The Fair American

The Fair American PDF

Author: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Publisher: Bethlehem Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781883937850

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Pierre, sole survivor of an aristocratic family in the French Revolution, escapes to America aboard the Fair American with the aid of Sally, Andrew, and Andrew's father.

The Fair American

The Fair American PDF

Author: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Publisher:

Published: 1940

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Summary: Pierre, a child of the nobility, flees the French Revolution and sails for a new world aboard the Fair American.

Fair America

Fair America PDF

Author: Robert W. Rydell

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1588343421

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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

The Great American Fair

The Great American Fair PDF

Author: Reid Badger

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780882294483

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American Fair Trade

American Fair Trade PDF

Author: Laura Phillips Sawyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-12-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108546943

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Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the twentieth century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness - not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition and influenced the administrative state's public-private approach to market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura Phillips Sawyer analyzes how these efforts to reconcile the American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age of laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state.