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Book Akron and Summit County  Ohio  1825 1928

Download or read book Akron and Summit County Ohio 1825 1928 written by Scott Dix Kenfield and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Akron and Summit County  Ohio  1825 1928

Download or read book Akron and Summit County Ohio 1825 1928 written by Scott Dix Kenfield and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Akron and Summit County  Ohio  1825 1928

Download or read book Akron and Summit County Ohio 1825 1928 written by Scott Dix Kenfield and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Centennial History of Akron  1825 1925

Download or read book A Centennial History of Akron 1825 1925 written by Historical Committee (Akron, Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical  v  2 3

Download or read book Historical v 2 3 written by Scott Dix Kenfield and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Centennial History of Akron  1825 1925

Download or read book A Centennial History of Akron 1825 1925 written by Akron (Ohio). Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gum Dipped

Download or read book Gum Dipped written by Joyce Dyer and published by The University of Akron Press. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town tells the story of growing up in the rubber community of Firestone Park in Akron, Ohio"the former Rubber Capital of the World. The book begins with the rededication of the bronze Harvey Firestone statue on August 3, 2000, at the Centennial celebration for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. The statue"perched high on a hill at the entrance to Firestone Park, the residential community Harvey built for his workers in 1915"was sacred to the author, Joyce Coyne Dyer, and her father, Tom Coyne, during the fifties, a time when the Coynes worshipped the company and thought themselves members of the Firestone family.

Book Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies

Download or read book Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies written by Andy Croll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class political and industrial history. Yet whilst much has been written about the struggles of miners and their unions in particular countries, their national confrontations and political organization, much less work has been done on the regional communities and how they related both to the national and international picture. The central theme of this volume is to transcend such over-arching national models and to focus instead on local coal mining societies which can then be compared and contrasted to similar communities elsewhere. In so doing the book is able to tackle a number of familiar labour history themes in a more nuanced way, exploring issues of political activism and class relationships from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity, race and specific localized cultural traditions. As the chapters in this volume illustrate, such an approach can offer rich and often surprising conclusions, in many cases challenging the accepted notion of miners as the vanguard of militant working-class political activism. Adopting a regional approach that compares coalfield communities from five continents, this volume reflects coalfield experiences on a truly global scale. By looking at what made communities unique as well as what they shared in common, a much fuller understanding of the workplace, neighbourhood, family, identity and political organization is possible. Underlining the strong connections between politics, community and identity, this work emphasizes the challenges and opportunities available to labour historians, pushing forward the boundaries of the discipline in new and exciting ways.

Book Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties

Download or read book Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties written by John Tully and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on contemporary accounts and a wealth of studies to produce this history of the Cuyahoga Valley. Tully pays special attention to how settlers' notions of private property--and the impulse to own and develop the land--clashed with more collective social organizations of American Indians. He also documents the ecological cost of settlement, long before heavy industry laid waste to the region. --From publisher description.

Book History of Summit County

Download or read book History of Summit County written by William Henry Perrin and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Centennial History of Akron  1825 1925

Download or read book A Centennial History of Akron 1825 1925 written by Summit County Historical Society (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sanitariums  Hospitals  and the Belladonna Cure

Download or read book Sanitariums Hospitals and the Belladonna Cure written by Kenneth Anderson and published by The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of for-profit institutions for the treatment of drug and alcohol habits which were established prior to the Repeal of Prohibition, as well as a number of miscellaneous entities such as mail-order opium cures. These include the famous Charles B. Towns Hospital and its notorious belladonna cure. Although many people know that Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson was treated with the belladonna cure at the Charles B. Towns Hospital, few are aware that Towns was an insurance salesman with an eighth grade education and no medical training who lied about inventing an addiction cure that he got from someone else, that Towns had also been a stockbroker who was convicted of grand larceny after embezzling money for his clients, and that Towns only decided to make a buck in the addiction cure business after being banned from stock trading. Furthermore, in the 1910s, Towns proposed that state government should force drug addicts to take his cure against their wills, and that death camps should be built to exterminate anyone who relapsed after taking his cure. This book also tells the story of Harry Hubbell Kane, who founded the De Quincey Home for the cure of drug addicts in 1881. After the De Quincey Home failed in 1883, Kane invented and marketed a notorious patent medicine named Scotch Oats Essence. Scotch Oats Essence was comprised of one third alcohol and each ounce contained about a half a grain of morphine. It seems that Kane had decided that if he couldn't make money by curing drug addicts, he could make a lot of money by creating them. These are only two of hundreds of addiction treatment facilities which existed prior to the founding of AA: some good, some bad, and some indifferent. These stories and many more can be found in this book.

Book Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age written by Leonard C. Schlup and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2003 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all the people, events, movements, subjects, court cases, inventions, and more that defined the Gilded Age.

Book The Commercial   Financial Chronicle

Download or read book The Commercial Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

Download or read book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Welsh Americans

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  • Author : Ronald L. Lewis
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780807887905
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Welsh Americans written by Ronald L. Lewis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture. Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh--even with their "foreign" ways--encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America.