Author : Florida. Division of Historical Resources
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
Traces the steps of Florida's Jewish pioneers from colonial times through the present through the historical sites in each county that reflect their heritage.
Author : Rosalyn Howard Ph D
Publisher : Rosalyn Howard, PH.D.
Page : pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780983127314
This book chronicles the history of Sarasota, Florida's African American community - Newtown - that celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2014. It answers questions about many aspects of community life: why the earliest African Americans who came to Sarasota, then a tiny fishing village, first settled in areas near downtown called -Black Bottom- and -over town;- their transition from there to Newtown; how they developed Newtown from swampland into a self-contained community to ensure their own survival during the Jim Crow era; the ways they earned a living, what self-help organizations they formed; their religious and educational traditions; residents' military service, the strong emphasis placed on education; how they succeeded in gaining political representation after filing a federal lawsuit; and much more. Newtown residents fought for civil rights, endured and triumphed over Jim Crow segregation, suffered KKK intimidation and violence, and currently are resisting the stealthy gentrification of their community. Whether you are new to the area, a frequent visitor, an educator, historian or a longtime resident trying to connect the dots in your family tree, you will find these stories of courage, dignity and determination enlightening and empowering!
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Chlordan
ISBN :
Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226372367
'In the Vineyard, as in all of Illich's writings, the search runs through accepted certainties, whatever their times and places, questioning them for truths still valid in the formation of personal wisdom.'-Mother Jerome von Nagel, O.S.B., Abbey of Regina LaudisThis book commemorates the dawn of scholastic reading. It tells about the emergence of an approach to letters that George Steiner calls bookish, and which for eight hundred years legitimated the establishment of western secular religion, and schooling its church.
Author : David Singer
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Demography
ISBN : 9780874951110
The Library owns the volumes of the American Jewish Yearbook from 1899 - current.
Author : Matthew Andrew Wasniewski
Publisher :
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Women legislators
ISBN :
Contains profiles, contextual essays, historical images, and appendices that provide information about the 229 women who have served in Congress from 1917 through 2006.
Author : Igor Cherstich
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520343794
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit. Viewing revolutions as all-embracing, world-creating projects, the authors ask readers to move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts of violent political rupture, and instead view them as processes of societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of people’s lives, unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human existence.
Author : Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried
Publisher : Springer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319284282
This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures for the U. S. space program. Then they boldly built hardware and facilities to accomplish those missions. The group existed only three years before they were transferred to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, in 1962, but their organization left a large mark on what would follow.Von Ehrenfried's personal experience with the STG at Langley uniquely positions him to describe the way the group was structured and how it reacted to the new demands of a post-Sputnik era. He artfully analyzes how the growing space program was managed and what techniques enabled it to develop so quickly from an operations perspective. The result is a fascinating window into history, amply backed up by first person documentation and interviews.
Author : Stevphen Shukaitis
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781904859352
From the ivory tower to the barricades! Radical intellectuals explore the relationship between research and resistance.
Author : Steve J. Heims
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Computers
ISBN :
This is the engaging story of a moment of transformation in the human sciences, a detailed account of a remarkable group of people who met regularly to explore the possibility of using scientific ideas that had emerged in the war years as a basis for interdisciplinary alliances.
