John Mack Faragher
Auteur van Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
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John Mack Faragher is Arthur Unobskey Professor of History at Yale University.
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Werken van John Mack Faragher
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland (2005) 244 exemplaren
Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays (1994) — Redacteur — 88 exemplaren
Mapping American History - Interactive Explorations CD-ROM (Out of Many - A History of American People) (2001) 4 exemplaren
Men and Women's Work on the Overland Trail (The Pacific Historian, Spring 1979, Vol. 23, No. 1) (1979) 1 exemplaar
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Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Medewerker — 132 exemplaren
Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: A Reinterpretation (1866) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 122 exemplaren
Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays (1989) — Medewerker — 62 exemplaren
Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 (1998) — Medewerker — 44 exemplaren
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 42, Number 1 (Spring 2009) (2009) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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- 1945-08-26
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- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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- University of California, Riverside
Yale University (PhD) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Frederick Jackson Turner Award (1980)
Western Heritage Award (2000)
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In short, humans have behaved as badly in California as in most other parts of the world, but here it is all compressed into a relatively short time-frame and rather isolated from the outside world, so the effect is often much more dramatic, when we read for example about the way in which Franciscan misisonaries exploited Native Californians as (in effect, if not name) slave workers, and later American miners and settlers pushed them off their land; or nineteenth century white trade unionists campaigned against civil rights for Asian workers, or agribusiness used the police and national guard to defeat striking workers, or .... right through to Rodney King — and most of the time they got away with it in the courts and legislature. You get the picture, it wasn't pretty.
Of course, we get the positive stuff too, and I got to fill in a lot of gaps in my knowledge of how it all fitted together, especially the bit before 1846, which I've never really seen explained properly before. Faragher takes a lot of trouble to make the book accessible to non-professional readers (in fact, he tells us that he got his grandchildren to road-test it from the point of view of young readers). But this means that he doesn't use technical terms without explaining them first, not that he dumbs anything down.
There are no footnotes and a few maps, but otherwise the only illustrations are charming line-drawings (by Weshoyot Alvitre) at the head of each chapter, which gives it all a bit of the feel of a pre-war children's book.… (meer)