Author: James MacauleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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The Natural, Statistical, and Civil History of the State of New-York
Author: James MacauleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Publications
Author: Publications of the Rochester Historical Society
Author: Rochester Historical Society (Rochester, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rochester (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
Author: Publications of the Rochester Historical Society
Author: A System of Mineralogy
Author: James Dwight DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crystallography
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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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.".
Narrative and Critical History of America: French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700
Author: Various AuthorsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465608095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
THE continents of the earth have two distinct types of form,—the one regular, symmetrical, triangular in outline; the other without these regularities of shape. To the first of these groups belong the continents of Africa and Australia of the Old World, and the two Americas of the New; to the second, the massive continent of Europe and Asia. Some have sought to reduce the continent of Asia to the same type as that of the other continents; but a glance at a map of the hemispheres will show how different is this Indo-European continent from the other land-masses. These general features of the continents are not only of scientific interest; they are of the utmost importance to the history of man’s development upon these several lands. It is not without meaning, that, while man has existed for a great length of time upon all the continents, the only original civilizations that have been developed have been on the lands of the Indo-European continent. Working on several different lines of advance, several diverse races—Aryan, Semitic, Chinese, and perhaps others—have risen from the common plane of barbarism, and have created complicated social systems, languages, literatures, and arts; while on the four other continents, despite their great area, greater fertility, and wider range of physical conditions, no race has ever had a native development to be compared with that undergone by the several successful races of Asia and Europe. In this great Old-World continent there are many highly individualized areas, each separated from the rest of the continent by strong geographical barriers; it has a dozen or so of great peninsulas upon its seaboard, many great islands off its shores, and the interior of the land is divided into many separated regions by mountain ridges or by deserts. It is a land where man necessarily fell into variety, because of the isolation that the geography gave. If we look at the other continents,—namely, the Americas, Africa, and Australia,—we find that they want this varied and detailed structure. They each consist of a great triangular mass, with scanty subordinate divisions. In all of them put together there are not so many great peninsulas as there are in Europe. If we exclude those that are within the Arctic Circle, there are but few on the four regular continents, none of which compare in size or usefulness to man with the greater peninsulas of the Old World. The only one of value is that of Nova Scotia, in North America.
William Cooper's Town
Author: Alan TaylorPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525566996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman in what had until lately been the wilderness of upstate New York, but his high-handed style of governing resulted in his fall from power and political disgrace. His son James Fenimore Cooper became one of this country’s first popular novelists with a book, The Pioneers, that tried to come to terms with his father’s failure and imaginatively reclaim the estate he had lost. In William Cooper’s Town, Alan Taylor dramatizes the class between gentility and democracy that was one of the principal consequences of the American Revolution, a struggle that was waged both at the polls and on the pages of our national literature. Taylor shows how Americans resolved their revolution through the creation of new social reforms and new stories that evolved with the expansion of our frontier.
Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Young Men's Association of the City of Albany. [For 1837, 40, 48.]
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Author: Young Men's Association (Albany, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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