The American Catalogue

The American Catalogue
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Total Pages: 1242
Release: 1908
Genre: American literature
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American national trade bibliography.

The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899

The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899
Author: Wendy Jean Katz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496204360

The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha's key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on the brink of the Spanish-American War, and the nation's place in bringing "civilization" to Indigenous populations both overseas and at the conclusion of the recent Plains Indian Wars. The Omaha World's Fair, however, is one of the least studied American expositions. Wendy Jean Katz brings together leading scholars to better understand the event's place in the larger history of both Victorian-era America and the American West. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture. Leading scholars T. J. Boisseau, Bonnie M. Miller, Sarah J. Moore, Nancy Parezo, Akim Reinhardt, and Robert Rydell, among others, discuss this often-misunderstood world's fair and its place in the Victorian-era ascension of the United States as a world power.

The Booze Route

The Booze Route
Author: John E. Main
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780243331697

Excerpt from The Booze Route: A Reform Book on Some of the Up-to-Date Evils of the Age This book is not a literary book, nor is it intended for such. Our aim is to take up about one hundred up-to-date evils and discuss them from our view, experiences and observations. We are not mad at any one man or anybody. We have a deep desire in our hearts to help put in the wedge and be the means of doing away with the Liquor Traffic forever. We have had some hard times and experiences in life This book is sensational and startling. It tells the truth in an humble way, and I say if you think we are right, if you are in favor of fighting saloons, sin and the Devil, you ought to help push the sale of The Booze Route all over the United States. We are very anxious to organize The Booze Route Pub. Co., Incorporated, the same as a bank with President, Secretary and Treasurer, then I will take the field and push this Book, and many others, all over the country. We ask you to help push this battle for God. We have repeated some things many times. Perhaps that will do good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.