Peasants and Strangers
Author : Josef Barton
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780674280960
Strangers on the Western Front
Author : Guoqi Xu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0674060555
Book Description
During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other group. Xu explores China’s reasons for sending its citizens to help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the backgrounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe—across the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic—and their experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also considers the story from their perspective: how they understood this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. In recovering this fascinating lost story, Xu highlights the Chinese contribution to World War I and illuminates the essential role these unsung laborers played in modern China’s search for a new national identity on the global stage.
Cousins and Strangers
Author : Jose C. Moya
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 1998-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520921535
Book Description
More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants—mostly laborers and peasants—have been scarce in comparison with studies of other groups of smaller size and lesser influence. Presenting original research within a broad comparative framework, Jose C. Moya fills a considerable gap in our knowledge of immigration to Argentina, one of the world's primary "settler" societies. Moya moves deftly between micro- and macro-analysis to illuminate the immigration phenomenon. A wealth of primary sources culled from dozens of immigrant associations, national and village archives, and interviews with surviving participants in Argentina and Spain inform his discussion of the origins of Spanish immigration, residence patterns, community formation, labor, and cultural cognitive aspects of the immigration process. In addition, he provides valuable material on other immigrant groups in Argentina and gives a balanced critique of major issues in migration studies.
Strangers in the City
Author : Li Zhang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804742065
Book Description
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population," have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.
Peasants into Frenchmen
Author : Eugen Weber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804710139
Book Description
France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.
Essays
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 1899
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Dead Peasants
Author : Larry D. Thompson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250018005
Book Description
"Just terrific... As real as a heart attack, and every bit as suspenseful." --John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of A Plague of Secrets, on The Trial Veteran trial lawyer Larry D. Thompson has decades of courtroom experience in his home state of Texas on controversial and important trials. Now, in Dead Peasants, Thompson has delivered a fast-moving and suspenseful legal thriller featuring a retired lawyer whose life gets turned upside down when a stranger asks for help. Jack Bryant, exhausted after a high-profile career as a lawyer, takes an early retirement in Fort Worth, Texas, where he plans to kick back, relax, and watch his son play football at TCU. But then an elderly widow shows up with a check for life insurance benefits and that is suspiciously made payable to her dead husband's employer, Jack can't turn down her pleas for help and files a civil suit to collect the benefits rightfully due the widow. A chain of events that can't be stopped thrusts Jack into a vortex of killings, and he and his new love interest find themselves targets of a murderer. Gripping, engaging, and written with the authority that only a seasoned lawyer could possess, Dead Peasants is a legal thriller that will stun and surprise you.
The Works of Lyof N. Tolsto.̐: The long exile. Master and man. The Kreutzer sonata. Dramas
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 1899
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi: Essays, letters, and miscellanies
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 1899
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Essays, Letters, Miscellanies
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1899
Category :
ISBN :
