Currier & Ives' America : from a young nation to a great power /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Abbeville Press Publishers,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Grand Central Depot for cheap and popular prints
- Novus Ordo Seclorum ("A new era is born")
- Proud and passionate city! Mettlesome, mad extravagant city!
- How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood
- Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence
- Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home
- Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
- - Go forth, under the open sky, and list to nature's teachings
- America is a poem in our eyes: its ample geography dazzles the imagination
- Never was such horseflesh as in those days on Long Island or in the city
- Ev'ry prospect pleases, and only man is vile
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography.