Author : Elsie Singmaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : 0689121636
The Magic Mirror
Elsie Singmaster
Gunfighter Nation
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Gunfighter Nation
Richard Slotkin
Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0806130318
Gunfighter Nation by Richard Slotkin Pdf
Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing
Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees
Sarah F. Wakefield
Author : Sarah F. Wakefield
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806148977
Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees by Sarah F. Wakefield Pdf
The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and her captivity shortly after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas accused of participation in the "Sioux uprising." Among those hanged were Chaska (We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee), a Mdewakanton Dakota who had protected her and her children during the upheaval. In a distinctive and compelling voice, Wakefield blames the government for the war and then relates her and her family’s ordeal, as well as Chaska’s and his family’s help and ultimate sacrifice. This is the first fully annotated modern edition of Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees. June Namias’s extensive introduction and notes describe the historical and ethnographic background of Dakota-white relations in Minnesota and place Wakefield’s narrative in the context of other captivity narratives.
Regeneration Through Violence
Richard Slotkin
Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781504090353
Regeneration Through Violence by Richard Slotkin Pdf
National Book Award Finalist: A study of national myths, lore, and identity that “will interest all those concerned with American cultural history” (American Political Science Review). Winner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award for Best Book in American History In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, historian and cultural critic Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries—including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville—Slotkin traces the full development of this myth. “Deserves the careful attention of everyone concerned with the history of American culture or literature. ”—Comparative Literature “Slotkin’s large aim is to understand what kind of national myths emerged from the American frontier experience. . . . [He] discusses at length the newcomers’ search for an understanding of their first years in the New World [and] emphasizes the myths that arose from the experiences of whites with Indians and with the land.” —Western American Literature
The Fatal Environment
Richard Slotkin
Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504090360
The Fatal Environment by Richard Slotkin Pdf
A two-time National Book Award finalist’s “ambitious and provocative” look at Custer’s Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend (The New York Review of Books). In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power. Using Custer’s Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the “savage” element be permitted to dominate the “civilized,” Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a mythos redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion. “A clearly written, challenging and provocative work that should prove enormously valuable to serious students of American history.” —The New York Times “[An] arresting hypothesis.” —Henry Nash Smith, American Historical Review
Sounding Thunder
Brian D. McInnes
Author : Brian D. McInnes
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780887555220
Sounding Thunder by Brian D. McInnes Pdf
Francis Pegahmagabow (1889–1952), a member of the Ojibwe nation, was born in Shawanaga, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he became the most decorated Canadian Indigenous soldier for bravery and the most accomplished sniper in North American military history. After the war, Pegahmagabow settled in Wasauksing, Ontario. He served his community as both chief and councillor and belonged to the Brotherhood of Canadian Indians, an early national Indigenous political organization. Francis proudly served a term as Supreme Chief of the National Indian Government, retiring from office in 1950. Francis Pegahmagabow’s stories describe many parts of his life and are characterized by classic Ojibwe narrative. They reveal aspects of Francis’s Anishinaabe life and worldview. Interceding chapters by Brian McInnes provide valuable cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and historic insights that give a greater context and application for Francis’s words and world. Presented in their original Ojibwe as well as in English translation, the stories also reveal a rich and evocative relationship to the lands and waters of Georgian Bay. In "Sounding Thunder", Brian McInnes provides new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibwe oral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories.
Commie Cowboys
Ryan W. McMaken
Author : Ryan W. McMaken
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Commie Cowboys by Ryan W. McMaken Pdf
The Western genre has long been associated with right-wing and libertarian politics, and is said to promote individualism and free-market economics. In a new look at the Western, however, Ryan McMaken shows that the Western is in fact often anti-capitalist, and in many ways, the genre attacks the dominant ideology of nineteenth-century America: classical liberalism. The classical Westerns of the mid-twentieth century often feature wealthy capitalist villains who oppress the cowardly and defenseless shopkeepers and farmers of the frontier. The gunfighter, a representative of the law and order provided by the nation-state, intervenes to provide safety and justice. In addition to attacks on capitalism, the Western attacks other prized values of the bourgeois middle classes including Christianity, education and urbanization. McMaken examines these themes as used in the films of John Ford, Anthony Mann, and Howard Hawks. These pioneers of the classical Westerns are then contrasted with later innovators such as Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood. Also included are discussions of the role of the LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE series, Victorian literature, and the nature of crime on the historical frontier. With a foreword by Paul A. Cantor, author of GILLIGAN UNBOUND and THE INVISIBLE HAND IN POPULAR CULTURE.
The Western Reader
Jim Kitses,Gregg Rickman
Author : Jim Kitses,Gregg Rickman
Publisher : Limelight
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015060821561
The Western Reader by Jim Kitses,Gregg Rickman Pdf
This lavishly-illustrated collection of writings on western movies covers close to a century of American cinematic achievement and includes almost a half-century of essays, commentary, and interviews. The history, mythology, and landscape of the western are skillfully explored.
