How The West Was Won And Lost

Author : Rocky M. Mirza, PhD
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781490771939

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How the West Was Won and Lost by Rocky M. Mirza, PhD Pdf

Western powers are addicted to stealing and warmongeringand their days at the top of civilization are numbered. To prove this point, Rocky M. Mirza, Ph.D., traces the rise of the Western powers from the Greek and Roman empires through the Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, German, Italian, and American empires. He argues that the West has: promoted private property over communal property, which has created huge inequalities of wealth. encouraged the production and consumption of goods instead of preserving our planet. exploited Third World workers to satisfy obese citizens addicted to super-size portions. From the time Portugal found a sea route to India and Spain rediscovered the New World, the West has sought to steal and kill. At first, Muslims in the Middle East and powerful countries in Asia thwarted Western ambitions, but the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century changed the landscape. Instead of building mutually beneficial relationships, Western empiresfrom the Portuguese to the Americanhave sought to solely look out for their own interests. Find out how the balance is shifting in How the West was Won and Lost.

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425286135

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How the West Was Won (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures) by Louis L'Amour Pdf

As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who’d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart—and his home—in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. These pioneering men and women sowed the seeds of a nation with their courage—and with their blood. Here is the story of how their paths would meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies and nature’s cruelty, to win for all time the rich and untamed West. Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volume 2. Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Western stories
ISBN : OCLC:1244847046

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How the West was Won by Louis L'Amour Pdf

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who?d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart -- and his home -- in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. These pioneering men and women sowed the seeds of a nation with their courage -- and with their blood. Here is the story of how their paths would meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies and nature?s cruelty, to win for all time the rich and untamed West.

Author : Gordon Morris Bakken,Brenda Farrington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0815334613

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Law in the West by Gordon Morris Bakken,Brenda Farrington Pdf

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0747507473

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Wild West Movies, Or, How the West was Found, Won, Lost, Lied About, Filmed and Forgotten by Kim Newman Pdf

From his acclaimed study of horror films, Nightmare Movies, Kim Newman turns his attention to the western. Against the backdrop of American history, popular mythology and the development of the cinema, the book examines the main themes and tensions of the genre. With reference to thousands of films and hundreds of directors and actors Newman brings his entertaining, wide-ranging and authoritative approach to bear on one of the cinema's most popular genres - with illuminating results.

Author : Stephen Anthony Aron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UCAL:C3365994

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How the West was Lost by Stephen Anthony Aron Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004184978

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How the West Was Won by Anonim Pdf

This volume contains articles on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire, on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cultural ideals, and on the Christian Middle Ages. The volume is a Festschrift for Burcht Pranger of the University of Amsterdam.

Author : Ronald A. Wells
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532602382

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California Dreaming by Ronald A. Wells Pdf

California matters, both as a place and as an idea. What famed historian Kevin Starr has called “the California Dream” is a vital part of American self-understanding. Just as America was meant to be a place of renewal, even redemption, for Europe, so too California was intended as a place of renewal for America. Therefore, California—place and idea—provides a fertile ground for scholars to think deeply about what it means to articulate “the promise of American life.” This book follows in the train of George Marsden’s classic The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship—believing that people of faith have a contribution to make to scholarship—and of Jay Green’s more recent book, Christian Historiography: Five Rival Views—believing that scholars of faith should engage in moral inquiry. In this book, eight authors inquire into the moral questions that emerge from studying California.

Author : Lou Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345274016

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How the West was Won by Lou Cameron Pdf

Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807886250

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Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten by Gary W. Gallagher Pdf

More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers through the stories told in recent film and art, showing how these stories have both reflected and influenced the political, social, and racial currents of their times.

Author : Rodney Stark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684516223

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How the West Won by Rodney Stark Pdf

Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, Why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization. How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas—among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, the notion that the universe functions according to rational rules that can be dis­covered, and the emphasis on human freedom and secure property rights. Taking readers on a thrilling journey from ancient Greece to the present, Stark challenges much of the received wisdom about Western history. Stark also debunks absurd fabrications that have flourished in the past few decades: that the Greeks stole their culture from Africa; that the West’s “discoveries” were copied from the Chinese and Muslims; that Europe became rich by plundering the non-Western world. At the same time, he reveals the woeful inadequacy of recent attempts to attribute the rise of the West to purely material causes—favorable climates, abundant natural resources, guns and steel. How the West Won displays Rodney Stark’s gifts for lively narrative history and making the latest scholarship accessible to all readers. This bold, insightful book will force you to rethink your understanding of the West and the birth of modernity—and to recognize that Western civilization really has set itself apart from other cultures.

Author : Mirza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948556316

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How the West Was Won and Lost by Mirza Pdf

This book traces the rise of the West from the Greek and Roman empires and through the Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, German, Italian and American empires. The current Western domination of the World began when Portugal found a sea route to India and Spain re-discovered the New World. Initially the rise of the West was constrained by Muslim control of the Middle East and powerful counties in Asia such as China, Japan and India. But after the industrial revolution of the 18th century the growth of the military and economic power of Western Europe and North America far exceeded that of Asia and the Middle East. Instead of engaging in trade which benefits both trading partners, all of the Western empires engaged in military invasions to colonize and steal land and resources. This created the permanent conflict between the imperial West and those colonized. The book predicts that the West will lose its post 18th century dominance because of the global shift to the Emerging Economies.

Author : John DeFrancis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0824814932

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In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan by John DeFrancis Pdf

As a twenty-three-year-old student in mid-1930s, pre-World War II China, John DeFrancis did not set out to make a thousand-mile camel trek across the Gobi Desert, become the prisoner of a Muslim warlord, or travel twelve hundred miles down the bandit-infested Yellow River on an inflated sheepskin raft. But these were just some of the adventures experienced by the author and his traveling companion when they tried to retrace the footsteps of Genghis Khan and ended up dodging the fighting between the Communists nearing the end of their Long March and a coalition of forces under Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government and a cabal of Muslim warlords. Informed by an extensive knowledge of Chinese history and punctuated with keen observation and gentle humor, the narrative is a personal history that can be read both as a tale of high adventure in the wild west of China and as prelude to the present in that tortured land. Westerners can no longer trace the footsteps of Genghis Khan. Many areas of China that challenged the adventuresome were declared off-limits more than a half-century ago - and the Gobi Desert and sensitive border regions are still inaccessible.

Author : Max W. Fischer
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781557344809

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American History Simulations by Max W. Fischer Pdf

Activities designed to bring the past into the present getting students involved with situations relevant to famous episodes in American history through simulations.

Author : Honor Levy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593656549

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My First Book by Honor Levy Pdf

A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Good Morning America, W, Nylon, SheReads, and LitHub “We count on our best young fiction writers to bring us news from the digital nervous system. Honor Levy . . . does so with special bite and élan.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire between imagination and confession, My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy’s uniquely riveting voice emerges from the chaos of coming of age in Generation Z. Never far from a digital interface, her characters grapple with formative political, existential, and romantic experiences in a web-drenched society on the brink of collapse. Inventive, ambitious, and frequently surreal, the stories of My First Book are a mirrorball onto the world as it is. Levy illuminates what it is to be at once adorable, special, heavily medicated, consistently panicked, and completely sincere. One protagonist accompanies a girl with too many teeth through an abortion, while another discovers the infinite nature of love, a third reminisces about other sunsets that were “pinker, like way pinker,” and another encounters God in a downtown arcade. To find and keep faith is the order of the day—but how?