In Darkest Alaska Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage Robert Campbell "Scholars of U.S. history will not want to miss this well-written and compelling book. . . . In Darkest Alaska illuminates a realm of potent anxieties about natives, nature, and national expansion which have shaped American culture and politics right down to the present day."--Louis S. Warren, author of Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show "A work of sweeping erudition and insight. If, as he so convincingly shows, Alaska was a Rorschach test for the American imagination, then...
In Darkest Alaska Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage Robert Campbell "Scholars of U.S. history will not want to miss this well-written and com...
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort white sand, blue waters, and towering palms become the iconic vacation landscape? "Tropical Whites" explores the dramatic shift in attitudes toward and popularization of the tropical tourist "Southland" in the Americas: Florida, Southern California, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Cocks examines the history and development of tropical tourism from the late nineteenth century...
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how d...
The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America. "Empire of Vines" traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation...
The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agr...
