Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307806464
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's legacy while taking the first steps toward its redemption. Even as he draws a direct line between the atrocities of Spanish conquistadors and the ongoing pillage of our lands and waters, Barry Lopez challenges us to adopt an ethic that will make further depredations impossible. The Rediscovery of North America is a ringingly persuasive call for us, at long last, to make this country our home.
The Rediscovery of North America
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307806464
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's legacy while taking the first steps toward its redemption. Even as he draws a direct line between the atrocities of Spanish conquistadors and the ongoing pillage of our lands and waters, Barry Lopez challenges us to adopt an ethic that will make further depredations impossible. The Rediscovery of North America is a ringingly persuasive call for us, at long last, to make this country our home.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307806464
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's legacy while taking the first steps toward its redemption. Even as he draws a direct line between the atrocities of Spanish conquistadors and the ongoing pillage of our lands and waters, Barry Lopez challenges us to adopt an ethic that will make further depredations impossible. The Rediscovery of North America is a ringingly persuasive call for us, at long last, to make this country our home.
After the Ice Age
Author: E.C. Pielou
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226668096
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226668096
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.
The Languages of Native North America
Author: Marianne Mithun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107392802
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107392802
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Native Intoxicants of North America
Author: Sean Rafferty
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781621906308
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This book discusses the cultural significance that narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens had on prehistoric societies, whether used for ritual, medicinal, or even recreational purposes. Rafferty notes that prehistoric intoxicants can be found in sites ranging throughout North America, and their use, though varied, presents a near-universal human disposition toward the use of drugs to achieve certain social and spiritual goals and states of consciousness"--
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781621906308
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This book discusses the cultural significance that narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens had on prehistoric societies, whether used for ritual, medicinal, or even recreational purposes. Rafferty notes that prehistoric intoxicants can be found in sites ranging throughout North America, and their use, though varied, presents a near-universal human disposition toward the use of drugs to achieve certain social and spiritual goals and states of consciousness"--
The Spanish Frontier in North America
Author: David J. Weber
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300156219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Winner of the 1993 Western Heritage Award given by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, here is a definitive history of the Spanish colonial period in North America. Authoritative and colorful, the volume focuses on both the Spaniards' impact on Native Americans and the effect of North Americans on Spanish settlers. "Splendid".--New York Times Book Review.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300156219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Winner of the 1993 Western Heritage Award given by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, here is a definitive history of the Spanish colonial period in North America. Authoritative and colorful, the volume focuses on both the Spaniards' impact on Native Americans and the effect of North Americans on Spanish settlers. "Splendid".--New York Times Book Review.
John Cabot and the Rediscovery of North America
Author: Charles J. Shields
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791064382
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Describes the life and voyages of the Italian-born explorer who claimed land in the New World for England in 1497.
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791064382
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Describes the life and voyages of the Italian-born explorer who claimed land in the New World for England in 1497.
North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements
Author: David B. Quinn
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Details the activities of the Europeans who discovered, explored, and attempted to settle North America.
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Details the activities of the Europeans who discovered, explored, and attempted to settle North America.
Faces from the Past
Author: James M. Deem
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
ISBN: 9780547370248
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Traces the efforts of a scientific team to learn about the life and culture of a person whose skeletal remains are traced to prehistoric times, profiling the valuable technical achievements of artists who use special skills to reconstruct faces from archaeological remains. 10,000 first printing.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
ISBN: 9780547370248
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Traces the efforts of a scientific team to learn about the life and culture of a person whose skeletal remains are traced to prehistoric times, profiling the valuable technical achievements of artists who use special skills to reconstruct faces from archaeological remains. 10,000 first printing.
Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886–1965
Author: John S. Gilkeson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a 'complex whole' far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's 'the best which has been thought and said', so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a 'complex whole' far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's 'the best which has been thought and said', so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective.
An Infinity of Nations
Author: Michael Witgen
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard. To be sure, Native North America experienced far-reaching and radical change following contact with the peoples, things, and ideas that flowed inland following the creation of European colonies on North American soil. Most of the continent's indigenous peoples, however, were not conquered, assimilated, or even socially incorporated into the settlements and political regimes of this Atlantic New World. Instead, Native peoples forged a New World of their own. This history, the evolution of a distinctly Native New World, is a foundational story that remains largely untold in histories of early America. Through imaginative use of both Native language and European documents, historian Michael Witgen recreates the world of the indigenous peoples who ruled the western interior of North America. The Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples of the Great Lakes and Northern Great Plains dominated the politics and political economy of these interconnected regions, which were pivotal to the fur trade and the emergent world economy. Moving between cycles of alliance and competition, and between peace and violence, the Anishinaabeg and Dakota carved out a place for Native peoples in modern North America, ensuring not only that they would survive as independent and distinct Native peoples but also that they would be a part of the new community of nations who made the New World.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard. To be sure, Native North America experienced far-reaching and radical change following contact with the peoples, things, and ideas that flowed inland following the creation of European colonies on North American soil. Most of the continent's indigenous peoples, however, were not conquered, assimilated, or even socially incorporated into the settlements and political regimes of this Atlantic New World. Instead, Native peoples forged a New World of their own. This history, the evolution of a distinctly Native New World, is a foundational story that remains largely untold in histories of early America. Through imaginative use of both Native language and European documents, historian Michael Witgen recreates the world of the indigenous peoples who ruled the western interior of North America. The Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples of the Great Lakes and Northern Great Plains dominated the politics and political economy of these interconnected regions, which were pivotal to the fur trade and the emergent world economy. Moving between cycles of alliance and competition, and between peace and violence, the Anishinaabeg and Dakota carved out a place for Native peoples in modern North America, ensuring not only that they would survive as independent and distinct Native peoples but also that they would be a part of the new community of nations who made the New World.