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UNINA9910458345403321 |
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Titolo |
Urban modernity [[electronic resource] ] : cultural innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution / / Miriam R. Levin ... [et al.] |
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Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010 |
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1-282-63823-8 |
9786612638237 |
0-262-26593-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Urbanization - History |
Technological innovations - Economic aspects - History |
Industrialization - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents ; Figures ; Preface ; 1 - Dynamic Triad: City, Exposition, and Museum in Industrial Society ; 2 - Bringing the Future to Earth in Paris: 1851-1914 ; 3 - From Modern Babylon to White City: Science, Technology, and Urban Change in London, 1870-1914 ; 4 - The Counterrevolution of Progress: A Civic Culture of Modernity in Chicago, 1880-1910 ; 5 - ""Damned Always to Alter, But Never to Be"": Berlin's Culture of Change Around 1900 ; 6 - Promoting Scientific and Technological Change in Tokyo, 1870-1930: Museums, Industrial Exhibitions, and the City ; 7 - Coda ; Index |
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At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centred, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology. |
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UNINA9910956434203321 |
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Autore |
Dull Jonathan R. <1942-> |
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Titolo |
Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution / / Jonathan R. Dull |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2010 |
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9786613050953 |
9780803269521 |
0803269528 |
9781283050951 |
1283050951 |
9780803234154 |
0803234155 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Diplomats - Great Britain |
Statesmen - United States |
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 |
United States Foreign relations 1775-1783 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. From Rebelliousness to Prosperity; 2. Two Missions to England; 3. Eighteen Months in Congress; 4. Franklin and the French; 5. Franklin and the British; 6. Franklin and His Fellow Americans; Epilogue: Franklin Returns to Philadelphia; Notes; Recommended Reading; Index |
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The inventor, the ladies' man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of Franklin's part in the American Revolution: except for Washington he was its most irreplaceable leader. Although aged and in ill health, Franklin served the cause with unsurpassed zeal and dedication. Jonathan R. Dull, whose decades of work on The Papers of Benjamin Franklin have given him rare insight into his subject, explains Franklin's |
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role in the Revolution, what prepared him for that role, an |
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