Author: Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816515158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Thomas E. Sheridan has spent a lifetime in Arizona, "living off it and seeking refuge from it." He knows firsthand its canyons, forests, and deserts; he has seen its cities exploding with new growth; and, like many other people, he sometimes fears for its future. In this book, Sheridan sets forth new ideas about what a history should be. Arizona: A History explores the ways in which Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos have inhabited and exploited Arizona from the pursuit of the Naco mammoth 11,000 years ago to the financial adventurism of Charles Keating and others today. It also examines how perceptions of Arizona have changed, creating new constituencies of tourists, environmentalists, and outside business interests to challenge the dominance of ranchers, mining companies, and farmers who used to control the state. Sheridan emphasizes the crucial role of the federal government in Arizona's development throughout the book. As Sheridan writes about the past, his eyes are on the inevitable change and compromise of the present and future. He balances the gains and losses as global forces interact more and more with local cultural and environmental factors.
Arizona
Author: Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816515158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Thomas E. Sheridan has spent a lifetime in Arizona, "living off it and seeking refuge from it." He knows firsthand its canyons, forests, and deserts; he has seen its cities exploding with new growth; and, like many other people, he sometimes fears for its future. In this book, Sheridan sets forth new ideas about what a history should be. Arizona: A History explores the ways in which Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos have inhabited and exploited Arizona from the pursuit of the Naco mammoth 11,000 years ago to the financial adventurism of Charles Keating and others today. It also examines how perceptions of Arizona have changed, creating new constituencies of tourists, environmentalists, and outside business interests to challenge the dominance of ranchers, mining companies, and farmers who used to control the state. Sheridan emphasizes the crucial role of the federal government in Arizona's development throughout the book. As Sheridan writes about the past, his eyes are on the inevitable change and compromise of the present and future. He balances the gains and losses as global forces interact more and more with local cultural and environmental factors.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816515158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Thomas E. Sheridan has spent a lifetime in Arizona, "living off it and seeking refuge from it." He knows firsthand its canyons, forests, and deserts; he has seen its cities exploding with new growth; and, like many other people, he sometimes fears for its future. In this book, Sheridan sets forth new ideas about what a history should be. Arizona: A History explores the ways in which Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos have inhabited and exploited Arizona from the pursuit of the Naco mammoth 11,000 years ago to the financial adventurism of Charles Keating and others today. It also examines how perceptions of Arizona have changed, creating new constituencies of tourists, environmentalists, and outside business interests to challenge the dominance of ranchers, mining companies, and farmers who used to control the state. Sheridan emphasizes the crucial role of the federal government in Arizona's development throughout the book. As Sheridan writes about the past, his eyes are on the inevitable change and compromise of the present and future. He balances the gains and losses as global forces interact more and more with local cultural and environmental factors.
History Is in the Land
Author: T. J. Ferguson
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532680
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Arizona’s San Pedro Valley is a natural corridor through which generations of native peoples have traveled for more than 12,000 years, and today many tribes consider it to be part of their ancestral homeland. This book explores the multiple cultural meanings, historical interpretations, and cosmological values of this extraordinary region by combining archaeological and historical sources with the ethnographic perspectives of four contemporary tribes: Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Zuni, and San Carlos Apache. Previous research in the San Pedro Valley has focused on scientific archaeology and documentary history, with a conspicuous absence of indigenous voices, yet Native Americans maintain oral traditions that provide an anthropological context for interpreting the history and archaeology of the valley. The San Pedro Ethnohistory Project was designed to redress this situation by visiting archaeological sites, studying museum collections, and interviewing tribal members to collect traditional histories. The information it gathered is arrayed in this book along with archaeological and documentary data to interpret the histories of Native American occupation of the San Pedro Valley. This work provides an example of the kind of interdisciplinary and politically conscious work made possible when Native Americans and archaeologists collaborate to study the past. As a methodological case study, it clearly articulates how scholars can work with Native American stakeholders to move beyond confrontations over who “owns” the past, yielding a more nuanced, multilayered, and relevant archaeology.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532680
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Arizona’s San Pedro Valley is a natural corridor through which generations of native peoples have traveled for more than 12,000 years, and today many tribes consider it to be part of their ancestral homeland. This book explores the multiple cultural meanings, historical interpretations, and cosmological values of this extraordinary region by combining archaeological and historical sources with the ethnographic perspectives of four contemporary tribes: Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Zuni, and San Carlos Apache. Previous research in the San Pedro Valley has focused on scientific archaeology and documentary history, with a conspicuous absence of indigenous voices, yet Native Americans maintain oral traditions that provide an anthropological context for interpreting the history and archaeology of the valley. The San Pedro Ethnohistory Project was designed to redress this situation by visiting archaeological sites, studying museum collections, and interviewing tribal members to collect traditional histories. The information it gathered is arrayed in this book along with archaeological and documentary data to interpret the histories of Native American occupation of the San Pedro Valley. This work provides an example of the kind of interdisciplinary and politically conscious work made possible when Native Americans and archaeologists collaborate to study the past. As a methodological case study, it clearly articulates how scholars can work with Native American stakeholders to move beyond confrontations over who “owns” the past, yielding a more nuanced, multilayered, and relevant archaeology.
