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Extinction and the Human - Four American Encounters (Hardcover): Timothy Sweet Extinction and the Human - Four American Encounters (Hardcover)
Timothy Sweet
R977 R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Save R76 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten to thirty thousand years ago; the other began during the time of European settler-colonization and continues to this day. In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them. He focuses especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison—beginning with the moments that these species' extinction or endangerment began to generate significant print archives: transcriptions of traditional Indigenous oral narratives, historical and scientific accounts, and literary narratives by Indigenous American and Euro-American authors. "If the Sixth Extinction is a hyperobject, an event so massively distributed in space and time that it cannot be experienced directly," he writes, "these cases of particular megafauna have nevertheless consistently commanded our focus and attention. They form a starting point for a coherent, approachable history." Reflecting on questions of agency, responsibility, and moral assessment, Sweet engages with the consequences of thinking of humans as fundamentally separate from the rest of the natural world. He investigates stories of a lost race of giants at the time of the first encounters between Europeans and Indigenous Americans; culturally distinct ways of understanding the extinction of the mammoths; the impact of the Euro-American whaling industry and the controversial revitalization of Native American whaling traditions; and the bison's near-extermination at the hands of white market hunters and today's Euro-American and Native American efforts on behalf of the animal's preservation. He reflects on humans' relations with animals through models of divine preservation, competitive extermination, evolutionary determination, biophilia, and treaties with animals. Ultimately, he argues, it is the critical assessment of ideas of human exceptionalism that provides a necessary counterpoint both to apologies for human mastery over nature and deep ecology's attempts to erase the human.

American Georgics - Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (Hardcover): Timothy Sweet American Georgics - Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (Hardcover)
Timothy Sweet
R1,906 R1,789 Discovery Miles 17 890 Save R117 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

American Georgics Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864 Timothy Sweet "Sweet offers a wide-ranging examination of the agricultural work of North American men and women as seen through the lens of literature. . . . Sweet's greatest achievement is his ability to integrate hundreds of years of discourse about the North American continent into a cohesive narrative of evolving perceptions of environment and humankind's role in shaping it."--"American Literature" "Thoughtful, critically intelligent, and well-informed."--Lawrence Buell, Harvard University In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American georgic. Offering a fresh approach to ecocritical and environmentally-oriented literary studies, Sweet traces the history of the American georgic from its origins in late sixteenth-century English literature promoting the colonization of the Americas through the mid-nineteenth century, ending with George Perkins Marsh's "Man and Nature" (1864), the foundational text in the conservationist movement. Timothy Sweet is Professor of English at West Virginia University. He is the author also of "Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union." 2001 232 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-3637-8 Cloth $69.95s 45.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0318-9 Ebook $69.95s 45.50 World Rights Literature, Cultural Studies Short copy: "American Georgics" takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding of what counts as environmental literature back before Thoreau, Sweet shows that early texts, while not necessarily "green" in contemporary terms, can offer important insights into our relationship to the environment.

Public/private Partnerships in Education (Paperback): Timothy Sweet-Holp Public/private Partnerships in Education (Paperback)
Timothy Sweet-Holp
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Literary Cultures of the Civil War (Paperback): Timothy Sweet Literary Cultures of the Civil War (Paperback)
Timothy Sweet; Contributions by Samuel Graber, Coleman Hutchison, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Jane E Schultz, …
R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. The Civil War reshaped existing literary cultures or enabled new ones. Ensembles of discourses, conventions, and practices, these cultures offered fresh ways of engaging a host of givens about American character and values that the war called into question. The volume's contributors look at how literary cultures of the 1860s and 1870s engaged concepts of nation, violence, liberty, citizenship, community, and identity. At the same time, the essayists analyze the cultures themselves, which included Euroamerican and African American vernacular oral, manuscript (journals and letters), and print (newspapers, magazines, or books) cultures; overlapping discourses of politics, protest, domesticity, and sentiment; unsettled literary nationalism and emergent literary regionalism; and vernacular and elite aesthetic traditions. These essays point to the variety of literary voices that were speaking out in the war's immediate aftermath and help us understand what those voices were saying and how it was received.

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