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Reader's Guide to American History

Author : Peter J. Parish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134261829
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Reader's Guide to American History written by Peter J. Parish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.

Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393083047
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports written by Mark Ribowsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant . . . entertaining . . . a thought-provoking portrayal of the multi-faceted Howard Cosell in all his glory and enmity.”—Don Ohlmeyer, Wall Street Journal Howard Cosell’s colorful bombast, fearless reporting, and courageous stance on civil rights made him one of the most recognizable and controversial figures in American sports history. “Telling it like it is,” he covered nearly every major sports story for three decades, from the travails of Muhammad Ali to the tragedy at the Munich Olympics. Now, two decades after his death, this deeply misunderstood sports legend has finally gotten the “definitive” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) and revelatory biography he so much deserves. With more than forty interviews, Mark Ribowsky has brilliantly presented Cosell’s endless complexities in the “first thoroughly researched and effectively framed biography of Cosell and his times” (Huffington Post).

The Spell Cast by Remains

Author : Patricia Ross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135505039
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Spell Cast by Remains written by Patricia Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, Patricia Ross probes the various purposes for which 'wilderness' is constructed. Considering the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Cather, she states that the idea of wilderness is just that, an idea, and not a real entity or something that deserves to be wasted in the chasm of deconstruction. Discovering how literature can help us to understand how we can exert causative control of the myths we create about ourselves, this book is an important contribution to the field.

Outing

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Outing written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Creation of the Cowboy Hero

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476618143
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Creation of the Cowboy Hero written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.

From Cohen to Carson

Author : Ian Rae
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773574921
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book From Cohen to Carson written by Ian Rae and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Cohen to Carson provides the first book-length analysis of one of Canada's most distinctive fields of literary production. Ian Rogers argues that Canadian poets have turned to the novel because of the limitations of the lyric, but have used lyric methods - puns, symbolism, repetition, juxtaposition - to create a mode of narrative that contrasts sharply with the descriptive conventions of realist and plot-driven novels." "Detailed case studies of novels by Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, and Anne Carson, as well as sections on A. M. Klein and Anne Michaels, reveal how these authors framed their early novels according to formal precedents established in their poetry. In tracking the authors' shift from lyric to long poem to novel, Rae also investigates their experiments with non-literary art forms - photography, painting, and film. He argues convincingly that the authors discussed have combined disparate genres and media to alter notions of narrative coherence in the novel and engage the diverse but fragmented cultural histories of Canadian society." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

The American Cowboy Chronicles Old West Myths & Legends

Author : Thomas Correa
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1645842851
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The American Cowboy Chronicles Old West Myths & Legends written by Thomas Correa and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the real Old West. The research presented here comes from what I've found during my more than forty-five years of researching American history, but especially what I've learned in regards to the other side of the myths and legends of the Old West. In 2010, I started a blog, The American Cowboy Chronicles, to share what I've learned and celebrate the virtues of America. My articles on the Old West have never been meant to dispel the myths or attack legends but to simply explain what I've found after taking a hard look, an honest look, an objective look, at the evidence that's available. Since evidence proves or disproves what we've all been told about the Old West by Hollywood and writers who are not objective researchers, this is my attempt at taking a fresh look at Wyatt Earp, Tom Horn, and others. But mostly, this book is about why the American Cowboy became America's quintessential role model. This book looks at why the American Cowboy represents American toughness, independence, and resilience to the rest of the World.

The Northwestern Miller

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Northwestern Miller written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Age of Dimes and Pulps

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147663257X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Dimes and Pulps written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality--publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly. This vast body of "disposable literature" has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost--the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.

Kit Carson and the Indians

Author : Thomas W. Dunlay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803266421
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson and the Indians written by Thomas W. Dunlay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson has become in recent years a historical pariah--a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, and an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. Here we are urged to reconsider Carson yet again. Carson was a man of the nineteenth century, whose racial views and actions were much like those of his contemporaries.

Outing Magazine

Author : Poultney Bigelow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Outing Magazine written by Poultney Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shenandoah

Author : Sue Eisenfeld
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803265409
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Shenandoah written by Sue Eisenfeld and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand mountain residents left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the people off their land to create the park. With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors "grieving themselves to death," and they continue to speak of their people's displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld's personal journey into the park's hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents' removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park--a relationship she would not have without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed from their homes.

The Fatal Environment

Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504090365
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Fatal Environment written by Richard Slotkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-time National Book Award finalist’s “ambitious and provocative” look at Custer’s Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend (The New York Review of Books). In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power. Using Custer’s Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the “savage” element be permitted to dominate the “civilized,” Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a mythos redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion. “A clearly written, challenging and provocative work that should prove enormously valuable to serious students of American history.” —The New York Times “[An] arresting hypothesis.” —Henry Nash Smith, American Historical Review

Legends of the Old West

Author : Kent Alexander
Publisher : Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781567991093
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Old West written by Kent Alexander and published by Friedman/Fairfax Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEGENDS OF THE OLD WEST: TRAILBLAZERS, DESPERADOES, WRANGLERS, AND YARN-SPINNERS is a stunning look at the lives of those colorful individuals whose names are synonymous with the Old West and whose character has often been the source of great debate.

Visions of the American West

Author : Gerald F. Kreyche
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187559
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Visions of the American West written by Gerald F. Kreyche and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. But the West has seldom been written about with the reflective pen of a philosopher. Offering more than a fresh retelling, in thoroughly human terms, of the major historical events of the nineteenth-century West, Gerald Kreyche also leads the reader in a search for the spirit of the West itself. That spirit was one with the American Dream, which offered freedom, individualism, and self-sufficiency to those strong enough and gutsy enough to heed the call of Manifest Destiny. Although the West was and is the most American part of America itself, its natural wonders, its spacious grandeur, its myths and mystique have captured the hearts and imaginations of people the world over. We have all experienced the quickened pulse at the mention of things indelibly western—tumbleweed, mountain men, high plains, cowboys and Indians, sod houses, coyotes, and grizzlies. And who doesn't react to such bigger-than-life figures as Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill, George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse? The personal humdrum of our times rapidly disappears when, through the magic of western films, TV shows, and books, we vicariously lose ourselves and then find ourselves in the American West of a bygone time. The West, then, produced a quasi-separate culture. And, as each culture must, it gave birth to its own ethos, its own special character, its own tone and set of guiding beliefs. Kreyche contends that in the process of "westering," the veneer of the sophisticated easterner was sloughed off, leaving in sharp outline the frontiersman and the pioneer. In their own manner, these men and women produced a new species of homo americanus.

Gaia's Gift

Author : Anne Primavesi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134442645
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Gaia's Gift written by Anne Primavesi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by Copernicus and Darwin concerning human importancene. They challenged the notion of our God-given centrality within the universe and within earth's evolutionary history. Yet as our continuing exploitation of earth's resources and species demonstrates, we remain wedded to the theological assumption that these are there for our sole use and benefit. Now James Lovelock's scientific understanding of the existential reality of Gaia's gift of life again raises the question of our proper place within the universe. It turns us decisively towards an understanding of ourselves as dependent on, rather than in control of, the whole earth community.

Mythology for a Magical Life

Author : Ember Grant
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738763209
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Mythology for a Magical Life written by Ember Grant and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invigorate Your Craft with Profound Myths & Accompanying Activities Explore the creative depths of myths, fairy tales, and folklore, where you'll gain extraordinary insights about both the world and yourself. Featuring more than a dozen amazing tales and their related spells, meditations, and affirmations, Mythology for a Magical Life shows you how to elevate your practice in ways you never imagined. These stories come from cultures all over the globe, offering you a deep connection to the human experience. Popular author Ember Grant shares an impressive collection of myths, themes, and hands-on activities that enhance your skills and add new energy to your magic. Discover what the story of Cupid and Psyche can teach you about the journey of your soul. Learn how trickster folklore can inspire you to seize new opportunities in your life. Embrace your primal self with the Maid-of-the-Wave's tale. This compulsively readable book enriches your craft through the power of storytelling.