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Book Reborn in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Saugera
  • Publisher : University Alabama Press
  • Release : 2011-10-04
  • ISBN : 9780817317232
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book Reborn in America written by Eric Saugera and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The history of the Vine and Olive Colony in Demopolis, Alabama, has long been clouded by romantic myths. The notion that it was a doomed attempt by Napoleonic exiles in America to plant a wine- and olive-growing community in Alabama based on the ideals of the French Revolution, has long been bolstered by the images that have been proliferated in the popular imagination of French ladies (in Josephine-style gowns) and gentlemen (in officer’s full dress uniforms) lounging in the breeze on the bluffs overlooking the Tombigbee River while sturdy French peasants plowed the rich soil of the Black Belt. Indeed, these picturesque images come close to matching the dreams that many of the exiles themselves entertained upon arrival. But Eric Saugera’s recent scholarship does much to complicate the story. Based on a rich cache of letters by settlement founders and promoters discovered in French regional archives, Reborn in America humanizes the refugees, who turn out to have been as interested in profiteering as they were in social engineering and who dallied with schemes to restore the Bonapartes and return gloriously to their homeland. The details presented in this story add a great deal to what we know of antebellum Alabama and international intrigues in the decades after Napoleon’s defeat, and shed light as well on the other, less glamorous refugees: planters fleeing from the revolution in Haiti, whose interest was much more purely agricultural and whose lasting influence on the region was far more durable.

Book A L A  Catalog  1926

Download or read book A L A Catalog 1926 written by Isabella Mitchell Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protestant Exiles From France

Download or read book Protestant Exiles From France written by David C. A. Agnew and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book From Exile To Diaspora

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. San Juan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-04-03
  • ISBN : 0429721145
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book From Exile To Diaspora written by E. San Juan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes essays of the narrative of Filipino lives in the United States to provoke interrogation of the conventional wisdom and a critique of the global system of capital. It helps in constituting the Filipino community as an agent of historic change in a racist society.

Book A L A  Catalog

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Library Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1304 pages

Download or read book A L A Catalog written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diasporas and Exiles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard Wettstein
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2002-10-07
  • ISBN : 0520228642
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Diasporas and Exiles written by Howard Wettstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rarely have I encountered a collection of essays that coheres so well around an overarching theme. This will be an important resource."—Hillel J. Kieval, author of Languages of Community

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  87  1944

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 87 1944 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1464 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book The Encyclopedia Americana

Download or read book The Encyclopedia Americana written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization  Independence  and Sovereignty

Download or read book Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization Independence and Sovereignty written by Martin Ayong Ayim and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medievalisms in a Global Age

Download or read book Medievalisms in a Global Age written by Robert Squillace and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York. Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, images, and tales flourish as never before. The essays collected here, informed by approaches from Global Studies and the critical discourse on the concept of a "Global Middle Ages", explore the many facets of contemporary medievalism: post-colonial responses to the enforced dissemination of Western medievalisms, attempts to retrieve pre-modern cultural traditions that were interrupted by colonialism, the tentative forging of a global "medieval" imaginary from the world's repository of magical tales and figures, and the deployment across borders of medieval imagery for political purposes. The volume is divided into two sections, dealing with "Local Spaces" and "Global Geographies". The contributions in the first consider a variety of medievalisms tied to particular places across a broad geography, but as part of a larger transnational medievalist dynamic. Those in the second focus on explicitly globalist medievalist phenomena whether concerning the projection of a particular medievalist trope across borders or the integration of "medieval" pasts from different parts of the globe in a contemporary incarnation of medievalism. A wide range of topics are addressed, from Japanese manga and Arthurian tales to The O-Trilogy of Maurice Gee, Camus, and Dungeons and Dragons.

Book Coming Home  Vol  2

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  • Author : Sharif Gemie
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2014-07-18
  • ISBN : 1443864161
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Coming Home Vol 2 written by Sharif Gemie and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wars of the twentieth century uprooted people on a previously unimaginable scale to the extent that being a refugee became an increasingly widespread experience. With the arrival of refugees, governments of host countries had to mediate between divided national populations: some wished to welcome those arriving in search of refuge; others preferred a strategy of exclusion or even expulsion. At the same time, refugees had to manage conflicts of the self as they responded to the loss of nationhood, families, socio-political networks, material goods, and arguably also a sense of belonging or home. While return migration was usually perceived by governments and refugees alike as the best solution to the dilemmas of forced displacement, consensus about the timing and dynamics of how this would actually occur was very difficult to achieve. In practice, the return of refugees to their countries of origin rarely, if ever, produced a wholly satisfactory outcome. Conflicts clearly resulted in forced displacement, but it is equally true that forced displacement created conflicts. The complex inter-relationship of conflict, return migration and the sometimes chimerical, but still compelling search for a sense of home is the central preoccupation of the contributors to the two volumes of the Coming Home? series. Scholars from history, literature, cultural studies and sociology explore the tensions between nation-states and migrants as they have anticipated, implemented or challenged the process of return migration during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The first volume – Coming Home? Conflict and Return Migration in the Aftermath of Europe’s Twentieth-Century Civil Wars – covers the period of the Spanish Civil War to the Cold War with a focus on Western, Central and Eastern Europe. This book shifts attention to the colonial and post-colonial framework of the French-North African nexus.

Book Introduction to Corrections

Download or read book Introduction to Corrections written by Robert D. Hanser and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Corrections provides students with an understanding of basic concepts in the field of corrections. The book offers comprehensive coverage of both institutional and community corrections, with particular emphasis on the perspective of the practitioner. Students taking corrections classes often have wild misconceptions about prison work and the corrections environment - misconceptions typically derived from movies and the news, and even current textbooks. In this new text, Robert Hanser uses his own on-the-ground experience to colorfully explain how the corrections system actually works, and what′s it′s like to be a part of it. A practioner, scholar, and experienced teacher whose research has focused on gangs, domestic violence, and corrections, Hanser introduces students to the correctional worker′s complex world of sub-cultural norms, the impact of prisoner classification and assessment, and both the theory and legal elements affecting corrections systems today.

Book Rose Handbook of Bible Charts  Maps  and Timelines

Download or read book Rose Handbook of Bible Charts Maps and Timelines written by Rose Publishing and published by Rose Publishing. This book was released on 2024 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Handbook of Rose Publishing's best Bible charts, maps, and timelines"--

Book The American Bookseller

Download or read book The American Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remembering French Algeria

Download or read book Remembering French Algeria written by Amy L. Hubbell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally “black-feet”) were former French citizens of Algeria who suffered a traumatic departure from their homes and discrimination upon arrival in France. In response, the once heterogeneous group unified as a community as it struggled to maintain an identity and keep the memory of colonial Algeria alive. Remembering French Algeria examines the written and visual re-creation of Algeria by the former French citizens of Algeria from 1962 to the present. By detailing the preservation and transmission of memory prompted by this traumatic experience, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrates how colonial identity is encountered, reworked, and sustained in Pied-Noir literature and film, with the device of repetition functioning in these literary and visual texts to create a unified and nostalgic version of the past. At the same time, however, the Pieds-Noirs’ compulsion to return compromises these efforts. Taking Albert Camus’s Le Mythe de Sisyphe and his subsequent essays on ruins as a metaphor for Pied-Noir identity, this book studies autobiographical accounts by Marie Cardinal, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, and Leïla Sebbar, as well as lesser-known Algerian-born French citizens, to analyze movement as a destabilizing and productive approach to the past.

Book Space Systems Architecture for Resource Utilization

Download or read book Space Systems Architecture for Resource Utilization written by Peter J. Schubert and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space resources will transform human enterprise. This practical workbook is a comprehensive treatment, packed with unique exercises, and offers an invaluable guide for start-ups, students, and space enthusiasts, who will find insights to strengthen and deepen their own capabilities. Systems are complex and architectures tie them together, requiring technical understanding, and so much more. This book will show the reader how to start a space business, appeal to legislators, interact with regulators, engage the public, and to coordinate diverse, international teams. It will allow them to gain the confidence to build, live, work, and move about in space.