Painter In A Savage Land

Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588367099

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Painter in a Savage Land by Miles Harvey Pdf

In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the past. This is the thrilling story of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, the first European artist to journey to what is now the continental United States with the express purpose of recording its wonders in pencil and paint. Le Moyne’s images, which survive today in a series of spectacular engravings, provide a rare glimpse of Native American life at the pivotal time of first contact with the Europeans–most of whom arrived with the preconceived notion that the New World was an almost mythical place in which anything was possible.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004340640

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Empire of the Senses by Anonim Pdf

Empire of the Senses introduces new approaches to the history of European imperialism in the Americas by questioning the role that the five senses played in framing the cultural encounters, colonial knowledge, and political relationships that built New World empires.

Author : Kevin Dawson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812224931

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Undercurrents of Power by Kevin Dawson Pdf

Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.

Author : Oliver W. Nixon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547048602

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Whitman's Ride Through Savage Lands, with Sketches of Indian Life by Oliver W. Nixon Pdf

"Whitman's Ride Through Savage Lands, with Sketches of Indian Life" by Oliver W. Nixon is a book set in Oregon territory. It shows the force, wisdom, and unselfishness of Dr. Marcus Whitman and his accomplished wife. The tale, as he tells it, is very interesting. It is a tale that has been often in the mind of the American public of late years, but it cannot be too often told nor too often pondered. It has in it the very elements that nurture bravery and patriotism. Dr. Nixon tells it well. In simple, straightforward language he gives us the whole story of Dr. Whitman's life-career, indicating the forces that inspired him and the results that attended his efforts. Dr. Nixon sees in the events of the story the guiding and determining hand of Providence.

Author : Matthew J. Milliner
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514000335

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The Everlasting People by Matthew J. Milliner Pdf

First Things Book of the Year award What does the cross of Christ have to do with the thunderbird? How might the life and work of Christian writer G. K. Chesterton shed light on our understanding of North American Indigenous art and history? This unexpected connection forms the basis of these discerning reflections by art historian Matthew Milliner. In this fifth volume in the Hansen Lectureship Series, Milliner appeals to Chesterton's life and work—including The Everlasting Man, his neglected poetry, his love for his native England, and his own visits to America—in order to understand and appreciate both Indigenous art and the complex, often tragic history of First Nations peoples, especially in the American Midwest. Based on the annual lecture series hosted at Wheaton College's Marion E. Wade Center, volumes in the Hansen Lectureship Series reflect on the imaginative work and lasting influence of seven British authors: Owen Barfield, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.

Author : Aaron Deter-Wolf,Carol Diaz-Granados
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292749122

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Drawing with Great Needles by Aaron Deter-Wolf,Carol Diaz-Granados Pdf

For thousands of years, Native Americans used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos. This book offers an examination into the antiquity, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.--Publisher description.

Author : Eric Klingelhofer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004187320

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First Forts by Eric Klingelhofer Pdf

The first comparative study of proto-colonial fortifications, First Forts comprises essays written by leading archaeologists that address the questions of how European first defended themselves overseas and to what degree they adapted to local conditions.

Author : Jeff Persels,Kendall Tarte,George Hoffmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004351516

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Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature by Jeff Persels,Kendall Tarte,George Hoffmann Pdf

Twenty original perspectives on such authors as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as on less familiar works of religious polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, bibliophilism, and ichthyology.

Author : Samuel Barbour,James Cicarelli,J. E. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351703598

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A History of American Economic Thought by Samuel Barbour,James Cicarelli,J. E. King Pdf

This vital addition to the Routledge History of Economic Thought series surveys arguably the most important country in the development of economics as we know it today – the United States of America. A History of American Economic Thought is a comprehensive study of American economics as it has evolved over time, with several singularly unique features including: a thorough examination of the economics of American aboriginals prior to 1492; a detailed discussion of American economics as it has developed during the last fifty years; and a generous dose of non-mainstream American economics under the rubrics "Other Voices" and "Crosscurrents." It is far from being a native American community, and numerous social reformers and those with alternative points of view are given as much weight as the established figures who dominate the mainstream of the profession. Generous doses of American economic history are presented where appropriate to give context to the story of American economics as it proceeds through the ages, from seventeenth-century pre-independence into the twentieth-first century packed full of influential figures including John Bates Clark, Thorstein Veblen, Irving Fisher, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith, to name but a few. This volume has something for everyone interested in the history of economic thought, the nexus of American economic thought and American economic history, the fusion of American economics and philosophy, and the history of science.

Author : Nick West
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640274822

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To Light a New Fire by Nick West Pdf

In the spring of 1562, a young man’s life was about to change forever. While standing on a dune staring out over the rolling sea along the east coast of what would one day be called Florida, an amazing and frightening sight caught his eye. A sailing ship! A shiver of terror ran through his body. He had heard the stories. It was the Little People from the Sun. Accounts of the horrible things that they had done to his village years before he was born had been told and retold around the council fires for as long as he could remember. He had always thought they were just stories told to frighten children. Now he could see that they were real. His thoughts went to Cato, the girl that he had come so far to marry. He turned and ran down the hard-packed beach toward her village. He must reach her before they did. Something evil was coming, and he had to take her out of harm’s way before it was too late.

Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780316463584

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The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey Pdf

The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus) A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the Midland Authors Annual Literary Award A Michigan Notable Book A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Year "A masterpiece." —Nathaniel Philbrick In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king. From this stronghold he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds. Eventually, having run afoul of powerful enemies, including the American president, Strang was assassinated, an event that was frontpage news across the country. The King of Confidence tells this fascinating but largely forgotten story. Centering his narrative on this charlatan's turbulent twelve years in power, Miles Harvey gets to the root of a timeless American original: the Confidence Man. Full of adventure, bad behavior, and insight into a crucial period of antebellum history, The King of Confidence brings us a compulsively readable account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.

Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Crown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780307766564

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The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey Pdf

The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone virtually undetected until he was caught in 1995–and was unmasked as the most prolific American map thief in history. As Miles Harvey unravels the mystery of Bland’s life, he maps out the world of cartography and cartographic crime, weaving together a fascinating story of exploration, craftsmanship, villainy, and the lure of the unknown.

Author : J. Beavington Atkinson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368198596

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An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe by J. Beavington Atkinson Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Joseph Beavington Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Art
ISBN : OXFORD:305072989

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An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe by Joseph Beavington Atkinson Pdf

Author : Peter Frei,Nelly Labère
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000530438

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The Politics of Obscenity in the Age of the Gutenberg Revolution by Peter Frei,Nelly Labère Pdf

What does obscene mean? What does it have to say about the means through which meaning is produced and received in literary, artistic and, more broadly, social acts of representation and interaction? Early modern France and Europe faced these questions not only in regard to the political, religious and artistic reformations for which the Renaissance stands, but also in light of the reconfiguration of its mediasphere in the wake of the invention of the printing press. The Politics of Obscenity brings together researchers from Europe and the United States in offering scholars of early modern Europe a detailed understanding of the implications and the impact of obscene representations in their relationship to the Gutenberg Revolution which came to define Western modernity.