Download or read book Improvement of Transportation in the Mississippi Valley 1845 1850 written by Robert Spencer Cotterill and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book South to Freedom written by Alice L Baumgartner and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Download or read book The Great Demobilization written by Frederic Logan Paxson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historians of the American Frontier written by John R. Wunder and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-12-07 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully annotated individual analyses of 57 historical scholars who helped to shape research, writing, and critical thought on the American frontier and American history in general. Each chapter includes a brief biography and a complete summary of articles and books. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association written by Mississippi Valley Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association written by Organization of American Historians and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Transportation Route Along the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers in the State of Wisconsin Between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transportation Frontier written by Oscar Osburn Winther and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on Western wagon trains, teamsters, stagecoaching, steamboats, railroads, and train robbers.
Download or read book Guide to the Study and Reading of American History written by Edward Channing and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Study of American History written by Edward Channing and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Aids to Transportation written by United States. Office of Federal Coordinator of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Financial Crises written by Cihan Bilginsoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once-in-a-lifetime" financial crises have been a recurrent part of life in the last three decades. It is no longer possible to dismiss or ignore them as aberrations in an otherwise well-functioning system. Nor are they peculiar to recent times. Going back in history, asset price bubbles and bank-runs have been an endemic feature of the capitalist system over the last four centuries. The historical record offers a treasure trove of experience that may shed light on how and why financial crises happen and what can be done to avoid them - provided we are willing to learn from history. This book interweaves historical accounts with competing economic crisis theories and reveals why commentaries are often contradictory. First, it presents a series of episodes from tulip mania in the 17th century to the subprime mortgage meltdown. In order to tease out their commonalities and differences, it describes political, economic, and social backgrounds, identifies the primary actors and institutions, and explores the mechanisms behind the asset price bubbles, crashes, and bank-runs. Second, it starts with basic economic concepts and builds five competing theoretical approaches to understanding financial crises. Competing theoretical standpoints offer different interpretations of the same event, and draw dissimilar policy implications. This book analyses divergent interpretations of the historical record in relation to how markets function, the significance of market imperfections, economic decision-making process, the role of the government, and evolutionary dynamics of the capitalist system. Its diverse theoretical and historical content of this book complements economics, history and political science curriculum.
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Download or read book Immigrants in the Valley written by Mark Wyman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the interplay between the major groups traveling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during the crucial decades of 1830 - 1860. It's a lively, extensively-illustrated account which will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage.
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Download or read book Report of a Survey of Transportation on the State Highway System of Ohio written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
