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Beyond the Revolution

A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism

By: William H Goetzmann

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Beyond the Revolution

A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism

By: William H Goetzmann

From 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, "The birthday of a new world is at hand," America was unique in world history. A nation suffused with the spirit of explorers, constantly replenished by immigrants, and informed by a continual influx of foreign ideas, it was the world's first truly cosmopolitan civilization. In Beyond the Revolution, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann tells the story of America's greatest thinkers and creators, from Paine and Jefferson to Melville and William James, showing how they built upon and battled one another's ideas in the critical years between 1776 and 1900. An unprecedented work of intellectual history by a master historian, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of our national culture.

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0786744235

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Francisco Coronado and the Seven Cities of Gold

By: Shane Mountjoy,William H. Goetzmann

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Francisco Coronado and the Seven Cities of Gold

By: Shane Mountjoy,William H. Goetzmann

Spanish legend claimed that there were seven cities built of gold and filled with treasure in the New World. Coronado and his troupe spent three years wandering in the American Southwest discovering only the beauty of the landscape. Today he is seen as a

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1438102410

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9781438102412

Ferdinand Magellan and the Quest to Circle the Globe

By: Samuel Willard Crompton,William H. Goetzmann

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Ferdinand Magellan and the Quest to Circle the Globe

By: Samuel Willard Crompton,William H. Goetzmann

Magellan set out in 1519 with five ships to find a passage through the Americas. Such a passage, if it existed, would allow Spanish ships to follow a westward route to the East Indies. After months of fruitless searching, Magellan eventually found a narro

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1438102402

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9781438102405

Vasco Da Gama and the Sea Route to India

By: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack,William H. Goetzmann

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Vasco Da Gama and the Sea Route to India

By: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack,William H. Goetzmann

This Portuguese navigator's initial voyage to India in 1497-1499 opened up the sea route from Western Europe to the East by way of the Cape of Good Hope. This changed the world's balance of power and helped make his home country one of the richest and pow

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1438102488

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Juan Ponce de Leon and His Lands of Discovery

By: John Davenport,William H. Goetzmann

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Juan Ponce de Leon and His Lands of Discovery

By: John Davenport,William H. Goetzmann

Describes the life and times of Juan Ponce de Leon, a Spanish explorer from the 15th century.

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1438102453

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9781438102450

Hernando de Soto and His Expeditions Across the Americas

By: Janet Hubbard-Brown,William H. Goetzmann

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Hernando de Soto and His Expeditions Across the Americas

By: Janet Hubbard-Brown,William H. Goetzmann

In 1536, De Soto became rich when he helped lead the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire in South America. He continued his explorations through what is today the southern United States, seeking gold and glory. He and his men wandered through a large area

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1438102445

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Hernando Cortes and the Fall of the Aztecs

By: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack,William H. Goetzmann

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Hernando Cortes and the Fall of the Aztecs

By: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack,William H. Goetzmann

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

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1438102437

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9781438102436

Marco Polo and the Realm of Kublai Khan

By: Tim McNeese,William H. Goetzmann

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Marco Polo and the Realm of Kublai Khan

By: Tim McNeese,William H. Goetzmann

In 1271, 17-year-old Marco Polo traveled from Venice to meet the great ruler of the east, Kublai Khan. This ruler of the enormous Mongol Empire invited Polo into his service; thus began Polo's 25 years of travel to the far corners of the Mongol empire. Wh

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1438102461

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Francis Drake and the Oceans of the World

By: Samuel Willard Crompton,William H. Goetzmann

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Francis Drake and the Oceans of the World

By: Samuel Willard Crompton,William H. Goetzmann

From 1577-1580, Drake led the second expedition to sail around the world. During his voyage he made several important discoveries: finding the tip of South America, disproving the theory of the Northwest Passage, and charting the North American Pacific co

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143810247X

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Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the Americas, Explorers of New Lands

By: Tim McNeese,William H. Goetzmann

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Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the Americas, Explorers of New Lands

By: Tim McNeese,William H. Goetzmann

Columbus left Spain in 1492 thinking that he could reach China by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. When he reached land after five weeks, he thought he had discovered a new route to the East Indies. It was not until much later that people realized

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1438102399

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9781438102399

Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream

Edgar B. Davis and the San Antonio Art League

By: William E. Reaves

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Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream

