Krech III, Shepard:The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
- Taschenbuch 2013, ISBN: 9780393047554
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Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 9x1x6. First printing. A fine copy. 2003 Trade Paperback. xviii, 478 pp. John Winthrop's effort … Mehr…
Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 9x1x6. First printing. A fine copy. 2003 Trade Paperback. xviii, 478 pp. John Winthrop's effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting effect on American values, and many remember this phrase famously quoted by the late Ronald Reagan. However, most know very little about the first American to speak these words. In John Winthrop, Francis J. Bremer draws on over a decade of research in England, Ireland, and the United States to offer a superb biography of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one rooted in a detailed understanding of his first forty years in England. Indeed, Bremer provides an extensive, path-breaking treatment of Winthrop's family background, youthful development, and English career. His dissatisfaction with the decline of the "godly kingdom of the Stour Valley" in which he had been raised led him on his errand to rebuild such a society in a New England. In America, Winthrop would use the skills he had developed in England as he struggled with challenges from Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, among others, and defended the colony from English interference. We also see the personal side of Winthrop--the doubts and concerns of the spiritual pilgrim, his everyday labors and pleasures, his feelings for family and friends. And Bremer also sheds much light on important historical moments in England and America, such as the Reformation and the rise of Puritanism, the rise of the middling class, the colonization movement, and colonial relations with Native Americans. Incorporating previously unexplored archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic, here is the definitive portrait of one of the giants of our history., Oxford University Press, 2003, 5, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. First printing. Pages lightly toned. 2013 Trade Paperback. xx, 700 pp. 16 pages of illustrations. Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be drawn of the atrocities of Franco’s Spain―from torture and judicial murders to the abuse of women and children. Paul Preston provides an unforgettable account of the systematic terror carried out by Spain’s fascist government., W.W. Norton & Company, 2013, 4, First edition paperback, which is in very good condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperbackfully updated and featuring a brand new introduction by Adam Gopnik.Organized by decade, with commentary by some of the magazine's finest writers, this landmark collection showcases the work of the hundreds of talented artists who have contributed cartoons over the course ofThe New Yorker's eight-two-year history. From the early cartoons of Peter Arno, George Price and Charles Addams to the cutting-edge work of Alex Gregory, Matthew Diffee and Bruce Eric Kaplan (with stops along the way for the genius of Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Jack Ziegler, George Booth, and many others), the art collected here forms, as David Remnick puts it in his Foreword, "the longest-running popular comic genre in American life."Throughout the book, brief overviews of each era's predominant themesfrom the Depression and nudity to technology and the Internet, highlight various genres of cartoons and shed light on our pastimes and preoccupations. Brief profiles and mini-portfolios spotlight the work of key cartoonists, including Arno, Chast, Ziegler, and others.The DVD-ROM included with the book is what really makes the "Complete Cartoons" complete. Compatible with most home computers and easily browsable, the disk contains a mind-boggling 70,363 cartoons, indexed in a variety of ways. Perhaps you'd like to find all the cartoons by your favorite artist. Or maybe you'd like to look up the cartoons that ran the week you were born, or all of the cartoons on a particular subject. Of course, you can always begin at the beginning, February 21, 1925, and experience the unprecedented pleasure of reading through every single cartoon ever published in The New Yorker.Enjoy this one-of-a-kind protrait of American life over the past eight decades, as captured by the talented pens and singular outlooks of the masters of the cartoonist's art., Black Dog & Leventhal, 2004-01, 3, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 9x1x6. First printing. A fine copy. 2009 Trade Paperback. xiv, 800 pp. Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era--the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the greatest foreign policy achievements in modern times, ranging from the Marshall Plan to the establishment of NATO. In this acclaimed biography, Robert L. Beisner paints an indelible portrait of one of the key figures of the last half-century. In a book filled with insight based on research in government archives, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Beisner illuminates Acheson's major triumphs, including the highly underrated achievement of converting West Germany and Japan from mortal enemies to prized allies, and does not shy away from examining his missteps. But underlying all his actions, Beisner shows, was a tough-minded determination to outmatch the strength of the Soviet bloc--indeed, to defeat the Soviet Union at every turn. The book also sheds light on Acheson's friendship with Truman--one, a bourbon-drinking mid-Westerner with a homespun disposition, the other, a mustachioed Connecticut dandy who preferred perfect martinis. Over six foot tall, with steel blue, "merry, searching eyes" and a "wolfish" grin, Dean Acheson was an unforgettable character--intellectually brilliant, always debonair, and tough as tempered steel. This lustrous portrait of an immensely accomplished and colorful life is the epitome of the biographer's art., Oxford University Press, 2009, 5, 1888. An overview of the early days of Washington County, Kentucky, and biographies of some of the county's prominent residents from the late 1800s, are combined with a brief history of the state in this new 40-page book. The book also includes a sketch on the Catholic Church in Central Kentucky. The spiral-bound book includes biographies from the 1880's book, Kentucky: A History of the State by J.H. Battle, W.H. Perrin and G.C. Kniffin, excerpts from Kentucky, a Guide to the Bluegrass State, a 1939 product of the WPA Writer's Program, and information from various internet sources. The tri-color front cover is printed on 80# card stock and has been protected with a vinyl sheet. The text is printed on 60# opaque 8.5" x 11" paper. The individual biographies often shed light on the area and the times, including the Civil War era, as well as providing specific genealogical data. They include: Dr. Henry Allin, W.F. Booker, Charles F. Bosley, Elias B. Brown, Stephen C. Browne, Thomas R. Browne, Francis M. Campbell, Harvey P. Cox, Robert B. Curry, Dr. John Debo, Madison B. Funk, Andrew J. Graves, Sidney Green, G.W. Greene, Richard Hamilton, Judge D.R. Hays, Rev. Joseph A. Hogarty, Orin J. Isham, M.G. Leachman, J.W. Lewis, Dr. T.M. Lewis, B.L. Litsey, Charles C. McChord, William C. McChord, W.T. Merritt, Henry B. Moore, William Neikirk, Stith T. Noe, Samuel Henry Pirtle, George D. Robertson, William J. Robertson, E.M. Russell, J.A. Seay, Dr. C.H. Shaunty, Martin Simpson, John Spaulding, William H. Sweeney, William L. Thomson, John H. Walker, Lewis D. Walker, James L. Wharton, and John M. Wycoff. The WPA excerpt includes a small map of the area and a stop at Springfield. . Limited Edition Reprint. Spiral/Comb . New/No Jacket. 8.5" x 11". Private Press., 1888, 6, New York, New York, U.s.a.: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000-05-16. New. The First World War created the modern world A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment The First World War probes the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict and takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis Keegan reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continentBut the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend--Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among them--and sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed, particularly the contributions of geography and technology No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect He acquaints us with the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophe--from heads of state like Russia's hapless tsar, Nicholas II, to renowned warmakers such as Haig, Hindenburg and Joffre But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded--"the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable"By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed But as Keegan shows, the devastation ex-tended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000-05-16, 6, London: Willow Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0002180154 . Letters found by the couples's grand daughter 80 years later shed intimate light on their year long correspondence and mores of late Victorian society. 700gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8.43 X 7.72 X 0.79 inches; 192 pages ., Willow Books, 1983, 3, New York. 1999. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393047555. 318 pages. hardcover. . keywords: History American Indian Ecology Nature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A startling look at historical truths and romantic falsehoods about Native Americans and their relationship to nature. The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. It has provided an important corrective to individual and corporate carelessness towards the natural world. But is there truth in this larger-than-life image? Not very much, according to Shepard Krech. The Ecological Indian surveys North American environmental history to explore the relation between humans and the rest of nature before and after the arrival of Europeans, addressing such fascinating questions as: Were Pleistocene-era humans responsible for the extinction of large mammals like the mastodon? Did the Hohokam of Arizona destroy their society by overirrigating and ultimately oversalinating their crops? What role did Native Americans play in the near-extinctions of the deer, the beaver, and the buffalo? How did they use fire? Was the natural 'Eden' that awed the first European visitors just a feature of very low-population density? Shedding invaluable light both on conservation and ecology in Native America and on fierce contemporary debates, this groundbreaking book is essential reading for all who care about the environment, humans, and their history together. inventory #27141 ISBN: 0393047555., 0<
