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From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
Autore Hallock Thomas
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina 973/.07/2
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Historiography
Environmental policy - United States - History
Environmental policy - West (U.S.) - History
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8078-6165-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910450702903321
Hallock Thomas  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
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From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
From the fallen tree [[electronic resource] ] : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
Autore Hallock Thomas
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina 973/.07/2
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Historiography
Environmental policy - United States - History
Environmental policy - West (U.S.) - History
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
ISBN 979-88-908773-7-6
0-8078-6165-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910777593903321
Hallock Thomas  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
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From the fallen tree : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
From the fallen tree : frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / / Thomas Hallock
Autore Hallock Thomas
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina 973/.07/2
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) - Historiography
Environmental policy - United States - History
Environmental policy - West (U.S.) - History
Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
ISBN 979-88-908773-7-6
0-8078-6165-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes -- Chronology -- Introduction: Closing the Wilderness, Opening the Frontier -- Meliorem Lapsa Locavit -- Ideas of Nature -- Notes -- Part I. The Western Text -- 1. The Imagined West: Lewis Evans -- A Path Taken Together: Lewis Evans and the Iroquois -- Lewis Evans and the Imagined West -- Thomas Pownall: Revising the Imagined West -- Conclusion: Natives, Nature, and Imperial Geography -- Notes -- 2. The Contested West: John Wilson's Kentucke -- Nature, Nation, and Natural History -- Daniel Boone and the Captive Environment -- Conclusion: ''Avail Yourselves of the Benefits of Nature'' -- Notes -- Part II. Improvement -- 3. Textual Boundaries, Discursive Control: Stories of the Land in the Susquehanna Valley -- ''Mammy Where Are We Going?'': The Limits of Frontier Prose in ''Susquehannah'' -- The ''Wyomen'' of Treaty Literature -- Notes -- 4. Jefferson's Nature and the Trans-Appalachian West: Notes on the State of Virginia -- Ideological Geography and the Disappearing West -- Jefferson, Logan, and the Vanishing Native -- Conclusion: ''Wherefore the Forgery?'' -- Notes -- Part III. Protégés -- 5. Collaboration, Incorporation, and Environmental Discourse: Lewis and Clark, Jane Colden -- Was That a Hoh-host or a Yâck-kâh? -- Fractures in an Imperial Narrative -- Collaboration, Incorporation, Triangulation -- Jane Colden and the Charleston Network -- Alexander Garden's Trip to the Cherokee Mountains -- Notes -- 6. On the Borders of a New World: William Bartram's Travels -- Four Ways of Looking at a Sinkhole: The Construction of a Literary Natural History -- Transformations, Personal and Political -- Four Views of the Alachua Savanna: The Ideological Work of Travels -- Notes -- Part IV. Settlement & -- Appropriation -- 7. Reversing the Revolution through Nature: Anne Grant, Timothy Dwight.
Anne Grant's Colonial Ecology -- Marking Change, Registering Loss: Timothy Dwight's Travels -- The Roots of a Pastoral -- Notes -- 8. Disappearance and Romance: Cooper's The Pioneers -- Nature, Nostalgia, and Native Americans -- Romancing the Contact Zone -- ''This, Then, Is Thy Indian Blood?'': Becoming Native to Place -- Nostalgia, Guilt, and Nation Building -- Notes -- Coda: Parallel Republics -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-C -- D-F -- G-L -- M-P -- R-Y.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910820813303321
Hallock Thomas  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
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Historians against history [[electronic resource] ] : the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 / / [by] David W. Noble
Historians against history [[electronic resource] ] : the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 / / [by] David W. Noble
Autore Noble David W
Pubbl/distr/stampa Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]
Descrizione fisica 197 p
Disciplina 973.01
Soggetto topico Frontier thesis
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8166-5838-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910451382803321
Noble David W  
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]
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Historians against history : the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 / / David W. Noble
Historians against history : the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 / / David W. Noble
Autore Noble David W
Pubbl/distr/stampa Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]
