I Die With My Country

Author : Hendrik Kraay,Thomas Whigham
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803227620

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I Die with My Country by Hendrik Kraay,Thomas Whigham Pdf

The Paraguayan War (1864?70) was the most extensive and profound interstate war ever fought in South America. It directly involved the four countries of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay and took the lives of hundreds of thousands, combatants and noncombatants alike. While the war still stirs emotions on the southern continent, until today few scholars from outside the region have taken on the daunting task of analyzing the conflict. In this compilation of ten essays, historians from Canada, the United States, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay address its many tragic complexities. Each scholar examines a particular facet of the war, including military mobilization, home-front activities, the war?s effects on political culture, war photography, draft resistance, race issues, state formation, and the role of women in the war. The editors? introduction provides a balance to the many perspectives collected here while simultaneously integrating them into a comprehensible whole, thus making the book a compelling read for social historians and military buffs alike.

Author : Fawzia Zouari
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813940243

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I Die by This Country by Fawzia Zouari Pdf

The first novel available to English readers by Fawzia Zouari, one of the most important North African authors writing today, begins with an emergency crew’s arrival at a Parisian apartment. Two emaciated young women, sisters, are brought out on stretchers. To the crowd of onlookers the women’s condition is mystifying; for the two sisters, this is the inescapable end to a tragic series of events. Inspired by an actual news story from the French headlines, I Die by This Country introduces us to Nacéra and Amira. Casting her mind back in the midst of the opening pages’ upheaval, Nacéra pieces together her fragmentary knowledge of her parents’ lives in rural French Algeria and their immigration to Paris in the years following Algeria’s war for independence. Her memories of how both she and Amira struggled to find their place as children of immigrants reveals the enormous stress of social exclusion and identity conflicts facing immigrant youth. Nacéra and her family yearn for acceptance, but the reader sees this dream becoming increasingly unattainable. Zouari’s frank prose and penetrating storytelling deftly relates the multigenerational experience of Franco-Algerian immigration during the last quarter of the twentieth century. As France continues, like so many western countries, to struggle with questions regarding national identity, immigration, and its colonial past, the experiences depicted in this novel resonate more than ever.

Author : Jeff Sharlet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780393082357

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Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between by Jeff Sharlet Pdf

“A master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms.”—Michael Washburn, Washington Post In this gorgeous collection of essays that has drawn comparisons to the work of Joan Didion, John McPhee, and Norman Mailer, best-selling author Jeff Sharlet reports back from the far reaches of belief, whether in the clear mountain air of “Sweet Fuck All, Colorado” or in a midnight congregation of anarchists celebrating a victory over police. Like movements in a complex piece of music, Sharlet’s dispatches vibrate with all the madness and beauty, the melancholy and aspirations for transcendence, of American life.

Author : Maxine Trottier
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Abenaki Indians
ISBN : 0439967627

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The Death of My Country by Maxine Trottier Pdf

The first Dear Canada featuring a First Nations diarist, The Death of My Country is set at a pivotal point in Canada's history -- the war between Britain and France for control of New France. Geneviève Aubuchon is born into an Abenaki tribe but is orphaned when another tribe destroys her village. She and her brother are taken to a convent in Québec.While Geneviève gradually adapts to her new life with the sisters, her older brother runs away to rejoin the Abenaki. Geneviève fears for his life when he joins the First Nations allies who are helping defend Québec against the British siege of the city and the attack on the Plains of Abraham. Author Maxine Trottier frequently participates in historical re-enactments. Her hobby has provided her with an opportunity to research and experience this key time in Canada's history.

Author : Stan Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1460751981

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Talking to My Country by Stan Grant Pdf

