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Book Conservatism and Reform

Download or read book Conservatism and Reform written by Frederic Henry Hedge and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Bowdoin College

Download or read book History of Bowdoin College written by Nehemiah Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bowdoin College

Download or read book Bowdoin College written by Bowdoin College and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tropical Zion

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  • Author : Allen Wells
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-12
  • ISBN : 0822392054
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Tropical Zion written by Allen Wells and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America’s most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of a Sosúa settler, tells the compelling story of General Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and those fortunate pioneers who founded a successful employee-owned dairy cooperative on the north shore of the island. Why did a dictator admit these desperate refugees when so few nations would accept those fleeing fascism? Eager to mollify international critics after his army had massacred 15,000 unarmed Haitians, Trujillo sent representatives to Évian, France, in July, 1938 for a conference on refugees from Nazism. Proposed by FDR to deflect criticism from his administration’s restrictive immigration policies, the Évian Conference proved an abject failure. The Dominican Republic was the only nation that agreed to open its doors. Obsessed with stemming the tide of Haitian migration across his nation’s border, the opportunistic Trujillo sought to “whiten” the Dominican populace, welcoming Jewish refugees who were themselves subject to racist scorn in Europe. The Roosevelt administration sanctioned the Sosúa colony. Since the United States did not accept Jewish refugees in significant numbers, it encouraged Latin America to do so. That prodding, paired with FDR’s overriding preoccupation with fighting fascism, strengthened U.S. relations with Latin American dictatorships for decades to come. Meanwhile, as Jewish organizations worked to get Jews out of Europe, discussions about the fate of worldwide Jewry exposed fault lines between Zionists and Non-Zionists. Throughout his discussion of these broad dynamics, Wells weaves vivid narratives about the founding of Sosúa, the original settlers and their families, and the life of the unconventional beach-front colony.

Book Making a Map of the River

Download or read book Making a Map of the River written by Thorpe Moeckel and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making a Map of the River, award-winning poet Thorpe Moeckel focuses his rueful, tender attention on the spectrum of being-family, work, play, nature, home--sometimes all at once. The river in question is not just the Chattooga or its colorful, conflicted, rain chasing paddlers and guides. The river is consciousness itself, and Moeckel navigates the rapids and pools of memory and presence and language, layering moments of recognition and realization with painterly details and silty tonalities that embody the paradoxes of living in and representing the natural world. Lavish and austere, this is a book that lingers long on the tongue and eye and ear. It will fascinate readers who know the Chattooga and readers who don't--and will delight anyone who wishes to get closer to life's complexity, beauty, folly, and joy.

Book Russia s Abandoned Children

Download or read book Russia s Abandoned Children written by Clementine K. Fujimura and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fujimura takes us across history and into Russian society, its orphanages and shelters, and along the streets of the nation to see how abandoned children are stigmatized and shunned. Readers come to understand how and why these children, left orphans by death or by choice, form their own culture to find power and to survive. This pioneering work on child abandonment looks at Russian society from a new angle: from the perspectives of abandoned youngsters and their caretakers. Based on direct observation of and interviews with abandoned children, this work shows why any effort to rescue these children calls for a deep understanding of Russian culture, and why any effort to address abandonment in Russia calls for a joint effort between psychologists, social workers, and the children themselves. Researcher Fujimura takes us across history, into Russian society, its orphanages and shelters, and along the streets of the nation to see how abandoned children are stigmatized and shunned. We also come to understand how and why these children, left orphans by death or by choice, form their own culture to find power and to survive. This pioneering work on child abandonment looks at Russian society from a new angle: from the perspectives of abandoned youngsters and their caretakers. Based on direct observation of and interviews with abandoned children, this work shows why any effort to rescue these children calls for a deep understanding of Russian culture, and why any effort to affect abandonment in Russia calls for a joint effort between psychologists, social workers, and the children themselves.

Book Political Science 1963

Download or read book Political Science 1963 written by Europa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book The Liberal Hour

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  • Author : Robert Weisbrot
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008-07-10
  • ISBN : 1440637512
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book The Liberal Hour written by Robert Weisbrot and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging be hind-the-scenes look at the lesser-known forces that fueled the profound social reforms of the 1960s Provocative and incisive , The Liberal Hour reveals how Washington, so often portrayed as a target of reform in the 1960s, was in fact the era's most effective engine of change. The movements of the 1960s have always drawn the most attention from the decade's chroniclers, but it was in the halls of government-so often the target of protesters' wrath-that the enduring reforms of the era were produced. With nuance and panache, Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot present the real-life characters-from giants like JFK and Johnson to lesser-known senators and congressmen-who drove these reforms and were critical to the passage of key legislation. The Liberal Hour offers an engrossing portrait of this extraordinary moment when more progressive legislation was passed than in almost any other era in American history.

Book Floating Islands

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  • Author : Richard J. Heggen
  • Publisher : Richard Heggen
  • Release : 2021-01-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1227 pages

Download or read book Floating Islands written by Richard J. Heggen and published by Richard Heggen. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 1227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floating Islands in science, history, the arts and any number of sightings elsewhere

Book Unlearning to Fly

Download or read book Unlearning to Fly written by Jennifer Brice and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of a bookworm growing up in Alaska - among people whose resilience, restlessness, and energy find their highest expression in winter ascents of Mount McKinley or first descents of wild rivers.

Book Poems   Selected

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  • Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1848
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Poems Selected written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family Feuds

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  • Author : Eileen Hunt Botting
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791482030
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Family Feuds written by Eileen Hunt Botting and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Feuds is the first sustained comparative study of the place of the family in the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Wollstonecraft recognized both Rousseau's and Burke's influential stature in late eighteenth-century debates about the family. Wollstonecraft critically identified them as philosophical and political partners in the defense of the patriarchal structure of the family, yet she used Rousseau's conceptions of childhood education and maternal empowerment and Burke's understanding of the family as the affective basis for political socialization as a theoretical foundation for her own egalitarian vision of the family. It is this ideal of the egalitarian family, Botting contends, that is one of the most important yet least appreciated legacies of Enlightenment political thought.

Book Maine in the Early Republic

Download or read book Maine in the Early Republic written by Charles E. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Meadow

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  • Author : Brian Donahue
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300097511
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Great Meadow written by Brian Donahue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Employing precise geographical information system (GIS) mapping of land ownership and land use, Donahue describes how the land was settled and how mixed husbandry was developed in Concord. By reconstructing several farm neighborhoods and following them through many generations, he reveals a diverse sustainable farming system of tillage, orchards, pastures, hay meadows, and woodlots that required careful management of soil and water. Donahue concludes that ecological degradation came to Concord only later, when nineteenth-century economic and social forces undercut the environmental balance that earlier colonial farmers had nurtured."--BOOK JACKET.