William H. Goetzmann (1930–2010)
Forfatter af Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
Om forfatteren
William Goetzmann was born in 1931 in St. Paul Minnesota. He received his BA and PhD from Yale University. He also taught taught at Yale before going to the University of Texas at Austin to develop his American Studies program. He was a historian and emeritus professor in American studies at the vis mere University of Texas in Austin. He won the Parkman Prize and Pulitzer Prize for historians for his work on the American west. His written works are focused on the topics of American philosophy, American political history and American arts. He wrote Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought From Paine to Pragmatism in 2009. Willaim Goetzmann died on September 7, 2010. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af William H. Goetzmann
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (1966) 268 eksemplarer
The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole (1992) 109 eksemplarer
The First Americans: Photographs from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress Classics) (1991) 51 eksemplarer
The West as romantic horizon : selections from the collection of the InterNorth Art Foundation (1981) 34 eksemplarer
When the eagle screamed; the romantic horizon in American diplomacy, 1800-1860 (1966) 29 eksemplarer
The American Hegelians: An intellectual episode in the history of Western America (1973) 16 eksemplarer
Looking at the Land of Promise: Pioneer Images of the Pacific Northwest (Sherman & Mabel Smith Pettyjohn Lectures in… (1988) 15 eksemplarer
The colonial horizon; America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: interpretive articles and documentary sources (1969) 7 eksemplarer
"Tell me if your civilization is interesting" 1 eksemplar
William H. Holmes Panoramic Art 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays (1989) — Bidragyder — 64 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1995 (1994) — Author "Confessions of a Rogue" — 9 eksemplarer
The West of the imagination [DVD] — Writer — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Goetzmann, William Henry
- Fødselsdato
- 1930-07-20
- Dødsdag
- 2010-09-07
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Washington, DC, USA
- Dødssted
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Dødsårsag
- congestive heart failure
- Bopæl
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Austin, Texas, USA - Uddannelse
- Yale University (BA | 1952)
Yale University (Ph.D | 1957) - Erhverv
- historian
professor - Relationer
- Goetzmann, William N. (son)
- Organisationer
- Yale University
University of Texas at Austin - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Francis Parkman Prize (1967)
Pulitzer Prize (History, 1967)
American Philosophical Society (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)
Golden Plate Award (1968)
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New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great… af William Goetzmann
I love history, so I searched diligently for a general or subjected focus that the author was writing for. Then I tried to decide what level or segment of scholarship he was addressing. Determining neither in the first 5th of the book, I skipped to the later chapters and still had a scattered feeling even when I already had knowledge of the subject, so I gave it to the library to sell to someone else.
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To me you can see and understand so much more history in a map than long wordy explanations, this is great.
There are some problems with the accompanying dialog, sometimes it does not match the map, or lacks continuity etc. but much of that is likely because of the need of brevity.
The two authors are British and Texan, so the material seems heavy on Spanish and British exploration.
There are some problems with the accompanying dialog, sometimes it does not match the map, or lacks continuity etc. but much of that is likely because of the need of brevity.
The two authors are British and Texan, so the material seems heavy on Spanish and British exploration.
This is a sort of intellectual biography of the United States. It reads very much like the collected lecture notes of an old professor - which of course, it is. I was hoping for a little more in-depth approach, instead of a quick sweeping survey hitting the high points. Ideas and concepts are mentioned but not fully developed.
4842. Looking Far North The Harriman Expedition To Alaska 1899, by William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan (read 24 Jul 2011) I was surprised to find this book as interesting as it was. In 1899 E. H. Harriman organized (and funded) a trip to Alaska, which he led . He took his whole family, including his 8-year-old son , Averell, as well as many scientists and the naturalists William Burroughs and John Muir. Some of the people on the expedition, including Harriman, did a lot of killing of birds and animals. The ship even went across to Siberia and made a stop there. The book was published in 1982 and so tells of the results of the expediton and what became of some of the people who were on it.… (mere)
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- Værker
- 21
- Also by
- 7
- Medlemmer
- 997
- Popularitet
- #25,851
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 6
- ISBN
- 39
- Sprog
- 1