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Author : Cheryl L. Delk
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Discovering American Culture written by Cheryl L. Delk and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Tarrant-Reid
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 168335429X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Discovering Black America written by Linda Tarrant-Reid and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first African explorers to the first black president, this illustrated history is an excellent resource and “an epic work” (School Library Journal). Discovering Black America is an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. It begins with a black sailor aboard the Niña with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights to the first African American president in the White House. With first-person narratives from diaries and journals, interviews, and archival images, Discovering Black America provides an intimate understanding of this extensive history. “Engaging . . . brings to light many intriguing and tragically underreported stories.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Reproductions of historical documents, photographs, and artwork provide a sense of immediacy to this immersive tapestry, which reaches well beyond the milestones typically outlined in history books.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Absolutely gorgeous in design, with a harmonious marriage of text and colorful archival images, this is the kind of book that invites browsing, and its extensive reach will make this a go-to title for report writers.” —School Library Journal “Begins with the first African explorers and seamen arriving in the New World in the fifteenth century, and . . . ends with the presidential election of Barack Obama . . . meticulous footnotes and a bibliography of recommended books...An excellent title for classroom support.” —Booklist “Thoroughly researched and documented...an outstanding resource for students. The primary source documents, photographs, and archival maps that complement this compelling account will engage readers.” —Library Media Connection (highly recommended) An NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
Author : Justine Ciovacco
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1622758242
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Discovering Native North American Cultures written by Justine Ciovacco and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful guide explores the pre-Columbian native civilizations that thrived in North America, revealing a diverse range of cultures, languages, and customs. Particularly interesting is the examination of the various adaptations necessary for life in a continent that ranges from the arctic to the sub-tropic, including effective techniques for farming, fishing, and hunting. The devastating impact of European contact and conquest is described, as is the inspiring story of cultural survival in the face of near extinction. The modern life of native North American peoples and the ways in which they are keeping their heritage alive are also celebrated.
Author : Ann Vileisis
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559633154
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Discovering the Unknown Landscape written by Ann Vileisis and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapidly disappearing wetlands that once spread so abundantly across the American continent serve an essential and irreplaceable ecological function. Yet for centuries, Americans have viewed them with disdain. Beginning with the first European settlers, we have thought of them as sinkholes of disease and death, as landscapes that were worse than useless unless they could be drained, filled, paved or otherwise "improved." As neither dry land, which can be owned and controlled by individuals, nor bodies of water, which are considered a public resource, wetlands have in recent years been at the center of controversy over issues of environmental protection and property rights. The confusion and contention that surround wetland issues today are the products of a long and convoluted history. In Discovering the Unknown Landscape, Anne Vileisis presents a fascinating look at that history, exploring how Americans have thought about and used wetlands from Colonial times through the present day. She discusses the many factors that influence patterns of land use -- ideology, economics, law, perception, art -- and examines the complicated interactions among those factors that have resulted in our contemporary landscape. As well as chronicling the march of destruction, she considers our seemingly contradictory tradition of appreciating wetlands: artistic and literary representations, conservation during the Progressive Era, and recent legislation aimed at slowing or stopping losses. Discovering the Unknown Landscape is an intriguing synthesis of social and environmental history, and a valuable examination of how cultural attitudes shape the physical world that surrounds us. It provides important context to current debates, and clearly illustrates the stark contrast between centuries of beliefs and policies and recent attempts to turn those longstanding beliefs and policies around. Vileisis's clear and engaging prose provides a new and compelling understanding of modern-day environmental conflicts.
Author : Kim Kavin
Publisher : Nomad Press (VT)
ISBN 13 : 9780974934488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Tools of Native Americans written by Kim Kavin and published by Nomad Press (VT). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15 hands-on activites: Build inventions, tools, and works of art, meet the people whose culture helped form our own, explore the history of Native Americans with hands-on activities, learn how the discoveries of the First americans affect us today.
Author : Emmeline Besamusca
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048526094
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Discovering the Dutch written by Emmeline Besamusca and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the most salient and sparking facts about the Netherlands? This updated edition of 'Discovering the Dutch'tackles the heart of the question of Dutch identity through a number of essential themes that span the culture, history and society of the Netherlands. Running the gamut from the Randstad to the Dutch Golden Age, from William of Orange to Anne Frank, this volume uses a series of vignettes written by academic experts in their fields to address historical and contemporary topics such as immigration, tolerance, and the struggle against water, as well as issues of culture - painting, literature, architecture, and design among them. All chapters are written by academic experts in their fields who have extensive experience in explaining the many features of Dutchness to a foreign audience. Each chapter comes to life in vignettes that illustrate characteristic historical figures or essential aspects in Dutch culture and society from William of Orange and Anne Frank to Dutch cheese and the inevitable coffeeshop.
