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Author: John William Reps
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1883982553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"John Caspar Wild, painter and lithographer, produced some of the earliest known depictions of urban America in the nineteenth century. This heavily illustrated book presents artist Wild's paintings and prints, and a catalogue raisonné identifies all of his known works"--Provided by publisher.
Author: John William Reps
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 0826204163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnion list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
Author: Erika Piola
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 027105252X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A collection of essays examining the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. Analyzes the social, economic, and technological changes in the local trade from 1828 to 1878"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780914076520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Sandweiss
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781566398862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSt. Louis' story stands for the story of all those cities whose ambitions and civic self-image, forged from the growth of the mercantile and industrial eras, have been dramatically altered over time. More dramatically, perhaps, than most but in a manner shared by all St. Louis' changing economic base, shifting population, and altered landscape have forced scholars, policymakers, and residents alike to acknowledge the transiency of what once seemed inexorable metropolitan trends: concentration, growth, accumulated wealth, and generally improved well-being. In this book, Eric Sandweiss scrutinizes the everyday landscape streets, houses, neighborhoods, and public buildings as it evolved in a classic American city.Bringing to life the spaces that most of us pass without noticing, he reveals how the processes of dividing, trading, improving, and dwelling upon land are acts that reflect and shape social relations. From its origins as a French colonial settlement in the eighteenth century to the present day, "St Louis" offers a story not just about how our past is diagramed in brick and asphalt, but also about the American city's continuing viability as a place where the balance of individual rights and collective responsibilities can be debated, demonstrated, and adjusted for generations to come. -- Amazon.com.
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.
Author: Rachel Stephens
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1682262332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A long-overdue study of the depiction of slavery in nineteenth-century American art and visual culture, Hidden in Plain Sight investigates the relationship between proslavery politics and the visual record. By examining a vast array of Civil War-era artworks that champion the institution of enslavement and connecting them with the abolitionist materials to which they respond, Rachel Stephens traces themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera and explores how the visual canon of high art was used to cover up, control, and reshape the discourse surrounding the United States' most odious institution"--
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Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
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Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781422361092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter J. Kastor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0300139012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy examining the life and career of William Clark, this book explores how the North American West entered the American imagination. Clark was among the most important western officials of his generation, and he worked to represent the West during a period of tremendous uncertainty and change. Without ever calling himself a writer or an artist, Clark nonetheless drew maps, helped to produce books, drafted lengthy reports, surveyed the landscape, and wrote numerous journals that made sense of the West and its future for Americans who were fascinated by the region's potential but also fearful of its dangers. William Clark's World situates the descriptive words and pictures created by Clark and his contemporaries at the center of a discussion of western history and cultural development. The book casts new light on the familiar narrative of manifest destiny and on the nation's view of the West in the early nineteenth century. --Book Jacket.