Descrizione fisica 197 pages
Disciplina 973.01
Soggetto topico Frontier thesis
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
ISBN 0-8166-5838-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910781913903321
Noble David W  
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]
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Historians against history : the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 / / David W. Noble
Historians against history : the frontier thesis and the national covenant in American historical writing since 1830 / / David W. Noble
Autore Noble David W
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]
Descrizione fisica 197 pages
Disciplina 973.01
Soggetto topico Frontier thesis
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
ISBN 0-8166-5838-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 1 FLIGHT FROM FEUDALISM: THE NEW WORLD AND THE PURITAN COVENANT -- 2 GEORGE BANCROFT: NATURE AND THE FULFILLMENT OF THE COVENANT -- 3 FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER: THE MACHINE AND THE LOSS OF THE COVENANT -- 4 CHARLES A. BEARD: INDUSTRIALISM AND THE COVENANT RESTORED -- 5 CARL BECKER: EUROPE AND THE ROOTS OF THE COVENANT -- 6 VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON: THE COVENANT AND THE JEFFERSONIAN JEREMIAD -- 7 BEARD: THE COVENANT THREATENED BY INSTITUTIONAL POWER -- 8 BECKER: THE COVENANT REPLACED BY CIVILIZATION -- 9 DANIEL BOORSTIN: BLACKSTONE AND THE CONSERVATION OF THE AMERICAN COVENANT -- 10 THE END OF THE COVENANT AND THE BEGINNING OF AMERICAN HISTORY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910809377203321
Noble David W  
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]
Materiale a stampa
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Seasons of misery : catastrophe and colonial settlement / / Kathleen Donegan
Seasons of misery : catastrophe and colonial settlement / / Kathleen Donegan
Autore Donegan Kathleen
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina 973
Collana Early American Studies
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8122-2377-2
0-8122-0914-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Unsettlement -- Chapter 1. Roanoke: Left in Virginia -- Chapter 2. Jamestown: Things That Seemed Incredible -- Chapter 3. Plymouth: Scarce Able to Bury Their Dead -- Chapter 4. Barbados: Wild Extravagance -- Afterword: Standing Half-Amazed -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr. UNINA-9910464946103321
Donegan Kathleen  
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
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Seasons of misery : catastrophe and colonial settlement / / Kathleen Donegan
Seasons of misery : catastrophe and colonial settlement / / Kathleen Donegan
Autore Donegan Kathleen
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina 973
Collana Early American Studies
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - History
Soggetto non controllato American History
American Studies
ISBN 0-8122-2377-2
0-8122-0914-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Unsettlement -- Chapter 1. Roanoke: Left in Virginia -- Chapter 2. Jamestown: Things That Seemed Incredible -- Chapter 3. Plymouth: Scarce Able to Bury Their Dead -- Chapter 4. Barbados: Wild Extravagance -- Afterword: Standing Half-Amazed -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr. UNINA-9910789470603321
Donegan Kathleen  
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
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Seasons of misery : catastrophe and colonial settlement / / Kathleen Donegan
Seasons of misery : catastrophe and colonial settlement / / Kathleen Donegan
Autore Donegan Kathleen
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina 973
Collana Early American Studies
Soggetto topico Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - History
Soggetto non controllato American History
American Studies
ISBN 0-8122-2377-2
0-8122-0914-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Unsettlement -- Chapter 1. Roanoke: Left in Virginia -- Chapter 2. Jamestown: Things That Seemed Incredible -- Chapter 3. Plymouth: Scarce Able to Bury Their Dead -- Chapter 4. Barbados: Wild Extravagance -- Afterword: Standing Half-Amazed -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr. UNINA-9910813366703321
Donegan Kathleen  
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
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Writing the pioneer woman [[electronic resource] /] / Janet Floyd
Writing the pioneer woman [[electronic resource] /] / Janet Floyd
Autore Floyd Janet
Pubbl/distr/stampa Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina 818/.08
Soggetto topico American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Historiography
Women immigrants - United States - Biography - History and criticism
Women pioneers - United States - Biography - History and criticism
Immigrants' writings, American - History and criticism
Women and literature - United States - History
Autobiography - Women authors
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8262-6265-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti Pioneer woman
Record Nr. UNINA-9910450369003321
Floyd Janet  
Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2002
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