Автор: Dudley William S. Название: Inside the US Navy of 1812-1815 ISBN: 1421440512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421440514 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 50160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
What did it take--logistically and operationally--for the small and underfunded US Navy to face the battle-hardened Royal Navy in the War of 1812? Find out in this book, the magnum opus of one of the deans of American naval history.
When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings of the US Navy Department during the conflict, which lasted until 1815. What did it take, he asks, for the US Navy to build, fit-out, man, provision, and send fighting ships to sea for extended periods of time during the War of 1812?
When the British blockade of 1813-14 severely constrained American sea trade, reducing the government's income and closing down access to American seaports, the navy was forced to innovate: to make improvements through reforms, to redeploy personnel, and to strengthen its industrial capacity. Highlighting matters of supply, construction, recruitment, discipline, medical care, shipbuilding, and innovation, Dudley helps readers understand the navy's successes and failures in the war and beyond. He also presents the logistics of the war in relation to fleet actions on the lakes and selected ship actions on the oceans, stresses the importance of administration in warfighting, and shows how reforms and innovations in those areas led to a stronger, more efficient navy.
Refuting the idea that the United States won the war, Dudley argues that the conflict was at best a stalemate. Drawing on twenty-five years of archival research around the world, Inside the US Navy of 1812-1815 will leave readers with a better appreciation of how the navy contributed strategic value to the nation's survival in the conflict and assisted in bringing the war to an honorable end. This book will appeal to scholars and students of naval and military history, veterans, current officers, and maritime-oriented history buffs.
Автор: Schrag Zachary M. Название: The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and The1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation ISBN: 164313728X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643137285 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 24200.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A gripping and masterful account of the moment one of America`s founding cities turned on itself, giving the nation a preview of the Civil War to come.
Автор: David A. Canton Название: Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia ISBN: 1617037192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617037191 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Raymond Pace Alexander was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association. Yet his legacy to the civil rights struggle has received little national recognition. Alexander was a major contributor to the northern civil rights struggle and was committed to improving the status of black lawyers. This volume examines his life and work.
Автор: Du Bois, W. E. B. (, Usa) Bobo, Lawrence (, Stanford University) Название: Philadelphia negro (the oxford w. e. b. du bois) ISBN: 0199383707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199383702 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thorough example of sociology.
Using knowledge gained from research of black neighborhoods during his time at the University of Pennsylvania, Du Bois was determined to create an all-embracing profile of urban black American society. Some three years of intensive research, interviews, and statistical gathering went into The Philadelphia Negro; it revealed endemic social prejudices and the abject poverty which many black Americans endured. The area studied was the Seventh Ward - a borough of Philadelphia which included the impoverished black ghetto, the striving middle-classes, and even affluent whites.
For Du Bois, the root causes of the social divide were ingrained negative perceptions towards black Americans, such as the notion that black workers are innately dishonest or indolent. Incidents of racial discrimination, whereby blacks in a line of business or seeking employ are turned aside on the basis of skin color, are numerous. More positively, the author unearthed multiple appraisals from those who had employed black workers - some only as a last resort - who became very impressed at their employee's diligence, ability and passion.
Spanning the education, recreation, work, housing and environment conditions, and much more besides, The Philadelphia Negro remains a landmark text of sociology.
Автор: W. E. B. Du Bois Название: Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study ISBN: 1512824348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781512824346 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Philadelphia Negro remains a classic work. It is the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship—the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it. In his introduction, Elijah Anderson examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has changed over the years and compares the status of blacks today with their status when the book was initially published.
Автор: SMITH, CARL Название: CITY WATER, CITY LIFE: WATER AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF IDEAS IN URBANIZING PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, AND CHICAGO ISBN: 022615159X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226151595 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, the author illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization.
In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral history interviews with residents to trace their efforts, which began in the years following World War II and continued through the turn of the twenty-first century.The organizing principles of neighborhood groups like the West Mount Airy Neighbors Association (WMAN) were fundamentally liberal and emphasized democracy, equality, and justice; the social, cultural, and economic values of these groups were also decidedly grounded in middle-class ideals and white-collar professionalism. As Perkiss shows, this liberal, middle-class framework would ultimately become contested by more militant black activists and from within WMAN itself, as community leaders worked to adapt and respond to the changing racial landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. The West Mount Airy case stands apart from other experiments in integration because of the intentional, organized, and long-term commitment on the part of WMAN to biracial integration and, in time, multiracial and multiethnic diversity. The efforts of residents in the 1950s and 1960s helped to define the neighborhood as it exists today.
Автор: Edgar Gregory T. Название: The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778 ISBN: 0788409212 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780788409219 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Hildebrandt Rachel, Old York Road Historical Society Название: Philadelphia Area Architecture of Horace Trumbauer ISBN: 1531640893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531640897 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 29420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Anonymous Название: Philadelphia and Its Environs, Illustrated. ISBN: 1241421080 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781241421083 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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