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Author: Philip Frohlich
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompilation of statistical tables resulting from the 1967 survey of physically and mentally handicapped (disabled person) in medical institutions (health services) in the USA - analyses the data according to age group, sex and marital status of adults (incl. Those suffering from mental health problems) and indicates duration of treatment, etc.
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-01-09
Total Pages: 697
ISBN-13: 0253000106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story of these men and women from the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of the frontier. Rohrbough divides his narrative into major time periods designed to establish categories of description and analysis, presenting case studies that focus on the county, the town, the community, and the family, as well as politics and urbanization. He also addresses Spanish, French, and Native American traditions and the anomalous presence of African slaves in the making of this story.
Author: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 1910
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Matthew Gallman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2000-09-12
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780812217445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMastering Wartime is the first comprehensive study of a Northern city during the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman argues that, although the war posed numerous challenges to Philadelphia's citizens, the city's institutions and traditions proved to be sufficiently resilient to adjust to the crisis without significant alteration. Following the wartime actions of individuals and groups-workers, women, entrepreneurs-he shows that while the war placed pressure on private and public organizations to centralize, Philadelphia's institutions remained largely decentralized and tradition bound. Gallman explores the war's impact on a wide range of aspects of life in Philadelphia. Among the issues addressed are recruitment and conscription of soldiers, individual responses to wartime separation and death, individual and institutional benevolence, civic rituals, crime and disorder, government contracting, and long-term economic development. The book compares the wartime years to the antebellum period and discusses the war's legacies in the postwar decade.
Author: Jay Gitlin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012-12-18
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0812207572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMacau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recovers the history of these urban places and shows how, from the start, natives and newcomers alike shared streets, buildings, and interwoven lives. Not only do frontier cities embody the earliest matrix of the American urban experience; they also testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history. The twelve essays in this collection paint compelling portraits of frontier cities and their inhabitants: the French traders who bypassed imperial regulations by throwing casks of brandy over the wall to Indian customers in eighteenth-century Montreal; Isaac Friedlander, San Francisco's "Grain King"; and Adrien de Pauger, who designed the Vieux Carré in New Orleans. Exploring the economic and political networks, imperial ambitions, and personal intimacies of frontier city development, this collection demonstrates that these cities followed no mythic line of settlement, nor did they move lockstep through a certain pace or pattern of evolution. An introduction puts the collection in historical context, and the epilogue ponders the future of frontier cities in the midst of contemporary globalization. With innovative concepts and a rich selection of maps and images, Frontier Cities imparts a crucial untold chapter in the construction of urban history and place.
Author: Richard W. Etulain
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Jackson Turner
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Published: 2014-02-13
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781614275725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.
Author: Julie Jeffrey
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998-02-28
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 080901601X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. FRONTIER WOMEN is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to the development of the American frontier. Author Julie Roy Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the perspectives of African American and Native American women.
Author: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 1804
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the dramatic story of the settling of this frontier, the kind of people who became pioneers,a nd the sort of societies and institutions that emerged to deal with the wilderness.
