Narrow your search

Library

Odisee (5)

Thomas More Mechelen (5)

VIVES (5)

LUCA School of Arts (4)

Thomas More Kempen (4)

UCLL (4)

VUB (4)

KU Leuven (2)

UAntwerpen (1)

UGent (1)


Resource type

book (5)


Language

English (5)


Year
From To Submit

2020 (1)

2017 (1)

2013 (1)

2000 (1)

1994 (1)

Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by

Book
Carl the Trailer
Author:
Year: 2017 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Which chosen people? : manifest destiny meets the Sioux as seen by Frank Fiske, frontier photographer
Author:
ISBN: 1628940298 9781628940299 1628940271 9781628940275 162894028X 9781628940282 9781628940275 9781628940282 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Algora Publishing,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The belief in American exceptionalism reached its apex during the 1800's and was expressed as a God-given passport called ""Manifest Destiny"". Among its victims were Native Americans. The Sioux resisted, eventually claiming that Indians, not the whites, were the chosen people. The destruction of Indian culture paved the way for the U.S. empire building. Frank Fiske observed this confrontation firsthand in North Dakota, where Sitting Bull was held, then killed, and Fiske''s photographs enliven his account.


Book
Life of Sitting Bull : History of the Indian War of 1890-91
Author:
ISBN: 1582181993 9781582181998 Year: 2000 Publisher: Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
The last sovereigns : Sitting Bull and the resistance of the free Lakotas
Author:
ISBN: 1496222806 1496220226 9781496222800 9781496222787 1496222784 9781496222794 1496222792 9781496220226 Year: 2020 Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press,

The frontier in American culture : an exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 1283382121 9786613382122 0520915321 0585115508 9780520915329 9780585115504 9780520088436 0520088433 9780520088443 0520088441 0520088433 0520088441 9781283382120 6613382124 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago : Berkeley : Library ; University of California Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians-and bloody battles-at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity.Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices-those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American.Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.

Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by