Author: Timothy Bigelow
Publisher: Boston : J. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Charles Mason Dow
Publisher: Albany : Published by the State of New York, J.B. Lyon Company, printers
ISBN:
Category : Niagara Falls
Languages : en
Pages : 774

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Author: Linda L. Revie
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554587735
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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What is it about Niagara Falls that fascinates people? What draws them to it? Is it love, obsession, or fear? In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie searches for an answer to these questions by examining the paintings and writings about the Falls from the late seventeenth century, when the first Europeans discovered Niagara, to the early twentieth century. Linda Revie’s study considers how three centuries of representations are shaped by the earliest encounters with the waterfall and notes shifts in the construction of landscape features and in human figures, both Native and European, in the long history of fine art depictions. Travel narratives, both literary and scientific, also come under her scrutiny, and reveal how these chronicles were influenced by previous pictures coming out of Niagara, particularly some of the first from the seventeenth century. In all of these portraits and texts, she notes a common pattern of response from the observers — moving from anticipation, to disappointment, to a kind of recovery. But in the end, there is fear. Even long after Niagara had become a tourist mecca, it was often drawn as a primordial wilderness — a place where civilization vies with wildness, artifice with nature, fear with control, the natural with the mastered. Throughout this history of images and narratives, as humans struggle to control nature, the notion of wildness prevails. Those who want a deeper understanding of why Niagara Falls continues to fascinate us, even today, will find Linda Revie’s book an excellent companion.

Author: American Geographical Society of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307428427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution. The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North America. As one served American expansion by promoting Indian dispossession and religious conversion, and the other struggled to defend and strengthen Indian territories, the two friends became bitter enemies. Their battle over control of the Indian borderland, that divided ground between the British Empire and the nascent United States, would come to define nationhood in North America. Taylor tells a fascinating story of the far-reaching effects of the American Revolution and the struggle of American Indians to preserve a land of their own.

Author: American Geographical Society of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Author: Charles Deane
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Author: Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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