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...
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...
