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Book Gleanings of Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Max Grivno
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2011-12-05
  • ISBN : 0252093569
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Gleanings of Freedom written by Max Grivno and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason–Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.

Book Exploring Everyday Landscapes

Download or read book Exploring Everyday Landscapes written by Annmarie Adams and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawn from two conferences of the Vernacular Architecture Forum--one held in Charleston in 1994, and the other in Ottawa in 1995"--Back cover.

Book The Economy of British America  1607 1789

Download or read book The Economy of British America 1607 1789 written by John J. McCusker and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfolding. In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a 'new economic history.'

Book Agrarian Landscapes in Transition

Download or read book Agrarian Landscapes in Transition written by Charles Redman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's environment for several thousand years. What happens when humans impose their spatial and temporal signatures on ecological regimes, and how does this manipulation affect the earth and nature's desire for equilibrium? Studies were conducted at six Long Term Ecological Research sites within the US, including New England, the Appalachian Mountains, Colorado, Michigan, Kansas, and Arizona. While each site has its own unique agricultural history, patterns emerge that help make sense of how our actions have affected the earth, and how the earth pushes back. The book addresses how human activities influence the spatial and temporal structures of agrarian landscapes, and how this varies over time and across biogeographic regions. It also looks at the ecological and environmental consequences of the resulting structural changes, the human responses to these changes, and how these responses drive further changes in agrarian landscapes. The time frames studied include the ecology of the earth before human interaction, pre-European human interaction during the rise and fall of agricultural land use, and finally the biological and cultural response to the abandonment of farming, due to complete abandonment or a land-use change such as urbanization.

Book Land and Labor  1865

Download or read book Land and Labor 1865 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others-reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 3624 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 3624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Peasantry

Download or read book The American Peasantry written by Ronald E. Seavoy and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping overview of the American "peasantry" from the pre-Civil war era to the contemporary underclass.

Book Proceedings

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Conference on Social Welfare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by National Conference on Social Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1494 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Roots of American Industrialization

Download or read book The Roots of American Industrialization written by David R. Meyer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.

Book Millhands   Preachers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Liston Pope
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1942-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300001822
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Millhands Preachers written by Liston Pope and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1942-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To explore the question of the church’s role in Western economic systems, Mr. Pope presents a pioneering study of the actual role played by the church in the industrial community Gastonia, North Carolina. He has written a brilliant criticism of the relationship between the textile mills and the churches, with broad implications for industry and church.

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1432 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War

Download or read book American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War written by Robert E. Gallman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the dramatic economic growth and rise in income levels, questions remain as to the general quality of life during this era. Was the improvement in income widely shared? How did economic growth affect the nature of work? Did higher levels of income lead to improved health and longevity? The authors address these questions by analyzing new estimates of labor force participation, real wages, and productivity, as well as of the distribution of income, height, and nutrition.

Book The New Larned History for Ready Reference  Reading and Research

Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Race  Gender and Class

Download or read book Race Gender and Class written by Bart Landry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides race, class, gender theory and detailed guidelines, strategies, and rules for the methodology of the Race, Class and Gender approach. It uses Intersection Theory to expose students to articles that employ the Race, Class, Gender approach.