Author: De Witt CLINTONPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A Memoir of the Antiquities of the Western Parts of the State of New York, etc
Author: De Witt CLINTONA memoir on the antiquites of the western parts of the state of New-York. read before the literary and philosophical society of New-York
Author: ..... De Witt ClintonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Birth of Empire
Author: Evan CornogPublisher:
ISBN: 9780195140514
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) was one of the nation's strongest political leaders in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, serving as mayor of New York City, governor of the state, and narrowly losing the Presidential campaign of 1812 to James Madison. Patrician in his sentiments, Clinton nevertheless invented new forms of party politics. His greatest achievement, the Erie Canal, hastened the economic expansion of the country, altered the political geography of the nation, set an example for activist government, and decisively secured New York City's position as America's first and foremost metropolis. While mayor, Clinton's role in founding the city's public school system was only the most significant of his many contributions to learning. An amateur scientist of international renown, he wrote essays on geology, botany, entomology, archaeology, anthropology, and ichthyology. This book relates in vivid detail the biography of one of the most important--and most interesting--political figures in US history.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia
Author: Chad L. AndersonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496221265
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America’s most important places: the homelands of the Haudenosaunees (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations). Throughout the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries of European colonization the Haudenosaunees remained the dominant power in their homelands and one of the most important diplomatic players in the struggle for the continent following European settlement of North America by the Dutch, British, French, Spanish, and Russians. Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during this time in central and western New York. Although American public memory often recalls a nation founded along a frontier wilderness, these lands had long been inhabited in Native American villages, where history had been written on the land through place-names, monuments, and long-remembered settlements. Drawing on a wide range of material spanning more than a century, Anderson uncovers the real stories of the people—Native American and Euro-American—and the places at the center of the contested reinvention of a Native American homeland. These stories about Iroquoia were key to both Euro-American and Haudenosaunee understandings of their peoples’ pasts and futures.
John D. Clifford's Indian Antiquities
Author: John D. CliffordPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572330993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Squier, who gave no credit to his source."--BOOK JACKET.
An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography
Author: Thomas Warren FieldPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
An Indian Bibliography
Author: Warren Field Thomas Warren FieldPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429022620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography
Author: Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology
Author: Terry A. BarnhartPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803213212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
"Although Squier is best known today for the classic book he coauthored with Edwin H. Davis, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, Terry A. Barnhart shows that Squier's fieldwork and interpretive contributions to archaeology and anthropology continued over the next three decades. He turned his attention to comparative studies and to fieldwork in Central America and Peru. He became a diplomat and an entrepreneur yet still found time to conduct archaeological investigations in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Peru and to gather ethnographic information on contemporary indigenous peoples in those countries.".