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Book The Revolutionary s Cousin

Download or read book The Revolutionary s Cousin written by Cindy Davies and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahra, an Afghan widow with a troubled past, plans to leave Tehran with her fiancé, wealthy architect Karim, and her son Ahmad. Having lived through the post-revolutionary challenges in 1979 Iran, Zahra is anxious to settle in America. The reappearance of her revolutionary cousin Firzun, whom she believed dead in a bomb blast, changes everything.

Book Revolutionary Cousins

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-01-20
  • ISBN : 9781984036223
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Revolutionary Cousins written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Weaves the lives of John and Samuel Adams into one entertaining and educational narrative. *Includes several quotes and writings from both John and Samuel. *Analyzes their relationship, political collaboration and later political rivalry. *Includes pictures of John, Samuel, and important people, places, and events in their lives. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. Throughout the 1760s, colonial Boston was the principal thorn in the side of the British Empire, as British authorities constantly had to try to quell unrest over a series of taxes implemented against the colonies to try to finance the Seven Years War. At the heart of it all were two cousins, Samuel Adams and John Adams, who were destined to be two of Massachusetts and the American Revolution's most important figures. The American Revolution had no shortage of compelling characters with seemingly larger than life traits, including men like the multi-talented Benjamin Franklin, the wise Thomas Jefferson, the mercurial John Adams and the stoic George Washington. But no Revolutionary leader has been as controversial as Samuel Adams, who has been widely portrayed over the last two centuries as America's most radical and fiery colonist. Among his contemporaries, Samuel was viewed as one of the most influential colonial leaders, a man Thomas Jefferson himself labeled "truly the Man of the Revolution" and the one who the Boston Gazette eulogized as the "Father of the American Revolution." Adams was an outspoken opponent of British taxes in the 1760s, one of Boston's hardest working writers and orators, a leader of the Boston Caucus, active in the Sons of Liberty, and a political leader who organized large gatherings in settings like Faneuil Hall and the Old South Meeting House. When cousin John Adams was an Ambassador to France during the Revolution, he had to explain that he was not the "famous" Adams. John Adams has become one of the more popular presidents in history relatively recently, but it was not always so. For most of his life he was seen as a bit of an outsider, different from his fellow first presidents in his temperament, birth, life and politics. Adams and his son were the only presidents out of the first seven who were born north of the Mason Dixon line, and he was not an easy man to understand or work with. Not only did he have few friends, but he also often fell into long term quarrels with those he had. Adams remained a celebrated figure in Boston for all the work he did in Massachusetts before and after the Revolution, but his national reputation has experienced quite a renaissance over the past decade, beginning with David Mccullough's best selling biography in 2001, followed in 2008 by the popular HBO series based on it. Then, in 2010, Dearest Friend, a record of the correspondence between Adams and his wife Abigail solidified his position as one of the most darling Founding Fathers of the 21st Century. Revolutionary Cousins chronicles the amazing lives and work of the American Revolution's most famous cousins, examining their relationship, collaboration, and legacies. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events in his life, you will learn about Samuel and John Adams like you never have before, in no time at all.

Book The Post Revolutionary Self

Download or read book The Post Revolutionary Self written by Jan Goldstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the French Revolution, as attempts to restore political stability to France repeatedly failed, a group of concerned intellectuals identified a likely culprit: the prevalent sensationalist psychology, and especially the flimsy and fragmented self it produced. They proposed a vast, state-run pedagogical project to replace sensationalism with a new psychology that showcased an indivisible and actively willing self, or moi. As conceived and executed by Victor Cousin, a derivative philosopher but an academic entrepreneur of genius, this long-lived project singled out the male bourgeoisie for training in selfhood. Granting everyone a self in principle, Cousin and his disciples deemed workers and women incapable of the introspective finesse necessary to appropriate that self in practice. Beginning with a fresh consideration of the place of sensationalism in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, Jan Goldstein traces a post-Revolutionary politics of selfhood that reserved the Cousinian moi for the educated elite, outraged Catholics and consigned socially marginal groups to the ministrations of phrenology. Situating the Cousinian moi between the fragmented selves of eighteenth-century sensationalism and twentieth-century Freudianism, Goldstein suggests that the resolutely unitary self of the nineteenth century was only an interlude tailored to the needs of the post-Revolutionary bourgeois order.

