Author: Andrew Carnegie
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Triumphant Democracy; Or, Fifty Years' March of the Republic
Author: Andrew Carnegie
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: First [to fifth] supplements. [Additions from 1873-1887
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.
Laid Waste!
Author: John Lauritz Larson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced for some populations unimagined wealth and material comfort, yet it has also now brought the global environment to a tipping point beyond which life as we know it may not be sustainable. How did we come to endanger the very future of life on earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? In Laid Waste!, John Lauritz Larson answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American "culture of exploitation" that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be. Larson undertakes an ambitious historical synthesis, seeking to illuminate how the culture of exploitation grew out of the earliest English settlements and has continually undergirded U.S. society and its cherished myths. Through a series of meditations on key concepts, the story moves from the starving times of early Jamestown through the rise of colonial prosperity, the liberation of the revolutionary generation, the launching of the American republic, and the emergence of a new global industrial power by the end of the nineteenth century. Through this story, the book explores the rise of an American sense of righteousness, entitlement, and destiny that has masked any recognition that our wealth and success has come at expense to anyone or anything. Part polemic, part jeremiad, and part historical overview, Laid Waste! is a provocative and bracing account of how the development of American culture itself has led us to today's crises.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced for some populations unimagined wealth and material comfort, yet it has also now brought the global environment to a tipping point beyond which life as we know it may not be sustainable. How did we come to endanger the very future of life on earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? In Laid Waste!, John Lauritz Larson answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American "culture of exploitation" that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be. Larson undertakes an ambitious historical synthesis, seeking to illuminate how the culture of exploitation grew out of the earliest English settlements and has continually undergirded U.S. society and its cherished myths. Through a series of meditations on key concepts, the story moves from the starving times of early Jamestown through the rise of colonial prosperity, the liberation of the revolutionary generation, the launching of the American republic, and the emergence of a new global industrial power by the end of the nineteenth century. Through this story, the book explores the rise of an American sense of righteousness, entitlement, and destiny that has masked any recognition that our wealth and success has come at expense to anyone or anything. Part polemic, part jeremiad, and part historical overview, Laid Waste! is a provocative and bracing account of how the development of American culture itself has led us to today's crises.
Literature of the republic. pt. 4. 1861-1889
Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Literature of the republic, pt. 4, 1861-1888
Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Book News
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Robert Clarke & Co.'s Catalogue of Works on Political Economy, Finance, Political and Social Science, Etc
Author: Clarke, booksellers, Cincinnati. (1888. Robert Clarke & co.)
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Mark Twain's Travel Literature
Author: Harold H. Hellwig
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476600023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Life on The Mississippi, and Following the Equator. All receive an in-depth analysis, noting Twain's strong sense of nostalgia for the disappearing American frontier, his growing concern over the assimilation of Native American cultures, and his continual search for a sense of personal and national identity. One appendix provides a complete list of the travel literature contained in Twain's personal library.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476600023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Life on The Mississippi, and Following the Equator. All receive an in-depth analysis, noting Twain's strong sense of nostalgia for the disappearing American frontier, his growing concern over the assimilation of Native American cultures, and his continual search for a sense of personal and national identity. One appendix provides a complete list of the travel literature contained in Twain's personal library.
Life of Jay Gould
Author: Murat Halstead
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Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This biography heaps praise on the railroad mogul Jay Gould. It also includes brief biographies of some of his well-known business associates.
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Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This biography heaps praise on the railroad mogul Jay Gould. It also includes brief biographies of some of his well-known business associates.
Catalogue of Books in the Lending Department of the Woolwich Library
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Publisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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