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Americans Great Frontiers And Sections Frederick Jackson Turners Unpublished Essays
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Book Synopsis The Myths That Made America by : Heike Paul
Download or read book The Myths That Made America written by Heike Paul and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.
Book Synopsis The End of American Exceptionalism by : David M. Wrobel
Download or read book The End of American Exceptionalism written by David M. Wrobel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis On Turner's Trail by : Wilbur R. Jacobs
Download or read book On Turner's Trail written by Wilbur R. Jacobs and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should Frederick Jackson Turner be revered as “the father of western history” or reviled as a misguided advocate of a frontier spirit and rugged individualism that denied cultural diversity and produced widespread environmental destruction? Dividing into campus over the issue, western historians place him everywhere from one end of the spectrum to the other. In this provocative new interpretation of Turner’s life, work, and legacy, Wilbur Jacobs challenges the views of traditionalists and views of traditionalists and revisionists alike. From extensive research in the Turner archives, a nationwide search for additional Turner correspondence, interviews with historians, and a lifetime of collecting Turner anecdotes, Jacobs chronicles Turner’s professional (and sometimes personal) bequest through 100 years of Western historical writing. Jacobs adds his voice to the heated ebate by mixing a sophisticated critique of historical writing with stories of professional intrigue—the fights to protect Turner’s legacy, limit access to the Turner archives, and control the Western history Association. He traces the intellectual development of Turner’s frontier theory; explores the intense rivalry between two major Turnerian disciples, Frederick Merk and Ray A. Billington, as they vied for control of Turner’s legacy; and analyzes the efforts of new western historians who seek to erase Turner and Billington from the landscape of what is now called the history of the “West.” Balanced in his assessments, Jacobs treats Turner and his disciples with a sympathetic yet critical eye. He points out Turner’s limitations in dealing with environmental, racial-ethnic, and urban themes as well as the shortcomings of Merk, Billington, and other Turnerians. At the same time, however, Jacobs illuminates the major contributions of their work. Despite their intense differences, Jacobs argues, all western historians remain inextricably linked by Turner’s legacy.
Book Synopsis Historians of the American Frontier by : John R. Wunder
Download or read book Historians of the American Frontier written by John R. Wunder and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-12-07 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully annotated individual analyses of 57 historical scholars who helped to shape research, writing, and critical thought on the American frontier and American history in general. Each chapter includes a brief biography and a complete summary of articles and books. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Frederick Jackson Turner by : Vernon E. Mattson
Download or read book Frederick Jackson Turner written by Vernon E. Mattson and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Past Imperfect by : Peter Charles Hoffer
Download or read book Past Imperfect written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was dangerous ground, and, at the end of the decade, four of the nation's most respected and popular historians were almost destroyed by it: Michael Bellesiles, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose and Joseph Ellis. This is their story, set against the wider narrative of the writing of America's history. It may be, as Flaubert put it, that "Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times." To which he could have added: falsify, plagiarize, and politicize, because that's the other story of America's history.
Book Synopsis The Frontier Thesis by : Ray Allen Billington
Download or read book The Frontier Thesis written by Ray Allen Billington and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frederick Jackson Turner by : Martin Ridge
Download or read book Frederick Jackson Turner written by Martin Ridge and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains four essays by and about Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), the Wisconsin-born historian whose ideas and writings have had such a profound impact upon the way Americans view their past, and their place in the world. It is a book not only for the scholar and teacher (who will find it both useful and incisive), but also for the mythic "general reader" who wants to broaden and enrich his aquaintanceship with Turner and the celebrated Frontier Thesis. In addition to essays by Turner and by Martin Ridge of The Huntington Library and the late Ray Allen Billington, the book is illustrated with photos from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Book Synopsis Zombie History by : Peter Charles Hoffer
Download or read book Zombie History written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fake history is not a harmless mistake of fact or interpretation. It is a mistake that conceals prejudice; a mistake that discriminates against certain kinds of people; a mistake held despite a preponderance of evidence; a mistake that harms us. Fake history is like the Zombies we see in mass media, for the fake fact, like the fictional Zombie, lives by turning real events and people into monstrous perversions of fact and interpretation. Its pervasiveness reveals that prejudice remains its chief appeal to those who believe it. Its effect is insidious, because we cannot or will not destroy those mischievous lies. Zombie history is almost impossible to kill. Some Zombie history was and is political, a genre of what Hannah Arendt called “organizational lying” about the past. Its makers designed the Zombie to create a basis in the false past for particular discriminatory policies. Other history Zombies are cultural. They encapsulate and empower prejudice and stereotyping. Still other popular history Zombies do not look disfigured, but like Zombies walk among us without our realizing how devastating their impact can be. Zombie History argues that, whatever their purpose, whatever the venue in which they appear, history Zombies undermine the very foundations of disinterested study of the past.
Book Synopsis Where is the West? by : Gordon Morris Bakken
Download or read book Where is the West? written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2000 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Book Synopsis Essays on Twentieth-Century History by : Michael Adas
Download or read book Essays on Twentieth-Century History written by Michael Adas and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probing the paradoxes of "the long twentieth century"--Unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon
Book Synopsis Herbert Eugene Bolton by : Albert L. Hurtado
Download or read book Herbert Eugene Bolton written by Albert L. Hurtado and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography examines the life, works, and ideas of Herbert E. Bolton, a prominent historian of the American West, Mexico, and Latin America.
Book Synopsis Small Arms Survey 2015 by : Keith Krause
Download or read book Small Arms Survey 2015 written by Keith Krause and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights emerging trends and concerns regarding armed violence and small arms proliferation as well as related policies and programming.
Book Synopsis Small Arms Survey 2015 by : Small Arms Survey
Download or read book Small Arms Survey 2015 written by Small Arms Survey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Small Arms Survey 2015 examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity's appropriation of the earth's wildlife and mineral riches - in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarised, and near resource extraction sites around the world. In addition to presenting updates on the UN small arms process and the top arms importers and exporters, the volume assesses how recent technological developments affect weapons marking, record-keeping, and tracing; reviews small arms flows to Egypt, Libya, and Syria; and evaluates a stockpile management initiative in south-east Europe. The 'armed actors' section sheds light on the arms and ammunition used by insurgents in northern Mali, the decline of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda, and the use of floating armouries by private security companies in the Indian Ocean. This edition also analyses conditions that are driving young people to adopt high-risk coping strategies in Burundi.
Book Synopsis Missouri Historical Review by : Francis Asbury Sampson
Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by Francis Asbury Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Dakota History written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of the Northern Plains.
Book Synopsis Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 by : Evan Ira Farber
Download or read book Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 written by Evan Ira Farber and published by Arlington, Va. : Carrollton Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
