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The American Wilderness
Author: Claiming the American Wilderness
Author: Hunt JaninPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786425512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
In the early sixteenth century, as voyages across the Atlantic became more feasible and consequently more frequent, international competition for possession of the New World intensified. Occupied by numerous Indian tribes, western North America was home to vast natural resources, alleged riches and a fabled waterway that would connect the Mississippi with the Pacific Ocean. Over the next two centuries, Spanish, French, British, Russian and American explorers flocked to the Trans-Mississippi West, competing with each other as well as the native Indian groups for possession of the western half of the continent. Beginning with the 1528 shipwreck of Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca and ending with the negotiation of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, this volume presents a broadly based general survey of the events which took place in the Trans-Mississippi West during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book focuses on the international rivalries west of the Mississippi and the resulting intense military and commercial competition. Using a unique prismatic rather than chronological approach, the work examines six distinct groups--Native American Indians, Spanish, French, British, Russians and Americans--and the objectives of each with regard to the Trans-Mississippi West. Sources include contemporary journals of explorers such as Lewis and Clark. An epilogue evaluates the success of the respective quests while a brief chronology at the end of the text serves to orient the reader. Appendices address eight related topics including the Lewis and Clark expedition, firearms on the early frontier, and the coming of the horse.
American Wilderness
Author: Michael LewisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198038825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.
Wilderness and the American Mind
Author: Roderick Frazier NashPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153503
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
DIVRoderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists.” For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller’s foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment./div
The American Wilderness
Author: Leif FrederiksenPublisher:
ISBN: 9788777838002
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Overland Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West
Author: Hunt JaninPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476678677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West. Over three centuries later, the four "Great Surveys" in the United States were consolidated into the U.S. Geological Survey. The frontiers were the lands near or beyond the recognized international, national, regional, or tribal borders. Over the centuries, they hosted a complicated series of international explorations of lands inhabited by American Indians, Spanish, French-Canadians, British, and Americans. These explorations were undertaken for wide-ranging reasons including geographical, scientific, artistic-literary, and for the growth of the railroad. This history covers over 350 years of exploration of the West.
Endangered American wilderness act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs and Public LandsPublisher:
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Wilderness Empire
Author: Allan W. EckertPublisher: Ashland, Ky. : Jesse Stuart Foundation
ISBN: 9780945084983
Category : Britanniques - Amérique du Nord - Histoire - 18e siècle
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Maps on lining papers. A narrative account of the eighteenthcentury struggle of England and France in the Iroquois territory for dominance.
The American Wilderness
Author: Thomas R. ValePublisher:
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Category : Nature conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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American Wilderness
Author: John S. BowmanPublisher: Gallery Books
ISBN: 9780831703073
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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