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The Western Journal; Of Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, And General Literature (Volume Vi)

The Western Journal; Of Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, And General Literature (Volume Vi)

Micajah Tarver

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General ReferenceAgricultureGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354508111
ISBN13: 9789354508110
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 474
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the railway stitched the continent, Americans argued, experimented, and built on the page. Here is America in motion. The Western Journal of Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, and General Literature (Volume VI) gathers a vivid 19th century periodical at full stretch: an agricultural journal volume that tracks fields and workshops, markets and inventions, alongside the concerns of ordinary communities. Its pages move from practical husbandry to the mechanic arts, from price currents to reflective essays, capturing the daily intelligence of a growing nation. Read it for antebellum farming practices and early American manufacturing; for debates on roads, canals, and the coming canal and railroad era; and for glimpses of early American commerce trade as it pushed into the American West frontier era. As a historical magazine facsimile in modern dress, it offers the pleasure of contemporary voices without the filters of hindsight. For historians, this is a compact trove of economic history primary sources and internal improvements history from the 19th century United States. For family researchers, it can illuminate genealogy and local history through the texture of regional life: what people planted, bought, repaired, shipped, and read. Collectors of classic Americana will prize its breadth and immediacy, the kind of print culture once passed hand to hand. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Window on a working republic.

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