Pulpit and Nation
Spencer W. McBride
Author : Spencer W. McBride
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813939575
Pulpit and Nation by Spencer W. McBride Pdf
In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s conversion to Christianity in 1817, this book reveals the ways in which the clergy’s political activism—and early Americans’ general use of religious language and symbols in their political discourse—expanded and evolved to become an integral piece in the invention of an American national identity. Offering a fresh examination of some of the key junctures in the development of the American political system—the Revolution, the ratification debates of 1787–88, and the formation of political parties in the 1790s—McBride shows how religious arguments, sentiments, and motivations were subtly interwoven with political ones in the creation of the early American republic. Ultimately, Pulpit and Nation reveals that while religious expression was common in the political culture of the Revolutionary era, it was as much the calculated design of ambitious men seeking power as it was the natural outgrowth of a devoutly religious people.
Roots of War
Richard J. Barnet
Author : Richard J. Barnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X000004862
Roots of War by Richard J. Barnet Pdf
The Toronto Book of the Dead
Adam Bunch
Author : Adam Bunch
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459738089
The Toronto Book of the Dead by Adam Bunch Pdf
Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk... With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper; from the rise and fall of the city’s greatest Victorian baseball star to the final days of the world’s most notorious anarchist. Toronto has witnessed countless lives lived and lost as it grew from a muddy little frontier town into a booming metropolis of concrete and glass. The Toronto Book of the Dead tells the tale of the ever-changing city through the lives and deaths of those who made it their final resting place.
Planet of the Apes as American Myth
Eric Greene
Author : Eric Greene
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786426638
Planet of the Apes as American Myth by Eric Greene Pdf
How do political conflicts shape popular culture? This book explores that question by analyzing how the Planet of the Apes films functioned both as entertaining adventures and as apocalyptic political commentary. Informative and thought provoking, the book demonstrates how this enormously popular series of secular myths used images of racial and ecological crisis to respond to events like the Cold War, the race riots of the 1960s, the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the Vietnam War. The work utilizes interviews with key filmmakers and close readings of the five Apes films and two television series to trace the development of the series' theme of racial conflict in the context of the shifting ideologies of race during the sixties and seventies. The book also observes that today, amid growing concerns over race relations, the resurgent popularity of Apes and Twentieth Century--Fox's upcoming film may again make Planet of the Apes a pop culture phenomenon that asks who we are and where we are going. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Crusader!
Paul T. Gillcrist
Author : Paul T. Gillcrist
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0887407668
Crusader! by Paul T. Gillcrist Pdf
Once known as the "Last of the Gunfighters", the Vought F-8 Crusader has since become a legend in the histories of the U.S. and French navies, as well as a scourge in the skies over North Vietnam in the late 1960s! CRUSADER! is a vital oral history of one of the most controversial fighter planes in carrier aviation. A key to the authenticity of this story are the author's personal interviews with sixteen of the seventeen living Crusader pilots who became MiG killers in the Vietnam air war. His analysis of their aerial engagements over North Vietnam from 1965 to 1973 contains some startling surprises, as well as a validation of many of the tactical lessons learned from World War II and Korea. CRUSADER! also contains personal accounts by F-8 speed record holders such as U.S. Marine Corps Major (now Senator) John Glenn and Captains Bob Dose and "Duke" Windsor. Other aviation records held by the Crusader, (not so enviable) are told, in anecdotal form, for the first time by the author, an F-8 driver and participant in some of them! Colorful, and sometimes humorous, accounts of events involving the F-8 and "Crusader Drivers" abound in this chronicle of carrier aviation covering the three decades when this remarkable airplane was an important element of the U.S. Navy's carrier strike forces. Rear Admiral Paul T. Gillcrist commanded a fleet Crusader squadron, then a carrier air wing and finally, as a flag officer, became wing commander for all Pacific Fleet fighter squadrons. During his fleet squadron command he completed three carrier deployments to the Tonkin Gulf and flew 167 combat missions in the Crusader for which he was awarded seventeen combat decorations. The author of FEET WET, Reflections of a Carrier Pilot (1990) and TOMCAT, The Grumman F-14 Story (1994), Admiral Gillcrist is well qualified to write the story of the Crusader!
The Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Author : Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551995700
The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe Pdf
The Englishman’s Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West – the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe’s rendering of the stark, dramatic beauty of the western landscape and of Hollywood in its most extravagant era – with its visionaries, celebrities, and dreamers – provides vivid background for scenes of action, adventure, and intrigue. Richly textured, evocative of time and place, this is an unforgettable novel about power, greed, and the pull of dreams that has at its centre the haunting story of a young drifter – “the Englishman’s boy” – whose fate, ultimately, is a tragic one.
Gun Show Nation
Joan Burbick
Author : Joan Burbick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 1595582045
Gun Show Nation by Joan Burbick Pdf
Cultural historian, critic and gun owner Joan Burbick examines the lethal politics of gun ownership, answering that perennial question about American culture: why are Americans so obsessed with guns? Looking at the nation from the floor of a gun show, Burbick uncovers a powerful conservative ideology that attempts to place gun ownership at the centre of US democracy. Her analysis takes us from the history of the NRA, through the gun lobby's engagement with US politics, to the movement's contemporary hostility to the United Nations.