The Promise Of History

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476784694

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The Promise of Canada by Charlotte Gray Pdf

What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over our nation’s history, highlighting some of our most important stories. From the acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray comes a richly rewarding book about what it means to be Canadian. Readers already know Gray as an award-winning biographer, a writer who has brilliantly captured significant individuals and dramatic moments in our history. Now, in The Promise of Canada, she weaves together masterful portraits of nine influential Canadians, creating a unique history of our country. What do these people—from George-Étienne Cartier and Emily Carr to Tommy Douglas, Margaret Atwood, and Elijah Harper—have in common? Each, according to Charlotte Gray, has left an indelible mark on Canada. Deliberately avoiding a top-down approach to history, Gray has chosen Canadians—some well-known, others less so—whose ideas, she argues, have become part of our collective conversation about who we are as a people. She also highlights many other Canadians from all walks of life who have added to the ongoing debate, showing how our country has reinvented itself in every generation since Confederation, while at the same time holding to certain central beliefs. Beautifully illustrated with evocative black-and-white historical images and colorful artistic visions, and written in an engaging style, The Promise of Canada is a fresh, thoughtful, and inspiring view of our historical journey. Opening doors into our past, present, and future with this masterful work, Charlotte Gray makes Canada’s history come alive and challenges us to envision the country we want to live in.

Author : Pnina Bat Zvi,Margie Wolfe
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781772603088

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The Promise by Pnina Bat Zvi,Margie Wolfe Pdf

The night that Rachel and Toby’s parents are taken away by the Nazis, they give their young daughters three gold coins with the instructions to “use these wisely to help save your lives.” They also ask the girls to promise that they will always stay together. This compelling true story follows the sisters as they confront the daily horrors of Auschwitz, protecting one another, sharing memories, fears, and even laughter—always together. But when Rachel becomes ill and is taken away by Nazi guards, likely forever, Toby risks her own life and uses the well-hidden gold coins to rescue her little sister.

Author : Fred Dallmayr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438430409

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The Promise of Democracy by Fred Dallmayr Pdf

Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation.

Author : Veronica Jane Strong-Boag,Mona Gleason,Adele Perry
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064908505

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Rethinking Canada by Veronica Jane Strong-Boag,Mona Gleason,Adele Perry Pdf

This now standard text examines key developments in Canadian history--form the founding of New France to the present--while highlighting the distinctive texture of women's experiences and identities. Of the 24 articles, 16 are new. Topics now include widows and orphans in 18th-century Quebec, women and slavery in early Canada, aboriginal/non-aboriginal marriage in colonial Canada, housewives in the Great Depression, wartime narratives of Japanese-Canadian women, lesbian bar cultures in the 1950s and 60s, and feminist discourse after the 9/11 attacks.

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199724550

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The Promise of the New South by Edward L. Ayers Pdf

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century. Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns, revolutionized by the spread of the railroads, to the statehouses where Democratic Redeemers swept away the legacy of Reconstruction; from the small farmers, trapped into growing nothing but cotton, to the new industries of Birmingham; from abuse and intimacy in the family to tumultuous public meetings of the prohibitionists. He explores every aspect of society, politics, and the economy, detailing the importance of each in the emerging New South. Central to the entire story is the role of race relations, from alliances and friendships between blacks and whites to the spread of Jim Crows laws and disfranchisement. The teeming nineteenth-century South comes to life in these pages. When this book first appeared in 1992, it won a broad array of prizes and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The citation for the National Book Award declared Promise of the New South a vivid and masterfully detailed picture of the evolution of a new society. The Atlantic called it "one of the broadest and most original interpretations of southern history of the past twenty years.

Author : W. J. Rorabaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015078778175

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The Real Making of the President by W. J. Rorabaugh Pdf

When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this election to explain the operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, 'The Making of the President'.

Author : Paul Axelrod
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442690707

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The Promise of Schooling by Paul Axelrod Pdf

Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteenth century? What lay behind the campaign to extend publicly funded education? What went on inside the Canadian classroom? How did schools address the needs of Native students, blacks, and the children of immigrants? What cultural and social roles did universities serve by the beginning of the twentieth century? And how were schools affected by the economic and social pressures arising from the Industrial Revolution? The book contends that educational authorities built and reformed schools in ways that were not always consistent with their idealistic visions. Economic constraints, political expediency, and the agendas of ordinary citizens all influenced the life of the Canadian school in an era marked by dramatic social change. Drawing from an abundant scholarly literature published over the last two decades, this study seeks to expose readers to the richness of the field of educational history. Written for a broad audience, it also hopes, by providing historical context, to stimulate informed discussion about educational issues.

