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Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  149  no  3  2005

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 149 no 3 2005 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge written by American Philosophical Society and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  116  No  2  1972

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 116 No 2 1972 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  65  1926

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 65 1926 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  49  1910

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 49 1910 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geological Survey Bulletin

Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Papers of William Penn  Volume 4

Download or read book The Papers of William Penn Volume 4 written by Richard S. Dunn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the final eighteen years of William Penn's life, from 1701 to 1718. It opens with his last months as resident proprietor of Pennsylvania—a moment of great importance in the political history of the colony. It ends with his death on 30 July 1718, after a lingering illness.

Book William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania

Download or read book William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania written by Jean R. Soderlund and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 5, 1681, one day after receiving his royal charter for Pennsylvania, William Penn wrote that he believed God would make his colony "the seed of the nation." Penn wanted his Pennsylvania to be a land where people of differing languages and customs could live together, where men and women could worship as they pleased, where men could participate fully in their government. Such a land, Penn believed, would indeed be blessed. Beginning with his petition to the king in May 1680 and ending with his departure to England in August 1684, this book contains the most important documents describing the founding of Pennsylvania. The letters, orders, petitions, charters, laws, pamphlets, maps, constitutional drafts, legislative journals, newspaper articles, memoranda, deeds, and other business records assembled here include Penn's own explanations of his desire to found a Quaker colony, his invitation to settlers, and his design for government.

Book Women Scientists in America

Download or read book Women Scientists in America written by Margaret W. Rossiter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize In volume one of this landmark study, focusing on developments up to 1940, Margaret Rossiter describes the activities and personalities of the numerous women scientists—astronomers, chemists, biologists, and psychologists—who overcame extraordinary obstacles to contribute to the growth of American science. This remarkable history recounts women's efforts to establish themselves as members of the scientific community and examines the forces that inhibited their active and visible participation in the sciences.

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  72  1933

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 72 1933 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  149  no  4  2005

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 149 no 4 2005 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  106  no  4  1962

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 106 no 4 1962 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bryn Mawr College Calendar

Download or read book Bryn Mawr College Calendar written by Bryn Mawr College and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classified List of Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Download or read book Classified List of Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington written by Carnegie Institution of Washington and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard Buckminster Fuller Basic Biography

Download or read book Richard Buckminster Fuller Basic Biography written by R. Buckminster Fuller and published by Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Buckminster Fuller kept a basic biography at his office for official purposes. This is that document.

Book St  Clair

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  • Author : Anthony Wallace
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2012-09-19
  • ISBN : 0307826104
  • Pages : 780 pages

Download or read book St Clair written by Anthony Wallace and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located near the southern edge of the Pennsylvania anthracite, the town of St. Clair in the early half of the 19th century seemed to be perfectly situated to provide fuel to the iron and steel industry that was the heart of the Industrial Revolution in America. It was a time of unprecedented promise and possibility for the region, and yet, in the years between 1830 and 1880, only grandiose illusions flourished there. St. Clair itself succumbed early on to a devastating economic blight, one that would in time affect anthracite mining everywhere. In this dramatic work of social history, Anthony F. C. Wallace re-creates St. Clair in those years when expectations collided with reality, when the coal trade was in chronic distress, exacerbated by the epic battles between the forces of labor and capital. As he did in his Bancroft Prize-winning Rockdale, Wallace uses public records and private papers to reconstruct the operation of an anthracite colliery and the life of a working-man’s town totally dependent upon it. He describes the labor hierarchy of the collieries, the communal spirit that sprang up in the outlying mine patches, the polyglot immigrant life in the taverns and churchs, and the workingmen’s societies that provided identity to the miners and gave relief to families in distress. He examines the birth of the first effective miners’ union and documents the escalating antagonism between Irish immigrant workers—mostly Catholic—and the Protestant middle classes who owned the collieries. Wallace reveals the blindness, greed, and self-congratulation of the mine owners and operators. These “heroes” of the entrepreneurial wars disregarded geologists’ warnings that the coal seams south of St. Clair were virtually inaccessible and, at best, extremely costly to mine, and then blamed their economic woes on the lack of a high tariff on imported British iron. To cut costs, they ignored the most basic and safety engineering practices and then blamed “the careless miner” and “Irish hooligans” for the catastrophic accidents that resulted. In thrall to a great dream of wealth and power, they plunged ahead to bankruptcy while the miners paid with their lives. St. Clair is a rich and illuminating work of scholarship—an engrossing portrait of a disaster-prone industry (a portrait that stands as a sober warning to the nuclear-power industry) and of the tragic hubris of a ruling class that brough ruin upon a Pennsylvania coal town at a crucial moment in its history.