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Book The Frontier Challenge

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  • Author : George LaVerne Anderson
  • Publisher : Lawrence : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Frontier Challenge written by George LaVerne Anderson and published by Lawrence : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1971 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Frontier Challenge

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  • Author : John G. Clark
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2021-10-29
  • ISBN : 0700631437
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Frontier Challenge written by John G. Clark and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the westward expansion of this country does not stop with the hardships encountered by travelers on the Mormon Trail, the discomforts endured by early settlers in sod houses, the bravery of the Pony Express riders, the romantic solitude of the cowboys, or the sufferings of the Indians forced to abandon their homes bleak and alien country. Much has been written about these colorful episodes and, through the courtesy of Hollywood and TV, has been brought into millions of homes in living color. But what happened to the people, including the Indians, who survived the great raid on Fort X, the bitter winters and scorching summers spent in primitive housing, the terrible loneliness and lack of communication with eastern kin? What did migrants do when they reached the end of the Mormon Trail? And did the Cherokees’ Trail of tears become a never-ending journey from one “relocation” to another? How did people develop and accommodate themselves to an environment which was itself constantly altered by an ever-changing society? In these essays we find that tragedy and joy, victory and defeat, human fulfillment and human degradation are visible in roughly equal proportions in the story of the Americanization of the West: that the goals, both realistic and unrealistic, of one group, society, or culture are frequently pursued only at the expense of other groups; and that the skeletons in the closet of American history abound to a greater extent than a nation convinced if its own virtue is willing to admit. Racism has plagued the nation since its inception, and exploitation of one group by another was sadly a part of the Western frontier. However, there was a freshness and vigor in the history of the West. Young railroads continued to grow, linking productive farms with brawling cities. New businesses and new political parties emerged, all contributing to the growth of the region that Stephen A. Douglas called the “adhesive of the Union.” These essays do not add up to a complete history of the Trans-Mississippi West: rather, each historian has pursued his own particular research interest, and various topics and settings are presented in this volume. The result is a fascinating collection that serves to illuminate both the tragedies and accomplishments of the westward movement.

Book The Frontier Challenge

    Book Details:
  • Author : George La Verne Anderson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book The Frontier Challenge written by George La Verne Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frontier Challenges   Amelioration for Environment   Life Sciences

Download or read book Frontier Challenges Amelioration for Environment Life Sciences written by Dr. Vaishali Gupta and published by Book Bazooka Publication. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Conference on Frontier Challenges and Amelioration for Environment and Life Sciences has been organized by Department of Botany, Government College, Bichhua Dist. Chhindwara Madhya Pradesh, India. The theme of the conference is Future we want, and transform the earth with special reference to environment and microbes. This conference provides a platform for the students, researchers, faculties and those who are involved in real time projects, to exchange and share new ideas in the field of Life Sciences and to introduce cutting age technology for the betterment of the environment. It accentuates problems and solutions towards environmental challenges and sustainable development.

Book Beyond the Molecular Frontier

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  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2003-03-19
  • ISBN : 0309168392
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Molecular Frontier written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemistry and chemical engineering have changed significantly in the last decade. They have broadened their scopeâ€"into biology, nanotechnology, materials science, computation, and advanced methods of process systems engineering and controlâ€"so much that the programs in most chemistry and chemical engineering departments now barely resemble the classical notion of chemistry. Beyond the Molecular Frontier brings together research, discovery, and invention across the entire spectrum of the chemical sciencesâ€"from fundamental, molecular-level chemistry to large-scale chemical processing technology. This reflects the way the field has evolved, the synergy at universities between research and education in chemistry and chemical engineering, and the way chemists and chemical engineers work together in industry. The astonishing developments in science and engineering during the 20th century have made it possible to dream of new goals that might previously have been considered unthinkable. This book identifies the key opportunities and challenges for the chemical sciences, from basic research to societal needs and from terrorism defense to environmental protection, and it looks at the ways in which chemists and chemical engineers can work together to contribute to an improved future.

Book The Final Challenge

Download or read book The Final Challenge written by Dale Van Every and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Frontier Nurse Practitioner

Download or read book The Frontier Nurse Practitioner written by Lynn Jakobs, PhD, FNP-C and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering text is the first to present a framework for remote-rural and frontier nurse practitioners (NPs), with a focus on the political and contextual forces that influence practice. This groundbreaking text distills contextual knowledge required for frontier practice, describes how it differs from work in more populated locations, and discusses the special skills and training needed in this setting. It addresses the art and ethics of frontier practice, the relationship between federal policy and frontier health care, and how to advocate for adequate health care in remote areas. Also included are rich narrative case studies, in which NPs vividly describe why they decided to practice in the frontier environment. They also discuss the educational and work experience needed for frontier practice, the potential complications of treating patients who are also friends and neighbors, and how to manage emergency medical and trauma experiences in remote environments. Key Features: Provides the first model for frontier and remote-rural NP practice based on narrative evidence Introduces the new frontier and remote (FAR) methodology and demonstrates its use in nursing research Illustrates how narrative nursing knowledge contributes to the discipline and informs theory Provides a systematic review of key literature relating to frontier NP practice Discusses the link between federal policy and rural health care and its impact on NP practice Distills educational and policy recommendations from the practice experiences of frontier NPs

Book Our Seabed Frontier

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  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1989-02-01
  • ISBN : 0309041260
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Our Seabed Frontier written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in 1983 "for the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving, and managing natural resources" presents the nation with an opportunity and a challenge to wisely use its diverse resources. Besides living resources such as fisheries, this vast region contains extensive and potentially valuable mineral and energy resources, and is used for various other purposesâ€"such as waste disposal, pipelines, cables, and military uses. This book assesses the state of knowledge of seafloor properties and processes as they relate to future utilization of the U.S. EEZ seabed.

