Author: Thomas Hart BENTON (United States Senator.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Speech ... delivered in the Senate ... in secret session, on the mission to Panama, March 13, 1826
Author: Thomas Hart BENTON (United States Senator.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie RuskPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Martin Van Buren
Author: James M BradleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190920521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
A new biography of the 8th president of the United States, the first chief executive not born a British citizen and the first to use the party system to chart his way from tavern-keeper's son to the pinnacle of power. Martin Van Buren was one of the most remarkable politicians not only of his time but in American presidential history. The principal architect of the party system and one of the founders of the Democratic Party, he came to dominate New York-then the most influential state in the Union-and was instrumental in electing Andrew Jackson president. Van Buren's skills as a political strategist were unparalleled (he was known as the "Little Magician"), winning him a series of high-profile offices: US senator, New York's governor, US secretary of state, US vice president, and finally the White House. In his rise to power, Van Buren sought consensus and conciliation, bending to the wishes of slave interests and complicit in the dispossession of America's Indigenous population--two of the darkest chapters in American history. This new biography of Van Buren -- the first full-scale portrait in four decades -- charts his ascent from a tavern in the Hudson Valley to the presidency, concluding with his late-career involvement in an antislavery movement. Offering vivid profiles of the day's leading figures (Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, DeWitt Clinton, James K. Polk), James Bradley's book depicts the struggle for power in the tumultuous decades leading up to the Civil War.
Old Bullion Benton, Senator from the New West: Thomas Hart Benton, 1782-1858
Author: William Nisbet ChambersPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
In the Shadow of Powers
Author: Patrick Bellegarde-SmithPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826504140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Out of a slave rebellion, Haiti was forged as an independent nation. This fact, in and of itself, should have been enough to perpetuate an image of Haitians as strong and agentive people. But leaders of countries on both sides of the Atlantic felt threatened by Haiti's beginnings and were intent on sapping it of resources. More than a century of various restrictions on trade, the imposition of crippling fines, and, eventually, a US occupation followed. Yet even as they suffered economically under these penalties, Haitians persisted, some of them becoming influential actors in the world of global politics. Throughout much of the twentieth century and even to this day, there has been a dearth of scholarship on the intellectual and political contributions of Haitians. In the Shadow of Powers, first published in 1985, was a corrective to this oversight and remains a foundational text. Bellegarde-Smith traces the history of Haiti through the life and career of his grandfather Dantès Bellegarde, one of Haiti's influential diplomats and preeminent thinkers. As Brandon R. Byrd describes in his foreword to this new edition, "Bellegarde was driven by a subversive, racially inclusive vision of civilized progress. He believed in and continued to push for Haiti to establish an existence for itself, black people, and the colonized world independent of the considerable shadow cast by the world's military, economic, and industrial powers." Scholars and students who want to learn about the intellectual and political foundations of Haiti, its influence on other intellectuals worldwide, and its struggles against imperialism continue to find this to be an invaluable classic.
SPEECH OF MR BENTON OF MISSOUR
Author: Thomas Hart 1782-1858 BentonPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373459831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
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Remarks of Mr. J.S. Johnston (of Louisiana) in Senate U.S., Jan. 1826, on the Bill for the Survey of a Route for the Florida Canal
Author: Josiah Stoddard JohnstonPublisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, (in Secret Session, ) on the Mission to Panama
Author: Thomas Hart BentonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334314186
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, (in Secret Session, ) on the Mission to Panama: March 13, 1826 So much for the item of commerce enough, I think, Mr. Presi dent, to prove two things gfirst, that the Congress at Panama, has no power to treat upon the subject at all; and, secondly, if it had, that it would be unwise and improvident in us to go there to treat abou it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752510161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.