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(3) | Ingen | None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat. But as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkable biography, Fulton's "large, noisy, showy, fast, brash, exciting, powerful, and audacious" machine would -- for better or worse -- irrevocably transform nineteenth-century America. Set against a brilliant portrait of a dynamic period in history, The Fire of His Genius tells the story of the fiercely driven man whose invention opened up America's interior to waves of settlers, created and sustained industrial and plantation economies in the nation's heartland, and facilitated the destruction of the remaining Indian civilizations. Probing Fulton's genius but also laying bare the darker side of the man -- and the darker side of the American dream -- Kirkpatrick Sale tells an extraordinary tale with deftness, zest, and unflagging verve.… (mere) |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. The Americans are a very old and a very enlightened people, who have fallen on a new and unbounded country, where they may extend themselves at pleasure, and which they may fertilize without difficulty. This state of things is without parallel in the history of the world.--Alexis de Tocqueville
This great pressure of a people always moving to new frontiers in search of new lands, new power, the full freedom of a virgin world, has ruled our course and formed our policies like a Fate.--Woodrow Wilson  | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. for Delilah, my American dream | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Although the idea of a boat propelled by steam was suggested in Europe as early as the seventeenth century, and experimental steamboats had been tried at various times in Britain, France, Italy and Germany in the eighteenth century, it was almost inevitable that the first successful and protracted steamboat operation should take place in America. | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. It was not the steamboat alone, of course, that created America's industrial milieu in the nineteenth century or the industrial ideology that the nation was to carry through the twentieth. But it was the first significant industrial instrument to shape that milieu and inspire that ideology, the first to embody the brash and assertive and expansionary characteristics of the peoples dominant here, the first to create that era in America, as Henry Adams had sagely noted, "which separated the colonial from the independent stage of growth." And none who ever rode its throbbing decks, or watched its majestic motility on the water, ever failed to realize that it was thus the symbol, as it was for many years the agency, of the American dream. (Klik for at vise Advarsel: Kan indeholde afsløringer.) | |
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