The Buxtons

Author : Peter Yule
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781743820407

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The Buxtons by Peter Yule Pdf

For five generations, the Buxton family has contributed to the growth of Melbourne through their real-estate and property development businesses. They have left their mark in every epoch, from the magnificence of Rochester Terrace to the elegance of 333 Collins Street, from inner-city developments in South Melbourne in the 19th century to Docklands in the 21st, and from eastern suburban projects to fully planned communities at University Hill and Merrifields. The Buxtons are one of only a few families who were successful in the gold rush era and are still prominent today. They have survived and prospered through two world wars, two calamitous depressions, numerous recessions and any number of political and economic crises. In The Buxtons, Peter Yule brings their story to life, tracing how this one family left a distinctive mark on Melbourne’s landscape.

Author : Rachelle D.Henry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467140461

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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa by Rachelle D.Henry Pdf

Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one-of-a-kind coal mining town created by the Consolidation Coal Company. This inclusive approach provided opportunity for its residents. Dr. E.A. Carter was the first African American to get a medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1907. He returned to Buxton and was hired by the coal company, where he treated both black and white patients. Attorney George Woodson ran for file clerk in the Iowa Senate for the Republican Party in 1898, losing to a white man by one vote. Author Rachelle Chase details the amazing events that created this unique community and what made it disappear.

Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739183380

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The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton by David Bruce Pdf

David Bruce examines the life of one of Great Britain’s most prominent social activists. Using his personal papers, and the papers and books of his friends, associates, and contemporaries, The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton paints a portrait of a unique individual driven to improve his world.

Author : Dorothy Schwieder,Joseph Hraba,Elmer Schwieder
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587298950

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Buxton by Dorothy Schwieder,Joseph Hraba,Elmer Schwieder Pdf

From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland-Buxton, Iowa. Originally established by the Consolidation Coal Company, Buxton was the largest unincorporated coal mining community in Iowa. What made Buxton unique, however, is the fact that the majority of its 5,000 residents were African Americans—a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was over 90 percent white. At a time when both southern and northern blacks were disadvantaged and oppressed, blacks in Buxton enjoyed true racial integration—steady employment, above-average wages, decent housing, and minimal discrimination. For such reasons, Buxton was commonly known as “the black man's utopia in Iowa.” Containing documentary evidence—including newspapers, census records, photographs, and state mining reports—along with interviews of 75 former residents, Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community (originally published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Benjamin Shambaugh Award) explored the Buxton experience from a variety of perspectives. The authors—an American historian, a family sociologist, and a race relations sociologist—provided a truly interdisciplinary history of one Iowa's most unique communities. Now, eighty years after the town's demise and fifteen years after Buxton's original publication, the history of this Iowa town remains a compelling story that continues to capture people's imaginations. In Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, the authors offer further reflections upon their original study and the many former Buxton residents who shared their memories. In the new essay, “A Buxton Perspective,” issues such as social class and the town's continuing legacy are addressed. The voices captured inBuxton, although recorded over twenty years ago, still resonate with exuberance, affection, and poignancy; this expanded edition will bring their amazing stories back to the forefront of Iowa and American history.

Author : Great Britain. Court of King's Bench,Sandford Nevile,Sir Erskine Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : NYPL:33433009489000

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench by Great Britain. Court of King's Bench,Sandford Nevile,Sir Erskine Perry Pdf

Author : Lady Hannah Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039337196

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Memorials of Hannah, lady Buxton, from papers collected by her granddaughters by Lady Hannah Buxton Pdf

Author : Richard Buxton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500776407

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The Complete World of Greek Mythology (The Complete Series) by Richard Buxton Pdf

A full, authoritative, and wholly engaging account of these endlessly fascinating tales and of the ancient society in which they were created. Greek myths are among the most complex and influential stories ever told. From the first millennium BC until today, the myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. They can be found in the latest movies and television shows and in software for interactive computer games. This book combines a retelling of Greek myths with a comprehensive account of the world in which they developed—their themes, their relevance to Greek religion and society, and their relationship to the landscape. "Contexts, Sources, Meanings" describes the main literary and artistic sources for Greek myths, and their contexts, such as ritual and theater. "Myths of Origin" includes stories about the beginning of the cosmos, the origins of the gods, the first humans, and the founding of communities. "The Olympians: Power, Honor, Sexuality" examines the activities of all the main divinities. "Heroic exploits" concentrates on the adventures of Perseus, Jason, Herakles, and other heroes. "Family sagas" explores the dramas and catastrophes that befall heroes and heroines. "A Landscape of Myths" sets the stories within the context of the mountains, caves, seas, and rivers of Greece, Crete, Troy, and the Underworld. "Greek Myths after the Greeks" describes the rich tradition of retelling, from the Romans, through the Renaissance, to the twenty-first century. Complemented by lavish illustrations, genealogical tables, box features, and specially commissioned drawings, this will be an essential book for anyone interested in these classic tales and in the world of the ancient Greeks.

Author : Michael G. Fry
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773592841

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Llyod George and Foreign Policy by Michael G. Fry Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Elbourne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108807562

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Empire, Kinship and Violence by Elizabeth Elbourne Pdf

Empire, Kinship and Violence traces the history of three linked imperial families in Britain and across contested colonial borderlands from 1770 to 1842. Elizabeth Elbourne tracks the Haudenosaunee Brants of northeastern North America from the American Revolution to exile in Canada; the Bannisters, a British family of colonial administrators, whistleblowers and entrepreneurs who operated across Australia, Canada and southern Africa; and the Buxtons, a family of British abolitionists who publicized information about what might now be termed genocide towards Indigenous peoples while also pioneering humanitarian colonialism. By recounting the conflicts that these interlinked families were involved in she tells a larger story about the development of British and American settler colonialism and the betrayal of Indigenous peoples. Through an analysis of the changing politics of kinship and violence, Elizabeth Elbourne sheds new light on transnational debates about issues such as Indigenous sovereignty claims, British subjecthood, violence, land rights and cultural assimilation.

Author : Zoe Laidlaw
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0719069181

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Colonial Connections 1815-1845 by Zoe Laidlaw Pdf

This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. By the 1830s the conviction that personal connections were the best way of exerting influence within the imperial sphere went well beyond the metropolitan government, as lobbyists, settlers and missionaries also developed personal connections to advance their causes.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000010101529

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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States. Department of Agriculture Pdf

Contains administrative report only.

Author : United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:096393158

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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States. Dept. of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Henry Dundas Napier (Hon.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : UOM:39015068454209

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The Experiences of a Military Attaché in the Balkans by Henry Dundas Napier (Hon.) Pdf

Author : Jane Southcott
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781793606044

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Sarah Anna Glover by Jane Southcott Pdf

In Sarah Anna Glover: Nineteenth Century Music Education Pioneer, Jane Southcott explores the life and pedagogy of Sarah Anna Glover, the female music education pioneer of congregational singing (psalmody) and singing in nineteenth-century schools. Glover devoted her life to the creation and propagation of a way of teaching class music that was meticulously devised, musically rigorous, and successfully promulgated. Southcott analyzes Glover’s methods, history, and memory, and works to correct inaccuracies and misrepresentations that have emerged since Glover’s death.

Author : Joseph Tilley (of Derby, Eng.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081396822

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The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire by Joseph Tilley (of Derby, Eng.) Pdf