Our First Men A Calendar Of Wealth Fashion And Gentility Containing A List Of Those Persons Taxed In The City Of Boston With Biographical Notices Of The Principal Persons
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Our First Men A Calendar Of Wealth Fashion And Gentility Containing A List Of Those Persons Taxed In The City Of Boston With Biographical Notices Of The Principal Persons
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language : en
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Release Date : 1846
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Our First Men
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language : en
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Release Date : 1846
Our First Men written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1846 with Boston (Mass.) categories.
Riches Class And Power
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Author : Edward Pessen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
Riches Class And Power written by Edward Pessen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with History categories.
Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure, life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.
The Urban Establishment
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Author : Frederic Cople Jaher
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1982
The Urban Establishment written by Frederic Cople Jaher and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Social Science categories.
Blood Ivy The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
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Author : Paul Collins
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2018-07-17
Blood Ivy The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard written by Paul Collins and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-17 with True Crime categories.
“Well-researched and beautifully written.…Collins knows how to build suspense.” —San Francisco Chronicle On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never left the Medical School building alive. His shocking discoveries in a chemistry professor’s laboratory engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. John White Webster. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbery, and dismemberment, it became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt. Paul Collins brings nineteenth-century Boston back to life in vivid detail, weaving together newspaper accounts, letters, journals, court transcripts, and memoirs from this groundbreaking case. Rich in characters and evocative in atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new science and old money in one of America’s greatest murder mysteries.
Charles Sumner
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Author : Zaakir Tameez
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2025-06-03
Charles Sumner written by Zaakir Tameez and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A thorough recounting of the great legislator’s life and deed... unlikely to be bettered anytime soon... Tameez is expert at explaining Sumner’s legal thought... One cannot help wishing we had a Charles Sumner in Washington today." —The New York Times "An excellent book about the courageous Massachusetts senator... Drawing from hundreds of letters, articles and speeches, Mr. Tameez has created a remarkable portrait of a complex man who faced many personal challenges... Charles Sumner is a moving portrayal of a courageous, long-overlooked American who, in the words of one contemporary, 'stood in the vanguard of Freedom.'” —Wall Street Journal A landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner’s status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time. A friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, an ally of Frederick Douglass, and an adviser to Abraham Lincoln, Sumner helped the Union win the Civil War and ordain the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. In a comprehensive but fast-paced narrative, Zaakir Tameez presents Sumner as one of America’s forgotten founding fathers, a constitutional visionary who helped to rewrite the post–Civil War Constitution and give birth to modern civil rights law. He argues that Sumner was a gay man who battled with love and heartbreak at a time when homosexuality wasn’t well understood or accepted. And he explores Sumner’s critical partnerships with the nation’s first generation of Black lawyers and civil rights leaders, whose legal contributions to Reconstruction have been overlooked for far too long. An extraordinary achievement of historical and constitutional scholarship, Charles Sumner brings back to life one of America’s most inspiring statesmen, whose formidable ideas remain relevant to a nation still divided over questions of race, democracy, and constitutional law.
Hotel Dreams
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Author : Molly W. Berger
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-04-18
Hotel Dreams written by Molly W. Berger and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-18 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel's material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captured the public's imagination as it came to represent the complex—and often contentious—relationship among luxury, economic development, and the ideals of a democratic society. Berger profiles the country's most prestigious hotels, including Boston's 1829 Tremont, San Francisco's world-famous Palace, and Chicago's enormous Stevens. The fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape.
Elite Families
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Author : Betty Farrell
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-09-06
Elite Families written by Betty Farrell and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-06 with Social Science categories.
This book maps the development of a regional elite and its persistence as an economic upper class through the nineteenth century. Farrells study traces the kinship networks and overlapping business ties of the most economically prominent Brahmin families from the beginning of industrialization in the 1820s to the early twentieth century. Archival sources such as genealogies, family papers, and business records are used to address two issues of concern to those who study social stratification and the structure of power in industrializing societies: in what ways have traditional forms of social organization, such as kinship, been responsive to the social and economic changes brought by industrialization; and how active a role did an early economic elite play in shaping the direction of social change and in preserving its own group power and privilege over time.
Inventing Sam Slick
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Author : Richard A. Davies
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Inventing Sam Slick written by Richard A. Davies and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.
Catalogue Of Printed Books
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
language : en
Publisher: William Clowes & Sons, Limited
Release Date : 1885
Catalogue Of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and has been published by William Clowes & Sons, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Reference categories.