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Book That Pride of Race and Character

Download or read book That Pride of Race and Character written by Caroline E. Light and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor, declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. Their reasons are partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and character which has supported them through so many ages of trial and vicissitude. In That Pride of Race and Character, Caroline E. Light examines the American Jewish tradition of benevolence and charity and explores its southern roots. Light provides a critical analysis of benevolence as it was inflected by regional ideals of race and gender, showing how a southern Jewish benevolent empire emerged in response to the combined pressures of post-Civil War devastation and the simultaneous influx of eastern European immigration. In an effort to combat the voices of anti-Semitism and nativism, established Jewish leaders developed a sophisticated and cutting-edge network of charities in the South to ensure that Jews took care of those considered their own while also proving themselves to be exemplary white citizens. Drawing from confidential case files and institutional records from various southern Jewish charities, the book relates how southern Jewish leaders and their immigrant clients negotiated the complexities of fitting in in a place and time of significant socio-political turbulence. Ultimately, the southern Jewish call to benevolence bore the particular imprint of the regionOCOs racial mores and left behind a rich legacy."

Book The Pride of the South 1928 2014

Download or read book The Pride of the South 1928 2014 written by Bill DeJournett and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1928, the University of Mississippi Marching Band, "The Pride of the South," has entertained audiences throughout the South for almost ninety years. This book recalls the history of the group throughout its various eras and eleven directors, including photographs.

Book Pride  Prejudice and Cheese Grits

Download or read book Pride Prejudice and Cheese Grits written by Mary Jane Hathaway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious Southern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice tells the story of two hard-headed Civil war historians who find that first impressions can be deceiving. Shelby Roswell, a Civil War historian and professor, is on the fast track to tenure—that is, until her new book is roasted by the famous historian Ransom Fielding in a national review. With her career stalled by a man she’s never met, Shelby struggles to maintain her composure when she discovers that Fielding has taken a visiting professorship at her small Southern college. Ransom Fielding is still struggling with his role in his wife’s accidental death six years ago and is hoping that a year at Shelby’s small college near his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, will be a respite from the pressures of Ivy League academia. He never bargained for falling in love with the one woman whose career—and pride—he injured, and who would do anything to make him leave. When these two hot-headed southerners find themselves fighting over the centuries-old history of local battles and antebellum mansions, their small college is about to become a battlefield of Civil War proportions. With familiar and relatable characters and wit to spare, Pride, Prejudice and Cheese Grits shows you that love can conquer all…especially when pride, prejudice, love, and cheese grits are involved!

Book Pride Of The Sea

Download or read book Pride Of The Sea written by Tom Waldron and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a warm spring morning in May 1986, twelve crew members were crossing the Atlantic on perhaps the most historically accurate sailboat of its day, the Pride of Baltimore. The wind was brisk, the mood was relaxed: they were on the journey home. Within hours, a sudden, fierce storm would overwhelm the ship, leaving four sailors dead and eight locked in a terrifying battle against the sea.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : University of Georgia. Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 694 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Georgia. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of Pride

Download or read book The Book of Pride written by Mason Funk and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or friends, frequently under the threat of violence and persecution. By shining a light on these remarkable stories of bravery and determination, THE BOOK OF PRIDE not only honors an important chapter in American history, but also empowers young people today (both LGBTQ and straight) to discover their own courage in order to create positive change. Furthermore, it serves a critically important role in ensuring the history of the LGBTQ movement can never be erased, inspiring us to resist all forms of oppression with ferocity, community, and, most importantly, pride

Book Life in the South

Download or read book Life in the South written by Catherine Cooper Hopley and published by London, Chapman and Hall. This book was released on 1863 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Part of the Pride

Download or read book Part of the Pride written by Kevin Richardson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daring lion keeper seen by millions on YouTube gives insider's view of life inside the pride

Book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand

Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Herd Book

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  • Author : American Short-horn Breeders' Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1126 pages

Download or read book American Herd Book written by American Short-horn Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Pride of Eagles

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  • Author : Beryl Salt
  • Publisher : Helion and Company
  • Release : 2015-02-19
  • ISBN : 1908916265
  • Pages : 857 pages

Download or read book A Pride of Eagles written by Beryl Salt and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of military aviation in Rhodesia from the romantic days of 'bush' flying in the 1920s and '30s-when aircraft were refueled from jerrycans and landing grounds were often the local golf course-to the disbandment of the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) on Zimbabwean independence in 1980. In 1939 the tiny Royal Rhodesian Air Force (RRAF) became the first to take up battle stations even before the outbreak of the Second World War. The three Rhodesian squadrons served with distinction in East Africa, the Western Desert, Italy and Western Europe. At home Rhodesia became a vast training ground for airmen from across the Empire-from Britain, the Commonwealth and even Greece. After the war, Rhodesia, on a negligible budget, rebuilt its air force, equipping it with Ansons, Spitfires, Vampires, Canberras, Hunters and Alouettes. Following UDI, the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965, international sanctions were imposed, resulting in many remarkable and groundbreaking innovations, particularly in the way of ordnance. The bitter 'bush war' followed in the late 1960s and '70s, with the RhAF in the vanguard of local counterinsurgency operations and audacious preemptive strikes against vast guerrilla bases in neighboring Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana and as far afield as Angola and Tanzania. With its aging fleet, including C-47 'Dakotas' that had been at Arnhem, the RhAF was able to wreak untold havoc on the enemy, Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA. The late author took over 30 years in writing this book; the result is a comprehensive record that reflects the pride, professionalism and dedication of what were some of the world's finest airmen of their time. The late Beryl Salt was born in London in 1931. She emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1952 to get married in Salisbury, where her two sons were born. In 1953 she joined the Southern Rhodesian Broadcasting Services (later the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation, the RBC). With a love of history she wanted to find out as much as she could about her new country. This interest led to radio dramas and feature programmes, followed by several books: School History Text Book, The Encyclopaedia of Rhodesia and The Valiant Years, a history of the country as seen through the newspapers. She also produced a dramatized radio series about the Rhodesian Air Force. In 1965 she left the RBC and spent three years with the Ministry of Information, following which she was a freelance writer/broadcaster involved in a wide variety of projects until 1980 when she moved to Cape Town. She died in England in November 2001.

Book Americanizing the Movies and Movie Mad Audiences  1910 1914

Download or read book Americanizing the Movies and Movie Mad Audiences 1910 1914 written by Richard Abel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinema—both movies and movie-going—in the early 1910s. At the same time, it makes clear the profound relationship between early cinema and the construction of a national identity in this important transitional period in the United States. Richard Abel looks closely at sensational melodramas, including westerns (cowboy, cowboy-girl, and Indian pictures), Civil War films (especially girl-spy films), detective films, and animal pictures—all popular genres of the day that have received little critical attention. He simultaneously analyzes film distribution and exhibition practices in order to reconstruct a context for understanding moviegoing at a time when American cities were coming to grips with new groups of immigrants and women working outside the home. Drawing from a wealth of research in archive prints, the trade press, fan magazines, newspaper advertising, reviews, and syndicated columns—the latter of which highlight the importance of the emerging star system—Abel sheds new light on the history of the film industry, on working-class and immigrant culture at the turn of the century, and on the process of imaging a national community.

Book Nexus Press

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993*
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Nexus Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1993* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pride of Obsession

Download or read book Pride of Obsession written by A. J. Aizenstat and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the full story of Christopher Columbus, the central figure of the age of sea exploration, who brought his contemporaries into a vastly expanded world changing forever their lives and the scope of human history. It is the first comprehensive and well integrated biography, soundly rooted in historical fact, that places his life, time and deeds in proper perspective. The fast-paced narrative, keeping events and incidents in their context, replaces myths and distortions with documented facts and clear down-to-earth analysis. Disregarding past stereotypes, the story of Columbus emerges as that of a human being of blood and flesh who, like all of us, had to take on life with its inherent contradictions and limitations. It is the story of a complex man of humble origin driven by the innovative power of his vision. Lofty dreams and persistent struggles, sweeping action and painful defeats, high accomplishments and dismal failures are all part of the many-sided fabric of a life lived on a scale without precedents. What makes the true story of Columbus especially relevant in our time is the looming age of space exploration, which is bound to become the dominant factor of the twenty-first century. Its far-reaching consequences for the way we live and think can no more be imagined at this stage than it was possible, for the people who lived in 1492, to imagine the extraordinary transformation that would ensue from Columbus’ discovery of the New World. The latter is the only available precedent of comparable importance in human history that no one can ignore in the face of a future about which very little is known or even imaginable.

Book Pride of the South

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  • Author : Philip R. N. Katcher
  • Publisher : Osprey Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781581592429
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Pride of the South written by Philip R. N. Katcher and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Confederate Leaders in the east -- Biographies: east: Edward porter Alexander -- Richard Heron Anderson -- Lewis Addison Armistead -- Jubal Anderson Early -- Nathan George Evans -- Richard Stoddart Ewell -- John Brown Gordon -- Maxcy Gregg -- Wade Hampton -- Henry Heth -- Ambrose Powell Hill -- Thomas Jonathan Jackson -- John Brevard Kershaw -- Robert Edward Lee -- James Longstreet -- Lafayette McLaws -- William Mahone -- William Nelson Pendleton -- George Edward Pickett -- Robert Emmett Rodes -- Gustavus Woodson Smith -- James Ewell Brown Stuart -- William Henry Chase Whiting -- Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox -- The plates: east -- Confederate Leaders in the west -- Biographies: west: Pierre Gaston Touton Beauregard -- Braxton Bragg -- John Cabell Breckinridge -- Simon Bolivar Buckner -- Benjamin Franklin Cheatham -- Patrich Ronayne Cleeburne -- Basil Wilson Duke -- Nathan Bedford Forrest -- Franklin Gardner -- William Joseph Hardee -- Daniel Harvey Hill -- John Bell Hood -- Albert Sidney Johnston -- Joseph Eggleston Johnston -- John Bankhead Madruder -- John Hunt Morgan -- John Clifford Pemberton -- Leonidas Polk -- Sterling Price -- Edmund Kirky Smith -- Alexander Peter Stewart -- Richard Taylor -- Earl Van Dorn -- Joseph Wheeler -- The plates: west -- Index.

Book The Southern Past

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  • Author : William Fitzhugh Brundage
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07
  • ISBN : 9780674028982
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book The Southern Past written by William Fitzhugh Brundage and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. Indeed, today's controversies over flying the Confederate flag, renaming schools and streets, and commemorating the Civil War and the civil rights movement are only the latest examples of this ongoing divisive contest over issues of regional identity and heritage. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the power to determine what we remember of the past, and whether that remembrance will honor all Southerners or only select groups. For more than a century after the Civil War, elite white Southerners systematically refined a version of the past that sanctioned their racial privilege and power. In the process, they filled public spaces with museums and monuments that made their version of the past sacrosanct. Yet, even as segregation and racial discrimination worsened, blacks contested the white version of Southern history and demanded inclusion. Streets became sites for elaborate commemorations of emancipation and schools became centers for the study of black history. This counter-memory surged forth, and became a potent inspiration for the civil rights movement and the black struggle to share a common Southern past rather than a divided one. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's searing exploration of how those who have the political power to represent the past simultaneously shape the present and determine the future is a valuable lesson as we confront our national past to meet the challenge of current realities.