The Records of a Nation
Author | : Houston Gwynne Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Houston Gwynne Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Houston Gwynne JONES |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susan Schulten |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-06-29 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0226740706 |
“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.
Author | : Stephen Bourne |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752497871 |
In 1914 Britain was home to at least 10,000 black Britons, many of African and West Indian heritage. Most of them were loyal to the 'mother country' when the First World War broke out. Despite being discouraged from serving in the British Army, men managed to join all branches of the forces, while black communities contributed to the war effort on the home front. By 1918 it is estimated that Britain's black population had trebled to 30,000, as many black servicemen who had fought for Britain decided to make it their home. It was far from a happy ending, however, as they and their families often came under attack from white ex-servicemen and civilians increasingly resentful of their presence. With first-hand accounts and original photographs, Black Poppies is the essential guide to the military and civilian wartime experiences of black men and women, from the trenches to the music halls. It is intended as a companion to Stephen Bourne's previous books published by The History Press: Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939–45 and The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen and Women 1939–45.
Author | : Heather Cox Richardson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674059658 |
While fighting a war for the Union, the Republican party attempted to construct the world's most powerful and most socially advanced nation. Rejecting the common assumption that wartime domestic legislation was a series of piecemeal reactions to wartime necessities, Heather Cox Richardson argues that party members systematically engineered pathbreaking laws to promote their distinctive theory of political economy. Republicans were a dynamic, progressive party, the author shows, that championed a specific type of economic growth. They floated billions of dollars in bonds, developed a national currency and banking system, imposed income taxes and high tariffs, passed homestead legislation, launched the Union Pacific railroad, and eventually called for the end of slavery. Their aim was to encourage the economic success of individual Americans and to create a millennium for American farmers, laborers, and small capitalists. However, Richardson demonstrates, while Republicans were trying to construct a nation of prosperous individuals, they were laying the foundation for rapid industrial expansion, corporate corruption, and popular protest. They created a newly active national government that they determined to use only to promote unregulated economic development. Unwittingly, they ushered in the Gilded Age.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1414 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author | : Keith Thomas Henry Farrer |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0643091548 |
Takes the reader on a journey over the centuries, describing the slow and arduous development of Australian food technology and science from before European settlement to the latter half of the twentieth century.
Author | : Ted Gup |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2008-10-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307472914 |
Award winning journalist Ted Gup exposes how and why our most important institutions increasingly keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve.Drawing on his decades as an investigative reporter, Ted Gup argues that a preoccupation with secrets has undermined the very values--security, patriotism, and privacy--in whose name secrecy is so often invoked. He explores the blatant exploitation of privacy and confidentiality in academia, business, and the courts, and concludes that in case after case, these principles have been twisted to allow the emergence of a shadow system of justice, unaccountable to the public. Nation of Secrets not only sounds the alarm to warn against an unethical way of life, but calls for the preservation of our democracy as we know it.
Author | : United States. National Archives and Records Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. President |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1136 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Administrative law |
ISBN | : |