Author: Pitirim A. Sorokin
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412843863
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942.
Man and Society in Calamity
Author: Pitirim A. Sorokin
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412843863
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412843863
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942.
The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Man and Society in Calamity
Author: Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher: Transaction Pub
ISBN: 9781412814492
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942.
Publisher: Transaction Pub
ISBN: 9781412814492
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942.
Ways & Power Of Love
Author: Pitirim A. Sorokin
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN: 1890151866
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Ways and Power of Love was originally published in 1954 when Pitirim Sorokin was in the twilight of his career and leading the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism. His elaborate scientific analysis of love with regard to its higher and lower forms, its causes and effects, its human and cosmic significance, and its core features constitutes the first study on this topic in world literature to date. Sorokin was the one absolutely essential twentieth-century pioneer in the study of love at the interface of science and religion. Bringing The Ways and Power of Love back into print allows a new generation of readers to appreciate Sorokin's genius and to move forward with his endeavor at a time when civilization itself continues to be threatened by a marked inability to live up to the ideal of love for all humankind. It is certainly right to hope, with Sorokin, that progress in knowledge about love can move humanity forward to a better future. Turning the sciences toward the study of love is no easy task, but it can and must be done.
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN: 1890151866
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Ways and Power of Love was originally published in 1954 when Pitirim Sorokin was in the twilight of his career and leading the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism. His elaborate scientific analysis of love with regard to its higher and lower forms, its causes and effects, its human and cosmic significance, and its core features constitutes the first study on this topic in world literature to date. Sorokin was the one absolutely essential twentieth-century pioneer in the study of love at the interface of science and religion. Bringing The Ways and Power of Love back into print allows a new generation of readers to appreciate Sorokin's genius and to move forward with his endeavor at a time when civilization itself continues to be threatened by a marked inability to live up to the ideal of love for all humankind. It is certainly right to hope, with Sorokin, that progress in knowledge about love can move humanity forward to a better future. Turning the sciences toward the study of love is no easy task, but it can and must be done.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Author: Marisha Pessl
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670037773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood at the side of her aphorism-prone father, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where she falls in with a charismatic group of friends before the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670037773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood at the side of her aphorism-prone father, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where she falls in with a charismatic group of friends before the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
Man and Society in Calamity
Author: Pitirim Aleksandrovič Sorokin
Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Man Against Mass Society
Author: Gabriel Marcel
Publisher: University Press of Amer
ISBN: 9780819145475
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Publisher: University Press of Amer
ISBN: 9780819145475
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Man and Society in Calamity
Author: Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Utopia
Author: Thomas More
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027303583
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027303583
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
The Crisis of Our Age
Author: Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher: Element Books, Limited
ISBN: 9780905682082
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Element Books, Limited
ISBN: 9780905682082
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description