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Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819 ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY

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Description: Shaw-Shoemaker Early American Imprints provides the full-text to 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides covering all aspects of American life in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The database covers westward expansion, the development of American arts, the progression of American political thought, as well as published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public. Additionally, a large number of state papers and early government materials—including presidential letters and congressional, state and territorial resolutions—chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation.

Subjects include the 12th Amendment, Bible societies, canals, Embargo Act, fur trade, Lewis & Clark Expedition, Louisiana Purchase, nationalism, Panic of 1819, Romanticism, Seminole War, Treaty of Ghent, and the War of 1812. Genres include magic tricks, funeral hymns, fools and jesters, tobacco, dolls, and Indian captivities.

Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and supplemented by thousands of new items. Early American Imprints Series II continues the Early American Imprints, Series I Evans 1639-1800 database.

List of LC holdings for other editions of this title.

Coverage: 1801-1819

Subject(s)
History, Genealogy & Archives
Law
Literature & Language
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