A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes

A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes

Author: Thomas L. Elliott

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-09-07

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1493054015

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With its initial publication in 1983, A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes profoundly transformed the emphasis and direction of tool collecting. After several years of meticulous research, Thomas L. Elliott has completely redesigned, revised, and expanded this fifth edition to include entries and information accumulated since the fourth edition. The heart of this guide is the alphabetical directory of plane makers and dealers. This fifth edition now includes: 4590 biographical entries; 6160 imprint illustrations; 3030 wedge outlines; and over 3000 individual ratings for judging relative scarcity and value. Also included are sections providing insights helpful in buying and selling planes, an illustrated glossary of plane terms and styles, and an extensive bibliography for further research. This book is useful to both the beginner and the advanced collector, to historians and genealogists, and to all other with an interest in the subject.


The Carriage Journal

The Carriage Journal

Author: Thomas Ryder

Publisher: Carriage Assoc. of America

Published: 1985-09-01

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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The California Cart . The Preservation of a Dairy Wagon Carriage Restoration Competition . Hungarian Horses in America . . . . . . Work and the Mechanization of the Carriage Industry . Long Island Carriage Making . The Royal Windsor Horse Show . Boris Godunov's Coach . Life in the Slow Lane . The Carriage Association Driving Marathon Questions & Answers . Book Reviews . . . . Letters to the Editor .. Driving in the Southern Hemisphere . The Carriage Trade . . . . . . . . . Carriage Touring in the "Holy City" .


Three New Deals

Three New Deals

Author: Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1429900873

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From a world-renowned cultural historian, an original look at the hidden commonalities among Fascism, Nazism, and the New Deal Today Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to an economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, shocking as it may seem, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Now, Wolfgang Schivelbusch investigates the shared elements of these three "new deals" to offer a striking explanation for the popularity of Europe's totalitarian systems. Returning to the Depression, Schivelbusch traces the emergence of a new type of state: bolstered by mass propaganda, led by a charismatic figure, and projecting stability and power. He uncovers stunning similarities among the three regimes: the symbolic importance of gigantic public works programs like the TVA dams and the German autobahn, which not only put people back to work but embodied the state's authority; the seductive persuasiveness of Roosevelt's fireside chats and Mussolini's radio talks; the vogue for monumental architecture stamped on Washington, as on Berlin; and the omnipresent banners enlisting citizens as loyal followers of the state. Far from equating Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini or minimizing their acute differences, Schivelbusch proposes that the populist and paternalist qualities common to their states hold the key to the puzzling allegiance once granted to Europe's most tyrannical regimes.