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The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government / edited by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler.
LIBRA 917.3 Sh11a v.1-v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- United States--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Industries--United States.
- Industries.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : frontispieces, illustrations, plates, maps (some folded) diagrams ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1897.
- Contents:
- V. 1. Continent and the reasons for its fitness to be the home of a great people / N. S. Shaler
- Natural conditions of the East and South / N. S. Shaler
- What nature has done for the West / N. S. Shaler
- North American Indians / J. W. Powell
- Mississippi Valley / H. P. Judson
- Pacific coast / H. H. Bancroft
- Farmer's opportunities / N. S. Shaler
- Minerals and mining / N. S. Shaler
- Forests and the lumber industry / N. S. Shaler
- Maritime industries of America / J. R. Soley
- Our military resources / T. A. Dodge
- V.2. Productive industry / Edward Atkinson
- Transportation / T. M. Cooley, C. H. Cooley
- Typical American inventions : Electricity / A. E. Kennelly ; Railroad construction and equipment / H. G. Prout ; Shoemaking / H. P. Fairfield
- Place of corporate action in our civilization / Charles Francis Adams
- Our cities / George E. Waring, Jr.
- Education in the United States / W. T. Harris
- Science in America / D. C. Gilman
- Literature, art, and architecture : American literature / Charles Dudley Warner ; American art / F. D. Millet ; Development and prospects of architecture in the United States / Henry van Brunt
- Physical state of the American people / D. A. Sargent
- Political organization of the United States / John Bach McMaster
- How we are governed / W. L. Wilson
- Industry and finance / F. W. Taussig
- Public health in the United States / Samuel W. Abbott
- The place of the individual in American society / Lyman Abbott
- Summing up of the story / N. S. Shaler.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906. United States of America.
- OCLC:
- 12965388
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