Morris, Charles. A New History of the United States : The Greater Republic embracing the Growth and Achievements of our Country from the Earliest Days of Discovery and Settlement to the present Eventful Year...Embellished with over 300 New Engravings. Philadelphia: Union Book and Bible House, 1899. [11708]
Green publisher's cloth decorated in silver & gilt, some fading of gilt to the spine, binding is relatively bright and clean with just a little spotting, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Previous owners' name blindstamped to the ffep. Color map of the United States as frontispiece, 711 clean pages, over 300 b/w illustrations and plates. Good. Hardcover.
Title continues: Showing how from Thirteen Colonies with a Scattered Population along the Atlantic Coast a Great Republic has been formed, embracing Forty-five States with 75,000,000 Inhabitants and vast Colonial Possessions in Two Hemispheres.
"The following pages contain a complete, accurate, and graphic history of our country from the first visit of the Northmen, a thousand years ago, to the openiong of its new destiny, through the late struggle, resulting in the freeing of Cuba, the wresting of the Philippines, Porto Rico, and the Ladrones from the tyranny of the most cruel of modern nations, and the addition of Hawaii to our domain. The Greater United States, at one bound, assumes its place in the van of nations, and becomes the foremost agent in civilizing and Christianizing the world." - Publishers' Introduction.
Written by a patriotic American during a period when citizens were still proud of their country.
