Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, Hardcover - Tyler Green

Reducere. Best Books of 2018--The Guardian " a] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is w...

" A] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018--The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Pu...

Illustrated by classic American paintings and photographs, and accompanied with a prescient new appraisal, this stunning publication on Emerson's s...

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a sty...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

DescriptionAn against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen.We love to hate the 800-pound gor...

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A dinosaur detective in the land of unwanted ideas battles trauma, anxiety, and the first serial killer of imaginary friends.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carleton YoungImagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of letters written during the Civil War. Face...

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Reducere. A captivating, richly illustrated full account of the making of the ground-breaking movie classic West Side Story (1961). A major hit on Broadway, ...

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In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwe...

DescriptionThe captain of a family-owned starship arranges a marriage for her son in hopes of achieving faster-than-light travel and maybe, just ma...

Reducere. Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the ...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Reducere. Nasrullah arrived in Kentucky in 1950 and forever changed the modern American thoroughbred. Bred in royalty by the Aga Kahn, Nasrullah's journey fr...

Reducere. Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven m...

Imagine a man fascinated with the history and cultures of the world, who spoke multiple languages, and who could express his passion in virtually a...

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The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train--a beautiful me...

DescriptionA powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational ...

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"A marvelously entertaining memoir from a uniquely talented artist in the theatre and movies." - Angela Lansbury "Carleton Carpenter has led many l...

Reducere. The New Cambridge History of the Bible comprises four volumes that take into account the considerable advances in scholarship made in almost all bi...

When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of "rugged individualism, " ind...

Reducere. This book is about the real Old West. The research presented here comes from what I've found during my more than forty-five years of researching Am...

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in...

A wonderful and inspiring collection of eloquent prose, beautiful poetry and ancestral wisdom from Chiefs, Medicine Men and ordinary members of man...

The role of ranching in the West is central to the field of animal history. This volume covers the periods between the early Indigenous acquisition...

Reducere. When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French idea...

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For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the Amer...

Reducere. There's a reason why the Wild West is called as such. History will give you some pretty good (but lengthy) explanations. The purpose of this educat...

A walk in the woods. The world of the tree looked at and examined from the first tree to the latest research. The magical attributes of trees and t...