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Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930 (Urban Domestic Architecture)

4 reviews
Michael C. Kathrens

Acanthus Press, 2005

Gilded Age New York
I have been waiting for a book like this for some time, and this one does not disappoint. It is well researched with wonderful historic black and white photos. The book is of the finest quality and the text is well put together. This is such an interesting subject and the authors are very thorough in their research, the book really feels complete. I highly recommend it to anyone with any ...

80 Godey's Full-Color Fashion Plates (1838-1880)

2 reviews
JoAnne Olian

Dover Publications, 1998

Godey's : A great reference guide
While it would be rare to find a Godey's book with every fashion print in it, this book gives you an excellent variety of the best dresses from Godey's. The descriptions give an idea of color mixes, fabric and decoration. This book is a great reference tool for the Lady Civil War or Mid-Victorian Reenactor or Costume Designer.

MANHATTAN HOTELS: 1880-1920 (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))
Jeff Hirsch

Arcadia Publishing, 1997

Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880
Bruce W. Eelman

University of Georgia Press, 2008

In Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry, Bruce W. Eelman follows the evolution of an entrepreneurial culture in a nineteenth-century southern community outside the plantation belt. Counter to the view that the Civil War and Reconstruction alone brought social and economic revolution to the South, Eelman finds that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen advocated a comprehensive vision for modernizing their region. Although their plans were ...

Bucyrus Heavy Equipment: Construction and Mining Machines 1880-2007 (A Photo Gallery)
Keith Haddock

Iconografix, 2008

Bucyrus-Erie Company is a name synonymous with moving the earth. From the smallest loader-backhoe to some of the largest machines ever to move on land, no other company has produced such a wide variety of types and sizes of excavating equipment. With a rich heritage going back 128 years the company, now known as Bucyrus International Inc., is still designing and building some of the world?s largest shovels and walking draglines. Nothing could ...

American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880

4 reviews
Andrew Wilton, Tim Barringer

Princeton University Press, 2003

American Sublime: American Glory
The Hudson River painters were the first coherent school of American art to help shape the National view of the American landscape. The artists that came to maturity during Jackson's presidency defined the aesthetic of a nation who, until that moment, maintained its roots with courtly Europe. In American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880, the reader journeys through this ...

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface

5 reviews
Stephen Kern

Harvard University Press, 2003

the book is a superb general cultural history of the period.
The book is a superb general cultural history of the turn of the century period that relates developments in culture and society to new technologies of transportation and communication. He divides the period into subtopics of time and space, as the major chapters focus on changing ways people experienced past, present, future, speed, form, distance, and direction. Two concluding chapters ...

Frontier Women: "Civilizing" the West? 1840-1880

2 reviews
Julie Jeffrey

Hill and Wang, 1998

Compelling read for all students of the history of the West
I had the pleasure of being taught by Julie Jeffrey as an undergraduate student at Goucher College. She taught me to look at American history from many different angles, especially the view of the "bit players" in history, those unsung, unrecognized men and women whose impact was as significant as those of the "main cast", just not nearly as well documented. "Civilizing" the West 1840-1880 is a ...

Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910

2 reviews
Kali Gross

Duke University Press, 2006

Interesting book...
Different history for sure. Packs a lot into a readable, interesting narrative; provocative arguments too. Overall, I really enjoyed it and have to admire the research put into it. Great for anyone interested in crime, history, women, and race.

To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880

3 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

A True Classic
I feel this work significantly surpasses Franklin's "From Slavery to Freedom" in organization, scholarship and literary excellence. Immensely relevant, it is expressed with heartfelt vibrance. Certainly the "people-making process" captured here should be understood by all Americans in gaining a more realistic perspective of the dynamics that made this country. This work brings together eleven ...

Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington (Ann Arbor ...
August Meier

University of Michigan Press, 1964

An analysis of the ideas of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, and other black leaders from the turn of the century

New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age (New York)

4 reviews
Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, ...

Monacelli, 1999

A Wonderful fabulous work of scholarship on New York City
While it is too heavy to lug around, NY 1880 is an eye popping journey into New York of 120 or so years ago. There are over 1,200 photographs and 99 pages of footnotes. Anyone interested in seeing what this wonderful city was like a generation before the First World War is strongly urged to grab this book. So much of what this book is about is no longer standing - churches, synagogues, clubs, ...

Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910

2 reviews
Nancy Mowll Mathews

Hudson Hills Press, 2005

A truly stunning art history
Moving Pictures: American Art And Early Film 1880-1910 is a fantastic artbook about the intersection between American art and the new medium of moving pictures during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A medley of essays written by a variety of authors explore the complex interplay of both genres and how they impacted one another, while color illustrations and photography (black-and-white in ...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930

1 review
Patricia A. Schechter

The University of North Carolina Press, 2001

One Brave Black Woman's Struggle to be Heard
The end of the Civil War in 1865 marked a new beginning for freed slaves but merely having won their freedom did not guarantee their acceptance as equals by white society. In fact, southern whites almost immediately began a campaign to resubjugate blacks using every means at their disposal including lynching. While whites held out lynchings to be punishment for rapes of white women, they were in ...

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