Ray Allen Billington
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 294482 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ray Allen Billington |
| NOMBRES | Ray Allen |
| APELLIDO | Billington |
| FIRMA | BILLINGTON R A |
| AFILIACIONES | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 112 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1935 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Westward Expansion
The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding
This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by a more subtle form of bias that is more dangerous because it is less easily recognised. It deals in particular with the treatment of the American War o…
Living Philosophy
First published in 2003. Living Philosophy: An introduction to moral thought, Third edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of its highly successful and popular predecessor. Incorporating several brand new case studies and discussion points, the book introduces central questions in ethical theory to the student and assumes no previous knowledge of philosophy
Billington's Gift
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise
Journal Article Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century Get access Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century. By Billington Ray Allen. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981. xv + 364 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes, index. $18.95.) W. Eugene Hollon W. Eugene Hollon Santa Fe, New Mexico Search for other …
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise
Journal Article Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century. By Ray Allen Billington. (New York: Norton, 1981. xv + 364 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes, and index. $18.95.) Get access Klaus J. Hansen Klaus J. Hansen Queen's University, Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, J…
Westward Expansion
Journal Article Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier Get access Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. By Billington Ray Allen Ridge Martin. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982. xv + 892 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, index. $18.95.) Walter Rundell, Jr. Walter Rundell, Jr. University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 1…
The Plains and Deserts Through European Eyes
Journal Article The Plains and Deserts through European Eyes Get access Ray A. Billington Ray A. Billington senior research associate The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. The research necessary for this essay was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 4, October 1979, Pages 467–487, ht…
America's Frontier Culture
Journal Article America's Frontier Culture: Three Essays Get access America's Frontier Culture: Three Essays. By Billington Ray A.. (College Station: Texas A & M Press, 1977. 97 p. Notes. $5.00.) H. Roger Grant H. Roger Grant University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 1979, Page 72, https://doi.org/10.2307/967135 Published: 01 January 1979
America's Frontier Culture
IOWAranked states in terms of rail mileage.It is trite, then, to say that there is an inseparable bond between the history of the state and the history of its railroads.Nevertheless, it is true.^^ This book, Ups and Downs of Iowa's Railroads, employs a "from-the-back-porch" approach; the view is from Marshall County, State Center, and Marshalltown in particular.It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a full-fledged study of thé state's rail…
The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin
Journal Article The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution. By Frederick Jackson Turner. Ed. by David Harry Miller and William W. Savage, Jr. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. xxxiv + 92 pp. Notes and index. $8.95.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Huntington Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…
From Association to Organization
Journal Article From Association to Organization: The OAHin the Bad Old Days Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington senior research associate Henry E. Huntington Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 1, June 1978, Pages 75–84, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888143 Published: 01 June 1978
America's Frontier Culture
Journal Article America's Frontier Culture: Three Essays. By Ray A. Billington. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. 97 pp. Notes. $5.00.) Get access Robert G. Athearn Robert G. Athearn University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 3, December 1978, Pages 765–766, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901453 Published: 01 December 1978
The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West
Journal Article The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West Get access The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. Edited by Lamar Howard R.. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. x, 1306 p. Illustrations, maps. $24.95.) Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington The Huntington Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 4, October 1978, Pages 509–510, …
Allan Nevins on History
The Rhetoric of History
Journal Article The Rhetoric of History Get access The Rhetoric of History. By Lottinville Savoie. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. xiii, 258 p. Bibliography, appendix, index. $9.95.) Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington The Huntington Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 1977, Pages 68–69, https://doi.org/10.2307/967231 Published…
Walter Prescott Webb
Allan Nevins on History
