The Rediscovery Of North America
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Author | : Barry Lopez |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2011-09-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0307806464 |
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's legacy while taking the first steps toward its redemption. Even as he draws a direct line between the atrocities of Spanish conquistadors and the ongoing pillage of our lands and waters, Barry Lopez challenges us to adopt an ethic that will make further depredations impossible. The Rediscovery of North America is a ringingly persuasive call for us, at long last, to make this country our home.
Author | : Barry Lopez |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 1992-09-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0679740996 |
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's legacy while taking the first steps toward its redemption. Even as he draws a direct line between the atrocities of Spanish conquistadors and the ongoing pillage of our lands and waters, Barry Lopez challenges us to adopt an ethic that will make further depredations impossible. The Rediscovery of North America is a ringingly persuasive call for us, at long last, to make this country our home.
Author | : Barry Holstun Lopez |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813117423 |
Argues that the Spanish discovery of the Americas led to the presumption that one is due wealth from the territory, an attitude also common among English-speaking settlers, and advocates a rediscovery of the land as a home
Author | : Barry Holstun Lopez |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781417718757 |
Five hundred years after Columbus' landing in America, the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and Crossing Open Ground delivers a devastating assessment of the explorer's legacy and takes the first step toward its redemption.
Author | : E.C. Pielou |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226668096 |
The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.
Author | : Marianne Mithun |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2001-06-07 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1107392802 |
This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Author | : Sofus Larsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Harrisse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Patterson Cumming |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sean Rafferty |
Publisher | : Univ Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781621906308 |
"This book discusses the cultural significance that narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens had on prehistoric societies, whether used for ritual, medicinal, or even recreational purposes. Rafferty notes that prehistoric intoxicants can be found in sites ranging throughout North America, and their use, though varied, presents a near-universal human disposition toward the use of drugs to achieve certain social and spiritual goals and states of consciousness"--