Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'Armée française.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the mediaeval Jews : from the Moslem conquest of Spain to the discovery of America /

Maps on lining papers.

The spell of the Italian lakes, being the record of pilgrimages to familiar and unfamiliar places of the "lakes of azure, lakes of leisure", together with a description of their quaint towns and villa gardens, and the treasures of their art and history,

Previous edition has title "The Italian lakes".

An universal history : from the earliest accounts to the present time /

Articles by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton, and others, cf. Brit.mus. Catalogue.

State agricultural experiment stations : a history of research policy and procedure /

Maps on lining papers.

Le grande dictionaire historique ou Le mêlange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane, qui contient en abregé l'histoire fabuleuse des dieux & des heroes de l'antiquité payenne: les vies et les actions remarquables des patriarches; des juges; des rois des juifs; des papes ... des empereurs; des rois, des princes illustres; & des grands capitaines; l'établissement et le progrés des ordres religieux & militaires; & la vie de leur fondateurs: les genealogies de plusieurs familles illustres de France, & d'autres païs: la description des empires ... l'histoire des conciles generaux & particuliers, sous le nom des lieux où ils ont été tenus. Le tout enrichi de remarques, de dissertations & de recherches curieuses ... tirées de differens auteurs, & sur tout du Dictionaire critique de M. Bayle.

The first edition was published in 1674 in Lyon in 1 vol.

The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent. Containing the antient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical;

Vol. 13 is a made-up volume containing maps and folded plans.

Six centuries of work and wages. The history of English labour,

Mode of access: Internet.

Six centuries of work and wages. The history of English labour.

Paged continuously; v.1: 304 p.; v.2: 1 p. l., 305-591, [1] p.

Coral Gables Virtual History

Florida International University has partnered with the City of Coral Gables to create a geospatially-enabled Virtual Historic City. With this tool, users may navigate to any point in the city at a selected time period (e.g. the Biltmore Hotel from the 1920s to 1940s) and experience the city as it was, through a wide variety of cultural artifacts and textual materials. A virtual walking tour of Coral Gables was also created, which includes an audio narration and 3D simulations providing the façades of historic buildings and landscape. Students, educators, historians, public policy administrators, architects, sociologists, environmental analysts, urban planners, and the general public can explore over 8,000 historical documents, photographs, oral histories, and maps that have been spatially registered to their relevant locations and time.

Julia B. Canter, woman flight engineer studying weather maps

General note: Title and date provided by Freda Leinwand.

Julia B. Canter, woman flight engineer studying weather maps

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Essays on Firm Heterogeneity with Empirical Applications in Economic History and Agricultural Economics

This thesis uses models of firm-heterogeneity to complete empirical analyses in economic history and agricultural economics. In Chapter 2, a theoretical model of firm heterogeneity is used to derive a statistic that summarizes the welfare gains from the introduction of a new technology. The empirical application considers the use of mechanical steam power in the Canadian manufacturing sector during the late nineteenth century. I exploit exogenous variation in geography to estimate several parameters of the model. My results indicate that the use of steam power resulted in a 15.1 percent increase in firm-level productivity and a 3.0-5.2 percent increase in aggregate welfare. Chapter 3 considers various policy alternatives to price ceiling legislation in the market for production quotas in the dairy farming sector in Quebec. I develop a dynamic model of the demand for quotas with farmers that are heterogeneous in their marginal cost of milk production. The econometric analysis uses farm-level data and estimates a parameter of the theoretical model that is required for the counterfactual experiments. The results indicate that the price of quotas could be reduced to the ceiling price through a 4.16 percent expansion of the aggregate supply of quotas, or through moderate trade liberalization of Canadian dairy products. In Chapter 4, I study the relationship between farm-level productivity and participation in the Commercial Export Milk (CEM) program. I use a difference-in-difference research design with inverse propensity weights to test for causality between participation in the CEM program and total factor productivity (TFP). I find a positive correlation between participation in the CEM program and TFP, however I find no statistically significant evidence that the CEM program affected TFP.

DIGITAL HISTORY: DESIGNING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS THAT SUPPORT CRITICAL THINKING AND IDEA EXCHANGE, MOTIVATE AND ENGAGE USERS

In my thesis I argue for the use of system designs that: a) open access to a variety of users and allow for collaboration and idea exchange, while at the same time, b) are designed to motivate and engage users. To exemplify my proposed systems design, I created an interactive and open digital history project focused on Romanian culture and identity during Communism, from 1947, when the Communist Party took power by forcing the King to abdicate, until the revolution in 1989, which marked the end of Communism in Romania (Gilberg, 1990, Boia, 2014). In my project, I present the possibility to recreate Habermas’ notion of public sphere and “the unforced force of the better argument” (Habermas, 1989) and Dewey’s (2004) understanding of democracy as a mode of associated living imbued of the spirit of inquiry within contemporary digital history projects. Second, I outline system designs that motivate and engage users, by satisfying the basic psychological needs outlined in Ryan and Deci’s (2000) self-determination theory: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Two more concepts are included to complete the proposed digital history project design: presence (Ryan, Rigby, & Przybylski, 2006) and learner hero (Rigby & Przybylski, 2009).