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The Public and Its Possibilities

Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City

By: John D. Fairfield

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The Public and Its Possibilities

Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City

By: John D. Fairfield

In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfieldargues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests. Inspired by the revolutionary generation, nineteenth-century Americans struggled to build an economy and a culture to complement their republican institutions. But over the course of the twentieth century, a corporate economy and consumer culture undercut civic values, conflating consumer and citizen. Fairfield places the city at the center of American experience, describing how a resilient demand for an urban participatory democracy has bumped up against the fog of war, the allure of the marketplace, and persistent prejudices of race, class, and gender. In chronicling and synthesizing centuries of U.S. history—including the struggles of the antislavery, labor, women’s rights movements—Fairfield explores the ebb and flow of civic participation, activism, and democracy. He revisits what the public has done for civic activism, and the possibility of taking a greater role. In this age where there has been a move towards greater participation in America's public life from its citizens, Fairfield’s book—written in an accessible, jargon-free style and addressed to general readers—is especially topical.

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Temple University Press

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1439902127

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9781439902127

Hawk Eye Farm

“a cornfield to keep them in mush”

By: John D. Hopkirk

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Hawk Eye Farm

“a cornfield to keep them in mush”

By: John D. Hopkirk

This book chronicles the history of a pioneering family of immigrant farmers (the Hopkirks) in southeastern Iowa. It begins in 1838 and ends with the early life of the author, their great-grandson, who was born in their house, moved with his family to California and what he experienced as an immigrant growing up in that state. It is a unique transect through history, complete with many original letters (1807+) and photographs (1850s+) which tell the story and bring it to life for the reader.

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387

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Outskirts Press

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1432770446

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9781432770440

Civil War High Commands

By: John Eicher,David Eicher

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Civil War High Commands

By: John Eicher,David Eicher

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders. Numbering 3,396, they include the presidents and their cabinet members, state governors, general officers of the Union and Confederate armies (regular, provisional, volunteers, and militia), and admirals and commodores of the two navies. Civil War High Commands will become a cornerstone reference work on these personalities and the meaning of their commands, and on the Civil War itself. Errors of fact and interpretation concerning the high commanders are legion in the Civil War literature, in reference works as well as in narrative accounts. The present work brings together for the first time in one volume the most reliable facts available, drawn from more than 1,000 sources and including the most recent research. The biographical entries include complete names, birthplaces, important relatives, education, vocations, publications, military grades, wartime assignments, wounds, captures, exchanges, paroles, honors, and place of death and interment. In addition to its main component, the biographies, the volume also includes a number of essays, tables, and synopses designed to clarify previously obscure matters such as the definition of grades and ranks; the difference between commissions in regular, provisional, volunteer, and militia services; the chronology of military laws and executive decisions before, during, and after the war; and the geographical breakdown of command structures. The book is illustrated with 84 new diagrams of all the insignias used throughout the war and with 129 portraits of the most important high commanders.

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1062

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Stanford University Press

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0804780358

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9780804780353

Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

By: John Matthews

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Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

By: John Matthews

This is the consolidated and unduplicated edition of three separate volumes on the armorial bearings of American families published between 1903 and 1923. All told, Matthews furnishes illustrations of some 1,500 coats of arms, complete with heraldic descriptions of the arms and crests.

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530

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080634573X

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9780806345734

Singing for Schools and Congregations

A Grammar of Vocal Music, with a Course of Lessons and Exercises Founded on the Tonic Solfa Method, and a Full Introduction to the Art of Singing at Sight from the Old Notation ...

By: John Curwen

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Singing for Schools and Congregations

A Grammar of Vocal Music, with a Course of Lessons and Exercises Founded on the Tonic Solfa Method, and a Full Introduction to the Art of Singing at Sight from the Old Notation ...

By: John Curwen

This revised and expanded 1848 textbook includes exercises for class practice of the tonic sol-fa system of teaching singing.

