Sources for U.S. History

Sources for U.S. History
Author: W. B. Stephens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2003-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521531368

This book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual nineteenth-century U.S. communities, large and small. The book is arranged topically (covering demography, ethnicity and race, land use and settlement, religion, education, politics and local government, industry, trade and transportation, and poverty, health, and crime) and thus will be of great use to those investigating particular historical themes at national, state, or regional level. As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual collections, in particular those of the National Archives.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Total Pages: 1506
Release: 1952
Genre: Copyright
ISBN:

Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

The Academic Corporation

The Academic Corporation
Author: Edwin D. Duryea
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135686777

This book, the first ever overview of the subject, traces the history of the government of higher education from the middle ages through the 1950's and concludes with a look towards the future. It provides insight into the origins and progression of corporate organization associated with western universities, and explores whether and to what extent changing conditions raise the question of its obsolescence. It will be of interest to those who study higher education as well as the general public, governing board members, and professors.

Neptune's Car - An American Legend

Neptune's Car - An American Legend
Author: Paul W Simpson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0244305420

"Smashing her way through enormous cross seas and howling winds the Neptune's Car began to run her easting down. She passed a battered barque bearing Hamburg markings vainly attempting to make westing against a thundering south-westerly gale." Those with an interest in American maritime history would know of the story of Mary Patten and the clipper ship Neptune's Car. However few would be aware of the cursed nature of the ship. The Patten's fateful voyage was just one in the career of a clipper whose travels spanned the globe. Built at the yard of Page & Allen in Gosport, Virginia in the spring of 1853, the Neptune's Car quickly established her reputation for speed. However murder, mutiny, mayhem, plague, disaster, war, death and financial ruin haunted any who know her. The fickle hand of fate was always at the helm and like the oceans upon which the clipper sailed, she spared none who showed weakness! Volume One of the Virginia Clippers.

Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows

Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows
Author: Lance E. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1002
Release: 2001-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781139427180

This study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in four countries - Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States - over the years 1870 to 1914. In substantive chapters on each country it offers parallel histories of the evolution of their financial infrastructures - commercial banks, non-bank intermediaries, primary security markets, formal secondary security markets, and the institutions that provide the international financial links connecting the frontier country with the British capital market. At one level, the work constitutes a quantitative history of the development of the capital markets of five countries in the late nineteenth century. At a second level, it provides the basis for a useable taxonomy for the study of institutional invention and innovation. At a third, it suggests some lessons from the past about modern policy issues.

The Union

The Union
Author: Kenneth White Munden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 754
Release: 1998
Genre: Archives
ISBN: