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Book Circular to the Stockholders of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company

Download or read book Circular to the Stockholders of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company written by Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book T  Butler King of Georgia

Download or read book T Butler King of Georgia written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. Butler King of Georgia documents the life of Georgia politician and planter T. Butler King. Originally from Palmer, Massachusetts, King moved to coastal Georgia, where he got involved with politics and public life. T. Butler King of Georgia explores King’s political achievements, including his experience as a Georgia state senator, his promotion of internal improvements, and his appointment as President Zachary Taylor’s special agent to California. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Book Coast to Coast Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : William S. Kiser
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2018-08-09
  • ISBN : 0806162392
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Coast to Coast Empire written by William S. Kiser and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Zebulon Pike’s expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, settlers, boundary adjudicators, railway surveyors, and the U.S. Army crossed into and through New Mexico, transforming it into a battleground for competing influences determined to control the region. Previous histories have treated the Santa Fe trade, the American occupation under Colonel Stephen W. Kearny, the antebellum Indian Wars, debates over slavery, the Pacific Railway, and the Confederate invasion during the Civil War as separate events in New Mexico. In Coast-to-Coast Empire, William S. Kiser demonstrates instead that these developments were interconnected parts of a process by which the United States effected the political, economic, and ideological transformation of the region. New Mexico was an early proving ground for Manifest Destiny, the belief that U.S. possession of the entire North American continent was inevitable. Kiser shows that the federal government’s military commitment to the territory stemmed from its importance to U.S. expansion. Americans wanted California, but in order to retain possession of it and realize its full economic and geopolitical potential, they needed New Mexico as a connecting thoroughfare in their nation-building project. The use of armed force to realize this claim fundamentally altered New Mexico and the Southwest. Soldiers marched into the territory at the onset of the Mexican-American War and occupied it continuously through the 1890s, leaving an indelible imprint on the region’s social, cultural, political, judicial, and economic systems. By focusing on the activities of a standing army in a civilian setting, Kiser reshapes the history of the Southwest, underlining the role of the military not just in obtaining territory but in retaining it.

Book The St  Louis San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad

Download or read book The St Louis San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad written by H. Craig Miner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railway Review

Download or read book Railway Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book West of Slavery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Waite
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2021-04-01
  • ISBN : 1469663201
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book West of Slavery written by Kevin Waite and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white southerners defended the institution of African American chattel slavery as well as systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations. Slaveholders' western ambitions culminated in a coast-to-coast crisis of the Union. By 1861, the rebellion in the South inspired a series of separatist movements in the Far West. Even after the collapse of the Confederacy, the threads connecting South and West held, undermining the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.

Book Circular to the Stockholders of the New York   New Haven Railroad Company

Download or read book Circular to the Stockholders of the New York New Haven Railroad Company written by New York and New Haven Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Commercial   Financial Chronicle

Download or read book The Commercial Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Commercial   Financial Chronicle and Hunt s Merchant s Magazine

Download or read book The Commercial Financial Chronicle and Hunt s Merchant s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railway World

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1881
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1304 pages

Download or read book Railway World written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue  phase 1  1816 1870

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Main part

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railway News  Finance and Joint stock Companies  Journal

Download or read book Railway News Finance and Joint stock Companies Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: