At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth

At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth
Title At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth PDF eBook
Author William Irwin Thompson
Publisher SteinerBooks
Pages 484
Release 1990
Genre History
ISBN 9780940262324

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Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.

Listening on the Edge

Listening on the Edge
Title Listening on the Edge PDF eBook
Author Mark Cave
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 321
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 0199859310

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.

History on the Edge

History on the Edge
Title History on the Edge PDF eBook
Author Michelle R. Warren
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 326
Release 2000
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780816634910

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Written from a post-colonial North American perspective, this study considers the ways in which medieval British writers, in the wake of the Norman Conquest, used Arthurian historiography to reflect their fears about `colonial contamination' and about borders in general. The first half of the study examines the presentation of British history in works written on the Anglo-Welsh border. Warren then examines literature from the continent to look at British history from a Norman perspective. Parts of this study have been previously published.

On The Edge

On The Edge
Title On The Edge PDF eBook
Author Carl H Nightingale
Publisher Basic Books
Pages 288
Release 1995-01-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780465052196

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Filled with fascinating insights into the collective emotional life of inner-city kids, this book is also a highly original history of the erosion of urban community life since World War II.

Santa Monica

Santa Monica
Title Santa Monica PDF eBook
Author Paula A. Scott
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 164
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9780738524696

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An icon of Southern California and one of America's most imaginative and vibrant cities--the fitting destination at the end of Route 66--Santa Monica lies on the brink of the West and is known throughout the nation for its beaches and its Hollywood A-list locals With a foundation built by the Gabrielino Indians and molded by Spanish and Mexican land grants, railroad battles, and a constant influx of settlers, Santa Monica became an oceanside haven for actors and airplane companies, road races and ranchers.

The Island Edge of America

The Island Edge of America
Title The Island Edge of America PDF eBook
Author Tom Coffman
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 444
Release 2003-02-28
Genre History
ISBN 9780824826628

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In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawaii carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawaii of complex and conflicting identities--independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation--a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place. With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawaii's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.

The Place with No Edge

The Place with No Edge
Title The Place with No Edge PDF eBook
Author Adam Mandelman
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 343
Release 2020-04-08
Genre History
ISBN 0807173193

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In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people’s use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with—rather than independence from—the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with—and vulnerable to—it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system’s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming’s rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans’ relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment—whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable —inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.