Edgar B. Davis and the San Antonio Art League

By: William E. Reaves

At a crucial moment in the development of Texas art, an eccentric oil wildcatter form Massachusetts and Luling, Texas, turned to the prestigious San Antonio Art League with a proposal. He would fund a national art competition featuring the state's verdant fields of wildflowers and bring prominence to Texas art if the league would handle the details. Thus was born the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, which in three years at the end of the Roaring Twenties awarded more than $53,000 in prize money for paintings of Texas wildflowers, ranch life, and cotton farming. This presentation of twenty-nine color plates of the competitions' best works includes paintings by such important artists as Jose Arpa, Dawson Dawson-Watson, Xavier Gonzalez, Edward G. Eisenlohr, and Oscar E. Berninghaus and Herbert Dunton (the latter duo having also served as founding members of the Taos Society of Artists). In the plates, the artists have portrayed a variety of landscapes and atmospheres to present the wildflowers loved not only by Davis but by generations of Texas art enthusiasts.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0890968209

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Engineering Expansion

The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860

By: William D. Adler

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Engineering Expansion

The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860

By: William D. Adler

Engineering Expansion examines the U.S. Army's role in U.S. economic development from the nation's founding to the eve of the Civil War. William D. Adler starts with a simple question: if the federal government was weak in its early years, how could the economy and the nation have grown so rapidly? Adler answers this question by focusing on the strongest part of the early American state, the U.S. Army. The Army shaped the American economy through its coercive actions in conquering territory, expanding the nation's borders, and maintaining public order and the rule of law. It built roads, bridges, and railroads while Army engineers and ordnance officers developed new technologies, constructed forts that encouraged western settlement and nurtured nascent communities, cleared rivers, and created manufacturing innovations that spread throughout the private sector. Politicians fought for control of the Army, but War Department bureaucracies also contributed to their own development by shaping the preferences of elected officials. Engineering Expansion synthesizes a wide range of historical material and will be of interest to those interested in early America, military history, and politics in the early United States.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081229811X

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The Poetics of the Antarctic

A Study in Nineteenth-Century American Cultural Perceptions

By: William E. Lenz

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The Poetics of the Antarctic

A Study in Nineteenth-Century American Cultural Perceptions

By: William E. Lenz

The thesis of this book is that the 19th-century interest in the Antarctic functions for modern scholars as an important index to American self-discovery and self-definition from the 1830s onward. According to the author, American hopes for confirming identity came to be focused on an unlikely goal, the discovery of the illusive Antarctic continent. By examining in detail one literary product of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) to Antarctica, James Croxall Palmer's epic poem Thulia: A Tale of the Antarctic (1843), and its revision, The Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868), and by locating these works within their cultural context, Lenz reveals the significance and changing meaning of exploration to emerging American concepts of nationhood. The volume also considers the tradition of American sea fiction in the works of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville, arguing that for these writers the Antarctic was a locus of symbolic meaning while for Palmer it was a process of individual and collective perception. The 1868 version of the Palmer poem is attached here as an appendix. A useful bibliography follows that appendix.

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1317946529

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9781317946526

Beyond the Revolution

A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism

By: William H. Goetzmann

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Beyond the Revolution

A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism

By: William H. Goetzmann

A magisterial chronicle of America s intellectual history by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

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0465004954

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Redrawing the Western

A History of American Comics and the Mythic West

By: William Grady

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Redrawing the Western

A History of American Comics and the Mythic West

By: William Grady

As the Western began to flourish in literature, it also began to appear in illustrations and early comic strips of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. William Grady charts the history of the genre in comic strips and books from its origins in this period through its mid-century heyday to its gradual decline in the 60s and 70s, ending with a brief look at the current "afterlife" of Western comics over the last few decades. In doing so, he also argues for the importance of comics in the development of the Western alongside both literature and film/television. He explains how the mythic-historical settings of Western comics allowed the young readers at whom they were aimed to explore different aspects of their contemporary society, wrestle with taboo topics, and envision different futures for the US. Grady begins by exploring the origins of the Western genre in the late 19th century and shows the importance of illustrated narratives and cartoons in helping readers visualize the West, thus establishing much of its iconic imagery of frontier life, including racist stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples. He moves forward in time to show how the West became mythologized and fantastic elements were introduced into the real landscape in comic strips such as Gasoline Alley and Krazy Kat, until the Great Depression, where strips emphasized the escapist adventures of the West in Red Ryder, Lone Ranger, and others. The postwar Western spread into comic books and was used alternately as positive and negative commentaries on the Cold War and America's place in the world, but in the era of Vietnam and Watergate, Western comics portrayed darker reflections of American culture and history and eventually more or less died out. Despite the genre's apparent demise, Grady ends by examining its ongoing influence over the last decades as its tropes are used to interrogate and subvert the idea of the mythic West and explore diverse perspectives on the genre"--

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University of Texas Press

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1477329986

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How to Read the American West

A Field Guide

By: William Wyckoff

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How to Read the American West

