Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book
Author: James Rees
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 422
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Author: James Rees
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kitty Millet
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1501316680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity's 'faults.' From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the world, with appointments in comparative literature and other disciplines, the essays suggest that the imagined hegemony of a Judeo-Christian Western project is neither exclusively true nor productive. However, the essays also suggest that elements of the Western religious traditions are important vectors for understanding modernity's complicated relationship to the past.
Author: Andrew Heath
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0812251113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. As slavery and territorial conquest forced Americans to ponder a similar looming disunion at the national level, Philadelphians searched for ways to hold their city together across internal social and sectional divisions—a project of consolidation that reshaped their city into the boundaries we know today. A bold new interpretation of a crucial period in Philadelphia's history, In Union There Is Strength examines the social and spatial reconstruction of an American city in the decades on either side of the American Civil War. Andrew Heath follows Philadelphia's fortunes over the course of forty years as industrialization, immigration, and natural population growth turned a Jacksonian-era port with a population of two hundred thousand into a Gilded Age metropolis containing nearly a million people. Heath focuses on the utopian socialists, civic boosters, and municipal reformers who argued that the path to urban greatness lay in the harmonious consolidation of jarring interests rather than in the atomistic individualism we have often associated with the nineteenth-century metropolis. Their rival visions drew them into debates about the reach of local government, the design of urban space, the character of civic life, the power of corporations, and the relations between labor and capital—and ultimately became entangled with the question of national union itself. In tracing these links between city-making and nation-making in the mid-nineteenth century, In Union There Is Strength shows how its titular rallying cry inspired creative, contradictory, and fiercely contested ideas about how to design, build, and live in a metropolis.
Author: Mrs. J. R. Greer
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 376
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 592
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Publisher: London : C. Whittingham
Published: 1866
Total Pages: 766
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 648
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 1152
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 1150
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 1148
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