Letters Written From The Banks Of The Ohio

Author : Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271077875
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio written by Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio. Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become without the Revolution, Lezay-Marnésia bought more than twenty thousand acres of land along the banks of the Ohio River from the Scioto Company, which promised French aristocrats a fertile, conflict-free refuge. But hostilities between the U.S. Army and the Native American tribes who still lived on the land prevented the marquis from taking possession. Ruined and on the verge of madness, Lezay-Marnésia returned to France just as the Revolution was taking a more radical turn. He barely escaped the guillotine before dying a few years later in poverty and desperation. This edition of the Letters, introduced and edited by Benjamin Hoffmann and superbly translated by Alan J. Singerman, presents the work for the first time since the beginning of the nineteenth century—and the first time ever in English. The volume features a rich collection of supplementary documents, including texts by Lezay-Marnésia’s son, Albert de Lezay-Marnésia, and the American novelist Hugh Henry Brackenridge. This fresh perspective on the young United States as it was represented in French literature casts new light on a captivating and tumultuous period in the history of two nations.

Author : Benjamin Hoffmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081848
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Posthumous America written by Benjamin Hoffmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s Lettres d’un cultivateur américain (1784); the “uchronotopia”—the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution—of Lezay-Marnésia’s Lettres écrites des rives de l’Ohio (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind François-René Chateaubriand’s idealization of America in Voyage en Amérique (1827) and Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1850), Hoffmann shows how the authors’ liberties with the truth helped create the idealized and nostalgic representation of America that dominated the collective European consciousness of their times. From a historical perspective, Posthumous America works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences. A vital contribution to transatlantic studies, this detailed exploration of French perspectives on the colonial era, the War of Independence, and the birth of the American Republic sheds new light on the French fascination with America. Posthumous America will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.

Author : Helena Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192648683
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid in French written by Helena Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse œuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser-known voices in Ovidian reception studies, and to offer a wider historical perspective on the complex question of Ovid and gender. Ranging from Renaissance poetry to contemporary creative-criticism, it charts an understudied strand of reception studies, emphasizing how a longer view allows us to explore and challenge the notion of a female tradition of Ovidian reception. The range of genres analysed here—poetry, verse and prose translation, theatre, epistolary fiction, autofiction, autobiography, film, creative critique, and novels—also reflect the diversity of the Ovidian texts in reception from the Heroides to the Metamorphoses, from the Amores to the Ars Amatoria, from the Tristia to the Fasti. The study brings an array of critical approaches to bear on well-known authors such as George Sand, Julia Kristeva, and Marguerite Yourcenar, as well as less-known figures, from contemporary writer Linda Lê to the early modern Catherine and Madeline Des Roches, exploring exile, identity, queerness, displacement, voice, expectations of modesty, the poetics of translation, and the problems posed by Ovid's erotized violence, to name just some of the volume's rich themes. The epilogue by translator and novelist Marie Cosnay points towards new eco-critical and creative directions in Ovidian scholarship and reception. Students and scholars of French Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies will find much to interest them in this diverse collection of essays.

Author : Charles Clifford Huntington
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230732848
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Banking and Currency in Ohio Before the Civil War written by Charles Clifford Huntington and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...scarcely be obtained at all in Ohio. A letter of January 10, 1834, from a Cleveland gentleman to one in New York states: "If matters continue long as they now are, the exchange will be 3 or 4% on New York."69 He attributed this to the embarrassed state of money matters in the East. That section was then undergoing one of those disturbances to commerce, banking, and business generally, which were so numerous from 1834 to 1838.TM And the pressure was beginning to be felt in the West and Southwest. Many doleful letters on the subject were published about that time in Niles Register from Mississippi and Louisiana.71 And that paper of the date of April 5, 1834, prints a letter from an Ohio man telling of the general distresses.72 The Albany Daily Advertiser about that time reported that some of the Ohio banks had stopped specie payment and that others were "tottering."73 'Ohio Monitor, Dec. 12 and 19, 1833. 'Ohio Monitor, Dec. 19, 1833. Defeat of the State Bank Bill.--The suspended and tottering Ohio banks referred to in the article mentioned above were probably unauthorized banks, many of which were continually springing up in the state during this period. But the number of chartered banks in the state was also largely increased early in 1834. The opposition to the State Bank on the part of many local banks that wanted charters from the legislature was so strong that the bill providing for a State Bank was killed in the legislature in January, the vote against it in the Senate on January 2Oth being 19 to I5,85 More Local Banks Chartered.--Soon after the State Bank bill was defeated the legislature proceeded to grant charters to a batch of ten new local banks, the combined authorized capital of which amounted to $4,400,000....

Author : Edward Deering Mansfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book On the Railway Connections of Philadelphia with the Central West. Letters of Edward D. Mansfield, of Cincinnati, to Job R. Tyson, of Philadelphia written by Edward Deering Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chia Yin Hsu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000195759
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation written by Chia Yin Hsu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did "innovation" become something to strive for, an end in itself? And how did "the market" come to be thought of as the space of innovation? This edited volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global perspective that highlights contrasting experiences. These experiences include: colonial "projecting" in the Dutch New Netherlands, trust networks in the early US securities market, female investors during the Financial Revolution, life insurance in nineteenth-century France, "bubbles" and trusts in 1920s Shanghai, government regulation of the pre-Revolutionary stock market and the checkered success of today’s bit-coin technology. By discussing these diverse contexts together, this volume provides a pathbreaking reconsideration of market and business activities in light of both the techniques and the emotional vectors that infuse them.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exhibits Cleveland banking investigation. May 3-4, 1934. 2 v written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury ... Relative to Banking Statistics of State Banks, Banking Institutions, Savings Banks and National Banks, Etc., from the Periods of 1830 and 1863, Respectively written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: