Brothers Among Nations

Author : Cynthia J. Van Zandt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 019972055X

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Brothers Among Nations by Cynthia J. Van Zandt Pdf

During the first eighty years of permanent European colonization, webs of alliances shaped North America from northern New England to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and entangled all peoples in one form or another. In Brothers among Nations, Cynthia Van Zandt argues that the pursuit of alliances was a widespread multiethnic quest that shaped the early colonial American world in fundamentally important ways. These alliances could produce surprising results, with Europeans sometimes subservient to more powerful Native American nations, even as native nations were sometimes clients and tributaries of European colonists. Spanning nine European colonies, including English, Dutch, and Swedish colonies, as well as many Native American nations and a community of transplanted Africans, Brothers among Nations enlists a broad array of sources to illuminate the degree to which European colonists were frequently among the most vulnerable people in North America and the centrality of Native Americans to the success of the European colonial project.

Author : Cynthia J. Van Zandt,Cynthia Van Zandt
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195181241

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Brothers Among Nations by Cynthia J. Van Zandt,Cynthia Van Zandt Pdf

Brothers Among Nations represents an effort to show how central Natives were to the European colonial project by demonstrating that the formation of alliances was the only way for the nascent colonies to succeed.

Author : Aleksis Kivi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015000499328

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Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi Pdf

Author : Leonard Van Tighem,Mary Eggermont-Molenaar,Victor Van Tighem
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781552381892

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Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants & Blackfoot by Leonard Van Tighem,Mary Eggermont-Molenaar,Victor Van Tighem Pdf

Using valuable primary source material, most of which is previously unpublished, and some of which has been translated from the Flemish-Dutch and French, editors Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens introduce the Van Tighem brothers to today's reader. Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Vantighem Brothers Diaries, Alberta 1875-1917, contains the transcribed diaries of brothers Leonard and Victor Van Tighem, Belgian Catholic missionaries in Alberta between 1874 and 1917. Leonard, an Oblate priest, served in a number of parishes in southern Alberta, some of which he helped establish. Victor, a member of the Belgian Van Dale congregation, served on the Peigan and Blood reserves, in the southern part of the province. Their diaries are interspersed with letters from family and friends and letters and articles by contemporary bishops and fellow priests and lay-brothers. The Van Tighems' diaries offer a fascinating glimpse of life during Alberta's early settlement and growth -- the immigration boom, the development of Lethbridge and the Peigan reserve, railroads, the mining industry, and the impact of World War I are all part of the historical backdrop of the brothers' diaries.

Author : Brent Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0864929234

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A Family of Brothers by Brent Wilson Pdf

They fought at Ypres in the fall of 1915, on the Somme at Courcelette and Regina Trench in 1916, they carried on to Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, and Passchendaele in 1917, and they were part of the battles at Amiens and the Hundred Days campaign of 1918. The 26th New Brunswick Battalion was the only infantry unit from the province to serve on the Western Front from 1915 until the Armistice. More than 5,700 soldiers passed through the battalion during the war, of whom more than 900 were killed and nearly 3,000 were wounded. A Family of Brothers tells the story of the 'Fighting 26th' from their mobilization to the aftermath of the war. Using a wide range of sources, including letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, war diaries, and other official documents, this compelling history recounts the stories of the soldiers at the front and behind the lines and how their wartime service affected them during the war and after they returned. A Family of Brothers is volume 24 of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.

Author : Joil Alpern
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781552380710

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No One Awaiting Me by Joil Alpern Pdf

Alpern has written a moving memoir of his and his brother's experiences as orphans and survivors of the Holocaust against Jews in Romania. The author lives in Canada. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443449601

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Tribe by Sebastian Junger Pdf

Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the many challenges today’s returning veterans face in modern society. There are ancient tribal human behaviors-loyalty, inter-reliance, cooperation-that flare up in communities during times of turmoil and suffering. These are the very same behaviors that typify good soldiering and foster a sense of belonging among troops, whether they’re fighting on the front lines or engaged in non-combat activities away from the action. Drawing from history, psychology, and anthropology, bestselling author Sebastian Junger shows us just how at odds the structure of modern society is with our tribal instincts, arguing that the difficulties many veterans face upon returning home from war do not stem entirely from the trauma they’ve suffered, but also from the individualist societies they must reintegrate into. A 2011 study by the Canadian Forces and Statistics Canada reveals that 78 percent of military suicides from 1972 to the end of 2006 involved veterans. Though these numbers present an implicit call to action, the government is only just taking steps now to address the problems veterans face when they return home. But can the government ever truly eliminate the challenges faced by returning veterans? Or is the problem deeper, woven into the very fabric of our modern existence? Perhaps our circumstances are not so bleak, and simply understanding that beneath our modern guises we all belong to one tribe or another would help us face not just the problems of our nation but of our individual lives as well. Well-researched and compellingly written, this timely look at how veterans react to coming home will reconceive our approach to veteran’s affairs and help us to repair our current social dynamic.

Author : David C. Natcher,Lawrence Felt,Andrea Procter
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554254

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Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit by David C. Natcher,Lawrence Felt,Andrea Procter Pdf

On January 22, 2005, Inuit from communities throughout northern and central Labrador gathered in a school gymnasium to witness the signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and to celebrate the long-awaited creation of their own regional self-government of Nunatsiavut.This historic agreement defined the Labrador Inuit settlement area, beneficiary enrollment criteria, and Inuit governance and ownership rights. Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit explores how these boundaries – around land, around people, and around the right to self-govern – reflect the complex history of the region, of Labrador Inuit identity, and the role of migration and settlement patterns in regional politics. Comprised of twelve essays, the book examines the way of life and cultural survival of this unique indigenous population, including: household structure, social economy of wildfood production, forced relocations and land claims, subsistence and settlement patterns, and contemporary issues around climate change, urban planning, and self-government.

Author : Caroll Simpson
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781927527962

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Brothers of the Wolf by Caroll Simpson Pdf

This is the newest book in Caroll Simpson's Coastal Spirit Tales series.

Author : Tom Chaffin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250113740

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Revolutionary Brothers by Tom Chaffin Pdf

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette. Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions—and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state’s governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more different from Jefferson, the reserved statesman. But when Jefferson, a newly-appointed diplomat, moved to Paris three years later, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest. As Lafayette opened doors in Paris and Versailles for Jefferson, so too did the Virginian stand by Lafayette as the Frenchman became inexorably drawn into the maelstrom of his country's revolution. Jefferson counseled Lafayette as he drafted TheDeclaration of the Rights of Man and remained a firm supporter of the French Revolution, even after he returned to America in 1789. By 1792, however, the upheaval had rendered Lafayette a man without a country, locked away in a succession of Austrian and Prussian prisons. The burden fell on Jefferson, along with Lafayette's other friends, to win his release. The two would not see each other again until 1824, in a powerful and emotional reunion at Jefferson’s Monticello. Steeped in primary sources, Revolutionary Brothers casts fresh light on this remarkable, often complicated, friendship of two extraordinary men.

Author : Cherie Dimaline
Publisher : DCB
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770864870

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Pdf

Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden — but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.

Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429953528

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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer Pdf

A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world? The Brothers explores hidden forces that shape the national psyche, from religious piety to Western movies—many of which are about a noble gunman who cleans up a lawless town by killing bad guys. This is how the Dulles brothers saw themselves, and how many Americans still see their country's role in the world. Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran. The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the United States and the world. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

Author : Louis Adamic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Aliens
ISBN : OCLC:10092126

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A Nation of Nations by Louis Adamic Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11875104

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The hansei-zasshi by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:C3008925

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The Law Times by Anonim Pdf