A Fluid Frontier

Author : Karolyn Smardz Frost
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814339602

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A Fluid Frontier by Karolyn Smardz Frost Pdf

As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a place of freedom and opportunity. In A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland, editors Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker explore the experiences of the area’s freedom-seekers and advocates, both black and white, against the backdrop of the social forces—legal, political, social, religious, and economic—that shaped the meaning of race and management of slavery on both sides of the river. In five parts, contributors trace the beginnings of and necessity for transnational abolitionist activism in this unique borderland, and the legal and political pressures, coupled with African Americans’ irrepressible quest for freedom, that led to the growth of the Underground Railroad. A Fluid Frontier details the founding of African Canadian settlements in the Detroit River region in the first decades of the nineteenth century with a focus on the strong and enduring bonds of family, faith, and resistance that formed between communities in Michigan and what is now Ontario. New scholarship offers unique insight into the early history of slavery and resistance in the region and describes individual journeys: the perilous crossing into Canada of sixteen-year-old Caroline Quarlls, who was enslaved by her own aunt and uncle; the escape of the Crosswhite family, who eluded slave catchers in Marshall, Michigan, with the help of others in the town; and the international crisis sparked by the escape of Lucie and Thornton Blackburn and others. With a foreword by David W. Blight, A Fluid Frontier is a truly bi-national collection, with contributors and editors evenly split between specialists in Canadian and American history, representing both community and academic historians. Scholars of the Underground Railroad as well as those in borderland studies will appreciate the interdisciplinary mix and unique contributions of this volume.

Author : Philip Weaver,David Billett,Pei-Yuan Qian,Jozee Sarrazin
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832527399

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Understanding ocean ridges, a new frontier for science and development by Philip Weaver,David Billett,Pei-Yuan Qian,Jozee Sarrazin Pdf

Author : Andrew Newman,Linda Campbell,Sara Safransky,Tim Stallmann
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814342985

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A People's Atlas of Detroit by Andrew Newman,Linda Campbell,Sara Safransky,Tim Stallmann Pdf

Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit’s redevelopment and alternative visions for its future.

Author : Catherine Cangany
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226096841

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Frontier Seaport by Catherine Cangany Pdf

Detroit’s industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today’s troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proximity to the West as well as its access to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River positioned this new metropolis at the intersection of the fur-rich frontier and the Atlantic trade routes. In Frontier Seaport, Catherine Cangany details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit’s history. She argues that by the time of the American Revolution, Detroit functioned much like a coastal town as a result of the prosperous fur trade, serving as a critical link in a commercial chain that stretched all the way to Russia and China—thus opening Detroit’s shores for eastern merchants and other transplants. This influx of newcomers brought its own transatlantic networks and fed residents’ desires for popular culture and manufactured merchandise. Detroit began to be both a frontier town and seaport city—a mixed identity, Cangany argues, that hindered it from becoming a thoroughly “American” metropolis.

Author : Rajeshwari Dutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493420

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Empire on Edge by Rajeshwari Dutt Pdf

Reveals how British officials attempted to understand and impose order on northern Belize during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Sara L. Spurgeon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603445924

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Exploding the Western by Sara L. Spurgeon Pdf

The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's texts--continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western "mythic" tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon's analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future

Author : Alida C. Metcalf
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292706529

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Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil by Alida C. Metcalf Pdf

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil was originally published by the University of California Press in 1992. Alida Metcalf has written a new preface for this first paperback edition.

Author : Terry Maley,John R. Wallach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487554040

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Envisioning Democracy by Terry Maley,John R. Wallach Pdf

Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations’ public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political perspectives. In Envisioning Democracy, the editors and contributors address the following questions: What does democracy mean today? What could it mean tomorrow? What is the dynamic of democracy in an increasingly interdependent world? Envisioning Democracy explores these questions amid the dynamic of democracy as a political phenomenon interacting with forms of economic, ethical, ethnic, and intellectual life. The book draws on the work of Sheldon S. Wolin (1922–2015), one of the most influential American theorists of the last fifty years. Here, scholars consider the historical conditions, theoretical elements, and practical impediments to democracy, using Wolin’s insights as touchstones in thinking through the possibilities and obstacles facing democracy now and in the future.

Author : Heidi LM Jacobs
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781771964784

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1934 by Heidi LM Jacobs Pdf

The true story of the first Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship. The pride of Chatham’s East End, the Coloured All-Stars broke the colour barrier in baseball more than a decade before Jackie Robinson did the same in the Major Leagues. Fielding a team of the best Black baseball players from across southwestern Ontario and Michigan, theirs is a story that could only have happened in this particular time and place: during the depths of the Great Depression, in a small industrial town a short distance from the American border, home to one of the most vibrant Black communities in Canada. Drawing heavily on scrapbooks, newspaper accounts, and oral histories from members of the team and their families, 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year shines a light on a largely overlooked chapter of Black baseball. But more than this, 1934 is the story of one group of men who fought for the respect that was too often denied them. Rich in detail, full of the sounds and textures of a time long past, 1934 introduces the All-Stars’ unforgettable players and captures their winning season, so that it almost feels like you’re sitting there in Stirling Park’s grandstands, cheering on the team from Chatham.

