Who was First? PDF Download

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618663910
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.

Author: Avery Hart
Publisher: WorthyKids
ISBN: 9781885593467
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A lively guide that teaches how to investigate history while it explores and explains various theories about the discovery of America. For grades 5-7.

Author: Betsy Maestro
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688115128
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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"The Maestros do a real service here in presenting the more familiar explorers in the context of all the migrations that have populated the Western Hemisphere....An outstanding introduction."--Kirkus Reviews. "The dazzlingly clean and accurate prose and the exhilarating beauty of the pictures combine for an extraordinary achievement in both history and art."--School Library Journal.

Author: Valerie Wyatt
Publisher: Kids Can Press
ISBN: 9781554531288
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Who discovered America? There's no simple answer. The question points to an ongoing mystery of continent-sized proportions. Christopher Columbus stumbled upon America in 1492 while looking for a western route to the Indies, but he wasn't the first. The Vikings settled briefly on the coast of Newfoundland hundreds of years before him, and left ruins to prove it. Explorers from Portugal, China, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and elsewhere can also stake claims. In addition to investigating all serious claims, award-winning author Valerie Wyatt delves into the continents' most ancient mysteries, some stretching back 40,000 years. Who Discovered America? reveals that historical sleuthing takes many years of hard work, puzzle solving and comparing legends and artifacts. Young readers will find the question of who discovered America much less simple, and much more fascinating, than they ever dreamed.

Author: Stephen Krensky
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590408547
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Examines the races, tribes, wanderers, and explorers who may have found America before Columbus, including the prehistoric nomads who crossed the land bridge from Asia and possible Polynesian, Phoenician, and European visitors by sea.

Author: Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351305980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted it was but a few islands off the shores of China?In Terra Cognita, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that physical encounters are only one part of the complex, multifaceted process of discovery. Such encounters must be complemented by an understanding of the true identity of what is being discovered. The small group of islands claimed by Columbus to have been discovered off the shores of Asia was a far cry from what we now call America. The discovery of the New World was not achieved in a single day but was a slow process--mental as well as physical--that lasted almost three hundred years. By celebrating 1492 as a year of discovery, we inevitably distort the reality of history.In vividly documenting how a slowly emerging New World gradually forced itself into Europe's consciousness, Zerubavel shows that Columbus did not discover America on October 12, 1492. Supplemented by fascinating old maps and a new preface written for this paperback edition, Terra Cognita will be of interest to historians, geographers, cognitive scientists, sociologists, and students of culture.

Author: Doug West
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781005959791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Robert J. Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313071845
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the discoverers of the Indians and their lands, the United States or the European countries? We know the answer, of course, but in this book, Miller explains for the first time exactly how the United States achieved victory, not only on the ground, but also in the developing legal thought of the day. The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage—a land route across the continent—in order to establish an American fur trade with China. In addition, the Corps of Northwestern Discovery, as the expedition was called, cataloged new plant and animal life, and performed detailed ethnographic research on the Indians they encountered. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.

Author: Patricia Lauber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Four essays on the psychological aspects of art. A study of Leonardo treats the work of art, and art itself, not as ends in themselves, but rather as instruments of the artist's inner situation. Two other essays discuss the relation of art to its epoch and specifically the relation of modern art to our own time. An essay on Chagall views this artist in the context of the problems explored in the other studies.