Quilts in Everyday Life, 1855-1955
Quilts in Everyday Life, 1855-1955

Author: Janet E. Finley

Publisher: Schiffer Craft

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764342165

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The history of quilts, their makers, and usage is an important part of our country's heritage presented here in full detail through 330 vintage photographs. Books on quilt history have, to date, included only a few photos of quilts. This in-depth collection, most of which has never been seen before, date from 1855 to 1955. Each vivid image provides commentary on quilting specifics, photography, costume, and American cultural history, especially toward the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographic formats and a glossary of quilting terms are included to aid the reader in dating their own vintage photographs. This book is a wonderful resource for all quilters, historians, and photographers.

Scaling Fisheries
Scaling Fisheries

Author: Tim D. Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-07-21

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 052139032X

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In this 1994 book, Tim Smith examines the economic and political pressures which have affected fisheries science, and the problems that still face it. This is a fascinating resource for all those interested in the way fisheries science has developed in the last 150 years.

Engineers in Western Europe: Ascent—and Decline?
Engineers in Western Europe: Ascent—and Decline?

Author: Rolf Torstendahl

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 3030574385

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In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles. - One examines the educational patterns and the author shows how widely different types of formation of engineers existed in Britain, France and Germany in the early period. They were paradigmatic for other countries. Differences remain but patterns have gradually become similar. - From another angle the author makes professional organisations of engineers a main object of study, and they vary from alumni associations to powerful lobby organisations. - A third approach in the book is to examine engineers versus sociological theories of professionalism on the one hand and theories of managerialism on the other. In the last chapter the author also discusses topics like technocracy and the responsibility of engineers.