Author: John Adams Dix
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ISBN:
Category : Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Speech of Gen. John A. Dix, President of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company
Author: John Adams Dix
Publisher:
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Category : Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Speech of Gen. J. A. D., President of the Mississipi and Missouri Railroad Company, at the celebration at Iowa City, on the completion of the road to the latter point
Author: John Adams DIX (the Elder.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Railway Economics
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
ISBN:
Category : Cataloging, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society
Author: Mississippi Historical Society
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Heartless Immensity
Author: Anne Baker
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country’s constantly fluctuating borders and its annexation of vast new territories. Anne Baker looks at a variety of sources, including letters, speeches, newspaper editorials, schoolbooks, as well as visual and literary works of art. These cultural artifacts suggest that the country’s anxiety was fueled primarily by two concerns: fears about the size of the nation as a threat to democracy, and about the incorporation of nonwhite, non-Protestant regions. These fears had a consistent and influential presence until after the Civil War, functioning as vital catalysts for the explosion of literary creativity known as the “American Renaissance,” including the work of Melville, Thoreau, and Fuller, among others. Building on extensive archival research as well as insights from cultural geographers and theorists of nationhood, Heartless Immensity demonstrates that national expansion had a far more complicated, multifaceted impact on antebellum American culture than has previously been recognized. Baker shows that Americans developed a variety of linguistic strategies for imagining the form of the United States and its position in relation to other geopolitical entities. Comparisons to European empires, biblical allusions, body politic metaphors, and metaphors derived from science all reflected—and often attempted to assuage—fears that the nation was becoming either monstrously large or else misshapen in ways that threatened cherished beliefs and national self-images. Heartless Immensity argues that, in order to understand the nation’s shift from republic to empire and to understand American culture in a global context, it is first necessary to pay close attention to the processes by which the physical entity known as the United States came into being. This impressively thorough study will make a valuable contribution to the fields of American studies and literary studies. Anne Baker is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country’s constantly fluctuating borders and its annexation of vast new territories. Anne Baker looks at a variety of sources, including letters, speeches, newspaper editorials, schoolbooks, as well as visual and literary works of art. These cultural artifacts suggest that the country’s anxiety was fueled primarily by two concerns: fears about the size of the nation as a threat to democracy, and about the incorporation of nonwhite, non-Protestant regions. These fears had a consistent and influential presence until after the Civil War, functioning as vital catalysts for the explosion of literary creativity known as the “American Renaissance,” including the work of Melville, Thoreau, and Fuller, among others. Building on extensive archival research as well as insights from cultural geographers and theorists of nationhood, Heartless Immensity demonstrates that national expansion had a far more complicated, multifaceted impact on antebellum American culture than has previously been recognized. Baker shows that Americans developed a variety of linguistic strategies for imagining the form of the United States and its position in relation to other geopolitical entities. Comparisons to European empires, biblical allusions, body politic metaphors, and metaphors derived from science all reflected—and often attempted to assuage—fears that the nation was becoming either monstrously large or else misshapen in ways that threatened cherished beliefs and national self-images. Heartless Immensity argues that, in order to understand the nation’s shift from republic to empire and to understand American culture in a global context, it is first necessary to pay close attention to the processes by which the physical entity known as the United States came into being. This impressively thorough study will make a valuable contribution to the fields of American studies and literary studies. Anne Baker is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
On the Mode of Constituting Presidential Electors ...
Author: John Adams Dix
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time.
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752519924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752519924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description