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Whose American Revolution was It?
The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society and the many different historical interpretations that have followed. Whose American Revolution Was It? speaks both to the ways diverse groups of Americans who lived through the Revolution might have answered that question and to the different ways historians through the decades have interpreted the Revolution for our own time. As the only volume to offer an accessible and sweeping discussion of ...
The Education of Betsey Stockton
Prologue -- Given, as a slave -- She calls herself Betsey Stockton -- A long adieu -- A missionary's life is very laborious -- Philadelphia's first "coloured infant school" -- From ashes to assertion -- Betsey Stockton's Princeton education -- A time of war, a final peace -- Epilogue.
John James Audubon
In John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman, Gregory Nobles shows that one of Audubon's greatest creations was himself. Nobles explores the central irony of Audubon's true nature: the man who took so much time and trouble to depict birds so carefully left us a bold but deceptive picture of himself.
Ornithology and Enterprise
John James Audubon's double elephant folio edition of "The Birds of America" (4 vols., 1827-38) still stands as one of hte most remarkable artistic and scientific achievements in the history of the book, a massive work of natural history that offers the reader an innovative interplay between image and text. For Audubon,though, producing this "Great Work" proved to be as much about entrepreneurship as ornithology. The changs in the popular perception of Audubon's birds from his time to our own is the background for looking at the connection betwen the cultural and commercial significance of this big book about birds, which represents both an investigation of nature and an investment in art. The varius ways people have valued Audubon's work leads to the qustion of whether "the Birds of America" is--or should be--a book at all.
American Frontiers
Gregory Nobles shows how American leaders, beginning with Washington and Jefferson, pursued a policy of national expansion and development that enabled the United States to become the dominant power on the North American continent. Within this broad framework, he explores the settlers' diverse and complex interactions with Indians as enemies, allies, and trading partners. The result is a sensitive, perceptive account of the patterns of contact and conquest on America's frontiers over the course of four centuries.
American Frontiers
The author shows how recent research has replaced the myths of the Western frontier, as told by writers and film makers, with a far richer and more complex understanding of frontier cluture.
American Frontiers
With clarity and vigor, Gregory H. Nobles shows how American leaders, beginning with Washington and Jefferson, pursued a policy of national expansion and development that enabled the United States to become the dominant power on the North American continent. Within this broad framework he also explores the settlers' diverse and complex interactions with Indians as enemies, allies, and trading partners. The result is a sensitive and perceptive account of the patterns of contact and conquest on America's frontiers over the course of four centuries.
Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America
Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as “indigenous” resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a “middle ground” of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle. The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their hybrid forms of knowledge...
Cultures in Conflict
The Seven Years' War (1754-1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts understood and experienced the war (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in various ways. In many instances the progress of the conflict was charted by cultural differences and the implications participants drew from cultural encounters. It is these cultural encounters, their meaning in the context of the Seven Years' War, and their impact on the war and its diplomatic se...
Entangled Lives
Offering an intervention into larger conversations about local history, microhistory, and historical scholarship, Entangled Lives is a revealing journey through early America.
