LaDow The Medicine Line

Life and Death on a North American Borderland
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-29608-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in which ironies are explored, patterns of deed and response are uncovered, examined and evaluated.Beth Ladow is a compelling stylist who writes with warmth and insight, and she has given us a smart book, which will help us understand one another, and a good read. We need more books like this one. -- William Kittredge, Author of THE NATURE OF GENOROSITY(knopf,2000)

Autoren/Hrsg.

LaDow, Beth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Invisible Border
Prologue: Through the Looking Glass
1. Drawing the Line
2. The "Melting Pot of Hell"
3. When the Line Had Medicine
4.The Mountie, the Maiden, and the General
5. If You Build It, Will They Come?
6. Which Side Are You On?
7. A living or a Way of Life?
8.What Are We Fighting For?
9. The Cosmopolitan Throng"
10. Nature's "Incivilities"
11."We Can Play Baseball on the Other Side"
Epilogue: Wallace Stegner and the North American West
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Notes and Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Beth Ladow earned her M.A. in History at Harvard University and her Ph.D. at Brandeis and is now and independent scholar and writer. She is a commentator for National Public Radio in Boston and lives in Winchester, Massachusetts.