Laid Waste

Author : John Lauritz Larson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296679

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After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced for some populations unimagined wealth and material comfort, yet it has also now brought the global environment to a tipping point beyond which life as we know it may not be sustainable. How did we come to endanger the very future of life on earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? In Laid Waste!, John Lauritz Larson answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American "culture of exploitation" that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be. Larson undertakes an ambitious historical synthesis, seeking to illuminate how the culture of exploitation grew out of the earliest English settlements and has continually undergirded U.S. society and its cherished myths. Through a series of meditations on key concepts, the story moves from the starving times of early Jamestown through the rise of colonial prosperity, the liberation of the revolutionary generation, the launching of the American republic, and the emergence of a new global industrial power by the end of the nineteenth century. Through this story, the book explores the rise of an American sense of righteousness, entitlement, and destiny that has masked any recognition that our wealth and success has come at expense to anyone or anything. Part polemic, part jeremiad, and part historical overview, Laid Waste! is a provocative and bracing account of how the development of American culture itself has led us to today's crises.

Author : Julia Gfrörer
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606999714

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Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer Pdf

In a plague-ravaged medieval city, survival is a harsher fate than death. As corpses accumulate around her, Agnes, a young widow possessed of supernatural strength, must weigh her obligations to the dead and dying against her desire to protect what little remains. Laid Waste is a graphic novella about love and kindness among vermin in the putrid miasma at the end of the world. As with her evocative debut book, Black is the Color, Julia Gfrörer's delicate, gothic drawing style perfectly complements the period era of the book’s setting, bringing the lyricism and romanticism of her prose to the fore.

Author : Francis Dodsworth,Antonia Walford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351996495

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A World Laid Waste? by Francis Dodsworth,Antonia Walford Pdf

Globalisation and neo-liberalism have seen the rise of new international powers, increasingly interlinked economies, and mass urbanisation. The internet, mobile communications and mass migration have transformed lives around the planet. For some, this has been positive and liberating, but it has also been destructive of settled communities and ways of living, ecologies, economies and livelihoods, cultural values, political programmes and identities. This edited volume uses the concept of waste to explore and critique the destructive impact of globalisation and neo-liberalism. By bringing to bear the distinct perspectives of sociologists of class, religion and culture; anthropologists concerned with infrastructures, material waste and energy; and analysts from accounting and finance exploring financialization and supply chains, this collection explores how creative responses to the wastelands of globalisation can establish alternative, at times fragile, narratives of hope. Responding to the tendency in contemporary public and academic discourse to resort to a language of the ‘laid to waste’ or ‘left behind’ to make sense of social and cultural change, the authors of this volume focus on the practices and rhetorics of waste in a range of different empirical settings to reveal the spaces for political action and social imagination that are emerging even in times of polarisation, uncertainty and disillusionment. This inter-disciplinary approach, developed through a decade of research in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), provides a distinctive perspective on the ways in which people in very different social and cultural contexts are negotiating the destructive and creative possibilities of recent political and economic change.

Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361284

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A City Laid Waste by William Gilmore Simms Pdf

“A graphic account of the horrors, the brutality and sometimes wanton destruction of warfare, particularly of civil war.” —Charleston (SC) Post and Courier In the first reissue of these documents since 1865, A City Laid Waste captures in riveting detail the destruction of South Carolina’s capital city. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), a native South Carolinian and one of the nation’s foremost men of letters, was in Columbia and witnessed firsthand the city’s capture and destruction. A renowned novelist and poet, who was also an experienced journalist and historian, Simms deftly recorded the events of February 1865 in a series of eyewitness accounts published in the first ten issues of the Columbia Phoenix and reprinted here. His record of burned buildings constitutes the most authoritative information available on the extent of the damage. Simms historian David Aiken provides a historical and literary context for Simms’s reportage. In his introduction Aiken clarifies the significance of Simms’s articles and draws attention to factors most important for understanding the occupation’s impact on the city of Columbia. “A shrewd viewer of the war scene in Columbia, famed Southern writer William Gilmore Simms published stinging, courageous exposés of the doings of the Northern forces, even when threatened with arrest. The restoration of his candid firsthand accounts of the destruction wrought by Sherman’s forces against the South Carolina capitol and its inhabitants is a great service to all who study and appreciate Southern history and literature.” —James Everett Kibler, author of Our Fathers’ Fields

Author : Brigitte Goldstein
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644387702

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Babylon Laid Waste--A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols by Brigitte Goldstein Pdf

Alerted by a letter from Berlin that her grandmother may be alive in a Jewish hospice there, Misia Safran, a former refugee living in New York, is determined to follow the lead and return to her native Germany. However, it is 1946 and the defeated Reich, under Allied control, is off-limits to civilian travel in or out. With the help of a people-smuggling ring, Misia manages to breach the fortress and enter with forged German identity papers under an assumed name. As her journey takes her ever deeper into the devastated enemy territory, she encounters an array of colorful, frequently shady characters ranging from victorious Americans, unrepentant Nazis, ordinary civilians, Jewish survivors, and washed-up Wagnerian opera stars; all of whom have an intriguing personal story to tell and private agenda to pursue. When Misia runs afoul of the US military authorities, she meets her nemesis in the person of Major Emil Zweig. Since she lacks the crucial “Persilschein”—a denazification certificate—he sends her to a prison for female Nazi criminals. At this nadir of her ill-starred attempt to reach Berlin, a savior appears in the person of an enigmatic Jewish survivor who calls himself Frantiçek Kafka. Impelled by the romantic attraction sprouting between them, Misia embarks with him on a whirlwind search for a pair of Nazis. In the course of a rollercoaster ride of many unforeseen emotional ups and downs, she becomes a major player of a drama in which nothing and no one is what appearances suggest or pretend reality to be.

Author : John Lauritz Larson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251845

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Laid Waste! by John Lauritz Larson Pdf

After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced for some populations unimagined wealth and material comfort, yet it has also now brought the global environment to a tipping point beyond which life as we know it may not be sustainable. How did we come to endanger the very future of life on earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? In Laid Waste!, John Lauritz Larson answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American "culture of exploitation" that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be. Larson undertakes an ambitious historical synthesis, seeking to illuminate how the culture of exploitation grew out of the earliest English settlements and has continually undergirded U.S. society and its cherished myths. Through a series of meditations on key concepts, the story moves from the starving times of early Jamestown through the rise of colonial prosperity, the liberation of the revolutionary generation, the launching of the American republic, and the emergence of a new global industrial power by the end of the nineteenth century. Through this story, the book explores the rise of an American sense of righteousness, entitlement, and destiny that has masked any recognition that our wealth and success has come at expense to anyone or anything. Part polemic, part jeremiad, and part historical overview, Laid Waste! is a provocative and bracing account of how the development of American culture itself has led us to today's crises.

Author : Wilhelm Gesenius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English language
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50264531

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A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Wilhelm Gesenius Pdf

Author : Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN : UOM:39015024667043

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A Hebrew, Latin, and English, Dictionary by Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey Pdf

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3W9E

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The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

Author : Heinrich Ewald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:$B492502

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Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Testament: Commentary on the books of Nahûm, Ssephanya, Habaqqûq, "Zahkarya" (Ch. XII-XIV), Yérmayá by Heinrich Ewald Pdf

Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262535144

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Environmentalism of the Rich by Peter Dauvergne Pdf

What it means for global sustainability when environmentalism is dominated by the concerns of the affluent—eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation. Over the last fifty years, environmentalism has emerged as a clear counterforce to the environmental destruction caused by industrialization, colonialism, and globalization. Activists and policymakers have fought hard to make the earth a better place to live. But has the environmental movement actually brought about meaningful progress toward global sustainability? Signs of global “unsustainability” are everywhere, from decreasing biodiversity to scarcity of fresh water to steadily rising greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, as Peter Dauvergne points out in this provocative book, the environmental movement is increasingly dominated by the environmentalism of the rich—diverted into eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation, energy efficiency, and recycling. While it's good that, for example, Barbie dolls' packaging no longer depletes Indonesian rainforest, and that Toyota Highlanders are available as hybrids, none of this gets at the source of the current sustainability crisis. More eco-products can just mean more corporate profits, consumption, and waste. Dauvergne examines extraction booms that leave developing countries poor and environmentally devastated—with the ruination of the South Pacific island of Nauru a case in point; the struggles against consumption inequities of courageous activists like Bruno Manser, who worked with indigenous people to try to save the rainforests of Borneo; and the manufacturing of vast markets for nondurable goods—for example, convincing parents in China that disposable diapers made for healthier and smarter babies. Dauvergne reveals why a global political economy of ever more—more growth, more sales, more consumption—is swamping environmental gains. Environmentalism of the rich does little to bring about the sweeping institutional change necessary to make progress toward global sustainability.

Author : George W. Waite,George H. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Latin language
ISBN : UCAL:$B62250

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A Straight Road to Caesar for Beginners in Latin by George W. Waite,George H. White Pdf

Author : Peter Thorsheim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107099357

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Waste into Weapons by Peter Thorsheim Pdf

During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of many essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the efforts of the British government to maintain the morale of its citizens, to secure billions of dollars in Lend-Lease aid from the United States, and even to uncover foreign intelligence. However, Britain's wartime recycling campaign came at a cost: it consumed many items that would never have been destroyed under normal circumstances, including significant parts of the nation's cultural heritage. Based on extensive archival research, Peter Thorsheim examines the relationship between armaments production, civil liberties, cultural preservation, and diplomacy, making Waste into Weapons the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling in Britain.

Author : William Chambers,Robert Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : HARVARD:HWET9C

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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts by William Chambers,Robert Chambers Pdf

Author : Henry Wager Halleck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : International law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103157616

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Halleck's International Law, Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States in Peace and War by Henry Wager Halleck Pdf