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Book The North American Sketches of R B  Cunninghame Graham

Download or read book The North American Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North American Sketches of R B  Cunninghame Graham

Download or read book The North American Sketches of R B Cunninghame Graham written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and published by Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hostiles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sam Maddra
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780806137438
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Hostiles written by Sam Maddra and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Hostiles? Sam A. Maddra relates an ironic tale of Indian accommodation - and preservation of what the Lakota continued to believe was a principled, restorative religion. Their alleged crime was their participation in the Ghost Dance. To the U.S. Army, their religion was a rebellion to be suppressed. To the Indians, is offered hope in a time of great transition. To Cody, it became a means to attract British audiences. With these "hostile indians," the showman could offer dramatic reenactments of the army's conquest, starring none other than the very "hostiles" who had staged what British audiences knew from their newspapers to have been an uprising.".

Book The Cowboy Encyclopedia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard W. Slatta
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780393314731
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book The Cowboy Encyclopedia written by Richard W. Slatta and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.

Book Literature of Travel and Exploration

Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 3477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Book Tejano South Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel D. Arreola
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0292793146
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Tejano South Texas written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the plains between the San Antonio River and the Rio Grande lies the heartland of what is perhaps the largest ethnic region in the United States, Tejano South Texas. In this cultural geography, Daniel Arreola charts the many ways in which Texans of Mexican ancestry have established a cultural province in this Texas-Mexico borderland that is unlike any other Mexican American region. Arreola begins by delineating South Texas as an environmental and cultural region. He then explores who the Tejanos are, where in Mexico they originated, and how and where they settled historically in South Texas. Moving into the present, he examines many factors that make Tejano South Texas distinctive from other Mexican American regions—the physical spaces of ranchos, plazas, barrios, and colonias; the cultural life of the small towns and the cities of San Antonio and Laredo; and the foods, public celebrations, and political attitudes that characterize the region. Arreola's findings thus offer a new appreciation for the great cultural diversity that exists within the Mexican American borderlands.

Book World Authors  1900 1950

Download or read book World Authors 1900 1950 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides almost 2700 articles on twentieth-century authors from all over the world who wrote in English or whose works are available in English translation.

Book Censorship

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  • Author : Derek Jones
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2001-12-01
  • ISBN : 1136798641
  • Pages : 2950 pages

Download or read book Censorship written by Derek Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 2950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book CJLACS

Download or read book CJLACS written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost in the Backwoods

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  • Author : Jenni Calder
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2013-05-14
  • ISBN : 0748647406
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Lost in the Backwoods written by Jenni Calder and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect of these experiences on the Scots imagination. Associated with displacement and disappearance, the 'wilderness' was also a source of adventure and redemption, of exploitation and spiritual regeneration, of freedom and restriction. An arena of greed, cruelty and cannibalism, of courage, generosity and mutual understanding, it brought out the best and the worst of humanity. Did the Scots who emigrated exchange one extreme for another, or did they discover a new idea of identity, freedom and landscape?

Book British Travel Writers  1876 1909

Download or read book British Travel Writers 1876 1909 written by Barbara Brothers and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on British travel writers during a time when professionalism was increasingly the norm, including professional journalists, editors and correspondents accustomed to writing on contract and with deadlines. Includes discussion of scientific societies, which through their journals and meetings sought to encourage explorers to write for the general public as well. This was a period when many technical and economic innovations made travel easier, cheaper and safer.

Book The Sketch

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cowboys of the Americas

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  • Author : Richard W. Slatta
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1990-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300056716
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Cowboys of the Americas written by Richard W. Slatta and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and movie stills, this Western Heritage Award-winning book explores what life was actually like for the working cowboy in North America. "If you read only one book on cowboys, read this one".--Journal of the Southwest.

Book Race  Gender  and Identity in American Equine Art

Download or read book Race Gender and Identity in American Equine Art written by Jessica Dallow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture. In focusing on the construction of identity in painting and photography—of Blacks, women, and the animals themselves involved in horseracing, rodeo, and horse show competition—it illuminates the strategic and varying roles visual artists have played in producing cultural understandings of human-animal relationships. As the first book to offer a history of American equine and equestrian imagery, it shrinks the chasm of literature on the subject and illustrates the significance of the genre to the history of American art. This book further connects American equine and equestrian art to historical, theoretical, and philosophical analyses of animals and attests to how the horse endures as a vital, meaningful subject within the art world as well as culture at large. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, American art, gender studies, race and ethnic studies, and animal studies.

Book British Short fiction Writers  1880 1914

Download or read book British Short fiction Writers 1880 1914 written by William B. Thesing and published by Detroit : Gale Research. This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on British short-story writers whose works recorded the truth as they saw it, responding to such topics as marriage and relationships, slum conditions, working-class endeavors, and women's issues.

Book Readers  Guide to Periodical Literature

Download or read book Readers Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and subject index to a selected list of periodicals not included in the Reader's guide.

Book International Index to Periodicals

Download or read book International Index to Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author and subject index to publications in fields of anthropology, archaeology and classical studies, economics, folklore, geography, history, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion and theology, sociology and theatre arts.