Author: Timothy Flint
Publisher:
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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A Condensed Geography and History of the Western States, Or the Mississippi Valley
Author: Timothy Flint
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Author: Boston Athenaeum
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
Author: Colton Storm
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West
Author: Jeffrey S. Adler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
How conflict sparked by the debate over the future of slavery remade the urban West.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
How conflict sparked by the debate over the future of slavery remade the urban West.
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie Rusk
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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An Unnatural Metropolis
Author: Craig E. Colten
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807147818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis. Craig E. Colten traces engineered modifications to New Orleans's natural environment from 1800 to 2000 and demonstrates that, though all cities must contend with their physical settings, New Orleans may be the city most dependent on human-induced transformations of its precarious site. In a new preface, Colten shows how Hurricane Katrina exemplifies the inability of human artifice to exclude nature from cities and he urges city planners to keep the environment in mind as they contemplate New Orleans's future. Urban geographers frequently have portrayed cities as the antithesis of nature, but in An Unnatural Metropolis, Colten introduces a critical environmental perspective to the history of urban areas. His amply illustrated work offers an in-depth look at a city and society uniquely shaped by the natural forces it has sought to harness.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807147818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis. Craig E. Colten traces engineered modifications to New Orleans's natural environment from 1800 to 2000 and demonstrates that, though all cities must contend with their physical settings, New Orleans may be the city most dependent on human-induced transformations of its precarious site. In a new preface, Colten shows how Hurricane Katrina exemplifies the inability of human artifice to exclude nature from cities and he urges city planners to keep the environment in mind as they contemplate New Orleans's future. Urban geographers frequently have portrayed cities as the antithesis of nature, but in An Unnatural Metropolis, Colten introduces a critical environmental perspective to the history of urban areas. His amply illustrated work offers an in-depth look at a city and society uniquely shaped by the natural forces it has sought to harness.
Arkansas, 1800–1860
Author: S. Charles Bolton
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610755545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Often thought of as a primitive backwoods peopled by rough hunters and unsavory characters, early Arkansas was actually quite productive and dynamic. Bolton describes migration, agricultural growth, religion, the roles of women, slavery, the dispossesion of the Cherokees and Quapaws, and many other facets of Arkansas's development.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610755545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Often thought of as a primitive backwoods peopled by rough hunters and unsavory characters, early Arkansas was actually quite productive and dynamic. Bolton describes migration, agricultural growth, religion, the roles of women, slavery, the dispossesion of the Cherokees and Quapaws, and many other facets of Arkansas's development.
A Manual of American Literature
Author: John Seely Hart
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley
Author: George Brinley
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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