Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Catalogue
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
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Epiphany in the Wilderness
Author: Karen R. Jones
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457197545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three “acts,” using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a “cultural ecology of the chase” in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy.Using the metaphor of the theater, Jones argues that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual. The leading actor was the all-conquering masculine hunter hero, the sharpshooting man of the wilderness who tamed and claimed the West with each provident step. Women were also a significant part of the story, treading the game trails as plucky adventurers and resilient homesteaders and acting out their exploits in autobiographical accounts and stage shows.Epiphany in the Wilderness informs various academic debates surrounding the frontier period, including the construction of nature as a site of personal challenge, gun culture, gender adaptations and the crafting of the masculine wilderness hero figure, wildlife management and consumption, memorializing and trophy-taking, and the juxtaposition of a closing frontier with an emerging conservation movement."
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457197545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three “acts,” using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a “cultural ecology of the chase” in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy.Using the metaphor of the theater, Jones argues that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual. The leading actor was the all-conquering masculine hunter hero, the sharpshooting man of the wilderness who tamed and claimed the West with each provident step. Women were also a significant part of the story, treading the game trails as plucky adventurers and resilient homesteaders and acting out their exploits in autobiographical accounts and stage shows.Epiphany in the Wilderness informs various academic debates surrounding the frontier period, including the construction of nature as a site of personal challenge, gun culture, gender adaptations and the crafting of the masculine wilderness hero figure, wildlife management and consumption, memorializing and trophy-taking, and the juxtaposition of a closing frontier with an emerging conservation movement."
Second Supplement to the Catalogue (issued in 1884.) of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments
Author: Worcester Free Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
Picturing Empire
Author: James R. Ryan
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780231636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780231636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.
A Catalogue of ... [books] ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Palmers' Index to the Times Newspaper
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Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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The Spectator
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Tourism and the Consumption of Wildlife
Author: Brent Lovelock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134140258
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book addresses key and contentious issues facing consumptive wildlife tourism in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134140258
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book addresses key and contentious issues facing consumptive wildlife tourism in the twenty-first century.