Prairie Power

Author : Robbie Lieberman
Publisher : IAP
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617350573

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originally published by University of Missouri (May 2004) Prairie Power is a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s focused on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. Robbie Lieberman presents a view of Midwestern New Left activists that has been neglected in previous studies. Scholarship on the sixties has shifted in recent years from a national focus to more localand regional studies, but few authors have studied the student movement in the Midwest. Lieberman brings a fresh interpretation to this subject, challenging the characterization of prairie power activists as long�haired, dope smoking anarchists�who were responsible for the downfall of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). She argues that Midwestern students made significant contributions to the New Left and that their efforts were important not only in the 1960s but also had a lasting impact on the universities and towns in which they were active. The oral histories come from national leaders of SDS, homegrown Midwestern activists who were local leaders on their campuses, and grassroots activists who did not necessarily identify with either local or national organizations. Providing new insight into who participated in student protest and why, Prairie Power makes a significant contribution toward a more comprehensive history of the 1960s.

Author : Sarah Eppler Janda
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806160658

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Student radicals and hippies—in Oklahoma? Though most scholarship about 1960s-era student activism and the counterculture focuses on the East and West Coasts, Oklahoma’s college campuses did see significant activism and “dropping out.” In Prairie Power, Sarah Eppler Janda fills a gap in the historical record by connecting the activism of Oklahoma students and the experience of hippies to a state and a national history from which they have been absent. Janda shows that participants in both student activism and retreat from conformist society sought connections to Oklahoma’s past while forging new paths for themselves. She shows that Oklahoma students linked their activism with the grassroots socialist radicalism and World War I–era anti-draft protest of their grandparents’ generation, citing Woody Guthrie, Oscar Ameringer, and the Wobblies as role models. Many movement organizers in Oklahoma, especially those in the University of Oklahoma’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and the anti-war movement, fit into a larger midwestern and southwestern activist mentality of “prairie power”: a blend of free-speech advocacy, countercultural expression, and anarchist tendencies that set them apart from most East Coast student activists. Janda also reveals the vehemence with which state officials sought to repress campus “agitators,” and discusses Oklahomans who chose to retreat from the mainstream rather than fight to change it. Like their student activist counterparts, Oklahoma hippies sought inspiration from older precedents, including the back-to-the-land movement and the search for authenticity, but also Christian evangelicalism and traditional gender roles. Drawing on underground newspapers and declassified FBI documents, as well as interviews the author conducted with former activists and government officials, Prairie Power will appeal to those interested in Oklahoma’s history and the counterculture and political dissent in the 1960s.

Author : Sarah Eppler Janda
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806160641

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Prairie Power by Sarah Eppler Janda Pdf

Student radicals and hippies—in Oklahoma? Though most scholarship about 1960s-era student activism and the counterculture focuses on the East and West Coasts, Oklahoma’s college campuses did see significant activism and “dropping out.” In Prairie Power, Sarah Eppler Janda fills a gap in the historical record by connecting the activism of Oklahoma students and the experience of hippies to a state and a national history from which they have been absent. Janda shows that participants in both student activism and retreat from conformist society sought connections to Oklahoma’s past while forging new paths for themselves. She shows that Oklahoma students linked their activism with the grassroots socialist radicalism and World War I–era anti-draft protest of their grandparents’ generation, citing Woody Guthrie, Oscar Ameringer, and the Wobblies as role models. Many movement organizers in Oklahoma, especially those in the University of Oklahoma’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and the anti-war movement, fit into a larger midwestern and southwestern activist mentality of “prairie power”: a blend of free-speech advocacy, countercultural expression, and anarchist tendencies that set them apart from most East Coast student activists. Janda also reveals the vehemence with which state officials sought to repress campus “agitators,” and discusses Oklahomans who chose to retreat from the mainstream rather than fight to change it. Like their student activist counterparts, Oklahoma hippies sought inspiration from older precedents, including the back-to-the-land movement and the search for authenticity, but also Christian evangelicalism and traditional gender roles. Drawing on underground newspapers and declassified FBI documents, as well as interviews the author conducted with former activists and government officials, Prairie Power will appeal to those interested in Oklahoma’s history and the counterculture and political dissent in the 1960s.

