{"title":"Biografias \u0026 Memórias","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"my-diary","title":"My Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eCornelia Wadsworth Adair's ancestors had pioneered in western New York, where they opened and developed large, palatial estates; and the life they lived was elegant and aristocratic. Adair too was discreetly cultured; yet she took great personal pleasure in the rough and primitive land of her famed JA Ranch in north Texas. Because of physical discomfort and noisy passengers, she detested traveling by railroad coach; yet she could ride all day on horseback and lie down to sleep on a makeshift cot by a waterhole or on an Indian's flea-infested buffalo rug. She was a lady of interesting contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis little Diary is her lively account of a two-month trip which she and her husband made into the western part of the United States in 1874. The ostensible purpose of the trip was to hunt buffalo; however, these large beasts actually play a very small part in the journal. Rather, the book is an interesting and often amusing account, by an observant woman, of the long journey from her husband's estate in Ireland to New York, to Chicago and on into upper Michigan, across Lake Superior to Minnesota, down the Mississippi for several days, out to the buffalo-hunting grounds in Nebraska, then to Denver and the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, and finally back to New York and the Europe-bound ship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdair writes with an easy fluency; and her eye for picturesque detail, her taste for amusing incongruities, her romanticist's delight in Nature, and her instinct for a \"good tale\" combine to make her Diary pleasant and entertaining reading, while her powers of keen observation provide valuable insight into life as it was then in the West. First printed for private circulation in 1918, the original book is now a rare collector's item of Western Americana. Mrs. Adair said that she was allowing its publication for two reasons. First, she was afraid that her grandchildren and young friends would remember her only as \"an old lady who sat in an armchair, and whose stick h\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532370239855,"sku":"9781477300589","price":171.4,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1477300589.jpg?v=1790371924"},{"product_id":"william-gilpin","title":"William Gilpin","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Gilpin (1815-1894) has been called \"America's first geopolitician.\" Regarded today as both scientist and quack, Gilpin was in his own time a recognized authority whose maps were accepted by Congress as the most accurate available, and his description of trails and land in the West were read by pioneer and scientist alike as inspiration and guide.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis writings first introduced to the American public the treasures of the Great Plains (to Gilpin probably belongs the credit for introducing this well-known term) and the mountain plateaus of the Rockies. He advertised the future of the lush valleys of Oregon and the mineral riches that, he was sure, the American West contained.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGilpin was a cultured, educated man; his studies and his hours of lonely observation on many trips across the American prairies had resulted in the theory-in part true, in part fallacious-about the importance of the Mississippi Valley to world trade and world peace. To his contemporaries and a few later historians he was \"a man of rare genius and advanced thought, a prophet and pioneer of civilization,\" \"one of the wonderful and gifted men of the age, and to him are the citizens of the Republic, in general, and the West, in particular, immeasurably indebted.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this biography Thomas L. Karnes traces the life of William Gilpin from the quiet comfort of his wealthy Quaker boyhood home through an exciting and turbulent career as Indian fighter, pioneer, newspaper editor, explorer, land promoter, and first governor of Colorado Territory. But throughout his varied career there was one task to which Gilpin was always devoted: he was a publicizer of the West, first in letters to family and friends; then in newspaper articles, books, and speeches; and finally in reports that became part of the Congressional Record and that influenced the actions of Presidents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532387115375,"sku":"9781477300893","price":315.53,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1477300899.jpg?v=1790372057"},{"product_id":"the-pantarch","title":"The Pantarch","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn abolitionist and a champion of free love and women's rights would seem decidedly out of place in nineteenth-century Texas, but such a man was Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812-1886), American reformer, civil rights proponent, pioneer in sociology, advocate of reformed spelling, lawyer, and eccentric philosopher. Since his life mirrored and often anticipated the various reform movements spawned not only in Texas but in the United States in the nineteenth century, this first biography of him sharply reflects and elucidates his times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe extremely important role Andrews played in the abolition movement in this country has not heretofore been accorded him. After having witnessed slavery in Louisiana during the 1830s, Andrews came to Texas and began his career as an abolitionist with an audacious attempt to free the slaves there.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis singular career, however, comprised many more activities than abolitionism, and most have long been forgotten by historians. He introduced Pitman shorthand into the United States as a means of teaching the uneducated to read; his role in the community of Modern Times, Long Island, was as important as that of Josiah Warren, the \"first American anarchist,\" although Andrews's participation in this communal venture, along with the significance of Modern Times itself, has been underestimated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther causes which Andrews supported included free love and the rights of women, dramatized by his journalistic debate with Horace Greeley and Henry James, Sr., and by his endorsement of Victoria Woodhull as the first woman candidate for the Presidency of the United States. These interests, together with his consequent involvement in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, provide insight into some of the more colorful aspects of nineteenth-century American reform movements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrews's attacks upon whatever infringed on individual freedom brought him into diverse arenas-economic, sociological, and philosophical. The philosophical system he de\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532469068143,"sku":"9781477305126","price":216.21,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1477305122.jpg?v=1790372344"},{"product_id":"hamlin-garland","title":"Hamlin Garland","description":"\u003cp\u003eHamlin Garland's \u003ci\u003eMain-Travelled Roads\u003c\/i\u003e is recognized as one of the early landmarks of American literary realism. But Garland's shift in mid-career from the harsh verisimilitude of \u003ci\u003ePrairie Folks and Prairie Songs\u003c\/i\u003e to a romanticizing of the Far West, and from ardent espousal of the principles of \"veritism\" to violent denunciations of naturalism, is