Crossroads Of A Continent

Author : Peter A. Hansen,Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes,Don L. Hofsommer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253062376

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Crossroads of a Continent by Peter A. Hansen,Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes,Don L. Hofsommer Pdf

Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.

Author : Helen Day Hill Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:1367328

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France by Helen Day Hill Miller Pdf

Author : Lois Carrier
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0252068084

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Illinois by Lois Carrier Pdf

With a major port on the Great Lakes, an extensive network of railroads and canals, and a river system including the Mississippi, the Illinois, and the Ohio, Illinois has long played a critical role in linking East Coast industrial cities, the agricultural heartland, and the Gulf Coast. Writing in a fast-paced, down-to-earth style, Lois Carrier introduces a host of innovations and innovators associated with Illinois: Jane Addams and Louis Armstrong, Frank Lloyd Wright and Walt Disney, Cracker Jack and the Ferris wheel. From the Cahokia Mounds to Chicago, Illinois: Crossroads of a Continent provides a panoramic history for students and general readers.

Author : Barbara Huck
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1896150381

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Crossroads of the Continent by Barbara Huck Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951001227878B

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The Crown Colonist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1593390408

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Views of Europe by Anonim Pdf

"Through pictures, articles and fun facts, you'll learn about the people, traditions, landscapes, and history that make up many of the countries and cities of Europe." -- Cover.

Author : Esyllt W. Jones,Gerald Friesen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553578

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Prairie Metropolis by Esyllt W. Jones,Gerald Friesen Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropolis did not end when the boom collapsed. Prairie Metropolis brings together some of the best new graduate research on the history of Winnipeg and makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of the city between 1900 and the 1980s. The essays in this collection explore the development of social institutions such as the city’s police force, juvenile court, health care institutions, volunteer organizations, and cultural centres. They offer critical analyses on ethnic, gender, and class inequality and conflict, while placing Winnipeg’s experiences in national and international contexts.

Author : Kehbuma Langmia,Agnes Lucy Lando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030424046

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Digital Communications at Crossroads in Africa by Kehbuma Langmia,Agnes Lucy Lando Pdf

Digital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad. This edited collection takes that crossroad as its starting point, as it both examines the complicated present and looks to the uncertain future of African communication systems. Contributing authors explore how western digital communication systems have proliferated in the African communication landscape, and argue that rich and long-cherished African forms of communal, in-person communication have been increasingly abandoned in favor of assimilation to western digital norms. As a result, future generations of Africans born on the continent and abroad may never recognize and appreciate African systems of communications. Acknowledging that globalized digital communication systems are here to stay, the volume contends that in order to comprehend the past, present, and future of African communications, scholars need to decolonize their approach to teaching and consuming mediated and in-person communications on the African continent and abroad.

Author : Henriette Gunkel,kara lynch
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839446010

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We Travel the Space Ways by Henriette Gunkel,kara lynch Pdf

A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach towards the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents, they recalibrate definitions of Afrofuturism. The editors and contributors of this exciting volume thus reflect upon the re-emergence of Black visions of political and cultural futures, proposing practices, identities, and collectivities. With contributions from AfroFuturist Affair, John Akomfrah, Jamika Ajalon, Stefanie Alisch, Jim Chuchu, Grisha Coleman, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Abigail DeVille, M. Asli Dukan with Wildseeds, Kodwo Eshun, Anna Everett, Raimi Gbadamosi, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Milumbe Haimbe, Ayesha Hameed, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kara Keeling, Carla J. Maier, Tobias Nagl, Tavia Nyongo, Rasheedah Phillips, Daniel Kojo Schrade, Nadine Siegert, Robyn Smith, Greg Tate and Frohawk Two Feathers.

