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The human tradition in antebellum America / edited by Michael A. Morrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Human tradition in America ; no. 7.
- The human tradition in America ; no. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- United States--History--1783-1865--Biography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- This new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who lived during the Antebel-lum period in American history. Part of The Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raisi
- Contents:
- Shuttles of a new nation: the private lives and public actions of ordinary Americans / Michael A. Morrison
- Abraham Bishop: teacher, lawyer, orator, and politician / Stephen R. Grossbart
- John Wesley Young: identity and community among "the people called Methodist" / Ruth Alden Doan
- Trotter & sons: merchants and the early west / Craig Thompson Friend
- Hiram Hill: house carpenter, lumber dealer, self-made man / Gary J. Kornbluth
- Senator John Smith: the rise and fall of a frontier entrepreneur / Andrew R.L. Cayton
- Arsène Lacarrière Latour: immigrant, patriot-historian, and foreign agent / Gene A. Smith
- Thomas Sidney Jesup: soldier, bureaucrat, gentleman democrat / Samuel J. Watson
- John Ross: Cherokee chief and defender of the nation / Mary Young
- Peter P. Pitchlynn: race and identity in nineteenth-century America / Donna L. Akers
- Hosea Easton: forgotten abolitionist "giant" / George R. Price
- Laura Wirt Randall: a woman's life, 1803-1833 / Anya Jabour
- Rebecca Reed: anti-Catholic agitator / Daniel A. Cohen
- Margaret Eaton: the politics of gender in Jacksonian America / John F. Marszalek / Benjamin Tappan: democrat, scientist, iconoclast / Daniel Feller
- George Washington Harris: the fool from the hills / John Mayfield.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 084202834X
- 0842028358
- OCLC:
- 43641239
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