Author : Elena K. Abbott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1108491545
The fascinating story of how free African Americans and runaway slaves crossed international borders to fight for freedom and racial justice.
Author : Hal Marcovitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 142228753X
The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States as a gift from the people of France in 1886. It was originally meant as an emblem of the friendship between the two nations, but over the years it has come to mean much more. The Statue of Liberty has come to represent the promise of America—a promise that drew tens of millions of immigrants from other countries, seeking greater freedom and opportunities. For many of these immigrants, Lady Liberty was the first thing they saw when they arrived in the United States. The Statue of Liberty has also served as a symbol of freedom for those who are oppressed throughout the world.
Author : L. E. Bond
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author : Gail Gibbons
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1990-03-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780688073794
FLASH... FLASH... FLASH...A lighthouse signals from the rocky shore, guiding ships away from danger. Once sailors watched for giant bonfires that were set high on hills. Now, most lighthouses are fully automated. In Beacons of Light: Lighthouses, Gail Gibbons tells all about these beautiful and useful structures, using careful explanations, colorful facts, and helpful illustrations to show how lighthouse technology has developed and changed over the years. FLASH... FLASH... FLASH... In this informative, delightfully evocative book, lighthouses are beacons of light thatremind us of our past.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :
Description: A heroic tale of the deliverance of Switzerland, featuring the legendary protagonist, William Tell.
Author : Daron Acemoglu
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0735224382
How does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the leviathan.
Author : Elena Karpinski Abbott
Publisher :
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN :
Narrating the story of American anti-slavery advocates looking abroad for hope and inspiration as they worked to dismantle slavery in the United States, this dissertation offers the first evaluation of how free-soil havens across the Atlantic world collectively affected a national anti-slavery movement.
Author : James Harrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1992-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521423298
James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English Civil Wars as a revolution, the result of a long-term process of social change which led to the decay of the old political order. The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) is a fictionalised presentation of English history up to the victory of the New Model Army, explaining the fall of the monarchy and proposing a republic to replace it. A System of Politics, written after the Restoration, is a scheme of history and political philosophy erected on the foundations of his previous works. Professor Pocock's introduction emphasises Harrington's place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought. This edition also contains a chronology of events in Harrington's life and a guide to further reading.
Author : Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807154733
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas. Drawing on decades of research into slave and emancipation societies, Kerr-Ritchie is attentive to those who sought but were not granted freedom, and those who resisted enslavement individually as well as collectively on behalf of their communities. He explores the many roles that fugitive slaves, slave soldiers, and slave rebels played in their own societies. He likewise explicates the lives of individual freedmen, freedwomen, and freed children to show how the first free-born generation helped to shape the terms and conditions of the post-slavery world. Freedom's Seekers is a signal contribution to African Diaspora studies, especially in its rigorous respect for the agency of those who sought and then fought for their freedom, and its consistent attention to the transnational dimensions of emancipation.
Author : Paul H. Dunn
Publisher : Gold Leaf Press (WA)
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781882723324
In The Light of Liberty, Paul H. Dun travels the trail of freedom. Through time and history, in wars of countries and ideals, he sees the light of liberty as a beacon of truth to the whole world. Rich with inimitable stories and examples and laced throughout with quotations from patriots, writers, and statesmen, The Light of Liberty is a celebration of America from sea to shining sea.
