1. Welcome to America!
Also appreciable is the author's brief commentaries on racism, with a unique facility for embedding a sort of linguistic philosophy that are unique to Cooper. The book begins innocently enough, with an introduction that tells us that the setting is the third year of the French and Indian War. ... Scholars have suggested that Cooper has an implicit linguistic philosophy embedded in The Last of the Mohicans. ... Most damaging, however, is Cooper's stark denial of inaccuracies in the introduction. ...
The introduction of 'black codes'. ... Then the introduction of refrigerated rail cars would allow southern produce to reach northern markets, which would further diversify the southern economy. ... (Escott, Goldfield, McMillen, & Hayes-Turner, 1999, p. 339)" In addition to the push for industrial improvements and the spread of government contracts to build southern military bases, they would both be integral to the spread of northern philosophies and culture to the South and the same for the South spreading to the north. ...