Book Description
This text provides in-depth balanced content covering the beginnings of U.S. history through the present.
Author : Andrew Cayton
Publisher : PRENTICE HALL
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2006-06
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780131335080
This text provides in-depth balanced content covering the beginnings of U.S. history through the present.
Author : Thomas Alan Abercrombie
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299153144
Romantic Motives explores a topic that has been underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Levi-Strauss, and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition."
Author : Lois Lance
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Troy (Mich.)
ISBN :
Author : James A. Banks
Publisher :
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 0935302654
This groundbreaking book describes theory, research, and practice that can be used in civic education courses and programs to help students from marginalized and minoritized groups in nations around the world attain a sense of structural integration and political efficacy within their nation-states, develop civic participation skills, and reflective cultural, national, and global identities.
Author : Ruth Samuels
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A chronological survey of Jewish civilization, from earliest times of the Entebbe rescue of June 27, 1976.
Author : Patricia DeMarco
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822983001
Pittsburgh has a rich history of social consciousness in calls for justice and equity. Today, the movement for more sustainable practices is rising in Pittsburgh. Against a backdrop of Marcellus shale gas development, initiatives emerge for a sustainable and resilient response to the climate change and pollution challenges of the twenty-first century. People, institutions, communities, and corporations in Pittsburgh are leading the way to a more sustainable future. Examining the experience of a single city, with vast social and political complexities and a long industrial history, allows a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities inherent in adapting to change throughout the world. The case studies in this book respond to ethical challenges and give specific examples of successful ways forward. Choices include transforming the energy system, restoring infertile ground, and preventing pollution through green chemistry. Inspired by the pioneering voice of Rachel Carson, this is a book about empowerment and hope.
Author : Sarah M.A. Gualtieri
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1503610861
“This ingenious study . . . will transform how we conceptualize immigration, race, gender, and the histories and boundaries of Arab and Latin America” (Nadine Naber, author of Arab America). Los Angeles is home to the largest population of people of Middle Eastern origin and descent in the United States. Since the late nineteenth century, Syrian and Lebanese migration to Southern California has been intimately connected to and through Latin America. Arab Routes uncovers the stories of this Syrian American community, one both Arabized and Latinized, to reveal important cross-border and multiethnic solidarities in Syrian California. Sarah M. A. Gualtieri reconstructs the early Syrian connections through California, Texas, Mexico, and Lebanon. She reveals the Syrian interests in the defense of the Mexican American teens charged in the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder, in actor Danny Thomas's rise to prominence in LA’s Syrian cultural festivals, and in more recent activities of the grandchildren of immigrants to reclaim a sense of Arabness. Gualtieri reinscribes Syrians into Southern California history through her examination of powerful images and texts, augmented with interviews with descendants of immigrants. Telling the story of how Syrians helped forge a global Los Angeles, Arab Routes counters a long-held stereotype of Arabs as outsiders and underscores their longstanding place in American culture and in interethnic coalitions, past and present.
Author : Julia A. King
Publisher :
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780615244464
Author : Brian Hosmer
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
How has American Indians' participation in the broader market - as managers of casinos, negotiators of oil leases, or commercial fishermen - challenged the U.S. paradigm of economic development? Have American Indians paid a cultural price for the chance at a paycheck? How have gender and race shaped their experiences in the marketplace? Contributors to Native Pathways ponder these and other questions, highlighting how indigenous peoples have simultaneously adopted capitalist strategies and altered them to suit their own distinct cultural beliefs and practices. Including contributions from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists, Native Pathways offers fresh viewpoints on economic change and cultural identity in twentieth-century Native American communities. Foreword by Donald L. Fixico.
Author : William Tweed
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781878441225
Granite Pathways lays out the fascinating history of the trails in the backcountry regions of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks - the twin High Sierra parks at the southern end of California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. The book seeks answers to the questions of who built the trails and why.The story begins with the contributions of the Native American peoples of the region - particularly the Mono and Paiutes - and then shifts its gaze to the stories left behind by the late nineteenth century shepherds, miners, scientists, and recreationists who first explored the range and brought it to the attention of the world - individuals like Theodore Solomons, Bolton Coit Brown, and Joseph N. Le Conte. These mountaineers, and many others, all played important roles in the exploration and mapping of this rugged region. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the creation of federal reserves like Sequoia National Park and the Sequoia, Sierra, and Inyo national forests brought new energy to the movement to build trails in the High Sierra. Destinations like the Kings Canyon and Mount Whitney became the target of wilderness travelers. The Sierra Club initiated its outing program and began to bring recreational groups to remote features like the Kern Canyon, Rae Lakes, and Evolution Basin.Interest in wilderness travel in the High Sierra invigorated trail construction by the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service and led to the construction of iconic routes like the John Muir Trail and High Sierra Trail. By the end of the New Deal era in the 1930s, thanks to the efforts of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other federal programs, the region contained over a thousand miles of trails.Improved trails led to the creation of Kings Canyon National Park and ultimately to the designation of the John Muir and the Sequoia-Kings Canyon wilderness areas. Granite Pathways explores all these stories, delving into not only the history of the region's trails but also the story of how this scenic wilderness region rose from obscurity to become one of the nation's most prized wilderness destinations.