Mitchell Witnesses to a Vanishing America

The Nineteenth-Century Response
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5615-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America's westward mission. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, Lee Clark Mitchell portrays the growing apprehensions

Originally published in 1981.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitchell, Lee Clark

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. ix
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi
PREFACE, pg. xiii
ONE. From Landscape to Culture, Preservation to Critique, pg. 1
TWO. The Vanishing Wilderness, pg. 23
THREE. Preserving Frontier History, pg. 65
FOUR. George Catlin's Mission, pg. 93
FIVE. Indians and Image Catchers, pg. 111
SIX. Their Tribal Lore Preserved, pg. 151
SEVEN. Melville's Cannibals and Christians, pg. 189
EIGHT. Toward Cultural Relativism, pg. 213
NINE. Weighed, Measured, and Found Wanting, pg. 253
TEN. Epilogue, pg. 269
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 281
INDEX, pg. 313