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209

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Cambridge University Press

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1108065198

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9781108065191

Mathews' American Armoury and Blue Book

By: John Mathews

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Mathews' American Armoury and Blue Book

By: John Mathews

First published in 1907, this book contains a list of many of the Americans with coats of arms. It includes biographical information, genealogical information, as well as a description of the arms, crest, and motto. Other information listed include clubs and societies the individual belonged to, and the persons' residences along with a list of Royal Warrant Holders. 358 pages and numerous images.

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Lulu.com

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0956815774

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9780956815774

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

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Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385421950

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Before Renaissance

Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943

By: John F. Bauman,Edward K. Muller

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Before Renaissance

Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943

By: John F. Bauman,Edward K. Muller

Before Renaissance examines a half-century epoch during which planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning and its application for improving life in Pittsburgh.Planning emerged from the concerns of progressive reformers and businessmen over the social and physical problems of the city. In the Steel City enlightened planners such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Frederick Bigger pioneered the practical approach to reordering the chaotic urban-industrial landscape. In the face of obstacles that included the embedded tradition of privatism, rugged topography, inherited built environment, and chronic political fragmentation, they established a tradition of modern planning in Pittsburgh.Over the years a melange of other distinguished local and national figures joined in the planning dialogue, among them the park founder Edward Bigelow, political bosses Christopher Magee and William Flinn, mayors George Guthrie and William Magee, industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Howard Heinz, financier Richard King Mellon, and planning luminaries Charles Mulford Robinson, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Harland Bartholomew, Robert Moses, and Pittsburgh's Frederick Bigger. The famed alliance of Richard King Mellon and Mayor David Lawrence, which heralded the Renaissance, owed a great debt to Pittsburgh's prior planning experience. John Bauman and Edward Muller recount the city's long tradition of public/private partnerships as an important factor in the pursuit of orderly and stable urban growth. Before Renaissance provides insights into the major themes, benchmarks, successes, and limitations that marked the formative days of urban planning. It defines Pittsburgh's key role in the vanguard of the national movement and reveals the individuals and processes that impacted the physical shape and form of a city for generations to come.

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348

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822973057

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9780822973058

Changing Members

The Maine Legislature in the Era of Term Limits

By: Matthew C. Moen,Kenneth T. Palmer,Richard John Powell

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Changing Members

The Maine Legislature in the Era of Term Limits

By: Matthew C. Moen,Kenneth T. Palmer,Richard John Powell

Changing Members is the first systematic examination of the impact of term limits on a single state legislature. Using Maine as a case study--because it is the first state in the entire nation where legislative term limits took effect in both chambers--the book shows how term limits shape legislative operations, redistribute political power, and change the very members elected to serve.

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174

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Lexington Books

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0739109308

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9780739109304

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations

Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. Volume eighteen, part 3

By: John D. Austin

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Mayflower Families Through Five Generations

Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. Volume eighteen, part 3

By: John D. Austin

The tracing of the descendants of the Mayflower passengers.

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0930270304

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9780930270308

The Public and Its Possibilities

Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City

By: John D. Fairfield

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The Public and Its Possibilities

Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City

By: John D. Fairfield

In his compelling reinterpretation of American history,The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfield argues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests. Fairfield places the city at the centre of American experience, describing how a resilient demand for an urban participatory democracy has bumped up against the fog of war, the allure of the marketplace, and persistent prejudices of race, class, and gender. John D. Fairfield is Professor of History at Xavier University and the author ofThe Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937.

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Temple University Press

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1439902119

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The Public and Its Possibilities

The Public and Its Possibilities

Hawk Eye Farm

Hawk Eye Farm

Civil War High Commands

Civil War High Commands

Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

Singing for Schools and Congregations

Singing for Schools and Congregations

Mathews' American Armoury and Blue Book

Mathews' American Armoury and Blue Book

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Before Renaissance

Before Renaissance

Changing Members

Changing Members

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations

The Public and Its Possibilities

The Public and Its Possibilities

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