Download or read book Sketches of America A narrative of a journey of five thousand miles through the eastern and western states of America With remarks on Mr Birkbeck s Notes and Letters written by Henry Bradshaw Fearon and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of America A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America etc 3 Ed written by Henry Bradshaw Fearon and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to a Collection of Americana written by Thomas Payne Thompson and published by New Orleans : Press of Perry & Buckley Company. This book was released on 1912 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cincinnati Queen City of the West 1819 1838 written by Daniel Aaron and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Aaron, one of todays foremost scholars of American history and American studies, began his career in 1942 with this classic study of Cincinnati in frontier days. Aaron argues that the Queen City quickly became an important urban center that in many ways resembled eastern cities more than its own hinterlands, with a populace united by its desire for economic growth. Aaron traces Cincinnati's development as a mercantile and industrial center during a period of intense national political and social ferment. The city owed much of its success as an urban center to its strategic location on the Ohio River and easy access to fertile backcountry. Despite an early over-reliance on commerce and land speculation and neglect of manufacturing, by 1838 Cincinnati's basic industries had been established and the city had outstripped her Ohio River rivals. Aaron's account of Cincinnati during this tumultuous period details the ways in which Cincinnatians made the most of commerce and manufacturing, how they met their civic responsibilities, and how they survived floods, fires, and cholera. He goes on to discuss the social and cultural history of the city during this period, including the development of social hierarchies, the operations of the press, the rage for founding societies of all kinds, the response of citizens to national and international events, the commercial elite's management of radicals and nonconformists, the nature of popular entertainment and serious culture, the efforts of education, and the messages of religious institutions. For historians, particularly those interested in urban and social history, Daniel Aaron's view of Cincinnati offers a rare opportuniry to viewantebellum American society in a microcosm, along with all of the institutions and attitudes that were prevalent in urban America during this important time.
Download or read book America and Her Commentators written by Henry Theodore Tuckerman and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca historica or a Catalogue of 5000 volumes of Books and Manuscripts relating chiefly to the history and literature of North and South America among which is included the larger proportion of the extraordinary library of the late Henry Stevens Senior Edited with introduction and notes by Henry Stevens To be sold by auction by Messrs Leonard Co Boston on Tuesday the 5th Wednesday the 6th Thursday the 7th and Friday the 8th day of April 1870 etc written by Henry STEVENS (of Barnet, Vermont.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Alfred Russell Smith and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1874 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winning the West with Words written by James Joseph Buss and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership of the region that comprises present-day Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Historian James Joseph Buss borrows from literary studies, geography, and anthropology to examine images of stalwart pioneers and vanished Indians used by American settlers in portraying an empty landscape in which they established farms, towns, and “civilized” governments. He demonstrates how this now-familiar narrative came to replace a more complicated history of cooperation, adaptation, and violence between peoples of different cultures. Buss scrutinizes a wide range of sources—travel journals, captivity narratives, treaty council ceremonies, settler petitions, artistic representations, newspaper editorials, late-nineteenth-century county histories, and public celebrations such as regional fairs and centennial pageants and parades—to show how white Americans used language, metaphor, and imagery to accomplish the symbolic removal of Native peoples from the region south of the Great Lakes. Ultimately, he concludes that the popular image of the white yeoman pioneer was employed to support powerful narratives about westward expansion, American democracy, and unlimited national progress. Buss probes beneath this narrative of conquest to show the ways Indians, far from being passive, participated in shaping historical memory—and often used Anglo-Americans’ own words to subvert removal attempts. By grounding his study in place rather than focusing on a single group of people, Buss goes beyond the conventional uses of history, giving readers a new understanding not just of the history of the Midwest but of the power of creation narratives.
Download or read book A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book A History of Livestock Raising in the United States 1607 1860 written by James Westfall Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American and British Debate Over Equality 1776 1920 written by James L. Huston and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long contested the degree to which the central tenet of the Declaration of Independence—that all men are created equal—has manifested itself in American society and national policy. According to James L. Huston, many historians have focused too intently on class differences, slavery, and inequalities arising from ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, while overlooking important areas where notions of equality flourished during the century and a half after the Declaration’s signing. In The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776–1920, Huston examines the egalitarian communities in rural northern America, particularly those enclaves that differed from the openly aristocratic cities and towns of the British Isles. In the aftermath of the American Revolution, British and American writers alike recognized that a growing philosophical rift divided the two nations: whereas Great Britain continued to embrace the inequality of its hierarchical class system, the United States professed allegiance to democratic ideals of equality—limited though these were by racial and gender norms of the day. Huston argues that the two countries engaged in an intellectual debate during the next century and a half over which ideal—equality or inequality—worked best in promoting social stability, political hegemony, and economic success. Exploring the effects of equality and inequality on many aspects of American life, he examines civil behavior, social customs, treatment of others, politics, education, religion, economic opportunity, and general public optimism. Drawing from decades of publications by American and British writers, Huston reveals the rhetorical strategies contemporary observers employed in defending or rejecting the organization of a society around broader notions of human equality. The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776–1920 informs the modern debate over equality and inequality, not by theorizing and philosophizing, but by offering a glimpse into the practical applications of a functioning egalitarian society as compared to one that extolled monarchy and institutionalized inequality.
Download or read book A Troublesome Commerce written by Robert H. Gudmestad and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert H. Gudmestad provides an in-depth examination of the growth and development of the interstate slave trade during the early nineteenth century, using the business as a means to explore economic change, the culture of honor, master-slave relationships, and the justification of slavery in the antebellum South. Gudmestad demonstrates how southerners, faced with the incongruity of maintaining their paternalistic beliefs about slavery even while capitalistically exploiting their slaves, coped by disassociating themselves from the brutality and greed of the slave trade and shifting responsibility for slavery’s realities to the speculators. In tracing the trans- formation of a troublesome commerce into a southern scapegoat, this pro- vocative work proves the interstate slave trade to be vital to the making—and understanding—of the paradoxical antebellum South.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature written by William Peterfield Trent and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature Colonial and revolutionary literature Early national literature pt I written by William Peterfield Trent and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Traveller in America 1785 1835 written by Jane Louise Mesick and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harvard Guide to American History written by Frank Freidel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.
