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Book A Tramp Across the Continent

Download or read book A Tramp Across the Continent written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lummis' foot journey from Ohio to Los Angeles. Very descriptive of the Southwest.

Book Radical Democracy

    Book Details:
  • Author : C. Douglas Lummis
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-10-01
  • ISBN : 1501712985
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Radical Democracy written by C. Douglas Lummis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. Douglas Lummis writes as if he were talking with intelligent friends rather than articulating political theory. He reminds us that democracy literally means a political state in which the people (demos) have the power (kratia). The people referred to are not people of a certain class or gender or color. They are, in fact, the poorest and largest body of citizens. Democracy is and always has been the most radical proposal, and constitutes a critique of every sort of centralized power. Lummis distinguishes true democracy from the inequitable incarnations referred to in contemporary liberal usage. He weaves commentary on classic texts with personal anecdotes and reflections on current events. Writing from Japan and drawing on his own experience in the Philippines at the height of People's Power, Lummis brings a cross-cultural perspective to issues such as economic development and popular mobilization. He warns against the fallacy of associating free markets or the current world economic order with democracy and argues for transborder democratic action. Rejecting the ways in which technology imposes its own needs, Lummis asks what work would look like in a truly democratic society. He urges us to remember that democracy should mean a fundamental stance toward the world and toward one's fellow human beings. So understood, it offers an effective cure for what he terms "the social disease called political cynicism." Feisty and provocative, Radical Democracy is sure to inspire debate.

Book A Look at the Lummis

Download or read book A Look at the Lummis written by John Stolpe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters from the Southwest  September 20  1884 to March 14  1885

Download or read book Letters from the Southwest September 20 1884 to March 14 1885 written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lummis' other set of letters, to the Los Angeles times, are well-known as the basis for his A Tramp across the continent (Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1892). These are the 24 letters written to the Chillicothe Leader. They are more robust than the Times versions, which were more deliberately crafted, more commercial. An essential for Western collections. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Charles F  Lummis  Crusader in Corduroy

Download or read book Charles F Lummis Crusader in Corduroy written by Dudley Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spanish Pioneers

Download or read book The Spanish Pioneers written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Islamic Values in the United States

Download or read book Islamic Values in the United States written by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography of immigrant Muslims examines five Northeastern communities, providing an intimate look at what it means to be a practicing Muslim in America at a time when Islam is in the forefront of international news.

Book Gallant Antagonist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jessica Steele
  • Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
  • Release : 1981-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780263108217
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Gallant Antagonist written by Jessica Steele and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pitcairn Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Trevor Lummis
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351911023
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Pitcairn Island written by Trevor Lummis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn Island was a tiny uninhabited Eden when, in January 1790, Fletcher Christian and eight sailors, together with six Polynesian men, twelve Tahitian women and one baby, landed from HMS Bounty. There they burned their boat, thus eliminating any chance of a voluntary return to the known world. Their disappearance was to remain a mystery for twenty years. This book discusses the purposes of the Bounty’s voyage, the mutiny and its consequences, but goes further than any previous publications, to relate the gripping drama of subsequent events on Pitcairn - of the fifteen men who landed on the island, only one was alive when they were discovered, twelve had been brutally murdered by their companions and one had commited suicide. The role of the women in shaping events on the island, and their input into the unique identity of the community, is fully considered for the first time. Their support for the men as rival groups-Tahitians or Europeans-or their concern for individuals largely decided which men lived and died, while the women themselves commited some of the murders. Conflicts over property, race and gender brought this group close to total destruction. But out of the clashes of cultures and individual wills between European mutineers and Pacific islanders came, in a brief space of time, the new community of ’Pitcairn Islanders’: a thriving society based on progressive laws relating to sexual equality and the environment, with significant resonances for the reader some two centuries later.

Book The Autograph Book of L A

Download or read book The Autograph Book of L A written by Josh Kun and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by the Autograph collection of the Los Angeles Public Library."

Book Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms

Download or read book Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms written by Harriet Lummis Smith and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pollyanna becomes the bride of Jimmy, the lonely orphan she befriended when she first went to live with Aunt Polly.

Book American Character

Download or read book American Character written by Mark Thompson and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Fletcher Lummis began his spectacular career in 1884 by walking from Ohio to start a new job at the three-year old Los Angeles Times. By the time of his death in 1928, the 3,500 mile "tramp across the continent" was just a footnote in his astonishingly varied career: crusading journalist, author of nearly two dozen books, editor of the influential political and literary magazine Out West, Los Angeles city librarian, preserver of Spanish missions, and Indian rights gadfly. Lummis both embodied and defined our vision of the West, and of America itself.

Book The Land of Poco Tiempo

Download or read book The Land of Poco Tiempo written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of New Mexico as Lummis found it when he moved to the territory in 1888 to recover his health. As Lummis translates the Spanish title, "poco tiempo" means "pretty soon" the phrase expresses the lack of haste in the lives of the area's inhabitants.

Book Reimagining Indians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sherry Lynn Smith
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0195157273
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Reimagining Indians written by Sherry Lynn Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about modern American culture, these writers produced a body of work that celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity. Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers, their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture, they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural survival in a world indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also encouraged notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history, and the history of the American West.

Book Wide Awake

    Book Details:
  • Author : Suzanne Lummis
  • Publisher : Pacific Coast Poetry
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9781892184030
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Wide Awake written by Suzanne Lummis and published by Pacific Coast Poetry. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin's "Top 10 Books of 2015", Wide Awake draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted newer writers-one hundred twelve poets of Los Angeles and its surrounding territories-whose work speaks to the humanity, pathos and comedy, of what may be the most romanticized and scorned, disparaged and exalted, of the world's great cities. With respect to style, the selections range from the narrative to the more open-ended or non-sequential, classic formal verse to robust vernacular, and in this way speak to the lively state of North American poetry in our age. Poets include David St. John, Wanda Coleman, Cecilia Woloch, Lynne Thompson, Timothy Steele, Kate Gale, Gail Wronsky, Terry Wolverton, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tony Barnstone, Robin Coste Lewis, William Archila and Melissa Roxas.

Book Dishonored 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Lummis
  • Publisher : Prima Games
  • Release : 2016-11
  • ISBN : 9780744017786
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dishonored 2 written by Michael Lummis and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dishonored 2 Standard Edition Guide includes... Complete Walkthrough: Coverage of the entire game, detailing strategy for stealthy and brutal playthroughs-- sneak across the rooftops or fight through the city streets! Full Coverage of Weapons & Powers: Learn about advanced bonecharm crafting and the all-new upgrade trees. Discover strategies for customizing your powers and how to best use your set of powers, gadgets, and weapons to accomplish your objectives. Detailed Maps: Confidently navigate the rat-infested streets of Dunwall and the exotic coasts of a decaying Karnaca. Find every mission objective, important location, and more. Hidden & Collectible Items Revealed: Find every collectible and hidden item in the game! Free Mobile-Friendly eGuide: Includes a code to access the eGuide, a web-access version of the complete guide optimized for a second-screen experience.

Book Taming the Wilds  Mastering Minecraft

Download or read book Taming the Wilds Mastering Minecraft written by Michael Lummis and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers basic gameplay to advanced features. Master the World of Color: tame new creatures, battle Illagers, explore frozen tundra and burning desert. Includes quick reference charts: find info on every block type, item, recipe, animal, and monster in the game.