Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 228 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300084145
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0300130317
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1281722065
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9780300084146
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9780300130317
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9781281722065
Uniform Title:
Moi︠a︡ povestʹ o samom sebe
Content:
Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy
Content:
""Contents""; ""Foreword by Peter Kolchin""; ""Translator�s Note""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Maps""; ""Up from Serfdom""; ""1. My Roots""; ""2. My Parents""; ""3. Father�s First Attempt to Introduce Truth Where It Wasn't Wanted""; ""4. My Early Childhood""; ""5. Exile""; ""6. Home from Exile""; ""7. Father Returns from St. Petersburg""; ""8. 1811: New Place, New Faces""; ""9. Our Life in Pisaryevka, 1812�1815""; ""10. School""; ""11. Fate Strikes Again""; ""12. Waiting in Voronezh""; ""13. Ostrogozhsk: I Go Out into the World""; ""14. My Friends and Activities in Ostrogozhsk
Content:
""15. My Friends in the Military General Yuzefovich; The Death of My Father""; ""16. Farewell, Ostrogozhsk""; ""17. Home Again in Ostrogozhsk""; ""18. The Dawn of a New Day""; ""19. St. Petersburg: My Struggle for Freedom""; ""Translator�s Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Index
Note:
Based on Nikitenko's diaries
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nikitenko, A. (Aleksandr), 1804 or 5-1877 Up from serfdom New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2001
Language:
English
Author information:
Nikitenko, Aleksandr Vasil'evič 1804-1877
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