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Author : Laurence A. Cole Ph.D.
Release : 2013-01-04
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 831/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis America's Great Southwest by : Laurence A. Cole Ph.D.
Download or read book America's Great Southwest written by Laurence A. Cole Ph.D.. This book was released on 2013-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is either a coffee table book or travel guide, using pictures to help you choose your travel destination.
Author : Stewart Edward White
Release : 1912
Genre : Southwest, New
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Book Synopsis Beautiful America IV by : Stewart Edward White
Download or read book Beautiful America IV written by Stewart Edward White. This book was released on 1912. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Shoumatoff
Release : 2013-07-17
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Legends of the American Desert by : Alex Shoumatoff
Download or read book Legends of the American Desert written by Alex Shoumatoff. This book was released on 2013-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his brilliant reportage ranging from the forested recesses of the Amazon to the manicured lawns of Westchester County, New York, Alex Shoumatoff has won acclaim as one of our most perceptive guides to the oddest corners of the earth. Now, with this book, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey into the most complex and myth-laden region of the American landscape and imagination. In this amazing narrative, Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. Beginning with his first trip after college across the desert in a station wagon, some twenty-five years ago, he surveys the boundless variety of people and experiences constituting the place--the idea--that has become America's symbol and last redoubt of the "Other. From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being who have staked their claim in the Southwest, making it a haven for every brand of refugee, fugitive, and utopian. And as he ventures across time and space, blending many genres--history, anthropology, natural science, to name only a few--he brings us a wealth of information on chile addiction, the diffusion of horses, the formation of the deserts and mountain ranges, the struggles of the Navajo to preserve their culture, and countless other aspects of this place we think we know. Full of profound sympathy and unique insights, Legends of the American Desert is a superbly rich epic of fact and reflection destined to take its place among such classics of regional portraiture as Ian Frazier's Great Plains. Alex Shoumatoff has created an exuberant celebration of a singularly American reality.
Author : Elna S. Bakker
Release : 1972
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Great Southwest by : Elna S. Bakker
Download or read book The Great Southwest written by Elna S. Bakker. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southwest as never seen before...
Author : Keith L. Bryant
Release : 2014-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Culture in the American Southwest by : Keith L. Bryant
Download or read book Culture in the American Southwest written by Keith L. Bryant. This book was released on 2014-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of "high culture" in the Southwest. Humans create culture, but in the Southwest, Bryant argues, the land itself has also influenced that creation. "Incredible light, natural grandeur, . . . and a geography at once beautiful and yet brutal molded societies that sprang from unique cultural sources." The peoples of the American Southwest share a regional consciousness—an experience of place—that has helped to create a unified, but not homogenized, Southwestern culture. Bryant also examines a paradox of Southwestern cultural life. Southwesterners take pride in their cultural distinctiveness, yet they struggled to win recognition for their achievements in "high culture." A dynamic tension between those seeking to re-create a Western European culture and those desiring one based on regional themes and resources continues to stimulate creativity. Decade by decade and city by city, Bryant charts the growth of cultural institutions and patronage as he describes the contributions of artists and performers and of the elites who support them. Bryant focuses on the significant role women played as leaders in the formation of cultural institutions and as writers, artists, and musicians. The text is enhanced by more than fifty photographs depicting the interplay between the people and the land and the culture that has resulted.
