Taming The Wilderness
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Author | : Assoc Prof Patrick Fuliang Shan |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1409463893 |
For most of its rule, the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) - whose historical homeland was in Heilongjiang - enforced a policy that prohibited Chinese immigration and settlement and maintained the region’s reputation as the Great Northern Wilderness. Covering the period between the reversal of the anti-immigration policy in 1900 and the Japanese annexation of Heilongjiang into their Manchuko state in 1931, this book investigates a territory undergoing rapid and sustained change, and adds to the on-going scholarly interest in border and frontier studies.
Author | : Anne Allingham |
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Release | : 2002 |
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Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Ashern (Man.) |
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Author | : Anne Allingham |
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Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Willard Sunderland |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501703242 |
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to the north. For the emperors and empresses of imperial Russia, it was a land of boundless economic promise and a marker of national cultural prowess. By the mid-nineteenth century the steppe, once so alien and threatening, had emerged as an essential, if complicated, symbol of Russia itself.Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by a colorful array of administrators, Cossack adventurers, Orthodox missionaries, geographers, foreign entrepreneurs, peasants, and (by the late nineteenth century) tourists and conservationists. Sunderland's approach to history is comparative throughout, and his comparisons of the steppe with the North American case are especially telling.Taming the Wild Field eloquently expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion.
Author | : Pam Allyn |
Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1425835325 |
This professional resource equips K-12 students with the skills they need to be critical readers in the 21st century. Today's reader is reading across multiple genres, on phones and tablets, with text in hand, and also online, and this helpful book provides educators with techniques on how to teach students to read on every platform and in every genre, to struggle with text, and to break through to new ideas when reading text. It focuses on the habits that students must form in order to gain the confidence to access all texts across all platforms. Each chapter is devoted to developing the five habits for successful reading: reading closely, widely, critically, deeply, and purposefully. Grounded in the latest research, the easy-to-implement strategies and instructional methods will help students cultivate strong reading skills in the 21st century classroom.
Author | : M. Kat Anderson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2005-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520933109 |
A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation. John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.
Author | : Donald F. Winegarner |
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Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Minnesota |
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Author | : Margaret Sanborn |
Publisher | : Homestead Pub |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1993-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780943972176 |
Author | : Hiram M. Drache |
Publisher | : Hobar Publications |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813429274 |
This book is an account of one of the most isolated frontiers in the lower forty-eight states where many people came to exploit the public domain and then left. Legitimate homesteaders came, settled, and to a large extent failed, while thousands of lumberjacks toiled to harvest nature's bounty.