Author : William W. Fitzhugh,Aron Crowell,National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001443339

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Crossroads of Continents by William W. Fitzhugh,Aron Crowell,National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pdf

Series of papers by various scholars under the headings: Peoples of Siberia and Alaska; Strangers arrive; Crosscurrents of time; Thematic views; New lives for ancient peoples. Illustrated by artifacts from many museums which were part of an exhibition of the same name.

Author : Jeffrey L. Hantman,Douglas Seefeldt,Peter S. Onuf
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813925959

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Across the Continent by Jeffrey L. Hantman,Douglas Seefeldt,Peter S. Onuf Pdf

Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, Across the Continent is an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition. Finally, the discussion considers the various legacies of the expedition, in particular its impact on Native Americans, and the current struggle over who will control the narrative of the expansion of the American Empire. --from publisher description.

Author : Anna Zajenkowska,Uri Levin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429594205

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A Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Exploration of a Continent by Anna Zajenkowska,Uri Levin Pdf

This important book gathers a set of influential international contributors with psychoanalytic and group analytic knowledge to provide a wide-ranging critical analysis of the present state of Europe. Europe is facing huge challenges: waves of immigrants are reshaping its identity and testing its tolerance; Brexit is a destabilizing factor and its outcomes are not yet clear; economic crises continue to threaten; the resurgence of nationalism is threatening an open-borders one-continent ideology. This book tackles some of these challenges. Divided into two parts, the first analyses the current social, political, cultural and economic trends in Europe using psychoanalytic and group analytic concepts, while the second concentrates on existing applications of psychoanalytic and group analytic concepts to help manage national and international change in individual countries as well as on the continent as a whole, including groups for German, Ukrainian and Russian participants; groups organised in Serbia in order to overcome the recent, traumatic past; and the "Sandwich model", developed to enhance communication in situations of conflict, trauma and blocked communication. When we feel threatened, we cling to our in-group and its members. We want to think the same and be the same as our neighbors, but this group illusion of homogeneity conceals the fact that we are different. While homogeneity offers stability, it is diversity that offers freedom. This book will be of great interest to researchers on the present state of Europe from across a range of different disciplines, from psychoanalysis to politics, sociology, economics and international relations.

Author : Tara F. Deubel,Hélène Tissières,Scott M. Youngstedt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443862899

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Saharan Crossroads by Tara F. Deubel,Hélène Tissières,Scott M. Youngstedt Pdf

Saharan Crossroads: Exploring Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Linkages between North and West Africa counteracts the traditional scholarly conception of the Sahara Desert as an impenetrable barrier dividing the continent by employing an interdisciplinary lens to examine myriad interconnections between North and West Africa through travel, trade, communication, cultural exchange, and correspondence that have been ongoing for several millennia. Saharan Crossroads offers a unique contribution to existing scholarship on the region by uniting a diverse group of African, European, and American scholars working on various facets of trans-Saharan history, social life, and cultural production, and bringing their work together for the first time. This trilingual volume includes eleven chapters written in English, five chapters in French, and three chapters in Arabic, reflecting the multicultural nature of the Sahara and this international project. Saharan Crossroads explores historical and contemporary connections and exchanges between populations living in and on both sides of the Sahara that have led to the emergence of distinctive cultural and aesthetic expressions. This contact has been fostered by a series of linkages that include the trans-Saharan caravan trade, the spread of Islam, the migration of nomadic pastoralists, and European colonization. The book includes three major sections: (1) history, culture, and identity; (2) trans-Saharan circulation of arts, music, ritual performance, and architecture; and (3) religion, law, language, and writing. While the gaze of international political analysts has turned toward the Sahara to follow problematic developments that pose serious threats to human rights and security in the region, it is especially timely to recall that the people and countries of the Sahelo-Saharan world have maintained long histories of peaceful coexistence, interdependence, and cooperation that are too often overlooked in the present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UCAL:B2948919

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Illinois Libraries by Anonim Pdf

Includes proceedings of the Illinois Library Association.

Author : Helen Hill Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : UOM:39015073059860

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France by Helen Hill Miller Pdf