Author : Rowland Edmund Prothero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1108025307
This survey of British agriculture is an important source for social and economic historians, especially of the First World War.
Author : Manie Culbertson
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : 9781455607891
A textbook describing the geography of Louisiana and tracing the history of the state from early Indian settlements to the present day.
Author : Boyd D. Cathey
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Essays
ISBN : 9781942806196
These essays range over several subject areas - longer essays about Southern heritage and history, pieces regarding the present assault on the symbols of that heritage, short semi-biographical items on diverse figures who have played a role in Southern history, various reviews.
Author : Joseph Hanlon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 9781565495203
The news from Zimbabwe is usually unremittingly bleak owing to the success of the Mugabe regime’s control of information and sequestration/elimination of political opponents. Perhaps no issue has aroused such ire as the land reforms Mugabe has implemented, which, according to what journalist reports are available, have largely benefited Mugabe’s cronies. ZimbabweTakes Back it Land, however, offers a much more positive and nuanced assessment of land reform in Zimbabwe, one that counters the dominant narratives of oppression and economic stagnation. While not minimizing the depredations of the Mugabe regime, and admitting that many of Mugabe’s supporters benefited from the dictators largesse, the authors show how ordinary Zimbabweans have taken charge of their destinies in creative and unacknowledged ways through their use of land holdings obtained through Mugabe’s land reform programs. This is an inspiring story of collective agency by the exploited, and how development can take place in even the most hostile of circumstances.
Author : Cecilia Lawrence
Publisher : Intercontinental Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 198156652X
THIS work is a general introduction to Swaziland since its founding as the Swazi nation. Its boundaries during precolonial times extended far beyond the borders of the modern state of Swaziland and included large portions of modern South Africa. The book provides some details about the land, the history and the people of Swaziland today and how they live. It also focuses on Swaziland during the early years of independence and her place in the context of southern Africa and of Africa as a whole then and now. It may help stimulate interest in some people to learn more about the country and may be enough to satisfy the curiosity of others who only want to learn some basic facts about this nation.
Author : Marion Kaplan
Publisher : Carcanet Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Combining history, geography, cultural study, and travelogue, this engaging look at Portugal is a fascinating introduction to its rich, turbulent history and people.
Author : Patrick D Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1561645826
A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Author : Arlie Russell Hochschild
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1620973987
The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.
Author : Simncha Kling
Publisher : U'd Syn Conservative Judaism
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Discusses the attachment of the Jewish people to the land of Israel. Also included is a section about Zionism and the Conservative Movement.
Author : Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467460273
In The Land and Its Kings biblical scholar Johanna van Wijk-Bos accompanies the reader across a large sweep of the story of Israel, from the end of King David’s reign through the fall of Jerusalem approximately 400 years later. She views these memories of Israel’s past, as they are woven together in Kings, from the perspective of the traumatic context of postexilic Judah. Van Wijk-Bos writes as a scholar of the Bible with deep commitments to feminism and issues of gender within patriarchal structures and ideologies. The voices and presence of women in the accounts receive special attention. As in the previous volumes of A People and a Land, van Wijk-Bos offers a close reading of the Hebrew text in translation to reacquaint readers with the path taken by Israel as the people embraced a form of monarchy, subsequently compromised their allegiance to God,, and were ultimately exiled from the land. She presents the multiplicity of voices which the collectors of this material let stand as an essential part of the complex history of their community. Van Wijk-Bos invites readers to enter into the text with questions and to find a way forward to draw closer to the presence of the Most Holy.
