Author: Emerson Hough
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Passing of the Frontier is a book about post-Civil War history. This detailed, informational novel showcases such engaging topics as the gold rush, outlaws, and the wild western frontier. Excerpt: "The frontier! There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved. It has in it all the elan of the old French phrase..."
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Author: Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014196331X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation’s expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which – for better or worse – lies at the heart of American identity today. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014196331X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation’s expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which – for better or worse – lies at the heart of American identity today. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
Author: Emerson Hough
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Passing of the Frontier is a book about post-Civil War history. This detailed, informational novel showcases such engaging topics as the gold rush, outlaws, and the wild western frontier. Excerpt: "The frontier! There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved. It has in it all the elan of the old French phrase..."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Passing of the Frontier is a book about post-Civil War history. This detailed, informational novel showcases such engaging topics as the gold rush, outlaws, and the wild western frontier. Excerpt: "The frontier! There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved. It has in it all the elan of the old French phrase..."
America's West
Author: David M. Wrobel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521192013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521192013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.
The Last Frontier
Author: Julia Assante
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608681602
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
"An exploration of the afterlife and communication with the dead. Author's career has included being both a professional psychic and a professional scholar. Addresses questions about God, heaven, and hell and gives evidence for existence beyond death. Explores historical accounts, religious scholarship, near-death experiences, and after-death communication"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608681602
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
"An exploration of the afterlife and communication with the dead. Author's career has included being both a professional psychic and a professional scholar. Addresses questions about God, heaven, and hell and gives evidence for existence beyond death. Explores historical accounts, religious scholarship, near-death experiences, and after-death communication"--Provided by publisher.
The End of American Exceptionalism
Author: David M. Wrobel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A lucid and rewarding synthesis of cultural and western history. -- Richard W. Etulain, author of Writing Western History. Wrobel makes a fine contribution to the study of myth by analyzing the anxiety, or angst, Americans felt about the frontier in the half-century after 1890. This is an excellent book on a big subject, executed with much skill. -- Western Historical Quarterly. Direct, admirably brief, and crisply written. -- Journal of American History.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A lucid and rewarding synthesis of cultural and western history. -- Richard W. Etulain, author of Writing Western History. Wrobel makes a fine contribution to the study of myth by analyzing the anxiety, or angst, Americans felt about the frontier in the half-century after 1890. This is an excellent book on a big subject, executed with much skill. -- Western Historical Quarterly. Direct, admirably brief, and crisply written. -- Journal of American History.
Changing National Identities at the Frontier
Author: Andrés Reséndez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions against the backdrop of two structural transformations taking place in the region during the first half of the 19th century and often pulling in opposite directions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions against the backdrop of two structural transformations taking place in the region during the first half of the 19th century and often pulling in opposite directions.
Passing It On
Author: General Sir Andrew Skeen
Publisher: Military Bookshop
ISBN: 9781780399997
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A Republished and Annotated Edition of "Passing It On: Short Talks on Tribal Fighting on the North-West Frontier of India" with new a Forward and Lessons Learned. Republished by the Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Illustrated. From the foreword: "This book, originally published as a guide for British lieutenants and captains, demonstrates that improvements in technology-much of it available to both sides - have had only a modest impact on infantry fighting in this rugged terrain. However, it also demonstrates that the key to enhancing basic infantry effectiveness is using the terrain effectively, maintaining force security and understanding the mountain people. General Sir Andrew Skeen spent decades dealing with this frontier. His combat experience in the Afghanistan frontier region was extensive, but he also saw action against the Boxers in China, in Somaliland, Gallipoli and the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. His final field posting was as the Chief of the General Staff of the Army of India. "Passing it on" is about passing on his experience in this turbulent region to the lieutenants and captains who were then dealing with the problems of mountain combat against Pushtun tribesmen. His advice is still relevant to what our soldiers are facing today. The mission of the Foreign Military Studies Office is to esearch and present foreign ideas and perspectives to better understand present and future problems. Occasionally we visit the past to find those ideas and perspectives. This 1932 book is not so much a step backwards as the (re)discovery of a useful map for now and the future. We hope it will be of value to our readers".
Publisher: Military Bookshop
ISBN: 9781780399997
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A Republished and Annotated Edition of "Passing It On: Short Talks on Tribal Fighting on the North-West Frontier of India" with new a Forward and Lessons Learned. Republished by the Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Illustrated. From the foreword: "This book, originally published as a guide for British lieutenants and captains, demonstrates that improvements in technology-much of it available to both sides - have had only a modest impact on infantry fighting in this rugged terrain. However, it also demonstrates that the key to enhancing basic infantry effectiveness is using the terrain effectively, maintaining force security and understanding the mountain people. General Sir Andrew Skeen spent decades dealing with this frontier. His combat experience in the Afghanistan frontier region was extensive, but he also saw action against the Boxers in China, in Somaliland, Gallipoli and the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. His final field posting was as the Chief of the General Staff of the Army of India. "Passing it on" is about passing on his experience in this turbulent region to the lieutenants and captains who were then dealing with the problems of mountain combat against Pushtun tribesmen. His advice is still relevant to what our soldiers are facing today. The mission of the Foreign Military Studies Office is to esearch and present foreign ideas and perspectives to better understand present and future problems. Occasionally we visit the past to find those ideas and perspectives. This 1932 book is not so much a step backwards as the (re)discovery of a useful map for now and the future. We hope it will be of value to our readers".
The American Wilderness
Author: Ansel Adams
Publisher: Ansel Adams
ISBN: 9780821217993
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In this magnificent volume, Ansel Adams champions the incomparable American landscape and insists that we keep these treasured lands undefiled. A testament of love for the wilderness from our nation's most famous photographer, in 108 duotone illustrations.
Publisher: Ansel Adams
ISBN: 9780821217993
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In this magnificent volume, Ansel Adams champions the incomparable American landscape and insists that we keep these treasured lands undefiled. A testament of love for the wilderness from our nation's most famous photographer, in 108 duotone illustrations.
Frontier House
Author: Simon Shaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743442709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743442709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.
U.S. History
Author: P. Scott Corbett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1886
Book Description
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1886
Book Description
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.