Fields Without Dreams
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Fields Without Dreams
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Fields Without Dreams written by Victor Davis Hanson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
During the 1980s, 2,000 family farms went out of business every week. Fields Without Dreams tells Hanson's passionate, angry, loving, and lyrical story. A fifth-generation California vine and fruit grower, Hanson and his family faced an overwhelming personal crisis when the great "raisin boom" of the 1970s was followed by the great "raisin crash" of the 1980s.
Warfare And Agriculture In Classical Greece Revised Edition
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-10-20
Warfare And Agriculture In Classical Greece Revised Edition written by Victor Davis Hanson 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 1998-10-20 with History categories.
The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a comprehensive modern study of the relationship between agriculture and warfare in the Greek world. In this completely revised edition of Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson provides a systematic review of Greek agriculture and warfare and describes the relationship between these two important aspects of life in ancient communities. With careful attention to agronomic as well as military details, this well-written, thoroughly researched study reveals the remarkable resilience of those farmland communities. In the past, scholars have assumed that the agricultural infrastructure of ancient society was often ruined by attack, as, for example, Athens was relegated to poverty in the aftermath of the Persian and later Peloponnesian invasions. Hanson's study shows, however, that in reality attacks on agriculture rarely resulted in famines or permanent agrarian depression. Trees and vines are hard to destroy, and grainfields are only briefly vulnerable to torching. In addition, ancient armies were rather inefficient systematic ravagers and instead used other tactics, such as occupying their enemies' farms to incite infantry battle. Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece suggests that for all ancient societies, rural depression and desolation came about from more subtle phenomena—taxes, changes in political and social structure, and new cultural values—rather than from destructive warfare.
The Other Greeks
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-12-22
The Other Greeks written by Victor Davis Hanson 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 1999-12-22 with History categories.
Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.
Bonfire Of The Humanities
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Author : Bruce S. Thornton
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Bonfire Of The Humanities written by Bruce S. Thornton and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other things—as the progenitors of the crisis, and call for a return to “academic populism,” an approach characterized by accessible, unspecialized writing, selfless commitment to students and teaching, and respect for the legacy of freedom and democracy that the ancients bequeathed to the West.
Mexifornia
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Mexifornia written by Victor Davis Hanson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is part history, part political analysis and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in California over the last quarter century.
Ripples Of Battle
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2004-10-12
Ripples Of Battle written by Victor Davis Hanson and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-12 with History categories.
The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative as he illuminates the centrality of war in the human experience. The Athenian defeat at Delium in 424 BC brought tactical innovations to infantry fighting; it also assured the influence of the philosophy of Socrates, who fought well in the battle. Nearly twenty-three hundred years later, the carnage at Shiloh and the death of the brilliant Southern strategist Albert Sidney Johnson inspired a sense of fateful tragedy that would endure and stymie Southern culture for decades. The Northern victory would also bolster the reputation of William Tecumseh Sherman, and inspire Lew Wallace to pen the classic Ben Hur. And, perhaps most resonant for our time, the agony of Okinawa spurred the Japanese toward state-sanctioned suicide missions, a tactic so uncompromising and subversive, it haunts our view of non-Western combatants to this day.
Shoeless Joe
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Author : W. P. Kinsella
language : en
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Release Date : 2014-01-09
Shoeless Joe written by W. P. Kinsella and has been published by Rosetta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-09 with Fiction categories.
The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” —The New York Times Book Review One of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Greatest Sports Books “If you build it, he will come.” When Ray Kinsella hears these mysterious words spoken in the voice of an Iowa baseball announcer, he is inspired to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield. It is a tribute to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. What follows is a timeless story that is “not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “A triumph of hope.” —The Boston Globe “A moonlit novel about baseball, dreams, family, the land, and literature.” —Sports Illustrated
Carnage And Culture
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Carnage And Culture written by Victor Davis Hanson and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.
Why The West Has Won
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Author : Victor Davis Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2002
Why The West Has Won written by Victor Davis Hanson and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Battles categories.
'Why The West Has Won' provides a history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success.
Agrarian Dreams
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Author : Julie Guthman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-08-04
Agrarian Dreams written by Julie Guthman 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 2004-08-04 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refuting popular portrayals of organic agriculture as a small-scale family farm endeavor in opposition to "industrial" agriculture, Guthman explains how organic farming has replicated what it set out to oppose.