J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer

Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the Amer...

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An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecoeur

This is a critical edition of the essays that J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English but did not include in Letters from an Am...

Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays

Published in London just as the idea of an “American” was becoming a reality, Letters introduced Europeans to America’s landscape, customs, and ...

Sketches of Eighteenth Century America

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Crevecoeur's Books Outline The Steps Through Which New Immigrants Passed, Analyze The Religious Problems Of The New World, Describe The Life Of The Wh...

Letters from an American Farmer: Selections

Letters from an American Farmer is increasingly recognized as one of the foundational texts in the study both of American literature and of American h...

Letters from an American Farmer

Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, Not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America

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Barthélemi Tardiveau

A French Trader in the West; Biographical Sketch, Including Letters from B. Tardiveau to St. John de Crèvecœur (1788-1789)

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An Explanation of the Map of Federal Lands

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Journey Into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York

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Letters from an American Farmer

Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs Not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America

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Letters from an American Farmer Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs Not Generally Known

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An Explanation of the Map which Delineates that Part of the Federal Lands, Comprehended Between Pennsylvania West Line, the Rivers Ohio and Sioto, and Lake Erie ; Confirmed to the United States by Sundry Tribes of Indians, in the Treaties of 1784 and 1786, and Now Ready for Settlement

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