Rise to Greatness

Rise to Greatness

Author: David Von Drehle

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 080507970X

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"Von Drehle has chosen a critical year ('the most eventful year in American history' and the year Lincoln rose to greatness), done his homework, and written a spirited account."N"Publishers Weekly."


Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century

Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Edward Gillin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1350045950

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Bringing together fourteen original essays, this collection opens up new perspectives on the architectural history of the nineteenth century by examining the buildings of the period through the lens of 'experience'. With a focus on the experience of the ordinary building user – rather than simply on the intentions of the designer – the book shows that new and important insights can be brought to our understanding of Victorian architecture. The chapters present a range of ideas and new research – some examining individual building case studies (from grand hotels and clubhouses in New York to the parliament buildings of Westminster), and others exploring conceptual questions about the nature of architectural experience, whether sensory or otherwise. Yet they share the premise that the idea of the 'experience of architecture' took on a new and particular significance with the rise of industrial modernity, and they examine what contemporary people – both architects and non-architects – understood by this idea. The insights in this volume extend beyond the study of Victorian architecture. Together they suggest how 'experience' might be used as a framework to produce a more convincingly historical account of the artefacts of architectural history.


William Francis Bartlett

William Francis Bartlett

Author: Richard A. Sauers

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-03-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0786441461

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Frank Bartlett was an indifferent student at Harvard when the Civil War began in 1861, but after he joined the Union army he quickly found that he had an aptitude for leadership and rose from captain to brevet major general by 1865. Over the course of the war he was wounded three times (one injury resulted in the loss of a leg), but he remained on active duty until he was captured in 1864. His political stance gained him some national fame after the war, but he struggled with repeated business stress until tuberculosis and other illnesses led to his early death at age 36.


Municipal Reports ...

Municipal Reports ...

Author: Allegheny (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Publisher:

Published: 1878

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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Allegheny, Pa. (also known as Allegheny City) was chartered in 1840 and primarily encompassed the land north of the Allegheny River now known as Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhoods. Allegheny City was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907.


Common Phantoms

Common Phantoms

Author: Alicia Puglionesi

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1503612783

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Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With new technologies like the telegraph collapsing the boundaries of time and space, an explanation seemed within reach. As Americans took up psychical experiments in their homes, the boundaries of the mind began to waver. Common Phantoms brings these experiments back to life while modeling a new approach to the history of psychology and the mind sciences. Drawing on previously untapped archives of participant-reported data, Alicia Puglionesi recounts how an eclectic group of investigators tried to capture the most elusive dimensions of human consciousness. A vast though flawed experiment in democratic science, psychical research gave participants valuable tools with which to study their experiences on their own terms. Academic psychology would ultimately disown this effort as both a scientific failure and a remnant of magical thinking, but its challenge to the limits of science, the mind, and the soul still reverberates today.