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Book Journal of the Common Council  of the City of Philadelphia  for

Download or read book Journal of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia for written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Common Council and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Select Council of the City of Philadelphia  for the Year

Download or read book Journal of Select Council of the City of Philadelphia for the Year written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Select Council and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Common Council  of the City of Philadelphia

Download or read book Journal of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book The Corporate City

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  • Author : Leonard P. Curry
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1997-05-21
  • ISBN : 031302989X
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Corporate City written by Leonard P. Curry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-05-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins the comparative study of U.S. urban development during the first half of the 19th century. Breathtaking in its comprehensiveness, its survey and comparisons of early urban politics is without parallel. The study is based on a thorough examination of fifteen cities—Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Charleston, Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. Louis, and Washington. This group of cities—the fifteen largest in 1850—provides a good mix of northern and southern, eastern and western, old and new, and fast- and slow-growing urban centers. This volume deals with the city as a corporate entity and contains chapters on urban governmental structures, government finance, politics and elections, urban political leadership, the city plan and city planning, intergovernmental relations, and urban mercantilism.

Book Nature s Entrepot

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  • Author : Brian C. Black
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2024-02-20
  • ISBN : 0822991764
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Nature s Entrepot written by Brian C. Black and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nature's Entrepot, the contributors view the planning, expansion, and sustainability of the urban environment of Philadelphia from its inception to the present. The chapters explore the history of the city, its natural resources, and the early naturalists who would influence future environmental policy. They then follow Philadelphia's growing struggles with disease, sanitation, pollution, sewerage, transportation, population growth and decline, and other byproducts of urban expansion. Later chapters examine efforts in the modern era to preserve animal populations, self-sustaining food supplies, functional landscapes and urban planning, and environmental activism. Philadelphia's place as an early seat of government and major American metropolis has been well documented by leading historians. Now, Nature's Entrepot looks particularly to the human impact on this unique urban environment, examining its long history of industrial and infrastructure development, policy changes, environmental consciousness, and sustainability efforts that would come to influence not just this region but also the nation.

Book Alexis in America

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  • Author : Lee A. Farrow
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2014-12-15
  • ISBN : 0807158410
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book Alexis in America written by Lee A. Farrow and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the autumn of 1871, Alexis Romanov, the fourth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, set sail from his homeland for an extended journey through the United States and Canada. A major milestone in U.S.-Russia relations, the tour also served Duke Alexis's family by helping to extricate him from an unsuitable romantic entanglement with the daughter of a poet. Alexis in America recounts the duke's progress through the major American cities, detailing his meetings with celebrated figures such as Samuel Morse and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and describing the national self-reflection that his presence spurred in the American people. The first Russian royal ever to visit the United States, Alexis received a tour through post-Civil War America that emphasized the nation's cultural unity. While the enthusiastic American media breathlessly reported every detail of his itinerary and entourage, Alexis visited Niagara Falls, participated in a bison hunt with Buffalo Bill Cody, and attended the Krewe of Rex's first Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. As word of the royal visitor spread, the public flocked to train depots and events across the nation to catch a glimpse of the grand duke. Some speculated that Russia and America were considering a formal alliance, while others surmised that he had come to the United States to find a bride. The tour was not without incident: many city officials balked at spending public funds on Alexis's reception, and there were rumors of an assassination plot by Polish nationals in New York City. More broadly, the visit highlighted problems on the national level, such as political corruption and persistent racism, as well as the emerging cultural and political power of ethnic minorities and the continuing sectionalism between the North and the South. Lee Farrow joins her examination of these cultural underpinnings to a lively narrative of the grand duke's tour, creating an engaging record of a unique moment in international relations.

Book Independence Hall in American Memory

Download or read book Independence Hall in American Memory written by Charlene Mires and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. Within its walls the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, and in 1787 the Founding Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution there. Painstakingly restored to evoke these momentous events, the building appears to have passed through time unscathed, from the heady days of the American Revolution to today. But Independence Hall is more than a symbol of the young nation. Beyond this, according to Charlene Mires, it has a long and varied history of changing uses in an urban environment, almost all of which have been forgotten. In Independence Hall, Mires rediscovers and chronicles the lost history of Independence Hall, in the process exploring the shifting perceptions of this most important building in America's popular imagination. According to Mires, the significance of Independence Hall cannot be fully appreciated without assessing the full range of political, cultural, and social history that has swirled about it for nearly three centuries. During its existence, it has functioned as a civic and cultural center, a political arena and courtroom, and a magnet for public celebrations and demonstrations. Artists such as Thomas Sully frequented Independence Square when Philadelphia served as the nation's capital during the 1790s, and portraitist Charles Willson Peale merged the arts, sciences, and public interest when he transformed a portion of the hall into a center for natural science in 1802. In the 1850s, hearings for accused fugitive slaves who faced the loss of freedom were held, ironically, in this famous birthplace of American independence. Over the years Philadelphians have used the old state house and its public square in a multitude of ways that have transformed it into an arena of conflict: labor grievances have echoed regularly in Independence Square since the 1830s, while civil rights protesters exercised their right to free speech in the turbulent 1960s. As much as the Founding Fathers, these people and events illuminate the building's significance as a cultural symbol.

Book Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth Century America

Download or read book Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth Century America written by Helen Tangires and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2003. In Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Helen Tangires examines the role of the public marketplace—social and architectural—as a key site in the development of civic culture in America. More than simply places for buying and selling food, Tangires explains, municipally owned and operated markets were the common ground where citizens and government struggled to define the shared values of the community. Public markets were vital to civic policy and reflected the profound belief in the moral economy—the effort on the part of the municipality to maintain the social and political health of its community by regulating the ethics of trade in the urban marketplace for food. Tangires begins with the social, architectural, and regulatory components of the public market in the early republic, when cities embraced this ancient system of urban food distribution. By midcentury, the legalization of butcher shops in New York City and the incorporation of market house companies in Pennsylvania challenged the system and hastened the deregulation of this public service. Some cities demolished their marketing facilities or loosened restrictions on the food trades in an effort to deal with the privatization movement. However, several decades of experience with dispersed retailers, suburban slaughterhouses, and food transported by railroad proved disastrous to the public welfare, prompting cities and federal agencies to reclaim this urban civic space.

Book Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Catalog, 1868 and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : New York State Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1881
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pennsylvania County Court Reports

Download or read book Pennsylvania County Court Reports written by Pennsylvania. County courts and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State and Local Government Special Studies

Download or read book State and Local Government Special Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book District Reports Containing Cases Decided in the Various Judicial Districts of the State of Pennsylvania

Download or read book District Reports Containing Cases Decided in the Various Judicial Districts of the State of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Courts and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : Pennsylvania State Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: