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The Comanches

A History, 1706-1875

By: Thomas W. Kavanagh

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The Comanches

A History, 1706-1875

By: Thomas W. Kavanagh

This is the first in-depth historical study of Comanche social and political groups. Using the ethnohistorical method, Thomas W. Kavanagh traces the changes and continuities in Comanche politics from their earliest interactions with Europeans to their settlement on a reservation in present-day Oklahoma.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080327792X

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9780803277922

Political Economy and Colonial Ireland

The Propagation and Ideological Functions of Economic Discourse in the Nineteenth Century

By: Thomas Boylan,Tadhg Foley

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Political Economy and Colonial Ireland

The Propagation and Ideological Functions of Economic Discourse in the Nineteenth Century

By: Thomas Boylan,Tadhg Foley

In a bitterly divided 19th century Ireland, consensus was sought in the new discipline of political economy which claimed to transcend all divisions. This book explores the failure of that mission in the wake of the great famine of 1846-7.

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219

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Routledge

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1134920407

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9781134920402

Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Literature, Modernity, and the New World, 1773–1812

By: Thomas C. Neal

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Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Literature, Modernity, and the New World, 1773–1812

By: Thomas C. Neal

How did literary discourse about empire contribute to discussions about the implications of modernity and progress in eighteenth-century Spain? Writing the Americas seeks to answer this question by examining how novels, plays and short stories imagined and contested core notions about enlightened knowledge. Expanding upon recent transatlantic and postcolonial approaches to Spain's Enlightenment that have focused mostly on historiographical and scientific texts, this book disputes the long-standing perception of the Spanish Enlightenment as an "imitative" movement best defined best by its similarities with French and British contexts. Instead, through readings of major and minor texts by authors such as José Cadalso, Gaspar Melchor Jovellanos, Pedro Montengón and José María Blanco White, Writing the Americas argues that literary texts advanced a unique exploration of the compatibility between supposed universal principles and local histories, one which often diverged noticeably from dominant trends and patterns in Enlightenment thought elsewhere. The authors studied often drew directly from Spain's own imperial experiences to submit prevailing ideas about culture, commerce, education and political organization to scrutiny. Writing the Americas provides a new critical lens through which to reexamine the aesthetic and political content of eighteenth-century Spanish cultural production. While in the past, much of the debate about whether Spanish neoclassicism was "modern" literature has centered on formalistic qualities or romantic notions of "originality" or "subjectivity," ultimately, Writing the Americas locates the modernity of these literary works within the very ideological tensions they display towards the prevailing intellectual trends of the time. The interdisciplinary content and approach of Writing the Americas make it a valuable resource for a broad range of scholars including specialists in eighteenth-century and modern Hispanic literature and culture, colonial Hispanic literature and culture, transatlantic American studies, European Enlightenment studies, and modernity studies.

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205

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Bucknell University Press

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1611488311

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9781611488319

The Comanche

By: Thomas Streissguth

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The Comanche

By: Thomas Streissguth

A history of this Indian tribe of the Southern Plains and a description of their customs, religion, relationship with other tribes, and twentieth-century changes to their traditional way of life.

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102

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1560066334

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People of the Dalles

The Indians of Wascopam Mission : a Historical Ethnography Based on the Papers of the Methodist Missionaries

By: Robert Thomas Boyd

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People of the Dalles

The Indians of Wascopam Mission : a Historical Ethnography Based on the Papers of the Methodist Missionaries

By: Robert Thomas Boyd

People of The Dalles is the story of the Chinookan (Wasco-Wishram) and Sahaptin peoples of The Dalles area of the Columbia River, who encountered the Lewis & Clark expedition in 1805–6. The early history and culture of these communities is reconstructed from the accounts of explorers, travelers, and the early writings of the Methodist missionaries at Wascopam, in particular the papers of Reverend Henry Perkins. Boyd covers early nineteenth century cultural geography, subsistence, economy, social structure, life-cycle rituals, and religion. People of The Dalles also details the changes that occurred to these people's traditional life-ways, including their relationship with Methodism following the devastating epidemics of the early 1830s. Today, descendants of the Chinookan and Sahaptin peoples are enrolled in the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the Yakama Nation.

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444

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803212364

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9780803212367

Exploring Lewis and Clark

Reflections on Men and Wilderness

By: Thomas P. Slaughter

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Exploring Lewis and Clark

Reflections on Men and Wilderness

By: Thomas P. Slaughter

This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they discovered along the way, the animals they hunted, and the land they walked across. The book discovers new heroes and brings old ones into historical focus. Thomas P. Slaughter interrogates the explorers’ dreams, how they wrote and what they aimed to possess, their interactions with animals, Indians, and each other, their sense of themselves as leaders and men, and why they feared that they had failed their nation and President. Slaughter’s Lewis and Clark are more confused, frightened, courageous, and flawed than in previous accounts. They are more human, their expedition more dramatic, and thus their story is more revealing about our own relationships to history and myth.

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Vintage

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0307425819

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9780307425812

The Comanches

A History, 1706-1875

By: Thomas W. Kavanagh

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A History, 1706-1875

By: Thomas W. Kavanagh

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Book's by Thomas W. Kavanagh

The Comanches

The Comanches

Political Economy and Colonial Ireland

Political Economy and Colonial Ireland

Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

The Comanche

The Comanche

People of the Dalles

People of the Dalles

Exploring Lewis and Clark

Exploring Lewis and Clark

The Comanches

The Comanches

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