Northern Destinies
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Northern Destinies
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Author : Lilli Babits
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-02-01
Northern Destinies written by Lilli Babits and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-01 with categories.
Northern Destinies
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Author : Lilli Babits
language : en
Publisher: PageMaster Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Northern Destinies written by Lilli Babits and has been published by PageMaster Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
Manifest Destinies
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Author : Steven E. Woodworth
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-11-02
Manifest Destinies written by Steven E. Woodworth and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-02 with History categories.
A sweeping history of the 1840s, Manifest Destinies captures the enormous sense of possibility that inspired America’s growth and shows how the acquisition of western territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep fault line that would bring war in the near future. Steven E. Woodworth gives us a portrait of America at its most vibrant and expansive. It was a decade in which the nation significantly enlarged its boundaries, taking Texas, New Mexico, California, and the Pacific Northwest; William Henry Harrison ran the first modern populist campaign, focusing on entertaining voters rather than on discussing issues; prospectors headed west to search for gold; Joseph Smith founded a new religion; railroads and telegraph lines connected the country’s disparate populations as never before. When the 1840s dawned, Americans were feeling optimistic about the future: the population was growing, economic conditions were improving, and peace had reigned for nearly thirty years. A hopeful nation looked to the West, where vast areas of unsettled land seemed to promise prosperity to anyone resourceful enough to take advantage. And yet political tensions roiled below the surface; as the country took on new lands, slavery emerged as an irreconcilable source of disagreement between North and South, and secession reared its head for the first time. Rich in detail and full of dramatic events and fascinating characters, Manifest Destinies is an absorbing and highly entertaining account of a crucial decade that forged a young nation’s character and destiny.
Imperiled Destinies
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Author : Franciscus Verellen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Imperiled Destinies written by Franciscus Verellen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
"Imperiled Destinies" examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill‐starred destiny. From the second through the tenth century CE, Daoism emerged as a liturgical organization that engaged vigorously with Buddhism and transformed Chinese thinking about suffering, the nature of evil, and the aims of liberation. In the fifth century, elements of classical Daoism combined with Indian yogic practices to interiorize the quest for deliverance. The medieval record portrays a world engulfed by evil, where human existence was mortgaged from birth and burdened by increasing debts and obligations in this world and the next. Against this gloomy outlook, Daoism offered ritual and sacramental instruments capable of acting on the unseen world, providing therapeutic relief and ecstatic release from apprehensions of death, disease, war, spoilt harvests, and loss. Drawing on prayer texts, liturgical sermons, and experiential narratives, Franciscus Verellen focuses on the Daoist vocabulary of bondage and redemption, the changing meanings of sacrifice, and metaphoric conceptualizations bridging the visible and invisible realms. The language of medieval supplicants envisaged the redemption of an imperiled destiny as debt forgiveness, and deliverance as healing, purification, release, or emergence from darkness into light.
Ocean Of Destiny
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Author : Arthur Lower
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Ocean Of Destiny written by Arthur Lower and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with History categories.
Rivalry and confrontation were part of this epic. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century European powers contested for the riches of the East and the West, the wealth of the ocean, and territory to sate colonial ambitions. Since that time full-blooded conflicts developed between Asian states and between Asia and the Western powers. As a major trading power in the Pacifc with no tradition of territorial expansion, and as a respected peacekeeper, Canada is in a unique position to view the history of the Pacific impartially. This survey is doubly valuable, not only as the first history of the North Pacific dealing with the concurrent events in the East and West, but also as a history reflecting Canada's international outlook.
Parallel Destinies
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Author : John M. Findlay
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Parallel Destinies written by John M. Findlay and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with History categories.
The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certain similarities, and during the first half of the nineteenth century they were even grouped together as a distinct political and economic unit, called the "Oregon Country" by Americans and the "Columbia Department" of the Hudson's Bay Company by the British. The essays in this volume -- which grew out of a conference commemorating the Oregon Treaty of 1846 -- view the boundary between Canada and the United States as a dividing line and also as a regional backbone, with people on each side of the border having key experiences and attitudes in common. In their eloquence and scope, they illustrate how historical study of Canadian-American relations in the West calls into question the parameters of the nation-state. The border has not had a single constant meaning; rather, its significance has changed over time and varied from group to group. The essays in Part One concern the movement of peoples and capital across a relatively permeable boundary during the nineteenth century. Many people in this era--especially Natives, miners, immigrants, and capitalists--did not regard the international boundary as particularly important. Part Two considers how the United States and Canada took pains to strengthen and enforce the international boundary during the twentieth century. In this era, the nation-state became more assertive about defining and defending the borderline. Part Three offers considerations of the distinctions, both real and imagined, that emerged during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between Canada and the United States. Its essays examine different schools of history, divergent ideas toward wilderness, and the influence of anti-Americanism on Canadians' view of national development in North America.
Patterns Of Destiny
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Author : Diane M. Sharon
language : en
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Release Date : 2002
Patterns Of Destiny written by Diane M. Sharon and has been published by Eisenbrauns this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
"Diane Sharon uses the tools of structuralist literary criticism to uncover social and theological patterns in the literature of the Hebrew Bible. After providing a brief framework for understanding the approach used in her study, she demonstrates that the social activity of eating and drinking, when accompanied by other literary motifs, is part of a pattern portending the establishment or condemnation of a cultural entity. This pattern she refers to as the Pattern of Destiny." "In addition to defining the "destiny pattern," Sharon shows that the "direction" of the eating and/or drinking event provides clues regarding the nature of the destiny portended: whether the event will turn out to the positive or negative for the individual or cultural entity is signaled by clues within the eating/drinking event, sometimes in opposition to the surface structure of the text in which these clues are embedded." --Book Jacket.
Three Men Of Destiny
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Author : Billy Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Ambassador International
Release Date : 2008
Three Men Of Destiny written by Billy Kennedy and has been published by Ambassador International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Looks at the Scots-Irish roots of Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, and Davy Crockett, and offers information on their lives and times.
America S Highest Destiny
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Author : Roger Plunk
language : en
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Release Date : 2002-01-30
America S Highest Destiny written by Roger Plunk and has been published by 1st World Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-30 with History categories.
Nine-Eleven awakened America to the consequences of its actions, and to its responsibilities in the world. As the world's only superpower, America has a higher responsibility than other countries. It must lead the world in fighting tyranny in its many forms. It must be the impartial world sheriff. But America also has the responsibility to lead the world in promoting democracy, human rights, and peace. This is moralpolitiks, the use of wealth and knowledge to build a better world. This is America's heart and soul. This is America's best and highest destiny."" -From the Preface POLITICS / CURRENT HISTORY / FOREIGN AFFAIRS Roger Plunk's first love was philosophy, which he studied as an undergraduate. He went to law school at Florida State University, and then completed an advanced law degree in international and comparative law at George Washington University. After a short stay at the U.S. Department of State, Roger went to India by invitation of the Dalai Lama's admin-istration, to advise them in the drafting of a constitution for an autonomous Tibet. Roger also worked on the political conflicts in Burma, Kashmir, and Afghanistan. His first book, The Wandering Peacemaker, is about his experiences during this work. America's Highest Destiny is his second book.
Manifest Destiny And Mission In American History
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Author : Frederick Merk
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1995
Manifest Destiny And Mission In American History written by Frederick Merk and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts straight." --From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher