Geography The West Transformed
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Geography The West Transformed
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Author : Gale Stokes
language : en
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Release Date : 2000-12
Geography The West Transformed written by Gale Stokes and has been published by Wadsworth Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12 with History categories.
Geography Workbook Volume I For Hollister Mcgee Stokes The West Transformed A History Of Western Civilization
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Author : Warren Hollister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-12-01
Geography Workbook Volume I For Hollister Mcgee Stokes The West Transformed A History Of Western Civilization written by Warren Hollister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-01 with categories.
Geographic Personas
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Author : Blake Allmendinger
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-06
Geographic Personas written by Blake Allmendinger and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with History categories.
During the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the American West underwent a series of transformations, certain pivotal figures also undertook a process of self-transformation. Geographic Personas reveals a practice of public performance, impersonation, deception, and fraud, exposing the secret lives of men and women who capitalized on changes occurring in the region. These changes affected the arts; land ownership; scientific exploration; definitions of race, gender, and sexual orientation; and relations between the United States and other countries throughout the world. In addition to well-known figures such as Clarence King and Willa Cather, Geographic Personas examines lesser-known players in the performative process of westward expansion, including Isadora Duncan, the founder of modern American dance; Polish actress Helena Modjeska; Adolf Hitler’s favorite author, Karl May; Japanese poet Yone Noguchi; Sylvester Long, a mixed-race star of Native American silent films whose mother was born into slavery; and the perpetrator of the greatest land grant hoax in U.S. history. While scholars have written about the environmental, demographic, and economic changes that occurred in the West during the nineteenth century, Allmendinger adds a crucial piece to this dialogue. He brings to light the experiences of artists, dancers, film stars, con men, and criminals in stories of self-transformation that are often sad, tragic, and poignant.
The West
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Author : Brian P. Levack
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 2007
The West written by Brian P. Levack and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Civilization, Western categories.
The West: Encounters & Transformationstakes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization. Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West--how the definition of the West has evolved and transformed throughout history. It explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West. With 56 additional maps, The West: Encounters and Transformations, Second Edition, Atlas Edition, helps students with geography, one of the most difficult aspects of Western Civilization courses for many. Four-color and outline maps accompanied by review questions call on students to identify important geographical areas and think critically about the connection between geography and historical events. can be easily assigned and collected. Here is a sample of the maps included: Greece and Greek Colonies of the World, ca. 431 BCEThe Expansion of Islam in the 7th and 8th CenturiesThe Expansion of the Ottoman EmpireEurope under Absolute Monarchy, 1715The Industrialization of Europe, 1850The European Union in the Europe of 2003
The West
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Author : Brian P. Levack
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 2007-02-22
The West written by Brian P. Levack and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-22 with Civilization, Western categories.
The West: Encounters & Transformationstakes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization.Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West–how the definition of the West has evolved and transformed throughout history. It explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West. With 56 additional maps,The West: Encounters and Transformations, Second Edition, Atlas Edition,helps students with geography, one of the most difficult aspects of Western Civilization courses for many. Four-color and outline maps accompanied by review questions call on students to identify important geographical areas and think critically about the connection between geography and historical events. The maps are on perforated pages and are organized by chapter so that they can be easily assigned and collected. Other than the additional perforated maps, the Atlas Edition of The West, 2/e, is identical to The West, 2/e.
The West Transformed
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Author : Charles Warren Hollister
language : en
Publisher: Harcourt College Pub
Release Date : 2000
The West Transformed written by Charles Warren Hollister and has been published by Harcourt College Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Why The West Rules For Now
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Author : Ian Morris
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2011-10-25
Why The West Rules For Now written by Ian Morris and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with History categories.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last? Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process. Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules—for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines—from ancient history to neuroscience—not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.
Creating The American West
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Author : Derek R. Everett
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Creating The American West written by Derek R. Everett and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Science categories.
Boundaries—lines imposed on the landscape—shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a specific form of political organization that made the West truly American. Everett examines how settlers lobbied for boundaries and how politicians imposed them. He examines the origins of boundary-making in the United States from the colonial era through the Louisiana Purchase. Case studies then explore the ethnic, sectional, political, and economic angles of boundaries. Everett first examines the boundaries between Arkansas and its neighboring Native cultures, and the pseudo war between Missouri and Iowa. He then traces the lines splitting the Oregon Country and the states of California and Nevada, and considers the ethnic and political consequences of the boundary between New Mexico and Colorado. He explains the evolution of the line splitting the Dakotas, and concludes with a discussion of ways in which state boundaries can contribute toward new interpretations of borderlands history. A major theme in the history of state boundaries is the question of whether to use geometric or geographic lines—in other words, lines corresponding to parallels and meridians or those fashioned by natural features. With the distribution of western land, Everett shows, geography gave way to geometry and transformed the West. The end of boundary-making in the late nineteenth century is not the end of the story, however. These lines continue to complicate a host of issues including water rights, taxes, political representation, and immigration. Creating the American West shows how the past continues to shape the present.
The West To 1715
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Author : Brian P. Levack
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 2003-12
The West To 1715 written by Brian P. Levack and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12 with Civilization, Western categories.
The West: Encounters and Transformations takes a new approach to telling the story of Western Civilization. Rather than looking at Western Civilization only as the history of Europe from ancient times to the present, this groundbreaking book examines the changing nature of the West how the definition of the West has evolved and transformed throughout history. It explores the ways Western civilization has changed as a result of cultural encounters with different beliefs, ideas, technologies, and peoples, both outside the West and within it. Presenting a balanced treatment of political, social, religious, and cultural history, this new text emphasizes the ever-shifting boundaries of the geographic and cultural realm of the West, with special attention given to Eastern Europe and the Muslim world, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Nineteenth Century Geographies
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Author : Helena Michie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Nineteenth Century Geographies written by Helena Michie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented discovery and exploration throughout the globe, a period when the "blank spaces" of the earth were systematically investigated, occupied, and exploited by the major imperial powers of Western Europe and the United States. The lived experience of space was also changing in dramatic ways for people as a result of new developments in technology, communication, and transportation. As a result, the century was characterized by a new and intense interest in place, both local and global. The collection is comprised of seventeen essays from various disciplines organized into four areas of geographic concern. The first, "Time Zones," examines several ways that place gets expressed as time during the period, how geography becomes history. A second grouping, "Commodities and Exchanges," explores the role of geographic origin as it was embodied in particular objects, from the souvenir map to imported tea. The set of essays on "Domestic Fronts" moves the discussion from the public to the private sphere by looking at how domestic space became defined in terms of its boundary with the foreign. The final section, "Orientations," takes up the changing relations of bodies, identities, and the spaces they inhabit and through which they moved. The collection as a whole also traces the development of the discipline of geography with its different institutional and political trajectories in the United States and Great Britain.