04776nam 2200709 450 991046163910332120200520144314.00-520-96037-810.1525/9780520960374(CKB)3710000000465869(EBL)2025606(SSID)ssj0001543497(PQKBManifestationID)16134762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001543497(PQKBWorkID)14399665(PQKB)10644989(MiAaPQ)EBC2025606(DE-B1597)519921(OCoLC)972506277(DE-B1597)9780520960374(Au-PeEL)EBL2025606(CaPaEBR)ebr11092775(CaONFJC)MIL825407(OCoLC)919123886(EXLCZ)99371000000046586920170124h20162016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe filth of progress immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West /Ryan DearingerFirst edition.Oakland, California :University of California Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (310 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28460-7 0-520-28459-3 Includes bibliographical references and index."Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress."In America's historical imagination, toil and triumph against nature and overwhelming odds characterizes such achievements as the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad. Triumph transformed canal and railroad entrepreneurs into visionaries whose work brought the nation bountiful riches and did the Lord's bidding. Celebrated for their spirit and perseverance in 'building' the nation's infrastructure, they found respect for looking to tomorrow and creating a future. For generations, most indexes of American history supported and reinforced this narrative of progress. Yet, if this is the historical memory, it is conveniently stunted. What of those whose bodies strained and broke under the load of such glories? What of those men beyond the din and fanfare who only appear in old photographs with faces blurred and indistinguishable? In their lives and deaths in the mud, muck, and mountains is another history of American achievement. These barely visible and forgotten, ordinary men, 'unskilled' immigrants from Ireland and China, Mormons, and native-born American workingmen rank, as well, as the creators of national growth and progress. Their experiences and voices, along with those of the privileged and well-connected, are the subjects of this study. I examine the rise of Western canals and railroads to national prominence through the menial labor of countless men, largely hidden from view because they left virtually no paper trail, who strung together livelihoods at the economic fringes of society. This book examines the contest for control of American progress and history as distilled from the competing narratives of canal and railroad construction workers and those fortunate enough to avoid this fate"--Provided by publisher.Canal construction workersUnited StatesHistoryRailroad construction workersUnited StatesHistoryForeign workersUnited StatesHistoryCanalsUnited StatesHistoryRailroadsUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.Canal construction workersHistory.Railroad construction workersHistory.Foreign workersHistory.CanalsHistory.RailroadsHistory.331.6/20978Dearinger Ryan1979-1034945MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461639103321The filth of progress2454371UNINA05405nam 2200613 450 99646685990331620220911042744.03-540-37525-210.1007/BFb0082572(CKB)1000000000438336(SSID)ssj0000322762(PQKBManifestationID)12064996(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000322762(PQKBWorkID)10289043(PQKB)10696307(DE-He213)978-3-540-37525-8(MiAaPQ)EBC5584948(Au-PeEL)EBL5584948(OCoLC)1066182111(MiAaPQ)EBC6842093(Au-PeEL)EBL6842093(OCoLC)793078311(PPN)155174428(EXLCZ)99100000000043833620220911d1975 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrDynamical systems--Warwick 1974 proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Warwick, 1973/74 /edited by Anthony Manning1st ed. 1975.Berlin ;Heidelberg ;New York :Springer-Verlag,[1975]©19751 online resource (XII, 412 p.) Lecture notes in mathematics ;468Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-540-07184-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.1 Foliations with all leaves compact -- 2. A question concerning compact foliations -- 3. Compact leaves of foliations -- 4. Foliations with measure preserving holonomy -- 5. Foliated bundles, flat manifolds and invariant measures -- 6. A stable analytic foliation with only exceptional minimal sets -- 7. Accessibility and foliations -- 8. A Poincaré-Bendixson Theorem for R2-actions -- 9. Linearly induced vector fields and R2-actions on spheres -- 10. Structural stability for line fields with singularities on two-manifolds -- 11. Lie algebra preserving d iffeomorphisms -- 12. The point spectrum of the adjoint to an automorphism of a vector bundle -- 13. Structural stability for c1 diffeomorphisms -- 14. Absolute and infinitessimal stability -- 15. Classification of Anosov diffeomorphisms on Tori -- 16. Quasi-Anosov diffeomorphisms -- 17. Suspensions of topological Markov chains -- 18. Equilibrium states -- 19. Ergodic theory of Axiom A flows -- 20. Homology theory and dynamical systems -- 21. Topological entropy and stability -- 22. Cohomology of expanding attractors -- 23. Homology classes composed of infinitely many unstable manifolds of a dynamical system -- 24. Morse inequalities for diffeomorphisms with shoes and flows with solenoids -- 25. Arcs of Dynamical Systems : Bifurcations and Stability -- 26. Simple arcs and stable dynamical systems -- 27. Hilbert’s 16th problem : Limit cycles of polynomial vector fields in the plane -- 28. Topological conjugacy of real projective transformations -- 29. Fixed point index of area-preserving maps -- 30. Homoclinic points of area-preserving maps -- 31.Generic Bifurcations in Hamiltonian Systems -- 32. The Maslov index for Lagrangian manifolds -- 33. Contact equivalence for Lagrangian submanifolds -- 34. Optimisation of several functions -- 35. Bifurcation of Whitney Maps Rn ? R2 and Critical Pareto sets -- 36. A certain semilinear system of partial differential equations -- 37. Constrained Differential Equations -- 38. What is the Unit of Selection? -- 39. Zakalyukin’s proof of the (uni)versal unfolding theorem -- 40. The Catastrophe of a Buckling Beam -- 41. Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field -- 42. Phase transitions as catastrophes -- 43.Caustics and catastrophes -- 44. Catastrophe theory in biology -- 45. Pyramidal Cells as Hierarchical Relators -- Solving a single conservation law -- Infinite codimension and transversality -- On infinitessimal and absolute stability of diffeomorphisms -- Expansive diffeomorphisms -- Stability of endomorphisms -- Topological entropy and the first homology group -- The implicit function theorem and analytic differential equations -- On simple arcs between structurally stable flows -- Nondifferentiability of invariant foliations -- Genericity theorems in topological dynamics -- The homology class of an expanded invariant manifold -- On the entropy conjecture -- Structural stability of C1 flows -- Removing index zero singularities with c1 small perturbations -- Sufficient conditions for an optimum -- Tolerance stability -- Geometric aspects of non-linear R.L.C. networks -- Regular stratifications -- Fifty problems in dynamical systems -- Dynamical systems : Five years after -- Catastrophe Theory : Its present state and future perspectives -- La théorie des catastrophes : état présent et perspectives -- Catastrophe Theory : A reply to Thom -- Answer to Christopher Zeeman’s reply -- Author Index.Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ;468.Differentiable dynamical systemsCongressesDifferential equationsCongressesDifferentiable dynamical systemsDifferential equations514.7Manning Anthony1946-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996466859903316Dynamical systems - Warwick 1974262780UNISA