Author: Joaquin MillerPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Life Amongst the Modocs
Author: Joaquin MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs
Author: Joaquin MillerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368853309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Life Amongst the Modocs
Author: Joaquin MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Unwritten History
Author: Joaquin MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The Modocs and Their War
Author: Keith A. MurrayPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806113319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Along the shores of Tule Lake in northern California, three small bands of Modoc Indians joined forces in the fall and winter of 1872-73 to hold off more than one thousand U.S. soldiers and settlers trying to dislodge them from their ancient refuge in the lava beds.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life
Author: Martin WoessnerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512825611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Terrence Malick is one of American cinema’s most celebrated filmmakers. His films—from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most recently, A Hidden Life (2019)—have been heralded for their artistry and lauded for their beauty, but what really sets them apart is their ideas. Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of this unparalleled filmmaker’s intellectual and artistic development. Utilizing newly available archival sources to offer original interpretations of his canonical films, Martin Woessner illuminates Malick’s early education in philosophy at Harvard and Oxford as well as his cinematic apprenticeship at the American Film Institute to show how a young student searching for personal meaning became a famous director of Hollywood films. Woessner’s book presents a rich, interdisciplinary exploration of the many texts, thinkers, and traditions that made this transformation possible—from the novels of Hamlin Garland, James Jones, and Walker Percy to the philosophies of Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, and Søren Kierkegaard to road movies, Hollywood Westerns, and the comedies of Jean Renoir. Situating Malick’s filmmaking within recent intellectual and cultural history, Woessner highlights its lasting contributions to both American cinema and the life of the mind. Terrence Malick and the Examined Life suggests it is time for philosophy to be viewed not merely as an academic subject, overseen by experts, but also as a way of life, open to each and every moviegoer.
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples
Author: Kerry DriscollPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520310748
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materials—including previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens’s personal library—Driscoll charts the development of the writer’s ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the various geographic and social milieus of communities he inhabited at key periods in his life, from antebellum Hannibal, Missouri, and the Sierra Nevada mining camps of the 1860s to the progressive urban enclave of Hartford’s Nook Farm. The book also examines the impact of Clemens’s 1895–96 world lecture tour, when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand and learned firsthand about the dispossession and mistreatment of native peoples under British colonial rule. This groundbreaking work of cultural studies offers fresh readings of canonical texts such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Roughing It, and Following the Equator, as well as a number of Twain’s shorter works.
The Overland Monthly
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Collected Books
Author: Allen AhearnPublisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1883060141
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).
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