Liberty Hyde Bailey [[electronic resource] ] : essential agrarian and environmental writings / / edited by Zachary Michael Jack

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789830803321
• Autore: Bailey L. H (Liberty Hyde), <1858-1954.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-8014-5759-9; 0-8014-5883-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): JackZachary Michael <1973->
• Disciplina: 630
• Soggetti: Agriculture; Nature conservation; Environmentalism; Country life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface. Sower and Seer: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings of Liberty Hyde Bailey -- Introducing Sower and Seer, Liberty Hyde Bailey -- I. WORKMANSHIP -- II. CONSCIENCE -- III. EDUCATION -- IV. COMMUNITY -- V. NATURE -- VI. FARM -- VII. POETICS -- VIII. APPRECIATIONS -- IX. CODA, THE AGRARIAN WAY -- Index -- About the Editor
• Sommario/riassunto: "Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her messengers. The light, the dark, the moon, the cloud, the rain, the wind, the falling leaf, the fly, the bouquet, the bird, the cockroach-they are all ours. If one is to be happy, he must be in sympathy with common things. He must live in harmony with his environment. One cannot be happy yonder nor tomorrow: he is happy here and now, or never. Our stock of knowledge of common things should be great. Few of us can travel. We must know the things at home."-from "The Meaning of the Nature-study Movement "To feel that one is a useful and cooperating part in nature is to give one kinship, and to open the mind to the great resources and the high enthusiasms. Here arise the ; fundamental common relations. Here arise also the great emotions and conceptions of sublimity and grandeur, of majesty and awe, the uplift of vast desires-when one contemplates the earth and the universe and desires to take them into the soul and to express oneself in their terms; and here also the responsible practices of life take root."-from "The Holy Earth "Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a revelation, a symbol of the nature-minded agrarianism Berry himself popularized. For Aldo Leopold, Bailey offered a model of the scholar-essayist-naturalist. In his revolutionary work of eco-theology, The Holy Earth, Bailey challenged the anthropomorphism-the people-centeredness-of a vulnerable world. A trained scientist writing in the lyrical tradition of Emerson, Burroughs, and Muir, Bailey offered the twentieth century its first exquisitely interdisciplinary biocentric worldview; this Michigan farmer's son defined the intellectual and spiritual foundations of what would become the environmental movement. For nearly a half century, Bailey dominated matters agricultural, environmental, and scientific in the United States. He worked both to improve the lives of rural folk and to preserve the land from which they earned their livelihood. Along the way, he popularized nature study in U.S. classrooms, lobbied successfully for women's rights on and off the farm, and bulwarked Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservationism. Here for the first time is an anthology of Bailey's most important writings suitable for the general and scholarly reader alike. Carefully selected and annotated by Zachary Michael Jack, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Bailey's celebrated and revolutionary thinking on the urgent environmental, agrarian, educational, and ecospiritual dilemmas of his day and our own. Culled from ten of Bailey's most influential works, these lyrical selections highlight Bailey's contributions to the nature-study and the Country Life movements. Published on the one-hundredth anniversary of Bailey's groundbreaking report on behalf of the Country Life Commission, Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings will inspire a new generation of nature writers, environmentalists, and those who share with Bailey a profound understanding of the elegance and power of the natural world and humanity's place within it.

Indian nation : Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms / / Cheryl Walker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959493803321
• Autore: Walker Cheryl <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durham [N.C.] : , : Duke University Press, , 1997
• ISBN: 9780822319443; 0822319446; 9780822397007; 0822397005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Collana: New Americanists
• Disciplina: 810.9/897; 810.9897
• Soggetti: American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism; Literature and anthropology - United States - History - 19th century; Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Indians of North America - Historiography; National characteristics, American, in literature; Nationalism - United States - History - 19th century; Indians of North America - Intellectual life; Ethnic relations in literature; Nationalism in literature; Indians in literature; United States Civilization Indian influences
• 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 (pages [239]-247) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The subject of America: the outsider inside -- Writing Indians -- The irony and mimicry of William Apess -- Black Hawk and the moral force of transposition -- The terms of George Copway's surrender -- John Rollin Ridge and the law -- Sarah Winnemucca's meditations: gender, race, and nation -- Personifying America: Apess's "Eulogy on King Philip" -- Native American literature and nineteenth-century ; nationalisms -- Appendix: "The red man's rebuke".
• Sommario/riassunto: Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how whites experienced indigenous peoples, but how Native Americans envisioned the United States as a nation. This project unfolds a narrative of participatory resistance in which Indians themselves sought to transform the discourse of nationhood.; Walker examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca. Demonstrating with unique detail how these authors worked to transform venerable myths and icons of American identity, Indian Nation chronicles Native American participation in the forming of an American nationalism in both published texts and speeches that were delivered throughout the United States. Pottawattomie Chief Simon Pokagon's "The Red Man's Rebuke," an important document of Indian oratory, is published here in its entirety for the first time since 1893.