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UNINA9910958205303321 |
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Titolo |
Grand excursions on the upper Mississippi River : places, landscapes, and regional identity after 1854 / / edited by Curtis C. Roseman and Elizabeth M. Roseman |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, [2004] |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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RosemanCurtis C |
RosemanElizabeth M <1948-> (Elizabeth Mercer) |
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Landscapes - Mississippi River Valley - History |
Regionalism - Mississippi River Valley - History |
Mississippi River Description and travel |
Mississippi River Valley Description and travel |
Mississippi River Valley History 1803-1865 |
Mississippi River Valley History, Local |
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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 (p. [227]-235) and index. |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; The Upper Mississippi and the Grand Excursion by Curtis C. Roseman, Dick Stahl,and Elizabeth M. Roseman; Building a Mighty Fine Line: The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad by Roald D. Tweet; The Grand Excursion of 1854 by William J. Petersen; The East Looks at the West by Susan R. Brooker-Gross; Steaming up the River by Edwin L. Hill; The Picturesque Mississippi by Patrick Nunnally; Towns to Visit: Sights (Sites) to See by John A. Jakle; Where Nature Smiles Three Hundred Miles: Rail Travel along he River by Jeff Crump |
Highway to Empire: Remaking the River by John O. AnfinsonPreservation and Management of the River's Natural Resources by Gary C. Meyer; A River of Logs by Gayle Rein; Fishing the Father of Waters by Malcolm L. Comeaux; Renewals and Reinventions: River Towns on the Upper Mississippi by Norman Moline and Charles Mahaffey; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
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n June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists; politicians; academics, writers and artists; business and industry leaders; and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans-an area of great natural beauty offering many promises for additional developme |
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UNINA9910484912603321 |
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Autore |
Georgii Hans-Otto |
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E-Government ICT Professionalism and Competences Service Science : IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Industry Oriented Conferences, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy / / edited by Antonino Mazzeo, Roberto Bellini, Gianmario Motta |
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New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008 |
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[1st ed. 2008.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Collana |
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IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, , 1868-422X ; ; 280 |
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Computer industry |
Computer networks |
Operating systems (Computers) |
Application software |
Computers, Special purpose |
The Computer Industry |
Computer Communication Networks |
Operating Systems |
Computer and Information Systems Applications |
Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliography: pages [201]-203. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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e-government -- E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations -- Why is True eGovernment still difficult to be achieved? -- A normative approach to democracy in the electronic government framework -- Knowledge Representation and Management for E-Government Documents -- The Accounting System of Central State Administrations -- The Italian Public Administration Electronic Market: Scenario, Operation, Trends -- ICT professionalism and Competences -- The Emergence of Software Engineering Professionalism -- IT Professional role today and tomorrow -- European Universities and the ICT Industry -- How to move forward and implement e-skills on a long term basis -- IT and Professionalism in Developing Countries -- A Model for Rating and Certifying Competences in the EUCIP Framework -- The need for a standard qualification of ICT-professional competences -- EUCIP Driving the IT-Professional Competence in Norway -- The EUCIP Scheme in the Italian University System -- IT skill requirements in Public Administration -- International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) - Overview -- IP3 - National Societies’ Roles and Responsibilities -- The Emerging ISO International Standard for Certification of Software Engineering Professionals -- European Standardisation Process -- Service Science -- Compliance Requirements for Business-process driven SOAs -- Business Process Design: Towards Service- Based Green Information Systems -- SIFET-CBA Project -- Reengineering Lead to Cash - Process and Organization -- Business Process Monitoring: BT Italy case study -- Dealing with Availability in an international Service Management scenario -- Service level and Value to Customer as key business drivers: a case studying a leader truck industry -- Explaining the Evolving Web - Mixing Technology with Pleasure.-Value-Aware Service Model Driven Architecture and Methodology -- Strategic Modelling of Enterprise Information Requirements -- ICT Portfolio: Mapping Business and ICT Services. |
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International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing. For more information about the 300 other books in the IFIP series, please visit www.springer.com. For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.org. |
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