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St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw A View Beyond the Garden Wall edited with an introduction by Eric Sandweiss. Assembled in honor of the two-hundredth birthday of philanthropist and entrepreneur Henry Shaw (1800-1889), St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw is a collection of nine provocative essays that together provide a definitive account of the life of St. Louis during the 1800s, a thriving period during which the city acquired the status of the largest metropolis in the American west.
Shaw, who established the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1859, was just one of the many immigrants who left their mark on this complex, culturally rich city during the century of its greatest growth. This volume examines the lives of a number of these men and women, from celebrated leaders such as senator Thomas hart Benton and the Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot to the thousands of Germans, African Americans, and others whose labor built the city we recognize today. Leading scholars reconstruct and interpret the world that Shaw knew in his long lifetime: a world of contention and of creativity, of trendsetting developments in politics and, business, scientific research, and the arts.
Together, the essays in this volume convey a sense of richness and diversity that made nineteenth-century St. Louis such a vibrant place. Anyone interested in cultural history, especially that of St. Louis, will find this book invaluable.
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