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Author: Joseph Norman Heard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780810835528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains hundreds of sources, both primary and secondary, and seeks to foreground the perspective of heretofore largely ignored groups such as women and blacks, and frequently misrepresented cultures of native North Americans.
Author: Joseph Norman Heard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780810819313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA first reference that provides insights into both sides of Indian-white relations. Volume I covers events in the Southeastern Woodlands. Subsequent volumes will cover the Northeastern Woodlands, the Great Plains, and the Far West. Heard approaches h
Author: Arlene B. Hirschfelder
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 0810877090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunicates information about the histories, contemporary presence, and various other facts of the Native peoples of the United States. From publisher description.
Author: Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
Published: 1920-01-01
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ray Allen Billington
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 918
ISBN-13: 9780023098604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's 'Westward Expansion' set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier. Although the text sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an archetypal narrative of the new American nation's successful expansion, the authors do not forget the social, environmental, and human cost of national expansion.
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0807861170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
Author: Stacey L. Smith
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013-08-12
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1469607697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.
Author: Robert V. Hine
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0300117108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated and revised for a popular audience, a fascinating new edition of the classic The American West: A New Interpretation examines the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and the impact of their intermingling and clash, the influence of the frontier, and topics ranging from early exploration of the region to modern-day environmentalism.
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 768
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