St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall

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Assembled in honor of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of philanthropist and entrepreneur Henry Shaw (1800–1889), St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw is a selection of nine provocative essays that together provide a definitive account of the life of St. Louis throughout the 1800s, a thriving period throughout which the city acquired the status of the largest metropolis in the American West.

Shaw, who established the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1859, used to be just one of the crucial many immigrants who left their mark on this complex, culturally wealthy city throughout the century of its greatest growth. This volume examines the lives of quite a lot of these women and men, 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 these days. 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, business, scientific research, and the arts.

Shaw’s own story mirrored these developments. Born in Sheffield, England, he immigrated to the USA in 1819 and soon moved to St. Louis. In the end becoming a very successful businessman and philanthropist, he used to be a participant in and a witness to the vast economic and cultural transformation of the city.
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