Frontier Moments From The Humboldt Historian
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Frontier Moments From The Humboldt Historian
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Author : Andrew Genzoli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Frontier Moments From The Humboldt Historian written by Andrew Genzoli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
Two Peoples One Place
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Author : Ray Raphael
language : en
Publisher: Writing Humboldt History Project
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Two Peoples One Place written by Ray Raphael and has been published by Writing Humboldt History Project this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
The Ghost Forest
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Author : Greg King
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-06-06
The Ghost Forest written by Greg King and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existence against those determined to cut them down. Every year millions of tourists from around the world visit California’s famous redwoods. Yet few who strain their necks to glimpse the tops of the world’s tallest trees understand how unlikely it is that these last isolated groves of giant trees still stand at all. In this gripping historical memoir, journalist and famed redwood activist Greg King examines how investors and a growing U.S. economy drove the timber industry to cut down all but 4 percent of the original two-million-acre redwood ecosystem. King first examined redwood logging in the 1980s—as an award-winning reporter. What he found in the woods convinced him to leap the line of neutrality and become an activist dedicated to saving the very last ancient redwood groves remaining in private hands. The land grab began in 1849, when a “green gold rush” of migrants came to exploit the legendary redwoods that grew along the Russian River. Several generations later, in 1987, Greg King discovered and named Headwaters Forest—at 3,000 acres the largest ancient redwood habitat remaining outside of parks—and he led the movement to save this grove. After a decade of one of the longest, most dramatic, and violent environmental campaigns in US history, in 1999 the state and federal governments protected Headwaters Forest. The Ghost Forest explores a central question, an overhanging mystery: What was it like, this botanical Elysium that grew only along the Northern California coast, a forest so spectacular—but also uniquely valuable as a cornerstone of American economic growth—that in the end it would inspire life-and-death struggles? Few but loggers and surveyors ever saw such magnificent trees, ancient sentinels that, like ghosts, have informed King’s understanding of the world. On a lifelong journey, King finds himself through the generations, and through the trees. A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Title
Frontier Constitutions
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Author : John D. Blanco
language : en
Publisher: UP Press
Release Date : 2009
Frontier Constitutions written by John D. Blanco and has been published by UP Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Church history categories.
Global West American Frontier
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Author : David M. Wrobel
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Global West American Frontier written by David M. Wrobel and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with History categories.
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.
Humboldt
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Author : Emily Brady
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2013-06-18
Humboldt written by Emily Brady and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-18 with History categories.
In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built. Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might receive a knowing grin. The name is infamous, and yet the place, and its inhabitants, have been nearly impenetrable. Until now. Humboldt is a narrative exploration of an insular community in Northern California, which for nearly 40 years has existed primarily on the cultivation and sale of marijuana. It's a place where business is done with thick wads of cash and savings are buried in the backyard. In Humboldt County, marijuana supports everything from fire departments to schools, but it comes with a heavy price. As legalization looms, the community stands at a crossroads and its inhabitants are deeply divided on the issue--some want to claim their rightful heritage as master growers and have their livelihood legitimized, others want to continue reaping the inflated profits of the black market. Emily Brady spent a year living with the highly secretive residents of Humboldt County, and her cast of eccentric, intimately drawn characters take us into a fascinating, alternate universe. It's the story of a small town that became dependent on a forbidden plant, and of how everything is changing as marijuana goes mainstream.
Key Metaphors For History
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Author : Javier Fernández-Sebastián
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-03
Key Metaphors For History written by Javier Fernández-Sebastián and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-03 with History categories.
This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse, the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians, politicians, and journalists to represent time, history, memory, the past, the present, and the future and examines a selection of analytical concepts of a temporal nature, built upon unmistakeably metaphorical foundations, such as modernity, event, process, revolution, crisis, progress, decline, or transition. The analysis of these and other pillars on which modern history has been built, whether as a philosophy of history, as an academic discipline, or as a set of events, will interest graduates and scholars dealing with the historical and social sciences and the humanities in general. Key Metaphors for History offers a broad overview of historiography and historiosophy, from an unfrequented point of view, halfway between conceptual history, theory of history and metaphorology. Moreover, it constitutes a form of self-reflection of the historian on his or her own positionality when researching and writing history.
The History Of The Wars Occasioned By The French Revolution Including A Sketch Of The Early History Of France Embellished With Engravings
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Author : William Nicholson (LL.D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1816
The History Of The Wars Occasioned By The French Revolution Including A Sketch Of The Early History Of France Embellished With Engravings written by William Nicholson (LL.D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1816 with categories.
Science Fiction Critical Frontiers
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Science Fiction Critical Frontiers written by NA NA and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Science categories.
Science fiction has recently been identified as providing the narrative paradigm for postmodernity. This volume of essays combines theoretical discussions of the nature of science fiction, with specific studies of utopian and dystopian narratives. Alongside of this, the essays here address feminist and African American issues, the envisioning of radical alternative realities and futures, cyborgs, cyberpunk and cyber-space, age and aging, hybridity and monstrosity, and contemporary society and the postmodern condition.
The Pictorial History Of England
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Author : George Lillie Craik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1844
The Pictorial History Of England written by George Lillie Craik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1844 with Great Britain categories.