A Field Guide

By: William Wyckoff

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike. But in How to Read the American West, William Wyckoff introduces readers anew to these familiar landscapes. A geographer and an accomplished photographer, Wyckoff offers a fresh perspective on the natural and human history of the American West and encourages readers to discover that history has shaped the places where people live, work, and visit. This innovative field guide includes stories, photographs, maps, and diagrams on a hundred landscape features across the American West. Features are grouped according to type, such as natural landscapes, farms and ranches, places of special cultural identity, and cities and suburbs. Unlike the geographic organization of a traditional guidebook, Wyckoff's field guide draws attention to the connections and the differences between and among places. Emphasizing features that recur from one part of the region to another, the guide takes readers on an exploration of the eleven western states with trips into their natural and cultural character. How to Read the American West is an ideal traveling companion on the main roads and byways in the West, providing unexpected insights into the landscapes you see out your car window. It is also a wonderful source for armchair travelers and people who live in the West who want to learn more about the modern West, how it came to be, and how it may change in the years to come. Showcasing the everyday alongside the exceptional, Wyckoff demonstrates how asking new questions about the landscapes of the West can let us see our surroundings more clearly, helping us make informed and thoughtful decisions about their stewardship in the twenty-first century. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYSmp5gZ4-I

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University of Washington Press

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0295805374

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Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts

Transforming Visions of the American West

By: Jules David Prown,Buffalo Bill Historical Center,William Cronon,Yale University. Art Gallery,Nancy K. Anderson,Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art,Susan Prendergast Schoelwer

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Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts

Transforming Visions of the American West

By: Jules David Prown,Buffalo Bill Historical Center,William Cronon,Yale University. Art Gallery,Nancy K. Anderson,Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art,Susan Prendergast Schoelwer

A common theme of western American art is the transformation of the land through European-American exploration and resettlement. In this book, the authors look at western American art of the past three centuries, re-evaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history and American studies.

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0300057318

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Building the Continental Empire

American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War

By: William Earl Weeks

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Building the Continental Empire

American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War

By: William Earl Weeks

In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Earl Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American empire. Mr. Weeks traces the origins of this initiative to the 1750s, when the Founding Fathers began to perceive the advantages of colonial union and the possibility of creating an empire within the British Empire that would provide security and the potential for commercial and territorial expansion. After the adoption of the Constitution—and a far stronger central government than had been popularly imagined—the need to expand combined with a messianic American nationalism. The result was aggressive diplomacy by successive presidential administrations. From the acquisition of Louisiana and Florida to the Mexican War, from the Monroe Doctrine to the annexation of Texas, Mr. Weeks describes the ideology and scope of American expansion in what has become known as the age of Manifest Destiny. Relations with Great Britain, France, and Spain; the role of missionaries, technology, and the federal government; and the issue of slavery are key elements in this succinct and thoughtful view of the making of the continental nation.

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Ivan R. Dee

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1461733200

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First Impressions

A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest

By: David J. Weber,William DeBuys

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First Impressions

A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest

By: David J. Weber,William DeBuys

This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System—including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde—to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors’ skillful evocation of the region’s sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers.

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Yale University Press

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0300215045

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9780300215045

Maps & Civilization

Cartography in Culture and Society

By: Norman Joseph William Thrower

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Maps & Civilization

Cartography in Culture and Society

By: Norman Joseph William Thrower

Preface1. Introduction: Maps of Preliterate Peoples2. Maps of Classical Antiquity3. Early Maps of East and South Asia4. Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages5. The Rediscovery of Ptolemy and Cartography in Renaissance Europe6. Cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment7. Diversification and Development in the Nineteenth Century8. Modern Cartography: Official and Quasi-Official Maps9. Modern Cartography: Private and Institutional MapsAppendix A: Selected Map ProjectionsAppendix B: Short List of IsogramsAppendix C: GlossaryNotesIllustration SourcesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226799735

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9780226799735

Expedition to the Southwest

An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma

By: James William Abert

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Expedition to the Southwest

An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma

By: James William Abert

Lt. Abert of the United States Army Topographical Engineers set out from Bent's Fort to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of the Canadian River region of the southern plains. Possessing a great eye for detail, Lt. Abert provided clear, graphic decriptions of birds, plants, animals, and the countryside, as well as details about the Comanches and the Kiowa. Lt. Abert's journal is one of the concluding records of the Anglo-American exploration of the American West begun in 1804 by Lewis and Clark.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803259352

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When the Eagle Screamed

The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860

By: William H. Goetzmann

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When the Eagle Screamed

The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860

By: William H. Goetzmann

When the Eagle Screamed argues that America’s expansionism between 1800 and 1860 positioned it against some of the world’s most powerful and aggressive nations. As the United States moved onto the world scene in this age of Manifest Destiny, it clashed with Britain, France, Russia, Spain, and Mexico.

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