Author: Max MeiselPublisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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A Bibliography of American Natural History: The institutions which have contributed to the rise and progress of American natural history, which were founded or organized between 1769 and 1844
Author: Max MeiselPublisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Port Folio
Author: Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for ...
Author: Geological Survey of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Annual Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Pennsylvania
Author: Geological Survey of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Includes 3 atlases of fold. plates, fold. maps, fold. tab. which accompany 1885; 1886, pts. 3-4.
Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. Geological SurveyPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia
Author: Chad L. AndersonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496221249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important places: the homelands of the Haudenosaunees (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations). Throughout the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries of European colonization the Haudenosaunees remained the dominant power in their homelands and one of the most important diplomatic players in the struggle for the continent following European settlement of North America by the Dutch, British, French, Spanish, and Russians. Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during this time in central and western New York. Although American public memory often recalls a nation founded along a frontier wilderness, these lands had long been inhabited in Native American villages, where history had been written on the land through place-names, monuments, and long-remembered settlements. Drawing on a wide range of material spanning more than a century, Anderson uncovers the real stories of the people--Native American and Euro-American--and the places at the center of the contested reinvention of a Native American homeland. These stories about Iroquoia were key to both Euro-American and Haudenosaunee understandings of their peoples' pasts and futures. For more information about The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia, visit storiedlandscape.com.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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Beyond Ethnicity
Author: Werner SollorsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190281510
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Nothing is "pure" in America, and, indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accounts for much of its amazing vitality. Werner Sollors's new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and what that literature has said--and continues to say--about our diverse culture. Ethnic consciousness, he contends, is a constituent feature of modernism, not modernism's antithesis. Discussing works from every period of American history, Sollors focuses particularly on the tension between "descent" and "consent"--between the concern for one's racial, ethnic, and familial heritage and the conflicting desire to choose one's own destiny, even if that choice goes against one's heritage. Some of the stories Sollors examines are retellings of the biblical Exodus--stories in which Americans of the most diverse origins have painted their own histories as an escape from bondage or a search for a new Canaan. Other stories are "American-made" tales of melting-pot romance, which may either triumph in intermarriage, accompanied by new world symphonies, or end with the lovers' death. Still other stories concern voyages of self-discovery in which the hero attempts to steer a perilous course between stubborn traditionalism and total assimilation. And then there are the generational sagas, in which, as if by magic, the third generation emerges as the fulfillment of their forebears' dream. Citing examples that range from the writings of Cotton Mather to Liquid Sky (a "post-punk" science fiction film directed by a Russian emigre), Sollors shows how the creators of American culture have generally been attracted to what is most new and modern. About the Author: Werner Sollors is Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard University and the author of Amiri Baraka: The Quest for a Populist Modernism. A provocative and original look at "ethnicity" in American literature BLCovers stories from all periods of our nation's history BLRelates ethnic literature to the principle of literary modernism BL"Grave and hilarious, tender and merciless...The book performs a public service."-Quentin Anderson
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.
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