Author : John T. Kneebone,Eugene P. Trani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 0813944821

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Fulfilling the Promise by John T. Kneebone,Eugene P. Trani Pdf

Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging from the era of urban crisis--desegregation, white flight, political conflict, and economic decline. The product of the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and the Richmond Professional Institute combined into one, state-mandated institution, the two were able to embrace their mission and work together productively. In Fulfilling the Promise, John Kneebone and Eugene Trani tell the intriguing story of VCU and the context in which the university was forged and eventually thrived. Although VCU's history is necessarily unique, Kneebone and Trani show how the issues shaping it are common to many urban institutions, from engaging with two-party politics in Virginia and African American political leadership in Richmond, to fraught neighborhood relations, the complexities of providing public health care at an academic health center, and an increasingly diverse student body. As a result, Fulfilling the Promise offers far more than a stale institutional saga. Rather, this definitive history of one urban state university illuminates the past and future of American public higher education in the post-1960s era.

Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536221718

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The Promise by Nicola Davies Pdf

“This tale is a sturdy one that is made even more emphatic by Davies’s terse writing style. The text is heightened in every way by Carlin’s outstanding mixed-media artwork.” — Booklist (starred review) On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But the frail old woman says the thief can’t have it without giving something in return: the promise. It is the beginning of a journey that will change the girl’s life — and a chance to change the world, for good.

Author : Veronica Jane Strong-Boag,Anita Clair Fellman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020127408

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Rethinking Canada by Veronica Jane Strong-Boag,Anita Clair Fellman Pdf

Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition features key developments in Canadian history--from the founding of New France to the present--while at the same time highlighting the distinctive texture of women's experiences, identities, and aspirations. A decidedly non-traditional reconstruction of Canadian history, Rethinking Canada focuses on the lives, struggles, and contributions of women, enlarging and diversifying the picture of the past found in conventional historical accounts.

Author : Francesca Trivellato
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217383

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The Promise and Peril of Credit by Francesca Trivellato Pdf

How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart. Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.

Author : Kathleen Harryman,Lucy Marshall
Publisher : ISBN Services
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798891452404

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The Promise by Kathleen Harryman,Lucy Marshall Pdf

How far would you go to keep a promise? In the heat of battle, one man's promise to another will be tested. September 1939 - As Britain is gripped by the fear and uncertainty of war, Tom Armitage stands to gain the one thing that he never thought possible - his freedom. Rosie Elliot sees her future crumbling to dust as Will Aarons leaves Whitby with Jimmy Chappell to fight in the war. As she begins work at The Turnstone Convalescent Home, Rosie finds something she thought she had lost. Friendship. But friendship soon turns to love. Can this new love replace Will? This is not an ordinary love story. It's a story of love, loss, courage, and honour. Of promises that must be kept or risk losing everything you've ever held dear.

Author : Athanasios Moulakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110872439

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The Promise of History by Athanasios Moulakis Pdf

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Author : Christian Ingrao
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509527786

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The Promise of the East by Christian Ingrao Pdf

How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent ‘Thousand-Year Reich’? Between 1939 and 1943, the Nazi imperial Utopia started to take shape in the conquered areas of Eastern Europe, brutally emptied of their inhabitants, who were displaced, reduced to slavery and, in the case of the Jews and a considerable number of Slavs, murdered. This Utopia had its engineers, its agencies and its pioneers (no fewer than 27,000 Germans, most of them young). It aroused fervent support. In the Thousand-Year Reich, with its borders extended by conquest, a racially pure community would soon live a life of peace and prosperity, in total harmony. In this book, renowned historian Christian Ingrao draws on extensive archival material to shed new light on this movement and explain how it could prove so appealing, examining the coherence and the inner contradictions of the activities undertaken by the different institutions, the careers of the women and men who played a part in them, and the ambitious plans that were drawn up. Ingrao adopts a social anthropological point of view to investigate the emotions aroused by the Nazi dream, and describes not just the hatred and the anxieties it fed on but also the joys and expectations it created – two sides of a single reality. As we learn from the terrible violence unleashed across the region of Zamość, on the border between Poland and Ukraine, the hopes of the Nazis became a nightmare for the native populations. This important work reveals an aspect of Nazism that is often overlooked and greatly extends our understanding of the general framework in which the Holocaust was realized. It will find a wide audience among students and scholars of modern German history and among a broad general readership.

Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0816621217

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The Powers of the Past by Harvey J. Kaye Pdf