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Author : Eli Daniel Potts
Publisher : St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Young America and Australian Gold written by Eli Daniel Potts and published by St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward L. Widmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195356578
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Young America written by Edward L. Widmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Young America Abroad in Europe, Asia, and Australia written by George Francis Train and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Monaghan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Australians and the Gold Rush written by Jay Monaghan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199301565
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Antipodean America written by Paul Giles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Young America in Wall-Street written by George Francis Train and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guide to the Collections written by National Library of Australia and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Demorest's Young America written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724807
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gold Seeking written by David Goodman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Benjamin Mountford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967585
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Global History of Gold Rushes written by Benjamin Mountford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
