Mississippi Steamboatin'
Author | : Herbert Quick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Herbert Quick |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Herbert Quick |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : John Herbert QUICK (and QUICK (Edward)) |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Floyd M. Clay |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Robert H. Gudmestad |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2011-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807138428 |
The arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity. In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefited slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production. This technology literally put people into motion, and travelers developed an array of unique cultural practices, from gambling to boat races. Gudmestad also asserts that the intersection of these riverboats and the environment reveals much about sectional identity in antebellum America. As federal funds backed railroad construction instead of efforts to clear waterways for steamboats, southerners looked to coordinate their own economic development, free of national interests. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.
Author | : Engineer School Library (Fort Belvoir, Va.) |
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Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : H.W. Wilson Company |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Best books |
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Author | : Chester G. Hearn |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807131862 |
Soon after the start of the Civil War, during the naval buildup on the central Mississippi River, celebrated civil engineer Charles Ellet, Jr., formed the Ram Fleet under U.S. secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton. Perhaps the most bizarre unit organized by the Union, the rams were shunned by both the army and navy as superfluous instruments of war. However, on June 6, 1862, they proved their worth by defeating the Confederate River Defense Fleet ironclads at Memphis while the U.S. Navy simply watched. In this lively study, Chester G. Hearn details the formation and wartime exploits of Ellet's fleet, reviving the history of this fascinating but forgotten brigade.
Author | : Orville Taylor |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2000-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557286132 |
Long out of print and found only in rare-book stores, it is now available to a contemporary audience with this new paperback edition. When slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation, there were slaves in every county of the state, and almost half the population was directly involved in slavery as either a slave, a slaveowner, or a member of an owner’s family. Orville Taylor traces the growth of slavery from John Law’s colony in the early eighteenth century through the French and Spanish colonial period, territorial and statehood days, to the beginning of the Civil War. He describes the various facets of the institution, including the slave trade, work and overseers, health and medical treatment, food, clothing, housing, marriage, discipline, and free blacks and manumission. While drawing on unpublished material as appropriate, the book is, to a great extent, based on original, often previously unpublished, sources. Valuable to libraries, historians in several areas of concentration, and the general reader, it gives due recognition to the signficant place slavery occupied in the life and economy of antebellum Arkansas.
Author | : H. Roger Grant |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0253043344 |
Transportation is the unsung hero in America’s story. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of everyday life. In Transportation and the American People, renowned historian H. Roger Grant tells the story of American transportation from its slow, uncomfortable, and often dangerous beginnings to the speed and comfort of travel today. Early advances like stagecoaches and canals allowed traders, business, and industry to expand across the nation, setting the stage for modern developments like transcontinental railways and busses that would forever reshape the continent. Grant provides a compelling and thoroughly researched narrative of the social history of travel, shining a light on the role of transportation in shaping the country and on the people who helped build it.