Adventures of a Ballad Hunter: Sketches
Title | Adventures of a Ballad Hunter: Sketches PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Lomax |
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Release | 1947 |
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Adventures of a ballad hunter
Title | Adventures of a ballad hunter PDF eBook |
Author | John Avery Lomax |
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Pages | 302 |
Release | 1971 |
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I Adventures of a Ballad Hunter- Sketches by Ken Chamberlain
Title | I Adventures of a Ballad Hunter- Sketches by Ken Chamberlain PDF eBook |
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Pages | 302 |
Release | 1947 |
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Portrait of America
Title | Portrait of America PDF eBook |
Author | Jerrold Hirsch |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807854891 |
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring and seemingly permanent questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history-and questions that were ad
"Honey in the Rock"
Title | "Honey in the Rock" PDF eBook |
Author | Olivia Solomon |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780865548275 |
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
Title | The National union catalog, 1968-1972 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 648 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Union catalogs |
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The Making of a History
Title | The Making of a History PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory M. Tobin |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 1976-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0292769431 |
Walter Prescott Webb became one of the best known interpreters of the American West following the publication of The Great Plains in 1931. That book remained one of the outstanding studies of the region for decades and attracted considerable attention over the years for its unusual emphasis on the impact of geographic factors on the process of settlement. Using manuscript sources, some of which had not previously been available, Gregory M. Tobin has traced the elements that went into the planning and writing of The Great Plains and that account for its distinctive approach to the writing of a regional history. Tobin emphasizes two aspects of Webb's life that molded the historian's outlook: his early family life and community connections in West Texas and his admiration for the ideas of scholar Lindley Miller Keasbey. Webb reacted strongly against the assumption that the only cultural values of any real worth emanated from the urban and sophisticated East; he was determined to write the history of his own people in a way that would reveal the scale of their anonymous contribution to American civilization. By reverting to Keasbey's stress on the relationship between natural environment and social institutions, Webb broadened his study to take in what he believed to be a distinct geographic environment. The result was The Great Plains, an assertion of individual and regional identity by a man with a personal stake in establishing the image of a distinctive Plains civilization. Although The Making of a History is not a full biography of Walter Prescott Webb, it is the first biographically oriented study of a man regarded as one of the twentieth century's major western historians. It places his development within the framework of his intellectual and social setting and, in a sense, subjects his career to the same type of scrutiny that he advocated as the basis of the study of evolving cultures.