a paradox which has long puzzled literary historians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn tracing the evolution of Garland's work, the various reactions of his stories under the influence of editorial comment and of contemporary critical reaction, Jean Holloway suggests that the Garland apostasy was an illusion produced by his very intellectual immobility amidst the swirling currents of American thought. His extensive correspondence with Gilder of the Century, Alden of \u003ci\u003eHarper's Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, McClure of \u003ci\u003eMcClure's\u003c\/i\u003e, and Bok of the \u003ci\u003eLadies' Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e is adduced in support of the thesis that the writer's choices of subject and of treatment were psychologically forced rather than conditioned primarily by literary theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs a subject for biography, however, Garland has an appeal far beyond the scope of his literary influence. The friendships of this gregarious peripatetic with the famous began with Howells, Twain, Whitman, and Stephen Crane, stretched down the years to include such younger men as Bret Harte and Carl Van Doren, and crossed the seas to embrace such British literary lions as Barrie, Shaw, and Kipling. Garland's fervent espousal of \"causes\"-the Single Tax Movement, psychic experimentation, Indian rights-brought him into close contact with other prominent men-Henry George, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Jennings Bryan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese public figures form the incidental characters in Garland's spate of autobiographical works. Yet it is the central figure of his own story which has become permanently identified with the \"Middle Border,\" that region \"between the land of the hunter and the harvester\" which Aug\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532544958831,"sku":"9781477307144","price":290.56,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1477307141.jpg?v=1790372818"},{"product_id":"the-man-who-swam-into-history","title":"The Man Who Swam into History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania-or did he? Then there are stories of another grandfather who kept a lifelong mistress; grandmothers who were ignored except in the kitchen; migrations legal and illegal from Eastern Europe to Canada to California; racketeers on one side of the family and Communists on the other; and a West Coast adolescence in the McCarthy years. All of these (mostly true) stories form a Jewish family's history, a tale of dislocation and assimilation. But in the hands of award-winning historian Robert Rosenstone, they become much more. The fragments of memory so beautifully preserved in \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Swam into History\u003c\/i\u003e add unforgettable, human characters to the now familiar story of the Jewish diaspora in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis combination memoir\/short story collection recounts the Rosenstone family's passage from Romania to America. Robert Rosenstone tells the story not as a single, linear narrative, but through \"tales, sequences, windows, moments, and fragments resurrected from the lives of three generations in my two parental families, set in five countries on two continents over the period of almost a century.\" This more literary and personal approach allows Rosenstone's relatives to emerge as distinct personalities, voices who quarrel and gossip, share their dreams and fears, and maintain the ties of a loving, if eccentric, family. Among the genre of \"coming to America\" tales, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Swam into History\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of unique vision, one that both records and reconstructs the past even as it continuously-and humorously-questions the truth of its own assertions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532973007215,"sku":"9780292709508","price":148.37,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0292709501.jpg?v=1790374335"},{"product_id":"ruth-benedict","title":"Ruth Benedict","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoet, anthropologist, feminist-Ruth Fulton Benedict was all of these and much more. Born into the last years of the Victorian era, she came of age during the Progressive years and participated in inaugurating the modern era of American life. \u003ci\u003eRuth Benedict: Stranger in This Land\u003c\/i\u003e provides an intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs a Lyricist poet, Ruth Benedict helped define Modernism. As an anthropologist, she wrote the classic \u003ci\u003ePatterns of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and at one point was considered the foremost anthropologist in the United States-the first woman ever to attain such status. She was an intellectual and an artist living in a time when women were not encouraged to be either. In this fascinating study, Margaret Caffrey attempts to place Benedict in the cultural matrix of her time and successfully shows the way in which Benedict was a product of and reacted to the era in which she lived.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCaffrey goes far beyond providing simple biographical material in this well-written interdisciplinary study. Based on exhaustive research, including access for the first time to the papers of Margaret Mead, Benedict's student and friend, Caffrey is able to put Benedict's life clearly in perspective. By identifying the family and educational influences that so sharply influenced Benedict's psychological makeup, the author also closely analyzes the currents of thought that were strong when Victorianism paralleled the Modernism that figured in Benedict's life work. The result is a richly detailed study of a gifted woman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis important work will be of interest to students of Modernism, poetry, and women's studies, as well as to anthropologists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53533313794415,"sku":"9780292753648","price":243.64,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0292753640.jpg?v=1790375035"},{"product_id":"bird-student","title":"Bird Student","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt thirteen, George Miksch Sutton planned a school of ornithology centered around his collection of bird skins, feathers, bones, nests, eggs, and a prized stuffed crow. As an adult, he became one of the most prominent ornithologists and bird artists of the twentieth century. 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His intense admiration for Louis Agassiz Fuertes had a good deal to do with his beginning to draw birds in earnest, and his correspondence and his 1916 summer visit with the generous Fuertes taught him to look at birds with the eyes of a professional artist and to consider the possibility of making ornithology his career.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 1918, Sutton had talked himself into a job at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, which gave him fresh opportunities to learn and travel, and his 1920 field trip to the Labrador Peninsula stimulated his lifelong interest in arctic birds. Further expeditions to James Bay, the east coast of Hudson Bay-on leave from his job as state ornithologist of Pennsylvania-and Southampton Island at the north end of Hudson Bay, in search of the elusive blue goose and its nesting grounds, give us glimpses of field methods before the days of sophisticated equipment. 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