[PDF] Cities Of The Mississippi eBook

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0826209394

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Spectacular modern aerial photographs of twenty-three of the towns dramatically illustrate changes to the urban scene and demonstrate the lasting influence of the initial city patterns on subsequent growth.

Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0143117475

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The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.

Author : Stefan Rabitsch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496836642

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Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to “real-ize” that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.

Author : Chris E. Wiggins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781508474609

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"A Tale of Two (Mississippi) Cities is a fast-paced historical odyssey of not only the good but also the peculiar, and not just the twin cities of Pascagoula and Moss Point, but also Gautier and their forgotten neighbor Americus.

Author : Forrest Lamar Cooper
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1617031488

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Postcards and prose that recapture outstanding locales and events from bygone days

Author : Laurie Parker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780972961561

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