Author :Boston (Mass.). City Council Publisher : Release Date :1891 ISBN 10 :HARVARD:LI187N Pages :1538 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Reports of Proceedings of the City Council of Boston for the Year ... by Boston (Mass.). City Council:
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Summary Book Review Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine by Charles Vidich:
Download or read book Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine written by Charles Vidich and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and explores the political, economic, immigration, and public health considerations that have prompted success or failure within the evolving role of public health. The novel strain of coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and became a worldwide pandemic in 2020 is only one of more than 87 new or emerging pathogens discovered since 1980 that have posed a risk to public health. While many may consider quarantine an antiquated practice, in reality it is often one of the only defenses against new and dangerous communicable diseases. Tracing the United States' quarantine practices through the colonial, postcolonial, and modern eras, Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine provides an eye-opening look at how quarantine has worked despite routine dismissal of its value. This book is for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and will help readers internalize the lessons that may be learned from the pandemic. No other title provides the level of primary source data on the United States' long reliance on quarantine practices and the political, social, and economic factors that have influenced them. Offers guidance on quarantine decision-making within the U.S. democratic system Chronicles the evolution of quarantine throughout U.S. history Provides a detailed analysis of tens of thousands of primary-source local, state, and federal quarantine records that have been pieced together to tell America's quarantine story Features illuminating case studies of some of the most important quarantine events in American history
Summary Book Review Gaining Ground by Nancy S. Seasholes:
Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Summary Book Review Reports of Proceedings ... by :
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Summary Book Review A. J. Gordon by Kevin Belmonte:
Download or read book A. J. Gordon written by Kevin Belmonte and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of A. J. Gordon recounts an epic journeyone of faith, character, and pioneering vision. A sterling educator, philanthropist, and herald of heaven, he was a great soul, and his life a resplendent legacy. This impeccably researched biography brings Dr. Gordons world to life, charting his rise to international prominence and his work with great peers and friends like D. L. Moody. Born in rural New Hampshire, he was, in many ways, a renaissance man: an educator, philanthropist, author, magazine editor, antislavery advocate, trustee of Brown University, and the pastor of Clarendon Street Church in Boston. He also led groundbreaking mission work among Bostons immigrant communities, chiefly Chinese and Hebrew groups. - They cherished his work among them. In 1889, Gordon founded the Boston Missionary Training School to give underprivileged young people an education they would not have had otherwise. Tuition was free, and courses (taught by Ivy Leagueeducated instructors) were open to young men and young women of many ethnicities African-American, Chinese, and Hebrew students among them. Gordon stoutly weathered storms of criticism over this, but he persevered. His gifts as an author resonate still, and his many books are now housed in places like the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Author :Richard F. Miller Publisher :UPNE Release Date :2013-11-05 ISBN 10 :9781611683240 Pages :777 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.8/5 (324 users download)
Summary Book Review States at War, Volume 1 by Richard F. Miller:
Download or read book States at War, Volume 1 written by Richard F. Miller and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organization, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Civil War states and state governments must assemble data from a variety of sources, and many key sources remain unavailable online. This volume, the first of six, provides a crucial reference book for Civil War scholars and historians, professional or amateur, seeking information about individual states or groups of states. Its principal sources include the Official Records, state adjutant-general reports, legislative journals, state and federal legislation, federal and state executive speeches and proclamations, and the general and special orders issued by the military authorities of both governments. Designed and organized for easy use, this book can be read in two ways: by individual state, with each chapter offering a stand-alone skeletal history of an individual stateÕs war years, or across states, comparing reactions to the same event or solutions to the same problems.
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Download or read book State and Local Government Special Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Sarah S. Elkind Publisher :Development of Western Resourc Release Date :1998 ISBN 10 :UOM:39015043803546 Pages :246 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Bay Cities and Water Politics by Sarah S. Elkind:
Download or read book Bay Cities and Water Politics written by Sarah S. Elkind and published by Development of Western Resourc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining insights from urban, western, and environmental history, Elkind examines the ways that people's reactions to their natural surroundings drive both demand for improved public services and political reform. She traces public works development in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to explain how these programs united each city with its suburban neighbors, creating new political entities and allowing Boston and Oakland to appropriate rural resources and thus overcome the environmental limits to their continued growth and prosperity. She also shows how, when the power of regionalism is turned to urban development, environmental and social costs are sometimes overlooked.
Summary Book Review Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts by State Library of Massachusetts:
Download or read book Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue by State Library of Massachusetts:
Download or read book Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Report by State Library of Massachusetts:
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Summary Book Review Index to Current Urban Documents by :
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Summary Book Review Public Documents of Massachusetts by Massachusetts:
Download or read book Public Documents of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by William Clowes & Sons, Limited. This book was released on 1885 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review The Corporate City by Leonard P. Curry:
Download or read book The Corporate City written by Leonard P. Curry and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and the most pioneering, this study of the early American city should prove definitive.
Summary Book Review The Unheralded Triumph by Jon C. Teaford:
Download or read book The Unheralded Triumph written by Jon C. Teaford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Summary Book Review Public Documents of Massachusetts by Massachusetts:
Download or read book Public Documents of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: