The Metaphysical Club
The Metaphysical Club

Author: Louis Menand

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-04-10

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 0374528497

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Examines the development of an American philosophy between the end of the Civil War and 1919 by exploring the lives of four key metaphysical thinkers: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey.

The Patina of Place
The Patina of Place

Author: Kingston Wm Heath

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781572331389

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"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the booming textile industry turned many New England towns and villages into industrialized urban centers. This rapid urbanization transformed not only the economic base but the regional identity of communities such as New Bedford as new housing forms emerged to accommodate the largely immigrant workforce of the mills.

A List of Names and Co-partnerships, that were taxed in the year 1826, for personal property to the amount of five thousand dollars and upwards, shewing the precise amount of real and personal estate, and the amount of tax assessed on the same. (List of persons, co-partnerships and corporations, who were taxed twenty-five dollars and upwards, in the year 1831, 1832, 1834, 1836-1848.-List of persons, copartnerships and corporations, who were taxed on six thousand dollars and upwards, in the year 1849-1856-on ten thousand dollars and upwards, in the year 1859-1863-on twenty thousand dollars and upwards, in the year 1864, 1865.).
A List of Names and Co-partnerships, that were taxed in the year 1826, for personal property to the amount of five thousand dollars and upwards, shewing the precise amount of real and personal estate, and the amount of tax assessed on the same. (List of persons, co-partnerships and corporations, who were taxed twenty-five dollars and upwards, in the year 1831, 1832, 1834, 1836-1848.-List of persons, copartnerships and corporations, who were taxed on six thousand dollars and upwards, in the year 1849-1856-on ten thousand dollars and upwards, in the year 1859-1863-on twenty thousand dollars and upwards, in the year 1864, 1865.).

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Published: 1847

Total Pages: 134

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The Richest Woman in America
The Richest Woman in America

Author: Janet Wallach

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0307474577

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No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America’s first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916—equal to about $2.5 billion today. Green was mocked for her simple Quaker ways and her unfashionable frugality in an era of opulence and excess; the press even nicknamed her “The Witch of Wall Street.” But those who knew her admired her wit and wisdom, and while financiers around her rose and fell as financial bubbles burst, she steadily amassed a fortune that supported businesses, churches, municipalities, and even the city of New York. Janet Wallach’s engrossing biography reveals striking parallels between past financial crises and current recession woes, and speaks not only to history buffs but to today’s investors, who just might learn a thing or two from Hetty Green.