Author: Jervis CutlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana
Author: Jervis CutlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana
Author: Jervis CutlerPublisher: Boston : C. Williams
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Travel and Description, 1765-1865
Author: Solon Justus BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as Described by Nicolas Perrot, French Commandant in the Northwest; Bacquevile de la Potherie, French Royal Commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American Army Officer; and Thomas Forsyth, United States Agent at Fort Armstrong
Author: Emma Helen BlairPublisher:
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Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
In This Remote Country
Author: Edward WattsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities. Images of these French settlers saturated nearly every American text concerned with the West. Edward Watts argues that these representations of French colonial culture played a significant role in developing the identity of the new nation. In regard to land, labor, gender, family, race, and religion, American interpretations of the French frontier became a means of sorting the empire builders from those with a more moderate and contained nation in mind, says Watts. Romantic nationalists such as George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, and Lyman Beecher used the French model to justify the construction of a nascent empire. Alternatively, writers such as Margaret Fuller, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Hall presented a less aggressive vision of the nation based on the colonial French themselves. By examining how representations of the French shaped these conversations, Watts offers an alternative view of antebellum culture wars.
Laid Waste!
Author: John Lauritz LarsonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812251849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced for some populations unimagined wealth and material comfort, yet it has also now brought the global environment to a tipping point beyond which life as we know it may not be sustainable. How did we come to endanger the very future of life on earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? In Laid Waste!, John Lauritz Larson answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American "culture of exploitation" that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be. Larson undertakes an ambitious historical synthesis, seeking to illuminate how the culture of exploitation grew out of the earliest English settlements and has continually undergirded U.S. society and its cherished myths. Through a series of meditations on key concepts, the story moves from the starving times of early Jamestown through the rise of colonial prosperity, the liberation of the revolutionary generation, the launching of the American republic, and the emergence of a new global industrial power by the end of the nineteenth century. Through this story, the book explores the rise of an American sense of righteousness, entitlement, and destiny that has masked any recognition that our wealth and success has come at expense to anyone or anything. Part polemic, part jeremiad, and part historical overview, Laid Waste! is a provocative and bracing account of how the development of American culture itself has led us to today's crises.
Finding-list of Books in the Classes of Biography, History, and Travels Belonging to the Public Library of Indianapolis
Author: Indianapolis Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Robert Clarke & CoPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Native American Place Names of Indiana
Author: Michael McCaffertyPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252055985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A linguistic history of Native American place-names in Indiana In tracing the roots of Indiana place names, Michael McCafferty focuses on those created and used by local Native Americans. Drawing from exciting new sources that include three Illinois dictionaries from the eighteenth century, the author documents the language used to describe landmarks essential to fur traders in Les Pays d’en Haut and settlers of the Old Northwest territory. Impeccably researched, this study details who created each name, as well as when, where, how and why they were used. The result is a detailed linguistic history of lakes, streams, cities, counties, and other Indiana names. Each entry includes native language forms, translations, and pronunciation guides, offering fresh historical insight into the state of Indiana.
Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783–1860
Author: Paul C. HenleinPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The great beef-cattle industry of the American West was not born full grown beyond the Mississippi. It had its antecedents in the upper South, the Midwest, and the Ohio Valley, where many Texas cattlemen learned their trade. In this book Mr. Henlein tells the story of the cattle kingdom of the Ohio Valley—a kingdom which encompassed the Bluegrass region in Kentucky and the valleys of the Scioto, Miami, Wabash, and Sangamon in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The book begins with the settlement of the Ohio Valley, by emigration from the South and East, in the latter part of the eighteenth century; it ends with the westward movement of the cattlemen, this time to Missouri and the plains, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Mr. Henlein describes the intricate pattern of agricultural activities which grew into a successful system of producing and marketing cattle; the energetic upbreeding and extensive importations which created the great blooded herds of the Ohio Valley; and the relations of the cattlemen with the major cattle markets. An interesting part of this story is the chapter which tells how the cattlemen of the Ohio Valley, between 1805 and 1855, drove their fat cattle over the mountains to the eastern markets, and how these long drives, like the more famous Texas drives of a later day, disappeared with the advent of the railroads. This well-documented study is an important contribution to the history of American agriculture.