Author: Harvey WishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Society and Thought in America: Society and thought in modern America; a social and intellectual history of the American people from 1865
Author: Harvey WishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Society and thought in modern America; a social and intellectual history of the American people from 1865. 2d. ed
Author: Harvey WishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Dispute of the New World
Author: Antonello GerbiPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
Translated by Jeremy Moyle When Hegel described the Americas as an inferior continent, he was repeating a contention that inspired one of the most passionate debates of modern times. Originally formulated by the eminent natural scientist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and expanded by the Prussian encyclopedist Cornelius de Pauw, this provocative thesis drew heated responses from politicians, philosophers, publicists, and patriots on both sides of the Atlantic. The ensuing polemic reached its apex in the latter decades of the eighteenth century and is far from extinct today.Translated into English in 1973, The Dispute of the New World is the definitive study of this debate. Antonello Gerbi scrutinizes each contribution to the debate, unravels the complex arguments, and reveals their inner motivations. As the story of the polemic unfolds, moving through many disciplines that include biology, economics, anthropology, theology, geophysics, and poetry, it becomes clear that the subject at issue is nothing less than the totality of the Old World versus the New, and how each viewed the other at a vital turning point in history.
History of the United States of America
Author: Ernest CassaraPublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Early Visions and Representations of America
Author: M. Carmen Gomez-GalisteoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441195947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life in the New World would be like. This book examines the different visions and representations of America conveyed in the writings of Spanish conquistador Á?lvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader William Bradford, taking both writers within their respective literary and historical contexts. Anthologies of American literature have consistently ignored Spanish-language achievements on the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature based on linguistic boundaries. Consequently, Spanish-language texts such as Cabeza de Vaca's or the account by the Hidalgo de Elvas, to name but two examples, have been marginalized in the narrative of American literary history. In seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo contributes to scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as a whole, including not only Anglo American perspectives but also the Spanish American aspect of the colonization process.
Slow Fade to Black
Author: Thomas CrippsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195021304
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Slow Fade to Black is a history of US African-American accomplishment in film from the earliest movies through World War II. It explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South.
U.S. Cultural History
Author: Philip I. MitterlingPublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
Laws, Men and Machines (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Michael FoleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317829166
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
First published in 1990, Laws, Men and Machines is an original interpretation of the lasting influence that Newtonian mechanics has had on the design and operation of the American political system. The author argues that it is this mechanistic tradition that now instinctively shapes the way we conceive of, analyse, and evaluate American politics, and that the Newtonian conception of the world still finds expression in the 'checks and balances' of the American system.
End of Days
Author: Karolyn KinanePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The idea of the complete annihilation of all life is a powerful and culturally universal concept. As human societies around the globe have produced creation myths, so too have they created narratives concerning the apocalyptic destruction of their worlds. This book explores the idea of the apocalypse and its reception within culture and society, bringing together 17 essays that explore both the influence and innovation of apocalyptic ideas from classical Greek and Roman writings to the foreign policies of today's United States.