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Book Handbook of the American Frontier  The southeastern woodlands

Download or read book Handbook of the American Frontier The southeastern woodlands written by Joseph Norman Heard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first reference that provides insights into both sides of Indian-white relations. Volume I covers events in the Southeastern Woodlands. Subsequent volumes will cover the Northeastern Woodlands, the Great Plains, and the Far West. Heard approaches h

Book Handbook of the American Frontier  Chronology  bibliography  index

Download or read book Handbook of the American Frontier Chronology bibliography index written by Joseph Norman Heard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains hundreds of sources, both primary and secondary, and seeks to foreground the perspective of heretofore largely ignored groups such as women and blacks, and frequently misrepresented cultures of native North Americans.

Book Handbook of the American Frontier  The Far West

Download or read book Handbook of the American Frontier The Far West written by Joseph Norman Heard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of the American Frontier  the Great Plains

Download or read book Handbook of the American Frontier the Great Plains written by Norman J. Heard and published by Native American Resources Series. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the plains from the Canadian border to Texas, this encyclopedic treatment of racial relationships between Indians and Whites over four centuries contains brief entries from the 1833 captivity of U.S. Mounted Ranger George Abbay to the activities Kiowa warrior Zotom. The vast majority of the entries are related to personalities, but significant battles and organizations are also included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Handbook of the American Frontier  The northeastern woodlands

Download or read book Handbook of the American Frontier The northeastern woodlands written by Joseph Norman Heard and published by Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury. This book was released on 1987 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Ababco Indians to the Zwaanendael Colony Massacre, alphabetical entries offer information on events, individuals, groups, and geographical places relevant to relations between colonial settlers and Native Indians in what is now the Northeastern United States. The material is gathered primarily from published sources that are referenced at the end of entries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Handbook of the American Frontier  The far west

Download or read book Handbook of the American Frontier The far west written by Joseph Norman Heard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of the American Frontier  The southeastern woodlands

Download or read book Handbook of the American Frontier The southeastern woodlands written by Joseph Norman Heard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first reference that provides insights into both sides of Indian-white relations. Volume I covers events in the Southeastern Woodlands. Subsequent volumes will cover the Northeastern Woodlands, the Great Plains, and the Far West. Heard approaches h

Book Handbook of the American Short Story

Download or read book Handbook of the American Short Story written by Erik Redling and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

Book The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History written by Christos G. Frentzos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History provides a comprehensive analysis of the major events, conflicts, and personalities that have defined and shaped the military history of the United States. This volume, The Colonial Period to 1877, illuminates the early period of American history, from the colonial warfare of the 17th century through the tribulations of Reconstruction. The chronologically organized sections each begin with an introductory chapter that provides a concise narrative of the period and highlights the scholarly debates and interpretive schools of thought in the historiography, followed by topical chapters on issues in the period. Topics covered include colonial encounters and warfare, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, diplomacy in the early American republic, the War of 1812, westward expansion and conquest, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. With authoritative and vividly written chapters by both leading scholars and new talent, this state-of-the-field handbook will be a go-to reference for every American history scholar's bookshelf.

Book History of the American Frontier

Download or read book History of the American Frontier written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History written by Frederick E. Hoxie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. It describes the major aspects of the historical change that occurred over the past 500 years with essays by leading experts, both Native and non-Native, that focus on significant moments of upheaval and change.

Book The New Country

Download or read book The New Country written by Richard A. Bartlett and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe written by J. Gerald Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Book Handbook of American Romanticism

Download or read book Handbook of American Romanticism written by Philipp Löffler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States. The volume is designed to feature a selection of representative case studies and to assess them within two complementary frameworks: the most relevant historical, political, and institutional contexts of the antebellum decades and the consequent (re-)appropriations of the Romantic period by academic literary criticism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Book The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists

Download or read book The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists written by Arlene Hirschfelder and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Native Americans are perhaps the most studied people in our society, they too often remain the least understood and visible. Fictions and stereotypes predominate, obscuring substantive and fascinating facts about Native societies. The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists works to remedy this problem by compiling fun, unique, and significant facts about Native groups into one volume, complete with references to additional online and print resources. In this volume, readers can learn about Native figures from a diverse range of cultures and professions, including award-winning athletes, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and environmentalists. Readers are introduced to Native U.S. senators, Medal of Freedom winners, Medal of Honor recipients, Major League baseball players, and U.S. Olympians, as well as a U.S. vice president, a NASA astronaut, a National Book Award recipient, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Other categories found in this book are: History Stereotypes and Myths Tribal Government Federal-Tribal Relations State-Tribal Relations Native Lands and Environmental Issues Health Religion Economic Development Military Service and War Education Native Languages Science and Technology Food Visual Arts Literary and Performing Arts Film Music and Dance Print, Radio, and Television Sports and Games Exhibitions, Pageants, and Shows Alaska Natives Native Hawaiians Urban Indians Including further fascinating facts, this wonderful resource will be a great addition not only to tribal libraries but to public and academic libraries, individuals, and scholars as well.

Book American Photography and the American Dream

Download or read book American Photography and the American Dream written by James Guimond and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how documentary photographers have contested the idea of the American dream, and discusses the work of Francis Benjamin Johnston, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, William Klein, Diane Arbus, and Robert Frank

Book The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology  2v

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology 2v written by William Outhwaite and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 1855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which need to be understood in order to study political life from a sociological perspective, or simply to understand the political world. The two volumes are structured around five key areas: PART 1: TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES PART 2: CORE CONCEPTS PART 03: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS PART 04: TOPICS PART 05: WORLD REGIONS This future-oriented and cross-disciplinary handbook is a landmark text for students and scholars interested in the social investigation of politics.