Arizona
Author: Marshall Trimble
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Tells the history of the land and its people: the outlaws and prospectors, Apache and Navajo, cowboys and cattle rustlers, Mormons and Spanish who lived and died on Arizona soil.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Tells the history of the land and its people: the outlaws and prospectors, Apache and Navajo, cowboys and cattle rustlers, Mormons and Spanish who lived and died on Arizona soil.
An Introduction to Arizona History and Government
Author: Donald Gawronski
Publisher: Learning Solutions
ISBN: 9780558745141
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Learning Solutions
ISBN: 9780558745141
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Brief History of Phoenix
Author: Jon Talton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467118443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Though the new metropolis is one of America's largest, many are unaware of Phoenix's rich and compelling history. Built on land once occupied by the most advanced pre-Columbian irrigation society, Phoenix overcame its hostile desert surroundings to become a thriving agricultural center. After World War II, its population exploded with the mid-century mass migration to the Sun Belt. In times of rapid expansion or decline, Phoenicians proved themselves to be adaptable and optimistic. Phoenix's past is an engaging and surprising story of audacity, vision, greed and a never-ending fight to secure its future. Chronicling the challenges of growth and change, fourth-generation Arizonan Jon Talton tells the story of the city that remains one of American civilization's great accomplishments.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467118443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Though the new metropolis is one of America's largest, many are unaware of Phoenix's rich and compelling history. Built on land once occupied by the most advanced pre-Columbian irrigation society, Phoenix overcame its hostile desert surroundings to become a thriving agricultural center. After World War II, its population exploded with the mid-century mass migration to the Sun Belt. In times of rapid expansion or decline, Phoenicians proved themselves to be adaptable and optimistic. Phoenix's past is an engaging and surprising story of audacity, vision, greed and a never-ending fight to secure its future. Chronicling the challenges of growth and change, fourth-generation Arizonan Jon Talton tells the story of the city that remains one of American civilization's great accomplishments.
Studies in Arizona History
Author: Julie A. Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A history of Arizona, from its ancient settlement by American Indians to today.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A history of Arizona, from its ancient settlement by American Indians to today.
An Arizona Chronology
Author: Douglas DeVeny Martin
Publisher: Century Collection
ISBN: 9780816535347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The lively role of the newspaper in "telling history's story" comes across in An Arizona Chronology, Volume Two, the continued selection by the late veteran journalist, Douglas D. Martin, of reported highlights in Arizona's first two and a half decades as a state. Here were the years in which Arizona's "bad men" virtually dropped out of sight, and the trigger-blast was displaced by the gavel-thumping sound of law and order as a Territory grew up and became a state. The problem of the Apache was no more, and the problem of water began to loom large. Depression and prohibition were the counter-themes. And Arizona's three C's--Copper, Cattle, and Cotton--were about to strike for their place in the national limelight. It was a time of conversion. The vital currents of frontier energy were turned into the channels of modern agriculture, finance, and urban growth. As this volume's editor, Patricia Paylore, points out, the transformation reaffirms Douglas Martin's view of Arizona history as the "persistence of the pioneer spirit of the nineteenth century" in terms of "the strength and optimism of a young people determined to take its place in the Union."
Publisher: Century Collection
ISBN: 9780816535347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The lively role of the newspaper in "telling history's story" comes across in An Arizona Chronology, Volume Two, the continued selection by the late veteran journalist, Douglas D. Martin, of reported highlights in Arizona's first two and a half decades as a state. Here were the years in which Arizona's "bad men" virtually dropped out of sight, and the trigger-blast was displaced by the gavel-thumping sound of law and order as a Territory grew up and became a state. The problem of the Apache was no more, and the problem of water began to loom large. Depression and prohibition were the counter-themes. And Arizona's three C's--Copper, Cattle, and Cotton--were about to strike for their place in the national limelight. It was a time of conversion. The vital currents of frontier energy were turned into the channels of modern agriculture, finance, and urban growth. As this volume's editor, Patricia Paylore, points out, the transformation reaffirms Douglas Martin's view of Arizona history as the "persistence of the pioneer spirit of the nineteenth century" in terms of "the strength and optimism of a young people determined to take its place in the Union."
The History of Arizona
Author: Sidney Randolph De Long
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Traces the settlement of the Arizona territory by the United States, from the Gadsden Purchase until the early 20th century, with descriptions of the geographies and economies of each county.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Traces the settlement of the Arizona territory by the United States, from the Gadsden Purchase until the early 20th century, with descriptions of the geographies and economies of each county.
History of Arizona
Author: Thomas Edwin Farish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
History of Arizona
Author: Thomas Edwin Farish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375535632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375535632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description