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The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Last Great ...

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Last Great ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

Despite these fears, Olmsted’s work in the final six years of his professional career would only enhance his considerable reputation, as the ninth and final volume of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted reveals.
Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and ...

Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted Charles Beveridge. the editors print the cancelled material in bracketed italics; the present volume omits the cancelled material entirely. The Notes to the present volume provide information about the publication history ...
Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

Frederick Law Olmsted

An anthology of the key writings of the best-known and arguably most prolific landscape architect in U.S. history.
Site Matters

Site Matters

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Olmsted, Sr., scholar Charles Beveridge similarly argues that Olmsted, Sn, was not a regionalist. Charles E. Beveridge, "Regionalism in Frederick Law Olmsted's Social Thought and Landscape Design Practice," in Regional Garden Design, ...
American Icons

American Icons

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Thomas. J. Mickey. To walk in a public park is the right of every American. The idea of a ''public park'' has a history in this country that originates with one man, Frederick Law Olmsted. In the nineteenth century Olmsted undertook the design ...
A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the ...

A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

"Back and forth from the Sabine to the Rio Grande, through San Augustine, Nacogdoches, San Marcos, San Antonio, Neu-Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Lavaca, Indianola, Goliad, Castroville, La Grange, Houston, Harrisburg, and Beaumont, Olmsted ...
Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes

Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes

Frederick Law Olmsted

Civilizing American Cities collects Olmsted's plans for New York, San Francisco, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and Boston; his suburban plans for Berkeley, California and Riverside, Illinois; and a generous helping of his writings on urban ...
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape

Charles E. Beveridge

Traces the life of the influential landscape architect, and looks at his designs for public parks
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape

Charles E. Beveridge

Traces the life of the influential landscape architect, and looks at his designs for public parks.
The Force of Law

The Force of Law

Frederick Schauer

In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society’s other rules.
The Genius of the Common Law, 1912

The Genius of the Common Law, 1912

Frederick Pollock

" Holdsworth, Some Makers of English Law 287. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 143.
Marcelle of the Quarter

Marcelle of the Quarter

General Books LLC

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publication date: 1900 Subjects: History / General Law / General Law / Administrative Law
The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I

The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I

Frederick Pollock

The first volume traces this history. The second volume treats the doctrines of the common law, including tenure, the law of personal condition, status and estate, and the jurisdiction and communities of the land.
Aggressive in Pursuit: The Life of Justice Emmett Hall

Aggressive in Pursuit: The Life of Justice Emmett Hall

Frederick Vaughan

... ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume VU - Inside the Law: Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective William Kaplan, Bad Judgment: The Case of Mr Justice Leo A. Landreville F. Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright, eds., ...
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland.
Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound

Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound

Tony Olmsted

Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound Tony Olmsted. RBF label, 1974. Courtesy DavidA. Jasen. Typical 1970s era Folkways Records contract. Courtesy David A. Jasen.
Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition

Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition

Neil Duxbury

Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition provides the first detailed historical account of one of England's great jurists.Until the later decades of the twentieth century, law developed little as an academic discipline in ...
Documents

Documents

Massachusetts. General Court. Senate

Sears, Frederick R., formerly Jr., . . . . . . Sears, Frederick B., Richard D. Sears, Philip S. Sears, Herbert M. Sears, trustees under will of Frederick R. Sears, . . . . . . . . . . Sears, Frederick B. ... Katharine C. Mrs. . . . . . . Stanley, Frank R, George E.
Encyclopedia of the Victorian era

Encyclopedia of the Victorian era

James Eli Adams

ERNIE TEAGARDEN Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota Thomas Alva Edison; Prisons JESSICA B. TEISCH University of California, Berkeley Horatio Alger; John James Audubon; William Dean Howells; Frederic Law Olmsted; ...
The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick ...

The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick ...

Frederick Mosteller

This volume is a companion to Selected Papers of Frederick Mosteller (Springer, 2006) and A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller’s Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy (Springer-Verlag, 1990).
Frederick the Great: A Military Life

Frederick the Great: A Military Life

Christopher Duffy

Schwerin's school of devotees was still longer-lived than that of the Old Dessauer , and it embraced Frederick's ... won general admiration for the restraint they exercised in enemy territory, which again offered a contrast to Frederick's way of  ...
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor

Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor

David Abulafia

Frederick came to Rome, to be acclaimed (but not yet crowned) as Roman emperor by the populus Romanus, at papal instigation. ... The Pisans had supported Otto; indeed, their fleet stood in Frederick's way off the south Italian coast.

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