The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and victimized in the name of Roman renewal. I...
An integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social networks, law, historiography, and literature of the later Roman world. The volume treats three central themes: the first section looks at political and social developments across t...
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Thematic Contents Maps Introduction 1. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) 2. William Bartram (1739-1823) from Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (1791) 3. Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) An Explanation of the Map of Federal Lands (1787) 4. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Report of a Plan of Government for the Western Territory (1784) Letter to John Breckenridge (1803) 5. John Filson (c. 1747-1788) and Daniel Boone (1734-1820) from The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke: And an Essay Toward the Topography, and Natural History of That Important Country (1784) The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon (1784) 6. George Rogers Clarke (1752-1818) from The Conquest of the Illinois (1788) 7. Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) The Trial of Mamachtaga (1785;1806;1808) from Incidents of the Insurrection (1795) 8. Dr. John Knight (?-1838) The Narrative of Dr. Knight (1783) 9. The Northwest Ordinance (1787) 10. Gilbert Imlay (c. 1754?-1828?) from The Emigrants (1793) 11. Selected Treaties between the United States and Native American Tribes Treaty with the Cherokee (1791) Treaty of Greenville (1795) Treaty of St. Louis (1804) Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1829) 12. Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) from Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 13. Black Hawk (Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak) (1767-1838) from The Life of Black Hawk (1833) 14. Zadok Cramer (1773-1813) from The Navigator (1814) 15. James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) from The Backwoodsman (1818) 16. Charles Ball (1781-?) from Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (1837) 17. Timothy Flint (1780-1840) from Recollections of the Last Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi (1826) The Indian Fighter (1830) Nimrod Buckskin, Esq. (1832) 18. John Tanner (1780-1847) from A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830) 19. Robert Breckinridge McAfee (1784-1849) from History of the Late War in the Western Country (1816) 20. John James Audubon (1785-1851) The Prairie (1831) Kentucky Sports (1831) Colonel Boon (1831) The Squatters of the Mississippi (1833) 21. Minor Native Voices Tecumseh (1771-1813), Speech at Malden (1813) Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1841), Otagamiad (1827) George W. Harkins (?-?), Farewell Letter to the American People (1832) 22. Daniel Drake (1785-1852) Remarks on the Importance of Promoting Literary and Social Concert in the Valley of the Mississippi (1833) Discourse on the History, Character, and Prospects of the West (1834) 23. Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786-1871) from Views of Louisiana (1814) 24. Lydia B. Bacon (1786-1853) from Biography of Mrs. Lydia B. Bacon (1811-1812, 1856) 25. David Crockett (1786-1836) from A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834) 26. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) from The Prairie (1827) 27. Daniel Bryan (c. 1790-1866) from The Adventures of Daniel Boone (1813) 28. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) The Fight (1833, 1835) The Shooting Match (1835) 29. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) from Travels (1821) The Legend of Waub Ojeeg (1826-1827) The Rise of the West (1841) 30. James Hall (1793-1868) Three Hundred Years Hence (1830) The Catholic Question (1835) On Black Hawk (1848) 31. Rebecca Burlend (1793-1872) from A True Picture of Emigration (1848) 32. Gideon Lincecum (1793-1874) from Autobiography of Gideon Lincecum (1872, 1904) 33. Benjamin Drake (1794-1841) The Battle of Brindle and the Buck-Eyes (1835) from The Life of Black Hawk (1838) 34. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) The Prairies (1833) 35. Thomas Ford (1800-1850) from A History of Illinois (1854) 36. Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864) from A New Home: Who'll Follow? (1838) 37. Indian Removal Act and Cherokee Nation v. Georgia In