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Author: Jared Orsi (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780190674144
ISBN 10: 0190674148
Pages: 394
Publication Date: 18 May 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
2015 Colorado Book Awards Finalist In bringing the tools of environmental history to bear on themes that have long engaged scholars of the early republic, Orsi gives us a fresh take on Pike's life and the spaces he explored. ... [Citizen Explorer is] a boundary-crossing model worth emulating. Western Historical Quarterly As Orsi demonstrates in this nifty environmental biography, the true state of Pike and his nation was in flux...Orsi's environmental biography invites further contemplations, large scale and small. Jon T. Coleman, Environmental History This interesting and well-researched book fills the information gap concerning Pike. ... In Citizen Explorer Jared Orsi, an associate professor of history at Colorado State University, finally presents the complex and almost-quixotic life of Pike. ... In his impressive collection of primary and secondary sources, Orsi was able to discover the hidden life of a simple soldier who rose to the role of brigadier general. Journal of American History With thorough research and clear prose, Jared Orsi insightfully recovers the dramatic life and violent death of a military hero and western explorer of the early republic. In an unstable age of competing regions, Zebulon Pike pioneered a national style of manhood which flourished in, and gave shape to, the American West. Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 Shifting his lens between grand politics and the nitty-gritty of early American life, Jared Orsi gives us a wonderfully real Zebulon Pike, grounded in the material realities that determined personal and social choices in the evolving West. He presents us with Pike as a man of his times, caught by the promises of a nation that couldn't yet deliver on them. Anne F. Hyde, author of Empires, Nations, and Families, A New History of the American West, 1800-1860
[An] engaging, readable, and insightful biographical history * Ohio Valley History * Shifting his lens between grand politics and the nitty-gritty of early American life, Jared Orsi gives us a wonderfully real Zebulon Pike, grounded in the material realities that determined personal and social choices in the evolving West. He presents us with Pike as a man of his times, caught by the promises of a nation that couldn't yet deliver on them. * Anne F. Hyde, author of Empires, Nations, and Families, A New History of the American West, 1800-1860 * With thorough research and clear prose, Jared Orsi insightfully recovers the dramatic life and violent death of a military hero and western explorer of the early republic. In an unstable age of competing regions, Zebulon Pike pioneered a national style of manhood which flourished in, and gave shape to, the American West. * Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 * This interesting and well-researched book fills the information gap concerning Pike. ... In Citizen Explorer Jared Orsi, an associate professor of history at Colorado State University, finally presents the complex and almost-quixotic life of Pike. ... In his impressive collection of primary and secondary sources, Orsi was able to discover the hidden life of a simple soldier who rose to the role of brigadier general. * Journal of American History * As Orsi demonstrates in this nifty environmental biography, the true state of Pike and his nation was in flux....Orsi's environmental biography invites further contemplations, large scale and small. * Jon T. Coleman, Environmental History * In bringing the tools of environmental history to bear on themes that have long engaged scholars of the early republic, Orsi gives us a fresh take on Pike's life and the spaces he explored. ... [Citizen Explorer is] a boundary-crossing model worth emulating. * Western Historical Quarterly *
Author Information
Jared Orsi is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University. He is the author of the prizing-winning Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles.
