Download or read book An Industrial History of the American People Classic Reprint written by J. R. H. Moore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Industrial History of the American People IN order to understand the reasons for the discovery of the New World, we must turn back in European history to a won derful time called the Renaissance, ' at the end of the Middle Ages. During this period, from the fourteenth century ou, through at least two centuries, the minds of men awoke from the slumber of the Dark Ages, and within a very few generations civilization made greater advances in many directions than the previous thousand years had seen. These advances occurred in education, in painting, sculpture, architecture, religion, and in all things that pertain to learning, but the most important advance came in a changed attitude towards life. Men wanted to know more of the earth itself, and to enjoy it more. Ig norance, energy, and curiosity united to produce the most as tonishing results; for example, it was man's very ignorance of real conditions that gave him the courage to make long voy ages on unknown waters. Dissatisfaction with the old order of afiairs was in the air, and it needed only a little thing to attract the attention of the awakening world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book An Industrial History of the American People 1913 written by Joseph Roswell Hawley Moore and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book Industrial History of the United States Classic Reprint written by Louis Ray Wells and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Industrial History of the United States The industrial development of the United States has followed lines similar to those of European nations, - advancing slowly up to the end of the eighteenth century and after that gathering greater speed and momentum. Here, as in Europe, the growth has been accompanied by the use of machinery, by specialization, division of labor, concentration, growing complexity of organization, and, finally, by an increasing degree of public control. This text follows a topical rather than a chronological method of treatment. Nevertheless, allowing for an inevitable overlapping of events, it seems possible to distinguish four major periods of development, roughly divided as follows: (1) the colonial period of simple domestic economy and of dependence upon foreign trade, extending from the beginnings of permanent settlements to 1763; (2) the period of transition from colonial to national economic life, 1763 to about 1825; (3) the period of national consolidation and isolation, 1825 to 1860; and (4) a period of readjustment, marked by combination and organization growing out of severe competition, by public regulation of industry, and by all the new problems resulting from the closing of the frontier. The text emphasizes three principal ideas, foremost among which is the effect upon a people of centuries of a constantly moving frontier. It is difficult to estimate the influence of the fact that since the beginnings of American history every day has been "moving day" for large numbers of the people. They went into the West, crude, untamed, unshackled by tradition, out of touch with the old home culture, and often out of the reach of regularly established law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Short History of the American People Classic Reprint written by Edna Henry Lee Turpin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of the American People Miss turpin's Short History of the American People has impressed me as a work of exceptional value. The narrative is clear, impartial, spirited, and altogether read able. The prime merit of the work is, in my opinion, that events are made so to unfold that even a child will grasp the principle of cause and effect as it has worked itself out in the history of our country. This volume is not a series of detached dates and incidents, however picturesque or pleasingly told. The process of growth is brought out in every paragraph in such a way as to make the sequence of events illumining. By such treatment the reader is eu abled to contract the historical habit. As the habit of sound thinking is more than a thousand thoughts, so the historical habit of interpreting cause and effect in human experience is of far more value than any knowledge of events, however comprehensive. The author has preserved the due perspective of Ameri can history by giving a large place to the facts bearing on the industrial and social development of our people, in accordance with the changing sphere of the modern State, which is becoming more and more social both in its spirit and aims. The style is simple and yet energetic, while the appara tus for teaching, such as maps, topics for study, references for reading, and suggestive questions, are admirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Documentary History of American Industrial Society Classic Reprint written by John Rogers Commons and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Documentary History of American Industrial Society On account of limits of space the two cases herewith published were omitted from volume iv of the series.They are accordingly printed in this supplementary volume and furnished to those who have subscribed to the series, in conformity to our promise that the Documentary History of American Industrial Society should include all of the extant Labor Conspiracy Cases not otherwise available in public or college libraries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Our Republic written by S. E. Forman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Republic: A Brief History of the American People In the making of our Republic the deeds of pioneers, farmers, inventors, teachers, captains of labor, captains of industry, have been quite as important as the deeds of warriors and statesmen. This history, therefore, is not one of the drum and trumpet kind, nor' is it one in which the politician always holds the center of the stage. A large share of attention is given to the every - day life of the people; to the movement which carried American civilization westward and built up a Union of States; to the growth of our industrial system; to the great inventions which have contributed so largely to our competency in material things. The treatment of topics bearing upon our economic development is unusually full for the reason that the economic factor in the history of a nation, especially in the history of the American nation, is a subject of transcendent importance. There is much in Bagehot's saying The selling of figs, the cobbling of shoes, the manufacture of nails - these are the essence of life. While preparing the book the author received from the officers of the Library of Congress courtesies for which he is deeply in debted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A People s History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

Download or read book An Economic History of the United States Classic Reprint written by Ernest Ludlow Bogart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Economic History of the United States The purpose of this book is not to rehearse the events common to political and constitutional histories of the United States, but rather to emphasize the points neglected by them. The keynote of all American history, from whatever standpoint it may be written, is found in the efforts of a virile and ener getic people to appropriate and develop the wonderful natural resources of a new continent and there to realize their ideals of liberty and government. The economic history of the United States is largely the story of the achievements of a people working under free competition, untrammeled by custom, tradition, or political limitations, and whose changing conditions of environment constantly compelled new adapta tions and promoted ingenuity and energy of character. The history of this economic struggle is not one whit less interesting or dramatic than the political history of the same period, while it is absolutely essential to a thorough understanding of the latter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Standard of Living Among the Industrial People of America Classic Reprint written by Frank Hatch Streightoff and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Standard of Living, Among the Industrial, People of America This series of books owes its existence to the generosity of Messrs. Hart, Schaffner, and Marx of Chicago, who have shown a special interest in trying to draw the attention of American youth to the study of economic and commercial subjects, and to encourage the best thinking of the country to investigate the problems which vitally affect the business world of to-day. For this purpose they have delegated to the undersigned Committee the task of selecting or approving of topics, making all announcements, and awarding prizes annually for those who wish to compete. For the year ending June 1, 1909, there were offered: - In Class A, which included any American without restriction, a First Prize of Six Hundred Dollars and a Second Prize of Four Hundred Dollars; In Class B, which included only those who were at the time undergraduates of any American college, a First Prize of Three Hundred Dollars and a Second Prize of Two Hundred Dollars; In Class C, which included any who had not had academic training, a First Prize of Five Hundred Dollars. Any essay submitted in Class B or Class C, if deemed of sufficient merit, could receive a prize in Class A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Documentary History of American Industrial Society Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by John Rogers Commons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. 2 Edited by John R. Commons Ulrich B. Phillips, Eugene A. Gilmore Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Documentary History of American Industrial Society Vol 5 written by John R. Commons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. 5: Labor Movement Thus it is that questions of money, banking, and credit have determined our three great periods of industrial history; and it is not an extravagance to claim, after contemplating also the Wider political and social agita tions accompanying the industrial movement, that the curve of prices here outlined is the backbone of Ameri can history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Documentary History of American Industrial Society Vol 6 written by John R. Commons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. 6: Labor Movement From that time to the present the trade has been grad ually sinking, at least so far as the interests of the jour neymen were concerned. The cunning men of the East have come to our city, and having capital them selves, or joining with those who had, have embarked in our business, and realized large fortunes, by redue ing our wages, making large quantities of work, and selling at a reduced price, while those who had served their time to the trade, and had an anxious desire to foster and cherish its interests, have had to abandon the business, or enter into the system of manufacturing largely on a large scale], in order to save them selves from bankruptcy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Documentary History of American Industrial Society Vol 8 Classic Reprint written by John R. Commons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. 8 The evils that afflict society have been criticized by the progressive Spirit of the age, and organized efforts have been made for their correction. Every prominent abuse of the human faculties, every prevailing vice, every oppressive and degrading rela tion that prevails, has caused the friends of humanity to array themselves in bands, for the purpose of resist ing, and if possible of eradicating, some one or more of the evils that disgrace our age and country, and these bands have been justly entitled Reformers. The Democratic party is an organization of reform ers, whose principles tend to perfecting our political system, by securing to each citizen the greatest amount of individual independence, but they have made but little progress, because their leaders, corrupted by place and power, have almost always found that their inter ests were hostile to the principles of their constituents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Documentary History of American Industrial Society Vol 10 written by American Bureau of Industrial Research and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. 10: Labor Movement Opening service. A Globe being placed on the outside of the Outer Veil; a copy of the Sacred Scriptures closed, and a box or basket, containing blank cards on a triangular Altar, red in color, in the centre of the vestibule; a Lance on the outside of the Inner Veil, or entrance to the Sanctuary, over the wicket; that the initiated may know that an Assembly of the *7' 9 are in session. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States 10th Anniversary Edition written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

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Download or read book Advanced American History Classic Reprint written by S. E. Forman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Advanced American History The three greatest achievements of the American people have been these: they have transformed a continent from a low condition of barbarism to a high state of civilization they have developed a commercial and industrial system of vast proportions; and they have evolved the greatest democracy the world has yet seen. In this text, therefore, it has been my aim to present fully and clearly these three aspects of our growth: to Show the forces of civilization pressing ever west ward upon the wilderness and extending the boundaries of the white man's domain; to Show an industrious and ingenious people moving ever forward to make new conquests in the economic world; and to show a liberty-loving nation struggling with new problems of government and advancing ever nearer to a complete realization of popular rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.