Author : Pekka Hamalainen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300215953

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Lakota America by Pekka Hamalainen Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 - Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine - Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction "Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out."--Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019 "My favorite non-fiction book of this year."--Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion "A briliant, bold, gripping history."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019 "All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree of attentiveness"--Parul Sehgal, New York Times This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030221410

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Proposed Pleasant Prairie Fossil Fuel Plant, Kenosha County, Preliminary Environmental Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Donica Belisle
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442629110

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Purchasing Power by Donica Belisle Pdf

Why do Canadians consume? This book explores the meanings of consumption in early-twentieth-century Canada, demonstrating that many Canadians have long viewed consumer goods as central to their visions of belonging, identity, and citizenship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030221519

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Chiwaukee Prairie/Carol Beach Area, Land Use Management Plan, Kenosha County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : COLUMBIA:1001819780

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Geological Survey Water-supply Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : JoAnn Jaffe,Patricia W. Elliott
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773634968

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Divided by JoAnn Jaffe,Patricia W. Elliott Pdf

Divided looks at the last fifteen years in Saskatchewan, during which time the Saskatchewan Party government sought to reforge the province’s image into the New Saskatchewan: brash, materialistic, highly competitive and aggressively partisan. In the process, a climate of polarization and hyper-partisanship swept the province into a near-perpetual state of anger and social division. These actions are not without consequences. In Divided, diverse voices describe the impact on their lives and communities when simmering wedge issues burst open on social media and in public spaces. The collection dives deep into the long set-up to this moment, from the colonial past to the four decades of neoliberal economics that have widened social and economic gaps across all sectors. Divided positions Saskatchewan as a fascinating case study of the global trends of division and provides testament to the resiliency of a vision of social solidarity against all odds.

Author : R. L. Moffatt,Roy E. Wellman,Janice M. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Streamflow
ISBN : UCR:31210018658839

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Statistical Summaries of Streamflow Data in Oregon by R. L. Moffatt,Roy E. Wellman,Janice M. Gordon Pdf

Author : John Richards,Larry Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Alberta
ISBN : UCAL:B4391181

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Prairie Capitalism by John Richards,Larry Pratt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007640217

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Water-supply Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Akiva Silver
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Tree planting
ISBN : 9781603588416

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Trees of Power by Akiva Silver Pdf

Trees are our allies in maintaining a healthy planet. Partnering with trees allows us to build soil, enhance biodiversity, increase wildlife populations, grow food and medicine, and pull carbon out of the atmosphere. Trees of Power by Akiva Silver shares a step-by-step path toward working with these arboreal allies, from planting to propagation to understanding the multiple benefits that ten of our most essential tree species - the chestnut, apple, hickory, and more - provide for humans, animals, and nature alike. In this book you'll learn how to work successfully with perennial woody plants. It includes in-depth information on individual species and different ways to propagate trees - whether by seed, grafting, layering, or with cuttings. These time-honored techniques make it easy for anyone to increase their stock of trees simply and inexpensively. Silver's combination of hands-on experience and sincere exuberance for the natural world will inspire a new generation of tree stewards while appealing to anyone who feels a deep appreciation for these magnificent plants.--COVER.

Author : Harold William Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : UCR:31210024947739

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Water Resources of Camas Prairie, South-central Idaho by Harold William Young Pdf

Author : Archie Fire Lame Deer,Richard Erdoes
Publisher : Bear
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0939680874

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Gift of Power by Archie Fire Lame Deer,Richard Erdoes Pdf

A modern Dakota Indian medicine man recounts his life and spiritual experiences.