Author: Nebraska. Board of Immigration
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Nebraska
Author: Nebraska. Board of Immigration
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Nebraska History
Author: Addison Erwin Sheldon
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Continental Reckoning
Author: Elliott West
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496234448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
Winner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History 2024 Spur Award Winner Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West's extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. Continental Reckoning guides the reader through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life. As the West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, West presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496234448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
Winner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History 2024 Spur Award Winner Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West's extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. Continental Reckoning guides the reader through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life. As the West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, West presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.
Minnesota: a Brief Sketch of Its History, Resources and Advantages
Author: Minnesota. State Board of World's Fair Managers
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Publications - Nebraska State Historical Society
Author: Nebraska State Historical Society
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Catholic Church on the Nebraska Frontier (1854-1885)
Author: Sister Aquinata Martin
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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History of Washington County, Nebraska, its Early Settlement and Present Status, Resources, Advantages and Future Prospects
Author: John Thomas Bell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385509319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385509319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.