1998, ISBN: 9781882280018

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U S A: The University of Kentucky, 1986. Hardback. First Edition. Message to previous owner to inside cover signed by the author's daughter. The story of the American frontier has bee… More...

U S A: The University of Kentucky, 1986. Hardback. First Edition. Message to previous owner to inside cover signed by the author's daughter. The story of the American frontier has been told often: landless but courageous pioneers claim their piece of the untamed West, clear the land, and become in time prosperous farmers or town founders. Their deeds form an important chapter in the Great American Success Story. But what of those pioneers, equally courageous and hard-working, who failed because of bad luck, miscalculation, or the greed of the money lenders. Their numbers were legion. This book is their story. The author's illuminating study of dispossession on the frontier begins with the autobiography of a pioneer who met repeated failure. Writing in his old age, Omar Morse (1824-1901) looked back on the successive lost of three homesteads in mid-nineteenth century Wisconsin and Minnesota. The frontier as Morse encountered it was a place of runaway land specualtion, of high railroad freight rates, of mortgage foreclosures, and of political and economic chaos. Stoic and resilent in adversity, Morse nevertheless expressed the anger of those for whom the Jeffersonian ideal of an independent yeomanry proved to be a cruel illusion. Marshall moves from Morse's narrative to the historical record of thousands of similarly dispossessed pioneers and to the legacy of their failure. Politically, their anger was expressed in a grassroots movement that led to formation of the Populist party in the 1880s and 1890s. Culturally, dispossession became an important literary theme. This book thus presents the underside of disappointment that has long been the great ignored reality of the splendid success myth of the American frontier. As such, it opens new vistas for historians and literary scholars alike. 239 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback., The University of Kentucky, 1986, 3, U S A/London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Paperback. Slightly sunned spine. This account odf the emergence of Europe into a community that was to achieve world domination brings to the student and general reader alike a new approach to European history. Professor Reynolds has combined a description of the social and economic development of Europe with a discussion of what effects its economy had upon other societies through the world. It is a continuous story in which the many complex strands are woven into a satisfactory whole with a remarkable breadth of scope and meticulousness of detail. 529 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback., The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982, 3, Wisconsin Academy of Science, 1998-01-15. 1. Paperback. Used:Good., Wisconsin Academy of Science, 1998-01-15, 0<

1998, ISBN: 1882280016

[EAN: 9781882280018], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Wisconsin Academy of Science], VG - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Stan… More...

[EAN: 9781882280018], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Wisconsin Academy of Science], VG - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized., Books<

1998, ISBN: 9781882280018

Wisconsin Academy of Science, 1998-01-15. Paperback. Good., Wisconsin Academy of Science, 1998-01-15, 2.5