Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Fishing
ISBN : UOM:39015082341671
American Woodsman
Anonim
American Woodsman
American Woodsman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of American Woodsman book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Imagining Wild America
John R. Knott
Author : John R. Knott
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472021925
Imagining Wild America by John R. Knott Pdf
At a time when the idea of wilderness is being challenged by both politicians and intellectuals, Imagining Wild America examines writing about wilderness and wildness and makes a case for its continuing value. The book focuses on works by John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Mary Oliver, as each writer illustrates different stages and dimensions of the American fascination with wild nature. John Knott traces the emergence of a visionary tradition that embraces values consciously understood to be ahistorical, showing that these writers, while recognizing the claims of history and the interdependence of nature and culture, also understand and attempt to represent wild nature as something different, other. A contribution to the growing literature of eco-criticism, the book is a response to and critique of recent arguments about the constructed nature of wilderness. Imagining Wild America demonstrates the richness and continuing importance of the idea of wilderness, and its attraction for American writers. John R. Knott is Professor of English, University of Michigan. His previous books include The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed, coedited with Keith Taylor.
Wild Scenes In the Forest and Prairie. With Sketches of American Life
Charles Fenno Hoffman
Author : Charles Fenno Hoffman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385127067
Wild Scenes In the Forest and Prairie. With Sketches of American Life by Charles Fenno Hoffman Pdf
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
John James Audubon
Gregory Nobles
Author : Gregory Nobles
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293845
John James Audubon by Gregory Nobles Pdf
John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most adulated artists of his time, and America's first celebrity scientist. In this fresh approach to Audubon's art and science, Gregory Nobles shows us that Audubon's greatest creation was himself. A self-made man incessantly striving to secure his place in American society, Audubon made himself into a skilled painter, a successful entrepreneur, and a prolific writer, whose words went well beyond birds and scientific description. He sought status with the "gentlemen of science" on both sides of the Atlantic, but he also embraced the ornithology of ordinary people. In pursuit of popular acclaim in art and science, Audubon crafted an expressive, audacious, and decidedly masculine identity as the "American Woodsman," a larger-than-life symbol of the new nation, a role he perfected in his quest for transatlantic fame. Audubon didn't just live his life; he performed it. In exploring that performance, Nobles pays special attention to Audubon's stories, some of which—the murky circumstances of his birth, a Kentucky hunting trip with Daniel Boone, an armed encounter with a runaway slave—Audubon embellished with evasions and outright lies. Nobles argues that we cannot take all of Audubon's stories literally, but we must take them seriously. By doing so, we come to terms with the central irony of Audubon's true nature: the man who took so much time and trouble to depict birds so accurately left us a bold but deceptive picture of himself.
North American Fauna
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Zoology
ISBN : MINN:30000009128384
North American Fauna by Anonim Pdf
Encyclopedia of American Folklore
Linda Watts
Author : Linda Watts
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781646930005
Encyclopedia of American Folklore by Linda Watts Pdf
Folklore has been described as the unwritten literature of a culture: its songs, stories, sayings, games, rituals, beliefs, and ways of life. Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to this popular subject. This comprehensive reference guide addresses the needs of multiple audiences, including high school, college, and public libraries, archive and museum collections, storytellers, and independent researchers. Its content and organization correspond to the ways educators integrate folklore within literacy and wider learning objectives for language arts and cultural studies at the secondary level. This well-rounded resource connects United States folk forms with their cultural origin, historical context, and social function. Appendixes include a bibliography, a category index, and a discussion of starting points for researching American folklore. References and bibliographic material throughout the text highlight recently published and commonly available materials for further study. Coverage includes: Folk heroes and legendary figures, including Paul Bunyan and Yankee Doodle Fables, fairy tales, and myths often featured in American folklore, including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Princess and the Pea" American authors who have added to or modified folklore traditions, including Washington Irving Historical events that gave rise to folklore, including the civil rights movement and the Revolutionary War Terms in folklore studies, such as fieldwork and the folklife movement Holidays and observances, such as Christmas and Kwanzaa Topics related to folklore in everyday life, such as sports folklore and courtship/dating folklore Folklore related to cultural groups, such as Appalachian folklore and African-American folklore and more.
