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: History |
Author |
: George William Featherstonhaugh |
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: |
Release |
: 1844 |
File |
: 412 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015013116325 |
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Published in 1844, this description of the American South documents its fascinating geography and its often harsh and violent society.
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: History |
Author |
: George William Featherstonhaugh |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2011-09-22 |
File |
: 413 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108032810 |
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: |
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: University of Georgia Press |
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: |
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: 175 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781588385260 |
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: Canada |
Author |
: James Dixon |
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: |
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: 1850 |
File |
: 570 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:32044086312956 |
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Based on visitor descriptions of antebellum Mobile, Alabama’s physical and social environment, this book captures a place and time that is particular to Gulf Coast history. Mobile’s foundational era is a period in which the city transformed from a struggling colonial outpost into one of the nation’s most significant economic powerhouses, largely owing to the cotton trade and the labor of enslaved people. On the eve of the Civil War, the Mobile ranked as the fourth most populous community in what would soon become the Confederacy, and within the Gulf Coast region, it stood second only to New Orleans in population, wealth, and influence. In addition to ranking as one of the busiest ports in the United States, the city’s remarkable architecture, beautiful natural setting, and abundance of entertainment options combined to make it one of the South’s most distinctive communities. Its cultural diversity only added to its uniqueness. In addition to being home to the largest white population of any community in Alabama, the city also claimed the state’s largest free Black, foreign-born, and Creole communities. Mobile was the slave-trading center of the state until the 1850s as well and remained thoroughly intertwined with the institution of slavery throughout the antebellum period. By 1860 Mobile's population stood at nearly thirty thousand people, making it the twenty-seventh-largest city in the United States overall. Although numerous histories of Mobile have been published, none have focused on the dozens of evocative firsthand accounts published by antebellum-era visitors. These writings allowed literary-minded travelers, who were often consciously looking for things that struck them as singular about a place, to become proxy tour guides for their contemporary readers. In attempting to capture the essence of the city’s reality at a specific moment in time, Mobile’s antebellum visitors have left us a unique record of one of the South’s most historic communities.
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: History |
Author |
: Mike Bunn |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Release |
: 2024-10-01 |
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: 243 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781588385253 |
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A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon —the tourist. In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of geographical knowledge, the material conditions of travel, and the variety of destinations that sought to profit from visitors with money to spend. Entrepreneurs began to transform the critical steps of travel—deciding where to go and how to get there—into commodities that could be produced in volume and sold to a marketplace of consumers. The identities of Americans prosperous enough to afford such commodities were fundamentally changed as they came to define themselves through the consumption of experiences. Mackintosh ultimately demonstrates that the cultural values and market forces surrounding tourism in the early nineteenth century continue to shape our experience of travel to this day.
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: History |
Author |
: Will B. Mackintosh |
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: NYU Press |
Release |
: 2019-01-08 |
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: 253 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781479889372 |
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Genre |
: Atlantic States |
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: J. C. Myers |
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: Harrisonburg [Va.] : J.H. Wartmann and Brothers |
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: 1849 |
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: 498 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015059481047 |
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An interdisciplinary study of the rich Victorian taxonomy of vagrancy, and the concepts of poverty, mobility and homelessness it expressed.
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: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Alistair Robinson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2021-10-14 |
File |
: 277 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781316519851 |
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Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association “I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834. This book is the first to integrate the stories of four travelers who explored Arkansas during the transformative period between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and statehood in 1836: William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh. In addition to gathering their tales of treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food, historian and geographer Andrew J. Milson explores the impact such travel narratives have had on geographical understandings of Arkansas places. Using the language in each traveler’s narrative, Milson suggests, and the book includes, new maps that trace these perceptions, illustrating not just the lands traversed, but the way travelers experienced and perceived place. By taking a geographical approach to the history of these spaces, Arkansas Travelers offers a deeper understanding—a deeper map—of Arkansas.
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: History |
Author |
: Andrew J. Milson |
Publisher |
: University of Arkansas Press |
Release |
: 2019-06-22 |
File |
: 293 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781682260968 |
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: |
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: Winfield H. Collins |
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: BoD – Books on Demand |
Release |
: 2023-08-11 |
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: 74 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783368909970 |