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Author : Franklin Lloyd Foster,Alan Grant Griffith
Publisher : Foster Learning Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Lloydminster (Sask. and Alta.)
ISBN : 9780968919309
Author : David Von Drehle
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805096088
The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nation's history As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy—with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and commanding position on the battlefield—had a clear view to victory. To a remarkable extent, the survival of the country depended on the judgment, cunning, and resilience of the unschooled frontier lawyer who had recently been elected president. Twelve months later, the Civil War had become a cataclysm but the tide had turned. The Union generals who would win the war had at last emerged, and the Confederate Army had suffered the key losses that would lead to its doom. The blueprint of modern America—an expanding colossus of industrial and financial might—had been indelibly inked. And the man who brought the nation through its darkest hour, Abraham Lincoln, had been forged into a singular leader. In Rise to Greatness, acclaimed author David Von Drehle has created both a deeply human portrait of America's greatest president and a rich, dramatic narrative about our most fateful year.
Author : Charlie Harary,Mark Dagostino
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781623369767
A guide to successfully getting the life you want by changing your perspective and discovering your ideal self. More often than not, our own mental obstacles are holding us back from the joy, fulfillment, and meaning that we all crave, but by retooling our perspectives, we gain the ability to see the path toward the life we truly desire. Charlie Harary, business executive, professor, speaker, and radio host, combines the wisdom of science, spirituality, and personal growth in practical and understandable terms so you can take the life you have and make it the life you want. Everyone has the extraordinary capacity to transform their life. And it’s easier to do than you might think—in order to get what you want, to achieve that sense of greater life satisfaction, all you need to do is learn how to best use the resources you already have. Based on the latest research into the brain’s neuroplasticity, analysis of ancient wisdom, and exploration of the practices of today’s greatest achievers, he offers guidance and inspiration so you can break through the clutter and confusion of your life and find your true purpose.
Author : Robert Borland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Border reivers
ISBN : UCAL:$B282555
Author : D. Robert DeChaine
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817357160
Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange whose geographical, political, economic, and cultural interactions bear profoundly on popular understandings and experiences of citizenship and identity. The border’s rhetorical significance is nowhere more apparent, nor its effects more concentrated, than on the frontier between the United States and Mexico. Often understood as an unruly boundary in dire need of containment from the ravages of criminals, illegal aliens, and other undesirable threats to the national body, this geopolitical locus exemplifies how normative constructions of “proper”; border relations reinforce definitions of US citizenship, which in turn can lead to anxiety, unrest, and violence centered around the struggle to define what it means to be a member of a national political community.
Author : Michael Dear
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Borderlands in motion pictures
ISBN : 9780520391932
"Border Witness offers a surprising catalogue of films dealing with the US-Mexico border and released during the past 100 years. It compares these screen visions with what was happening on the ground at the time in both countries. From revolution through to the present global crisis, the films are left to speak for themselves, but their stories are measured alongside the author's experience following decades of research, writing, and activism along the line. Taken together, this book outlines a unique Border Film genre just now entering its Golden Age. This book also comes with a message to both nations that they should learn more from borderlanders about how to conduct cross-border lives"--
Author : Katya Hokanson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442691810
It is often assumed that cultural identity is determined in a country’s metropolitan centres. Given Russia’s long tenure as a geographically and socially diverse empire, however, there is a certain distillation of peripheral experiences and ideas that contributes just as much to theories of national culture as do urban-centred perspectives. Writing at Russia’s Border argues that Russian literature needs to be reexamined in light of the fact that many of its most important nineteenth-century texts are peripheral, not in significance but in provenance. Katya Hokanson makes the case that the fluid and ever-changing cultural and linguistic boundaries of Russia’s border regions profoundly influenced the nation’s literature, posing challenges to stereotypical or territorially based conceptions of Russia’s imperial, military, and cultural identity. A highly canonical text such as Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1831), which is set in European Russia, is no less dependent on the perspectives of those living at the edges of the Russian Empire than is Tolstoy’s The Cossacks (1863), which is explicitly set on Russia’s border and has become central to the Russian canon. Hokanson cites the influence of these and other ‘peripheral’ texts as proof that Russia’s national identity was dependent upon the experiences of people living in the border areas of an expanding empire. Produced at a cultural moment of contrast and exchange, the literature of the periphery represented a negotiation of different views of Russian identity, an ingredient that was ultimately essential even to literature produced in the major cities. Writing at Russia’s Border upends popular ideas of national cultural production and is a fascinating study of the social implications of nineteenth-century Russian literature.
Author : John Parker Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Scotland
ISBN : NLS:B000302097
Author : Charles Richard Tuttle
Publisher : Chicago : C.A. Wall
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UCAL:$B41251
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050785724
An examination of Native American wars during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author : Charles Richmond TUTTLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024542783
Author : Dr Chiara Brambilla,Dr Jussi Laine,Professor Gianluca Bocchi,Professor James W. Scott
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472451484
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ‘challenge' to national (and EU) policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation through conceptual (re-)framings of social, political, economic and cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images. In so doing, they suggest that rethinking borders means deconstructing the interweaving between political practices of inclusion-exclusion and the images created to support and communicate them on the cultural level by Western territorialist modernity. The result is a book that proposes a wandering through a constellation of bordering policies, discourses, practices and images to open new possibilities for thinking, mapping, acting and living borders under contemporary globalization.
Author : John Kitto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600091158
Author : Anglo-Israel association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590023737
Author : C.R. Boxer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317052234
Translations, the first based largely on that in Richard Willes, History of Travayle in the West and East Indies (1577), the second derived from Purchas his Pilgrimes (1624), the third by the editor from three sixteenth-century Spanish versions. With appendices on various matters, including a Chinese glossary and a table of Chinese dynasties and emperors. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1953.