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Author : Friedrich Gerstäcker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In the Arkansas Backwoods written by Friedrich Gerstäcker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Gerstäcker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book In the Arkansas Backwoods written by Friedrich Gerstäcker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brooks Blevins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 161075042X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Arkansas/Arkansaw written by Brooks Blevins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They’re all Arkansans. What do hillbillies, rednecks, slow trains, bare feet, moonshine, and double-wides have in common? For many in America these represent Arkansas more than any Arkansas success stories do. In 1931 H. L. Mencken described AR (not AK, folks) as the “apex of moronia.” While, in 1942 a Time magazine article said Arkansas had “developed a mass inferiority complex unique in American history.” Arkansas/Arkansaw is the first book to explain how Arkansas’s image began and how the popular culture stereotypes have been perpetuated and altered through succeeding generations. Brooks Blevins argues that the image has not always been a bad one. He discusses travel accounts, literature, radio programs, movies, and television shows that give a very positive image of the Natural State. From territorial accounts of the Creole inhabitants of the Mississippi River Valley to national derision of the state’s triple-wide governor’s mansion to Li’l Abner, the Beverly Hillbillies, and Slingblade, Blevins leads readers on an entertaining and insightful tour through more than two centuries of the idea of Arkansas. One discovers along the way how one state becomes simultaneously a punch line and a source of admiration for progressives and social critics alike. Winner, 2011 Ragsdale Award
Author : Jeannie M. Whayne
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557285874
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Arkansas Biography written by Jeannie M. Whayne and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight years in the making, Arkansas Biography brings to light the lives of those who have helped shape Arkansas history for over four hundred years. Featured are not only the trailblazers, such as steamboat captain Henry Shreve, Olympic gold medalist Bill Carr, discount mogul Sam Walton, and aviator Louise Thaden, but also those whose lives reflect their culture and times--musicians, scientists, teachers, preachers, and journalists. One hundred and eighty contributors--professional and avocational historians--offer clear vignettes of nearly three hundred individuals, beginning with Hernando de Soto, who crossed the Mississippi River in the summer of 1540. The entries include birth and death dates and places, life and career highlights, lineage, anecdotes, and source material. This is a browser's book with an Arkansas voice. The wealth of information condensed into this single reference volume will be valuable to general readers of all ages, libraries, museums, and scholars. A fitting summary at the turn of a millennium, Arkansas Biography pays lasting tribute to the men and women who have enriched the life and character of the state and, by extension, the region and the nation.
Author : Mody C. Boatright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870740114
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Backwoods to Border written by Mody C. Boatright and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society begins with "A Buffalo Hunter and His Song," by Texas folklorist and Society editor J. Frank Dobie. The book is a collection of nineteen Texas folk tales, including "Cowboy Dance Calls," "Grave Decoration," "The Ghost Nun," "Ghost Stories from Texas College for Women," "Folklore of Texas Plants," "Mexican Animal Tales," and "Anecdotes About Lawyers."
Author : Jake Richards
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1633411117
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Backwoods Witchcraft written by Jake Richards and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Backwoods Witchcraft, Jake Richards offers up a folksy stew of family stories, lore, omens, rituals, and conjure crafts that he learned from his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his grandfather, a Baptist minister who Jake remembers could "rid someone of a fever with an egg or stop up the blood in a wound." The witchcraft practiced in Appalachia is very much a folk magic of place, a tradition that honors the seen and unseen beings that inhabit the land as well as the soil, roots, and plant life. The materials and tools used in Appalachia witchcraft are readily available from the land. This "grounded approach" will be of keen interest to witches and conjure folk regardless of where they live. Readers will be guided in how to build relationships with the spirits and other beings that dwell around them and how to use the materials and tools that are readily available on the land where one lives. This book also provides instructions on how to create a working space and altar and make conjure oils and powders. A wide array of tried-and-true formulas are also offered for creating wealth, protecting one from gossip, spiritual cleansing, and more.
Author : Donald P. McNeilly
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286191
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)
Download or read book The Old South Frontier written by Donald P. McNeilly and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply researched and well-written study, Donald P. McNeilly examines how moderately wealthy planters and sons of planters immigrated into the virtually empty lands of Arkansas, seeking their fortune and to establish themselves as the leaders of a new planter aristocracy west of the Mississippi River. These men, sometimes alone, sometimes with family, and usually with slaves, sought the best land possible, cleared it, planted their crops, and erected crude houses and other buildings. Life was difficult for these would-be leaders of society and their families, and especially hard for the slaves who toiled to create fields in which they labored to produce a crop. McNeilly argues that by the time of Arkansas's statehood in 1836, planters and large farmers had secured a hold over their frontier home, and that between 1840 and the Civil War, planters solidified their hold on politics, economics, and society in Arkansas. The author takes a topical approach to the subject, with chapters on migration, slavery, non-planter whites, politics, and the secession crisis of 1860-1861. McNeilly offers a first-rate analysis of the creation of a white, cotton-based society in Arkansas, shedding light not only on the southern frontier, but also on the established Old South before the Civil War.
Author : John C. Guilds
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610750403
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Arkansas, Arkansas Volume 1 written by John C. Guilds and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the expeditions of de Soto in the sixteenth century to the celebrated work of such contemporary writers as Maya Angelou, Ellen Gilchrist, and Miller Williams, Arkansas has enjoyed a rich history of letters. These two volumes gather the best work from Arkansas's rich literary history celebrating the variety of its voices and the national treasure those voices have become.
Author : Martin Fletcher
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349139997
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Almost Heaven written by Martin Fletcher and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seven years as Washington correspondent of THE TIMES, Martin Fletcher set off to explore the great American 'boondocks' - the raw and untamed land that exists far from the famous cities and national parks. His extraordinary journey takes him to places no tourist would ever visit, to amazing communities outsiders have never heard of, to the quintessential America. He encounters snake-handlers, moonshiners, creationists, outlaws, polygamists, white supremacists and communities preparing for Armageddon. He goes bear hunting in West Virginia, fur trapping in Louisiana, diamond digging in Arkansas and gold prospecting in Nevada. From the eccentric but friendly to the frankly unhinged, the inhabitants of backwater America and their preoccupations, prejudices and traditions are brought vividly to life. 'Fletcher is not only capable of excellent penmanship, but is also able to view the country and its people as both outsider and insider, and does so without being judgmental. I found his warm and subtly humorous style very appealing, and I highly recommend this book' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750264
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Arkansas/fletcher (p) written by and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Arkansas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arkansas written by Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Arkansas and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irene S. Di Maio
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131466
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Gerstäcker's Louisiana written by Irene S. Di Maio and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global traveler and adventurer, the German author Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816--1872) first arrived in Louisiana in March 1838, paddling the waterways leading from the wilds of the northwestern part of the state near Shreveport south to cosmopolitan New Orleans. He returned to the state in 1842, living for a year in the areas of Bayou Sara, St. Francisville, and Pointe Coupée -- then considered the most beautiful garden and plantation land along the Mississippi River. In 1867 he briefly visited Louisiana again, observing the devastation wrought by the Civil War and the turmoil of Reconstruction. No mere armchair tourist, Gerstäcker fully engaged himself in exploring Louisiana -- its landscapes, peoples, and Peculiar Institution. He was in the unique position of being both an insider and an outsider, and his sojourns in the state served as the basis for travel books, short stories, and novels. Gerstäcker was a remarkable raconteur and a highly popular author. During his lifetime and beyond, his writings conveyed the tenor of southern life to a German-speaking audience. Now, compiled and translated into English by Irene S. Di Maio, they offer a window on nineteenth-century Louisiana across several decades of growth and upheaval.Gerstäcker's aim as a writer was to inform and entertain, especially through humor, drama, and suspense. His works -- including his fiction -- sustain an almost ethnographic level of detail. The stories, travel sketches, and novel excerpts included here comment on slavery and its aftermath, ethnic and racial diversity, transcultural relations, and immigration and multilingualism. Gerstäcker's impressions of Louisiana remain relevant and deeply engaging
