Author: Rosina Lozano File Type: pdf An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an Americanwith profound implications for our own time. **From the Inside Flap Original and provocative, beautifully written and argued,An American Language tells a story of our nations past that brilliantly illuminates our present that the United States of America was born multilingual.John Mack Faragher, Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus, Yale University In this timely and important book, Rosina Lozano reveals that little is as all-American as the Spanish language. An American Language opens up a whole new way of envisioning the century that followed the U.S.-Mexican War and introduces a powerful new scholarly voice.Karl Jacoby, author of The Strange Career of William Ellis The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire Lozano has given us an original and imaginative story of contests over power, governance, and belonging that places languageand the Spanish language in particularat the center of her analysis. In so doing, she offers a new and rich perspective on the development of the American Southwest since the middle of the nineteenth century, on the deeper meanings of American culture and politics, and on the complex ways in which citizenship is constructed.Steven Hahn, author ofA Nation without Borders The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 18301910 This deeply original history explains how Spanish speakers in the United States interacted with government power in the century after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. An American Language has something novel and urgent to say about identity, pluralism, and the state. Lozano has written an ambitious and important book.Brian DeLay, author of War of a Thousand Deserts Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War This book is a tour de force with powerfully important implications. It definitively refutes reigning assumptions that the United States has always been a monolingual Anglophone nation and that recent and current immigration poses an unprecedented threat through its language diversity. Lozano presents detailed accounts of the historical role of Spanish as a state-sanctioned language and demonstrates how this was an important crucible of identity and power in the U.S. past. An American Language reveals a hidden history of the Spanish language in the United States.George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place About the Author Rosina Lozano is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University.

Author: Mark Healy File Type: pdf A military interpretation of the great clash between Pharaoh Rameses II and the Hittite King Muwatallish, together with the events that led to it. This is the earliest battle in history whose course can be reconstructed in detail, and Healys account is illustrated with photographs of inscriptions, including pictorial reliefs on Egyptian temple walls, and photographs of the battlefield today.

Author: Kristina Bross File Type: pdf Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period Brosss work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and metropolitan England during a period before nation-state identities were hardened into the forms we know them today, when an English empire was nascent, not realized, and when a global perspective such as we might recognize it was just coming into focus for early modern Europeans. The author examines works that imagine England on a global stage in the Americas and East Indies just as--and in some cases even before--England occupied such spaces in force. Future History considers works written from the 1620s to the 1670s, but the center of gravity of Future History is writing at the mid-century, that is, writings coincident with the Interregnum, a time when England plotted and launched ambitious, often violent schemes to conquer, colonize or otherwise appropriate other lands, driven by both mercantile and religious desires. **

Author: Douglas Rushkoff File Type: mobi If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.This is the moment weve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we dont seem to have any time in which to live it. Instead we remain poised and frozen, overwhelmed by an always-on, live-streamed reality that our human bodies and minds can never truly inhabit. And our failure to do so has had wide-ranging effects on every aspect of our lives.People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, compile knowledge, and connect with anyone, at anytime. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed.Well, the futures arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this now is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety present shock.Rushkoff weaves together seemingly disparate events and trends into a rich, nuanced portrait of how life in the eternal present has affected our biology, behavior, politics, and culture. He explains how the rise of zombie apocalypse fiction signals our intense desire for an ending how the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street form two sides of the same post-narrative coin how corporate investing in the future has been replaced by futile efforts to game the stock market in real time why social networks make people anxious and email can feel like an assault. He examines how the tragedy of 911 disconnected an entire generation from a sense of history, and delves into why conspiracy theories actually comfort us.As both individuals and communities, we have a choice. We can struggle through the onslaught of information and play an eternal game of catch-up. Or we can choose to live in the present favor eye contact over texting quality over speed and human quirks over digital perfection. Rushkoff offers hope for anyone seeking to transcend the false now.Absorbing and thought-provoking, Present Shock is a wide-ranging, deeply thought meditation on what it means to be human in real time.ReviewThis is a wondrously thought-provoking book. Unlike other social theorists who either mindlessly decry or celebrate the digital age, Rushkof f explores how it has caused a focus on the immediate moment that can be both disorienting and energizing.Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs Rushkoff gives readers a healthy dose of perspective, insight, and critical analysis thats sure to get minds spinning and tongues wagging.Publishers Weekly (starred review) In this refreshing antidote to promises of digital Utopia, Rushkoff articulates his own well-informed second thoughts. We should pay close attentionwhile we still can.George Dyson, author of Turings Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines If you read one book next year to help you make sense of the present moment, let it be Present Shock.Anthony Wing Kosner, Forbes.com Present Shock holds up new lenses and offers new narratives about what might be happening to us and why, compelling readers to look at the larger repercussions of todays technologically mediated social practices, from texting to checking in with a location-based service, jet-lag to The Simpsons, in new ways.Howard Rheingold, author of *Net Smart A wide-ranging social and cultural critique, Present Shock *artfully weaves through many different materials as it makes its point we are exhilarated, drugged, and consumed by the now. But we need to attend to the future before us and embrace the present in a more constructive way.Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together *With brilliant insight Rushkoff once again gets there early, making us confront the new world of presentismthe shif t in our focus from the future to the present, from the horizon-gazing to the experience of here and now. He points to signs of presentism all around usin how we conduct politics, interact with media, and negotiate relationships.Marina Gorbis, executive director, Institute for the Future*About the AuthorDOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, PH.D., is a world-renowned media theorist whose twelve books, including Life Inc and Program or Be Programmed, have won prestigious awards and have been translated into thirty languages. He is a commentator on CNN and a contributor to the Guardian, Discover, and NPR. He also made the PBS documentaries The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He advocates for digital literacy at Codecademy.com, and teaches at NYU and The New School. He lives in New York with his wife, Barbara, and daughter, Mamie.Visit www.Rushkoff.com