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The Horses Of The Conquest 1930 Ed
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Author : R. B. Cunninghame Graham
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-01
The Horses Of The Conquest 1930 Ed written by R. B. Cunninghame Graham and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-01 with Travel categories.
The Horses of the Conquest is one of those rare books which, within a brief period, attain the status of classics. First published in England in 1930, then translated into Spanish and published in Argentina in 1946, this is the story of the horses that carried the Conquistadores—Cortés, the Pizarros, and De Soto—to the conquest of the Americas. They came from Spain—piebalds, dark chestnuts, grays, golden bays. They were the companions of brave men, soldiers and conquerors. Their achievements in battle, their vicissitudes with their masters in a world-shaking adventure, make an interesting and highly unusual experience in reading. The author, R. B. Cunninghame Graham—“Don Roberto” south of the Río Grande—was as colorful a character as any of the Conquistadores about whom he wrote so masterfully. W. H. Hudson, his good friend, whose writing influenced Cunninghame Graham’s style, called him a “singular writer,” and his other friends and admirers—among them Joseph Conrad and George Bernard Shaw—agreed. His real home was on the frontiers of North Africa, Texas, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Paraguay, and Brazil—where there were hardships and horses—although he was in truth a curious mixture, Spanish Don and Scottish nobleman by birth, and at various times an adventurer in far places and a member of Parliament. The horses of the Conquest and their feats were his special delight, and he passes to us descriptions of them and their traits. He tells of the horse that became a god and of Gonzalo Silvestre’s incredible ride through the Great Swamp of Florida. His observations are those of a fellow traveler, combining Rabelaisian acuteness with a scientific detachment.
The Horses Of The Conquest
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Author : R. B. Cunninghame Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
The Horses Of The Conquest written by R. B. Cunninghame Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
The Horses Of The Conquest
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Author : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949-01-01
The Horses Of The Conquest written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949-01-01 with Horses categories.
The Humanities And The Dynamics Of Inclusion Since World War Ii
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Author : David A. Hollinger
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-04-14
The Humanities And The Dynamics Of Inclusion Since World War Ii written by David A. Hollinger and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-14 with Education categories.
The role played by the humanities in reconciling American diversity—a diversity of both ideas and peoples—is not always appreciated. This volume of essays, commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, examines that role in the half century after World War II, when exceptional prosperity and population growth, coupled with America's expanded political interaction with the world abroad, presented American higher education with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The humanities proved to be the site for important efforts to incorporate groups and doctrines that had once been excluded from the American cultural conversation. Edited and introduced by David Hollinger, this volume explores the interaction between the humanities and demographic changes in the university, including the link between external changes and the rise of new academic specializations in area and other interdisciplinary studies. This volume analyzes the evolution of humanities disciplines and institutions, examines the conditions and intellectual climate in which they operate, and assesses the role and value of the humanities in society. Contents: John Guillory, "Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University" Roger L. Geiger, "Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s" Joan Shelley Rubin, "The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers" Martin Jay, "The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of Us) to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics" James T. Kloppenberg, "The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism" Bruce Kuklick, "Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929–2001" John T. McGreevy, "Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities, 1945–1985" Jonathan Scott Holloway, "The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge Since 1945" Rosalind Rosenberg, "Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place" Leila Zenderland, "American Studies and the Expansion of the Humanities" David C. Engerman, "The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies" Andrew E. Barshay, "What is Japan to Us"? Rolena Adorno, "Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940–2000"
Seven Myths Of The Spanish Conquest
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Author : Matthew Restall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-28
Seven Myths Of The Spanish Conquest written by Matthew Restall and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-28 with History categories.
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, uncovering the source of the inaccuracies and exploding the fallacies and misconceptions behind each myth. This vividly written and authoritative book shows, for instance, that native Americans did not take the conquistadors for gods and that small numbers of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. We discover that Columbus was correctly seen in his lifetime--and for decades after--as a briefly fortunate but unexceptional participant in efforts involving many southern Europeans. It was only much later that Columbus was portrayed as a great man who fought against the ignorance of his age to discover the new world. Another popular misconception--that the Conquistadors worked alone--is shattered by the revelation that vast numbers of black and native allies joined them in a conflict that pitted native Americans against each other. This and other factors, not the supposed superiority of the Spaniards, made conquests possible. The Conquest, Restall shows, was more complex--and more fascinating--than conventional histories have portrayed it. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest offers a richer and more nuanced account of a key event in the history of the Americas.
The Horses Of The Conquest
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Author : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
The Horses Of The Conquest written by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Horses categories.
One Nation Uninsured
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Author : Jill Quadagno
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-09
One Nation Uninsured written by Jill Quadagno and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-09 with History categories.
Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their considerable resources to keep the financing of health care out of the government's hands. Quadagno describes how at first physicians led the anti-reform coalition, fearful that government entry would mean government control of the lucrative private health care market. Doctors lobbied legislators, influenced elections by giving large campaign contributions to sympathetic candidates, and organized "grassroots" protests, conspiring with other like-minded groups to defeat reform efforts. As the success of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-century led physicians and the AMA to start scaling back their attacks, the insurance industry began assuming a leading role against reform that continues to this day. One Nation, Uninsured offers a sweeping history of the battles over health care. It is an invaluable read for anyone who has a stake in the future of America's health care system.
The Mainstream Companion To Scottish Literature
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Author : Trevor Royle
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-01-06
The Mainstream Companion To Scottish Literature written by Trevor Royle and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, the Companion also lists many minor writers whose work might otherwise have been overlooked in any survey of Scottish literature. Also included here are entries on the lives of other more peripheral writers such as historians, philosophers, diarists and divines whose work has made a contribution to Scottish letters. Other essays range over such general subjects as the principal work of major writers, literary movements, historical events, the world of printing and publishing, folklore, journalism, drama and Gaelic. A feature of the book is the inclusion of the bibliography of each writer and reference to the major critical works. This comprehensive guide is an essential tool for the serious student of Scottish literature as well as being an ideal guide and companion for the general reader.
The Horses Of The Conquest
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Author : Graham R. B. Cunninghame
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06
The Horses Of The Conquest written by Graham R. B. Cunninghame and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Translating Neruda
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Author : John Felstiner
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1980
Translating Neruda written by John Felstiner and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Literary Criticism categories.
What goes into the translating of a poem? Usually that process gets forgotten once the new poem stands intact in translation. Yet a verse translation derives from historical, biographical, and philosophical research, interpretive analysis of the original poem, and continuous linguistic and prosodic choices that parallel those the poet made. Taking as a text Pablo Neruda's brilliant prophetic sequence Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1945), the author here re-creates the entire process of translation, from his first encounter with the poem to the last shaping of a phrase that may never come right in English. This many-faceted book forms an essay on the theory and practice of literary translation, a study of Neruda's career through 1945, and an interpretation of his major poem, all of which lead to a striking new poem in English, Heights of Macchu Picchu, printed along with the original Spanish. This genesis of a verse translation also includes little-known biographical data, hitherto untranslated poems and prose from the years 1920 to 1945, and new translations of key poems from Neruda's Residence on Earth and Spain in My Heart.