William Clarks World

Author : William Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300090102
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Brother written by William Clark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are letters concerning the establishing of the Corps of Discovery's first winter camp in December 1803, preparations for setting out into the country west of Fort Mandan in 1805, and Clark's fossil dig at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, in 1807. There are also letters about Lewis's disturbed final days that shed light on whether he committed suicide or was murdered.

Author : Peter J. Kastor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300139012
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Clark's World written by Peter J. Kastor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the life and career of William Clark, this book explores how the North American West entered the American imagination. Clark was among the most important western officials of his generation, and he worked to represent the West during a period of tremendous uncertainty and change. Without ever calling himself a writer or an artist, Clark nonetheless drew maps, helped to produce books, drafted lengthy reports, surveyed the landscape, and wrote numerous journals that made sense of the West and its future for Americans who were fascinated by the region's potential but also fearful of its dangers. William Clark's World situates the descriptive words and pictures created by Clark and his contemporaries at the center of a discussion of western history and cultural development. The book casts new light on the familiar narrative of manifest destiny and on the nation's view of the West in the early nineteenth century. --Book Jacket.

Author : William Clark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226109232
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University written by William Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university—which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with applause" and "publish or perish," and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic.

Author : William E. Foley
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826262635
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Journey written by William E. Foley and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2004-05-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange as it may seem today, William Clark—best known as the American explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis in leading an overland expedition to the Pacific—has many more claims to fame than his legendary Voyage of Discovery, dramatic and daring though that venture may have been. Although studies have been published on virtually every aspect of the Lewis and Clark journey, Wilderness Journey is the first comprehensive account of Clark’s lengthy and multifaceted life. Following Lewis and Clark’s great odyssey, Clark’s service as a soldier, Indian diplomat, and government official placed him at center stage in the national quest to possess and occupy North America’s vast western hinterland and prefigured U.S. policies in the region. In his personal life, Clark had to overcome challenges no less daunting than those he faced in the public arena. Foley pays careful attention to the family and business dimensions of Clark’s private world, adding richness to this well-rounded and revealing portrait of the man and his courageous life. Coinciding with the bicentennial in 2004 of the departure of Lewis and Clark’s famed Corps of Discovery, Wilderness Journey fills a major gap in scholarship. Intended for the general reader, as well as for specialists in the field, this fascinating book provides a well-balanced and thorough account of one of America’s most significant frontiersmen.

Author : Landon Y. Jones
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809030411
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Clark and the Shaping of the West written by Landon Y. Jones and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rare combination of storytelling and scholarship, bestselling author Jones presents for the first time Clark's remarkable life and influential career in their full complexity.

Author : Jay H. Buckley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185295
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Clark written by Jay H. Buckley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three decades following the expedition with Meriwether Lewis for which he is best known, William Clark forged a meritorious public career that contributed even more to the opening of the West: from 1807 to 1838 he served as the U.S. government’s most important representative to western Indians. This biography focuses on Clark’s tenure as Indian agent, territorial governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis. Jay H. Buckley shows that Clark had immense influence on Indian-white relations in the trans-Mississippi region specifically and on federal Indian policy generally. As an agent of American expansion, Clark actively promoted the government factory system and the St. Louis fur trade and favored trade and friendship over military conflict. Clark was responsible for one-tenth of all Indian treaties ratified by the U.S. Senate. His first treaty in 1808 began Indian removal from what became Missouri Territory. His last treaty in 1836 completed the process, divesting Indians of the northwestern corner of Missouri. Although he sympathized with the Indians’ fate and felt compassion for Native peoples, Clark was ultimately responsible for dispossessing more Indians than perhaps any other American. Drawing on treaty documents and Clark’s voluminous papers, Buckley analyzes apparent contradictions in Clark’s relationship with Indians, fellow bureaucrats, and frontier entrepreneurs. He examines the choices Clark and his contemporaries made in formulating and implementing Indian policies and explores how Clark’s paternalism as a slaveholder influenced his approach to dealing with Indians. Buckley also reveals the ambiguities and cross-purposes of Clark’s policy making and his responses to such hostilities as the Black Hawk War. William Clark: Indian Diplomat is the complex story of a sometimes sentimental, yet always pragmatic, imperialist. Buckley gives us a flawed but human hero who, in the realm of Indian affairs, had few equals among American diplomats.

Author : Landon Y. Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060011599
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Lewis and Clark written by Landon Y. Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-03-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. Through these tales of adventure, edited and annotated by American Book Award nominee Landon Jones, we meet Indian peoples and see the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and western rivers the way Lewis and Clark first observed them -- majestic, pristine, uncharted, and awe-inspiring.

Author : William Rheem Lighton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 161310409X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark written by William Rheem Lighton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janey Levy
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1482465086
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lewis and Clark in Their Own Words written by Janey Levy and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws from primary source materials to provide insight into the journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, from preparing for the expedition to crossing the Great Divide to their trip home.

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Publisher : Gallopade International
ISBN 13 : 9780635066947
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meriwether Lewis & William Clark written by and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: