The First Frontier
Author | : Scott Weidensaul |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Modern dance |
ISBN | : 0151015155 |
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Author | : Scott Weidensaul |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Modern dance |
ISBN | : 0151015155 |
Author | : James I. Kirkland |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2000-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743420268 |
A Star Trek adventure set during The Original Series era and featuring James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise crew! While testing a new shielding device, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is caught in the middle of a Klingon/Romulan battle. The Enterprise crew rescues a lifepod, and they are confronted by a Klingon who claims to know nothing of human existence. Convinced the Klingon is telling the truth, Captain Kirk hurries to Starfleet Headquarters in search of answers. But upon arriving on Earth, the Starship Enterprise crew finds that Earth is a vast jungle-like paradise where large, reptillian animals rule, with no signs of human life anywhere. Kirk must travel to the past in search of the key to the mystery, or face the destruction of the human race.
Author | : Wilma A. Dunaway |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807861170 |
In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
Author | : Brenda C. Calloway |
Publisher | : The Overmountain Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932807342 |
Concentrating primarily within the period of 1600–1839, this narrative describes the first "Old West"—the land just beyond the crest of the Appalachian Mountains—and the many firsts that occurred there.
Author | : Bob Drury |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2021-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250247144 |
The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street Journal The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power—Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the thirteen colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.
Author | : Roy V. Coleman |
Publisher | : New York : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
"...All up and down the coast, from Florida to Maine, men and women had lived and died, worked and loitered, sacrificed and sinned, succeeded and failed, and their acts and thoughts had made America what it became" -- Pref.
Author | : R. V. Coleman |
Publisher | : Castle Books |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2009-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780785820819 |
Coleman delves into the minute details of every day life of the early settlers.
Author | : Joel Garreau |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307801942 |
First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.
Author | : John Grenier |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2005-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139444705 |
This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.
Author | : Nancy Reagin |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609387902 |
Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history.