America
The Lewis & Clark Expedition and the Dawn of a New Power
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2003
- Category
- North America, Native American
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550651720
- Publish Date
- Nov 2003
- List Price
- $28
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Description
"We the people of the United States"-so began the American Constitution of 1787. Within a few years, this young country, made up mainly of eastern seaboard states, suddenly became part of a continent. A century later, its citizens would see themselves as defining the entire continent: "We are America." All this did not come about solely because of Lewis and Clark, or even Thomas Jefferson who commissioned the expedition-but it began with them.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the men and women connected with it, as well as the geopolitical issues involved, constitute the lens through which historian Denis Vaugeois focuses on what typified the new nation's formative period, 1803-1853. He writes not only of the principal actors in this continent-wide drama, but of the humble or obscure people, and the Native Americans without whom the expedition wouldn't have succeeded.
As in a documentary, Vaugeois also gives readers background to the exploration, including of the role of the French-Canadian explorers, guides and interpreters, with their long experience of the wilderness and Native American tribes.
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Informative, engaging, and eminently readable, this book recreates the world of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It is amply illustrated with reproductions of carefully researched prints, drawings of people and places, maps, photographs, portraits, coins, and medallions.
About the authors
Denis Vaugeois is a historian and publisher and author of many books on North American and European history and how they converge and diverge. He has studied Jewish history for more than 50 years. He was Quebec’s minister of cultural affairs in the late 1970s. Käthe Roth is a Montreal editor and translator who has worked with Denis Vaugeois on history books for fifteen years.
Jane Brierley is a Montreal literary translator, writer, editor, and former president of the Literary Translators Association of Canada. Her translations of science fiction stories have appeared in a number of Tesseract's anthologies, and she has translated three of Élisabeth Vonarburg's science fiction novels: The Silent City, The Maërlande Chronicles, and Reluctant Voyagers. In 1990 she won the Governor General's Award for best English translation.
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