American Confluence

American Confluence
Title American Confluence PDF eBook
Author Stephen Aron
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 342
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 9780253346919

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A bold new history of Missouri--the region where the American West begins.

Confluence Narratives

Confluence Narratives
Title Confluence Narratives PDF eBook
Author Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 315
Release 2016-10-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611487560

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Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas explores how a collection of contemporary novels calls attention to the impact of ethnicity on national identities in the Americas. These historical narratives portray the cultural encounters—the conflicts and alliances, peaceful borrowings and violent seizures—that have characterized the history of the American continents since the colonial period. In the second half of the twentieth century, North and South American readers have witnessed a steady output of novels that revisit moments of cultural confluence as a means of revising national histories. Confluence Narratives proposes that these historical novels, published in such places as Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, and Canada, make up a key literary genre in the Americas. The genre links the various parts of the hemisphere together through three common historical experiences: colonization, slavery, and immigration. Luciano Tosta demonstrates how numerous texts from the United States, Canada, Spanish America, the Caribbean, and Brazil fall into the genre. The book focuses on four case studies from ethnic groups in the Americas: Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Jewish Americans, and Japanese Americans. Tosta uses the experience of the American nations as a springboard to problematize the concept of the contemporary nation, an identity marked by border-crossings and other experiences of deterritorialization. Based on the exploration of “confluence narratives,” Tosta argues that the “contemporary” nation is not as contemporary as one may think. Informed by postcolonial theory and transnational and ethnic studies, this book offers an important comparative study for and of inter-American literature. Its analysis of the representation of cultural encounters within distinctive national histories underscores the complex nature of ‘otherness’ in the Americas, as well as the inherently transcultural aspect of a trans-continental American identity.

Building an American Empire

Building an American Empire
Title Building an American Empire PDF eBook
Author Paul Frymer
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 311
Release 2017-05-02
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1400885353

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How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how the government's regulation of population movements on the frontier, both settlement and removal, advanced national aspirations for empire and promoted the formation of a white settler nation. Building an American Empire details how a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the movement of populations. At times, the government mobilized populations for compact settlement in strategically important areas of the frontier; at other times, policies were designed to actively restrain settler populations in order to prevent violence, international conflict, and breakaway states. Paul Frymer examines how these settlement patterns helped construct a dominant racial vision for America by incentivizing and directing the movement of white European settlers onto indigenous and diversely populated lands. These efforts were hardly seamless, and Frymer pays close attention to the failures as well, from the lack of further expansion into Latin America to the defeat of the black colonization movement. Building an American Empire reveals the lasting and profound significance government settlement policies had for the nation, both for establishing America as dominantly white and for restricting broader aspirations for empire in lands that could not be so racially engineered.

Before Dred Scott

Before Dred Scott
Title Before Dred Scott PDF eBook
Author Anne Twitty
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 301
Release 2016-10-31
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1107112060

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An analysis of slave and slaveholder understanding and manipulation of formal legal systems in the region known as the American Confluence during the antebellum era.

American River Pump Station Project

American River Pump Station Project
Title American River Pump Station Project PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 872
Release 2002
Genre
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A B C Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide ...

A B C Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide ...
Title A B C Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide ... PDF eBook
Author New England Railway Publishing Company
Publisher
Pages 976
Release 1906
Genre Postal service
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Confluence

Confluence
Title Confluence PDF eBook
Author Zak Podmore
Publisher Torrey House Press
Pages 118
Release 2019-10-08
Genre Nature
ISBN 1948814099

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"Podmore's essays resemble Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau with an extra dose of social, racial and political analysis." —ARIZONA DAILY SUN In the wake of his river–running mother's death, Zak Podmore explores the healing power of wild places through a lens of grief and regeneration. Visceral, first–person narratives include a canoe crossing of the Colorado River delta during a rare release of water, a kayak sprint down a flash–flooding Little Colorado River, and a packraft trip on the Elwha River in Washington through the largest dam removal project in history. Award–winning journalist and film producer ZAK PODMORE covers conservation issues, outdoor sports, and Utah politics. He is a Report for America fellow at the Salt Lake Tribune and editor–at–large for Canoe & Kayak magazine. His work appears in Outside, High Country News, Four Corners Free Press, and the Huffington Post. He lives in Bluff, Utah.