North American Sun Kings
Author | : Joseph B. Mahan |
Publisher | : Isac Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 9781880820032 |
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Author | : Joseph B. Mahan |
Publisher | : Isac Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 9781880820032 |
Author | : Ethel Susan Graham Paterson Bristowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Assyria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Collins Publishers Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 9780732250690 |
Introduces the history and cultures of Native Americans, from the Pueblo-dwellers of the Southwest to the Inuit hunters of the frozen North. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, secondary.
Author | : Stuart Clark |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2009-04-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691141266 |
Recounts the story behind English astronomer Richard Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the sun and how his understanding that the sun's magnetism directly influences the Earth helped usher in the modern era of astronomy.
Author | : Stuart Clark |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-12-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691207089 |
In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Compasses and other sensitive instruments reeled as if struck by a massive magnetic fist. For the first time, people began to suspect that the Earth was not isolated from the rest of the universe. However, nobody knew what could have released such strange forces upon the Earth--nobody, that is, except the amateur English astronomer Richard Carrington. In this riveting account, Stuart Clark tells for the first time the full story behind Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the Sun and how his brilliant insight--that the Sun's magnetism directly influences the Earth--helped to usher in the modern era of astronomy. Clark vividly brings to life the scientists who roundly rejected the significance of Carrington's discovery of solar flares, as well as those who took up his struggle to prove the notion that the Earth could be touched by influences from space. Clark also reveals new details about the sordid scandal that destroyed Carrington's reputation and led him from the highest echelons of science to the very lowest reaches of love, villainy, and revenge. The Sun Kings transports us back to Victorian England, into the very heart of the great nineteenth-century scientific controversy about the Sun's hidden influence over our planet.
Author | : Christopher Knowlton |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982128380 |
Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The decade there produced the largest human migration in American history, far exceeding the settlement of the West, as millions flocked to the grand hotels and the new cities that rose rapidly from the teeming wetlands. The boom spawned a new subdivision civilization—and the most egregious large-scale assault on the environment in the name of “progress.” Nowhere was the glitz and froth of the Roaring Twenties more excessive than in Florida. Here was Vegas before there was a Vegas: gambling was condoned and so was drinking, since prohibition was not enforced. Tycoons, crooks, and celebrities arrived en masse to promote or exploit this new and dazzling American frontier in the sunshine. Yet, the import and deep impact of these historical events have never been explored thoroughly until now. In Bubble in the Sun Christopher Knowlton examines the grand artistic and entrepreneurial visions behind Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, and other storied sites, as well as the darker side of the frenzy. For while giant fortunes were being made and lost and the nightlife raged more raucously than anywhere else, the pure beauty of the Everglades suffered wanton ruination and the workers, mostly black, who built and maintained the boom, endured grievous abuses. Knowlton breathes dynamic life into the forces that made and wrecked Florida during the decade: the real estate moguls Carl Fisher, George Merrick, and Addison Mizner, and the once-in-a-century hurricane whose aftermath triggered the stock market crash. This essential account is a revelatory—and riveting—history of an era that still affects our country today.
Author | : Jutta Wimmler |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2017-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004336087 |
In The Sun King’s Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which Africa and America channeled cultural developments in France, exploring their impact on material culture, theatre, science and religion.
Author | : Thomas King |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1443419125 |
Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, hard-headed men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by award-winning author Thomas King. Alberta, Eli, Lionel and others are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance. There they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote—and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again. . . .
Author | : Ernest George Ravenstein |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2024-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385466679 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1893.
Author | : Thomas King |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1452940304 |
In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Suffused with wit, anger, perception, and wisdom, The Inconvenient Indian is at once an engaging chronicle and a devastating subversion of history, insightfully distilling what it means to be “Indian” in North America. It is a critical and personal meditation that sees Native American history not as a straight line but rather as a circle in which the same absurd, tragic dynamics are played out over and over again. At the heart of the dysfunctional relationship between Indians and Whites, King writes, is land: “The issue has always been land.” With that insight, the history inflicted on the indigenous peoples of North America—broken treaties, forced removals, genocidal violence, and racist stereotypes—sharpens into focus. Both timeless and timely, The Inconvenient Indian ultimately rejects the pessimism and cynicism with which Natives and Whites regard one another to chart a new and just way forward for Indians and non-Indians alike.