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Author |
: Donald Dean Jackson |
Publisher |
: Editorial Galaxia |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806125047 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806125046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains by : Donald Dean Jackson
Reprint of the U. of Illinois Press edition of 1981 (which is distinguished by its inclusion in BCL3).
Author |
: Donald Jackson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 339 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1288484404 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains by : Donald Jackson
Author |
: Ronald Takaki |
Publisher |
: Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2012-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609804176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609804171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Different Mirror for Young People by : Ronald Takaki
A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.
Author |
: Matthew L. Harris |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2012-11-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806188447 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806188448 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by : Matthew L. Harris
In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries—explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity. It does so by providing a nuanced assessment of Pike and his actions within the larger context of American imperial ambition in the time of Jefferson. Pike’s accomplishments as an explorer and mapmaker and as a soldier during the War of 1812 has been tainted by his alleged connection to Aaron Burr’s conspiracy to separate the trans-Appalachian region from the United States. For two hundred years historians have debated whether Pike was an explorer or a spy, whether he knew about the Burr Conspiracy or was just a loyal foot soldier. This book moves beyond that controversy to offer new scholarly perspectives on Pike’s career. The essayists—all prominent historians of the American West—examine Pike’s expeditions and writings, which provided an image of the Southwest that would shape American culture for decades. John Logan Allen explores Pike’s contributions to science and cartography; James P. Ronda and Leo E. Oliva address his relationships with Native peoples and Spanish officials; Jay H. Buckley chronicles Pike’s life and compares Pike to other Jeffersonian explorers; Jared Orsi discusses the impact of his expeditions on the environment; and William E. Foley examines his role in Burr’s conspiracy. Together the essays assess Pike’s accomplishments and shortcomings as an explorer, soldier, empire builder, and family man. Pike’s 1810 journals and maps gave Americans an important glimpse of the headwaters of the Mississippi and the southwestern borderlands, and his account of the opportunities for trade between the Mississippi Valley and New Mexico offered a blueprint for the Santa Fe Trail. This volume is the first in more than a generation to offer new scholarly perspectives on the career of an overlooked figure in the opening of the American West.
Author |
: Jonathan Arlan |
Publisher |
: Skyhorse |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2017-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781510709768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1510709762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mountain Lines by : Jonathan Arlan
A New York Times best summer travel book recommendation A nonfiction debut about an American’s solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice. In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France with a single red line snaking south from Lake Geneva, through the jagged brown and white peaks of the Alps to the Mediterranean sea—a route more than four hundred miles long. He decides then and there to walk the whole trail solo. Lacking any outdoor experience, completely ignorant of mountains, sorely out of shape, and fighting last-minute nerves and bad weather, things get off to a rocky start. But Arlan eventually finds his mountain legs—along with a staggering variety of aches and pains—as he tramps a narrow thread of grass, dirt, and rock between cloud-collared, ice-capped peaks in the High Alps, through ancient hamlets built into hillsides, across sheep-dotted mountain pastures, and over countless cols on his way to the sea. In time, this simple, repetitive act of walking for hours each day in the remote beauty of the mountains becomes as exhilarating as it is exhausting. Mountain Lines is the stirring account of a month-long journey on foot through the French Alps and a passionate and intimate book laced with humor, wonder, and curiosity. In the tradition of trekking classics like A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Snow Leopard, and Tracks, the book is a meditation on movement, solitude, adventure, and the magnetic power of the natural world.
Author |
: R. B. Bernstein |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2003-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199758449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199758441 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas Jefferson by : R. B. Bernstein
Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder--not as a great political figure, but as leader of "a revolution of ideas that would make the world over again." In Thomas Jefferson, Bernstein offers the definitive short biography of this revered American--the first concise life in six decades. Bernstein deftly synthesizes the massive scholarship on his subject into a swift, insightful, evenhanded account. Here are all of Jefferson's triumphs, contradictions, and failings, from his luxurious (and debt-burdened) life as a Virginia gentleman to his passionate belief in democracy, from his tortured defense of slavery to his relationship with Sally Hemings. Jefferson was indeed multifaceted--an architect, inventor, writer, diplomat, propagandist, planter, party leader--and Bernstein explores all these roles even as he illuminates Jefferson's central place in the American enlightenment, that "revolution of ideas" that did so much to create the nation we know today. Together with the less well-remembered points in Jefferson's thinking--the nature of the Union, his vision of who was entitled to citizenship, his dread of debt (both personal and national)--they form the heart of this lively biography. In this marvel of compression and comprehension, we see Jefferson more clearly than in the massive studies of earlier generations. More important, we see, in Jefferson's visionary ideas, the birth of the nation's grand sense of purpose.
Author |
: Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3488489 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by : Thomas Jefferson
Author |
: Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 576 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: YALE:39002004748035 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1807-1815 by : Thomas Jefferson
Author |
: Frank Shuffelton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2009-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139828000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139828002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson by : Frank Shuffelton
This Companion forms an accessible introduction to the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. Essays explore Jefferson's political thought, his policies towards Native Americans, his attitude to race and slavery, as well as his interests in science, architecture, religion and education. Contributors include leading literary scholars and historians; the essays offer up to date overviews of his many interests, his friendships and his legacy. Together, they reveal his importance in the cultural and political life of early America. At the same time these original essays speak to abiding modern concerns about American culture and Jefferson's place in it. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of Jefferson, and is designed for use by students of American literature and American history.
Author |
: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol |
Publisher |
: Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814209416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814209417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nationalist Ferment by : Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
This book was published in June 1994 by a French publisher and became the winner of the Organization of American Historians foreign language book prize. The Nationalist Ferment contributes significantly to the renewal of early U.S. diplomatic history. Since the 1980s, a number of diplomatic historians have turned aside from traditional diplomatic issues and sources. They have instead focused on gender, ethnic relationships, culture, and the connections between foreign and domestic policy. Rossignol argues that in the years 1789-1812 the new nation needed to assert its independence and autonomous character in the face of an unconvinced world. After overcoming initial divisions caused by foreign policy, Americans met this challenge by defining common foreign policy objectives and attitudes, which both legitimized the United States abroad and reinforced national unity at home. This book establishes the constant connections between domestic and international issues during the early national period.