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Title:

St. Louis in the century of Henry Shaw : a view beyond the garden wall / edited with an introduction by Eric Sandweiss.

Publisher:

Missouri Botanical Garden :

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xviii, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Shaw, Henry,--1800-1889.
Shaw, Henry,--1800-1889--Influence.
Saint Louis (Mo.)--Biography.--Biography.
Businessmen--Saint Louis--Saint Louis--Biography.--Biography.
Philanthropists--Saint Louis--Saint Louis--Biography.
Saint Louis (Mo.)--Civilization--19th century.
Saint Louis (Mo.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Other Authors:

Sandweiss, Eric.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

From a garden looking out : public culture in Henry Shaw's St. Louis / Eric Sandweiss -- Gods in ruins : St. Louis politicians and American destiny, 1764-1875 / Kenneth H. Winn -- African Americans in Henry Shaw's St. Louis / Antonio F. Holland -- Learning from the "majority-minority" city : immigration in nineteenth-century St. Louis / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- The economy of nineteenth-century St. Louis / James Neal Primm -- Enterprise and exchange : the growth of research in Henry Shaw's St. Louis / Michael Long -- Public education in nineteenth-century St. Louis / William J. Reese -- Shaping the authentic : St. Louis theater culture and the construction of American social types, 1815-1860 / Louis Gerteis -- Themes and schemes : the literary life of nineteenth-century St. Louis / Lee Ann Sandweiss.

ISBN:

9780826214393
0826214398

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50730820

LCCN:

2002015359

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)