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Author |
: Heli Meltsner |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786490974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786490977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poorhouses of Massachusetts by : Heli Meltsner
Ever since the English settled in America, extreme poverty and the inability of individuals to support themselves and their families have been persistent problems. In the early nineteenth century, many communities established almshouses, or "poorhouses," in a valiant but ultimately failed attempt to assist the destitute, including the sick, elderly, unemployed, mentally ill and orphaned, as well as unwed mothers, petty criminals and alcoholics. This work details the rise and decline of poorhouses in Massachusetts, painting a portrait of life inside these institutions and revealing a history of constant political and social turmoil over issues that dominate the conversation about welfare recipients even today. The first study to address the role of architecture in shaping as well as reflecting the treatment of paupers, it also provides photographs and histories of dozens of former poorhouses across the state, many of which still stand.
Author |
: Michael Rawson |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 2014-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674266575 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674266579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eden on the Charles by : Michael Rawson
Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships—social, cultural, political, economic, and legal—were established during America’s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America’s first cities. Eden on the Charles explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” to the process of urbanization—and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston’s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city’s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston’s history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that—for better or worse—have defined urban America to this day.
Author |
: Peabody Institute (Danvers, Mass.). Library |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1918 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112043030268 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bulletin by : Peabody Institute (Danvers, Mass.). Library
Author |
: Lloyd Vernon Briggs |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 690 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89063110274 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis History and Genealogy of the Cabot Family, 1475-1927 ... by : Lloyd Vernon Briggs
John Cabot (ca.1680-1742), founder of the Cabot family in America, immigrated from the Isle of Jersey to Salem, Massachusetts about 1700. Descendants and relatives lived chiefly in New England, with some family members in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Louisiana and elsewhere. The main family business was merchandising and shipping all over the world, and there were family representatives in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia and elsewhere (particularly during the nineteenth century). Includes Cabot ancestry on the Isle of Jersey to about 1470 A.D., as well as data about the Italian explorer John Cabot (who sailed to America in 1497), and the Cabots or Chabots of France to about 1110 A.D.
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Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1879 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044048422240 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Appleton's Dictionary of New York and Its Vicinity by :
Author |
: Salem Public Library |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B2865581 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bulletin by : Salem Public Library
Author |
: Chicago Public Library |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 1923 |
ISBN-10 |
: UGA:32108025970909 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Books of 1912- by : Chicago Public Library
Author |
: Catharine Patrick |
Publisher |
: Oxbow Books |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2008-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781842172858 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1842172859 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bull Ring Uncovered by : Catharine Patrick
The excavations in the centre of Birmingham uncovered evidence of habitation from prehistoric and Roman times, but the 12th to 19th centuries presented by far the most evidence, from artefacts, environmental samples and structural remains. The medieval industrial past was of particular interest, with tanning and the manufacture of hemp and linen all playing a large role in the city's prosperity. Metal working reached its peak in the seventeenth century, with brass founding becoming important from the eighteenth century onwards. Most of the artefactual evidence attests to Birmingham's industrial past, indeed the evidence for domestic life is comparatively scant, with an anomalous burial of two people at Park Street presenting something of a mystery. This volume presents insights into the early industrial past of this important city and is an invaluable record covering eight hundred years of occupation.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 680 |
Release |
: 1922 |
ISBN-10 |
: SRLF:D0001932011 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
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Total Pages |
: 2188 |
Release |
: 1924 |
ISBN-10 |
: IOWA:31858030454379 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The United States Catalog by :