Author: Robert BairdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
View of the Valley of the Mississippi, Or, The Emigrant's and Traveller's Guide to the West
Author: Robert BairdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
View of the Valley of the Mississippi: or the Emigrant's and traveller's guide to the West, etc. The preface signed: R. B., i.e R. Bache. With maps
Author: R. B.Securing the West
Author: John R. Van AttaPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421412756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of ideological differences in the years after the peace of 1815. Americans expected the country to grow westward, but on the details of that growth they held strongly different opinions. What part should Congress play in this development? How much should public land cost? What of the families and businesses left behind, and how would society's institutions be established in the West? What of the premature settlers, the "squatters" who challenged the rule of law while epitomizing democratic daring?
The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Author: John WymondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Slavery on Louisiana Sugar Plantations
Author: Vernie Alton MoodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
River of Dreams
Author: Thomas Ruys SmithPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807143081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American culture and consciousness. Throughout the antebellum era, the Mississippi acted as a powerful symbol of America's conception of itself -- and the world's conception of America. As Twain understood, "The Mississippi is well worth reading about." Thomas Ruys Smith's River of Dreams is an examination of the Mississippi's role in the antebellum imagination, exploring its cultural position in literature, art, thought, and national life. Presidents, politicians, authors, poets, painters, and international celebrities of every variety experienced the Mississippi in its Golden Age. They left an extraordinary collection of representations of the river in their wake, images that evolved as America itself changed. From Thomas Jefferson's vision for the Mississippi to Andrew Jackson and the rowdy river culture of the early nineteenth century, Smith charts the Mississippi's shifting importance in the making of the nation. He examines the accounts of European travelers, including Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray, whose views of the river were heavily influenced by the world of the steamboat and plantation slavery. Smith discusses the growing importance of visual representations of the Mississippi as the antebellum period progressed, exploring the ways in which views of the river, particularly giant moving panoramas that toured the world, echoed notions of manifest destiny and the westward movement. He evokes the river in the late antebellum years as a place of crime and mystery, especially in popular writing, and most notably in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man. An epilogue discusses the Mississippi during the Civil War, when possession of the river became vital, symbolically as well as militarily. The epilogue also provides an introduction to Mark Twain, a product of the antebellum river world who was to resurrect its imaginative potential for a post-war nation and produce an iconic Mississippi that still flows through a wide and fertile floodplain in American literature. From empire building in the Louisiana Purchase to the trauma of the Civil War, the Mississippi's dominant symbolic meanings tracked the essential forces operating within the nation. As Smith shows in this groundbreaking work, the story of the imagined Mississippi River is the story of antebellum America itself.
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Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
The Literature of American Local History
Author: Hermann Ernst LudewigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Literature Of American Local History; A Bibliographical Essay
Author: Hermann Eduard LudewigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Early Midwestern Travel Narratives
Author: Robert Rogers HubachPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328095
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
First published in 1961, Early Midwestern Travel Narratives records and describes first-person records of journeys in the frontier and early settlement periods which survive in both manuscript and print. Geographically, it deals with the states once part of the Old Northwest Territory-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota-and with Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Robert Hubach arranged the narratives in chronological order and makes the distinction among diaries (private records, with contemporaneously dated entries), journals (non-private records with contemporaneously dated entries), and "accounts," which are of more literary, descriptive nature. Early Midwestern Travel Narratives remains to this day a unique comprehensive work that fills a long existing need for a bibliography, summary, and interpretation of these early Midwestern travel narratives.