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
Edward L. Ayers
Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393881271
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 by Edward L. Ayers Pdf
A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today. With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. But even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied it: voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned self-interest. Edward L. Ayers’s rich history examines the visions that moved Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, the Native American activist William Apess, and others to challenge entrenched practices and beliefs. So, Lydia Maria Child condemned the racism of her fellow northerners at great personal cost. Melville and Thoreau, Joseph Smith and Samuel Morse all charted new paths for America in the realms of art, nature, belief, and technology. It was Henry David Thoreau who, speaking of John Brown, challenged a hostile crowd "Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong?" Through decades of award-winning scholarship on the Civil War, Edward L. Ayers has himself ventured beyond the interpretative status quo to recover the range of possibilities embedded in the past as it was lived. Here he turns that distinctive historical sensibility to a period when bold visionaries and critics built vigorous traditions of dissent and innovation into the foundation of the nation. Those traditions remain alive for us today.
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860
Leonardo Buonomo
Author : Leonardo Buonomo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611476538
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860 by Leonardo Buonomo Pdf
This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how, in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national and racial traits, during a flowering in American letters, encouraged responses from American authors to outsiders that not only contain precious insights into nineteenth-century America’s self-construction but also serve to illuminate our own time’s multicultural societies. The authors under consideration are alternately canonical (Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville), recently rediscovered (Kirkland), or simply neglected (Arthur). The texts analyzed cover such different genres as diaries, letters, newspapers, manuals, novels, stories, and poems.
The Reader's Companion to American History
Eric Foner,John A. Garraty
Author : Eric Foner,John A. Garraty
Publisher : HMH
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547561349
The Reader's Companion to American History by Eric Foner,John A. Garraty Pdf
An A-to-Z historical encyclopedia of US people, places, and events, with nearly 1,000 entries “all equally well written, crisp, and entertaining” (Library Journal). From the origins of its native peoples to its complex identity in modern times, this unique alphabetical reference covers the political, economic, cultural, and social history of America. A fact-filled treasure trove for history buffs, The Reader’s Companion is sponsored by the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to promoting literary excellence in the writing of biography and history. Under the editorship of the eminent historians John A. Garraty and Eric Foner, a large and distinguished group of scholars, biographers, and journalists—nearly four hundred contemporary authorities—illuminate the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped our past. Readers will find everything from a chronological account of immigration; individual entries on the Bull Moose Party and the Know-Nothings as well as an article on third parties in American politics; pieces on specific religious groups, leaders, and movements and a larger-scale overview of religion in America. Interweaving traditional political and economic topics with the spectrum of America’s social and cultural legacies—everything from marriage to medicine, crime to baseball, fashion to literature—the Companion is certain to engage the curiosity, interests, and passions of every reader, and also provides an excellent research tool for students and teachers.
The History of the American Indians
James Adair
Author : James Adair
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817313937
The History of the American Indians by James Adair Pdf
James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. Adair's written work, first published in England in 1775, is considered one of the finest histories of the Native Americans.
Stryker's American Register and Magazine
James Stryker
Author : James Stryker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : MINN:31951002806721B
Stryker's American Register and Magazine by James Stryker Pdf
The Literary American
George Payn Quackenbos
Author : George Payn Quackenbos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Literature, English
ISBN : CHI:105227323
The Literary American by George Payn Quackenbos Pdf
A Manual of American Literature
John S. Hart
Author : John S. Hart
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368194673
A Manual of American Literature by John S. Hart Pdf
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
A Measure of Perfection
Charles Colbert
Author : Charles Colbert
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0807846732
A Measure of Perfection by Charles Colbert Pdf
Despite its widespread popularity in antebellum America, phrenology has rarely been taken seriously as a cultural phenomenon. Charles Colbert seeks to redress this neglect by demonstrating the important contributions the theory made to artistic developmen
Miseducating Americans
Richard F. Hamilton
Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412855426
Miseducating Americans by Richard F. Hamilton Pdf
In Miseducating Americans, Richard F. Hamilton examines accounts of American history appearing in textbooks and popular accounts and compares these with the reports contained in scholarly monographs. The task: to determine how certain myths and misconstructions became accepted as recorded history. Hamilton provides much needed correction of those misleading accounts. Was America historically the “land of the free?” Not if you take into account slavery, discrimination, and post-Civil War segregation policies. Was America in the late nineteenth century truly expansionist, as American textbooks imply, or did it actually capitalize on unexpected political and economic opportunities, like Russia’s desire to rid itself of Alaska? Was the acquisition of the Philippines a zealous profit-seeking effort aiming for “the China market,” or the fortuitous consequences of a move against Spain during the Spanish-American War? Miseducating Americans debunks many commonly accepted explanations of historical facts. It contends that many accounts are oversimplifications, and some are one-sided depictions of virtue. Hamilton traces the sources of these misconstructions, which mostly come from history textbooks written by authors aiming for “popular audiences.” He then offers explanations as to how and why the inaccuracies have been repeated and passed on.
