Author: T. J. FitzpatrickPublisher: Weston, Mass. : M & S Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Fitzpatrick's Rafinesque
Author: T. J. FitzpatrickPublisher: Weston, Mass. : M & S Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A C.S. Rafinesque Anthology
Author: C.S. RafinesquePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786421479
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Among American naturalists, C.S. Rafinesque (1783-1840) is second only to Audubon in the popular interest he sustains. This interest is due in part to his colorful life and provocative personality, but he is also remembered for devising Latin scientific names for more plants than any other naturalist who ever lived--and a great number in the animal kingdom, as well. This passion for nomenclature has kept his name memorable (some would say notorious) among naturalists. Yet his taxonomic writings made up only a part of his extensive oeuvre. Rafinesque's restless mind ranged over areas of inquiry from archaeology to zoology. His published writings in these fields have been difficult to lay hands on and have never been collected. Among such essays now gathered into this volume, two were unavailable until 1949, six were listed only in 1982 and four remained unknown until 2001. The recovery and reprinting of these 12 contributions help to broaden the understanding of his achievements over a lifetime. Arranged in nine sections, 25 topics are offered here (several of which are explored in more than one essay), including "the Origin of Native Americans," "Hebrew Studies," "Utopian Society," "Lightning," "The Milky Way," "Sea Serpents" and "Evolution." Editorial introductions are provided for each topic, and period illustrations--some included in the original Rafinesque publications--enhance the text.
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Author: Leonard WarrenPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188792
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was a quintessential nineteenth-century American scientist and naturalist. Exalted by some, cursed by others, Rafinesque gave Latin names to over 6,700 plant species, was acknowledged by Darwin for his early insights into biological variation, and is frequently mentioned in the great natural history archives. Yet he has been almost forgotten in our own day. During his long career, which included some five years as an innovative professor at Transylvania University in Kentucky, Rafinesque's colorful and sometimes difficult personality led to troubles with his colleagues. In Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, the first full-length biography of this brilliant, original, and misunderstood naturalist, Leonard Warren presents a fair and surprising look at Rafinesque's life and contributions to the world of science.
American Antiquities
Author: Terry A. BarnhartPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803268424
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward as it might seem. Archaeology’s trajectory from an avocation to a semi-profession to a specialized profession, rather than being a linear progression, was an untidy organic process that emerged from the intellectual tradition of antiquarianism. It then closely allied itself with the natural sciences throughout the nineteenth century, especially with geology and the debate about the origins and identity of the indigenous mound-building cultures of the eastern United States. In his reexamination of the eclectic interests and equally varied settings of nascent American archaeology, Terry A. Barnhart exposes several fundamental, deeply embedded historiographical problems within the secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about “Mound Builders” and “American Indians.” Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others are basic errors of fact. Adding to the problem are semantic and contextual considerations arising from the problematic use of the term “race” as a synonym for tribe, nation, and race proper—a concept and construct that does not in all instances translate into current understanding and usage. American Antiquities uses this early discourse on the mounds to reframe perennial anthropological problems relating to human origins and antiquity in North America.
Rafinesque
Author: T. J. FitzpatrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Western Minerva
Author: Constantine Samuel RafinesquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down
Author: Jesse BrownerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596917288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Jesse Browner leads the way back through Western civilization, from a present-day poker game where Browner's devastatingly delicious sandwiches leave the best players penniless, to the ancient Greeks, whose gods punished or exalted the mortals according to their excellence as hosts. On the way, we visit Hitler at his summer home, Gertrude Stein in Paris and Lady Ottoline Morrell in England, Audubon in nineteeth-century America, Louis XIV at Versailles, and the Roman emperors, for whom classic dinner-table entertainment was a good poisoning. As delightful and edifying as an evening in favored company, The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down is a must-read for anyone who's ever accepted an invitation-or wonders why they keep sending them out.
John D. Clifford's Indian Antiquities
Author: John D. CliffordPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572330993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Squier, who gave no credit to his source."--BOOK JACKET.
Lewis & Clark
Author: Kris FresonkePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520228399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
An interdisciplinary collection of essays which explore the legacy of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and offers new perspectives on these American icons.
Ephraim George Squier and the Development of American Anthropology
Author: Terry A. BarnhartPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803213212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
"Although Squier is best known today for the classic book he coauthored with Edwin H. Davis, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, Terry A. Barnhart shows that Squier's fieldwork and interpretive contributions to archaeology and anthropology continued over the next three decades. He turned his attention to comparative studies and to fieldwork in Central America and Peru. He became a diplomat and an entrepreneur yet still found time to conduct archaeological investigations in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Peru and to gather ethnographic information on contemporary indigenous peoples in those countries.".