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Author : Eli Daniel Potts,Annette Potts
Publisher : St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Americans
ISBN : UCAL:B3820989
Author : Edward L. Widmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195356571
This fascinating study examines the meteoric career of a vigorous intellectual movement rising out of the Age of Jackson. As Americans argued over their destiny in the decades preceding the Civil War, an outspoken new generation of "ultra-democratic" writers entered the fray, staking out positions on politics, literature, art, and any other territory they could annex. They called themselves Young America--and they proclaimed a "Manifest Destiny" to push back frontiers in every category of achievement. Their swagger found a natural home in New York City, already bursting at the seams and ready to take on the world. Young America's mouthpiece was the Democratic Review, a highly influential magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review offered a fresh voice in political journalism, and sponsored young writers like Hawthorne and Whitman early in their careers. Melville, too, was influenced by Young America, and provided a running commentary on its many excesses. Despite brilliant promise, the movement fell apart in the 1850s, leaving its original leaders troubled over the darker destiny they had ushered in. Their ambitious generation had failed to rewrite history as promised. Instead, their perpetual agitation helped set the stage for the Civil War. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City is without question the most complete examination of this captivating and original movement. It also provides the first published biography of its leader, John O'Sullivan, one of America's great rhetoricians. Edward L. Widmer enriches his unique volume by offering a new theory of Manifest Destiny as part of a broader movement of intellectual expansion in nineteenth-century America.
Author : George Francis Train
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Americans, abroad
ISBN : BL:A0017620347
Author : Jay Monaghan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199301560
A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinites between Australian and American literature.
Author : George Francis Train
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010732550
Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0804724806
"The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082290663
Author : Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520967588
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.
Author : Charles Nordhoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015053642610
Author : National Genealogical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : UOM:39015038074996
Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300216585
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement, Gregory Smithers uncovers the origins of the Cherokee diaspora and explores how communities and individuals have negotiated their Cherokee identities, even when geographically removed from the Cherokee Nation headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the author transports the reader back in time to tell the poignant story of the Cherokee people migrating throughout North America, including their forced exile along the infamous Trail of Tears (1838–39). Smithers tells a remarkable story of courage, cultural innovation, and resilience, exploring the importance of migration and removal, land and tradition, culture and language in defining what it has meant to be Cherokee for a widely scattered people.
Author : Robyn Annear
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921799891
Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the diggings: the mud of winter and dust of summer, the pluckiness of the women and children, the grog shanties, the flies, the mania of mining, the despair and the delirium, and the much hated licensing system which was to culminate in the Eureka Stockade. 'Robyn Annear tells the story of the 1852 gold rushes in imaginative detail ... she tells us how it felt to be there. You find yourself worrying about the problems long ago resolved, sharply aware of the gold diggers' hopes and ordeals, diverted by the high comedy of a chaotic life. Like all good narratives, it looks easy because it is so easily read and enjoyed ... She makes a mosaic out of small moments of experience ... The physical realities of the diggings are evoked, with all the ingenious ways of managing tent space, cooking, guarding gold, finding feed for horses, keeping off wind and rain, ants and mice.' Brenda Niall Robyn Annear was born in Melbourne in 1960. She spends her time writing and researching, typing for other people and looking after her family. She is also a part-time bookseller and President of the Friends of the Castlemaine Library. 'History from the inside; wonderfully entertaining.' Age 'A welcome addition to Australian history, pointing to badly needed ways in which history can be made more reader-friendly.' Quadrant
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1612 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498660
Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496201003
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the Great Depression. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building in two countries with large Indigenous populations and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples. Building on the comparative settler-colonial and imperial histories that appeared after the book’s original publication, this completely revised edition includes two new chapters. In this singular contribution to the study of transnational and comparative settler colonialism, Smithers expands on recent scholarship to illuminate both the subject of the scientific study of race and sexuality and the national and interrelated histories of the United States and Australia.