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The Old Northwest : studies in regional history, 1787-1910
- Title
- The Old Northwest : studies in regional history, 1787-1910 / edited by Harry N. Scheiber.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University Nebraska Press, [1969]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F479 .S3 1969 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Scheiber, Harry N.
- Description
- xxvi, 395 pages : map (on lining papers); 22 cm
- Subject
- Geschichte 1787-1910
- Northwest, Old > History
- United States > Old Northwest
- United States, Ohio > History > 1787-1865
- United States, Wisconsin > History
- United States, Michigan > History
- United States, Indiana > History
- United States > History > 1783-1865
- United States, Illinois > History
- Northwest Territories
- Northwest, Old > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical footnotes.
- Contents
- Part I. Pioneer period : Early institutions and problems -- Military bounty lands and the origins of the public domain / Rudolf Freund -- Agrarian discontent in the Mississippi Valley preceding the War of 1812 / George Rogers Taylor -- Part II. Travails and hopes : Social life -- Patent-Office models of the good society : Some relationships between social reform and westward expansion / Arthur E. Bestor, Jr. -- Social relationships in Trempealeau County / Merle Curti -- Disease and sickness on the Wisconsin frontier : Cholera / Peter T. Harstad -- Part III. The land and its plenty -- Farming in the Prairie Peninsula, 1830-1890 / Allan G. Bogue -- The dairy industry in Ohio prior to the Civil War / Robert Leslie Jones -- Part IV. The urban dimension -- Urban life in western America, 1790-1830 / Richard C. Wade -- Urban rivalrey and internal improvements in the Old Northwest, 1820-1860 / Harry N. Scheiber -- Part V. The people- moving -- Who were the lumberjacks? / George B. Engberg -- Restless Grant County : Americans on the move / Peter J. Coleman -- Part VI. Government and politics -- The antislavery movement in Illinois, 1824-1835 / Merton Lynn Dillon -- Agrarian radicalism in Illinois' Constitutional Convention of 1862 / Stanley L. Jones -- Middle western Copperheadism and the genesis of the Granger Movement / Frank L. Klement -- The origin and early development of the Wisconsin idea / Vernon Carstensen -- Part VII. The tensions of industrialization -- The workers' search for power : Labor in the Gilded Age / Herbert G. Gutman.
- LCCN
- 68011564
- OCLC
- ocm00010259
- 10259
- SCSB-331398
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library