Belleville 1814 1914

Author : Robert C. Fietsam
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738533339
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belleville, 1814-1914 written by Robert C. Fietsam and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By legislative decree, the planned community of Belleville began in 1814 as the new county seat on the site of George Blair's farm, in proximity to no major crossroads or rivers. This book chronicles Belleville's remarkable--if not phenomenal--rise to become the "Capitol of Southern Illinois," a feat celebrated to no small degree by proud residents on the occasion of Belleville's centennial celebration. Much of what contributed to Belleville's 19th-century rise to prominence in politics and its economic growth in agribusiness, mining, banking, manufacturing, and retail sectors are illustrated here. This collection of photographs shows some of the many reasons why modern-day Bellevillian's retain pride in the city's history and continue their efforts to preserve it.

Author : Judith A. Belleville, Robert deV. Brunkow, PhD, and Robert L. Arndt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467111104
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belleville: 1914 and Beyond written by Judith A. Belleville, Robert deV. Brunkow, PhD, and Robert L. Arndt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, celebrants marked the anniversary of the founding of Belleville, Illinois, by observing the progress the city had made since it was established a hundred years before. In that time, it had become a regional hub for surrounding communities, with robust commercial, manufacturing, coal-mining, and agricultural sectors. Over the next century, the automobile, wars, economic depression, and technological innovation transformed daily life in ways unimaginable to those citizens of 1914. Bellevilleans' civic volunteerism would serve the city well as Belleville approached its bicentennial. In 2011, the National Civic League designated it an All-American City.

Author : Frederick William Orby Maycock
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104343491
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invasion of France, 1814 (1914) written by Frederick William Orby Maycock and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826266422
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Missouri Railroad Pioneer written by Joel P. Rhodes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the “Father of Southeast Missouri” because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck’s name is little known today outside Missouri, Joel Rhodes shows how his story has relevance for both the state and the nation. Rhodes presents a more complete picture of Houck than has ever been available: reviewing his life from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. He especially tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through the wilderness of wetlands known as “Swampeast Missouri”—and how these “Houck Roads” provided a boost for population, agriculture, lumbering, and commerce that transformed Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area. Rhodes discusses how Houck fits into the era of economic individualism—a time when men with little formal training shaped modern industry—and also gives voice to Houck’s critics and shows that he was not always an easy man to work with. In telling the story of his railroading enterprise, Rhodes chronicles Houck’s battle with the Jay Gould railroad empire and offers key insight into the development of America’s railway system, from the cutthroat practices of ruthless entrepreneurs to the often-comic ineptness of start-up rail lines. More than simply a biography of a business entrepreneur, the book tells how Houck not only developed the region economically but also followed the lead of Andrew Carnegie by making art, culture, and formal education available to all social classes. Houck also served for thirty-six years as president of the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State Teacher’s College, and as a self-taught historian he wrote the first comprehensive accounts of Missouri’s territorial period. A Missouri Railroad Pioneer chronicles a multifaceted career that transformed a region. Solidly researched, this lively narrative also offers an entertaining read for anyone interested in Missouri history.

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131787143X
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France 1814 - 1914 written by Robert Tombs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution and war, the preoccupation with the idea of a New Order and the deep strain of national paranoia that was to be intensified by the dramatic debacle of the Franco-Prussian War. Robert Tombs then investigates the structures of power and in Part Three he turns his attention to social identities, from the individual and family to the nation at large. When every aspect of the period has been put under the microscope, Robert Tombs draws them all into the broad political narrative that brings the book to its rousing conclusion. Bursting with life as well as learning, this is, quite simply, a tour de force.

Author : London Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1112 pages
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Download or read book Subject-index of the London Library, St. James's Square, London written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosemary E. Ommer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773507302
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book From Outpost to Outport written by Rosemary E. Ommer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1766 Gaspé became an outpost of the Jersey metropole; in 1886 the Channel island of Jersey abandoned the region, reducing Gaspé, on Quebec's Atlantic coast, to Canadian outport status. From Outpost to Outport provides a structural and theoretical examination of the economic relationship between Jersey and Gaspé, explaining the development of codfish as a staple which, under merchant capital, secured success for Jersey at the expense of underdevelopment in Gaspé.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century atlas of the world, prepared under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hankins Wallace
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
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Author : William Dwight Whitney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: