John Mack Faragher Livres

Set against the backdrop of 1755, the narrative explores the tragic expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia, highlighting their struggle for neutrality amidst imperial conflicts. The book details the brutal campaign led by New England troops, fueled by a desire for Acadia's fertile land, which resulted in mass violence and the destruction of families. John Mack Faragher utilizes original research to create a compelling account of Acadian civilization and the British forces' relentless efforts to obliterate it, offering a poignant reflection on themes of identity and resilience.

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation číst celé

Provides a survey of the history of the American West, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This title introduces the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of different ethnic groups were affected when they met, mingled and clashed.

Refutes traditional portraits of women's passive roles in the journey westward on the Overland Trail between 1843 and 1870

Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts straight." --From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography for 1993In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.

The narrative explores the evolution of a rural American community, tracing its roots from the early 1900s through the post-Civil War era. It delves into the challenges and triumphs faced by the community, highlighting the social, economic, and cultural changes that shaped its identity over time. This journey offers a rich perspective on the resilience and growth of small-town life in America.

A riveting popular history of Los Angeles's bloody beginnings.