Eight Months in Illinois: With Information to Immigrants Tapa blanda - 2002

Paperback / softback. New. The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveller William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841-42, but life there was hard. In ""Eight Months in Illinois"" Oliver provided pertinent and practical information about what people might encounter in the frontier.

Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 260 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches.

SIU Press, 2002-03-21. Paperback. New. 7x5x0. <br /><br/>The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveler William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841-42, but life there was hard. Accordingly, Oliver advised the wealthy and comfortable to remain in England and counseled the unprosperous to seek their fortunes in America. Written for the poor who would migrate and published in 1843, his Eight Months in Illinois: With Information to Immigrants sought only to provide pertinent, valid, and practical information about what people might encounter in the frontier state. What Oliver actually accomplished, however, was much more: he imparted invaluable insights into and analyses of American life during an era of sweeping social, economic, and political change. <br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/>In his new foreword to this edition, James E. Davis stresses Oliver's sincere desire to help British immigrants… Leer más