Download or read book The Lives and Opinions of Benj n Franklin Butler written by William Lyon Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives and Opinions of Benj n Franklin Butler and Jesse Hoyt With Anecdotes Or Biographical Sketches of Stephen Allen et Al written by William Lyon Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives and Opinions of Benj n Franklin Butler United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Jesse Hoyt Counsellor at Law by William L Mackeinzie written by William Lyon Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding List of Books in the Classes of Biography History and Travels Belonging to the Indianapolis Public Library written by Indianapolis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Investment Frontier written by John D. Haeger and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West did not grow in isolation from the East. On the contrary, New York financiers and other eastern entrepreneurs were crucial to America's western economic development, providing the necessary capital and expertise to transform the West into a productive part of the nation's economy. This thesis is powerfully demonstrated by John Denis Haeger in this study concerning the "Old Northwest" (the present-day states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin) during the years 1815-1840. The result of years of research in manuscript collections and government documents, the book provides a comprehensive picture of early land speculators, examining their investments in farm lands, town lots, banks and transportation improvements, as well as their influence on western businessmen and institutions. It also explores their political and economic affairs on the East Coast, since these matters dramatically affected the scope of their western investments. Historians' generalizations about nonresident investors or eastern speculators have previously assumed a common type and business method when, in fact, easterners possessed varying economic goals and utilized different business strategies. To demonstrate this, Haeger compares and contrasts the promoter Charles Butler and the conservative speculators Isaac and Arthur Bronson, key figures among New York's financial elite, whose careers and strategies are for the first time described in detail. The activities of these investment pioneers, whose "every move was calculated to return profits," challenge the traditional images of westward expansion as a largely unplanned and spontaneous movement of people and capital.
Download or read book An American Jewish Bibliography written by Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society written by American Jewish Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams written by Edward Everett and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Papers of John C Calhoun written by John Caldwell Calhoun and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 2-9: Edited by W. Edwin Hemphill; v. 10: Edited by Clyde N. Wilson and W. Edwin Hemphill; v. 11-18, 20-22: Edited by Clyde N. Wilson; v. 23-27 edited by Clyde N. Wilson and Shirley Bright CookVols. 10-15, 22: Published by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History and the South Caroliniana Society; v. 23-28 published by the University of South Carolina Press Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Download or read book Muckraking and Progressivism in the American Tradition written by Louis Filler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muckraking and progressivism have always marched arm-in-arm, cutting a wide path through modern American history. Originally published as Appointment at Armageddon, Filler's book is a vital contribution in understanding the intrinsic dynamic of reform in American life. It extracts from the issues that fostered progressivism and muckraking an essence that illuminates contemporary debate. Filler points out that early twentieth-century progressivism was essentially middle class, seeking common denominators for social interests. It was also a modernizing force in such areas as child labor, poverty, farm problems, and race relations. In his new introduction, Filler reviews various instances of progressivism throughout history. Filler maintains that progressivism died out when pride in its achievements turned to bitterness. Rather than celebrating the progress made by outstanding Americans, such as W.E.B. DuBois and Susan B. Anthony, various groups began focusing only on the oppressed and the oppressors. By concentrating on the negative instead of the positive, Americans abandoned the forward-looking tenets of turn of the century progressivism. Muckraking and Progressivism in the American Tradition is a timely book. It is needed to inspire Americans to find a new way to solve current dilemmas. This significant work will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and political theorists.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Rift in the Democracy written by James C. N. Paul and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn 1840. It seemed as if the American people had gone mad. Across the land, bonfires and torchlight parades lighted the night skies. Mobs chanted silly ditties to express their purpose—'Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,' or 'Van, Van is a used up man.' The wildest election in the sixty some years of the history of the Republic was inspiring citizens to new heights of humbuggery." So writes James Paul in the lucid manner of modern scholarship that aims as much to communicate as to authenticate. Developed rapidly and logically, abounding in color, Rift in the Democracy tells the story of how a handful of politicians used the question of the annexation of Texas as campaign capital and consequently set the stage for the major tragedy of the Civil War. By sheer power of leadership Jackson had welded a coalition of factions into a disciplined party. But for all his forcefulness Old Hickory had never fully confronted and settled the more difficult and challenging problems of his time. As a result, his successors found themselves in deep disagreement over the matter of public finance, the tariff issue, and the ominous question of slavery. When President Tyler was purged from the Whig Party in 1841 and left politically impotent, a few ambitious politicos used this situation to effectuate a scheme of territorial expansion. It was this scheme—materialized as the cry for annexation of Texas—which fell like a "terrible swift sword" into the midst of the Democratic Party's trembling unity. The time of Jackson was intensely one of vivid personalities. With a keen sense of the dramatic James Paul writes intimately and at length of the leaders-great and small—whose hopes, fears, successes, and failures were both the inspiration for and the result of intraparty strife and political intrigue. More than other studies which have been made of this momentous period, Rift in the Democracy emphasizes political realities and shows exactly how there occurred a schism within the Democratic Party during the year 1844 which altered the political history of America. Coming almost entirely from primary sources, newspapers, letters, and government documents, this is a revisionist work. But in a larger sense, it provides a fuller understanding of the American two-party system. In order to write this significant study, the author examined the records and papers of not only the leading politicians of the period but also those of the lesser party figures whose names today are nearly forgotten. "It is this latter group," says James C. N. Paul, "that particularly interested me. I feel that I came to know some quite intimately, to sympathize with their problems. That type of experience makes the historian's the most fascinating of all professions.
Download or read book Legislative Documents written by Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
