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The Big House

George Howe Colt
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Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439124918

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Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.

The Big House and the Little House

Yoshi Ueno
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Author : Yoshi Ueno
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781646141050

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The Big House and the Little House by Yoshi Ueno Pdf

Little Mouse and Big Bear live on opposite ends of the same road, and they both would like a friend. But every morning, Little Mouse and Big Bear pass by each other, unnoticed. Until one day, their eyes meet! It's a little awkward at firs—as most new friendships can be—but soon enough they're sipping warm tea together in Big Bear's cozy home, and making plans to meet again the following Sunday. When a nasty storm blows into town will it wreck everything they've built? This tale of friendship and bravery will warm your heart like a cookie and a warm drink shared with a friend.

The Not So Big House

Sarah Susanka,Kira Obolensky
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Author : Sarah Susanka,Kira Obolensky
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781561583768

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Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.

Back of the Big House

John Michael Vlach
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Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015027250235

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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery

Canada's Big House

Peter H. Hennessy
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Author : Peter H. Hennessy
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459713079

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Canada's Big House by Peter H. Hennessy Pdf

A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter’s Bay to the west of the town. Their report contained these words of advice for its future governors: "...[shall] be a place by every means not cruel and not affecting the health of the offender, [but] shall be rendered so irksome and so terrible that during his lifetime he may dread nothing so much as a repetition of the punishment..." The obvious contradiction within this historical mandate of Canada’s Big House has bedevilled the entire history of the jail. Its original high moral purpose - penitence through silent reflection - drifted away into the foggy realm of official myth almost as soon as the first convicts arrived in 1835. This semi-documentary study of the Kingston Penitentiary by a local writer and historian lays bare in cool prose the rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management. For the first 75 years, repression was accepted as the norm, even applauded, by the local citizens, some of the inmates, and the political establishment. Over the last hundred years, repressive practices at Kingston Peneitentiary have been publicized, analyzed, and increasingly denounced. In the outcome, the Big House at Kingston has become almost unmanageable. What to do with it? The question still hangs in the air.

A Season in the Big House

George Cantor
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Author : George Cantor
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781617499326

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A Season in the Big House by George Cantor Pdf

"A Season in the Big House: An Unscripted Insider Look at the Marvel of Michigan Football" by George Cantor chronicles the 2005 season while offering exclusive perspectives from fans, head coach Lloyd Carr and a writer who has written about Michigan for four decades.

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn

Thomas C. Hubka
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Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584653728

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Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn by Thomas C. Hubka Pdf

The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.

The Big House

Stephen D. Cox
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Author : Stephen D. Cox
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300154955

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""The Big House" is America's idea of the prison - a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison - its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself - and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them : problems of control and discipline, mainenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the "Big House" has attained in America's understanding of itself"--Jacket.

My Life in a Kwagu'l Big House

Diane Jacobson
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Author : Diane Jacobson
Publisher : Penticton, BC : Theytus Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1894778200

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Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.

Big House on the Prairie

John M. Eason
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Author : John M. Eason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226410340

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Big House on the Prairie by John M. Eason Pdf

Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."

Masters of the Big House

William Kauffman Scarborough
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Author : William Kauffman Scarborough
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131558

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Masters of the Big House by William Kauffman Scarborough Pdf

William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.

The Big House After Slavery

Amy Feely Morsman
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Author : Amy Feely Morsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813930039

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The Big House After Slavery by Amy Feely Morsman Pdf

Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.

The Big House

Carolyn Coman
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Author : Carolyn Coman
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1932425098

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When Ivy and Ray are left in the custody of the accusers who send their parents to jail, they decide to look for evidence that will "spring" Mom and Dad.

Burning the Big House

Terence A. M. Dooley
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Author : Terence A. M. Dooley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300260748

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Burning the Big House by Terence A. M. Dooley Pdf

The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful symbols of conquest, plantation, and colonial oppression, and were caught up in the struggle for independence and the conflict between the aristocracy and those demanding access to more land. Stripped of their most important artifacts, most of the houses were never rebuilt and ruins such as Summerhill stood like ghostly figures for generations to come. Terence Dooley offers a unique perspective on the Irish Revolution, exploring the struggles over land, the impact of the Great War, and why the country mansions of the landed class became such a symbolic target for republicans throughout the period. Dooley details the shockingly sudden acts of occupation and destruction--including soldiers using a Rembrandt as a dart board--and evokes the exhilaration felt by the revolutionaries at seizing these grand houses and visibly overturning the established order.

Little Bear's Big House

Benjamin Chaud
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Author : Benjamin Chaud
Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452173788

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Little Bear's Big House by Benjamin Chaud Pdf

This follow-up to Benjamin Chaud's critically acclaimed The Bear's Song and its sequels is graced with richly detailed art, immersive scenes, and an irresistibly sweet story! Little Bear is embarking on his biggest adventure yet. After discovering an empty house, his wish is granted: He can play all day and stay up as late as he wants! But he also gets a big scare. There are mysterious noises downstairs—could there be monsters . . . or ghosts?! Will Little Bear be able to brave the big house all by himself? In step with the previous books in the series, Little Bear may venture far and wide, but his loving family is never far behind!