Journal Article Allan Nevins on History Get access Allan Nevins on History. Compiled and introduced by Billington Ray Allen. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. xxvii, 420 p. Index. $15.00.) S. George Ellsworth S. George Ellsworth Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 4, October 1976, Pages 425–426, https://doi.org/10.2307/968066 Published…
The Wild West in Norway, 1877
Journal Article The Wild West in Norway, 1877 Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington senior research associate Huntington Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 3, July 1976, Pages 271–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/967082 Published: 01 July 1976
Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner
The Emergence of the American Professor
Frederick Jackson Turner
People of the Plains and Mountains
People of the Plains and Mountains: Essays in the History of the West Dedicated to Everett Dick Get access People of the Plains and Mountains: Essays in the History of the West Dedicated to Everett Dick. Edited by Billington Ray Allen, with the assistance of Vern Carner. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1973. xi, 227 p. Photograph, list of Dick publications, index. $12.50.) T. A. Larson T. A. Larson University of Wyoming Search for other works by this…
The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten
Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other young Philadelphia women: she black, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded any person of color in her day. Her remarkable diary reveals how her resentment against the prejudice of the white world became transformed into an iron determination to excel. Impatien…
Westward Expansion
When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's 'Westward Expansion' set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the …
Great Surveys of the American West
few.Hundreds of photographs, maps, sketches, and illustrations highlight this fascinating saga of a city and its people.The book, sponsored by the Cedar Rapids-Marion Chamber of Commerce, is one other cities could use as a model project
Guns on the Early Frontiers. A History of Firearms from Colonial Times through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
Westward Expansion
Journal Article Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier Get access Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. By Billington Ray Allen Ridge Martin. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982. xv + 892 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, index. $18.95.) Walter Rundell, Jr. Walter Rundell, Jr. University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 1…
Westward Expansion
Regeneration through Violence
Texas in 1837
Coronado
Anti-Catholic Propaganda and the Home Missionary Movement, 1800-1860
Journal Article Anti-Catholic Propaganda and the Home Missionary Movement, 1800–1860 Get access Ray A. Billington Ray A. Billington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 22, Issue 3, December 1935, Pages 361–384, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892624 Published: 01 December 1935
Why Some Historians Rarely Write History
Journal Article Why Some Historians Rarely Write History: A Case Study of Frederick Jackson Turner Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 1963, Pages 3–27, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888979 Published: 01 June 1963
Government and the Arts
Guides to American History Manuscript Collections in Libraries of the United States
Journal Article Guides to American History Manuscript Collections in Libraries of the United States Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 1951, Pages 467–496, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889032 Published: 01 December 1951
Westward Expansion, A History of the American Frontier
Journal Article Westward Expansion, A History of the American Frontier. By Ray Allen Billington, with the collaboration of James Blaine Hedges. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. xiii + 873 pp. Maps, bibliographical note, and index. $6.25.) Get access Homer C. Hockett Homer C. Hockett Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 19…
The Origins of Middle Western Isolationism
Journal Article The Origins of Middle Western Isolationism Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 1945, Pages 44–64, https://doi.org/10.2307/2144457 Published: 15 March 1945
Anti-Catholic Propaganda and the Home Missionary Movement, 1800-1860
Journal Article Anti-Catholic Propaganda and the Home Missionary Movement, 1800–1860 Get access Ray A. Billington Ray A. Billington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 22, Issue 3, December 1935, Pages 361–384, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892624 Published: 01 December 1935
The Burning of the Charlestown Convent
lence resulting from this wave of feeling was Charlestown, Massachusetts, and the date was 1834, when a convent was burned to the ground, and the persons guilty of the crime went unpunished. By tolerating this outrageous act on the part of a mob Massachusetts won for herself just condemnation both from civilized people then alive and like-minded men and women of the present day. Yet that act of arson, or some similar deed of violence, was inevita…
The Middlesex Canal, 1793-1860
Journal Article The Middlesex Canal, 1793–1860. By Christopher Roberts. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. LXI. xii + 252 pp. Appendix and bibliography. $3.00.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 25, Issue 3, December 1938, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/189728…
The Rise of Puritanism; Or, the Way to the New Jerusalem as Set Forth in Pulpit and Press from Thomas Cartwright to John Lilburne and John Milton, 1570-1643.
