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Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arc of Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Boyle
  • Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
  • Release : 2007-04-01
  • ISBN : 1429900164
  • Pages : 445 pages

Download or read book Arc of Justice written by Kevin Boyle and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.

Book The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier

Download or read book The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier written by Alan V. Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conversion of the lands on the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea by Germans, Danes and Swedes in the period from 1150 to 1400 represented the last great struggle between Christianity and paganism on the European continent, but for the indigenous peoples of Finland, Livonia, Prussia, Lithuania and Pomerania, it was also a period of wider cultural conflict and transformation. Along with the Christian faith came a new and foreign culture: the German and Scandinavian languages of the crusaders and the Latin of their priests, new names for places, superior military technology, and churches and fortifications built of stone. For newly baptized populations, the acceptance of Christianity encompassed major changes in the organization and practice of political, religious and social life, entailing the acceptance of government by alien elites, of new cultic practices, and of new obligations such as taxes, tithes and military service in the armies of the Christian rulers. At the same time, as the Western conquerors carried their campaigns beyond pagan territory into the principalities of north-western Russia, the Baltic Crusades also developed into a struggle between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. This collection of sixteen essays by both established and younger scholars explores the theme of clash of cultures from a variety of perspectives, discussing the nature and ideology of crusading in the medieval Baltic region, the struggle between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, and the cultural confrontation that accompanied the process of conversion, in subjects as diverse as religious observation, political structures, the practice of warfare, art and music, and perceptions of the landscape.

Book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112047793085 and Others

Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112047793085 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclop  dia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anglo American Encyclopedia

Download or read book Anglo American Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Divining  a Memoir in Trees

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  • Author : Maureen Dunphy
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2023-02-21
  • ISBN : 0814348432
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Divining a Memoir in Trees written by Maureen Dunphy and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring the intimate yet universal intersection of one human life with trees. A 2024 selection by the Sierra Club, Wisconsin Chapter Book Club Finalist for the Midwest Book Awards! In sixteen essays, each named after a species of tree, Maureen Dunphy explores the nature of human-arboreal relationships, and how each of these trees has—literally—served as a friend, a confidante, or a place to rest. The depth and diversity of these relationships are revealed through essays that are both intimate and universal, moving and informative. While Dunphy's relationships with trees are unique and personal, her work reveals the deep-rooted complexity that connects all of humanity to our staunch, upright companions in life, the members of the "Standing Nation." Beyond providing oxygen, food, and shelter, trees can be sites of emotional refuge, sources of intellectual enrichment, and a boon to physical, mental, and spiritual health. With essays, such as "Stairway to Heaven: The American Sycamore" and "Rocky Mountain High: The Colorado Pinyon," Dunphy gives readers many ways to reimagine our relationships with nature and self. Within reflections of her personal experience, she skillfully integrates scientific facts to achieve a balance of passion and practicality. While technology, screens, and the stress of the modern world directs our attention elsewhere, Dunphy brings the reader back to the trees right outside our windows.

Book The Encyclop  dia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the House of Austria  from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Habsburgh to the Death of Leopold the Second  1218 1792

Download or read book History of the House of Austria from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Habsburgh to the Death of Leopold the Second 1218 1792 written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the House of Austria from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II  1218 1792

Download or read book History of the House of Austria from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II 1218 1792 written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the House of Austria

Download or read book History of the House of Austria written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the House of Austria  from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh  to the Death of Leopold the Second  1218     to     1792

Download or read book History of the House of Austria from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold the Second 1218 to 1792 written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Youth Employment Act Youth Conservation Corps

Download or read book Youth Employment Act Youth Conservation Corps written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory of American Preservation Commissions

Download or read book Directory of American Preservation Commissions written by National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States and published by National Trust for Historic Preservation. This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: