Frontiers Of History
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Frontiers
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Author : Robert V. Hine
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Frontiers written by Robert V. Hine and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
Updated and revised for a popular audience, a fascinating new edition of the classic The American West: A New Interpretation examines the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and the impact of their intermingling and clash, the influence of the frontier, and topics ranging from early exploration of the region to modern-day environmentalism.
Frontiers Of History
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Author : Donald R. Kelley
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Frontiers Of History written by Donald R. Kelley and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
In 1764-65, the irrepressible playwright Beaumarchais travelled to Madrid, where he immersed himself in the life and society of the day. Inspired by the places he had seen and the people he had met, Beaumarchais returned home to create The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, plays that became the basis for the operas by Rossini and Mozart that continue to delight audiences today. This book is a lively and original account of Beaumarchais's visit to Madrid (he never went to Seville) and a re-creation of the society that fired his imagination. Drawing on Beaumarchais's letters and commentaries, translated into English for the first time, Hugh Thomas investigates the full range of the playwright's activities in Madrid. He focuses particular attention on short plays that Beaumarchais attended and by which he was probably influenced, and he probes the inspirations for such widely recognized characters as the barber-valet Figaro, the lordly Count Almaviva, and the beautiful but deceived Rosine. Not neglecting Beaumarchais's many other pursuits (ranging from an endeavour to gain a contract for selling African slaves to an attempt to place his mistress as a spy in the bed of King Charles III), Lord Thomas provides a highly entertaining view of a vital moment in Madrid's history and in the creative life of the energetic Beaumarchais.
Frontiers Of Historical Imagination
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Author : Kerwin Lee Klein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Frontiers Of Historical Imagination written by Kerwin Lee Klein 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 2023-11-10 with History categories.
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other. Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier. In Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers."
On The Frontiers Of History
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Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2020-08-17
On The Frontiers Of History written by Tessa Morris-Suzuki and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-17 with History categories.
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.
Historical Dictionary Of The American Frontier
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Author : Jay H. Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-05-05
Historical Dictionary Of The American Frontier written by Jay H. Buckley and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-05 with History categories.
The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America but not only the lands that would eventually be incorporated into the Unites States it also includes the multiple North American frontiers explored by Spain, France, Russia, England, and others. The focus is upon Euro-American activities in frontier exploration and development, but the roles of indigenous peoples in these processes is highlighted throughout. The history of this period is covered through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on explorers, adventurers, traders, religious orders, developers, and indigenous peoples. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the development of the American frontier.
Frontiers And The Writing Of History 1500 1850
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Author : Steven G. Ellis
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Frontiers And The Writing Of History 1500 1850 written by Steven G. Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Boundaries categories.
Varieties Of History And Their Porous Frontiers
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Author : Roger C. Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-28
Varieties Of History And Their Porous Frontiers written by Roger C. Richardson and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-28 with History categories.
Properly understood, social history, local history and historiography are closely interconnected and benefit from the dialectical relationships which help bind them together. The actual topics and individual chapters gathered together in this book are chronologically wide-ranging, but are demonstrably linked by methodological common denominators and common threads in their northern and southern settings. All the essays are squarely based on new research and all reach outwards, as well as inwards. All are problem solving and all display a vigorous methodology at work. Some re-visit well-known historians and subjects such as W.G. Hoskins and Joan Thirsk and the Oxford English Dictionary. Others, like the essays on John Milner and G.H. Tupling make a convincing case for resurrecting the neglected or forgotten.
Essays On Frontiers In World History
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Author : George Wolfskill
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1983
Essays On Frontiers In World History written by George Wolfskill and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
To Americans the word frontier usually evokes images of cowboys and Indians, longhorns and buffalo, and shoot-outs on Main Street--in short, the American West. Yet other countries, too, have had their frontiers, and the entire New World served as a frontier for Europeans after the fifteenth century. The study of frontiers that began with the works of Frederick Jackson Turner and Walter Prescott Webb has in recent years developed a comparative dimension. The five essays of this volume look at European expansion into Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Southern Africa, and Australia. The authors assess for their particular regions the effects of European trade and settlement on both the environment and the native peoples, the role of racial attitudes, the development of the economy and the characteristics of the labor force, the growth of frontier institutions, and the relation of the frontier region to the European "metropolis." While the essays are not explicitly comparative, they suggest a rich variety of comparative insights into the development of the frontier in world history. The authors of the essays and their contributions are Philip Wayne Powell, "North America's First Frontier, 1546-1603"; W.J. Eccles, "The Frontiers of New France"; Warren Dean, "Ecological and Economic Relationships in Frontier History: Sao Paulo, Brazil"; Leonard Thompson, "The Southern African Frontier in Comparative Perspective"; and Robin W. Winks, " Australia, the Frontier, and the Tyranny of Distance."
Where Cultures Meet
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Author : David J. Weber
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 1997-08-01
Where Cultures Meet written by David J. Weber and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-01 with History categories.
In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier' culture, as they contend with each other and their physical environment. The transformative power of frontiers gives them special interest for historians and anthropologists. Delving into the frontier experience below the Rio Grande, Where Cultures Meet is an important collection for anyone seeking to understand fully Latin American history and culture.
The Frontier In American History
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Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-10-27
The Frontier In American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner 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 2015-10-27 with Social Science categories.
A fascinating exploration of American identity by one of the most influential historians and thinkers of the twentieth century According to Frederick Jackson Turner, the distinct qualities of the American character are inseparable from the idea of the frontier. One of the nation’s most influential historians, Turner sets forth his “frontier thesis” in the eight brilliant, enlightening, and provocative essays that make up his seminal work, The Frontier in American History—a book which profoundly altered the way Americans viewed themselves. Disputing the traditionally held emphasis on European cultural influences, Turner argues that the American frontier fostered self-reliance, optimism, ingenuity, individualism, restlessness, materialism, and democratic ideals—traits that collectively shaped the national character. His groundbreaking work continues to influence American culture, politics, and history more than eighty years after it was first published.