Author : Peter Selz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520240529
'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.
Author : Patrick O'Kelley
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
The second book in this Revolutionary War series lists every single military action, no matter how small, in the Carolinas and Georgia.
Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1958
Category : United States
ISBN :
Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer--the participants themselves--and in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers. Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views; treason and prison escapes; songs and ballads; the home front and diplomacy abroad. In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a common sailor, and taking part in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. This various experience provided the material for his works, and made him a socialist. "The son of the Wolf" (1900), the first of his collections of tales, is based upon life in the Far North, as is the book that brought him recognition, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), which tells the story of the dog Buck, who, after his master ́s death, is lured back to the primitive world to lead a wolf pack. Many other tales of struggle, travel, and adventure followed, including "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), "White Fang" (1906), "South Sea Tales" (1911), and "Jerry of the South Seas" (1917). One of London ́s most interesting novels is the semi-autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). He also wrote socialist treatises, autobiographical essays, and a good deal of journalism.
Author : Jacob A. Zumoff
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1978809913
This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.
Author : André Chappatte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Marginality, Social
ISBN : 9781138045897
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The city and its regulations: Unexpected margins -- Part I Space and state regulation: The urban interstices -- 2 Markets and marginality in Beirut -- 3 The tremendous making and unmaking of the peripheries in current Istanbul -- 4 Resilient forms of urbanity on the margins? Al-Kherba: A vivid market in a damaged section of the medina of Tunis -- 5 Whose margins? Marginality, poverty and the moral geography of pre-Soviet Bukhara -- 6 On the margins of the city: Izmir Prison in the late Ottoman Empire -- Part II Diversity and moral policing: Making claims through marginalisation -- 7 'Texas': An off-centre district at the heart of nightlife in Odienné -- 8 The Manyema in colonial Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) between urban margins and regional connections -- 9 On the margins: Suburban space and religious deviancy in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur -- 10 Ethnic differentiation and conflict dynamics: Uzbeks' marginalisation and non-marginalisation in southern Kyrgyzstan -- Index
Author : Lawrence E. Walsh
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812924565
Author : Christopher Longstreth Ward
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258446345
Author : Arthur Seldon
Publisher : Collected Works of Arthur Seld
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780865975521
"Everyman's Dictionary of Economics provides over nineteen hundred concise desk encyclopedia-style articles on economic terms and concepts, as well as on significant people working in the field, in plain, nontechnical English. The articles challenge readers' acceptance of the conventional wisdom on such subjects as government intervention in economic matters."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Susan Janson
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN :
