Black Widows, Wiseman Blaine

Автор: Harden, Blaine
Название: Murder At The Mission
ISBN: 0525561668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525561668
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West

In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries. But Spalding would succeed as a propagandist, inventing a story that recast his friend as a hero, and helped to fuel the massive westward migration that would eventually lead to the devastation of those they had purportedly set out to save.

As Spalding told it, after uncovering a British and Catholic plot to steal the Oregon Territory from the United States, Whitman undertook a heroic solo ride across the country to alert the President. In fact, he had traveled to Washington to save his own job. Soon after his return, Whitman, his wife, and eleven others were massacred by a group of Cayuse. Though they had ample reason - Whitman supported the explosion of white migration that was encroaching on their territory, and seemed to blame for a deadly measles outbreak - the Cayuse were portrayed as murderous savages. Five were executed.

This fascinating, impeccably researched narrative traces the ripple effect of these events across the century that followed. While the Cayuse eventually lost the vast majority of their territory, thanks to the efforts of Spalding and others who turned the story to their own purposes, Whitman was celebrated well into the middle of the 20th century for having "saved Oregon." Accounts of his heroic exploits appeared in congressional documents, The New York Times, and Life magazine, and became a central founding myth of the Pacific Northwest.

Exposing the hucksterism and self-interest at the root of American myth-making, Murder at the Mission reminds us of the cost of American expansion, and of the problems that can arise when history is told only by the victors.

Автор: Cottrell Robert C., Browne Blaine T.
Название: 1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution
ISBN: 1538107759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538107751
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities more fully than previous books. For a time, it seemed as if anything were possible, that utopian visions could be borne out in the political, cultural, racial, or gender spheres. It was the year of the Tet Offensive, the Resistance, the Ultra-Resistance, the New Politics, Chavez and RFK breaking bread, LBJ's withdrawal, student revolt, barricades in Paris, the Prague Spring, SDS' sharp turn leftward, communes, the American Indian Movement, the Beatles' "Revolution," the Stones' "Street Fighting Man," The Population Bomb, protest at the Miss America pageant, and Black Power at the Mexico City Olympics. 1968 was also the year of My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Warsaw Pact tanks in Czechoslovakia, the police riot in Chicago, the Tlatelolco massacre, Reagan's belated bid, Wallace's American Independent Party campaign, "Love It or Leave It," and the backlash that set the stage, at year's end, for Richard Milhous Nixon's ascendancy to the White House. For those readers reliving 1968 or exploring it for the first time, Cottrell and Browne serve as insightful guides, weaving the events together into a powerful narrative of an America and a world on the brink.

Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Martial Arts
ISBN: 1791100325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791100322
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Цена: 35230.00 T
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Jamaica
ISBN: 1791109101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791109103
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Цена: 36770.00 T
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Republic of Ireland
ISBN: 1791109071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791109073
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Цена: 16040.00 T
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Jamaica
ISBN: 179110911X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791109110
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Republic of Ireland
ISBN: 1791109063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791109066
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Martial Arts
ISBN: 1791105688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791105686
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Цена: 14970.00 T
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Ecologist
ISBN: 1791116760 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791116767
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Ecologist
ISBN: 1791116779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791116774
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Wolf Spiders
ISBN: 1791123058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791123055
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Автор: Wiseman Blaine
Название: Snowmobiling
ISBN: 1791118496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781791118495
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 16040.00 T
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