Author: William Warner BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Pamphlets and Reprints
Author: William Warner BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index
Author: Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Subject-index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890
Author: Peter PagnamentaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393072398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The American Book Collector
Author: Books in Series
Author: monthly checklist of stat publications
Author: James Wilson
Author: Michael H. TaylorPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498590802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
James Wilson’s life began as an Atlantic World success story, with mounting intellectual, political, and legal triumphs, but ended as a Greek tragedy. Each achievement brought greater anxiety about his place in the revolutionary world. James Wilson's life story is a testament to the success that tens of thousands of Scottish immigrants achieved after their trans-Atlantic voyage, but it also reminds us that not all had a happy ending. This book provides a more nuanced and complete picture of James Wilson’s contributions in American history. His contributions were far greater than just the attention paid to his legal lectures. His is a very human story of a Scottish immigrant who experienced success and acclaim for his activities on behalf of the American people during his public service, but in his personal affairs, and particularly financial life, he suffered the great heights and deep lows worthy of a Greek tragedy. James Wilson's life is an entry point into the events of the latter half of the 18th century and the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on American society, discourse, and government.
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
Author: James W. LoewenPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496801008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans—including most history teachers—think the Confederate States seceded for “states' rights.” This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy. These documents have always been there. When South Carolina seceded, it published “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” The document actually opposes states' rights. Its authors argue that Northern states were ignoring the rights of slave owners as identified by Congress and in the Constitution. Similarly, Mississippi's “Declaration of the Immediate Causes. . .” says, “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world.” Later documents in this collection show how neo-Confederates obfuscated this truth, starting around 1890. The evidence also points to the centrality of race in neo-Confederate thought even today and to the continuing importance of neo-Confederate ideas in American political life. The 150th anniversary of secession and civil war provides a moment for all Americans to read these documents, properly set in context by award-winning sociologist and historian James W. Loewen and coeditor, Edward H. Sebesta, to put in perspective the mythology of the Old South.