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An Empire Wilderness
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Author : Robert D. Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-11-12
An Empire Wilderness written by Robert D. Kaplan and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-12 with Travel categories.
Having reported on some of the world's most violent, least understood regions in his bestsellers Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan now returns to his native land, the United States of America. Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural landscape in transition, Kaplan reveals a nation shedding a familiar identity as it assumes a radically new one. An Empire Wilderness opens in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the first white settlers moved into Indian country and where Manifest Destiny was born. In a world whose future conflicts can barely be imagined, it is also the place where the army trains its men to fight the next war. "A nostalgic view of the United States is deliberately cultivated here," Kaplan writes, "as if to bind the uncertain future to a reliable past." From Fort Leavenworth, Kaplan travels west to the great cities of the heartland--to St. Louis, once a glorious shipping center expected to outshine imperial Rome and now touted, with its desolate inner city and miles of suburban gated communities, as "the most average American city." Kaplan continues west to Omaha; down through California; north from Mexico, across Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; up to Montana and Canada, and back through Oregon. He visits Mexican border settlements and dust-blown county sheriffs' offices, Indian reservations and nuclear bomb plants, cattle ranches in the Oklahoma Panhandle, glacier-mantled forests in the Pacific Northwest, swanky postsuburban sprawls and grim bus terminals, and comes, at last, to the great battlefield at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where an earlier generation of Americans gave their lives for their vision of an American future. But what, if anything, he asks, will today's Americans fight and die for? At Vicksburg Kaplan contemplates the new America through which he has just traveled--an America of sharply polarized communities that draws its population from pools of talent far beyond its borders; an America where the distance between winners and losers grows exponentially as corporations assume gov-ernment functions and the wealthy find themselves more closely linked to their business associates in India and China than to their poorer neighbors a few miles away; an America where old loyalties and allegiances are vanishing and new ones are only beginning to emerge. The new America he found is in the pages of this book. Kaplan gives a precise and chilling vision of how the most successful nation the world has ever known is entering the final, and highly uncertain, phase of its history.
An Empire Wilderness
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Author : Robert D. Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1999-09-07
An Empire Wilderness written by Robert D. Kaplan and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-07 with Travel categories.
"Full of surprises and unusual revelations . . . an informed and disturbing portrait of the new American badlands."--Chicago Tribune "[Kaplan is] tireless, curious, and smart. . . . I cannot imagine anyone will concoct a more convincing scenario for the American future." --Thurston Clarke, The New York Times With the same prescience and eye for telling detail that distinguished his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now explores his native country, the United States of America. His starting point: the conviction that America is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shedding its identity as a monolithic nation-state and assuming a radically new one. Everywhere Kaplan travels--from St. Louis, Missouri, to Portland, Oregon, from the forty-ninth parallel to the banks of the Rio Grande--he finds an America ever more fragmented along lines of race, class, education, and geography. An America whose wealthy communities become wealthier and more fortress-like as they become more closely linked to the world's business capitals than to the desolate ghettoes next door. An America where the political boundaries between the states--and between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico--are becoming increasingly blurred, betokening a vast open zone for trade, commerce, and cultural interaction, the nexus of tomorrow's transnational world. Never nostalgic or falsely optimistic, bracingly unafraid of change and its consequences, Kaplan paints a startling portrait of post-Cold War America--a great nation entering the final, most uncertain phase of its history. Here is travel writing with the force of prophecy. "Lively . . . Kaplan has a sharp eye for social truth, and his encounters with a chorus of eloquent citizens of the West keeps the narrative humming." --Outside
Wilderness Empire
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Wilderness Empire written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Indians of North America categories.
Wilderness Empire
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher: Ashland, Ky. : Jesse Stuart Foundation
Release Date : 2001
Wilderness Empire written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by Ashland, Ky. : Jesse Stuart Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Britanniques - Amérique du Nord - Histoire - 18e siècle categories.
Maps on lining papers. A narrative account of the eighteenthcentury struggle of England and France in the Iroquois territory for dominance.
Empire Of Wild
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Author : Cherie Dimaline
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-07-28
Empire Of Wild written by Cherie Dimaline and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Fiction categories.
A NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One of the most anticipated books of the summer for Time, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle and Publishers Weekly 'Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!' Margaret Atwood 'Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive' Tommy Orange, author of There There 'Dimaline turns an old story into something newly haunting and resonant' New York Times 'An utterly compelling blend of propulsive narrative, starkly beautiful writing and passionate, near dysfunctional love' Daily Mail Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher. By the time she staggers into the tent the service is over, but as she is about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice. She turns, and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus. With only two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old Métis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success.
The Wilderness War
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-08
The Wilderness War written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08 with Fiction categories.
From Niagara Falls to Lake Champlain, the warriors of the mighty Iroquois ruled supreme. Not even the savagery of the French and Indian wars could cool their fury or halt their power. But by 1770 the restless white men were warring once again. Thayendanegea, the valiant Iroquois war chief, allied his fierce tribes with the one white man the Indians loved and trusted, Sir William Johnson. Once more the frontier would erupt, pitting the Indians' unvanquished spirit against the white setters' relentless challenge. Allan W. Eckert's Narratives of America are true sagas of the brave men and courageous women who won our land. Every character and event in this sweeping series is drawn from actual history and woven into the vast and powerful epic that was America's westward expansion. Allan W. Eckert has made America's heritage an authentic, exciting, and powerful reading experience.
Empires In The Wilderness
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Author : William Joyce Griffith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Empires In The Wilderness written by William Joyce Griffith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Great Britain categories.
Imposing Wilderness
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Author : Roderick P. Neumann
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998
Imposing Wilderness written by Roderick P. Neumann and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
The book focuses on the symbolic importance of natural landscapes among various social groups in this setting, and how it relates to conflicts between peasant communities and the state. Neumann's thoughtful framing of the issues that fuel ongoing controversies will interest ecologists as well as those interested in political economy and development in Africa.
The Conquerors
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Author : Allan W. Eckert
language : en
Publisher: Domain
Release Date : 1970
The Conquerors written by Allan W. Eckert and has been published by Domain this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Indians of North America categories.
They had defeated the French and now the English possessed the vast North American Empire. Soldiers, traders, settlers--all began the trek across the wilderness to claim the land and its riches. Against this relentless tide Indian warriors rose up in bitter fury exploded in the bloody battle for the conquest of the Northwest territory.
From Wilderness To Empire
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Author : Robert Glass Cleland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
From Wilderness To Empire written by Robert Glass Cleland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with California categories.