Author : Robert Redfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351321625
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The Ethnographic Moment written by Robert Redfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty years of the twentieth century were a time of ferment in American anthropology. American ethnographic work evolved from the "salvage" work of professionals affiliated with museums who undertook to document with artifacts and testimony the threatened traditional way of life among the Native American tribes, to the establishment of anthropology as a science, represented in university departments, that sought to describe the "ethnographic present" of isolated primitive peoples, often in distant parts of the world. By the beginning of the 1950s, cultural anthropology discovered the peasant. Robert Redfield, himself a leading figure in this paradigm shift, challenged anthropology's focus on a static model of the isolated primitive community, pointing out the dynamic nature of the "little communities" he studied in Mesoamerica. These were not isolated communities, but rather local, traditional cultures located well within the sphere of a complex urban culture. In order to distinguish the "great tradition" deriving from urban centers from the "little tradition" of a more primitive culture, Redfield believed anthropology needed to refer to other disciplines, such as theology, philosophy, economics, and sociology. In other words, anthropology had to develop from the collection of material artifacts to a concern with the immaterial realm of values and ideas. This collection of essays and previously unpublished papers, The Ethnographic Moment, tells the story of a remarkable chapter in Redfield's pioneering efforts on what was then an anthropological frontier. The present volume covers the years from 1952 to 1958, the last of Redfield's life. It focuses solely on his study of peasant communities. At the core of the book is his correspondence with the philosopher-humanist F. G. Friedmann, who played an important role in Redfield's conceptualization of the complex urban-rural continuum that characterizes the peasant's world. The volume also includes an autobiographical introduction by Friedmann that illuminates both his own writings and the humanistic background that motivated his study of peasantry.
Author : James Willis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595440673
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Other Side of Silence written by James Willis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When CSA Lieutenant William Joseph Butler, or Billy, as family and friends know him, becomes a target of revenge for a wealthy planter on the Mississippi, Billy's father allows him to follow his brother into the army. Seventeen-year-old Billy finds his brother and regiment at Corinth, just before the battle of Shiloh in April of 1862. War is not what young Billy imagined it to be. Educated and inquisitive, he questions much of what he sees and experiences, and Billy finds himself contemplating the true nature and validity of the war he's fighting-and losing. After his first battle, Billy realizes glory is not a holy grail to be sought or bought-glory is made when soldiers are brutally slain, unable to strike the heroic pose. Yet Billy still finds reason to continue the war effort at each junction, risking losses beyond anything he has known in his short life. From the fragrant stalls of a livery stable to the bloodstained battlefields of the Civil War, The Other Side of Silence vividly portrays the life of a soldier who becomes disillusioned with war and the quest for glory.
Author : Friedrich Gerstäcker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Wild Sports in the Far West written by Friedrich Gerstäcker and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Archives of Dentistry written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Connell J. Brown
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557284396
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Cattle on a Thousand Hills written by Connell J. Brown and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cattle on a Thousand Hills presents a history of cattle in Arkansas from the period of European exploration and settlement to the present day, when some of the finest beef herds in the country are found in the state. Dr. Brown focuses on the ranchers' and farmers' ways of life, explores the development of the various breeds, and describes how technological advances and the evolution of cattle marketing affected beef production in Arkansas." "Dr. Brown tells the story of the state's cattle industry in terms of the people who introduced new varieties of cattle to Arkansas, raised them, and led the associated supporting organizations. Included are chronicles of the Arkansas Cattlemen's Association and other organizations that have had significance in Arkansas's growing and dynamic cattle business: the Arkansas Cattlewomen's Association, the Farm Bureau, the Cooperative Extension Service, the Department of Animal Science at the University of Arkansas, and the Arkansas Veterinary Medical Association. Connell J. Brown's book is the definitive story of the people who built an industry currently worth half a billion dollars in annual sales."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
