Author: Natale A. Zappia File Type: pdf The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century. But as Natale A. Zappia argues in this expansive study, the Colorado River basin must be understood first as home to a complex Indigenous world. Through 300 years of western colonial settlement, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans all encountered vast Indigenous borderlands peopled by Mojaves, Quechans, Southern Paiutes, Utes, Yokuts, and others, bound together by political, economic, and social networks. Examining a vast cultural geography including southern California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Sonora, Baja California, and New Mexico, Zappia shows how this interior world pulsated throughout the centuries before and after Spanish contact, solidifying to create an autonomous, interethnic Indigenous space that expanded and adapted to an ever-encroaching global market economy. Situating the Colorado River basin firmly within our understanding of Indian country, Traders and Raiders investigates the borders and borderlands created during this period, connecting the coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds with a vast Indigenous continent. **Review Paints a vivid portrait of a Native-dominated landscape that would otherwise be inaccessible in a history based solely on archival sources.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History Joins a growing shelf of books that has recast the narrative of interior American Indian history and brought about a serious reconsideration of the impact of outsiders on indigenous worlds.--H-Net An important and timely contribution to Borderlands, Indian and Western history provide[s] us with a greater understanding of the contested and colonized spaces of the US-Mexico borderlands.--Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Well researched. . . . A solid contribution to the historiography of Native America.--The Historian Relevant and significant.--CHOICE Makes powerful contributions that add exciting geographies and cultures to an already teeming and complex Southwest borderlands.--Journal of American History Review In Traders and Raiders, Zappia advances the scholarly discussion of indigenous systems of economic and political power separate from systems of colonial European and Euro-American powers. This book expands comparative understandings of indigenous people as independent political actors in narratives of colonialism and imperialism in the Americas.--Juliana Barr, University of Florida Presented with nuance and style, Traders and Raiders picks up geographically where a number of recent award-winning monographs have left off. Going beyond those earlier works, this project is a major contribution to the fields of Native American history, borderlands history, and early California history.--David Igler, University of California, Irvine

Author: Mark Blake File Type: mobi Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums.Now, Mark Blakes superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band, has been fully revised and extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gilmour and Nick Mason with Roger Waters at a London date on his The Wall tour.

Author: Bob Phillips File Type: pdf From Bible quotes and Christian teachings to the words of renowned historical figures, this collection of over 3,800 entries offers wit, wisdom, and an emphasis on practical living. **

Author: Rafey Habib File Type: pdf Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. ullProvides an accessible introduction to modern literary theory and criticism llPlaces various modes of criticism within their historical and intellectual contexts llOffers close readings of some of the major critical texts of the period llExplores the works of a diverse group of 20th-century writers, including Babbitt, Woolf, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zizek, Nussbaum, Negri and Hardt llCovers formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, reader-response criticism, historicism, gender studies, cultural studies, and film theorylulReviewLucid, wide-ranging, erudite and packed with insights, Rafey Habibs survey of modern criticism and theory has something for both the tenderfoot and the old-timer. Students everywhere will find it indispensable.Terry Eagleton, University of ManchesterThose who want to know where literary critics may be going should have this. Times Higher Education SupplementFrom the Back CoverModern Literary Criticism and Theory A History is the most comprehensive account of modern criticism and theory available in the English language. It provides a historical survey of the various modes of literary criticism developed in the twentieth century. It is distinguished from other texts in the field not only by providing the larger historical contexts of modern critical works, but also by engaging in close readings of some of the major and commonly taught texts, offering clear, detailed, and philosophically informed explanations of difficult works.This broadly chronological narrative explores the works of a diverse group of twentieth-century writers from Irving Babbitt and T. S. Eliot through Simone de Beauvoir and Martin Heidegger to Jacques Derrida, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, and Elaine Scarry. It stresses the continuity and connections between the various critical approaches of formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, gender studies, reader-response and reception theory, historicism, cultural studies, and film theory, as well as the new emphases on aestheticism and liberalism. An invaluable resource for students and teachers at all levels, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in modern literature and culture.