Book Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology  Archaeology  and History

Download or read book Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology Archaeology and History written by Bradley J. Parker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Frontier Challenge

Download or read book Frontier Challenge written by L. T. Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the age of sixteen Jack Ringer succeeded in joining the Coldstream Guards by claiming to be eighteen. Settling into a selfish routine of drinking, smoking and gambling, he soon became the battalion bookmaker! But the death of a colleague resulted in Jack's conversion to Christ and eventual work as a missionary (ably supported by his New Zealand born wife, Elma) amongst the staunchly Muslim Pathan tribes of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. This book recounts the challenges faced, and adventures experienced, in a lifetime of service to his fellow humans in what could on occasions be a distinctly inhospitable environment."--Dust jacket back.

Book Faith  Nationalism  and the Future of Liberal Democracy

Download or read book Faith Nationalism and the Future of Liberal Democracy written by David M. Elcott and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy highlights the use of religious identity to fuel the rise of illiberal, nationalist, and populist democracy. In Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy, David Elcott, C. Colt Anderson, Tobias Cremer, and Volker Haarmann present a pragmatic and modernist exploration of how religion engages in the public square. Elcott and his co-authors are concerned about the ways religious identity is being used to foster the exclusion of individuals and communities from citizenship, political representation, and a role in determining public policy. They examine the ways religious identity is weaponized to fuel populist revolts against a political, social, and economic order that values democracy in a global and strikingly diverse world. Included is a history and political analysis of religion, politics, and policies in Europe and the United States that foster this illiberal rebellion. The authors explore what constitutes a constructive religious voice in the political arena, even in nurturing patriotism and democracy, and what undermines and threatens liberal democracies. To lay the groundwork for a religious response, the book offers chapters showing how Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism can nourish liberal democracy. The authors encourage people of faith to promote foundational support for the institutions and values of the democratic enterprise from within their own religious traditions and to stand against the hostility and cruelty that historically have resulted when religious zealotry and state power combine. Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy is intended for readers who value democracy and are concerned about growing threats to it, and especially for people of faith and religious leaders, as well as for scholars of political science, religion, and democracy.

Book Harvard Guide to American History

Download or read book Harvard Guide to American History written by Frank Freidel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

Book Men and Manliness on the Frontier

Download or read book Men and Manliness on the Frontier written by R. Hogg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia.

Book Beyond the Molecular Frontier

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2003-04-19
  • ISBN : 0309084776
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Molecular Frontier written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-04-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemistry and chemical engineering have changed significantly in the last decade. They have broadened their scopeâ€"into biology, nanotechnology, materials science, computation, and advanced methods of process systems engineering and controlâ€"so much that the programs in most chemistry and chemical engineering departments now barely resemble the classical notion of chemistry. Beyond the Molecular Frontier brings together research, discovery, and invention across the entire spectrum of the chemical sciencesâ€"from fundamental, molecular-level chemistry to large-scale chemical processing technology. This reflects the way the field has evolved, the synergy at universities between research and education in chemistry and chemical engineering, and the way chemists and chemical engineers work together in industry. The astonishing developments in science and engineering during the 20th century have made it possible to dream of new goals that might previously have been considered unthinkable. This book identifies the key opportunities and challenges for the chemical sciences, from basic research to societal needs and from terrorism defense to environmental protection, and it looks at the ways in which chemists and chemical engineers can work together to contribute to an improved future.

Book Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150   1500

Download or read book Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150 1500 written by Alan V. Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a major contribution to the history of the Northern Crusades and the Christianization of the Baltic lands in the Middle Ages, from the beginnings of the Catholic mission to the time of the Reformation. The subjects treated range from discussions of the ideology and practice of crusade and conversion, through studies of the motivation of the crusading countries (Denmark, Sweden and Germany) and the effects of the crusades on the countries of the eastern Baltic coast (Finland, Estonia, Livonia, Prussia and Lithuania), to analyses of the literature and historiography of the crusade. It brings together essays from both established and younger scholars from the western tradition with those from the modern Baltic countries and Russia, and presents in English some of the fruits of the first decade of historical scholarship and dialogue after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. The depth of treatment, diversity of approaches, and accompanying bibliography of publications make this collection a major resource for the teaching of the Baltic Crusades.

Book Frontier Challenge

Download or read book Frontier Challenge written by L. T. Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the age of sixteen Jack Ringer succeeded in joining the Coldstream Guards by claiming to be eighteen. Settling into a selfish routine of drinking, smoking and gambling, he soon became the battalion bookmaker! But the death of a colleague resulted in Jack's conversion to Christ and eventual work as a missionary (ably supported by his New Zealand born wife, Elma) amongst the staunchly Muslim Pathan tribes of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. This book recounts the challenges faced, and adventures experienced, in a lifetime of service to his fellow humans in what could on occasions be a distinctly inhospitable environment."--Dust jacket back.

Book Mission Frontiers Volume 1

Download or read book Mission Frontiers Volume 1 written by Ralph D. Winter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: