The Frontier Complex
Title | The Frontier Complex PDF eBook |
Author | Kyle J. Gardner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2021-01-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108840590 |
Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.
The Frontier in American Culture
Title | The Frontier in American Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Richard White |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 145 |
Release | 1994-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520915321 |
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians—and bloody battles—at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity. Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices—those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American. Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.
The Frontier Effect
Title | The Frontier Effect PDF eBook |
Author | Teo Ballvé |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Colombia |
ISBN | 9781501747533 |
"This book disputes the commonly held view that Colombia's armed conflict is a result of state absence or failure, providing broader lessons about the real drivers of political violence in war-torn areas"--
Heroes of the Frontier
Title | Heroes of the Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Eggers |
Publisher | Knopf Canada |
Total Pages | 357 |
Release | 2016-07-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0735272468 |
A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization. A tremendous new novel from the bestselling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.
The First Frontier
Title | The First Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Weidensaul |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 501 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Modern dance |
ISBN | 0151015155 |
Class and Community in Frontier Colorado
Title | Class and Community in Frontier Colorado PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hogan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
'A significant contribution to historical sociology that shows how economic/class relations within frontier communities determined the shape of the political system.' -Scott G. McNall
Kant on the Frontier
Title | Kant on the Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Bennington |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-05-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 082327599X |
A philosophical exploration of Kant’s writings on teleology, history, and politics and how the concept of the frontier shapes—and complicates—his thought. At a time when all borders, boundaries, and limits are being challenged, erased, or reinforced—often violently—we must rethink the concept of frontier. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading of Kant, philosopher Geoffrey Bennington casts doubt upon the conceptual coherence of borders. The frontier is both the central element of Kant’s thought and the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Bennington brings out the frontier’s complex, abyssal, fractal structure that leaves a residue of violence in every frontier and complicates Kant’s most rational arguments in the direction of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace. Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking about the frontier is both essential and a recurrent, fruitful, interruption.