The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860
The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860
Journal Article The Protestant Crusade, 1800–1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism. By Ray A. Billington. (New York: Macmillan Co., 1938. xiv + 514 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, and bibliography. $5.00.) Get access W. R. Waterman W. R. Waterman Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 26, Issue 1, June 1939, Pages 92–93, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Life and Times of Edward Swanson
Political Nativism in Tennessee to 1860: A Dissertation. By Sister Mary de Lourdes Gohmann. (Washington: Catholic University of America, 1938. viii +192 pp. Appendices.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 25, Issue 4, March 1939, Pages 564–565, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892516 Published: 01 March 1939
The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860
We Who Built America
The Rise of Railroads in the Connecticut River Valley
Journal Article The Rise of Railroads in the Connecticut River Valley. By Thelma M. Kistler. Smith College Studies in History.. Edited by William D. Gray and Ray A. Billington. Vol. XXIII, Nos. 1–4. (Northampton: Department of History of Smith College, 1937–1938. 289 pp. Map, appendices, and bibliography.) Get access James B. Hedges James B. Hedges Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
Lester F. Ward
Journal Article Lester F. Ward: The American Aristotle. By Samuel Chugerman. Duke University Sociological Series. Edited by Charles A. Ellwood and Howard E. Jensen. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1939. xiv + 591 pp. Illustrations and bibliography. $5.00.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 27, Issue 2, Sept…
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
The Republic of the United States
Sibley's Harvard Graduates. Vol. VI
Journal Article Sibley's Harvard Graduates. Vol. VI: Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College in the Classes 1713–1721. By Clifford K. Shipton. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1942. xii + 641 pp. Illustrations and bibliographical notes.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 29, Is…
Good Old Summer Days
Good Old Summer Days: Newport, Narragansett Pier, Saratoga, Long Branch, Bar Harbor. By Richmond Barrett. (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941. xvii + 338 pp. Illustrations. $3.50.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 28, Issue 4, March 1942, Pages 639–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/1916586 Published: 01 Ma…
Francis Parkman, Heroic Historian
Agricultural Trends in the Connecticut Valley Region of Massachusetts, 1800-1900
Agricultural Trends in the Connecticut Valley Region of Massachusetts, 1800–1900. By Margaret Richards Pabst Get access Everett E. Edwards Everett E. Edwards U. S. Department of Agriculture Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 3, December 1944, Pages 463–464, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897132 Published: 01 December 1944
Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915
Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915. By Richard Hofstadter Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 3, December 1944, Pages 458–459, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897129 Published: 01 December 1944
The Origins of Middle Western Isolationism
Journal Article The Origins of Middle Western Isolationism Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 1945, Pages 44–64, https://doi.org/10.2307/2144457 Published: 15 March 1945
Nativism in Kentucky to 1860 . Agnes Geraldine McGann
The Republic of Texas; A Social and Economic History
The Republic of Texas; A Social and Economic History. By William Ransom Hogan. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946. xiii + 338 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $3.00.) Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 34, Issue 1, June 1947, Pages 126–127, https://doi.org/10.2307/1896008 Published: 01 Jun…
Economic Policy and Democratic Thought
Journal Article Economic Policy and Democratic Thought: Pennsylvania, 1776–1860. By Louis Hartz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. xv + 366 pp. Foreword by Benjamin F. Wright, maps, charts, bibliography, and index. $4.00.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 1948, Pag…
A Free Church in a Free State--America's Unique Contribution
Journal Article Church and State, By Evarts B. Greene. (Indianapolis: National Foundation Press, 1947. vi + 48 pp. $1.00.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 35, Issue 1, June 1948, Pages 113–114, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895152 Published: 01 June 1948
Westward Expansion, A History of the American Frontier
Journal Article Westward Expansion, A History of the American Frontier. By Ray Allen Billington, with the collaboration of James Blaine Hedges. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. xiii + 873 pp. Maps, bibliographical note, and index. $6.25.) Get access Homer C. Hockett Homer C. Hockett Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 19…
The Making of American Democracy; Readings and Documents. 2 vols
The Making of American Democracy; Readings and Documents. Edited by Ray Allen Billington, Bert James Loewenberg, and Samuel Hugh Brockunier John R. Betts John R. Betts Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 37, Issue 3, December 1950, Pages 568–569, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893372 Published: 01 December 1950
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