Book The Partisan  a Romance of the Revolution

Download or read book The Partisan a Romance of the Revolution written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philip Freneau The Poet of the Revolution  A History of His Life and Times

Download or read book Philip Freneau The Poet of the Revolution A History of His Life and Times written by Mary S. Austin and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chambers s Encyclopaedia

Download or read book Chambers s Encyclopaedia written by David Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Charleston and the Emergence of Middle Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era

Download or read book Charleston and the Emergence of Middle Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era written by Jennifer L. Goloboy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often, says Jennifer L. Goloboy, we equate being middle class with “niceness”—a set of values frozen in the antebellum period and centered on long-term economic and social progress and a close, nurturing family life. Goloboy’s case study of merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, looks to an earlier time to establish the roots of middle-class culture in America. She argues for a definition more applicable to the ruthless pursuit of profit in the early republic. To be middle class then was to be skilled at survival in the market economy. What prompted cultural shifts in the early middle class, Goloboy shows, were market conditions. In Charleston, deference and restraint were the bywords of the colonial business climate, while rowdy ambition defined the post-Revolutionary era, which in turn gave way to institution building and professionalism in antebellum times. Goloboy’s research also supports a view of the Old South as neither precapitalist nor isolated from the rest of American culture, and it challenges the idea that post-Revolutionary Charleston was a port in decline by reminding us of a forgotten economic boom based on slave trading, cotton exporting, and trading as a neutral entity amid warring European states. This fresh look at Charleston’s merchants lets us rethink the middle class in light of the new history of capitalism and its commitment to reintegrating the Old South into the world economy.

Book The Great Revolution in Pitcairn

Download or read book The Great Revolution in Pitcairn written by Mark Twain and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Revolution of Marie

Download or read book The Revolution of Marie written by Noel A. Brand and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Noel A. Brand first met Marie Le Claire, a spirited young Frenchwoman, in July of 2013. Over the course of several interviews with Brand, she shared stories of her lifeand of her death in the eighteenth century. Marie is, in fact, a past-life persona of Brands present-day wife, Diane. In this biographical study, Brand recalls how he came to discover this relationship and what that discovery meant for Diane. He first explores his own background and considers the process of accessing past lives, as well as how past lives may influence peoples present existence. He then shares Maries life story, an engaging tale that is surprisingly relevant to the struggles of women today. Finally, he discusses the connection between Marie and Diane, providing practical exercises for the reader to use in their own past-life discovery. This personal narrative presents an exploration of past lives through the stories of a young woman from eighteenth-century France and the modern-day Australian to whom she is connected.

Book Washington After the Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Spohn Baker
  • Publisher : Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company
  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Washington After the Revolution written by William Spohn Baker and published by Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company. This book was released on 1898 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Revolution Was Televised

Download or read book The Revolution Was Televised written by Alan Sepinwall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large (including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad) Sepinwall weaves incisive criticism with entertaining reporting about the real-life characters and conflicts behind the scenes.

Book A Revolution in Type

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ayelet Brinn
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2023-11-14
  • ISBN : 1479817678
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book A Revolution in Type written by Ayelet Brinn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers Between the 1880s and 1920s, Yiddish-language newspapers rose from obscurity to become successful institutions integral to American Jewish life. During this period, Yiddish-speaking immigrants came to view newspapers as indispensable parts of their daily lives. For many Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, acclimating to America became inextricably intertwined with becoming a devoted reader of the Yiddish periodical press, as the newspapers and their staffs became a fusion of friends, religious and political authorities, tour guides, matchmakers, and social welfare agencies. In A Revolution in Type, Ayelet Brinn argues that women were central to the emergence of the Yiddish press as a powerful, influential force in American Jewish culture. Through rhetorical debates about women readers and writers, the producers of the Yiddish press explored how to transform their newspapers to reach a large, diverse audience. The seemingly peripheral status of women’s columns and other newspaper features supposedly aimed at a female audience—but in reality, read with great interest by male and female readers alike—meant that editors and publishers often used these articles as testing grounds for the types of content their newspapers should encompass. The book explores the discovery of previously unknown work by female writers in the Yiddish press, whose contributions most often appeared without attribution; it also examines the work of men who wrote under women’s names in order to break into the press. Brinn shows that instead of framing issues of gender as marginal, we must view them as central to understanding how the American Yiddish press developed into the influential, complex, and diverse publication field it eventually became.

Book    A    Biographical History of England  from Herbert the Great to the Revolution

Download or read book A Biographical History of England from Herbert the Great to the Revolution written by James Granger and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania written by John Woolf Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History written by Kenneth E. Hendrickson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 1145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies beyond western Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and Japan.” In The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History contributors survey the Industrial Revolution as a world historical phenomenon rather than through the traditional lens of a development largely restricted to Western society. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History is a three-volume work of over 1,000 entries on the rise and spread of the Industrial Revolution across the world. Entries comprise accessible but scholarly explorations of topics from the “aerospace industry” to “zaibatsu.” Contributor articles not only address topics of technology and technical innovation but emphasize the individual human and social experience of industrialization. Entries include generous selections of biographical figures and human communities, with articles on entrepreneurs, working men and women, families, and organizations. They also cover legal developments, disasters, and the environmental impact of the Industrial Revolution. Each entry also includes cross-references and a brief list of suggested readings to alert readers to more detailed information. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History includes over 300 illustrations, as well as artfully selected, extended quotations from key primary sources, from Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principal of Population” to Arthur Young’s look at Birmingham, England in 1791. This work is the perfect reference work for anyone conducting research in the areas of technology, business, economics, and history on a world historical scale.

Book The Revolution in Tanner s Lane

Download or read book The Revolution in Tanner s Lane written by William Hale White and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: