Download or read book New York as it Was During the Latter Part of the Last Century An Anniversary Address Delivered Before the St Nicholas Society of the City of New York December 1st 1848 written by William Alexander Duer and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Commentaries on the Constitution 1790 1860 written by Elizabeth Kelley Bauer and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bauer, Elizabeth Kelley. Commentaries on the Constitution 1790-1860. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. 400 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 98-45409. ISBN 1-886363-66-8. Cloth. $95. * A thorough survey and examination of the "formal commentaries" on the Constitution that were written as summaries of official pronouncements by proponents of the two major schools of constitutional interpretation before the Civil War--the nationalist Northern school as evidenced by the Marshall-Story decisions in the Supreme Court, and the Southern states rights advocates who lacked an equal spokesman. As this important study places the commentaries in a historical context by comparing their theories, examining their impact and their roots in the lives of the authors, it serves to illustrate "the early divergence between the North and South in theoretical discussions of the nature of the Union, and eventually lead to the constitutional justification of Southern secession." From the Preface.
Download or read book Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New York Historical Society written by New-York Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of printed books in the library of the New York Historical Society written by New-York Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the New York State Library Jan 1 1850 written by New York State Library (ALBANY, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ebony and Ivy written by Craig Steven Wilder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Download or read book Patriotism and Profit written by Susan Nagel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how America’s beloved first president, George Washington, borrowed, leveraged, and coerced his way into masterminding the key land purchase of the American era: the creation of the nation’s capital city. Contrary to the popular historical record, Thomas Jefferson was not even a minor player at The Dinner Table Bargain, now known as The Compromise of 1790. The real protagonists of the Dinner Table Bargain were President George Washington and New York Senator Philip Schuyler, who engaged in the battle that would separate our financial capital from our political seat of power. Washington and Schuyler’s dueling ambitions provoked an intense decades-long rivalry and a protracted crusade for the location of the new empire city. Alexander Hamilton, son-in-law to Schuyler and surrogate son to George Washington, was helplessly caught in the middle. This invigorating narrative vividly depicts New York City when it was the nation’s seat of government. Susan Nagel captures the spirit, speech, and sensibility of the era in full and entertaining form—and readers will get to know the city’s eighteenth-century movers, shakers, and power brokers, who are as colorful and fascinating as their counterparts today. Delicious political intrigue and scandalous gossip between the three competing alpha personalities—George Washington, Philip Schuyler, and Alexander Hamilton—make this a powerful and resonant history, reminding us that our Founding Fathers were brilliant but often flawed human beings. They were avaricious, passionate, and visionary. They loved, hated, sacrificed, and aspired. Even their most vicious qualities are part of the reason why, for better or worse, the United States became the premier modern empire, born from figures carving their legacies into history. Not only the dramatic story of how America’s beloved first president George Washington created the nation’s capital city, Patriotism & Profit serves as timely exposé on issues facing America today, revealing the origins behind some of our nation’s most pressing problems.
Download or read book The Road to Mobocracy written by Paul A. Gilje and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social corrective, tolerated by public officials. It became autonomous, a violent menace to individual and public good expressing the discordant urges and fears of a pluralistic society. Indeed, it tested the premises of democratic government. Paul Gilje relates the practices of New York mobs to their American and European roots and uses both historical and anthropological methods to show how those mobs adapted to local conditions. He questions many of the traditional assumptions about the nature of the mob and scrutinizes explanations of its transformation: among them, the loss of a single-interest society, industrialization and changes in the workforce, increased immigration, and the rise of sub-classes in American society. Gilje's findings can be extended to other cities. The lucid narrative incorporates meticulous and exhaustive archival research that unearths hundreds of New York City disturbances -- about the Revolution, bawdy-houses, theaters, dogs and hogs, politics, elections, ethnic conflict, labor actions, religion. Illustrations recreate the turbulent atmosphere of the city; maps, graphs, and tables define the spacial and statistical dimensions of its ferment. The book is a major contribution to our understanding of social change in the early Republic as well as to the history of early New York, urban studies, and rioting.
Download or read book Catalogue of the New York State Library written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Autographs Engravings and miscellaneous articles belonging to the estate of the late John Allan Prepared by Joseph Sabin written by John ALLAN (of New York.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Autographs Engravings and Miscellaneous Articles Belonging to the Estate of the Late John Allan written by John Allan and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
