Author: Francis Perego Harper
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Francis Perego Harper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Priced Catalogue of a Remarkable Collection of Scarce and Out-of-print Books Relating to the Discovery, Settlement, and History of the Western Hemisphere
Author: Francis P. Harper (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The Clamorgans
Author: Julie Winch
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429961376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Damning, Absurd, and Revelatory History of Race in America Told through the History of a Single Family Historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans to chronicle how one family navigated race in America from the 1780s through the 1950s. What she discovers overturns decades of received academic wisdom. Far from an impermeable wall fixed by whites, race opened up a moral gray zone that enterprising blacks manipulated to whatever advantage they could obtain. The Clamorgan clan traces to the family patriarch Jacques Clamorgan, a French adventurer of questionable ethics who bought up, or at least claimed to have bought up, huge tracts of land around St. Louis. On his death, he bequeathed his holdings to his mixed-race, illegitimate heirs, setting off nearly two centuries of litigation. The result is a window on a remarkable family that by the early twentieth century variously claimed to be black, Creole, French, Spanish, Brazilian, Jewish, and white. The Clamorgans is a remarkable counterpoint to the central claim of whiteness studies, namely that race as a social construct was manipulated by whites to justify discrimination. Winch finds in the Clamorgans generations upon generations of men and women who studiously negotiated the very fluid notion of race to further their own interests. Winch's remarkable achievement is to capture in the vivid lives of this unforgettable family the degree to which race was open to manipulation by Americans on both sides of the racial divide.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429961376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Damning, Absurd, and Revelatory History of Race in America Told through the History of a Single Family Historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans to chronicle how one family navigated race in America from the 1780s through the 1950s. What she discovers overturns decades of received academic wisdom. Far from an impermeable wall fixed by whites, race opened up a moral gray zone that enterprising blacks manipulated to whatever advantage they could obtain. The Clamorgan clan traces to the family patriarch Jacques Clamorgan, a French adventurer of questionable ethics who bought up, or at least claimed to have bought up, huge tracts of land around St. Louis. On his death, he bequeathed his holdings to his mixed-race, illegitimate heirs, setting off nearly two centuries of litigation. The result is a window on a remarkable family that by the early twentieth century variously claimed to be black, Creole, French, Spanish, Brazilian, Jewish, and white. The Clamorgans is a remarkable counterpoint to the central claim of whiteness studies, namely that race as a social construct was manipulated by whites to justify discrimination. Winch finds in the Clamorgans generations upon generations of men and women who studiously negotiated the very fluid notion of race to further their own interests. Winch's remarkable achievement is to capture in the vivid lives of this unforgettable family the degree to which race was open to manipulation by Americans on both sides of the racial divide.
A Journal of Travels Into the Arkansas Territory During the Year 1819
Author:
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610752183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. Covering his travels in Arkansas and what is now Oklahoma, it is pivotal to an understanding of the Old Southwest in the early nineteenth century, when the United States was taking inventory of its acquisitions from the Louisiana Purchase. The account follows Nuttall's route from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas River with a side trip to the Red River. It is filled with valuable details on the plants, animals, and geology of the region, as well as penetrating observations of the resident native tribes, the military establishment at Fort Smith, the arrival of the first governor of Arkansas Territory, and the beginnings of white settlement. Originally published in 1980 by the University of Oklahoma Press, this fine edited version of Nuttall's work boasts a valuable introduction, notes, maps, and bibliography by Savoie Lottinville. The editor provided common names for those given in scientific classification and substituted modern genus and species names for the ones used originally by Nuttall. The resulting journal is a delight to read for anyone--historian, researcher, visitor, resident, or enthusiast.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610752183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. Covering his travels in Arkansas and what is now Oklahoma, it is pivotal to an understanding of the Old Southwest in the early nineteenth century, when the United States was taking inventory of its acquisitions from the Louisiana Purchase. The account follows Nuttall's route from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas River with a side trip to the Red River. It is filled with valuable details on the plants, animals, and geology of the region, as well as penetrating observations of the resident native tribes, the military establishment at Fort Smith, the arrival of the first governor of Arkansas Territory, and the beginnings of white settlement. Originally published in 1980 by the University of Oklahoma Press, this fine edited version of Nuttall's work boasts a valuable introduction, notes, maps, and bibliography by Savoie Lottinville. The editor provided common names for those given in scientific classification and substituted modern genus and species names for the ones used originally by Nuttall. The resulting journal is a delight to read for anyone--historian, researcher, visitor, resident, or enthusiast.
1875-1897
Author: Peter Geiermann
Publisher:
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Category : Monasticism and religious orders
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The United States of North America
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Fordham and Ogg's Personal Narrative
Author: Elias Fordham
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429005548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429005548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Narrative and critical history of America, ed. by J. Winsor. [2 issues].
Author: Winsor
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Personal Narratives of Travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky
Author: Elias Pym Fordham
Publisher:
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Category : English Prairie (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English Prairie (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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