New Lands New Men

Author : William H. Goetzmann
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Lands, New Men written by William H. Goetzmann and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 1995 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third volume of his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, Goetzmann discusses the Second Great Age of Discovery, which spanned the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries and reflected Enlightenment ideals of science and progress. Explorers gathered information that transformed natural history and botany and launched the sciences geology and oceanography.

Author : William H. Goetzmann
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
ISBN 13 : 9781597404266
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploration and Empire written by William H. Goetzmann and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called "the Great American Desert." According to Goetzmann, the exploration of the West was not a haphazard series of discoveries, but a planned - even programmed - activity in which explorers, often armed with instructions from the federal government, gathered information that would support national goals for the new lands. As national needs and the frontier's image changed, the West itself was rediscovered by successive generations of explorers, a process that in turn helped shape its culture. Nineteenth-century western exploration, Goetzmann writes, can be divided into three stages. The first, beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, was marked by the need to collect practical information, such as the locations of the best transportation routes through the wilderness. Then came the era of settlement and investment - the drive to fulfill the Manifest Destiny of a nation beginning to realize what immense riches lay beyond the Mississippi. The final stage involved a search for knowledge of a different kind, as botanists and paleontologists, ethnographers and engineers hunted intensively for scientific information in the "frontier laboratory." This last phase also saw a rethinking of the West's place in the national scheme; it was a time of nascent conservation movements and public policy discussions aboutthe region's future. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Goetzmann offers a masterful overview of the opening of the West, as well as a fascinating study of the nature of exploration and its consequences for civilization.

Author : Michael Allaby
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438131615
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploration written by Michael Allaby and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration tells the intriguing story of the navigators who crossed oceans to chart the coastlines of distant continents, the adventurers who traversed deserts and polar wastes, and the traders who sought new markets and commodities in faraway lands. The secrets of the planet and its living inhabitants have been unraveled thanks to the efforts made by these navigators and adventurers. This new, full-color book begins with a narration of the earliest seagoing ships and the vehicles that transported diplomats, warriors, and merchants around the Mediterranean region and later around the world. It explores the Vikings who terrorized Western Europe and colonized Greenland as well as the swift outrigger vessels that sailed from Asia to the islands of the Pacific. This accessible resource describes the development of navigational instruments to help on long journeys out of sight of landOCoincluding the sextant and compassOCoand explains how to calculate latitude and longitude."

Author : Adrienne Miller
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062682431
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Land of Men written by Adrienne Miller and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year One of Esquire’s Best Books of the Year One of the Wall Street Journal’s Favorite Books of the Year One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: Vogue, Parade, Esquire, Bitch, and Maclean’s A New York Times and Washington Post Book to Watch A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, and Miller's personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace A naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest, Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis, powerful male egos, and unquestioned authority of kings—GQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a man’s world. Three years later, she forged her own path, becoming the first woman to take on the role of literary editor of Esquire, home to the male writers who had defined manhood itself— Hemingway, Mailer, and Carver. Up against this old world, she would soon discover that it wanted nothing to do with a “mere girl.” But this was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary movement, as exemplified by McSweeney’s and the work of David Foster Wallace. A decade older than Miller, the mercurial Wallace would become the defining voice of a generation and the fiction writer she would work with most. He was her closest friend, confidant—and antagonist. Their intellectual and artistic exchange grew into a highly charged professional and personal relationship between the most prominent male writer of the era and a young woman still finding her voice. This memoir—a rich, dazzling story of power, ambition, and identity—ultimately asks the question “How does a young woman fit into this male culture and at what cost?” With great wit and deep intelligence, Miller presents an inspiring and moving portrayal of a young woman’s education in a land of men. “The memoir I’ve been waiting for: a bold, incisive, and illuminating story of a woman whose devotion to language and literature comes at a hideous cost. It’s Joanna Rakoff’s My Salinger Year updated for the age of She Said: a literary New York now long past; an intimate, fiercely realist portrait of a mythic literary figure; and now, a tender reckoning with possession, power, and what Jia Tolentino called the ‘Important, Inappropriate Literary Man.’ A poised and superbly perceptive narration of the problems of working with men, and of loving them.”— Eleanor Henderson, author of 10,000 Saints

Author : Susan Castillo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405188642
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Literature in Context to 1865 written by Susan Castillo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Literature in Context to 1865 discusses the issues and events that engaged American writers of the period, providing original and useful readings of important literary works that demonstrate how context contributes to meaning Covers a range of genres including the myths, chants and songs of indigenous cultures, sermons, slave narratives, essays and the novels and poetry to 1865 Designed to be used alongside the major anthologies of literature from the period Equips students with the necessary historical context needed to understand the writings from this period Pedagogical features include a detailed bibliography, and a transatlantic timeline, with literary works, and historical events

Author : Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438102437
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hernando Cortes and the Fall of the Aztecs written by Rachel A. Koestler-Grack and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1519, with a small band of a few hundred soldiers, Cortes invaded the mighty Aztec empire. Although the Aztecs greatly outnumbered them, Cortes's men were able to conquer the natives and capture their emperor. The arrival of Cortes in 1519 helped shape

Author : Otto Neumann Sverdrup
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Land written by Otto Neumann Sverdrup and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1904 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonya Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684846861
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Land of Men written by Antonya Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-02-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson's acclaimed second collection of short stories portrays women whose lives have slipped from their moorings and who are unsure about what direction to take, and the men who are unable to anchor or touch them.

Author : Lands' End, Inc
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lands' End Business Attire for Men written by Lands' End, Inc and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Can I wear this tie with this shirt?” Men have asked this question for years. But now there’s a new twist: “Should I wear a tie—at all?” Traditional was easy. Today’s business attire is not.Lands’ End® Business Attire for Mencan make it easier once again, helping you quickly and confidently decide exactly what to wear to work. This book is full of workplace assessment tools to help you size up the situation at a glance and suit up or dress down as the case requires. A wealth of mix-and-match examples and outfits offer a broad spectrum of choices so you can always be confident that you are correctly dressed. Based on a simple ABC model,Lands’ End® Business Attire for Mendetermines which workplaces are right for Almost a Suit outfits, times and places for Best of Both Worlds ensembles, and occasions when “Clearly Casual” wear is acceptable and even preferable. From “Pants to Avoid” to business travel checklists and advice for recent college grads,Lands’ End® Business Attire for Menwill guide you toward a working wardrobe that is appropriate, efficient, and adaptable. Practical and down-to-earth, this eminently sensible guide to dressing for work leaves you plenty of time for making the real business decisions—like what to have for lunch.

Author : Dane Keith Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199755345
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting Exploration written by Dane Keith Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and its iconic importance in defining the terms of cultural engagement with other peoples. In chapters offering broad geographic range, the contributors address many of the key themes of recent research on exploration, including exploration's contribution to European imperial expansion, Western scientific knowledge, Enlightenment ideas and practices, and metropolitan print culture. They reassess indigenous peoples' responses upon first contacts with European explorers, their involvement as intermediaries in the operations of expeditions, and the complications that their prior knowledge posed for European claims of discovery. Underscoring that exploration must be seen as a process of mediation between representation and reality, this book provides a fresh and accessible introduction to the ongoing reinterpretation of exploration's role in the making of the modern world.