Great River City
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Great River
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Author : Paul Horgan
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01
Great River written by Paul Horgan and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with History categories.
The Pulitzer Prize– and Bancroft Prize–winning epic history of the American Southwest from the acclaimed twentieth-century author of Lamy of Santa Fe. Great River was hailed as a literary masterpiece and enduring classic when it first appeared in 1954. It is an epic history of four civilizations—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—that people the Southwest through ten centuries. With the skill of a novelist, the veracity of a scholar, and the love of a long-time resident, Paul Horgan describes the Rio Grande, its role in human history, and the overlapping cultures that have grown up alongside it or entered into conflict over the land it traverses. Now in its fourth revised edition, Great River remains a monumental part of American historical writing. “Here is known and unknown history, emotion and color, sense and sensitivity, battles for land and the soul of man, cultures and moods, fused by a glowing pen and a scholarly mind into a cohesive and memorable whole.” —The Boston Sunday Herald “Transcends regional history and soars far above the river valley with which it deals . . . a survey, rich in color and fascinating in pictorial detail, of four civilizations: the aboriginal Indian, the Spanish, the Mexican, and the Anglo-American . . . It is, in the best sense of the word, literature. It has architectural plan, scholarly accuracy, stylistic distinction, and not infrequently real nobility of spirit.” —Allan Nevins, author of Ordeal of the Union “One of the major masterpieces of American historical writing.” —Carl Carmer, author of Stars Fell on Alabama
Great River City
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Author : Andrew Wanko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Great River City written by Andrew Wanko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Mississippi River categories.
"This book examines the importance of the Mississippi River across time and through the lens of a single city: St. Louis. Features hundreds of maps, artifacts, and fascinating historic images, spanning back to St. Louis's founding and even earlier"--
The Great River
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12
The Great River written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12 with Illinois categories.
Quad-City Times photographers along with a reporter explored a 400-mile region of the Upper Mississippi River Valley that spans the entire eastern border of Iowa & northwest Illinois (including the Quad-Cities) and southwest Wisconsin.
Eastward Flows The Great River
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Author : Gang PENG
language : en
Publisher: City University of HK Press
Release Date : 2013-08-01
Eastward Flows The Great River written by Gang PENG and has been published by City University of HK Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This Festschrift shows the achievements of modern linguistics, reflecting Professor Wang's academic philosophy. It is not only a great reference for seasoned language researchers; it can also help broaden knowledge in Chinese linguistics for students interested in languages. Readers who wish to know Chinese culture will also expand their understanding of it through these studies of the languages in China. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。
De Bow S Review
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Author : James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
De Bow S Review written by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with Southern States categories.
River Cities City Rivers
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Author : Thaisa Way
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Release Date : 2018-06-04
River Cities City Rivers written by Thaisa Way and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-04 with categories.
Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history--shaping the development of urban landscapes and altering ecologies. Yet we have rarely given these urban landscapes their due. River Cities, City Rivers explores how such histories have shaped the present and how they might inform our visions of the future.
River City And Valley Life
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Author : Christopher J. Castaneda
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2013-12-09
River City And Valley Life written by Christopher J. Castaneda and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-09 with History categories.
Often referred to as “the Big Tomato,” Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or “New Switzerland”). It was at Sutter’s sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area’s warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government’s major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while “Old Sacramento” revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento’s pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento’s identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment.
Cumulative List Of Organizations Described In Section 170 C Of The Internal Revenue Code Of 1986
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Cumulative List Of Organizations Described In Section 170 C Of The Internal Revenue Code Of 1986 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations categories.
Chambers S Encyclop Dia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Chambers S Encyclop Dia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with categories.
Child Of The River
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Author : Paul McAuley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-05-29
Child Of The River written by Paul McAuley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-29 with Fiction categories.
Confluence - a long, narrow man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micro-machines and ten thousand bloodlines ruled by devotion to absent gods. It is the home of a singular young man named Yama. An infant who was discovered in a bier on the river, he was raised by the prelate of Aeolis until it was learned that his ancestry was unique. Yama appeared to be the last remaining scion of the Builders, closest of all races to the worshipped architects of Confluence. Now, awed and fearful of his increasing ability to awaken the machines the Builders left behind, Yama searches for his identity and a history that is both his and his world's.