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Author : John Adams DIX (the Elder.)
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Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Speeches and occasional addresses written by John Adams DIX (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Adams Dix
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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Speeches and Occasional Addresses written by John Adams Dix and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morgan Dix
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Total Pages : 478 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of John Adams Dix written by Morgan Dix and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Bushnell Hart
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Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book American History Told by Contemporaries ... written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781410201003
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book American History Told by Contemporaries written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ground covered by this volume includes many stirring events. It begins with the Mexican War and the consequent renewal of the slavery contest, and it leads through the exciting AFifties. Then comes the Civil War which is treated in detail; on the causes, conditions, and progress of that titanic struggle, the participants, both civil and military, speak with directness and cogency. The troubled and confused Reconstruction period is illustrated by extracts which bring out the main events and scenes; there is no attempt to restate the wearisome debates, or to bring out the details of party and personal controversy. Our forefathers did interesting things and left entertaining records. The story of our nation=s development is clearer for the suggestions made by these writers. They are prejudiced; they see but a part of what is going on; they leave many gaps; but, after all, they tell the story.The collection was selected and edited in 1900 by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University, and a well-respected and published scholar.
Author : Anne Baker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025767
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Heartless Immensity written by Anne Baker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country’s constantly fluctuating borders and its annexation of vast new territories. Anne Baker looks at a variety of sources, including letters, speeches, newspaper editorials, schoolbooks, as well as visual and literary works of art. These cultural artifacts suggest that the country’s anxiety was fueled primarily by two concerns: fears about the size of the nation as a threat to democracy, and about the incorporation of nonwhite, non-Protestant regions. These fears had a consistent and influential presence until after the Civil War, functioning as vital catalysts for the explosion of literary creativity known as the “American Renaissance,” including the work of Melville, Thoreau, and Fuller, among others. Building on extensive archival research as well as insights from cultural geographers and theorists of nationhood, Heartless Immensity demonstrates that national expansion had a far more complicated, multifaceted impact on antebellum American culture than has previously been recognized. Baker shows that Americans developed a variety of linguistic strategies for imagining the form of the United States and its position in relation to other geopolitical entities. Comparisons to European empires, biblical allusions, body politic metaphors, and metaphors derived from science all reflected—and often attempted to assuage—fears that the nation was becoming either monstrously large or else misshapen in ways that threatened cherished beliefs and national self-images. Heartless Immensity argues that, in order to understand the nation’s shift from republic to empire and to understand American culture in a global context, it is first necessary to pay close attention to the processes by which the physical entity known as the United States came into being. This impressively thorough study will make a valuable contribution to the fields of American studies and literary studies. Anne Baker is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University.
Author : Ohio
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Total Pages : 1278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Message and Annual Reports for ..., Made to the ... General Assembly of Ohio .. written by Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices, including the Attorney General, Governor, Secretary of State, etc.
Author : Ohio State Library
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Ohio State Library written by Ohio State Library and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ohio
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Total Pages : 1276 pages
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Download or read book Documents, Including Messages and Other Communications written by Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ohio State Library
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Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Ohio State Library written by Ohio State Library and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ohio State Library
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Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Commissioners of the Ohio State Library written by Ohio State Library and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Library of Ohio
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Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book The State Library of Ohio Annual Review written by State Library of Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Zakaras
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226326
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Roots of American Individualism written by Alex Zakaras and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s bitterly divided politics Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted intrusion, be it from big government, big corporations, or intolerant majorities. The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture. Alex Zakaras plunges readers into the spirited and rancorous political debates of Andrew Jackson’s America, drawing on the stump speeches, newspaper editorials, magazine articles, and sermons that captivated mass audiences and shaped partisan identities. He shows how these debates popularized three powerful myths that celebrated the young nation as an exceptional land of liberty: the myth of the independent proprietor, the myth of the rights-bearer, and the myth of the self-made man. The Roots of American Individualism reveals how generations of politicians, pundits, and provocateurs have invoked these myths for competing political purposes. Time and again, the myths were used to determine who would enjoy equal rights and freedoms and who would not. They also conjured up heavily idealized, apolitical visions of social harmony and boundless opportunity, typically centered on the free market, that have distorted American political thought to this day.
Author : Herodotus
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Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book The History of Herodotus written by Herodotus and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079244
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010 Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan Award Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place "A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." —Los Angeles Times As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and "good furs" was that Hudson had discovered something just as tantalizing. The news of Hudson's 1609 voyage to America ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent, teeming with untapped natural resources. The result was the creation of an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled wars among the European powers, and later between the United States and Great Britain, as North America became a battleground for colonization and imperial aspirations. In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, and buffalos were slaughtered, used for their precious pelts that were tailored into extravagant hats, coats, and sleigh blankets. To read Fur, Fortune, and Empire then is to understand how North America was explored, exploited, and settled, while its native Indians were alternately enriched and exploited by the trade. As Dolin demonstrates, fur, both an economic elixir and an agent of destruction, became inextricably linked to many key events in American history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, as well as to the relentless pull of Manifest Destiny and the opening of the West. This work provides an international cast beyond the scope of any Hollywood epic, including Thomas Morton, the rabble-rouser who infuriated the Pilgrims by trading guns with the Indians; British explorer Captain James Cook, whose discovery in the Pacific Northwest helped launch America's China trade; Thomas Jefferson who dreamed of expanding the fur trade beyond the Mississippi; America's first multimillionaire John Jacob Astor, who built a fortune on a foundation of fur; and intrepid mountain men such as Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith, who sliced their way through an awe inspiring and unforgiving landscape, leaving behind a mythic legacy still resonates today. Concluding with the virtual extinction of the buffalo in the late 1800s, Fur, Fortune, and Empire is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the American experience, conclusively demonstrating that the fur trade played a seminal role in creating the nation we are today.
Author : Diane K. Skvarla
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art written by Diane K. Skvarla and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Capitol abounds in magnificent art that rivals its exterior architectural splendor. The fine art held by the U.S. Senate comprises much of this treasured heritage. It spans over 200 years of history & contains works by such celebrated artists as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hiram Powers, Daniel Chester French, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Walker Hancock, & Alexander Calder. This volume provides previously unpublished information on the 160 paintings & sculptures in the U.S. Senate. Each work of art -- from portraiture of prominent senators to scenes depicting significant events in U.S. history -- is illus. with a full-page color photo, accompanied by an essay & secondary images that place the work in historical & aesthetic context.
Author : Edward Channing
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Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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 1896 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
