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Book The Archive of Place

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Turkel
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0774840862
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Archive of Place written by William Turkel and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location � British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past � and different types of evidence � to justify their actions. These controversies serve as case studies, as William Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that extends the span of conventional historical research.

Book Some Prominent Virginia Families

Download or read book Some Prominent Virginia Families written by Louise Pecquet du Bellet and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The University of Oxford

Download or read book The University of Oxford written by L. W. B. Brockliss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh and readable account gives a complete history of the University of Oxford, from its beginnings in the 11th century to the present day - charting Oxford's improbable rise from provincial backwater to modern meritocratic and secular university with an ever-growing commitment to new research.

Book The Colonial Clippers

Download or read book The Colonial Clippers written by Basil Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Law Unto Itself

Download or read book A Law Unto Itself written by Nancy Lisagor and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Claim to the Country

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  • Author : Pippa Skotnes
  • Publisher : Jacana Media
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1770093370
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Claim to the Country written by Pippa Skotnes and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of all the notebook pages, watercolours and drawings that comprise the bulk of the Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek /Xam and !Kun (Bushmen) archive, with photographs, documents, letters and notes, as well as contextualizing essays and an index for the included narratives and contributors.

Book The History of Kilmarnock

Download or read book The History of Kilmarnock written by Archibald M'Kay and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Make a Way Somehow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Grover
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780815626268
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Make a Way Somehow written by Kathryn Grover and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking book, Kathryn Grover reconstructs from their own writings the lives of African Americans in Geneva, New York, virtually from its beginning in the 1790s, to the time of the community's first civil rights march in 1965. She weaves together demographic evidence and narratives by black Americans to recount their lives within a white-controlled society. Make a Way Somehow, which reflects the tenor of the gospel song whence it came, is a complete and meaningful history of black Genevans, with a moving focus on the individual experience. The author traces five principal migrations of African Americans to northern cities: the forced migration of slaves from the East and South before 1820; the antebellum fugitive slave farm-to-town movement; the postwar migration of emancipated people; the so-called Great Migration between the two World Wars; and the last movement that began around 1938 and ended in 1960, which was precipitated by the need for workers in large-scale commercial agriculture and the war-mobilization effort. Grover pieces together the lives of generations of African Americans in Geneva and delineates the local system of race relations from the city's social and economic standpoint. Black Genevans were kept at the fringes of society and worked in jobs that were temporary and scarce. While antislavery and suffrage work was common, it represented but a small portion of reform in towns whose broader sentiments opposed racial equality. In a work that spans more than a hundred years, the author establishes a context for understanding both the persistence of a small group of blacks and the transience of a great many others.

Book Archaeologists in Print

Download or read book Archaeologists in Print written by Amara Thornton and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. It examines how British archaeologists produced books and popular periodical articles for a non-scholarly audience, and explores the rise in archaeologists’ public visibility. Notably, it analyses women’s experiences in archaeology alongside better known male contemporaries as shown in their books and archives. In the background of this narrative is the history of Britain’s imperial expansion and contraction, and the evolution of modern tourism in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Archaeologists exploited these factors to gain public and financial support and interest, and build and maintain a reading public for their work, supported by the seasonal nature of excavation and tourism. Reinforcing these publishing activities through personal appearances in the lecture hall, exhibition space and site tour, and in new media – film, radio and television – archaeologists shaped public understanding of archaeology. It was spadework, scripted. The image of the archaeologist as adventurous explorer of foreign lands, part spy, part foreigner, eternally alluring, solidified during this period. That legacy continues, undimmed, today. Praise for Archaeologists in Print This beautifully written book will be valued by all kinds of readers: you don't need to be an archaeologist to enjoy the contents, which take you through different publishing histories of archaeological texts and the authors who wrote them. From the productive partnership of travel guide with archaeological interest, to the women who feature so often in the history of archaeological publishing, via closer analysis of the impact of John Murray, Macmillan and Co, and Penguin, this volume excavates layers of fascinating facts that reveal much of the wider culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The prose is clear and the stories compulsive: Thornton brings to life a cast of people whose passion for their profession lives again in these pages. Warning: the final chapter, on Archaeological Fictions, will fill your to-be-read list with stacks of new titles to investigate! This is a highly readable, accessible exploration into the dynamic relationships between academic authors, publishers, and readers. It is, in addition, an exemplar of how academic research can attract a wide general readership, as well as a more specialised one: a stellar combination of rigorous scholarship with lucid, pacy prose. Highly recommended!' Samantha Rayner, Director of UCL Centre for Publishing; Deputy Head of Department and Director of Studies, Department of Information Studies, UCL

Book Papua New Guinea Portraits

Download or read book Papua New Guinea Portraits written by James Griffin and published by Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. This book was released on 1978 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorials of Old Shropshire

Download or read book Memorials of Old Shropshire written by Thomas Auden and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alumni Carthusiani

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  • Author : Charterhouse School (Godalming, England)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Alumni Carthusiani written by Charterhouse School (Godalming, England) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This school was moved to Godalming in 1872.

Book Jesus College  Oxford  1571 1971

Download or read book Jesus College Oxford 1571 1971 written by John Norman Leonard Baker and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public general laws

Download or read book Public general laws written by Maryland and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captain Roger Jones  of London and Virginia

Download or read book Captain Roger Jones of London and Virginia written by Lewis Hampton Jones and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal

Download or read book The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal written by Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: