A Change of National Empire
Author: L. U. Reavis
Publisher:
Published: 1869
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProposal to move the capitol of the United States from Washington D.C. to St. Louis, Missouri.
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The Great Heart of the Republic
Author: Adam Arenson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-01-03
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0674052889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the battles to determine the destiny of the United States in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, St. Louis, then at the hinge between North, South, and West, was ideally placed to bring these sections together. At least, this was the hope of a coterie of influential St. Louisans. But their visions of re-orienting the nation's politics with Westerners at the top and St. Louis as a cultural, commercial, and national capital crashed as the country was tom apart by convulsions over slavery, emancipation, and Manifest Destiny. While standard accounts frame the coming of the Civil War as strictly a conflict between the North and the South who were competing to expand their way of life, Arenson shifts the focus to the distinctive culture and politics of the American West, recovering the region’s importance for understanding the Civil War and examining the vision of western advocates themselves, and the importance of their distinct agenda for shaping the political, economic, and cultural future of the nation.
Bulletin
Author: Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Samuel F. Covington Library of Ohio Valley History
Author: Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). Library
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History
Author: D. W. Meinig
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780300082906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume one examines how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups ultimately created a set of distinct regional societies. Volume two emphasizes the flux, uncertainty, and unpredictablilty of the expansion into continental America, showing how a multitude of individuals confronted complex and problematic issues.
The Americans: The National Experience
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-07-07
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 0307756475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
Charles Sealsfield
Author: Bernhard Alexander Uhlendorf
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe West and the Word
Author: Steffen Wöll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 3110690136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWestern expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century nation-building processes at a moving frontier, or as the practice of settler colonialism and its exploitation of resources and displacement of nonwhite peoples. This book suggests that shifting the focus from this binary pattern towards spatial imaginations and spatialization processes—a new theoretical framework developed at SFB 1199—provides novel insights into the placemaking dynamics of the American West. It brings to light a discursive diversity that often contradicts unidirectional interpretive patterns. It becomes clear that while some discourses solidified into spatial metanarratives like the character-shaping clash of civilizations at the frontier or manifest destiny, alternative spatial imaginations exist juxtaposed to or obfuscated by canonical interpretations. Making use of a variety of sources (including works of literature, poetry, newspapers, paintings, and speeches) to access spatialization processes on several sociocultural scales, the book presents a careful exploration of the parameters that inform(ed) the creation, affirmation, and subversion of spatial imagination of the American West throughout the nineteenth century from the perspective of American Studies.
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
Author: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780809321971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverseas Economic Relations and Statehood in Europe, 1860s–1970s
Author: Gerold Krozewski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-04-06
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1000861392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on official, archival, and published sources, this book explores how the formative history of the European nation-state was embedded within economic globalization and associated with conceptions of the world overseas. With a particular focus on France, Germany, Italy, and Britain, this research investigates how overseas relationships shaped state governance. The argument departs from conventional histories by linking together the analysis of economic relationships and political cultures, examining the ways in which state agency formed in different areas such as national economy building, the organization of overseas raw material and food supplies, labour, migration, and national identity. Spanning over a century, the book discusses the changing role of overseas colonies in European national development. Once a means to complete economic liberalization, colonies were then envisaged as tools of crisis management before, in the mid-twentieth century, complementarities in imperial-colonial economies shifted away from empire. This volume covers neglected aspects of the transnational history of European nation-states and is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in the ties between Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as connections between political, economic, and social relations and their conceptualizations.
