St. Louis in the century of Henry Shaw
Subtitle: a view beyond the garden wall
By: edited with an introduction by Eric Sandweiss.
Contributors: Sandweiss, Eric.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Shaw, Henry, 1800-1889.; Shaw, Henry, 1800-1889 -- Influence.; Businessmen -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.; Philanthropists -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography.; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Biography.; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Civilization -- 19th century.; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Saint Louis in the century of Henry Shaw
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis; Missouri Historical Society, Saint Louis."
Table of contents: title: From a garden looking out: public culture in Henry Shaw's St. Louis / Eric Sandweiss; title: Gods in ruins: St. Louis politicians and American destiny, 1764-1875 / Kenneth H. Winn; title: African Americans in Henry Shaw's St. Louis / Antonio F. Holland; title: Learning from the "majority-minority" city: immigration in nineteenth-century St. Louis / Walter D. Kamphoefner; title: The economy of nineteenth-century St. Louis / James Neal Primm; title: Enterprise and exchange: the growth of research in Henry Shaw's St. Louis / Michael Long; title: Public education in nineteenth-century St. Louis / William J. Reese; title: Shaping the authentic: St. Louis theater culture and the construction of American social types, 1815-1860 / Louis Gerteis; title: Themes and schemes: the literary life of nineteenth-century St. Louis / Lee Ann Sandweiss.