The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise; affordable works on pivotal topics in American history; society; and politics. In this pioneering study; White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also; and primarily; energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that White comes to view the Columbia River as an organic machine--with conflicting human and natural claims--and to show that whatever separation exists between humans and nature exists to be crossed.
#1412570 in Books The University of North Carolina Press 2008-09-01 2008-09-01Ingredients: Example IngredientsOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .70 x 6.00l; 1.00 #File Name: 0807859214312 pages
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Well written history on a subject popular these daysBy Lynn A. BonfieldI'm a sucker for anything on women's history; but this was outstanding and led me to new sources. I would use it in classroom work.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. An essential work on 19th century women's educationBy hmf22Learning to Stand and Speak is a sprawling book that addresses formal intellectual life in women's seminaries and literary societies as well as less formal intellectual life in sewing circles; correspondence; and the like. While Revolutionary Era republican motherhood envisioned a purely domestic; if politically significant; role for women; the "gendered republicanism" of the early republic also envisioned a role for women in the public sphere (p. 25). Kelley explicitly links women's intellectual life to voluntary societies and illustrates how reading and discussion circles promoted women's involvement in missionary work and abolition; and vice versa. Graduates of the new women's academies played prominent roles in this "organized benevolence" (p. 29). In another chapter; Kelley delineates how closely women's seminaries in the early republic resembled men's college--in curriculum; reading lists; size; cost; and even faculty. If anything; the women's academies offered more modern; and possibly more substantive; curricula than the men's colleges did. All in all; this is truly essential reading for anyone who is interested in the history of women's education and intellectual life in the nineteenth-century United States.
