books by New Hampshire     books:       Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)1 review Scott Molloy New Hampshire, 2007 Busman's Holiday Scott Molloy is Rhode Island's foremost labor historian. Now a history professor and the University of Rhode Island, Molloy worked his way through graduate school working as a bus driver for the state's bus company. It was there that he began researching and studying the history of Rhode Island public transportation and the people who worked there. In preparing this work, Molloy interviewed ...             The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Hardscrabble Books)29 reviews Sarah Orne Jewett New Hampshire, 1997 Visit the Country Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF POINTED FIRS is a visitor's tale. Set in the fictional Maine coast town of Dunnet Landing where the author/narrator has settled for the summer to write. As a visitor, the narrator inevitably recounts only the pieces of history she comes in contact with through her landlady and the people she meets in the community. The stories are portraits, bits and pieces, of ...             Irish Titan, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and Nineteenth-Century New England Labor (Revisiting New England: ... Scott Molloy New Hampshire, 2008 In 1847 Joseph Banigan, an Irish Potato Famine refugee, established himself in Rhode Island as an entrepreneur. This was a time when "No Irish Need Apply" signs abounded and discrimination against the Irish and other immigrants--institutionalized in the constitution of his adopted state--hindered voting and other human rights. Bucking this trend and belying his humble origins, Banigan succeeded spectacularly in the emerging local rubber ...             Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century (Revisiting New England)1 review Richard Archer New Hampshire, 2001 Something for Everyone I have just read Richard Archer's newly published "Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century." This wonderfully informative and entertaining work details how the people of seventeenth century New England, while often differing from one another when viewed close in, were at the same time, in the larger sense, participants in a common culture. In this comprehensive and ...             Charles Eliot Norton: The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (Becoming Modern: New ... Linda Dowling New Hampshire, 2007 Author, translator, social critic and Harvard professor of art, Charles Eliot Norton was widely regarded in his own day as the most cultivated man in America. In modern times, by contrast, he has been condemned as the supercilious representative of an embattled patrician caste. This revisionary study argues that Norton's genuine significance for American culture and politics today can only be grasped by recovering the vanished contexts in which ...             This Grand and Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains (Revisiting New England: the ...1 review Christopher Johnson New Hampshire, 2006 This Grand and Magnificent Place I am about halfway through reading this book, which is a new purchase for the Wentworth Library in Sandwich, NH. After all the books that have been written about White Mountain history and background, I found this new work intriguing in its depth and excellence. I first came across much of the legend and lore portrayed in here while attending the last UNH Forestry Camp at Passaconaway in 1964. ...             Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)1 review Sarah Luria New Hampshire, 2005 The Gnesis of a Capital This is a book that belongs on the coffee table of every thinking person living in or interested in the city of Washington. A masterfully researched history, it shows how the city's designers set out to capture the essence of America: a respect for tradition combined with the prospects of a limitless future. Streets laid out in a conventional grid represent the former, while diagonal avenues ...             Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858 (Becoming Modern: New ... Duncan Faherty New Hampshire, 2007 In this interdisciplinary study, Faherty argues that throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Americans conceptualized their still unsettled political and social states through metaphors of home building. During this period, a pervasive concern with the design and furnishing of houses helped writers to manage previous encounters with settlements, both native and European, and to imagine and remodel a new national ideal. By ...             The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life New Hampshire, 1997 No one argues that continuing depredation of our environment threatens our planet and our existence on it, but conflict arises in finding a solution to the problem. Suggesting that the panacea offered by science and technology is too narrow, 15 philosophers, theologians, and environmentalists argue for a response to ecology that recognizes the tools of science but includes a more spiritual approach-one with a more humanistic, holistic view based ...             The Meetinghouse Tragedy: An Episode in the Life of a New England Town Charles E. Clark New Hampshire, 1998 On a fine September day in 1773 the people of Wilton, New Hampshire gathered to realize their dream, laboring together to raise the frame of a brand new meetinghouse that would be the literal and symbolic center of this small farming community nestled near the Massachusetts line. But the dream became nightmare when a huge center roof beam, temporarily shored up by a treetrunk, gave way, dropping fifty-three workers three stories to the ground ...             Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It (Revisiting New England: the New Regionalism)1 review Kimberly Jarvis New Hampshire, 2007 Great book for understanding the White Mountains As a long time New Englander and traveler to the White Mountains, I found this book provided not only a tremendous historical background to the places I love to visit in and around Franconia Notch, but also a reason as to why the groups that were involved in acquiring the land for the WMNF wanted to protect it from future development. In my younger days as an Eagle Scout, I hiked the ...             The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland W. Robbins and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America (Revisiting ...1 review Donald W. Linebaugh New Hampshire, 2004 An experienced amateur makes a difference Today we visit historic spots like Colonial Williamsburg and Plimoth Plantation and we take their configurations for granted. If their buildings were not already standing when decisions about preservation or re-creation were made, then someone had to determine exactly what originally stood and where. To those of us who haven't given it much thought, we might not understand what that process ...             The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change3 reviews Paul Andrew Mayewski, Frank White New Hampshire, 2002 A cool look at the overheated climate controversy If you're interested in global warming and climate change, you're probably aware of how politicized the area has become, and how much hot air has been spewed by proponents and opponents of the idea that we humans are changing the climate, perhaps to a dangerous or catastrophic degree. In The Ice Chronicles, climatologist and arctic explorer Paul Mayewski and author Frank White bring cooler heads ...             Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) New Hampshire, 2008 Over the course of the nineteenth century, factory slaughterhouses replaced the hand-slaughter of livestock by individual butchers, who often performed this task in back rooms, letting blood run through streets. A wholly modern invention, the centralized municipal slaughterhouse was a political response to the public's increasing lack of tolerance for "dirty" butchering practices, corresponding to changing norms of social hygiene and fear of ...             The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I. (Revisiting New England: the New Regionalism) William Brown New Hampshire, 2006 The son and grandson of slaves owned by abolitionist Moses Brown, William J. Brown was a free African American born in Providence in 1814. Brown published his captivating autobiography, The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I., in 1883. His compelling and insightful story is a memorable portrait of life and society in nineteenth-century New England: his childhood, his unusually good educational opportunities, employment, contemporary ...             The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People (Revisiting New England) Pauleena MacDougall New Hampshire, 2004 Although historians predicted the demise of the Penobscot Indians early in the nineteenth century, the tribe is thriving at the opening of the twenty-first century. Having by the early 1800s been rendered all but invisible to the dominant culture, the Penobscots, by selectively adapting to changing circumstances, won back land and visibility. The vital importance of employing elements of cultural resistance as a survival mechanism has, until ...             Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation (Revisiting New England) Donna M. Cassidy New Hampshire, 2005 At the vanguard of renewed interest in Maine's influential early modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), author Donna M. Cassidy brilliantly appraises the contemporary social, political, and economic realities that shaped Hartley's landmark late art. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hartley strove to represent the distinctive subjects of his native region--the North Atlantic folk, the Maine coast, and Mount Katahdin--producing work that ...              search for books 1776-1858, archaeology, architecture, becoming, chronicles, environment, franconia, greening, hardscrabble, historical, magnificent, meetinghouse, modernity, mountains, nineteenth, nineteenth-century, penobscot, providence, regionalism, remodeling, resistance, revisiting, seventeenth, slaughterhouse, speculations, streetcar, tradition, understand, washington, wilderness books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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