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Book Eleven Exiles

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  • Author : Phyllis R. Blakeley
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 1982-01-01
  • ISBN : 1554881528
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Eleven Exiles written by Phyllis R. Blakeley and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British North America. Eleven Exiles reflects the major themes of those turbulent years. What were the attitudes of these men and women toward the significant social and political ideas of the time? What motivated them to leave their home and move to a wildnerness? What challenges and hardships did they face?

Book Eleven Exiles

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  • Author : Phyllis R.. Blakeley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9789993421191
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Eleven Exiles written by Phyllis R.. Blakeley and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exile to Siberia  1590 1822

Download or read book Exile to Siberia 1590 1822 written by A. Gentes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development.

Book Weimar in Exile

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  • Author : Jean-Michel Palmier
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2017-01-31
  • ISBN : 1784786462
  • Pages : 864 pages

Download or read book Weimar in Exile written by Jean-Michel Palmier and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. Exiled across the world, they continued the fight against Nazism in prose, poetry, painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to their return to a ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Hanns Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.

Book Siberia and the Exile System

Download or read book Siberia and the Exile System written by George Kennan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American journalist's unflinching account, published in two volumes in 1891, of Russia's brutal penal system in Siberia.

Book Flag in Exile

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  • Author : David Weber
  • Publisher : Baen Books
  • Release : 2002-09
  • ISBN : 0743435753
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Flag in Exile written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction roman.

Book ELEVEN EXILES

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  • Author : PHYLLIS R. BLAKELEY
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9789993421269
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book ELEVEN EXILES written by PHYLLIS R. BLAKELEY and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patriots in Exile

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  • Author : James Waring McCrady
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2020-07-17
  • ISBN : 1643360809
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Patriots in Exile written by James Waring McCrady and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical study of a little-known episode of the American Revolution in which Charleston residents were held in a British-occupied region of Florida. In the months following the May 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by combined British and loyalist forces, British soldiers arrested sixty-three Americans and transported them to the borderland town of St. Augustine, East Florida—territory under British control since the French and Indian War. In Patriots in Exile, James Waring McCrady and C. L. Bragg chronicle the banishment of these southerners, the hardships endured by their families, and the plight of the enslaved men and women who accompanied them. McCrady and Bragg examine the events from various perspectives, including the British who governed occupied Charleston, the families left behind, the armies in the field, the Continental Congress, and finally the Jacksonboro Assembly of January and February 1782. Using primary sources and archival materials, the authors develop biographical sketches of each exile and illuminate important facets of the American Revolution’s southern theater. While they shared a common fate, the exiles were a diverse lot of tradesmen, artisans, prominent civilians, military officers, and others—among them three signers of the Declaration of Independence. Although they had clear socioeconomic differences, most were unrepentant patriots forced to navigate complex and dangerous circumstances.

Book American Revolutions  A Continental History  1750 1804

Download or read book American Revolutions A Continental History 1750 1804 written by Alan Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence. The discord smoldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of “We the People,” the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But it was Jefferson’s expansive “empire of liberty” that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.

Book Fasti Hellenici by Henry Fynes Clinton

Download or read book Fasti Hellenici by Henry Fynes Clinton written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Siberia and the Exile System

Download or read book Siberia and the Exile System written by George Kennan and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constitution of Athens and Related Texts

Download or read book Constitution of Athens and Related Texts written by Aristotle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshing approach to the study of major Western philosophers. Introductory essays by noted scholars enliven each volume with insights into the human side of the great thinkers, and provide authoritative discussions of the historical background, evolution and importance of their ideas. Highly recommended as stimulating classroom text.

Book The Labyrinth of Exile

Download or read book The Labyrinth of Exile written by Ernst Pawel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-11-21 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Theodore Herzl, the founding father of modern Zionism.

Book Exile and Identity

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  • Author : Katherine R. Jolluck
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2002-09-15
  • ISBN : 0822970678
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Exile and Identity written by Katherine R. Jolluck and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2002-09-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using firsthand, personal accounts, and focusing on the experiences of women, Katherine R. Jolluck relates and examines the experiences of thousands of civilians deported to the USSR following the Soviet annexation of eastern Poland in 1939.Upon arrival in remote areas of the Soviet Union, they were deposited in prisons, labor camps, special settlements, and collective farms, and subjected to tremendous hardships and oppressive conditions. In 1942, some 115,000 Polish citizens—only a portion of those initially exiled from their homeland—were evacuated to Iran. There they were asked to complete extensive questionnaires about their experiences.Having read and reviewed hundreds of these documents, Jolluck reveals not only the harsh treatment these women experienced, but also how they maintained their identities as respectable women and patriotic Poles. She finds that for those exiled, the ways in which they strove to recreate home in a foreign and hostile environment became a key means of their survival.Both a harrowing account of brutality and suffering and a clear analysis of civilian experiences in wartime, Exile and Identity expands the history of war far beyond the military battlefield.

Book Out of Exile

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  • Author : Craig Walzer
  • Publisher : Haymarket Books
  • Release : 2023-06-15
  • ISBN : 1642595527
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Out of Exile written by Craig Walzer and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of conflicts and persecution have driven millions from their homes in all parts of the northeast African country of Sudan. Many thousands more have been enslaved as human spoils of war. In their own words, the narrators of Out of Exile recount their lives before their displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their hopes to someday return home. Included are the stories of: ABUK: a native of South Sudan now living in Boston, who survived ten years as a slave after being captured by an Arab militia. MARCY and ROSE: best friends, who have spent the vast majority of their lives in a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. They remember almost nothing of their former homes in Sudan. MATHOK: who struggled to find opportunities as a refugee in Cairo, but eventually fell into a world of gangs and violence.

Book The Impossible Exile

Download or read book The Impossible Exile written by George Prochnik and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly isolated exile—from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally Petrópolis—where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself. The Impossible Exile tells the tragic story of Zweig’s extraordinary rise and fall while it also depicts, with great acumen, the gulf between the world of ideas in Europe and in America, and the consuming struggle of those forced to forsake one for the other. It also reveals how Zweig embodied, through his work, thoughts, and behavior, the end of an era—the implosion of Europe as an ideal of Western civilization.

Book William Douglas  or the Scottish Exiles  An historical novel

Download or read book William Douglas or the Scottish Exiles An historical novel written by William DOUGLAS (“the Scottish Exile.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: