Rivers, edens, empires
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Genre | : Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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The Library of Congess exhibition, Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America, features the Corps of Discovery as a culminating moment in a century of expeditions that sought to fulfill Jefferson's vision. The exhibition concludes with the coming of the railroad, a river of steel and the only one to traverse the breath of "this great country"
Author | : Joseph J. Kerski |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
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This important book demonstrates why geography matters in the modern-day world through its examination of 100 moments throughout history that had a significant impact on the study of geography-literally, "writing about the earth." Geography is not simply accounts of the lands of earth and their features; it's about discovering everything there is to know about our planet. This book shows why geography is of critical importance to our world's 21st-century inhabitants through an exploration of the past and present discoveries that have been made about the earth. It pinpoints 100 moments throughout history that had a significant impact on the study of geography and the understanding of our world, including widely accepted maps of the ancient world, writings and discoveries of key thinkers and philosophers, key exploration events and findings during the Age of Discovery, the foundations of important geographic organizations, and new inventions in digital mapping today. The book begins with a clear explanation of geography as a discipline, a framework, and a way of viewing the world, followed by coverage of each of the 100 discoveries and innovations that provides sufficient background and content for readers to understand each topic. The book concludes with a concise synopsis of why it all matters and a look forward to 10 possible future discoveries in the next 50 years of geography. Students will gain a clear sense of what is truly revolutionary about geography, perhaps challenging their preconceived notion of what geography actually is, and grasp how important discoveries revolutionized not only the past but the present day as well.
Author | : Arne Neset |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781433102974 |
The nineteenth century was the great age of landscape painting in Europe and America. In an era of rapid industrialization and transformation of landscape, pictures of natural scenes were what people wanted most to display in their homes. The most popular and marketable pictures, often degenerating into kitsch, showed a wilderness with a pond or a lake in which obtrusive signs of industry and civilization had been edited out. Inspired by Romantic ideas of the uniqueness of the nation, pictorial and literary art was supposed to portray the «soul» of the nation and the spirit of place, a view commonly adopted by cultural and art historians on both sides of the Atlantic. Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas argues that nationalistic or exceptionalist interpretations disregard deep-rooted iconological traditions in transatlantic culture. Depictions and ideas of nature go back to the classical ideas of Arcadia and Eden in which fountains, ponds, lakes, rivers, and finally the sea itself are central elements. Following their European colleagues, American artists typically portrayed the American Arcadia through the classical conventions. Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas adopts the interdisciplinary and comparative methodological perspectives that characterize American studies. The book draws on art history, cultural history, literature, and the study of the production and use of visual images, and will serve well as a textbook for courses on American studies or cultural history of the Western world.
Author | : Richard H. Grove |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1996-03-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521565134 |
The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.
Author | : Gary Allen Hood |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780806199597 |
More than sixty paintings, drawings, and prints inspired during the sixty-five years of exploration in the West after the Corps of Discovery completed its epic journey are featured in this collection of historical artwork by George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Seth Eastman, Charles Bird King, and other notable artists of the nineteenth-century American West.
Author | : Mary Flanagan |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0262373726 |
A striking analysis of popular board games’ roots in imperialist reasoning—and why the future of play depends on reckoning with it. Board games conjure up images of innocuously enriching entertainment: family game nights, childhood pastimes, cooperative board games centered around resource management and strategic play. Yet in Playing Oppression, Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson apply the incisive frameworks of postcolonial theory to a broad historical survey of board games to show how these seemingly benign entertainments reinforce the logic of imperialism. Through this lens, the commercialized version of Snakes and Ladders takes shape as the British Empire’s distortion of Gyan Chaupar (an Indian game of spiritual knowledge), and early twentieth-century “trading games” that fêted French colonialism are exposed for how they conveniently sanitized its brutality while also relying on crudely racist imagery. These games’ most explicitly abhorrent features may no longer be visible, but their legacy still lingers in the contemporary Eurogame tendency to exalt (and incentivize) cycles of exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination. An essential addition to any player’s bookshelf, Playing Oppression deftly analyzes this insidious violence and proposes a path forward with board games that challenge colonialist thinking and embrace a much broader cultural imagination.
Author | : George R. Lee |
Publisher | : Mark Twain Media |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1580373364 |
Bring history to life for students in grades 6 and up using U.S. History: People and Events (1607Ð1865)! This 128-page book provides a full-spectrum view of some of the most fascinating and influential lives and occurrences in U.S. history. It features biographical sketches and overviews from the arrival of the Mayflower to the end of the Civil War. The book includes time lines and reinforcement questions and works perfectly as a full unit or classroom supplement. It supports NCSS standards and the National Standards for History.
Author | : Susan H. Veccia |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780838908624 |
Offers practical ways for teachers to incorporate the resources of the Library of Congress's American Memory website into their curriculum. Kindergarten-grade 12.