Civil War. Angry and resentful of the lingering vestiges of the plantation system, freedmen responded to the League’s appeals with alacrity, and hundreds of thousands joined local chapters, speaking and acting collectively to undermine the residual trappings of slavery in plantation society. League actions nurtured instability in the work force, which eventually compelled white planters to relinquish direct control over blacks, encouraging the evolution from gang labor to decentralized tenancy in the southern agricultural system as well as the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. In this impressive work—the first full-scale study of the effect the Union League had on the politicization of black freedmen—Michael W. Fitzgerald explores the League’s influence in Alabama and Mississippi and offers a fresh and original treatment of an important and heretofore largely misunderstood aspect of Reconstruction history.
Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia
Author: Roger W. Moss
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812241068
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Architectural historian Moss and photographer Crane set out to celebrate the surviving historic architecture of Philadelphia. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Philadelphia's evolution from a modest mercantile outpost of a colonial power to a world-renowned cosmopolitan city.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812241068
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Architectural historian Moss and photographer Crane set out to celebrate the surviving historic architecture of Philadelphia. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Philadelphia's evolution from a modest mercantile outpost of a colonial power to a world-renowned cosmopolitan city.
Memorial History of the City of Philadelphia, from Its First Settlement to Year 1895: Special and biographical
Author: John Russell Young
Publisher:
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book
Author: Jessica DeSpain
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317087259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations, and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author persisted. Jessica DeSpain's study of this period of textual instability examines how the physical book acted as a major form of cultural exchange between Britain and the United States that called attention to volatile texts and the identities they manifested. Focusing on four influential works”Charles Dickens's American Notes for General Circulation, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas”DeSpain shows that for authors, readers, and publishers struggling with the unpredictability of the textual body, the physical book and the physical body became interchangeable metaphors of flux. At the same time, discourses of destabilized bodies inflected issues essential to transatlantic culture, including class, gender, religion, and slavery, while the practice of reprinting challenged the concepts of individual identity, personal property, and national identity.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317087259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations, and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author persisted. Jessica DeSpain's study of this period of textual instability examines how the physical book acted as a major form of cultural exchange between Britain and the United States that called attention to volatile texts and the identities they manifested. Focusing on four influential works”Charles Dickens's American Notes for General Circulation, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas”DeSpain shows that for authors, readers, and publishers struggling with the unpredictability of the textual body, the physical book and the physical body became interchangeable metaphors of flux. At the same time, discourses of destabilized bodies inflected issues essential to transatlantic culture, including class, gender, religion, and slavery, while the practice of reprinting challenged the concepts of individual identity, personal property, and national identity.
Memorial History of the City of Philadelphia: Special and biographical. [By G. O. Seilhamer
Author: John Russell Young
Publisher:
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Moments in Baseball History
Author: Mark R. Brewer
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669855309
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
No other sport can begin to compare to the rich history and statistical record of baseball. It is part of what makes the game so alluring. In “Moments in Baseball History,” Mark R. Brewer examines twenty-two memorable games and the player at the center of that game. It should prove a feast for baseball fans.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669855309
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
No other sport can begin to compare to the rich history and statistical record of baseball. It is part of what makes the game so alluring. In “Moments in Baseball History,” Mark R. Brewer examines twenty-two memorable games and the player at the center of that game. It should prove a feast for baseball fans.
Memorial History of the City of Philadelphia
Author: John Russell Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description