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Dee Brown

    28. únor 1908 – 12. prosinec 2002

    Dee Brown byl oceněný autor, jehož díla se zaměřovala na americkou historii, zejména na život na hranici a na přehlížená období občanské války. Jeho nejznámější dílo, které zásadně ovlivnilo světové vnímání historie amerických domorodců, odhaluje systematické ničení indiánských kmenů. Brown byl také knihovníkem, který svou literární kariéru budoval souběžně s prací v knihovnách.

    Dee Brown
    The Gentle Tamers
    The American West
    Showdown at Little Big Horn
    Weapons to Stand Boldly and Win the Battle Spiritual Warfare Demystified
    Mé sdrce pohřběte u Wounded Knee
    Mé srdce pohřběte u Wounded Knee
    • When it comes to demystifying spiritual warfare and standing boldly in victory, no one has mentored me more than Dee Brown. The principles of lasting spiritual growth and strength are encompassed in each life-transforming chapter.--Pastor Diane Altman. (Practical Life)

      Weapons to Stand Boldly and Win the Battle Spiritual Warfare Demystified2008
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    • On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000 warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne nations and were killed in the ensuing battle. Acclaimed historian Dee Brown traces the events of that day and of the weeks before, through the eyes and ears of seventeen participants from both sides, including Natives, scouts, soldiers, and civilians. Why did Custer divide his forces? Why did he not take his regiment’s Gatling guns? Why did he expect Sitting Bull to surrender without a fight? How did Sitting Bull’s vision at the sun dance on the Rosebud foretell the occasion and the outcome of the battle? How did war chiefs Crazy Horse and Gall take advantage of Custer’s tactical errors? And why did they preserve Custer’s body from mutilation? Showdown at Little Big Horn answers these and other questions, telling the story of the fight from many points of view, based on reports, diaries, letters, and testimony of the participants themselves. Together the accounts provide a gripping narrative of a punitive expedition gone badly awry and an assemblage of Native peoples who forestalled for a while the army’s domination of the northern plains.

      Showdown at Little Big Horn2004
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    • The American West

      • 464 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení

      A definitive, illustrated, single-volume history of the American West, from the bestselling author of BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, Dee Brown.

      The American West2004
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    • 1860 - 1890: è il trentennio della "soluzione finale" per il problema indiano, che approda alla distruzione della cultura e della civiltà dei pellerossa. In questo periodo nascono tutti i grandi miti del West, un'epopea ad esclusivo beneficio degli uomini bianchi. I racconti dei commercianti di pellicce, dei missionari, dei cercatori d'oro, delle Giacche Blu, degli avventurieri, dei costruttori di ferrovie e di città stendono una fitta coltre che nasconde la versione indiana sulla conquista del West. I pellerossa costituivano l'antistoria, l'ostacolo al trionfo della nuova civiltà; per di più non sapevano scrivere nella lingua dei bianchi. Eppure la loro fievole voce non è andata perduta del tutto: alcuni ricordi hanno resistito al tempo in virtù della tradizione orale o per mezzo delle pittografie; dai verbali degli incontri ufficiali è possibile desumere illuminanti testimonianze; nelle rarissime interviste raccolte da giornalisti sono reperibili suggestive ricostruzioni di celebri e sanguinosi avvenimenti, e da sperdute pubblicazioni dell'epoca l'opinione dei pellerossa è potuta così giungere fino a noi. Dee Brown ha fatto solo la sua parte di storico: la raccolta delle fonti, l'esame critico, la stesura della narrazione. Per la prima volta a parlare sono i pellerossa, dai grandi capi agli oscuri guerrieri; narrano come venne distrutto un popolo ed il mondo in cui viveva.

      Oscar Storia - 56: Seppellite il mio cuore a Wounded Knee1994
    • Globe pockets - 9: Begraaf mijn hart bij de bocht van de rivier

      de ondergang van de Indianen in Noord-Amerika

      • 533 stránek
      • 19 hodin čtení

      'Dit is het einde van een legende, de onthulling van een bittere waarheid; nooit tevoren werden de ontzettende gebeurtenissen beschreven als in deze Indiaanse geschiedenis van hun ondergang. Met bloed en tranen is dit boek geschreven.' -C.W. Ceram Begraaf mijn hart bij de bocht van de rivier verhaalt, na een inleidend hoofdstuk tot 1492, van de periode 1830 tot 1890, het tijdvak waarin een definitief einde kwam aan de vrijheid van de oorspronkelijke bewoners van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. Dee Brown heeft die catastrofale periode beschreven vanuit het gezichtspunt van de Indianen. 'Een op historische stukken en getuigenissen steunende documentaire, maar duizendmaal spannender en dramatischer dan welk wild-westverhaal voor de televisie ook, of alle zeventig boeken van Karl May. Een huiveringwekkende tragedie.' - Willem Brandt 'Los van zijn waarde als leesevenement heeft het gigantische succes van dit boek de mythe doen wijken voor de historische waarheid.' - Elseviers Literair Supplement

      Globe pockets - 9: Begraaf mijn hart bij de bocht van de rivier1992
      4,2
    • Der Major

      • 317 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      Sam Morrison, ein Zeitungsreporter, bemüht sich um 1866, die Identität und die Ereignisse um den Tod des legendären Kämpfers Major Rawley aufzuklären.

      Der Major1984
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    • All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed.

      The Gentle Tamers1981
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