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"Natures Nation" Revisited

Author : European Association for American Studies. Conference
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Natures Nation" Revisited written by European Association for American Studies. Conference and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking their cue from Perry Miller's early definition of America as 'Nature's Nation', the essays collected in this volume offer critical reconsiderations of the manifold ways in which, over time, different concepts of 'nature' have affected US attitudes towards the land Americans have explored, settled, cultivated, exploited and, more recently, also begun to protect. Scholars from Europe and North America approach the topic from a wide range of disciplines -- history, literature, popular culture, religion, social and economic geography, film studies, ethnic studies, philosophy, ethics, gender and sexuality studies, and Native American studies. Conjointly the thirty-five essays re-examine the infinite manifestations of 'nature' in US culture, politics and society, from practices of gardening, strip-mining, farming and urban planning, to forms of environmentalist activism and representations of 'nature' and nationality in literature, film, art and ideology. In addition, they explore the possibilities of newer approaches -- eco-criticism, eco-theology, eco-feminism, 'eco-queer' studies and transnational perspectives -- within the interdisciplinary domain of American studies.

The Republic of Nature

Author : Mark Fiege
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804149
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Nature written by Mark Fiege and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light. Among the historical moments revisited here, a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of liberty. Abraham Lincoln, an unlettered citizen from the countryside, steers the Union through a moment of extreme peril, guided by his clear-eyed vision of nature's capacity for improvement. In Topeka, Kansas, transformations of land and life prompt a lawsuit that culminates in the momentous civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education. By focusing on materials and processes intrinsic to all things and by highlighting the nature of the United States, Fiege recovers the forgotten and overlooked ground on which so much history has unfolded. In these pages, the nation's birth and development, pain and sorrow, ideals and enduring promise come to life as never before, making a once-familiar past seem new. The Republic of Nature points to a startlingly different version of history that calls on readers to reconnect with fundamental forces that shaped the American experience. For more information, visit the author's website: http://republicofnature.com/

Mount Rushmore

Author : Julie Murray
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1680796232
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Mount Rushmore written by Julie Murray and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will learn about what Mount Rushmore is, how it was built, and the faces that are carved into the side of the mountain. The title is complete with historical and modern images, bolded glossary terms, a More Facts page, and a picture glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.

Nature's Nation

Author : Perry Miller
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Nation written by Perry Miller and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Puritanism's effect on the religious, philosophic and literary life in America and the tendency to see the U.S. as "nature's nation".

The American Environment Revisited

Author : Geoffrey L. Buckley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442269979
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The American Environment Revisited written by Geoffrey L. Buckley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book provides a dynamic—and often surprising—view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. A distinguished group of scholars examines the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring. Seventeen original chapters examine topics such as forest conservation, mining landscapes, urban environment justice, solid waste, exotic species, environmental photography, national and state park management, recreation and tourism, and pest control. Commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal work The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies, the book clearly shows much has changed since 1992. Indeed, not only has the range of issues expanded, but an increasing number of geographers are forging links with environmental historians, promoting a level of intellectual cross-fertilization that benefits both disciplines. As a result, environmental historical geographies today are richer and more diverse than ever. The American Environment Revisited offers a comprehensive overview that gives both specialist and general readers a fascinating look at our changing relationships with nature over time.

The Western Range Revisited

Author : Debra L. Donahue
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132983
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book The Western Range Revisited written by Debra L. Donahue and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Livestock grazing is the most widespread commercial use of federal public lands. The image of a herd grazing on Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service lands is so traditional that many view this use as central to the history and culture of the West. Yet the grazing program costs far more to administer than it generates in revenues, and grazing affects all other uses of public lands, causing potentially irreversible damage to native wildlife and vegetation. The Western Range Revisited proposes a landscape-level strategy for conserving native biological diversity on federal rangelands, a strategy based chiefly on removing livestock from large tracts of arid BLM lands in ten western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Drawing from range ecology, conservation biology, law, and economics, Debra L. Donahue examines the history of federal grazing policy and the current debate on federal multiple-use, sustained-yield policies and changing priorities for our public lands. Donahue, a lawyer and wildlife biologist, uses existing laws and regulations, historical documents, economic statistics, and current scientific thinking to make a strong case for a land-management strategy that has been, until now, "unthinkable." A groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, The Western Range Revisited demonstrates that conserving biodiversity by eliminating or reducing livestock grazing makes economic sense, is ecologically expedient, and can be achieved under current law.

The True Believer

Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809436026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The True Believer written by Eric Hoffer and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature's Nation

Author : Karl Kusserow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300237009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Nation written by Karl Kusserow and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, more than a dozen scholars and practitioners discuss how artists have both responded to and actively instigated changes in ecological understanding.

Nordic Narratives of the Second World War

Author : Mirja Österberg
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9185509493
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Narratives of the Second World War written by Mirja Österberg and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have the dramatic events of the Second World War been viewed in the Nordic countries? In this book leading Nordic historians analyse post-war memory and historiography. They explore the relationship between scholarly and public understandings of the war. How have national interpretations been shaped by official security-policy doctrines? And in what way has the end of the Cold War affected the Nordic narratives? The authors not only present the overarching themes that set the Nordic experience of the Second World War apart from other European narratives, but also describe the distinctive post-war characteristics of Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. Key concepts such as national identity, memory culture, and the moral turn are placed in their Nordic context. Bringing new nuance to the post-war history of Europe, this is the first work to focus on Nordic narratives of the war, and is valuable reading for students, academics, and all who have an interest in the historiography of the Second World War or modern European history.

Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited: Essays on Singapore Politics

Author : Cherian George
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811449848
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited: Essays on Singapore Politics written by Cherian George and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have mastered their environment, but at the cost of individual autonomy, and at the risk of unsustainability." Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics by Cherian George. It draws upon his influential collection Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation (2000), on the country's politics of comfort and control, and from Singapore, Incomplete (2017), on its underdeveloped democracy. Updated for the impending transition to a new generation of leaders, this 20th anniversary edition of Air-Conditioned Nation offers critical reflections on continuity and change in Singapore’s unique political culture.

The Past is a Foreign Country

Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521294805
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The Past is a Foreign Country written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-14 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.

Description in Literature and Other Media

Author : Werner Wolf
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023104
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Description in Literature and Other Media written by Werner Wolf and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third section on description in music provides a perspective on yet another medium.The volume, which is the second one in the series 'Studies in Intermediality?, is of relevance to students and scholars from various fields: intermedial studies, literary and film studies, history of art, and musicology.ContentsPreface IntroductionWerner WOLF: Description as a Transmedial Mode of Representation: General Features and Possibilities of Realization in Painting, Fiction and Music Description in Literature and Related (Partly) Verbal MediaAnsgar NUNNING: Towards a Typology,

Wo(men) and Bears

Author : Kaarina Kailo
Publisher : Inanna Publications & Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wo(men) and Bears written by Kaarina Kailo and published by Inanna Publications & Education. This book was released on 2008 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wo(men) and Bears revisits classical debates in women's cultural and Native studies regarding nature and culture. As a mixed-genre anthology--academic and poetic, conversational and critical--the book consists of interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches on a widely-circulated ancient myth, story, history, and sacred law (ayaawux) focused on wo(men) co-habiting with bears where women defy dualistic gender roles and relations and interact with nature in a variety of adaptive or transgressive ways.

The Dream Revisited

Author : Ingrid Ellen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545045
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Dream Revisited written by Ingrid Ellen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half century after the Fair Housing Act, despite ongoing transformations of the geography of privilege and poverty, residential segregation by race and income continues to shape urban and suburban neighborhoods in the United States. Why do people live where they do? What explains segregation’s persistence? And why is addressing segregation so complicated? The Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences of the nation’s separate and unequal living patterns. Leading scholars and practitioners, including civil rights advocates, affordable housing developers, elected officials, and fair housing lawyers, discuss the nature of and policy responses to residential segregation. Essays scrutinize the factors that sustain segregation, including persistent barriers to mobility and complex neighborhood preferences, and its consequences from health to home finance and from policing to politics. They debate how actively and in what ways the government should intervene in housing markets to foster integration. The book features timely analyses of issues such as school integration, mixed income housing, and responses to gentrification from a diversity of viewpoints. A probing examination of a deeply rooted problem, The Dream Revisited offers pressing insights into the changing face of urban inequality.

A New Introduction to American Studies

Author : Howard Temperley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317867386
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book A New Introduction to American Studies written by Howard Temperley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new light is shed on the sometimes contradictory ways in which these ideals have informed the nation's history and culture. For introductory undergraduate courses in American Studies, American History and American Literature.

Winning the Next War

Author : Stephen Peter Rosen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732315
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Winning the Next War written by Stephen Peter Rosen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the international strategic situation. He also discusses the changing relationship between the civilian innovator and the military bureaucrat. In peacetime, Rosen finds, innovation has been the product of analysis and the politics of military promotion, in a process that has slowly but successfully built military capabilities critical to American military success. In wartime, by contrast, innovation has been constrained by the fog of war and the urgency of combat needs. Rosen draws his principal evidence from U.S. military policy between 1905 and 1960, though he also discusses the British army's experience with the battle tank during World War I.

Jefferson's Body

Author : Maurizio Valsania
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939690
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Jefferson's Body written by Maurizio Valsania and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Thomas Jefferson look like? How did he carry himself? Such questions, reasonable to ask as we look back on a person who lived in an era before photography, are the starting point for this boldly original new work. Maurizio Valsania considers all aspects of Jefferson’s complex conception of "the body," from eighteenth-century clothing and fashion to manners, adornment, posture, gesture, and visual and material culture. Drawing also from the fields of medical science, psychology, and cultural anthropology, the author conjures a vivid and detailed re-creation of the third president as a living, breathing—and pondering—human being. Having situated Jefferson in his own body, Valsania looks at the embodied Jefferson in the world of his fellow humans. Any one of the other people in Jefferson’s society—whether that other person was male or female, free or enslaved, African American or Native American—was a critical counterexample for the eighteenth-century Virginian to define himself against, and Valsania’s explorations here lead to numerous insightful discoveries about race, gender, and structures of power. The first comprehensive exploration of Jefferson’s corporeal world, Jefferson’s Body brings the man vividly to life for the modern reader while deepening our understanding of what it meant to Jefferson to be alive.