The Life of Emma Willard
Title | The Life of Emma Willard PDF eBook |
Author | John Lord |
Publisher | Applewood Books |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2010-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1429043512 |
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The Life of Emma Willard
Title | The Life of Emma Willard PDF eBook |
Author | John Lord |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1873 |
Genre | Women educators |
ISBN |
A System of Universal History, in Perspective
Title | A System of Universal History, in Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Willard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1835 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Time in Maps
Title | Time in Maps PDF eBook |
Author | Kären Wigen |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-11-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022671862X |
Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.
Familiar Lectures on Botany
Title | Familiar Lectures on Botany PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. Almira (Hart) Lincoln Phelps |
Publisher | |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | Botany |
ISBN |
Mrs. Russell Sage
Title | Mrs. Russell Sage PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Crocker |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 2006-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0253112052 |
This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who created a new identity for herself in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. A wife who derived her social standing from her robber-baron husband, Olivia Sage managed to fashion an image of benevolence that made possible her public career. In her husband's shadow for 37 years, she took on the Victorian mantle of active, reforming womanhood. When Russell Sage died in 1906, he left her a vast fortune. An advocate for the rights of women and the responsibilities of wealth, for moral reform and material betterment, she took the money and put it to her own uses. Spending replaced volunteer work; suffrage bazaars and fundraising fÃates gave way to large donations to favorite causes. As a widow, Olivia Sage moved in public with authority. She used her wealth to fund a wide spectrum of progressive reforms that had a lasting impact on American life, including her most significant philanthropy, the Russell Sage Foundation.
Abridged History of the United States
Title | Abridged History of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Willard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1850 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |