The Texan's Surprise Son (Mills & Boon Cherish) (Texas Rodeo Barons, Book 6) - 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 Texan's Surprise Son (Mills & Boon Cherish) (Texas Rodeo Barons, Book 6) write by Cathy McDavid. This book was released on 2014-10-01. The Texan's Surprise Son (Mills & Boon Cherish) (Texas Rodeo Barons, Book 6) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. TAKEN BY SURPRISE Bull rider Jacob Baron is shocked to discover he’s a father. Despite the lack of strong role models in his own life, he’s determined to do right by his son... even if Cody’s attractive aunt, Mariana Snow, seems to question his parenting skills at every turn.
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth - 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 Hollywood Westerns and American Myth write by Robert B. Pippin. This book was released on 2010-06-22. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state’s claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.Pippin’s account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy.
Reminiscences of a Ranger
Reminiscences of a Ranger - 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 Reminiscences of a Ranger write by Horace Bell. This book was released on 1881. Reminiscences of a Ranger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The French in Texas
The French in Texas - 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 French in Texas write by François Lagarde. This book was released on 2010-01-01. The French in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A surprising history of explorers, pirates, priests, artists, and more: “The best overall study of the French experience in Texas ever assembled.” —Jack Jackson, editor of Texas by Terán The flag of France is one of the six flags that have flown over Texas, but all that many people know about the French presence in Texas is the ill-fated explorer Cavelier de La Salle, fabled pirate Jean Lafitte, or Cajun music and food. Yet the French have made lasting contributions to Texas history and culture that deserve to be widely known and appreciated. In this book, François Lagarde and thirteen other experts present original articles that explore the French presence and influence on Texas history, arts, education, religion, and business from the arrival of La Salle in 1685 to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Each article covers an important figure or event in the France-Texas story. The historical articles thoroughly investigate early French colonists and explorers; the French pirates and privateers; the Bonapartists of Champ-d’Asile; the French at the Alamo; Dubois de Saligny and French recognition of the Republic of Texas; the nineteenth-century utopists of Icaria and Reunion; and the French Catholic missions. Other articles deal with French immigration in Texas, including the founding of Castroville; Cajuns in Texas; and the French economic presence in Texas today—the first such study ever published. The remaining articles look at painters Théodore and Marie Gentilz; sculptor Raoul Josset; French architecture in Texas; French travelers from Théodore Pavie to Simone de Beauvoir who have written on Texas; and the French heritage in Texas education. Includes more than seventy photos and illustrations
America in the British Imagination
America in the British Imagination - 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 America in the British Imagination write by J. Lyons. This book was released on 2013-12-18. America in the British Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.
