Archiv der Kategorie: American History (English)

The Pioneer Citizens’ History of Atlanta (1655 – 1902)

Publiziert am 6. Dezember 2021 von Jazzybee

The Pioneer Citizens’ History of Atlanta (1655 – 1902)

The pages of this book are replete with the history of those who were participants in the founding of the great city named Atlanta; indeed, it is their record of the stirring events which occurred from year to year from the first settlement, along the formative period of the embryo metropolitan city of today. And largely to the older inhabitant is the reader indebted for this accurate and authentic history, to which they gave much thought and labor. The authors of this work had access to various publications, and have availed themselves of every source of information which could be had. They guide the reader through almost 250 thrilling years of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The History of Mecklenburg County from 1740 to 1900

Publiziert am 6. Dezember 2021 von Jazzybee

The History of Mecklenburg County from 1740 to 1900 – John Brevard Alexander

The author spent much time and took great pains in looking up the early history of Mecklenburg, and left no stone unturned that might throw light on the character of those early patriots, who risked everything to establish independence. This was indeed a bold act, to sever all relations with the mother country, knowing that not to succeed, meant death on the gallows. The Rubicon was crossed, and they could not go back. Patriots of the county held many meetings and debated the question earnestly before the final meeting in Charlotte on the 19th and 20th of May, 1775. All the costs were counted, and each one … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Washington and its Romance

Publiziert am 26. November 2021 von Jazzybee

Washington and its Romance – Thomas Nelson Page

The capitals of most countries are the especial pride of their people. It is not so with us—at least, it has not been so in the past. Happily, it appears as though this condition were changing. It has, indeed, ever appeared to me strange that Americans know so little of and care so little for the capital of their own country. Nature, prodigal of gracious slope and curve and tone, has endowed it with, perhaps, more charm than any other national capital—at least, than any large European capital—and its founders laid it off on a generous plan which has left the opportunity of furthering what Nature presented, in a way to appeal … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Confederate Military History, Vol. 2: Maryland and West Virginia

Publiziert am 14. Oktober 2021 von Jazzybee

Confederate Military History, Vol. 2: Maryland and West Virginia.

This work spanning fifteen extensive volumes is the result of contributions by many Southern men to the literature of the United States that treats of the eventful years in which occurred the momentous struggle called by Mr. A. H. Stephens “the war between the States.” These contributions were made on a well-considered plan, to be wrought out by able writers of unquestionable Confederate record who were thoroughly united in general sentiment and whose generous labors upon separate topics would, when combined, constitute a library of Confederate military history and biography. According to the great principle in the government of the United States that one may result from and be composed of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte (1740 – 1903)

Publiziert am 29. Juli 2021 von Jazzybee

History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte (1740 – 1903) – Daniel Augustus Tompkins

This volume is one of the best county histories which have appeared in the South. It does not confine itself to genealogical and patriotic matters; but it very properly goes into the field of industrial and social history. This piece of good sense is, no doubt, the result of the author’s long identification with the business interests of his county. He was known far and wide as a successful manufacturer, and, as a writer on topics connected with the cotton industry, he has done much good work. He has drawn from the “North Carolina Colonial Records” for his account of the early settlement of… Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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History of Wake County, North Carolina

Publiziert am 29. Juli 2021 von Jazzybee

History of Wake County, North Carolina – Hope Summerell Chamberlain

Wake County, N. C., was one of the latest of the pre-Revolutionary counties to be set off from the rest, and its boundaries were not in any sense natural boundaries, dependent upon natural barriers or the course of streams, but were run and divided for purely political reasons. The story of the making and naming of Wake County is an interesting one, and properly to tell it requires some general account of the Colony of North Carolina and its beginnings. Even more interesting is the history of this newborn county, that Mrs. Chamberlain tells in this book so elaborately and detailed.

History of Wake County, North Carolina

History of Wake County, North Carolina.

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Economics, Volume 2: Modern Economic Problems

Publiziert am 23. April 2021 von Jazzybee

Economics, Volume 2: Modern Economic Problems – Frank A. Fetter

Professor Fetter’s ‘Economic Principles’ is the second half of a two-volume treatise on economics. The first half ‘Economic Principles’ deals with the basics. The author of this volume is one of the great American economists. His contributions to economic literature have been notable, and while it would, of course, be too much to say that they have won universal acceptance, it can safely be affirmed that they have quite generally been accorded respectful and sympathetic attention. Professor Fetter occupies a place of distinction, not only as a thinker and writer in the field of economics, but also as a university teacher. Several years ago he served also as President of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Economics, Volume 1: Economic Principles

Publiziert am 23. April 2021 von Jazzybee

Economics, Volume 1: Economic Principles – Frank A. Fetter

Professor Fetter’s ‘Economic Principles’ is the first half of a two-volume treatise on economics. The second half ‘Modem Economic Problems’ deals with the applications of principles. In general Professor Fetter’s theory may be described as mechanistic and Austrian. To call it mechanistic signifies that, like the usual type of economic theory, it treats the industrial and business system as being somewhat analogous to a mechanism, in that the operations of this system are explained in terms of practically contemporaneous causes and effects without reference to the changes in its structure which take place with the passage of time. Here ” mechanistic ” is substituted for the less appropriate “deductive” as a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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St. Louis – The Fourth City, Volume 2

Publiziert am 25. Januar 2021 von Jazzybee

St. Louis – The Fourth City, Volume 2 – Walter Barlow Stevens

This is not a book of dates. It does not abound in statistics. It avoids controversies of the past and prophecies of the future. The motive is to present in plain, newspaper style a narrative of the rise and progress of St. Louis to the fourth place among American cities. To personal factors rather than to general causes is credited the high position which the community has attained. Men and women, more than location and events, have made St. Louis the Fourth City. The site chosen was fortunate. Of much greater import was the character of those who came to settle. American history, as told from the Atlantic … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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St. Louis – The Fourth City, Volume 1

Publiziert am 25. Januar 2021 von Jazzybee

St. Louis – The Fourth City, Volume 1 – Walter Barlow Stevens

This is not a book of dates. It does not abound in statistics. It avoids controversies of the past and prophecies of the future. The motive is to present in plain, newspaper style a narrative of the rise and progress of St. Louis to the fourth place among American cities. To personal factors rather than to general causes is credited the high position which the community has attained. Men and women, more than location and events, have made St. Louis the Fourth City. The site chosen was fortunate. Of much greater import was the character of those who came to settle. American history, as told from the Atlantic … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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