Category Archives: Seelye, John D.
Two Aspects of English Colonialism
Nicholas Canny discusses conditions in seventeenth-century Ireland that resulted in a large immigration of Irish people to America during the English colonial system. He emphasizes the influences of Irish values in the development of the new country of the United … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, English colonialism, Irish history, Plymouth Rock
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Two Aspects of the American Landscape
Stuart Marks discusses his study Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community, an anthropological analysis of hunters in the American South. In the second segment [13:25], Timothy Breen, John Seelye, and David Shi discuss the historical and contemporary … Continue reading
Posted in Breen, Timothy H., Episodes, Marks, Stuart A., Seelye, John D., Shi, David E.
Tagged Agriculture, Agriculture - US - history, Hunting, Social life and customs
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(1) Beautiful Machine: Rivers in American Literature; (2) Book Reviews
John Seelye examines rivers–“beautiful machines”–in the early American republic as revealing patterns, tensions, and paradoxes that underscore Americans’ desire for exploration and expansion on literary and philosophical (as well as geographical) levels between the time of the French and Indian … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gingher, Robert, Seelye, John D.
Tagged American literature -- eighteenth century, American literature -- nineteenth century, American Rivers -- cultural history, Erie Canal
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