Author : James Laxer
Publisher : New York : New Press
ISBN 13 : 9781565847101
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Discovering America written by James Laxer and published by New York : New Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his travels through thirty-four of the fifty United States, commenting on the oddities of modern American culture.
Author : David Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351242636
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Discovering American Regionalism written by David Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regions are difficult to govern – coordinating policies across local jurisdictional boundaries in the absence of a formal regional government gives rise to enormous challenges. Yet some degree of coordination is almost always essential for local governments to effectively fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens. State and local governments have, over time, awkwardly, and with much experimenting, developed common approaches to regional governance. In this revolutionary new book, authors David Miller and Jen Nelles offer a new way to conceptualize those common approaches: Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) that bring together local governments to coordinate policies across jurisdictional boundaries. RIGOs are not governments themselves, but as Miller and Nelles demonstrate, they do have a measure of political authority that allows them to quietly and sometimes almost invisibly work to further regional interests and mitigate cross-boundary irritations. Providing a new conceptual framework for understanding how regional decision-making has emerged in the U.S., this book will provoke a new and rich era of discussion about American regionalism in theory and practice. Discovering American Regionalism will be a future classic in the study of intergovernmental relations, regionalism, and cross-boundary collaboration.
Author : Kate Shoup
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 150264309X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book American Culture and Society written by Kate Shoup and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the arrival of English settlers in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, American society was rooted in British Puritanism. Although whispers of that earlier Puritanical society remain, today's American culture is dramatically different. This volume traces the events that led to these societal changes, discussing such occurrences as the American Revolution, the California Gold Rush, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, spikes in immigration, and the devastating world wars of the twentieth century. This book includes an in-depth look at the way specific groups define themselves, how those definitions have evolved over time, and how these evolving ideas shape the nation as a whole.
Author : Robert J. Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Crossroads, USA: Discovering American Culture and Language with the Daily Newspaper written by Robert J. Hughes and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don Yoder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Discovering American Folklife written by Don Yoder and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anita Norich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804756907
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Discovering Exile written by Anita Norich and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers some of the most famous Yiddish writers in America, the controversies their works aroused—in Yiddish and English—during the Holocaust, and the ways in which reading them contributes to a revision of American Jewish cultural development.
Author : Christoph K. Lohmann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208156
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Discovering Difference written by Christoph K. Lohmann and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features essays that employ Marx, Freud, Derrida, Lacan, feminist, and African American criticism to investigate topics ranging from cultural encounters at the time of the European conquest of the Americas to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings.
Author : Katherine Gleeson
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1618104608
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Native American Culture written by Katherine Gleeson and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American Culture Comes Back To Life In The Details Of These Beautiful Illustrations.
Author : Kathleen Franz
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780495911722
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Major Problems in American Popular Culture written by Kathleen Franz and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, International Edition is part of a highly respected series of edited collections of primary documents and scholarly essays designed for use in history courses at the undergraduate level. The basic goal of these texts is to provide students and instructors with the most distinguished, readable, and stimulating writing available: essays centered on major historical questions, complemented by related primary source materials.
Author : Anna Tomasino
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Discovering Popular Culture written by Anna Tomasino and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief, provocative reader explores American popular culture from The Sopranos to the Simpsons, from MP3 players to comic books, from Andy Warhol to hip hop. Anyone who wants to understand what Americans are seeing, thinking, and doing in the 21st century should read this collection.
Author : Walter J. Lonner
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607526077
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Discovering Cultural Psychology written by Walter J. Lonner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology. Ernest Boesch’s synthesis of ideas is the first comprehensive theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt’s Völkerpsychologie of the first decades of the twentieth century. Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was charted out by Wundt—yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct recognition of such continuity. While Wundt’s experimental psychology has been hailed as the root for contemporary scientific psychology, the other side of his contribution— ethnographic analysis of folk traditions and higher psychological functions— has been largely discredited as something disconnected from the scientific realm. As an example of “soft” science—lacking the “hardness” of experimentation—it has been considered to be an esoteric hobby of the founding father of contemporary psychology. Of course that focus is profoundly wrong—the opposition “soft” versus “hard” just does not fit as a metalevel organizer of any science. Yet the rhetoric discounting the descriptive side of Wundt’s psychology is merely an act of social guidance of what psychologists do—not a way of creating knowledge.
