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Book Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel

Download or read book Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 1855-1927 are issued and bound: Handelingen van de algemeene vergadering.

Book Dutch Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert P. Swierenga
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 2002-11-07
  • ISBN : 9780802813114
  • Pages : 940 pages

Download or read book Dutch Chicago written by Robert P. Swierenga and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years "below the radar screens" of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In Dutch Chicago Robert Swierenga offers a colorful, comprehensive history of the Dutch Americans who have made their home in the Windy City since the mid-1800s. The original Chicago Dutch were a polyglot lot from all social strata, regions, and religions of the Netherlands. Three-quarters were Calvinists; the rest included Catholics, Lutherans, Unitarians, Socialists, Jews, and the nominally churched. Whereas these latter Dutch groups assimilated into the American culture around them, the Dutch Reformed settled into a few distinct enclaves -- the Old West Side, Englewood, and Roseland and South Holland -- where they stuck together, building an institutional infrastructure of churches, schools, societies, and shops that enabled them to live from cradle to grave within their own communities. Focusing largely but not exclusively on the Reformed group of Dutch folks in Chicago, Swierenga recounts how their strong entrepreneurial spirit and isolationist streak played out over time. Mostly of rural origins in the northern Netherlands, these Hollanders in Chicago liked to work with horses and go into business for themselves. Picking up ashes and garbage, jobs that Americans despised, spelled opportunity for the Dutch, and they came to monopolize the garbage industry. Their independence in business reflected the privacy they craved in their religious and educational life. Church services held in the Dutch language kept outsiders at bay, as did a comprehensive system of private elementary and secondary schools intended to inculcate youngsters with the Dutch Reformed theological and cultural heritage. Not until the world wars did the forces of Americanization finally break down the walls, and the Dutch passed into the mainstream. Only in their churches today, now entirely English speaking, does the Dutch cultural memory still linger. Dutch Chicago is the first serious work on its subject, and it promises to be the definitive history. Swierenga's lively narrative, replete with historical detail and anecdotes, is accompanied by more than 250 photographs and illustrations. Valuable appendixes list Dutch-owned garbage and cartage companies in greater Chicago since 1880 as well as Reformed churches and schools. This book will be enjoyed by readers with Dutch roots as well as by anyone interested in America's rich ethnic diversity.

Book Building Bridges

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Puschmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9789056255008
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Building Bridges written by Paul Puschmann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aunt Tena  Called to Serve

Download or read book Aunt Tena Called to Serve written by Tena A. Huizenga and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tena Huizenga felt the call to serve as a missionary nurse to Africa, she followed that call and served seventeen years at Lupwe, Nigeria, during a pivotal era in world missions. As she ministered to the natives, she recorded her thoughts and feelings in a diary and in countless letters to family and friends over 350 in her first year alone. / Through her eyes, we see the Lupwe mission, Tena's colleagues, and the many native helpers. Aunt Tena (Nigerians called all female missionaries "Aunt") tells this profoundly human story. Interesting in its own right, the book will also prove invaluable to historians, sociologists, and genealogists as they mine this rich resource.

Book Dutch Conversation grammar

Download or read book Dutch Conversation grammar written by T. G. G. Valette and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Psychology of Sports

Download or read book Psychology of Sports written by Seppo E. Iso-Ahola and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1986 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Permesta

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  • Author : Barbara S. Harvey
  • Publisher : Equinox Pub
  • Release : 2009-12-01
  • ISBN : 9786028397384
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Permesta written by Barbara S. Harvey and published by Equinox Pub. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the conclusion of Indonesia's long and arduous struggle for independence most of its people believed there would be a rapid improvement of social and economic conditions. During the early years of independence some progress was made in this direction, most prominently in education, and for the time being at least Indonesian society did become somewhat more egalitarian than in the colonial period. But the degree of improvement fell far short of expectations, and disillusionment and frustration led increasingly to an understandable tendency to blame the central government in Jakarta for the inadequate measures taken to meet the expectations that had been aroused during the revolution. For several years, in Java as well as in the Outer Islands, disenchantment with the central government was moderated by the widely held belief that the first national democratic elections-finally actually held in 1955-56-could be counted upon to produce a genuinely representative government disposed to take, and capable of implementing, the decisive actions required to attain social and economic progress. But in fact the elections brought little change; cabinet membership was largely the same, the political parties no more disposed to cooperate with each other, and governmental capacity to bring about social and economic progress no greater than before. Once this became clear, dissatisfaction and criticism of the central government was no longer restrained and became more forcefully articulated and pointed. Especially was this so in the highly politically conscious areas of Sumatra and Sulawesi that felt slighted and discriminated against by what they perceived to be an increasingly Java-centric cast of national leadership in Jakarta. The several movements for increased regional autonomy-culminating in open rebellion in Sulawesi and Sumatra-dominated Indonesia's political history from 1957 to 1959 and constituted a major watershed in the country's political development. As Dr. Harvey points out, they link the period between the last phase of parliamentary government and the subsequent more authoritarian and centralized system of Guided Democracy, and their ultimate failure paved the way for the firm establishment of the latter system and more generally for a substantial change in the overall pattern of power. - George McT. Kahin

Book Famous Frisians in America

Download or read book Famous Frisians in America written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Globi Neerlandici

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  • Author : Peter Van Der Krogt
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9004614079
  • Pages : 663 pages

Download or read book Globi Neerlandici written by Peter Van Der Krogt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries, ca. 1525-1800.

Book The Structure and Function of Oral Mucosa

Download or read book The Structure and Function of Oral Mucosa written by Julia Meyer and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1984 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dutch American Experience

Download or read book The Dutch American Experience written by Hans Krabbendam and published by Vu University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatuumbi

Download or read book The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatuumbi written by David Arnold Odden and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Phonology of Armenian

Download or read book The Phonology of Armenian written by Bert Vaux and published by Phonology of the World's Langu. This book was released on 1998 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents the first contemporary linguistic treatment of Armenian, an Indo-European language whose distinct dialects range geographically from Poland to India. The book documents a rich linguistic (and literary) history dating from the fourth-century translation of the Bible into Classical Armenian. Data are drawn from Classical, Middle, and Standard Eastern and Western Armenian, and from the author's fieldwork on non-standard dialects.

Book The Phonology of English   A Prosodic Optimality Theoretic Approach

Download or read book The Phonology of English A Prosodic Optimality Theoretic Approach written by Michael Hammond and published by Oxford University Press, UK. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phonology of English introduces the subject from an Optimality-Theoretic perspective. Written by a high-profile American phonologist, the book presents an analysis of new generalizations about the surface shapes of English words. It will not only be the most up to date introduction to English phonology, but will also provide the clearest available account of Optimality Theory. Its combination of accessibility, originality and clear analysis make this essential reading for all those interested in the sounds of English words and some of the latest developments in linguistics theory. - ;The Phonology of English offers a new approach to English phonology. It focuses on the prosody of the language, i.e. syllable and foot structure, and does so from an optimality-theoretic (OT) perspective. The focus is on surface distributional regularities and the results presented are based on extensive searches through various computerized lexicons. The outcome is a number of new generalizations about the phonology of English, along with confirmation of some familiar regularities. All of these empirical results are discussed in detail and presented in extensive charts with a plethora of examples. The Phonology of English also offers a unique OT analysis. This provides a detailed introduction to the intricacies of the theory as applied to a significant amount of data. A number of important theoretical proposals are developed in this model, and the analysis presents the idea that certain complex constraints and their ranking can be derived in restricted ways from more basic constraints. In addition, the book also develops the idea that syllables of English can contain from zero to three moras. It is suggested that the phonology of English only makes sense if partial morphemes of the cranberry sort are licensed more widely. The book is thus intended as a detailed presentation of novel empirical results about the sound system of English, along with important theoretical results about phonological theory. -

Book Impolite Learning

Download or read book Impolite Learning written by Anne Goldgar and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a social and cultural community in which scholars were bound by a host of unwritten codes, highlighting the importance of social interaction for the intellectual world in the period immediately preceding the Enlightenment.

Book Estate Landscapes   Design  Improvement and Power in the Post medieval Landscape

Download or read book Estate Landscapes Design Improvement and Power in the Post medieval Landscape written by Jonathan Finch and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting study of the social and landscape phenomena of the Estate Landscape. In recent years, the post-medieval landscape has attracted new interest from archaeologists, historians, and geographers concerned to understand the development of the historic environment. One of the key structuring elements within these landscapes from the sixteenth century until the aftermath of the Second World War was undoubtedly the landed estate. However, it was not until the late nineteenth century that any systematic attempt to quantify the presence of these estates was undertaken, prompted by the move to democratic reform and the persistent link between political power and landed wealth. Yet the importance of the landed estate in structuring power, social relationships, and both agricultural and industrial production was not limited to the UK. From the eighteenth century, the link between the UK estates and patterns of landholding and exploitation in the colonies became increasingly complex and recursive. This volume explores the relationships between the form and structure of British and Colonial estate landscapes, their agricultural management and the political structures and social relationships they reproduced. The articles address themes as diverse as the creation and development of the agrarian landscape, improvement, ornamental landscapes and gardens and estate architecture. Overall, it highlights the wealth and diversity of existing scholarship and suggests new directions for post-medieval archaeology in this dynamic area of research.

Book A History of Inventions  Discoveries  and Origins

Download or read book A History of Inventions Discoveries and Origins written by Johann Beckmann and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: