Sweet Liberty

Author : Joseph O'Connor
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446435663

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Sweet Liberty by Joseph O'Connor Pdf

Joseph O'Connor's love affair with all things American led to an extraordinary tour of the United States to visit the nine different towns called Dublin, as well as some of the great cities and tiny hamlets in between. Along the way he wittily deconstructs the legends of a whole pantheon of Irish American heroes, from John F. Kennedy to Billy the Kid, and takes a quick detour to finally answer that most important question: was Elvis really Irish? The result is a hilarious, poignant and unforgettable book that celebrates the breathtaking diversity of the Irish influence on America and actually manages to find a town called Dublin, somewhere on the planet, that doesn't have one single pub within its limits...

Author : Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812203561

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Sweet Liberty by Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss Pdf

From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire. Established in the mid-seventeenth century as a colonial outpost against Spanish and English dominance in the Caribbean, the island was transformed by the increase in European demand for sugar, coffee, and indigo. Like other colonial subjects, Martinicans met the labor needs of cash-crop cultivation by establishing plantations worked by enslaved Africans and by adopting the rigidly hierarchical social structure that accompanied chattel slavery. After Haiti gained its independence in 1804, Martinique's economic importance to the French empire increased. At the same time, questions arose, both in France and on the island, about the long-term viability of the plantation system, including debates about the ways colonists—especially enslaved Africans and free mixed-race individuals—fit into the French nation. Sweet Liberty chronicles the history of Martinique from France's reacquisition of the island from the British in 1802 to the abolition of slavery in 1848. Focusing on the relationship between the island's widely diverse society and the various waves of French and British colonial administrations, Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss provides a compelling account of Martinique's social, political, and cultural dynamics during the final years of slavery in the French empire. Schloss explores how various groups—Creole and metropolitan elites, petits blancs, gens de couleur, and enslaved Africans—interacted with one another in a constantly shifting political environment and traces how these interactions influenced the colony's debates around identity, citizenship, and the boundaries of the French nation. Based on extensive archival research in Europe and the Americas, Sweet Liberty is a groundbreaking study of a neglected region that traces how race, slavery, class, and gender shaped what it meant to be French on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Woody Holton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476750392

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Liberty Is Sweet by Woody Holton Pdf

A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes. Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americans—enslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters—and on overlooked factors such as weather, North America’s unique geography, chance, misperception, attempts to manipulate public opinion, and (most of all) disease. Thousands of enslaved Americans exploited the chaos of war to obtain their own freedom, while others were given away as enlistment bounties to whites. Women provided material support for the troops, sewing clothes for soldiers and in some cases taking part in the fighting. Both sides courted native people and mimicked their tactics. Liberty Is Sweet is a “must-read book for understanding the founding of our nation” (Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin), from its origins on the frontiers and in the Atlantic ports to the creation of the Constitution. Offering surprises at every turn—for example, Holton makes a convincing case that Britain never had a chance of winning the war—this majestic history revivifies a story we thought we already knew.

Author : W. Caleb McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190847005

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Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel Pdf

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount, though the largest ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery, was the fact that any money was awarded at all. By the time the case was decided, Ward had become a wealthy businessman and a pioneer of convict leasing in the South. Wood's son later became a prominent Chicago lawyer, and she went on to live until 1912. McDaniel's book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, which establish beyond question the connections between slavery and the prison system that rose in its place.

Author : Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812970388

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Sweet Land of Liberty by Thomas J. Sugrue Pdf

Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history. He uncovers the forgotten stories of battles to open up lunch counters, beaches, and movie theaters in the North; the untold history of struggles against Jim Crow schools in northern towns; the dramatic story of racial conflict in northern cities and suburbs; and the long and tangled histories of integration and black power. Filled with unforgettable characters and riveting incidents, and making use of information and accounts both public and private, such as the writings of obscure African American journalists and the records of civil rights and black power groups, Sweet Land of Liberty creates an indelible history.

Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0801483476

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Liberty's Daughters by Mary Beth Norton Pdf

Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.

Author : Stuart Oderman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786406445

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Lillian Gish by Stuart Oderman Pdf

On March 12, 1993, Lillian Gish's memorial service was attended by a host of celebrities whose lives had been touched by her long and remarkable career. From her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912), to her last, The Whales of August (1987), Lillian Gish personified film. With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Almost always playing someone who needed to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability were, however, only part of her persona. She was a strong and complex woman whose painful childhood taught her frugality, love for her mother and her sister, Dorothy, and a distrust of men. In this, her most complete biography, the author, who was her friend, chronicles the hardships, heartaches, and fierce determination that shaped her from her days as a fatherless child to those as head of her family, and on to a time when she became nearly a legend. Featuring rare photographs and intimate recollections of Lillian, Dorothy, and other important figures, the biography is helpful in understanding film history as well as one of its most beautiful and important figures.

Author : Paige Winship Dooly,Kristy Dykes,Pamela Griffin,Debby Mayne
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1586605062

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Sweet Liberty by Paige Winship Dooly,Kristy Dykes,Pamela Griffin,Debby Mayne Pdf

Contains four stories in which God works in the lives of four women seeking their own personal freedoms during Fourth of July celebrations from colonial times to the dawn of the twentieth century.

Author : Danny O. Crew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476607450

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Ku Klux Klan Sheet Music by Danny O. Crew Pdf

The Ku Klux Klan has received much attention for its violent activities, but comparatively little research has been done on its musical legacy. The printed music that still exists is spread throughout the nation in both public and private collections. This work presents, chronologically, the music associated with the Klan from 1867 to 2002, thus enabling readers to sense the arguments and attitudes of the Klan as they developed and changed over time. Because of the relative scarcity of Klan–related music, non–Klan music that mentions the word “Klan” is included. These obscure references help place the Klan in a larger social perspective and are very important in documenting anti–Klan musical reaction. In instances where a song merely mentions the Klan, usually in only one verse or in the chorus, then only that verse containing the Klan reference, plus appropriate context, is included. The catalogue also includes Klan–related music that does not have lyrics, such as marches, waltzes, two-steps, and several Klan–related pieces that were published in Europe. Sheet music was virtually nonexistent after the 1930s, so in order to capture a feeling of Klan–related music today, a limited discography of Klan–related recordings from 1920 to 2002 is also included.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382805081

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National Republican Grant and Wilson Campaign Song-Book by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Benjamin W. Goodhue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:319510019536203

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Incidents of the Civil War by Benjamin W. Goodhue Pdf

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:400246897

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The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton Pdf

Author : Julia DeVillers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416991267

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Liberty Porter, First Daughter by Julia DeVillers Pdf

On her first day at the White House, nine-year-old Liberty exuberantly explores her new home while making new friends and giving unique tours of her own.

Author : Richard Sibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555000008

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The complete works of Richard Sibbes, ed. with mem. by A.B. Grosart by Richard Sibbs Pdf

Author : Richard Sibbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Puritans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020013454

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The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D.D.: A Christian's portion; or, the Christian's charter by Richard Sibbes Pdf