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Book The Prophet of San Francisco

Download or read book The Prophet of San Francisco written by Louis Freeland Post and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prophet of San Francisco Henry George

Download or read book The Prophet of San Francisco Henry George written by Louis F. Post and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Annotated Works of Henry George

Download or read book The Annotated Works of Henry George written by Francis K. Peddle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent indignation. His reform agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded Age, and his impassioned prose and compelling thought inspired such diverse figures as Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, Sun Yat-Sen, Winston Churchill, and Albert Einstein. This six-volume edition of the works of Henry George assembles all his major works for the first time with new introductions, critical annotations, extensive bibliographical material, and comprehensive indexing to provide a wealth of resources for scholars and reformers. Volume 1 of The Annotated Works of Henry George includes an introduction to the six-volume series that focuses on the social context for George’s political economy, as well as the public and private struggles that George faced. Tension between the dream of economic justice and different techniques to realize it proved a continuing challenge for the Georgist movement after its heady early years. Volume 1 presents three major works by George and new essays to provide context. George wrote Our Land and Land Policy (1871) while still a journalist in California. Fred Foldvary shows that George, even as a neophyte economist, wrote with uncanny insight and analytical skill. In The Irish Land Question (1881), George dove into the maelstrom of Irish land policy. Jerome Heavey provides the essential clarification of the history and politics of Irish land law and explains why George’s remedy was not adopted. Property in Land (1885) incorporates the debate between George and the eighth Duke of Argyll. Brian Hodgkinson provides the historical and philosophical setting for this exchange between the Scottish aristocratic landowner and the American “Prophet of San Francisco.”

Book Land Values

Download or read book Land Values written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Restless City

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  • Author : Joanne Reitano
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2010-07
  • ISBN : 1136964436
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Restless City written by Joanne Reitano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a short, lively history of the world’s most exciting and diverse metropolis. It shows how New York’s perpetual struggles for power, wealth, and status exemplify the vigor, creativity, resilience, and influence of the nation’s premier urban center. The updated second edition includes nineteen images and brings the story right up through the mayoral election of 2009. In these pages are the stories of a broad cross-section of people and events that shaped the city, including mayors and moguls, women and workers, and policemen and poets. Joanne Reitano shows how New York has invigorated the American dream by confronting the fundamental economic, political, and social challenges that face every city. Energized by change, enriched by immigrants, and enlivened by provocative leaders, New York City’s restlessness has always been its greatest asset.

Book Land and Liberty

Download or read book Land and Liberty written by Christopher William England and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work is a comprehensive treatment of the single-tax movement. The author studied a network of well-connected political entrepreneurs committed to Henry George's plan to effectively nationalize land through a confiscatory tax in the early twentieth century in the United States"--

Book The Public

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  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1112 pages

Download or read book The Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Public

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  • Author : Louis Freeland Post
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1174 pages

Download or read book The Public written by Louis Freeland Post and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Henry George

Download or read book The Life of Henry George written by Henry George and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economist HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was, at the height of his popularity in the 1880s and 1890s, considered the third most famous American, behind Mark Twain and Thomas Edison, and his liberal philosophies on taxation, copyrights, poverty issues, and more continue to influence progressive movements today. This loving and inspiring biography, written by his son just after his father's death and published in 1900, draws on letters, journals, and other firsthand material, tells the tale of a boy sailor, apprentice printer, and would-be gold miner who transformed the world of work and hardship he saw around him into a new way of thinking about mankind's usage of the planet's wealth and stewardship of its own inner resources. This is an essential work for understanding and appreciating how one of the most significant thinkers in American history developed his values and beliefs through uniquely American experiences.

Book Land and Freedom

Download or read book Land and Freedom written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smashing the Liquor Machine

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  • Author : Mark Lawrence Schrad
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 0190841591
  • Pages : 753 pages

Download or read book Smashing the Liquor Machine written by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you've never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world leader from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon. Schrad's pathbreaking history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders like Vladimir Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, Thomás Masaryk, Kemal Atatürk, Mahatma Gandhi, and anti-colonial activists across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Schrad argues that temperance wasn't "American exceptionalism" at all, but rather one of the most broad-based and successful transnational social movements of the modern era. In fact, Schrad offers a fundamental re-appraisal of this colorful era to reveal that temperance forces frequently aligned with progressivism, social justice, liberal self-determination, democratic socialism, labor rights, women's rights, and indigenous rights. Placing the temperance movement in a deep global context, forces us to fundamentally rethink its role in opposing colonial exploitation throughout American history as well. Prohibitionism united Native American chiefs like Little Turtle and Black Hawk; African-American leaders Frederick Douglass, Ida Wells, and Booker T. Washington; suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Frances Willard; progressives from William Lloyd Garrison to William Jennings Bryan; writers F.E.W. Harper and Upton Sinclair, and even American presidents from Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Progressives rather than puritans, the global temperance movement advocated communal self-protection against the corrupt and predatory "liquor machine" that had become exceedingly rich off the misery and addictions of the poor around the world, from the slums of South Asia to the beerhalls of Central Europe to the Native American reservations of the United States. Unlike many traditional "dry" histories, Smashing the Liquor Machine gives voice to minority and subaltern figures who resisted the global liquor industry, and further highlights that the impulses that led to the temperance movement were far more progressive and variegated than American readers have been led to believe.

Book The Growth of Economic Thought

Download or read book The Growth of Economic Thought written by Henry William Spiegel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new and updated edition of this classic textbook, Henry William Spiegel brings his discussion and analysis of economic thought into the 1990s. A new introductory chapter offering an overall view of the history of economics and a bibliographic survey of the economic literature of the 1980s and early 1990s have been added. Maintaining the link between economics and the humanities, Spiegel's text will continue to introduce students to a wide range of topics in the history of economic thought. From reviews of previous editions: "The history of economic thought to end all histories of economic thought."--Robert D. Patton, Journal of Economic Literature "The book is in the grand tradition of the history of doctrines. It is a history of economic thought broadly conceived--and superbly written to boot. It is not to much to say that Spiegel's book will become and remain a leading text in the field."--Warren J. Samuels, Social Science The author conveys the essence of an idea simply and clearly, yet in a graceful style."--William F. Kennedy, Journal of Economic Literature

Book Reader s Guide to American History

Download or read book Reader s Guide to American History written by Peter J. Parish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.

Book Henry George s Legacy in Economic Thought

Download or read book Henry George s Legacy in Economic Thought written by John Laurent and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry George's "Legacy in Economic Thought" will appeal in particular to upper level students and scholars of the history of economic thought and the public sector but also to economists more widely.

Book Henry George

Download or read book Henry George written by Laurence S. Moss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing important papers by various Georgist scholars, this bookhighlights the ideas and influence of Henry George as a politicaleconomist. Highlights the ideas and influence of Henry George Includes path-breaking work on Henry George’s renttheory Features in the Studies in Economic Reform and SocialJustice series

Book Land and Freedom

Download or read book Land and Freedom written by Joseph Dana Miller and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Single Tax Review

Download or read book The Single Tax Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: