Black Midas

Author : Jan Carew
Publisher : Caribbean Modern Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1845230957

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Black Midas by Jan Carew Pdf

Astonishingly vivid, bawdy, and tempestuous, this novel is a cautionary tale about greed and class conflict in postcolonial Guyana. Comparing ruthless 20th-century prospectors to the long-ago Spanish explorers who raped a continent in their quest for El Dorado, the novel follows the dreams and delusions of Aron Smart, a youth orphaned early in life and brought up on a farm by his grandparents who impressed upon him the value of an education. When Aron's schooling is cut short after a reversal of fortune, however, he becomes deeply discouraged by his lack of opportunity and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a diamond prospector. He quickly becomes very rich--his companions in the mines call him Shark--and he is determined to use his new wealth to buy his way into the middle class. But Aron is out of his element in the world of property and prestige, and, cheated of his fortune, he returns to the interior, mining with a reckless madness that leaves him terribly maimed in an accident--and causes him to dream of returning to his grandfather's life, built on the solid rhythms of farming and caring for the land.

Author : Jan R. Carew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0894101242

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Black Midas by Jan R. Carew Pdf

Author : Jan R. Carew,Sylvia Wynter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Guyana
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172013679903

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Black Midas by Jan R. Carew,Sylvia Wynter Pdf

Author : Carol Jenkins,Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Publisher : One World
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345453488

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Black Titan by Carol Jenkins,Elizabeth Gardner Hines Pdf

The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence bore comparison to J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Here, for the first time, is the story of the life of this extraordinary pioneer, told by his niece and grandniece, the award-winning television journalist Carol Jenkins and her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Born at a time when the bitter legacy of slavery and Reconstruction still poisoned the lives of black Americans, Gaston was determined to make a difference for himself and his people. His first job, after serving in the celebrated all-black regiment during World War I, bound him to the near-slavery of an Alabama coal mine—but even here Gaston saw not only hope but opportunity. He launched a business selling lunches to fellow miners, soon established a rudimentary bank—and from then on there was no stopping him. A kind of black Horatio Alger, Gaston let a single, powerful question be his guide: What do our people need now? His success flowed from an uncanny genius for knowing the answer. Combining rich family lore with a deep knowledge of American social and economic history, Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Hines unfold Gaston’s success story against the backdrop of a century of crushing racial hatred and bigotry. Gaston not only survived the hardships of being black during the Depression, he flourished, and by the 1950s he was ruling a Birmingham-based business empire. When the movement for civil rights swept through the South in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Gaston provided critical financial support to many activists. At the time of his death in 1996, A. G. Gaston was one of the wealthiest black men in America, if not the wealthiest. But his legacy extended far beyond the monetary. He was a man who had proved it was possible to overcome staggering odds and make a place for himself as a leader, a captain of industry, and a far-sighted philanthropist. Writing with grace and power, Jenkins and Hines bring their distinguished ancestor fully to life in the pages of this book. Black Titan is the story of a man who created his own future—and in the process, blazed a future for all black businesspeople in America.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Archives
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005952648

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American State Papers by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Andrew Coles,David Hawkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781576603727

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MIDAS Technical Analysis by Andrew Coles,David Hawkins Pdf

This book provides a new, powerful twist to MIDAS technical analysis, a trading method developed by the late Paul Levine. The authors show how to employ MIDAS in trading, from recognizing set ups to identifying price targets. The book explains the basics of MIDAS before demonstrating how to apply it in different time frames. Further, it extrapolates how MIDAS can be used with other more conventional indicators, such as DeMark or moving averages. In addition to introducing new indicators that the authors have created, the book also supplies new computer codes.

Author : American Entomological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UIUC:30112009776482

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Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences by American Entomological Society Pdf

Author : Jan Rynveld Carew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Guyana
ISBN : OCLC:990648558

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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology,John Edward Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Bats
ISBN : OXFORD:600036296

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Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-eating Bats in the Collection of the British Museum by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology,John Edward Gray Pdf

Author : Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00108112

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Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats in the Collection of the British Museum by Gray Pdf

Author : Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134468485

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Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English by Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly Pdf

" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Author : Joy Gleason Carew
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813549859

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Blacks, Reds, and Russians by Joy Gleason Carew Pdf

One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment in the 1920s and 1930s. In Blacks, Reds, and Russians, Joy Gleason Carew offers insight into the political strategies that often underlie relationships between different peoples and countries. Interviews with the descendents of figures such as Paul Robeson and Oliver Golden offer rare personal insights into the story of a group of emigrants who, confronted by the daunting challenges of making a life for themselves in a racist United States, found unprecedented opportunities in communist Russia.

Author : Hena Maes-Jelinek
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042020320

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The Labyrinth of Universality by Hena Maes-Jelinek Pdf

The complete sixth series of the BBC comedy sketch show hosted by Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, which in its heyday was as much of a British institution as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Each programme begins and ends with the pair seated behind a desk reading quick-fire 'news' reports. In between, 'in a packed programme tonight...', there are sketches, drama serials, musical routines and a rambling monologue from Ronnie Corbett, before the pair finally sign off with their famous catchphrase: 'It's goodnight from me.' 'And it's goodnight from him.' 'Goodnight'.

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781443449366

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Murdered Midas by Charlotte Gray Pdf

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year In this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime writing” (The Globe and Mail). On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century. The layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes’s son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes’s missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal—from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.

Author : George Elliott Clarke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487516789

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Odysseys Home by George Elliott Clarke Pdf

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts. Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including André Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature in what Clarke argues to be – paradoxically – uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity. Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts – literature and criticism – from both English and French Canada. This important resource will inevitably challenge and change future academic consideration of African-Canadian literature and its place in the international literary map of the African Diaspora.