Author: Ida Pfeiffer
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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These memoirs of a woman's journey around the world provide insight into the cultures of countries in Europe, Asia, and the America's.

Author: Middlesex Mechanic Association (Lowell, Mass.)
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Free Public Library (NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Northampton, Mass. Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Carl Engel
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382813661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Ida Pfeiffer
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Thomas Ruys Smith
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807143073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American culture and consciousness. Throughout the antebellum era, the Mississippi acted as a powerful symbol of America's conception of itself -- and the world's conception of America. As Twain understood, "The Mississippi is well worth reading about." Thomas Ruys Smith's River of Dreams is an examination of the Mississippi's role in the antebellum imagination, exploring its cultural position in literature, art, thought, and national life. Presidents, politicians, authors, poets, painters, and international celebrities of every variety experienced the Mississippi in its Golden Age. They left an extraordinary collection of representations of the river in their wake, images that evolved as America itself changed. From Thomas Jefferson's vision for the Mississippi to Andrew Jackson and the rowdy river culture of the early nineteenth century, Smith charts the Mississippi's shifting importance in the making of the nation. He examines the accounts of European travelers, including Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray, whose views of the river were heavily influenced by the world of the steamboat and plantation slavery. Smith discusses the growing importance of visual representations of the Mississippi as the antebellum period progressed, exploring the ways in which views of the river, particularly giant moving panoramas that toured the world, echoed notions of manifest destiny and the westward movement. He evokes the river in the late antebellum years as a place of crime and mystery, especially in popular writing, and most notably in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man. An epilogue discusses the Mississippi during the Civil War, when possession of the river became vital, symbolically as well as militarily. The epilogue also provides an introduction to Mark Twain, a product of the antebellum river world who was to resurrect its imaginative potential for a post-war nation and produce an iconic Mississippi that still flows through a wide and fertile floodplain in American literature. From empire building in the Louisiana Purchase to the trauma of the Civil War, the Mississippi's dominant symbolic meanings tracked the essential forces operating within the nation. As Smith shows in this groundbreaking work, the story of the imagined Mississippi River is the story of antebellum America itself.