The acclaimed national bestseller - moving, passionate, deeply felt and powerful. In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a personal, passionate and powerful response to racism in Australia and the sorrow, shame, anger and hardship of being an indigenous man. ''We are the detritus of the brutality of the Australian frontier'', he wrote, ''We remained a reminder of what was lost, what was taken, what was destroyed to scaffold the building of this nation''s prosperity.'' Stan Grant was lucky enough to find an escape route, making his way through education to become one of our leading journalists. He also spent many years outside Australia, working in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, a time that liberated him and gave him a unique perspective on Australia. This is his very personal meditation on what it means to be Australian, what it means to be indigenous, and what racism really means in this country. Talking to My Country is that rare and special book that talks to every Australian about their country - what it is, and what it could be. It is not just about race, or about indigenous people but all of us, our shared identity. Direct, honest and forthright, Stan is talking to us all. He might not have all the answers but he wants us to keep on asking the question: how can we be better? Winner of the 2016 Walkley Book Award and the 2016 National Trust Heritage Award, and shortlisted for the 2016 NIB Waverley Library Award and the 2016 Queensland Literary Award. ''Grant will be an important voice in shaping this nation'' The Saturday paper ''It is a story so essential and salutary to this place that it should be given out free at the ballot box'' Sydney Morning Herald ''Grant is a natural storyteller - at his best when recounting his experiences and observations of Indigenous Australian life with devastating simplicity and acuity. This highly readable book ... has the potential to spark empathy and generate important discussion, and deserves to be read widely.'' Bookseller + Publisher ''...an urgent and flowing narrative in a book that should be on the required reading list in every school'' The Australian

Author : Credo Mutwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984458220

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Let Not My Country Die by Credo Mutwa Pdf

Author : Eric L. Muller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226548236

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Free to Die for Their Country by Eric L. Muller Pdf

One of the Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001 In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, the government demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, but Free to Die for Their Country is the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused. Based on years of research and personal interviews, Eric L. Muller re-creates the emotions and events that followed the arrival of those draft notices, revealing a dark and complex chapter of America's history.

Author : Tobias Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385016697

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A Die in the Country by Tobias Wells Pdf

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375703836

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This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307433848

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Author : Nâzım Hikmet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000947256

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Human Landscapes by Nâzım Hikmet Pdf

A Turkish epic poem offers portraits of varying lengths about ordinary people caught up in the wars, occupations, and independence of Turkey.

Author : Luise Mühlbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Prussia (Germany)
ISBN : SRLF:A0011891611

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Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by Luise Mühlbach Pdf

Author : L. Mühlbach
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066211936

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Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. Mühlbach Pdf

This is a historical novel about the story of Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia. It is Interesting from a historical perspective seeing the author Muhlbach's own desire for a united Germany reflected in the thoughts and actions of her characters. Muhlbach's charm in her other books lay in her ability to frame the life of a historical figure with smaller stories from side-characters, all the while careful not to try to cram too many historical anecdotes into a single novel.

Author : Gareth Griffith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134802937

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Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith Pdf

Available in paperback for the first time, Gareth Griffith's book provides a comprehensive critical account of the political ideas of one of the most influential commentators of the twentieth century. With close reference to a range of Shaw's texts, from the Fabian tracts to the plays, Gareth Griffith draws out the central theoretical messages of Shaw's engagement with politics. The first part of the book provides an intellectual biography, while at the same time analysing Shaw's key concerns in relation to his Fabianism, arguments for equality of income and ideas on democracy and education. Part Two looks at those areas which Shaw approached as long-standing historical problems or dramas requiring immediate thought or action; sexual equality, the Irish question, war, fascism and sovietism. The book is directed to the general reader as well as to specialists. It will be central reading for anyone seeking to understand Shaw's life, and literary and political writings, or the development of political thinking in this century, or the problems and potential inherent in socialism.

Author : An Antane Kapesh
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771124096

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I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? by An Antane Kapesh Pdf

Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979), are among the foregrounding works by Indigenous women in Canada. This English translation of these works, each page presented facing the revised Innu text, makes them available for the first time to a broader readership. In I Am a Damn Savage, Antane Kapesh wrote to preserve and share her culture, experience, and knowledge, all of which, she felt, were disappearing at an alarming rate because many Elders – like herself – were aged or dying. She wanted to publicly denounce the conditions in which she and the Innu were made to live, and to address the changes she was witnessing due to land dispossession and loss of hunting territory, police brutality, and the effects of the residential school system. What Have You Done to My Country? is a fictional account by a young boy of the arrival of les Polichinelles (referring to White settlers) and their subsequent assault on the land and on native language and culture. Through these stories Antane Kapesh asserts that settler society will eventually have to take responsibility and recognize its faults, and accept that the Innu – as well as all the other nations – are not going anywhere, that they are not a problem settlers can make disappear.