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Characteristics of the age : a discourse delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N.Y., on Thanksgiving Day, December 12, 1850
Title
Characteristics of the age : a discourse delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N.Y., on Thanksgiving Day, December 12, 1850.
Creator
Beman, Nathan S. S. (Nathan Sidney Smith) 1785-1871, Young & Hartt
Abstract/Description
By Nathan S.S. Beman, D.D. First Presbyterian Church (Troy, N.Y.) Troy Daily Whig Press "Troy Daily Whig Print."--verso of title page. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb15f22
Subject Headings
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865 -- Sermons, Bible -- Matthew, XIII, 17 -- Sermons, Thanksgiving sermons -- 1850 Dec. 12, United States -- Fugitive slave law (1850), Slavery -- United States -- Sermons, Communication -- International cooperation, Sermons, American -- 19th century, Thanksgiving Day addresses -- Sermons, States' rights (American politics)
Format
E-book
From Farm to Market: The Political Economy of the Antebellum American West
Title
From Farm to Market: The Political Economy of the Antebellum American West.
Creator
Salcito, Matthew, Engle, Stephen D., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the dynamic change the market revolution had on social and cultural institutions in the American West. Specifically, it investigates how market forces influenced rural life patterns for farmers, urban mercantile culture and regional commercial interests. Davenport, Iowa is the focus for the narrative’s hinge, as this midsized western marketplace represented a link between its farmers and the regional markets in Chicago. This project uses wheat and the prairie region in...
Show moreThis thesis examines the dynamic change the market revolution had on social and cultural institutions in the American West. Specifically, it investigates how market forces influenced rural life patterns for farmers, urban mercantile culture and regional commercial interests. Davenport, Iowa is the focus for the narrative’s hinge, as this midsized western marketplace represented a link between its farmers and the regional markets in Chicago. This project uses wheat and the prairie region in antebellum Iowa and Illinois as a case study and examines the cultural and social development of farmers and merchants in the marketplace. Following wheat from farm to market, both locally and regionally, helps to explain how Americans understood the commodity at each economic level. Time and place were central to the American West's economic, social, and cultural development and this thesis considers just a moment in its history. A intersect of rural, agricultural, technological, and environmental histories are at the project's core, but it also attempts to make sense of frontier capitalism and the ramifications it had on farming and the grain industry. The market revolution gradually influenced and shaped the nation’s agricultural economy and the people that preformed its labor and production.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004630, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004630
Subject Headings
West (U.S.)--History., West (U.S.)--Historiography., West (U.S.)--Social conditions--19th century., United States--Economic conditions--To 1865., United States--Civilization--1783-1865., Capitalism--United States--Social aspects--History.
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