Author:
Publisher: Nautilus
ISBN: 9781936946822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Notable Mississippi Quotations
Author:
Publisher: Nautilus
ISBN: 9781936946822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: Nautilus
ISBN: 9781936946822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Mississippi Book of Quotations
Author: David Crews
Publisher: Nautilus
ISBN: 9781949455304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Nautilus
ISBN: 9781949455304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The New Yale Book of Quotations
Author: Fred R. Shapiro
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030020597X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
A revised and updated edition of an essential reference book filled with more than twelve thousand famous quotations
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030020597X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
A revised and updated edition of an essential reference book filled with more than twelve thousand famous quotations
Mark Twain at Your Fingertips
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486123316
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Gathered from Twain's classic novels, diary entries, newspaper articles, and correspondence, this collection of wry quips and quotes offers the great humorist and storyteller's observations on animals, critics, politics, youth, and more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486123316
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Gathered from Twain's classic novels, diary entries, newspaper articles, and correspondence, this collection of wry quips and quotes offers the great humorist and storyteller's observations on animals, critics, politics, youth, and more.
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
America in Quotations
Author: Bahman Dehgan
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476614822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
“America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.... No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do”—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). “Americans will pay a big price for an invention that will help them save time they don’t know what to do with”—Anonymous. This collection of quotations—both serious and humorous—about America is divided into 19 main topics: The Nation, The American People, Places, Nature, Mind, The Individual, Human Relations, Social Life, Culture and Media, Literature and Language, Religion and Belief, Past and Future, History, War and the Military, International Relations, Politics and Government, Law and Order, Business and Economy, and Food. Each main topic is divided into subtopics; for example, “Culture and Media” has these: Architecture, Art, Charlie Chaplin, Dance, Fashion, Intellectuals, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Music, Elvis Presley, and Television. The author attributes each quote to its speaker, author or composer, and wherever possible, provides the date of the quote and the name of the work in which it was published. In the case of uncertainty about the exact date of a quote, the author provides the birth and death dates of the person to whom the quote is attributed. Also included are a keyword and subject index and a speaker index.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476614822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
“America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.... No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do”—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). “Americans will pay a big price for an invention that will help them save time they don’t know what to do with”—Anonymous. This collection of quotations—both serious and humorous—about America is divided into 19 main topics: The Nation, The American People, Places, Nature, Mind, The Individual, Human Relations, Social Life, Culture and Media, Literature and Language, Religion and Belief, Past and Future, History, War and the Military, International Relations, Politics and Government, Law and Order, Business and Economy, and Food. Each main topic is divided into subtopics; for example, “Culture and Media” has these: Architecture, Art, Charlie Chaplin, Dance, Fashion, Intellectuals, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Music, Elvis Presley, and Television. The author attributes each quote to its speaker, author or composer, and wherever possible, provides the date of the quote and the name of the work in which it was published. In the case of uncertainty about the exact date of a quote, the author provides the birth and death dates of the person to whom the quote is attributed. Also included are a keyword and subject index and a speaker index.
Life on the Mississippi
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture.
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Author: Robert H. Gudmestad
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080713841X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080713841X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.
Reading Southern History
Author: Glenn Feldman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of American southern history and culture. The volume includes 18 chapters on such notable historians as John Hope Franklin, Anne Firor Scott and W.J. Cash.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of American southern history and culture. The volume includes 18 chapters on such notable historians as John Hope Franklin, Anne Firor Scott and W.J. Cash.
The Civil War
Author: Bob Blaisdell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
More than 700 quotes — arranged chronologically and divided into sections on specific topics and events — provide a running narrative by the many who lived through or died in the Civil War. Notes.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
More than 700 quotes — arranged chronologically and divided into sections on specific topics and events — provide a running narrative by the many who lived through or died in the Civil War. Notes.