| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall. Ed. by Eric Sandweiss. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xx, 251 pp. $32.50,ISBN 0-8262-1439-8.)
During the nineteenth century, St. Louis grew from a smallish river town of a few thousand people to a major industrial metropolis of several hundred thousand. Henry Shaw, who founded the well-known Missouri Botanical Garden in 1859, saw the city make this vital economic and cultural transition. St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw, an anthology edited by Eric Sandweiss, documents the cultural changes that took place in the Gateway City during Henry Shaw's lifetime in the city from 1819 to 1889.	1
In his introduction, Sandweiss notes that, in the eyes of some, urban society was dangerously libertarian and anarchic. City leaders in St. Louis wished to use cultural means to promote order and "progress" in the city. Sandweiss contends the essays in this anthology will examine this process of cultural change and document the different cultures that existed in the city during the century.	. . .

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