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Book Alluvium and Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Parker VanValkenburgh
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2021-05-18
  • ISBN : 081653263X
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Alluvium and Empire written by Parker VanValkenburgh and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alluvium and Empire examines the archaeology of Indigenous communities and landscapes that were subject to Spanish colonial forced resettlement during the sixteenth century. Written at the intersections of history and archaeology, the book critiques previous approaches to the study of empire and models a genealogical approach that attends to the open-ended--and often unpredictable--ways in which empires take shape.

Book Alluvium and Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Parker VanValkenburgh
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2021-05-18
  • ISBN : 0816542821
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Alluvium and Empire written by Parker VanValkenburgh and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alluvium and Empire uncovers the stories of Indigenous people who were subject to one of the largest waves of forced resettlement in human history, the Reducción General. In 1569, Spanish administrators attempted to move at least 1.4 million Indigenous people into a series of planned towns called reducciones, with the goal of reshaping their households, communities, and religious practices. However, in northern Peru’s Zaña Valley, this process failed to go as the Spanish had planned. In Alluvium and Empire, Parker VanValkenburgh explores both the short-term processes and long-term legacies of Indigenous resettlement in this region, drawing particular attention to the formation of complex relationships between Indigenous communities, imperial institutions, and the dynamic environments of Peru’s north coast. The volume draws on nearly ten years of field and archival research to craft a nuanced account of the Reducción General and its aftermath. Written at the intersections of history and archaeology, Alluvium and Empire at once bears witness to the violence of Spanish colonization and highlights Indigenous resilience in the aftermath of resettlement. In the process, VanValkenburgh critiques previous approaches to the study of empire and models a genealogical approach that attends to the open-ended—and often unpredictable—ways in which empires take shape.

Book The Call of the Alluvial Empire

Download or read book The Call of the Alluvial Empire written by Southern Alluvial Land Association and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alluvial Empire

Download or read book Alluvial Empire written by Robert W. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The West Side Delta

Download or read book The West Side Delta written by Southern alluvial land association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alluvial Empire  A study of State and local efforts toward land development in the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River  including flood control  land drainage  land clearing  land forming

Download or read book Alluvial Empire A study of State and local efforts toward land development in the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River including flood control land drainage land clearing land forming written by Robert W. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Yazoo Mississippi Delta

Download or read book The Yazoo Mississippi Delta written by Southern alluvial land association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Empires of the Ancient East

Download or read book The Great Empires of the Ancient East written by George Rawlinson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 2229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran Asia Minor and Armenian Highlands, the Levant, Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula. This book covers the history of the entire region through the period of over three millennia. It brings political and cultural history of eight most important kingdoms and empires of the region: Egypt, Parthia, Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylon, Persia and Sasanian Empire. Content: Egypt Phoenicia Chaldea Assyria Media Babylon Persia Parthia Sasanian Empire The Kings of Israel and Judah The History of Herodotus: The Original Source

Book University of California Publications  Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences

Download or read book University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeologies of Empire

Download or read book Archaeologies of Empire written by Anna L. Boozer and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, a large portion of the world’s population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots of imperialism lie, most would agree that imperial configurations have affected human history so profoundly that the legacy of ancient empires continues to structure the modern world in many ways. Empires are best described as heterogeneous and dynamic patchworks of imperial configurations in which imperial power was the outcome of the complex interaction between evolving colonial structures and various types of agents in highly contingent relationships. The goal of this volume is to harness the work of the “next generation” of empire scholars in order to foster new theoretical and methodological perspectives that are of relevance within and beyond archaeology and to foreground empires as a cross-cultural category. This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.

Book The Mining Magazine

Download or read book The Mining Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Arch  ological Survey of Nubia

Download or read book The Arch ological Survey of Nubia written by Egypt and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Reference Library

Download or read book Imperial Reference Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial Gazetteer

Download or read book The Imperial Gazetteer written by Walter Graham Blackie and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joe Ney and Upper Pony Creek Reservoirs Expansion Project  Coos County

Download or read book Joe Ney and Upper Pony Creek Reservoirs Expansion Project Coos County written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holding Back the River

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  • Author : Tyler J. Kelley
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-04-19
  • ISBN : 1501187066
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Holding Back the River written by Tyler J. Kelley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers. The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our collective soul; they are Mark Twain, Led Zeppelin, and the Delta Blues. But as infrastructure across the nation fails and climate change pushes rivers and seas to new heights, we’ve arrived at a critical moment in our battle to tame these often-destructive forces of nature. Tyler J. Kelley spent two years traveling the heartland, getting to know the men and women whose lives and livelihoods rely on these tenuously tamed streams. On the Illinois-Kentucky border, we encounter Luther Helland, master of the most important—and most decrepit—lock and dam in America. This old dam at the end of the Ohio River was scheduled to be replaced in 1998, but twenty years and $3 billion later, its replacement still isn’t finished. As the old dam crumbles and commerce grinds to a halt, Helland and his team must risk their lives, using steam-powered equipment and sheer brawn, to raise and lower the dam as often as ten times a year. In Southeast Missouri, we meet Twan Robinson, who lives in the historically Black village of Pinhook. As a super-flood rises on the Mississippi, she learns from her sister that the US Army Corps of Engineers is going to blow up the levee that stands between her home and the river. With barely enough notice to evacuate her elderly mother and pack up a few of her own belongings, Robinson escapes to safety only to begin a nightmarish years-long battle to rebuild her lost community. Atop a floodgate in central Louisiana, we’re beside Major General Richard Kaiser, the man responsible for keeping North America’s greatest river under control. Kaiser stands above the spot where the Mississippi River wants to change course, abandoning Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and following the Atchafalaya River to the sea. The daily flow of water from one river to the other is carefully regulated, but something else is happening that may be out of Kaiser and the Corps’ control. America’s infrastructure is old and underfunded. While our economy, society, and climate have changed, our levees, locks, and dams have not. Yet to fix what’s wrong will require more than money. It will require an act of imagination. “With meticulous research and insightful analysis” (Publishers Weekly), Holding Back the River brings us into the lives of the Americans who grapple with our mighty rivers and, through their stories, suggests solutions to some of the century’s greatest challenges.

Book Imperial Gazetteer of India

Download or read book Imperial Gazetteer of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: