The Dream Of The North

Author : Peter Fjagesund
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401210829

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The Dream of the North by Peter Fjagesund Pdf

Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled the North’s rise to prominence, and enabled it to rival the traditional cultural and political hegemony of the South. This includes not only the fascinating conquest of the polar regions, but also the religious upheaval of the Reformation, the changing view of nature engendered by Romanticism, and, not least, the revival of ancient Nordic and Celtic culture. Finally, the book offers an indispensable historical background to current events in the Far North, where the past and the future meet in a complex web of dramatic environmental concerns, the exploitation of natural resources, and the strategies of politics and commerce.

Author : Gretchen Roedde
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459743304

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Deep Water Dream by Gretchen Roedde Pdf

Deep Water Dream is a hopeful memoir that shares the author’s voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in northern Ontario.

Author : Henrietta Harrison
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804767460

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The Man Awakened from Dreams by Henrietta Harrison Pdf

A vivid study of China’s modernization through the lens of one schoolteacher’s life: “A tour de force of originality, clarity, and skillful organization.” —Chinese Historical Review In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Henrietta Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday existence in the countryside in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder who never held government office. Through the story of his family, the author illustrates the decline of the countryside in relation to the cities as a result of modernization, and the transformation of Confucian ideology as a result of these changes. Based on nearly four hundred volumes of Liu’s diary and other writings, the book illustrates what it was like to study in an academy and to be a schoolteacher, the pressures of changing family relationships, the daily grind of work in industry and agriculture, people’s experience with government, and life under the Japanese occupation. “Should be on any short-list of ‘necessary’ books on modern China.” —American Historical Review “Harrison does nothing less than open up for us a whole new world.” —Journal of Asian Studies

Author : Daniel T. Fleming
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469667829

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Living the Dream by Daniel T. Fleming Pdf

Living the Dream tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle over King's legacy that continued through the decades that followed. Creating the first national holiday to honor an African American was a formidable achievement and an act of resistance against conservative and segregationist opposition. Congressional efforts to commemorate King began shortly after his assassination. The ensuing political battles slowed the progress of granting him a namesake holiday and crucially defined how his legacy would be received. Though Coretta Scott King's mission to honor her husband's commitment to nonviolence was upheld, conservative politicians sought to use the holiday to advance a whitewashed, nationalistic, and even reactionary vision of King's life and thought. This book reveals the lengths that activists had to go to elevate an African American man to the pantheon of national heroes, how conservatives took advantage of the commemoration to bend the arc of King's legacy toward something he never would have expected, and how grassroots causes, unions, and antiwar demonstrators continued to try to claim this sanctified day as their own.

Author : Barry Lopez
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781480409149

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Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez Pdf

This New York Times–bestselling exploration of the Arctic, a National Book Award winner, is “one of the finest books ever written about the far North” (Publishers Weekly). “The nation’s premier nature writer” travels to a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human history (San Francisco Chronicle). The Arctic has for centuries been a destination for the most ambitious explorers—a place of dreams, fears, and awe-inspiring spectacle. This “dazzling” account by the author of Of Wolves and Men takes readers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of one of the world’s last frontiers (The New York Times). Based on Barry Lopez’s years spent traveling the Arctic regions in the company of Eskimo hunting parties and scientific expeditions alike, Arctic Dreams investigates the unique terrain of the human mind, thrown into relief against the vastness of the tundra and the frozen ocean. Eye-opening and profoundly moving, it is a magnificent appreciation of how wilderness challenges and inspires us. Renowned environmentalist and author of Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey has called Arctic Dreams “a splendid book . . . by a man who is both a first-rate writer and an uncompromising defender of the wild country and its native inhabitants”—and the New Yorker hails it as a “landmark” work of travel writing. A vivid, thoughtful, and atmospheric read, it has earned multiple prizes, including the National Book Award, the Christopher Medal, the Oregon Book Award, and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Mrs. Henry Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065010906

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Told in the Twilight: All Souls' Eve. The dream of Gertrude Lisle. Cyrilla Maude. The self-convicted. Mr. North's dream. My cousin Caroline's wedding. An incident in the life of Lord Byron. Feathers and spangles by Mrs. Henry Wood Pdf

Author : Janet Wilson
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781926920412

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Shannen and the Dream for a School by Janet Wilson Pdf

The true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat First Nation, a native Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979 when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building. Shannen's fight took her all the way to Parliament Hill and was taken up by children around the world. Shannen’s dream continues today with the work of the Shannen's Dream organization and those everywhere who are fighting for the rights of Aboriginal children.

Author : Vanessa Betts,Victoria McCulloch
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781907263743

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India - The North: Forts, Palaces, the Himalaya Dream Trip by Vanessa Betts,Victoria McCulloch Pdf

During your valuable holiday time you will want to experience the heart of India. Footprint’s Dream Trip India - The North: Forts, Palaces, the Himalaya will ensure you discover the very best this spirited destination has to offer as well as take you to some fantastic out-of-the-way places hand-picked by the authors. From exploring spectacular forts to taking in the wonder of the iconic Taj Mahal, this new guide is packed full of ideas, suggestions and expert advice and will help you design your own dream trip. • Packed with detailed information on where to go and what to do • A hand-picked selection of the very best places to stay and to eat • Full-colour trip-planning section featuring detailed itineraries and maps • Off-the-beaten track suggestions from the author • Compact, pocket-sized format so you can carry it with you • Written by a local expert offering you insider information Footprint’s carefully tailored information ensures that you get the most out of your dream trip.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416593331

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Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807874691

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American Dreams in Mississippi by Ted Ownby Pdf

The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi--a state long associated with poverty, inequality, and rural life. But as Ted Ownby demonstrates in this innovative study, consumer goods and shopping have played important roles in the development of class, race, and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the present. After examining the general and plantation stores of the nineteenth century, a period when shopping habits were stratified according to racial and class hierarchies, Ownby traces the development of new types of stores and buying patterns in the twentieth century, when women and African Americans began to wield new forms of economic power. Using sources as diverse as store ledgers, blues lyrics, and the writings of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, and Will Percy, he illuminates the changing relationships among race, rural life, and consumer goods and, in the process, offers a new way to understand the connection between power and culture in the American South.

Author : Susan Mann
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773570313

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Dream of Nation by Susan Mann Pdf

Essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Quebec, The Dream of Nation traces the changing nature of various "dreams of nation," from the imperial dream of New France to the separatist dream of the 1980 referendum. Susan Mann demonstrates that these dreams, fashioned by elites in response to the recurring question of how to be French in North America, proposed an ever-elusive unanimity. She discusses how social, economic, and political pressures, as well as changing populations, invariably thwarted one dream and provided the makings of another. A work of pioneering scholarship and remarkable synthesis, The Dream of Nation weaves together two of the dominant ideologies of the twentieth century: nationalism and feminism. A new preface contextualizes the 1982 edition and outlines the different contours of Quebec's latest thoughts on sovereignty.

Author : Nassim W. Balestrini,Julia Hoydis,Anna-Christina Kainradl,Ulla Kriebernegg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666914757

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Aging Studies and Ecocriticism by Nassim W. Balestrini,Julia Hoydis,Anna-Christina Kainradl,Ulla Kriebernegg Pdf

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and scrutinize “boundary texts” in different literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging studies, there has been little scholarly interaction between ecocritical literary studies and aging studies to date. The contributors in this volume demonstrate the potential of specific genres to narrate relationality and age, and the aesthetic and ethical challenges of imagining changes, endings, and survival in the Anthropocene. As the first step towards putting both fields in conversation, this collection offers new pathways into understanding human and nonhuman ecological relations.

Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : New France
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014223952

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The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman Pdf

Author : Joseph L. Gavett
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing, Ltd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1603861157

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North Dakota by Joseph L. Gavett Pdf

Author : Andrew LaPointe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Michigan
ISBN : 0974189006

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Up North Dream by Andrew LaPointe Pdf