Author: William Henry Boyd
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-09-21
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781390917161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Boyd's New York City Tax-Book: Being a List of Persons, Corporations and Co-Partnerships, Resident and Non-Resident, Who Were Taxed According to the Assessors' Books, 1856 and '57 The compiler and publisher of this work deems but few words necessary to explain its design or to indicate its use fulness. He has brought to his task the experience of nine years in the Directory business, and the determination to make his book a more convenient and a not less reliable work of refer ence than the official documents from which it is compiled. In almost every city of note within the sphere of his obser vation, a similar list is published annually; and it is a matter of great surprise, that in the commercial metropolis of this continent, the record of what should be the surest and readiest exponent of an individual's pecuniary responsibility - the assessed valuation of his real and personal property - has hitherto remained, comparatively, a sealed book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Henry Boyd
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2015-09-09
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9781342113337
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: William Henry Boyd
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2018-02-28
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9781378752289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Frederic Cople Jaher
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9780252009327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher: William Clowes & Sons, Limited
Published: 1885
Total Pages: 652
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 113560438X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1996. Volume 7 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY of the ‘American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 7 looks at social class structure and social mobility. Its articles address questions that have intrigued historians for decades. What has been the class structure of American cities during the past two centuries? How much mobility has been possible? For whom has it been possible? What has been the relationship between social and geographic mobility? Finally, how have all kinds of Americans tried to improve their social status?
Author: Edward Pessen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1351492934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure, life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.