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Book Blackwater Archives   the Art of the Order

Download or read book Blackwater Archives the Art of the Order written by Ready At Dawn and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Professional Criminals of America

Download or read book Professional Criminals of America written by Thomas Byrnes and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained in the item are "36 heliotype plates with photographs of mug shots of criminals (204), and two plates; one of Inspector Byrnes, and the second a tableau of a criminal being held for his picture."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 85

Book A New England

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  • Author : G. R. Searle
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0199284407
  • Pages : 991 pages

Download or read book A New England written by G. R. Searle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.R. Searle's narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886, the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queen's golden jubilee, to 1918, as the 'war to end all wars' drew to a close.

Book The Mid Victorian Generation

Download or read book The Mid Victorian Generation written by K. Theodore Hoppen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theodore Hoppen identifies three defining themes. The first he calls `established industrialism' - the growing acceptance that factory life and manufacturing had come to stay. It was during these four decades that the balance of employment shifted irrevocably. For the first time in history, more people were employed in industry than worked on the land. The second concerns the `multiple national identities' of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Dr Hoppen's study of the histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Empire reveals the existence of a variety of particular and overlapping national traditions flourishing alongside the increasingly influential structure of the unitary state. The third defining theme is that of `interlocking spheres' which the author uses to illuminate the formation of public culture in the period. This, he argues, was generated not by a series of influences operating independently from each other, but by a variety of intermeshed political, economic, scientific, literary and artistic developments. This original and authoritative book will define these pivotal forty years in British history for the next generation.

Book Blizzard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen Duey
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-11-04
  • ISBN : 1481409697
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Blizzard written by Kathleen Duey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Rose's trick on her spoiled cousin Haydn Sinclair backfires when he disappears on a hike, and it's up to Maggie to rescue him in a sudden blizzard in Estes Park, Colorado, in 1886.

Book Arp  1886 1966

Download or read book Arp 1886 1966 written by Jean Arp and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Rightful Share

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  • Author : Aline Helg
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780807844946
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Our Rightful Share written by Aline Helg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island's transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba's well-established myth of racial equality and s

Book The Science and art of obstetrics

Download or read book The Science and art of obstetrics written by Theophilus Parvin and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joseph Smith  the Prophet  His Family and His Friends

Download or read book Joseph Smith the Prophet His Family and His Friends written by Wilhelm Wyl and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bride on the Old Chisholm Trail in 1886

Download or read book A Bride on the Old Chisholm Trail in 1886 written by Mary Taylor Bunton and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mrs. Bunton was a young bride, she took great pleasure in going to her husband's ranch, after their honeymoon to Northern and Eastern points was over, and in reveling in the adventures of ranch life. The prairie dogs objected vociferously to the swish of her silk petticoats, but not any more vehemently than did the more old-fashioned cattlemen and their wives to the first ladies' riding breeches which they had seen--and which Mrs. Bunton wore courageously and delightedly. when news came to the Bunton's Nolan County ranch, near Sweetwater, Texas, that the herds of cattle which Mr. Bunton was sending up to norther and western markets were ready for the trail, but that the general herd boss was stricken with sore eyes, Mr. Bunton could find no one to take the lead--except himself. Mrs. Bunton was determined to go too, and go she did, although the warnings and protests were great. Along the trip, made vivid by many adventures, she won the admiration and approval of cowboys, and upon their arrival at Coolidge, Kansas, the cattlemen proclaimed the young bride "Queen of the Old Chisholm Trail."--Jacket flap

Book The People s Network

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  • Author : Robert MacDougall
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2014-01-08
  • ISBN : 0812245695
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The People s Network written by Robert MacDougall and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional autonomy. As the Bell empire grew, independents fought fiercely to retain control of their local networks and companies—a struggle with an emerging corporate giant that has been almost entirely forgotten. The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived.

Book Cars  1886 1930

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  • Author : G. N. Georgano
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780950962030
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Cars 1886 1930 written by G. N. Georgano and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Proceedings of the Bishops  Clergy and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Download or read book Journal of the Proceedings of the Bishops Clergy and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America written by Episcopal Church. General Convention and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pandaemonium 1660   1886

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  • Author : Humphrey Jennings
  • Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
  • Release : 2012-10-04
  • ISBN : 1848315864
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Pandaemonium 1660 1886 written by Humphrey Jennings and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain. Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways. Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain's national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right. Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle's electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.

Book Acts and Joint Resolutions  Amending the Constitution  of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia

Download or read book Acts and Joint Resolutions Amending the Constitution of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia written by Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes separately published extra sessions.

Book Report of the State Auditor

Download or read book Report of the State Auditor written by Minnesota. State Auditor and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert Koehler   s The Strike

    Book Details:
  • Author : James M. Dennis
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2011-04-05
  • ISBN : 0299251330
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Robert Koehler s The Strike written by James M. Dennis and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every work of art has a story behind it. In 1886 the German American artist Robert Koehler painted a dramatic wide-angle depiction of an imagined confrontation between factory workers and their employer. He called this oil painting The Strike. It has had a long and tumultuous international history as a symbol of class struggle and the cause of workers’ rights. First exhibited just days before the tragic Chicago Haymarket riot, The Strike became an inspiration for the labor movement. In the midst of the campaign for an eight-hour workday, it gained international attention at expositions in Paris, Munich, and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Though the painting fell into obscurity for decades in the early twentieth century, The Strike lived on in wood-engraved reproductions in labor publications. Its purchase, restoration, and exhibition by New Left activist Lee Baxandall in the early 1970s launched it to international fame once more, and collectors and galleries around the world scrambled to acquire it. It is now housed in the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, Germany. Art historian James M. Dennis has crafted a compelling “biography” of Koehler’s painting: its exhibitions, acclaim, neglect, and rediscovery. He introduces its German-born creator and politically diverse audiences and traces the painting’s acceptance and rejection through the years, exploring how class and sociopolitical movements affected its reception. Dennis considers the significance of key figures in the painting, such as the woman asserting her presence in the center of action. He compellingly explains why The Strike has earned its identity as the iconic painting of the industrial labor movement.