Author: Milo Milton QuaifePublisher:
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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The Doctrine of Non-intervention with Slavery in the Territories
Author: Milo Milton QuaifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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The Decennial Publications of the University of Chicago
Author: University of ChicagoPublisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835
Author: Milo Milton QuaifePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069703
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
In this sweeping survey, Milo Milton Quaife traces the events leading from Chicago's emergence as a key outpost at the edge of the frontier to its establishment as the crossroads of American commerce. Strategically located at the head of the Great Lakes on the Chicago portage, one of the main highways connecting the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway with the Mississippi River, Chicago was equally valued by explorers, traders, settlers, and governments. Quaife narrates the opening of trade and the course of European exploration, facilitated by the Chicago portage and subsequent construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. He profiles the personalities who shaped the early Chicago area, from the French explorers La Salle, Marquette, and Joliet to the ambitious Champlain, who set the course for decades to come by securing for New France the enmity of the Iroquois. Quaife provides a full description of the Indian trade, which constituted the basis of commerce in the region for the entire period covered by the book, as well as a blow-by-blow account of how old rivalries and alliances between Indian tribes complicated the English and French plans for divvying up the New World. He also describes the conflicts between natives and whites with sympathy and detail on both sides, depicting Indian attacks on white settlements as rationally motivated acts aiming toward specific goals of strategy or revenge. First published in 1913, Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 is one of the earliest works of a man who became one of the premier scholars of his generation. In a new introduction, Chicago historian Perry R. Duis sketches Quaife's long and varied career, his influence on the history profession, and his crusade to prove that a black trader was the first permanent resident of Chicago.
Publications of the Members of the University, 1902-1916
Author: University of Chicago. Committee of the FacultyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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American Slavery, American Imperialism
Author: Catherine ArmstrongPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108753728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Slavery casts a long shadow over American history; despite the cataclysmic changes of the Civil War and emancipation, the United States carried antebellum notions of slavery into its imperial expansion at the turn of the twentieth-century. African American, Chinese and other immigrant labourers were exploited in the name of domestic economic development, and overseas, local populations were made into colonial subjects of America. How did the U.S. deal with the paradox of presenting itself as a global power which abhorred slavery, while at the same time failing to deal with forced labour at home? Catherine Armstrong argues that this was done with rhetorical manoeuvres around the definition of slavery. Drawing primarily on representations of slavery in American print culture, this study charts how definitions and depictions of slavery both changed and stayed the same as the nation became a prominent actor on the world stage. In doing so, Armstrong challenges the idea that slavery is a merely historical problem, and shows its relevance in the contemporary world.
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: History
Author: Xerox University MicrofilmsPublisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Special Bibliographic Series
Author: US Army Military History Research CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
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