Author: Richard Rodriguez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101161507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.
Brown
Author: Richard Rodriguez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101161507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101161507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.
Tocqueville's Discovery of America
Author: Leo Damrosch
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429945737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831–1832, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and painting a vivid picture of Jacksonian America. Damrosch shows that Tocqueville found much to admire in the dynamism of American society and in its egalitarian ideals. But he was offended by the ethos of grasping materialism and was convinced that the institution of slavery was bound to give rise to a tragic civil war. Drawing on documents and letters that have never before appeared in English, as well as on a wide range of scholarship, Tocqueville's Discovery of America brings the man, his ideas, and his world to startling life.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429945737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831–1832, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and painting a vivid picture of Jacksonian America. Damrosch shows that Tocqueville found much to admire in the dynamism of American society and in its egalitarian ideals. But he was offended by the ethos of grasping materialism and was convinced that the institution of slavery was bound to give rise to a tragic civil war. Drawing on documents and letters that have never before appeared in English, as well as on a wide range of scholarship, Tocqueville's Discovery of America brings the man, his ideas, and his world to startling life.
The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America
Author: William Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Discovery of Ancient America
Author: David Allen Deal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albuquerque Region (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Errata slip inserted. Bibliography: p. 135-136.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albuquerque Region (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Errata slip inserted. Bibliography: p. 135-136.
History of the Early Discovery of America and Landing of the Pilgrims
Author: Samuel G. Drake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The History of the Settlement and Discovery of America ...
Author: William Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
America Before
Author: Graham Hancock
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250153743
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250153743
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
History of the Discovery of America, of the landing of our forefathers at Plymouth, and of their ... engagements with the Indians in New-England ... until the final subjugation of the natives in 1669 ... By a Citizen of Connecticut [i.e. Henry Trumbull].
History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent
Author: George Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent ...
Author: George Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description