More from the Illinois Frontier
Author: Robert Mazrim
Publisher: Illinois Transporatation Archaeological Research Program
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
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Frontier Illinois
Author: James E. Davis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2000-08-22
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780253214065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this major new history of the making of the state, Davis tells a sweeping story of Illinois, from the Ice Age to the eve of the Civil War.
German Pioneers on the American Frontier
Author: Andreas Reichstein
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781574411348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilhelm Wagner (1803-1877), son of Peter Wagner, was born in Dürkheim, Germany. He married Friedericke Odenwald (1812-1893). They had nine children. They emigrated and settled in Illinois. His brother, Julius Wagner (1816-1903) married Emilie M. Schneider (1820-1896). They had seven children. They emigrated and settled in Texas.
French Roots in the Illinois Country
Author: Carl J. Ekberg
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780252069246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Book Prize for the Best Book on Louisiana History, French Roots in the Illinois Country creates an entirely new picture of the Illinois country as a single ethnic, economic, and cultural entity. Focusing on the French Creole communities along the Mississippi River, Carl J. Ekberg shows how land use practices such as medieval-style open-field agriculture intersected with economic and social issues ranging from the flour trade between Illinois and New Orleans to the significance of the different mentalities of French Creoles and Anglo-Americans.
New Philadelphia
Author: Gerald A. McWorter
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780910671170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Philadelphia chronicles the history of a town founded in 1836 in Central Illinois by a freed slave. The book covers the history of the town, the inhabitants, their descendants, and the archeological digs.
Making Space on the Western Frontier
Author: W. Paul Reeve
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0252092260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil recently, most scholarly work on Chinese music in both Chinese and Western languages has focused on genres, musical structure, and general history and concepts, rather than on the musicians themselves. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on individual musicians active in different amateur and professional music scenes in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Chinese communities in Europe. Using biography to deepen understanding of Chinese music, contributors present contextualized portraits of rural folk singers, urban opera singers, literati, and musicians on both geographic and cultural frontiers. Contributors are Nimrod Baranovitch, Rachel Harris, Frank Kouwenhoven, Tong Soon Lee, Peter Micic, Helen Rees, Antoinet Schimmelpenninck, Shao Binsun, Jonathan P. J. Stock, and Bell Yung.
The Middle Ground
Author: Richard White
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1139495682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study.
Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-01-09
Total Pages: 697
ISBN-13: 0253219329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story of these men and women from the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of the frontier. Rohrbough divides his narrative into major time periods designed to establish categories of description and analysis, presenting case studies that focus on the county, the town, the community, and the family, as well as politics and urbanization. He also addresses Spanish, French, and Native American traditions and the anomalous presence of African slaves in the making of this story.
The Urban Frontier
Author: Richard C. Wade
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780252064227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen The Urban Frontier was first published it roused attention because it held that settlers made a concerted effort to bring established institutions and ways to their new country. This differed markedly from the then-dominant Turnerian hypothesis that a culture's identity and behavior was determined by its history and experience in a particular social and physical environment. The Urban Frontier is still considered one of the most important books in urban history. This printing of the now-classic Wade volume features a new introduction by Zane L. Miller.
Fermilab
Author: Lillian Hoddeson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 0226346250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years. Fermilab is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point of view of the people who built and used them for scientific discovery. Focusing on the first two decades of research at Fermilab, during the tenure of the laboratory’s charismatic first two directors, Robert R. Wilson and Leon M. Lederman, the book traces the rise of what they call “megascience,” the collaborative struggle to conduct large-scale international experiments in a climate of limited federal funding. In the midst of this new climate, Fermilab illuminates the growth of the modern research laboratory during the Cold War and captures the drama of human exploration at the cutting edge of science.
