Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890, Paperback - Richard Slotkin

Reducere. In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the cour...

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

Reducere. In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and tradi...

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation an...

How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships.

Reducere. Richard Joyce argues in this study that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgments is a notion of moral inescap...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Fun informative guides on how people in the past solved technological problems.

By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government ...

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Reducere. In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. En...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Significance of the Frontier in American History is a classic essay about the importance of the frontier.

Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcaste...

Reducere. Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land mass and less ...

Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protec...

Reducere. In The American Frontier, historian William C. Davis masterfully chronicles the history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular at...

Respect can be attained by gaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping others. In this title, the author ...

WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo sca...

The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Italian Renaissance...

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene makes connections between the Anthropocene discourse and human-animal studies, thus facilitat...

An exploration of the hitherto neglected architectural legacy of the boom in manufacturing in the Veneto in the Renaissance, exploiting natural mat...

If man's next big step is to live and work in space, then what will everyone do out there that is so different from what we are now doing here on E...

Reducere. Alfred Rosenberg was one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and editor of the Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter. Originally published in ...

The text studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation to over 6000 years later. Part one discusses how monum...

Reducere. A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and cr...

Tourism Marketing: In the Age of the Consumer offers a fresh and contemporary approach as an introductory textbook on tourism marketing. Six major ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. John Baptiste Richard-known as "Reshaw" the French pronunciation of his last name-was both an adventurer and an opportunist. The early American Wes...

Reducere. Heat and smoke from the fire killed six-year-old Chrissy and both visiting grandparents and left the house in ruins. Bottles and cans containing ga...