Author: Leon Cushing PrincePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A Bird's-eye View of American History
Author: Leon Cushing PrincePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Bird's Eye Views
Author: John W. RepsPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568981468
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As new towns and cities spread across the American frontier in the nineteenth century, itinerant artists soon followed, documenting these growing urban centers by drawing aerial perspectives, also known as bird's eye views. Commissioned by land speculators, local businesses, civic organizations, and individual citizens, these renderings fostered both civic pride and local commerce. The use of color lithography, a recent invention popularized by such prominent publishers as Currier & Ives, allowed the inexpensive reproduction of the highest-quality drawings, so that a bird's eye view was within the financial budget of even the smallest towns. These extraordinarily detailed lithographs eventually numbered in the thousands and now serve as a rich pictorial record of North America as it stood a century ago. This sequel to our highly acclaimed title An Atlas of Rare City Maps collects over 100 views dating between 1835 and 1902, showing the streets, buildings, churches, bridges, waterways, and surrounding countryside of North American towns, ranging from burgeoning metropolitan centers to small logging towns and mining camps. Baltimore, Brooklyn, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis, Montreal, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Syracuse, and Washington are just a few of the cities presented in this collection. The exquisite color and fine detail of these bird's eye views have been reproduced in all their original glory; also included is an introduction by John W. Reps providing a background on the artistic process and on urban development in the nineteenth century.
A Bird's-Eye View of American History
Author: Leon C. PrincePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330233429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Excerpt from A Bird's-Eye View of American History A Glance over the United States to-day reveals a strong and prosperous nation of vast extent, with a citizenship made up of many races and a government quite unlike the governments of the nations from which they came. A little over four hundred years ago the people of Europe had never heard of America. How did they become aware of its existence? What sort of a place was America before that time? What has become of the native red men who once hunted and made war on the very spots where dwellings, shops, and colleges now stand? How did the United States become a nation; and why is there only one instead of several nations within its extensive area? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Bird's-Eye View of American History
Author: Leon C B 1875 PrincePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359598264
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Bird's Eye View
Author: Elinor FlorencePublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459721454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A Toronto Star Bestseller! Rose, a Canadian intelligence officer in Britain in World War II, struggles with conflicting feelings about the war and a superior’s attention. Rose Jolliffe is an idealistic young woman living on a farm with her family in Saskatchewan. After Canada declares war against Germany in World War II, she joins the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as an aerial photographic interpreter. Working with intelligence officers at RAF Medmenham in England, Rose spies on the enemy from the sky, watching the war unfold through her magnifying glass. When her commanding officer, Gideon Fowler, sets his sights on Rose, both professionally and personally, her prospects look bright. But can he be trusted? As she becomes increasingly disillusioned by the destruction of war and Gideon’s affections, tragedy strikes, and Rose’s world falls apart. Rose struggles to rebuild her shattered life, and finds that victory ultimately lies within herself. Her path to maturity is a painful one, paralleled by the slow, agonizing progress of the war and Canada’s emergence from Britain’s shadow.
Places in Time
Author: Susan BuckleyPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618311130
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Twenty chronologically ordered "story maps" that follow the footsteps of one person's journey in history.
A Bird's-eye View of American History, by Leon C. Prince
Author: Leon Cushing PrincePublisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
ISBN:
Category : United States History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Human Web
Author: John Robert McNeillPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393051797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities twelve thousand years ago, through the denser, more interactive metropolitan webs that surrounded ancient Sumer, Athens, and Timbuktu, to the electrified global web that today envelops virtually the entire world in a maelstrom of cooperation and competition, J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill show human webs to be a key component of world history and a revealing framework of analysis. Avoiding any determinism, environmental or cultural, the McNeills give us a synthesizing picture of the big patterns of world history in a rich, open-ended, concise account.
A Bird's-Eye View of American History (Classic Reprint)
Author: Leon C. PrincePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483099562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Excerpt from A Bird's-Eye View of American History Gulf; while the merchants of Venice traded by way of Alexandria and the Red Sea. Both routes were slow, expensive, and perilous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Bird's-eye View of Our Civil War
Author: Theodore Ayrault DodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description