On The Frontier

Author : William Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0889774080

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On the Frontier by William Wallace Pdf

"As entertaining as fiction." "Great Plains Quarterly" "A valuable account of everyday life." "Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People" First published more than twenty years ago as "My Dear Maggie, " this new edition of William Wallace's letters home to England provides rare documentation of the earliest days of settlement in the West. The correspondence conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courage that was needed to make a fresh start in a strange new land. "William's letters contains many elements common to settlers' writings: a recounting of the exhausting trip behind slow-moving oxen from the jumping-off point to the homestead, the violence of thunderstorms, the pain of frozen extremities, and the destruction caused by prairie fires. They are also full of the fine details of life not usually found in such abundance in pioneer narratives, details made vivid by William's observant eye and lyrical writing style... He tells of mosquitoes (he even encloses one in a letter)... the fierce weather, nearby bears and howling wolves. William Wallace takes us on his personal journey from immigrant to citizen, a journey awakened by his growing attachment to his new landscape." "Prairie Forum"

Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : august house
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0874836751

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Wondrous Times on the Frontier by Dee Brown Pdf

Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.

Author : Richard A. Settersten Jr.,Frank F. Furstenberg,Rubén G. Rumbaut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226748924

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On the Frontier of Adulthood by Richard A. Settersten Jr.,Frank F. Furstenberg,Rubén G. Rumbaut Pdf

On the Frontier of Adulthood reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development. Pathways into and through adulthood have become much less linear and predictable, and these changes carry tremendous social and cultural significance, especially as institutions and policies aimed at supporting young adults have not kept pace with these changes. This volume considers the nature and consequences of changes in early adulthood by drawing upon a wide variety of historical and contemporary data from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Especially dramatic shifts have occurred in the conventional markers of adulthood—leaving home, finishing school, getting a job, getting married, and having children—and in how these experiences are configured as a set. These accounts reveal how the process of becoming an adult has changed over the past century, the challenges faced by young people today, and what societies can do to smooth the transition to adulthood. "This book is the most thorough, wide-reaching, and insightful analysis of the new life stage of early adulthood."—Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University "From West to East, young people today enter adulthood in widely diverse ways that affect their life chances. This book provides a rich portrait of this journey-an essential font of knowledge for all who care about the younger generation."—Glen H. Elder Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "On the Frontier of Adulthood adds considerably to our knowledge about the transition from adolescence to adulthood. . . . It will indeed be the definitive resource for researchers for years to come. Anyone working in the area—whether in demography, sociology, economics, or developmental psychology—will wish to make use of what is gathered here."—John Modell, Brown University "This is a must-read for scholars and policymakers who are concerned with the future of today's youth and will become a touchpoint for an emerging field of inquiry focused on adult transitions."—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University

Author : Teo Ballvé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Colombia
ISBN : 1501747533

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The Frontier Effect by Teo Ballvé Pdf

"This book disputes the commonly held view that Colombia's armed conflict is a result of state absence or failure, providing broader lessons about the real drivers of political violence in war-torn areas"--

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735272460

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Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers Pdf

A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization. A tremendous new novel from the bestselling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.

Author : Shari Rabin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479830473

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Jews on the Frontier by Shari Rabin Pdf

"Jews on the Frontier offers a religious history that begins in an unexpected place: on the road. Shari Rabin recounts the journey of Jewish people as they left Eastern cities and ventured into the American West and South during the nineteenth century. It brings to life the successes and obstacles of these travels, from the unprecedented economic opportunities to the anonymity and loneliness that complicated the many legal obligations of traditional Jewish life. Without government-supported communities or reliable authorities, where could one procure kosher meat? Alone in the American wilderness, how could one find nine co-religionists for a minyan (prayer quorum)? Without identity documents, how could one really know that someone was Jewish?"--[Site internet éditeur].

Author : Geoffrey Bennington
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823275991

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Kant on the Frontier by Geoffrey Bennington Pdf

A philosophical exploration of Kant’s writings on teleology, history, and politics and how the concept of the frontier shapes—and complicates—his thought. At a time when all borders, boundaries, and limits are being challenged, erased, or reinforced—often violently—we must rethink the concept of frontier. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading of Kant, philosopher Geoffrey Bennington casts doubt upon the conceptual coherence of borders. The frontier is both the central element of Kant’s thought and the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Bennington brings out the frontier’s complex, abyssal, fractal structure that leaves a residue of violence in every frontier and complicates Kant’s most rational arguments in the direction of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace. Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking about the frontier is both essential and a recurrent, fruitful, interruption.

Author : Jay Chladek
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496201089

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Outposts on the Frontier by Jay Chladek Pdf

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings. A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways. Outposts on the Frontier delves into the intriguing stories behind the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Almaz and Salyut programs, Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Spacelab, Mir station, Spacehab, and the ISS and gives past-due attention to Vladimir Chelomei, the Russian designer whose influence in space station development is as significant as Sergei Korolev’s in rocketry. Outposts on the Frontier is an informative and dynamic history of humankind’s first outposts on the frontier of space. Purchase the audio edition.

Author : Jeff Keshen,Adriana A. Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1552388344

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The Frontier of Patriotism by Jeff Keshen,Adriana A. Davies Pdf

Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Search for Sanctuary in the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association -- Conscientious Objectors in Alberta in the First World War -- SECTION FOUR: Aftermath -- War, Public Health, and the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic in Alberta -- Applying Modernity: Local Government and the 1919 Federal Housing Scheme in Alberta -- Soldier Settlement in Alberta, 1917-1931 -- First World War Centennial Commemoration in Alberta Museums -- APPENDIX -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- Back Cover

Author : Bethany Onsgard
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629694504

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Life on the Frontier by Bethany Onsgard Pdf

Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living on the frontier? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! Primary sources with accompanying questions, multiple prompts, A Day in the Life section, index, and glossary also included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Bradley J. Parker,Lars Rodseth
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816534111

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Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History by Bradley J. Parker,Lars Rodseth Pdf

Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the nineteenth-century American West and the work of Frederick Jackson Turner. As a result, the very concept of the frontier is bound up in Victorian notions of manifest destiny and rugged individualism. The frontier, it would seem, has been tamed. This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept, and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern. The contributors—historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists—present numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier. Any frontier situation has many dimensions, and each of the chapters highlights one or more of these, from the physical and ideological aspects of Egypt’s Nubian frontier to the military and cultural components of Inka outposts in Bolivia to the shifting agrarian, religious, and political boundaries in Bengal. They explore cases in which the centripetal forces at work in frontier zones have resulted in cultural hybridization or “creolization,” and in some instances show how satellite settlements on the frontiers of core polities themselves develop into new core polities. Each of the chapters suggests that frontiers are shaped in critical ways by topography, climate, vegetation, and the availability of water and other strategic resources, and most also consider cases of population shifts within or through a frontier zone. As these studies reveal, transnationalism in today’s world can best be understood as an extension of frontier processes that have developed over thousands of years. This book’s interdisciplinary perspective challenges readers to look beyond their own fields of interest to reconsider the true nature and meaning of frontiers.

Author : Kyle J. Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840590

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The Frontier Complex by Kyle J. Gardner Pdf

Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.

Author : Megan Bryson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503600454

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Goddess on the Frontier by Megan Bryson Pdf

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity? Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces beyond region and nation have influenced the goddess's transformations. Dali sits at the cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia, India, and Tibet; it has been claimed by different countries but is currently part of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Megan Bryson incorporates historical-textual studies, art history, and ethnography in her book to argue that Baijie provided a regional identity that enabled Dali to position itself geopolitically and historically. In doing so, Bryson provides a case study of how people craft local identities out of disparate cultural elements and how these local identities transform over time in relation to larger historical changes—including the increasing presence of the Chinese state.

Author : Joe Knetsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X030246929

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Faces on the Frontier by Joe Knetsch Pdf

"A history of the evolution of surveying public lands in Florida and traces the problems associated with any new frontier through the personalities of the major historical figures of the period."--Amazon.

Author : Hugh Nissenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Collective settlements
ISBN : UOM:39015031987962

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Notes from the Frontier by Hugh Nissenson Pdf