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1 online resource (xxiv, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Note |
Based on Nikitenko's diaries. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index. |
Summary |
Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy. |
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Print version record. |
Contents |
""Contents""; ""Foreword by Peter Kolchin""; ""Translator�s Note""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Maps""; ""Up from Serfdom""; ""1. My Roots""; ""2. My Parents""; ""3. Father�s First Attempt to Introduce Truth Where It Wasn't Wanted""; ""4. My Early Childhood""; ""5. Exile""; ""6. Home from Exile""; ""7. Father Returns from St. Petersburg""; ""8. 1811: New Place, New Faces""; ""9. Our Life in Pisaryevka, 1812�1815""; ""10. School""; ""11. Fate Strikes Again""; ""12. Waiting in Voronezh""; ""13. Ostrogozhsk: I Go Out into the World""; ""14. My Friends and Activities in Ostrogozhsk"" |
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""15. My Friends in the Military General Yuzefovich; The Death of My Father""; ""16. Farewell, Ostrogozhsk""; ""17. Home Again in Ostrogozhsk""; ""18. The Dawn of a New Day""; ""19. St. Petersburg: My Struggle for Freedom""; ""Translator�s Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Index"" |
Subject |
Nikitenko, A. (Aleksandr), 1804 or 1805-1877.
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Nikitenko, A. (Aleksandr), 1804 or 1805-1877. (OCoLC)fst01838115
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Critics -- Russia -- Biography.
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Serfs -- Russia -- Biography.
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Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Critics. (OCoLC)fst00883769
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Serfs. (OCoLC)fst01113088
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312
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Russia (Federation) (OCoLC)fst01262050
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Slavernij.
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Chronological Term |
1801-1917
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Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Jacobson, Helen Saltz.
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Added Title |
Moi︠a︡ povestʹ o samom sebe. English
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Other Form: |
Print version: Nikitenko, A. (Aleksandr), 1804 or 5-1877. Moi︠a︡ povestʹ o samom sebe. English. Up from serfdom. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2001 0300084145 9780300084146 (DLC) 00043866 (OCoLC)44868881 |
ISBN |
9780300130317 (electronic bk.) |
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0300130317 (electronic bk.) |
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