Download or read book Biographical Memoranda Concerning Joseph Wharton 1826 1909 written by Joanna Wharton Lippincott and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joseph Wharton written by Willard Ross Yates and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length biography of Joseph Wharton traces his family background, his business enterprises, and his contribution to the nineteenth-century age of industrial enterprise.
Download or read book Joseph Wharton Discoverer of Malleable Nickel in the United States 1826 1909 written by Anna (Wharton) Morris and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisoners of Congress written by Norman E. Donoghue II and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1777, Congress labeled Quakers who would not take up arms in support of the War of Independence as “the most Dangerous Enemies America knows” and ordered Pennsylvania and Delaware to apprehend them. In response, Keystone State officials sent twenty men—seventeen of whom were Quakers—into exile, banishing them to Virginia, where they were held for a year. Prisoners of Congress reconstructs this moment in American history through the experiences of four families: the Drinkers, the Fishers, the Pembertons, and the Gilpins. Identifying them as the new nation’s first political prisoners, Norman E. Donoghue II relates how the Quakers, once the preeminent power in Pennsylvania and an integral constituency of the colonies and early republic, came to be reviled by patriots who saw refusal to fight the English as borderline sedition. Surprising, vital, and vividly told, this narrative of political and literal warfare waged by the United States against a pacifist religious group during the Revolutionary War era sheds new light on an essential aspect of American history. It will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the nation’s founding.
Download or read book Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth century Philadelphia written by Michael P. McCarthy and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1987 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Phila. got safe drinking water -- or safe so far as the medical standards of the time were concerned, the major culprit in the 19th cent. being typhoid. Typhoid frightened the urbanizing world of the late 19th cent. A virulent micro-organism that attacks the intestinal tract, in most cases it spreads when the excreta of an ill person get into the water supply. Phila. was suffering from a typhoid epidemic when a terrible snowstorm hit in Feb. 1899. The disease struck every ward in the city -- wealthy & poor alike suffered since infected river water made its way through the entire system. Phila. public health officials, the major & common council recognized that the city's pumping stations required new filtration systems, but the select council killed the bill. Thanks to episodes like this in other civic affairs, Phila. suffered from a poor reputation for being, in Lincoln Steffens' words, "corrupt & contented." This negative view of the city's performance around the turn of the century is still prevalent. This study takes another look at the people who were trying to solve the public health crisis. It also explores the problem of typhoid from the viewpoint of professionals in the emerging field of public health, beginning with the early years of the Phila. water works. Illus.
Download or read book The Greenback Era written by Irwin Unger and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book which won the Pulitzer Prize, The Greenback Era is not a financial history; rather, it is an attempt to locate the source of political power in the crucial Reconstruction years through a socio-economic study of American financial conflict during the years 1865 to 1879.
Download or read book MBA written by Carter A. Daniel and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years, the main struggle was to achieve a legitimate place for MBA programs in the hostile universities, where the idea of teaching a practical and mercenary subject like commerce seemed to educators nothing short of appalling. Once the programs found acceptance, moreover, business education had to face yet another struggle: figuring out what to teach.
Download or read book A Checklist of Writings on the Economic History of the Greater Philadelphia Wilmington Region written by Daniel Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pragmatic Imagination written by Steven A. Sass and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As prominent as the Wharton School of Business is today, so was the Wharton family in the mercantile world of eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Nineteenth-century scion of this large and wealthy business family, Joseph Wharton amassed a huge new fortune in his American Nickel Company and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and through these enterprises helped catapult the nation into the modern age of industry. In 1881, while still in mid-career, he contributed part of his accumulated wealth to endow the Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania. Wharton's purpose was to prepare the city's young men "of inherited wealth and capacity" to assume control of the complex economy that he and his fellow entrepreneurs were then creating. He would have the university provide that cultural background needed by all gentlemen of society, while the new Wharton course would instruct students in those economic experiences necessary for success in the world of practical affairs. Wharton's investment and instructional program began the modern tradition of collegiate management education. Steven A. Sass's The Pragmatic Imagination not only provides a history of the world's oldest and still one of the most prestigious schools of management but also offers a fascinating exploration of the interaction of higher education and economic activity. The volume illuminates the essential tension in professional business education—that between utilitarian training and scholarly speculation—and analyzes the various regimes of conflict, accommodation, and synergy between these two interests. Providing the unifying theme of the history is Joseph Wharton's ambition to create a leadership class for industrial America. Careful attention is devoted to the various strategies adopted to achieve this end and to the forces that facilitated or frustrated the founder's purpose. Essentially an essay on the role of authority in the development of American culture, The Pragmatic Imagination carries the history of Joseph Wharton's experiment from its origins in the ironmaster's entrepreneurial ethos; through the vigorous Mugwumpery of the 1880s; to the gospel of the Progressive Era of civic revival and practical education; into the crises of depression and war; through the flowering of econometrics and operations research; down to the present-day vogue for the M.B.A.
Download or read book Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education written by Merle Eugene Curti and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of American Business Leaders The molding of American banking men and ideas pt 1 1781 1840 pt 2 1840 1910 written by Fritz Redlich and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philadelphia written by Russell Frank Weigley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the definitive comprehensive history of Philadelphia, the reader will discover a rich and colorful portrait of one of America's most vital, interesting, and illustrious cities.
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Download or read book The Molding of American Banking 1840 1910 written by Fritz Redlich and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Molding of American Banking 1781 1840 written by Fritz Redlich and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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