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Old Lands
Author | : Christopher Witmore |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1920-05-07 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0815363435 |
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Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians. Following waters in search of rest through the lens of Lucretian poetics, Witmore reconstitutes an untimely mode of ambulatory writing, chorography, mindful of the challenges we all face in these precarious times. Turning on pressing concerns that arise out of object-oriented encounters, Old Lands ponders the disappearance of an agrarian world rooted in the Neolithic, the transition to urban-styles of living, changes in communication, movement, and metabolism, while opening fresh perspectives on long-term inhabitation, changing mobilities, and appropriation through pollution. Carefully composed with those objects encountered along its varied paths, this book offers an original and wonderous account of a region in twenty-seven segments, and fulfills a longstanding ambition within archaeology to generate a polychronic narrative that stands as a complement and alternative to diachronic history. Old Lands will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and scholars of the Eastern Peloponnese. Those interested in the long-term changes in society, technology and culture across time in this region will find this book captivating.
Old New Land
Author | : Theodor Herzl |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2015-03-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783843035248 |
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Theodor Herzl: Old New Land. (AltNeuLand) First print Leipzig 1902. Translated by Dr. David Simon Blondheim, Federation of American Zionists, 1916 Vollständige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Paul Gauguin, Am Fusse des Berges, 1892. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.
Annual Report
Author | : Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3043065 |
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Alaska Lands
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : National parks and reserves |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112119666078 |
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Report of the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah
Author | : Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105032176682 |
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Annual Report of the Lands and Mines Department
Author | : British Guiana. Department of Lands and Mines |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Guyana |
ISBN | : UCAL:C2627320 |
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Census Reports Tenth Census Report on cotton production in the United States and also embracing agricultural and physico geographical descriptions of the several cotton states and of California
Author | : United States. Census Office |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : CHI:21787519 |
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Promised Lands
Author | : David M. Wrobel |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2002-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780700618231 |
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Whether seen as a land of opportunity or as paradise lost, the American West took shape in the nation's imagination with the help of those who wrote about it; but two groups who did much to shape that perception are often overlooked today. Promoters trying to lure settlers and investors to the West insisted that the frontier had already been tamed-that the only frontiers remaining were those of opportunity. Through posters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and other printed pieces, these boosters literally imagined places into existence by depicting backwater areas as settled, culturally developed regions where newcomers would find none of the hardships associated with frontier life. Quick on their heels, some of the West's original settlers had begun publishing their reminiscences in books and periodicals and banding together in pioneer societies to sustain their conception of frontier heritage. Their selective memory focused on the savage wilderness they had tamed, exaggerating the past every bit as much as promoters exaggerated the present. Although they are generally seen today as unscrupulous charlatans and tellers of tall tales, David Wrobel reveals that these promoters and reminiscers were more significant than their detractors have suggested. By exploring the vast literature produced by these individuals from the end of the Civil War through the 1920s, he clarifies the pivotal impact of their works on our vision of both the historic and mythic West. In examining their role in forging both sense of place within the West and the nation's sense of the West as a place, Wrobel shows that these works were vital to the process of identity formation among westerners themselves and to the construction of a "West" in the national imagination. Wrobel also sheds light on the often elitist, sometimes racist legacies of both groups through their characterizations of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans. In the era Wrobel examines, promoters painted the future of each western place as if it were already present, while the old-timers preserved the past as if it were still present. But, as he also demonstrates, that West has not really changed much: promoters still tout its promise, while old-timers still try to preserve their selective memories. Even relatively recent western residents still tap into the region's mythic pioneer heritage as they form their attachments to place. Promised Lands shows us that the West may well move into the twenty-first century, but our images of it are forever rooted in the nineteenth.