A History of Travel in America [vol. 4]

A History of Travel in America [vol. 4]
Author: Seymour Dunbar
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2008-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1435756274

Volume 4 of 4. Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System.

Highways and Highway Transportation

Highways and Highway Transportation
Author: George R. Chatburn
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

This book's main purpose is to sketch briefly the development of the transportation systems of the United States and to indicate their importance and mutual relations. It also presents some practical methods used in the operation of highway transport.

Critical Bibliography of Religion in America, Volume IV, parts 3, 4, and 5

Critical Bibliography of Religion in America, Volume IV, parts 3, 4, and 5
Author: Nelson Rollin Burr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1400880017

Volume IV (bound as two volumes) provides a critical and descriptive bibliography of religion in American life that is unequalled in any other source. Arranged topically, so that books and articles on a single subject are discussed in relation to each other, and carefully cross-referenced and indexed, it will be an indispensable tool for anyone exploring further into American religion or related subjects. Originally published in 1961. 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.

Global West, American Frontier

Global West, American Frontier
Author: David M. Wrobel
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826353703

"This book examines how travel writers viewed the American West from the age of Manifest Destiny through the Great Depression. In the nineteenth century, the West was often presented as one developing frontier among many; in the twentieth century, travel writers often searched for American frontier distinctiveness"--Provided by publisher"--Provided by publisher.

A History of Travel in America

A History of Travel in America
Author: Seymour Dunbar
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2008-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1435756193

Volume 4 of 4. Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System.

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4
Author: Ronald Spores
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292776047

The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was elected to be general editor. This fourth volume of the Supplement is devoted to colonial ethnohistory. Four of the eleven chapters review research and ethnohistorical resources for Guatemala, South Yucatan, North Yucatan, and Oaxaca, areas that received less attention than the central Mexican area in the original Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources (HMAI vols. 12-15). Six substantive and problem-oriented studies cover the use of colonial texts in the study of pre-colonial Mayan languages; political and economic organization in the valleys of Mexico, Puebla-Tlaxcala, and Morelos; urban-rural relations in the Basin of Mexico; kinship and social organization in colonial Tenochtitlan; tlamemes and transport in colonial central Mexico; and land tenure and titles in central Mexico as reflected in colonial codices.

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4
Author: Victoria Reifler Bricker
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292791739

The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural anthropologist, was elected to be general editor. This fourth volume of the Supplement is devoted to colonial ethnohistory. Four of the eleven chapters review research and ethnohistorical resources for Guatemala, South Yucatan, North Yucatan, and Oaxaca, areas that received less attention than the central Mexican area in the original Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources (HMAI vols. 12-15). Six substantive and problem-oriented studies cover the use of colonial texts in the study of pre-colonial Mayan languages; political and economic organization in the valleys of Mexico, Puebla-Tlaxcala, and Morelos; urban-rural relations in the Basin of Mexico; kinship and social organization in colonial Tenochtitlan; tlamemes and transport in colonial central Mexico; and land tenure and titles in central Mexico as reflected in colonial codices.

The History of Cartography, Volume 4

The History of Cartography, Volume 4
Author: Matthew H. Edney
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 1803
Release: 2020-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022633922X

Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.

On Foot

On Foot
Author: Joseph Amato
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2004-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814705022

In this lively social history, Amato, author of "Dust," tells the large-scale and small-scale stories of what was man's first mode of travel--walking.