Author: Morris BirkbeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Notes on a Journey in America
Author: Morris BirkbeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
History of Transportation in the United States Before 1860
Author: Balthasar Henry MeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Prairie Albion
Author: Charles BoewePublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809322831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower.
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
Author: Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressThe Creation of American Common Law, 1850–1880
Author: Howard SchweberPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139449946
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia, supported by observations from six additional states, the book traces the crucial formative moment in the development of an American system of common law in northern and southern courts. The process of legal development, and the form the basic analytical categories of American law came to have, are explained as the products of different responses to the challenge of new industrial technologies, particularly railroads. The nature of those responses was dictated by the ideologies that accompanied the social, political, and economic orders of the two regions. American common law, ultimately, is found to express an emerging model of citizenship, appropriate to modern conditions. As a result, the process of legal development provides an illuminating perspective on the character of American political thought in a formative period of the nation.
Personal Narratives of Travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
Author: Elias Pym FordhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English Prairie (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
Author: Elias Pym FordhamPublisher: Cleveland, The Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Edwards County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: A-E. nos. 1-1600. 1907
Author: Stanislaus Vincent HenkelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Travel and Description, 1765-1865
Author: Solon Justus BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description