City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901

City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901
Title City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901 PDF eBook
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Publisher Primary Source Microfilm
Pages 504
Release 1983
Genre Reference
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The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).

Geer's Hartford City Directory

Geer's Hartford City Directory
Title Geer's Hartford City Directory PDF eBook
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Pages 782
Release 1896
Genre East Hartford (Conn.)
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Radical Spirits

Radical Spirits
Title Radical Spirits PDF eBook
Author Ann Braude
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 299
Release 2020-05-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0253056322

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“Braude has discovered a crucial link between the early feminists and the spiritualists who so captured the American imagination.” —Los Angeles Times In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women’s rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women’s history. In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses the place of religion in interpretations of women’s history in general and the women’s rights movement in particular. A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers and students. “It would be hard to imagine a book that more insightfully combined gender, social, and religious history together more perfectly than Radical Spirits. Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women’s creativity—spiritual as well as political—in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement.” —Jon Butler, Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University “Continually rewarding.” —The New York Times Book Review “A fascinating, well-researched, and scholarly work on a peripheral aspect of the rise of the American feminist movement.” —Library Journal “A vitally important book . . . [that] has . . . influenced a generation of young scholars.” —Marie Griffith, associate director of the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University “An insightful book and a delightful read.” —Journal of American History

Bibliography of American Directories Through 1860

Bibliography of American Directories Through 1860
Title Bibliography of American Directories Through 1860 PDF eBook
Author Dorothea N. Spear
Publisher Worcester, Ma. : American Antiquarian Society
Pages 400
Release 1961
Genre Directories
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Men Is Cheap

Men Is Cheap
Title Men Is Cheap PDF eBook
Author Brian P. Luskey
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 296
Release 2020-02-13
Genre History
ISBN 1469654334

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When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day," he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Union's war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called "intelligence offices," institutions of dubious character that nevertheless served the military and domestic necessities of the Union army and Northern households. Northerners condemned labor agents for pocketing fees above and beyond contracts for wages between employers and employees. Yet the transactions these middlemen brokered with vulnerable Irish immigrants, Union soldiers and veterans, former slaves, and Confederate deserters defined the limits of independence in the wage labor economy and clarified who could prosper in it. Men Is Cheap shows that in the process of winning the war, Northerners were forced to grapple with the frauds of free labor. Labor brokers, by helping to staff the Union military and Yankee households, did indispensable work that helped the Northern state and Northern employers emerge victorious. They also gave rise to an economic and political system that enriched the managerial class at the expense of laborers--a reality that resonates to this day.

American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette

American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Title American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette PDF eBook
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Pages 694
Release 1860
Genre Bibliography, National
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Anthems and Minstrel Shows

Anthems and Minstrel Shows
Title Anthems and Minstrel Shows PDF eBook
Author Brian Christopher Thompson
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 462
Release 2015-05-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0773584161

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Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallée and his work extended well beyond Canada, and he played a multitude of roles in North American music as a composer, conductor, administrator, instrumentalist, educator, and critic. In Anthems and Minstrel Shows, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallée’s music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the time, to provide a detailed account of musical life in nineteenth-century North America and the relationship between music and nation. Leaving Quebec at age sixteen, Lavallée travelled widely for a decade as musical director of a minstrel troupe, and spent a year as a bandsman in the Union Army. Later, as a performer and conductor, he built a repertoire that prepared audiences for the intellectually challenging music of European composers and new music by his US contemporaries. His own music extended from national songs to comic operas, and instrumental music, as he shifted between the worlds of classical and popular music. Previously portrayed as a humble French Canadian forced into exile by ignorance and injustice, Lavallée emerges here as ambitious, radical, bohemian, and fully engaged with the musical, social, and political currents of his time. While nationalism and nation-building are central to this story, Anthems and Minstrel Shows asks to which nation – or nations – Lavallée and “O Canada” really belong.