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Book The Crabtrees of America

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  • Author : Ruth Cromwell Crabtree
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 780 pages

Download or read book The Crabtrees of America written by Ruth Cromwell Crabtree and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Billionaire Raj

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  • Author : James Crabtree
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2019-07-02
  • ISBN : 1524760072
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Billionaire Raj written by James Crabtree and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country’s top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world’s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation—and a struggle that will shape not just India’s future, but the world’s.

Book The Crabtrees of Colonial Maryland  Virginia and North Carolina

Download or read book The Crabtrees of Colonial Maryland Virginia and North Carolina written by Paul C. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emancipation

Download or read book Emancipation written by Molly Aloian and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title takes us behind the scenes into president Abraham Lincoln's decision to end slavery 150 years ago.

Book Unresolved Tensions

Download or read book Unresolved Tensions written by John Crabtree and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landslide election of Evo Morales in December 2005 pointed toward a process of accelerated change in Bolivia, forging a path away from globalization and the neoliberal paradigm in favor of greater national control and state intervention. This in turn shifted the power relations of Bolivia's internal politics-beginning with greater inclusion of the indigenous population-and altered the nation's foreign relations. Unresolved Tensions engages this realignment from a variety of analytical perspectives, using the Morales election as a lens through which to reassess Bolivia's contemporary political reality and its relation to a set of deeper historical issues. This volume brings together an expert group of commentators and participants from within the Bolivian political arena to offer diverse perspectives and competing views on issues of ethnicity, regionalism, state-society relations, constitutional reform, economic development, and globalization. In this way, the contributors seek to reassess Bolivia's past, present, and future, consider the ways in which the nation's historical developments flow from these deeper currents, and assess the opportunities and challenges that arise within the new political context.

Book History on Trial

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  • Author : Gary B. Nash
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0679767509
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book History on Trial written by Gary B. Nash and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive overview of the current debate over the teaching of history in American schools examines the setting of controversial standards for history education, the integration of multiculturalism and minorities into the curriculum, and ways to make history more relevant to students. Reprint.

Book Peru

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  • Author : John Crabtree
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-05-15
  • ISBN : 1783609060
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Peru written by John Crabtree and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While leftist governments have been elected across Latin America, this 'Pink Tide' has so far failed to reach Peru. Instead, the corporate elite remains firmly entrenched, and the left continues to be marginalised. Peru therefore represents a particularly stark example of 'state capture', in which an extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of a few corporations and pro-market technocrats has resulted in a monopoly on political power. Post the 2016 elections, John Crabtree and Francisco Durand look at the ways in which these elites have been able to consolidate their position at the expense of genuine democracy, with a particular focus on the role of mining and other extractive industries, where extensive privatization and deregulation has contributed to extreme disparities in wealth and power. In the process, Crabtree and Durand provide a unique case study of state development, by revealing the mechanisms used by elites to dominate political discussion and marginalize their opponents, as well as the role played by external actors such as international financial institutions and foreign investors. The significance of Crabtree's findings therefore extends far beyond Peru, and illuminates the wider issue of why mineral-rich countries so often struggle to attain meaningful democracy.

Book Holy Nation

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  • Author : Sarah Crabtree
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-07-13
  • ISBN : 022625593X
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Holy Nation written by Sarah Crabtree and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Early American Quakers transcended the idea of the nation-state during the turbulent Age of Revolution: “Provocative . . . important . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in Holy Nation Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Quakerism within the larger intellectual and religious undercurrents of the Atlantic world, Crabtree shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. She argues that during the turbulent Age of Revolution and Reaction, the Religious Society of Friends forged a “holy nation,” a transnational community of like-minded believers committed first and foremost to divine law and to one another. Declaring themselves citizens of their own nation served to underscore the decidedly unholy nature of the nation-state, worldly governments, and profane laws. As a result, campaigns of persecution against the Friends escalated as those in power moved to declare Quakers aliens and traitors to their home countries. Holy Nation convincingly shows that ideals and actions were inseparable for the Society of Friends, yielding an account of Quakerism that is simultaneously a history of the faith and its adherents and a history of its confrontations with the wider world. Ultimately, Crabtree says, the conflicts between obligations of church and state that Quakers faced can illuminate similar contemporary struggles. “A significant and highly important contribution to the scholarship on the intersection of religion and nationalism during [these] critical decades. . . . carefully researched and elegantly written.” —Kirsten Fischer, University of Minnesota

Book Lotta Crabtree

Download or read book Lotta Crabtree written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crabtrees of Southwest Virginia

Download or read book The Crabtrees of Southwest Virginia written by Margaret Milam McProud and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogy of the Crabtree families of Southwest Virginia.

Book March on Washington

Download or read book March on Washington written by Robin R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march for Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. approaches, this timely book looks at its organization, the key players, and why it is still relevant today.

Book Troupers of the Gold Coast  Or  The Rise of Lotta Crabtree

Download or read book Troupers of the Gold Coast Or The Rise of Lotta Crabtree written by Constance Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lotta Crabtree was very popular in San Francisco and in 1875 donated to the city a large water fountain, a gathering place for people after the earthquake and fire of 1906. The book discusses other actresses in late 19th century San Francisco.

Book Gettysburg

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  • Author : James Bow
  • Publisher : Crabtree Chrome
  • Release : 2012-12-15
  • ISBN : 9780778779377
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Gettysburg written by James Bow and published by Crabtree Chrome. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a factual and in-depth look at one of the bloodiest battles in American history. Features include a day-by-day breakdown of events, profiles of major figures, and a detailed review of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, one of the most important speeches in American history.

Book The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America  A De

Download or read book The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America A De written by Wilbur R. Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 2713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoratative four-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present.

Book Crabtree

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  • Author : Peter Crabtree
  • Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : P. Crabtree
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780973434705
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Crabtree written by Peter Crabtree and published by Oakville, Ont. : P. Crabtree. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Widow of the Free State of Jones

Download or read book Widow of the Free State of Jones written by Paulette Wilson and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel, Widow of the Free State of Jones, is about the courage of one woman who managed to survive the ravages of the Civil War as well as the war within the Free State of Jones County. The book is historical fiction but based on the life of Eliza Evans Crabtree and her husband Haynes, who were the author's great-grandparents. It is the product of many hours of research and remembrance of family stories. Haynes served in the Confederacy and died as a prisoner of war just before the war ended. He joined to please his brothers, not because he believed in slavery. Eliza praised God even when life seemed unmanageable. She took care of the farm aided by a young Confederate deserter. It seemed as if she was fighting against the Union, the Confederacy, and the Free State of Jones at the same time. After losing everything, Eliza and the children moved to Beaver Meadow, Alabama, to be near Murphy Crabtree and his family. She and the children worked until her goal of a boarding house was achieved. The story portrays life at its worst with the horrors of war, racial injustice, and poverty. It also describes life at its best with love and hard work reaping the reward of peace and security.

Book Who s who in America

Download or read book Who s who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 3728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: