The First century of the republic
Subtitle: a review of American progress.
By: By the Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey ... F.A.P. Barnard ... [and others]
Contributors: Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889.
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Published: 1876
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: United States -- History
Notes: A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site.
Bibliographical footnotes.
"Nearly all of the papers here published were originally contributed to Harper's magazine."--Publisher's advertisement.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction: colonial progress, by E. Lawrence.; title: II. Mechanical progress by E.H. Knight.; title: III. Progress in manufacture, by D.A. Wells.; title: IV. Agricultural progress, by W.H. Brewer.; title: V. The development of our mineral resources, by T.S. Hunt.; title: VI. Commercial development, by E. Atkinson.; title: VII. Growth and distribution of population, by F.A. Walker.; title: VIII. Monetary development, by W.G. Sumner.; title: IX. The experiment of the union, with its preparations, by T.D. Woolsey ...; title: X. Educational progress, by E. Lawrence.; title: XI. Scientific progress: 1. The exact sciences, by F.A.P. Barnard. 2. Natural science, by T. Gill.; title: XII. A century of American literature, by E.P. Whipple.; title: XIII. Progress of the fine arts, by S.S. Conant.; title: XIV. Medical and sanitary progress, by A. Flint.; title: XV. American jurisprudence, by B.V. Abbott.; title: XVI. Humanitarian progress, by C.L. Brace.; title: XVII. Religious development, by J.F. Hurst.