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Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0826308082
Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.
Author : David M. Wrobel,Michael C. Steiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040615976
What does it mean to live in the West today? Do people tend to identify with states, with regions, or with the larger West? This book examines the development of regional identity in the American West, demonstrating that it is a regionally diverse entity made up of many different wests--Great Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and more--in which American regionalism finds its fullest expression. These fourteen original essays tell how a sense of place emerged among residents of various regions and how a sense of those places was developed by people outside of them. Wrobel and Steiner first offer a compelling overview of the West's regional nature; then thirteen other rising or renowned scholars-from history, American Studies, geography, and literature-tell how regional consciousness formed among inhabitants of particular regions. All of the essays address the larger issue of the centrality of place in determining social and cultural forms and individual and collective identities. Some focus on race and culture as the primary influences on regional consciousness while others emphasize environmental and economic factors or the influence of literature. Some even examine western regionalism in areas that lie beyond the West as it has traditionally been conceived. Each of the contributors believes that where a people live helps determine what they are, and they write not only about the many wests within the larger West, but also about the constant state of flux in which regionalism exists. Many books speak of the West as a place, but few others deal with the West's different places. Many Wests presents a vision of the West that reflects both the common heritage and unique character of each major subregion, building on the revisionist impulse of the last decade to help redirect New Western History toward an appreciation of regional diversity and integrate scholarship in the regional subfields. It is a book for everyone who lives in, studies, or loves the West, for it confirms that it is home to very different peoples, economies, histories-and regions.
Author : J. E. Montgomery
Publisher : Gibb Memorial Trust
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909724525
A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections. It offers a corrective to the more exaggerated claims concerning this poetry and revises some hitherto fundamental attitudes by advancing an individual philologically-driven vision of the period.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Newmark Learning
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781607190615
Research shows that repeated oral reading builds fluency and comprehension. Create a fluency center in your classroom with leveled fiction and nonfiction passages linked to standards-based topics. The audio CD with each book provides a fluent modeled reading. Students can time their readings and graph their progress. 64 pages each.
Author : William Francis Patrick Napier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Sindh (Pakistan)
ISBN : BL:A0019080987
Author : William Henry Katerberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082652697
What is the future of the American West? This book look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and future powerfully shape our understanding of the present-day West.
Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195078063
The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Donald Worster tells the story of this dream and its outcome. He shows how, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Mormons were the first attempting to make that dream a reality, damming and diverting rivers to irrigate their land. He follows this intriguing history through the 1930s, when the federal government built hundreds of dams on every major western river, thereby laying the foundation for the cities and farms, money and power of today's West. Yet while these cities have become paradigms of modern American urban centers, and the farms successful high-tech enterprises, Worster reminds us that the costs have been extremely high. Along with the wealth has come massive ecological damage, a redistribution of power to bureaucratic and economic elites, and a class conflict still on the upswing. As a result, the future of this "hydraulic West" is increasingly uncertain, as water continues to be a scarce resource, inadequate to the demand, and declining in quality.
Author : Jonathan Foster
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806162256
Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how other cities dealt with similar kinds of stigmas that resulted from behavior and events that fell outside accepted norms. He wanted to know how such stigmas changed over time and how they affected a city’s reputation and residents. Those questions led to this examination of the role of stigma and history in three very different cities: Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. In the era of civil rights, Birmingham became known as “Bombingham,” a place of constant reactionary and racist violence. Las Vegas emerged as the nation’s most recognizable Sin City, and San Francisco’s tolerance of homosexuality made it the perceived capital of Gay America. Stigma Cites shows how cultural and political trends influenced perceptions of disrepute in these cities, and how, in turn, their status as sites of vice and violence influenced development decisions, from Birmingham’s efforts to shed its reputation as racist, to San Francisco’s transformation of its stigma into a point of pride, to Las Vegas’s use of gambling to promote tourism and economic growth. The first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Foster’s innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why. An absorbing work of history and urban sociology, the book illuminates the significance of perceptions in shaping metropolitan history.
Author : William DeBuys
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0826324282
A history of the Salton Sea, which has become a prophetic story of mounting environmental crises that impinge on the water supply of southern California's sixteen million people.
Author : Moss Peter Wilson
Publisher : Moss Peter Wilson
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Twenty-six short comprehension passages. This text is a great resource for teachers, tutors and parents looking to engage learners with reading. Included are tried and tested Literal, Vocabulary and Inference questions designed to get your learner imaging, exploring, analysing, and responding. Get started with Simple Comprehension today!
Author : BEN A. MINTEER,Mark Klett,Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300260724
A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable "place apart" to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked complicated questions about the importance of the wild in American environmentalism, as well as new aesthetic expectations as we reframe the wilderness as (to some degree) a human creation. Wild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a merging of short, thematic essays with a striking visual narrative. Often, the wild is viewed in binary terms: either revered as sacred and ecologically pure or dismissed as spoiled by human activities. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process.
Author : Marguerite S. Shaffer,Phoebe S. K. Young
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247251
We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival—health, sustenance, shelter—or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary increases, understanding how nature and culture are interconnected matters more than ever. Bridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines the surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of American history. Divided into four themes—animals, bodies, places, and politics—the essays span a diverse array of locations and periods: from antebellum slave society to atomic testing sites, from gorillas in Central Africa to river runners in the Grand Canyon, from white sun-tanning enthusiasts to Japanese American incarcerees, from taxidermists at the 1893 World's Fair to tents on Wall Street in 2011. Together they offer new perspectives and conceptual tools that can help us better understand the historical realities and current paradoxes of our environmental predicament. Contributors: Thomas G. Andrews, Connie Y. Chiang, Catherine Cocks, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Finis Dunaway, John Herron, Andrew Kirk, Frieda Knobloch, Susan A. Miller, Brett Mizelle, Marguerite S. Shaffer, Phoebe S. K. Young.
Author : Don Scheese
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415938899
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UVA:X001112341
Author : Thomas Harmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Bible
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50172118
