My Discovery Of America

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015062844306

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My Discovery of America by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

"Touring the United States in 1925, the Russian Futurist poet and propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky observed at first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet technological development. Writing in his typical declamatory style, he found much to celebrate in the modernised, industrialised America of the 1920s - creativity and advancement, a primitive futurism. But he also decried the social injustices of uncaring capitalism, losing no opportunity to propound his own political beliefs." "Presented here in full for the first time in the English language, My Discovery of America forms an inspired series of humorous sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems, the significance of which resounds from the early twentieth century through to our own times."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040115631

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My Discovery of America by Farley Mowat Pdf

In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban.

Author : Betsy Maestro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780688115128

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The Discovery of the Americas by Betsy Maestro Pdf

"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 : Doug West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 100595979X

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Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the Americas by Doug West Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107150874

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The Venetian Discovery of America by Elizabeth Horodowich Pdf

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Author : William Patterson Cumming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : America
ISBN : LCCN:cn73000244

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The Discovery of North America by William Patterson Cumming Pdf

Author : Jorge Amado
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101603574

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The Discovery of America by the Turks by Jorge Amado Pdf

A Penguin Classic Published here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants—“Turks,” as Brazilians call them—who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903 and become involved in a merchant's farcical attempt to marry off his shrew of a daughter. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429945738

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Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch Pdf

Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831–1832, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and painting a vivid picture of Jacksonian America. Damrosch shows that Tocqueville found much to admire in the dynamism of American society and in its egalitarian ideals. But he was offended by the ethos of grasping materialism and was convinced that the institution of slavery was bound to give rise to a tragic civil war. Drawing on documents and letters that have never before appeared in English, as well as on a wide range of scholarship, Tocqueville's Discovery of America brings the man, his ideas, and his world to startling life.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780743296281

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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Pdf

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950408736

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My America Story Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steve Nicholls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226583426

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Paradise Found by Steve Nicholls Pdf

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter’s dream, with populations of game too abundant and diverse to even fathom. It’s no wonder these first settlers thought they had discovered a paradise of sorts. Fortunately for us, they left a legacy of copious records documenting what they saw, and these observations make it possible to craft a far more detailed evocation of North America before its settlement than any other place on the planet. Here Steve Nicholls brings this spectacular environment back to vivid life, demonstrating with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. The story of the continent’s colonization forms a backdrop to its natural history, which Nicholls explores in chapters on the North Atlantic, the East Coast, the Subtropical Caribbean, the West Coast, Baja California, and the Great Plains. Seamlessly blending firsthand accounts from centuries past with the findings of scientists today, Nicholls also introduces us to a myriad cast of characters who have chronicled the changing landscape, from pre–Revolutionary era settlers to researchers whom he has met in the field. A director and writer of Emmy Award–winning wildlife documentaries for the Smithsonian Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, and PBS, Nicholls deploys a cinematic flair for capturing nature at its most mesmerizing throughout. But Paradise Found is much more than a celebration of what once was: it is also a reminder of how much we have lost along the way and an urgent call to action so future generations are more responsible stewards of the world around them. The result is popular science of the highest order: a book as remarkable as the landscape it recreates and as inspired as the men and women who discovered it.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620974933

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Lies Across America by James W. Loewen Pdf

A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.

Author : Tom Smith,John S. Bowman,Maurice Isserman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : America
ISBN : 9781438101804

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Discovery of the Americas, 1492-1800 by Tom Smith,John S. Bowman,Maurice Isserman Pdf

Interesting topics Include: Books and printing in the age of Columbus; The Inca Empire; The horse in North America; The legend of El Dorado; The Nootka Convention; The Pueblo Revolt; The role of California missions.

Author : Samuel G. Drake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : America
ISBN : UCAL:$B41305

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History of the Early Discovery of America and Landing of the Pilgrims by Samuel G. Drake Pdf

Author : Leo Wiener
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1015475027

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Africa and the Discovery of America by Leo Wiener Pdf

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