Pioneer Performances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pioneer Performances write by Matthew Rebhorn. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Pioneer Performances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pioneer Performances draws from a diverse cast of relevant historical figures, ultimately revealing the frontier as a set of complex performative practices imbued with a sense of trenchant social critique.
Jack and the Giant
Jack and the Giant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jack and the Giant write by Vera Morris. This book was released on 1992-06. Jack and the Giant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Plays of the Pioneers
Plays of the Pioneers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plays of the Pioneers write by Constance D'Arcy Mackay. This book was released on 1915. Plays of the Pioneers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Performance Activism
Performance Activism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance Activism write by Dan Friedman. This book was released on 2021-12-02. Performance Activism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book length study of performance activism. While Performance Studies recognizes the universality of human performance in daily life, what is specifically under investigation here is performance as an activity intentionally entered into as a means of engaging social issues and conflicts, that is, as an ensemble activity by which we re-construct/transform social reality. Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers provides a global overview of the growing interface of performance with education, therapy, conflict resolution, civic engagement, community development and social justice activism. It combines an historical study of the processes by which, over the course of the 20th Century, performance has been loosened from the institutional constraints of the theatre with a mosaic-like overview of the diverse work/play of contemporary performance activists around the world. Performance Activism will be of interest to theatre and cultural historians, performance practitioners and researchers, psychologists and sociologists, educators and youth workers, community organizers and political activists.
The Pioneers
The Pioneers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pioneers write by David McCullough. This book was released on 2019-05-07. The Pioneers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
