The Course of Empire
Title | The Course of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Augustine De Voto |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Pages | 647 |
Release | 1988-11-01 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN | 9780395510148 |
The third volume of a monumental trilogy of the West by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard De Vito is a dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration in North America. "A permanent contribution to history".--Kirkus Reviews.
The Course of Empire
Title | The Course of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Flint |
Publisher | Baen Publishing Enterprises |
Pages | 738 |
Release | 2003-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1618243977 |
WOULD THEY DESTROY EARTH IN ORDER TO SAVE IT Conquered by the Jao twenty years ago, the Earth is shackled under alien tyranny¾and threatened by the even more dangerous Ekhat, who are sending a genocidal extermination fleet to the solar system. Humanity's only chance rests with an unusual pair of allies: a young Jao prince, newly arrived to Terra to assume his duties, and a young human woman brought up amongst the Jao occupiers. But both are under pressure from the opposing forces¾a cruel Jao viceroy on one side, determined to drown all opposition in blood; a reckless human resistance on the other, perfectly prepared to shed it. Added to the mix is the fact that only by adopting some portions of human technology and using human sepoy troops can the haughty Jao hope to defeat the oncoming Ekhat attack¾and then only by fighting the battle within the Sun itself. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Westward
Title | Westward PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Ruwedel |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Landscape |
ISBN | 9780300141344 |
A collection of photographs taken of abandoned railroad lines, built since 1869, landforms and ruins created by the railroads including cuts, grades, collapsed tunnels and derelict trestles.
William Tryon and the Course of Empire
Title | William Tryon and the Course of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Paul David Nelson |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807819173 |
William Tryon's role in the affairs of British America during the last years of the empire, and his inability to stem the collapse of that empire, makes for a fascinating story. Royal governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 and then of New York from
The Course of Empire
Title | The Course of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard De Voto |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 694 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780395924983 |
Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.
Ed Ruscha
Title | Ed Ruscha PDF eBook |
Author | Tom McCarthy |
Publisher | National Gallery London |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781857096323 |
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at The National Gallery, London, 11th June-7th October 2018.
Thomas Cole's Journey
Title | Thomas Cole's Journey PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2018-01-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1588396401 |
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) is celebrated as the greatest American landscape artist of his generation. Though previous scholarship has emphasized the American aspects of his formation and identity, never before has the British-born artist been presented as an international figure, in direct dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age. Thomas Cole’s Journey emphasizes the artist’s travels in England and Italy from 1829 to 1832 and his crucial interactions with such painters as Turner and Constable. For the first time, it explores the artist’s most renowned paintings, The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire cycle (1834–36), as the culmination of his European experiences and of his abiding passion for the American wilderness. The four essays in this lavishly illustrated catalogue examine how Cole’s first-hand knowledge of the British industrial revolution and his study of the Roman Empire positioned him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States, the ecological and economic changes then underway, and the dangers that faced the young nation. A detailed chronology of Cole’s life, focusing on his European tour, retraces the artist’s travels as documented in his journals, letters, and sketchbooks, providing new insight into his encounters and observations. With discussions of over seventy works by Cole, as well as by the artists he admired and influenced, this book allows us to view his work in relation to his European antecedents and competitors, demonstrating his major contribution to the history of Western art.