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Author : Jane M. Rausch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Tropical Plains Frontier written by Jane M. Rausch and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane M. Rausch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Tropical Plains Frontier written by Jane M. Rausch and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129716
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers written by Richard W. Slatta and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of the American West, perhaps inspired by NAFTA and Internet communication, are expanding their intellectual horizons across borders north and south. This collection of essays functions as a how-to guide to comparative frontier research in the Americas. Frontiers specialist Richard W. Slatta presents topics, techniques, and methods that will intrigue social science professionals and western history buffs alike as he explores the frontiers of North and South America from Spanish colonial days into the twentieth century. The always popular cowboy is joined by the fascinating gaucho, llanero, vaquero, and charro as Slatta compares their work techniques, roundups, songs, tack, lingo, equestrian culture, and vices. We visit saloons and pulperias as well as plains and pampas, and Slatta expertly compares clothing, weather, terrain, diets, alcoholic beverages, card games, and military tactics. From primary records we learn how Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans became the ranch hands, cowmen, and buckaroos of the Americas, and why their dependence on the ranch cattle industry kept them bachelors and landless peons.
Author : Jane M. Loy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Llanos in Colombian History written by Jane M. Loy and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane M. Rausch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Latin American Frontier History written by Jane M. Rausch and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544211091
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Deep Blue Sea written by Tim Robinson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Attention: This book completes the tale of Charlie MacLeod and Jubal Prescott and is not intended for fledgling, unseasoned readers of the series, A Tropical Frontier] In the Twelfth book in the "Tropical Frontier" series, The Deep Blue Sea, we bid a bittersweet farewell to a Jolly Sailor and an old Indian Fighter.
Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540378460
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (784 download)
Download or read book A Tropical Frontier written by Tim Robinson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bitter old man, a resentful son who never knew his father, and a daughter-in-law who is intent on fixing everything. What could possibly go wrong? Set along the banks of a winding, jungle river, this is a story of reflection, regret, and the power of bullheadedness.
Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826311948
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest written by David J. Weber and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in Southwest Collection.
Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985671867
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)
Download or read book A Tropical Frontier written by Tim Robinson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirteenth novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series, The Last Caloosa is, in addition, the Third and final novel in the "Indian Fighter" sub-series.The proverbial fork in the road: which path to follow? Bridges burned. No turning back. One can never know to where a single, momentary decision might lead, whether it be to a good place, or to a very, very bad place, indeed, to the gates of Hell themselves.
Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127677
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Bárbaros written by David J. Weber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries after CortÉs and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways, and often possessing firearms, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by Spanish soldiers and conversion by Spanish missionaries. In this panoramic study, David J. Weber explains how late eighteenthcentury Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they called bÁrbaros, or "savages." Even Spain's most powerful monarchs failed, however, to enforce a consistent, well-reasoned policy toward Indians. At one extreme, powerful independent Indians forced Spaniards to seek peace, acknowledge autonomous tribal governments, and recognize the existence of tribal lands, fulfilling the Crown's oft-stated wish to use "gentle" means in dealing with Indians. At the other extreme the Crown abandoned its principles, authorizing bloody wars on Indians when Spanish officers believed they could defeat them. Power, says Weber, more than the power of ideas, determined how Spaniards treated "savages" in the Age of Enlightenment.
Author : George Raudzens
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004473882
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries written by George Raudzens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.
Author : Nancy P. Appelbaum
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Mapping the Country of Regions written by Nancy P. Appelbaum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a "country of regions." By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's Colombians.
Author : Gary Van Valen
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599785
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Agency in the Amazon written by Gary Van Valen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest group of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted to Catholicism, and adapted their traditional lifestyle to the conventions of mission life. Nearly two hundred years later they faced two new challenges: liberalism and the rubber boom. White authorities promoted liberalism as a way of modernizing the region and ordered the dismantling of much of the social structure of the missions. The rubber boom created a demand for labor, which took the Mojos away from their savanna towns and into the northern rain forests. Gary Van Valen postulates that as ex-mission Indians who lived on a frontier, the Mojos had an expanded capacity to adapt that helped them meet these challenges. Their frontier life provided them with the space and mind-set to move their agricultural plots and cattle herds, join independent indigenous groups, or move to Brazil. Their mission history gave them the experience they needed to participate in the rubber export economy and the politics of white society. Van Valen argues that the indigenous Mojos also learned how to manipulate liberal discourse to their advantage. He demonstrates that the Mojos were able to survive the rubber boom, claim the right of equality promised by the liberal state, and preserve important elements of the culture they inherited from the missions.
Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300056716
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Cowboys of the Americas written by Richard W. Slatta and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and movie stills, this Western Heritage Award-winning book explores what life was actually like for the working cowboy in North America. "If you read only one book on cowboys, read this one".--Journal of the Southwest.
Author : Ernesto Capello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000228827
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas written by Ernesto Capello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination: What kinds of nineteenth-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? What are the commonalities and distinctions in mapping strategies between North and South America? How does the constitution of expeditionary lines reorder space and the natural landscape itself? The volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century cartographic aesthetics, and features the multi-disciplinary perspective of historians, geographers, and art historians.
Author : David Bushnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520913906
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Colombia written by David Bushnell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-02-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a country where military dictators are virtually unknown, where the political left is congenitally weak, and where urbanization and industrialization have spawned no lasting populist movement. There is more to Colombia than the drug trafficking and violence that have recently gripped the world's attention. In the face of both cocaine wars and guerrilla conflict, the country has maintained steady economic growth as well as a relatively open and democratic government based on a two-party system. It has also produced an impressive body of art and literature. David Bushnell traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial consolidation, and reform in the nineteenth century to economic development and social and political democratization in the twentieth. He also sheds light on the modern history of Latin America as a whole.
Author : Bruce G. Trigger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521630764
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas written by Bruce G. Trigger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
