State-Building in the West (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Flandrau, Charles Eugene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333439997 ISBN 13 : 9781333439996

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Forging the Frontier reveals how western settlement shaped American politics, economy, and identity—and why those early decisions still matter.

This exploration shows how the West acted as a powerful teacher, shaping people’s choices, institutions, and national outlook. In these pages, you’ll see the West described as a unique proving ground for democracy, law, and social change. It traces how settlers, treaties, and immigration collided with native cultures, business interests, and national policy, influencing the course of the nation.

• How frontier life motivated individuals to shape new states and territories.
• Cases and examples that connect migration, governance, and economic development.
• Arguments about labor, capital, and immigration that echo in today’s policy debates.
• Stories of pioneers and leaders who helped determine the country’s boundaries and identity.

Ideal for readers of American history and policy who want context for how the West helped form the United States.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Louisiana was there, and, coming from the very heart of the confederacy, he was quite a lion. A northern gentleman, while conversing with him, naturally drifted into the war, and said: Bishop, dont you think this dreadful war might have been avoided had the government adopted such a course? ,naming some policy; No, sir, said the Bishop. Well now, Bishop, dont you think it might have been prevented had such a course been taken? ,pointing out some other policy; No, sir, said the Bishop, more emphatically than before. Don tyou think there was anything which could have spared us such a fratricidal conflict? Yes, sir, said the Bishop. Do give me your views as to what could have averted such, a calamity. I frankly believe, said the Bishop, that if Plymouth Rock had landed on the Pilgrims, instead of the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock, there never would have been any trouble at all. Environment exerts a most potent influence upon a people in the beginning of their career. Both New England and the South began as agriculturists, but the more generous and bountiful soil of the south afforded its people an easier opportunity of gaining a livelihood than the barren soil and inhospitable climate of the New England colonies. It was not long before they both adopted the aid of slaves in the conduct of their pursuits, but it soon became manifest that their assistance was not profitable in the north, while it could be utilized to great advantage in the south; so that it gradually became extinct in one section, while it flourished and increased in the other. The greater facilities for enrichment in the south by agriculture tended to the enlargement of estates and a prodigality of expenditure and luxurious living, wrhile the farmers of the north found themselves forced to the exercise of great economy, frugality, and extraordinary industry, to acquire the necessaries of lif
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333439997
• ISBN 13: 9781333439996
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 38
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