One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark
Author: Colin G. Calloway This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.
Mountain lions sometimes called pumas or cougars were once spread throughout the United States occupying all 48 of the contiguous states By the 1960s though they were almost extinct in central and eastern North America In Mountain Lions of the Black Hills Dr Jonathan A Jenks who along with his team of graduate students has tracked over 200 of these fascinating predators tells the complex story of the big cats lives in the northern Great Plains Jenks reports on mountain lion population dynamics diet nutrition diseases behavior and genetics He explores the impact of a changing prey base on population growth and decline movements within and away from the region and hunting on the species discusses interactions between the cats and livestock and examines local peoples evolving perceptions of mountain lions Throughout Jenks explores how we can balance conservation techniques with the needs of humans Providing a unique look into how a large secretive predator recolonized an isolated region of North America Mountain Lions of the Black Hills is required reading for wildlife professionals A captivating text for anyone struck by the wild majesty of these big cats this book provides invaluable data upon which to make sound management decisions in the Great Plains and beyond
Author: Douglass Shand-Tucci
Following in the footsteps of Boston Bohemia, 18811900, Douglass Shand-Tucci's widely praised portrait of Ralph Adams Cram's early years, this volume tells the story of Cram's later career as one of America's leading cultural figures and most accomplished architects. With his partner Bertram Goodhue, Cram won a number of important commissions, beginning with the West Point competition in 1903. Although an increasingly bitter rivalry with Goodhue would lead to the dissolution of their partnership in 1912, Cram had already begun to strike out on his own. Supervising architect at Princeton, consulting architect at Wellesley, and head of the MIT School of Architecture, he would also design most of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the campus of Rice University, as well as important church and collegiate structures throughout the country. By the 1920s Cram had become a household name, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine. A complex man, Cram was a leading figure in what Shand-Tucci calls a full-fledged homosexual monastery in England, while at the same time married to Elizabeth Read. Their relationship was a complicated one, the effect of which on his children and his career is explored fully in this book. So too is his work as a religious leader and social theorist. Shand-Tucci traces the influence on Cram of such disparate figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Phillips Brooks, Henry Adams, and Ayn Rand. He divides Cram's career into four lifelong quests: medieval, modernist, American, and ecumenical. Some quests may have failed, but in each he left a considerable legacy, ultimately transforming the visual image of American Christianity in the twentieth century. Handsomely illustrated with over 130 photographs and drawings and eight pages of color plates, Ralph Adams Cram can be read on its own or in conjunction with Boston Bohemia, 18811900. Together, the two volumes complete what the Christian Century has described as a superbly researched and captivating biography.
Author: Nick Salvato
Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (197993), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates the series in its economic and industrial contexts, addresses its surprisingly progressive relationship to the American politics of its period, offers close formal interpretations of noteworthy episodes, and unpacks the pleasures of the programs sensuous surfaces. While it has been largely overlooked in studies of 1980s television, Knots Landing nonetheless beat more masculine fare like Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law in the ratings, introduced a novel focus on middle-class lives in melodrama, and launched or revived the careers of its major stars. In this study Salvato investigates the series place in widespread serialization of American primetime television in the early 1980s and the end of network dominance in the early 1990s, along with its unique relationship to Reaganism and glamour, on the one hand, and everydayness and suburbanization, on the other. Salvato also looks at the series in relation to key concepts such as memory, theatricality, identification, quality TV, and stardom. Fans of the series as well as readers interested in popular culture, television history, representations of gender, and constructions of celebrity will find much to enjoy in this volume.
Author: Michel Bock
Au Canada francais, depuis un siecle, la jeunesse s'est donne des institutions et des organismes qui ont represente pour elle autant de lieux de socialisation, de formation et, parfois, de contestation. Bien qu'il s'agisse d'une categorie sociale aux contours flous et mouvants, la jeunesse a participe de plain-pied aux changements sociaux des dernieres decennies, tant au Quebec que parmi les minorites de langue francaise des autres provinces. Cet ouvrage regroupe des textes de nombreux specialistes oeuvrant dans differentes disciplines et propose des pistes permettant de mieux saisir les facteurs qui, dans la francophonie canadienne, ont favorise l'emergence et la definition de la jeunesse comme categorie sociale. Les auteurs abordent des themes touchant a l'experience des jeunes dans le systeme d'enseignement, a l'evolution des relations entre les mouvements de jeunesse du Quebec et d'ailleurs au Canada francais et a leur position sur les grands questions de l'heure, au pays comme a l'etranger.
Author: Janice M. Irvine
How our notions about sexual behavior and sexuality have been influenced by sexology, from its roots in nineteenth century Europe to Kinsey's research to the current Viagra Revolution
Author: Maria Tatar
Franz Anton Mesmer's concept of animal magnetism exercised a profound influence on key European and American thinkers. Mesmer, who saw in his discovery the secret of health, had hoped to recover the harmony between man and nature by harnessing the power of magnetic fluids. In calling attention to the existence of a second self that surfaces in the hypnotic trance, Mesmer made his real contribution and took the first, decisive steps on the road leading to the unconscious. While most critical studies of mesmerism originate in the history of science or medicine, Maria Tatar's book takes a fresh approach by tracing the impact of mesmerism on literature. The author launches her account with a portrait of Mesmer and places his views in the context of eighteenth-century thought. She then explores the significance of Mesmer's ideas and studies their influence on nineteenth-century German, French, and American writers. In conclusion, she examines the ways in which modern authors absorbed and reshaped the mesmerist legacy bequeathed to them by earlier generations. Whether discussing the electrical energy vibrating through Kleist's dramas, the electrical heat radiating from Hoffmann's figures, the streams of magnetic fluid coursing through Balzac's novels, or the magnetic chain of humanity linking Hawthorne's characters, Professor Tatar recaptures the meaning of ideas, motifs, and metaphors often overlooked by literary critics. Her study illuminates, in a remarkable way, the subtle connections between science, psychology, and literature.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Edited by A. N. Cox, W. C. Livingston, and M. S. Matthews
Observational data derived from the worlds largest solar telescopes are correlated with theoretical discussions in nuclear and atomic physics by contributors representing a wide range of interests in solar research.
Author: Margaret Seguin
An archival and ethnographic account of Coast Tsimshian feast traditions with emphasis on their role as forms of discourse shaped by idiosyncratic textual conventions.
Author: Brian O. K. Reeves
This report constitutes a statement on the progress of archaeological salvage operations at a number of important archaeological sites situated in the vicinity of Crowsness Lake in southwestern Alberta. These sites, endangered by highway construction, have provided important information about the 8,000 year occupation history of this region.