1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452664803321

Autore

Bergmann William H. <1975->

Titolo

The American national state and the early West / / William H. Bergmann [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-88857-9

1-139-57943-6

1-139-57341-1

1-139-56905-8

1-139-05838-X

1-139-57261-X

1-139-57086-2

1-283-63862-2

1-139-56995-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

970.01

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Northwest, Old - Government relations

Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley - Government relations

United States Territorial expansion History 18th century

United States Territorial expansion History 19th century

United States Territorial expansion Government policy

Northwest, Old Economic policy

Ohio River Valley Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Property war -- Martial economies -- A bordered land -- Webs of commerce -- The national state in Indian country -- Bureaucratic expansionism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book challenges the widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic. William H. Bergmann reveals how the federal government used its fiscal and military powers, as well as bureaucratic authority, to enhance land acquisitions, promote



infrastructure development and facilitate commerce and communication in the early trans-Appalachian West. Energetic federal state-building efforts prior to 1815 grew from national state security interests as Native Americans and British imperial designs threatened to unravel the republic. White Westerners and Western state governments partnered with the federal government to encourage commercial growth and emigration, to transform the borderland into a bordered land. Taking a regional approach, this work synthesizes the literatures of social history, political science and economic history to provide a new narrative of American expansionism, one that takes into account the unique historical circumstances in the Ohio Valley and the southern Great Lakes.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495885803321

Autore

Raheja Gloria Goodwin <1950->

Titolo

Listen to the heron's words : reimagining gender and kinship in North India / / Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1994

ISBN

0-520-91421-X

0-585-10443-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxvii, 234 pages) : illustrations, map

Disciplina

398.2/0954/2

Soggetti

Folk literature, Indic - India - Uttar Pradesh

Folk literature, Indic - India - Rajasthan

Women - India

Sex role - India

Folklore

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Rajasthan (India) Social life and customs

Uttar Pradesh (India) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Sommario/riassunto

In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words-and women's expressive genres more generally-criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are compelling and consequential for the women in North India.The songs and narratives bear witness to a provocative cultural dissonance embedded in women's speech. This book reveals the power of these critical commentaries and the fluid and permeable boundaries between spoken words and the lives of ordinary village women.