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The story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which U.S. society is based. <br/>...
| Автор | Martin Case |
The Proclamation of the Irish Republic is the most significant document in Irish history. The credo contained therein, to cherish ‘all of the children of the nation equally’, has come to define its seven signatories, marking a common bond in their life’s work. Their memory intensely moulded by their political activities, history can forget the diverse background from which these seven men came—family histories that touched upon twenty counties and economic environments ranging from extreme...
| Автор | Paul Gorry |
<P>Here are the engrossing facts about one of the least-known movements in Connecticut's history—the rise, organization, and operations of the Underground Railroad, over which fugitive slaves from the South found their way to freedom. Drawing his data from published sources and, perhaps more importantly, from the still-existing oral tradition of descendants of Underground agents, Horatio Strother tells the detailed story in this book, originally published in 1962. He traces...
| Автор | Horatio T. Strother |
The start of the Irish Civil War was signalled by the artillery bombardment of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922. A week later, the Four Courts was gutted and O’Connell Street a smouldering ruin, but the anti-Treaty IRA was driven from the city. Most accounts of the fighting in Dublin end there. The Civil War in Dublin reveals the complete, shocking story of Ireland’s capital during the ten-month guerrilla war that followed – a ruthless and bitter cycle of execution, outrage and...
| Автор | John Dorney |
<P>Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteenth century. When Crandall accepted a black woman as a student, she unleashed a storm of controversy that catapulted her to national notoriety, and drew the attention of the most significant pro- and anti-slavery activists of the day. The Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an attempt to close down her school....
| Автор | Donald E. Williams |
"One reason Koncewicz’s narrative is so compelling is that it’s also a redemption story."—The Washington Post "Excruciatingly timely."—Kirkus Reviews In more than three thousand recorded conversations, the Nixon tapes famously exposed a president’s sinister views of governance that would eventually lead to his downfall. Despite Richard Nixon’s best efforts, his vision of a government where he...
| Автор | Michael Koncewicz |
<P>Imagine a walking tour of stanzas and prose poems that give lyric voice to sight, public speech, and spectacle. In Exhibition Park, Roberto Tejada delivers a command performance in mixed genres that compel an array of literary styles. His poetry undertakes a wide range of subjects motivated by artworks from Latin America and the United States covering the colonial period to the present day. </P><P>In serial poems, short sketches, guidebook parodies,...
| Автор | Roberto Tejada |
Detroit, MIchigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women-centered hip hop collective, <I>Women Rapping...
| Автор | Rebekah Farrugia |
After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This is the story of what happened in the camps. In Camps raises key questions that remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who determines this status? And how does it change over time? From Guam to Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong, In Camps is the first major work on Vietnamese refugee policy to pay...
| Автор | Jana K. Lipman |
From the 1840s through the end of the Civil War, leading Minnesotans invited slaveholders and their wealth into the free territory and free state of Minnesota, enriching the area's communities and residents. Dozens of southern slaveholders and people raised in slaveholding families purchased land and backed Minnesota businesses. Slaveholders' wealth was invested in some of the state's most significant institutions and provided a financial foundation for several towns and...
| Автор | Christopher Lehman |
Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president’s xenophobic, racist, ableist,...
| Автор | A. Naomi Paik |
<P>Connecticut in the American Civil War offers readers a remarkable window into the state's involvement in a conflict that challenged and defined the unity of a nation. The arc of the war is traced through the many facets and stories of battlefield, home front, and factory. Matthew Warshauer masterfully reveals the varied attitudes toward slavery and race before, during, and after the war; Connecticut's reaction to the firing on Fort Sumter; the dissent in the state over...
| Автор | Matthew Warshauer |
<P><B>Winner of the Bruce Fraser Award (2016)</B></P><P>Voices of Civil War soldiers rise from the pages of Heroes for All Time. This book presents the war straight from the minds and pens of its participants; rich passages from soldiers' letters and diaries complement hundreds of outstanding period photographs, most previously unpublished. The soldiers' moving experiences, thoughts, and images animate each chapter....
| Автор | Dione Longley |
<P>On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,700 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation, and «Remember New London!» would become a rallying cry for troops under General Lafayette. In Homegrown Terror, Eric D. Lehman chronicles the events leading up to the attack and highlights this key transformation in Arnold—the point where he went from betraying...
| Автор | Eric D. Lehman |
<P>This is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and action. <BR>The German national tradition of historiography had its beginnings in the reaction against the Enlightenment and the French Revolution of 1789. This historiography...
| Автор | Georg G. Iggers |
Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a new way for people to think about the alien phenomenon, one that is concerned not with establishing whether aliens actually exist, but with understanding what belief in aliens in America may tell us...
| Автор | Bridget Brown |
A comparative history of cross-cultural encounters and the critical role of cannibalism in the early modernperiod Cannibalism, for medieval and early modern Europeans, was synonymous with savagery. Humans who ate other humans, they believed, were little better than animals. The European colonizers who encountered Native Americans described them as cannibals as a matter of course, and they wrote extensively about the lurid cannibal rituals they claim to have witnessed. In this definitive...
| Автор | Kelly L. Watson |
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colorful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. A powerful «history from below,» this book follows those «rumors of emancipation» and the people who spread them, bringing to life the protagonists in the...
| Автор | Julius S. Scott |
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England. [/b][b] Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy to prayer. However, it was a matter of interpretation, and sometimes public opinion, if these symptoms were visited upon the victim, or if they came from within. Both early modern England...
| Автор | Erika Gasser |
Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province’s pioneers. The resulting collection — 2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and everyday experiences — is considered by historians to be one of the best sources of primary information about the province. To the general public, however, the tales in these tapes...
| Автор | Robert Budd |
Originally published in 1908. Author: Lord John De Joinville Language: English Keywords: History / Crusades Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
| Автор | Lord John De Joinville |
Opowieść o grupie ludzi, których młodość przypada na burzliwe czasy schyłku Republiki Weimarskiej i początku istnienia III Rzeszy. Młoda Żydówka o niezwykłym talencie malarskim, policjant usiłujący zachować prawość w okrutnych czasach, majętny mężczyzna zarażony ideą nazizmu i człowiek ogarnięty ezoterycznym szaleństwem to bohaterowie powieści, którzy próbują odnaleźć się w nowej rzeczywistości. Kiedy nadchodzą rządy Hitlera, żadne z nich nie spodziewa się, że właśnie narodziło się czyste zło....
| Автор | Joanna Jax |
Thriller historique-archéologique Un secret caché par des siècles, lieux chargés de magie, une histoire d’amour troublée, une secte occulte : voici les ingrédients d’un roman où histoire et ironie, archéologie et mystère sont mélangés pour créer un intrigue captivant. Un voyage passionnant dans l’espace et le temps, des anciens Romains aux Croises du Moyen Age, de l'empire Byzantin aux Médicis de la Renaissance, jusqu'à aujourd’hui. Tarse (Turquie), 8 Juillet 2010. Un professeur universitaire...
| Автор | Stefano Conti |
Hannibal moet sestig oorlog olifante van Karthago af in Noord-Afrika, oor die Middel van die See na Iberia vervoer. Hy moet sy mense op lei om hierdie moeilike taak uit gerig te kry. Die eerste deel van hierdie projek is om een olifant op 'n skip te laai en na die ooste te vaar op die agtien-dag reis. Hy het sy grootste olifant gekies, Obolus, om te gebruik in die opleiding van sy manne. Hannibal moet sestig oorlog olifante van Karthago af in Noord-Afrika, oor die Middel van die See na Iberia...
| Автор | Charley Brindley |