Author : Thomas M. Wilson,Hastings Donnan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118255254

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A Companion to Border Studies by Thomas M. Wilson,Hastings Donnan Pdf

A Companion to Border Studies “Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies.” Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute “Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” Choice “This book, with its interdisciplinary team of authors from many world regions, shows the state of the art in this research field admirably.” Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University “This volume will be the definitive work on borders and border-related processes for years into the future. The editors have done an outstanding job of identifying key themes, and of assembling influential scholars to address these themes. David Nugent, Emory University “This urgently needed Companion, edited by two leading figures of border studies, reflects past insights and showcases new directions: a must read for understanding territory, power and the state.” Dr. Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick “This impressive collection will have a broad appeal beyond specialist border studies. Anyone with an interest in the nation-state, nationalism, ethnicity, political geography or, indeed, the whole historical project of the modern world system will want to have access to a copy. The substantive scope is global and the intellectual reach deep and wide. Simply indispensable. ” Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield Dramatic growth in the number of international borders has coincided in recent years with greater mobility than ever before – of goods, people and ideas. As a result, interest in borders as a focus of academic study has developed into a dynamic, multi-disciplinary field, embracing perspectives from anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. Authors provide a comprehensive examination of key characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism. A Companion to Border Studies brings together these disciplines and viewpoints, through the writing of an international collection of preeminent border scholars. Drawing on research from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, the contributors argue that the future of Border Studies lies within such diverse collaborations, which approach comparatively the features of borders worldwide.

Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547004660

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The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner Pdf

The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the idea of the frontier shaped the American being and characteristics. He writes how the frontier drove American history and why America is what it is today. Turner reflects on the past to illustrate his point by noting human fascination with the frontier and how expansion to the American West changed people's views on their culture. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The Significance of the Frontier in American History_x000D_ The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay_x000D_ The Old West_x000D_ The Middle West_x000D_ The Ohio Valley in American History_x000D_ The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History_x000D_ The Problem of the West_x000D_ Dominant Forces in Western Life_x000D_ Contributions of the West to American Democracy_x000D_ Pioneer Ideals and the State University_x000D_ The West and American Ideals_x000D_ Social Forces in American History_x000D_ Middle Western Pioneer Democracy

Author : Thomas D. Petter
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068756

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The Land between Two Rivers by Thomas D. Petter Pdf

A survey of recent scholarship shows that historians who are skeptical about any “real” history of early Israel have disparaged the idea that Israel had an early presence in Transjordan. This skeptical stance, however, is by no means shared by everyone. Cross, for instance, asserted that the tribe of Reuben was a catalyst for Yahwism in the period preceding the rise of kings in Israel and Transjordan (in the 10th/9th centuries B.C.). Weaving together biblical, extrabiblical, and archaeological data available to him at the time (1988), Cross demonstrated the reality of an early Israelite presence in Transjordan. Ongoing excavations—at Tall al-’Umayri, the type-site for the Late Bronze–Iron I transition in the region bounded by the Wadi Zarqa in the north and the Wadi Mujib in the south, and at Tall Madaba, which had an early Iron I settlement—now confirm a tribal presence in these Transjordanian areas during the early Iron I. By bringing together applicable anthropological research and relevant biblical, extrabiblical, and archaeological data, Petter outlines a context-driven interpretive framework within which to plot tribal ethnic expressions in the past. From the perspective of the longue durée, we can see that frontier regions tend to exhibit episodic changes of hand: competing sides claimed legitimate ownership, sometimes by way of making the gods owners of the land.

Author : Fei Sun,Shuomin Zhong,Yichao Liu,Shuai Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782832538852

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Transformation Optics and its Frontier Branches by Fei Sun,Shuomin Zhong,Yichao Liu,Shuai Zhang Pdf

Transformation optics has been widely used for controlling various fields/waves, such as electromagnetic fields, acoustic waves, thermal fields, and water waves. Many novel devices with unique functions (e.g., invisibility cloak, perfect imaging, etc.) can be designed with the help of Transformation optics. In recent years, many new research branches in transformation optics are developing, such as simultaneous controlling multiple physical fields, deep learning for designing invisibility cloaks, optical surface transformation, and so on. This Research Topic will focus on any frontier areas and research branches related to transformation optics.

Author : William Small, Jr.,Tarita O. Thomas
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889457946

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Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT) – A New Frontier for Personalized Medicine as Adjuvant Treatment and Treatment of Locally Recurrent Advanced Malignancy by William Small, Jr.,Tarita O. Thomas Pdf

Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is a treatment delivery technique with reports starting in the early 20th century. There are numerous advantages of IORT in oncology including delivery of a tumoricidal radiation dose in a single treatment, direct visualization of the treatment area of interest, decreasing dose to surrounding tissues, among others. In this series we focus on the clinical application, radiobiology and physics of IORT with an emphasis on the Intrabeam system. As medicine and health care continue to evolve the new frontier of personalized medicine must continue to rigorously evaluate and implement technologies that limit costs and provide meaningful therapeutic benefit.

Author : Leonard A Curchin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134451128

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The Romanization of Central Spain by Leonard A Curchin Pdf

Curchin explores how, why and to what extent the peoples of Central Spain were integrated into the Roman Empire during the period from the second century BC to the second century AD. He approaches the question from a variety of angles, including the social, economic, religious and material experiences of the inhabitants as they adjusted to change, the mechanisms by which they adopted new structures and values, and the power relations between Rome and the provincials. The book also considers the peculiar cultural features of Central Spain, which made its Romanization so distinctive.