The Squatter

Author : Jonathan Dunne
Publisher : Jonathan Dunne
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Squatter by Jonathan Dunne Pdf

The house is free, but it comes with a price... Single mom, Molly Greene, is forced to close her Michelin star restaurant due to the Covid 19 pandemic. To escape the ghosts of her past and the high cost of city living, Molly moves the Greene family to the isolated town of Old Castle where they move into a free-of-charge 200-year-old stately farmhouse...which isn’t quite vacant. The Greene family realise they've become unwitting participants in a macabre contest where the farmhouse is the first prize...or is it? Little do they know they're sharing their house with a sinister squatter that lingers in the fireplace and likes to come out and play when the sun goes down. Financially broke, Molly decides to go public about the ominous presence in the farmhouse, hoping to cash in on the phenomena, never considering the repercussions of her actions.

Author : MarÕa Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161192295X

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The Squatter and the Don by MarÕa Amparo Ruiz de Burton Pdf

The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.

Author : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513276595

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The Squatter and the Don by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton Pdf

The Squatter and the Don (1885) is a novel by Mexican American author María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. The novel, Ruiz de Burton’s second, explores the consequences of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo for the Californios whose land was taken following the Mexican American War. Central to its focus are the ways in which Californios were forced to provide proof of ownership while squatters, with the support of the US government, settled on their land. Following the conquest of California, the Alamar family struggles to assimilate into American culture while maintaining their cultural heritage. Faced with immense prejudice, the Alamars, who like many Californios consider themselves to be racially white, embrace the capitalist culture introduced by American settlers and accelerated by the introduction of the railroad. Against this sociopolitical backdrop, the Alamars become increasingly entwined with the Darrells, a settler family, turning a story of political and economic circumstances into tale of romance between Clarence and Mercedes, whose love becomes representative of a new United States. Both personal and political, historical and fictional, The Squatter and the Don is a novel that captures a complex moment in American history without losing sight of the humanity at its heart. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don is a classic of Mexican American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
ISBN : UCAL:B3321273

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The Squatter's Dream by Rolf Boldrewood Pdf

Author : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : American fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433074938386

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The Squatter and the Don by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton Pdf

"Problems of the land, squatter, and railroad interests in Alameda County, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego"--Baird & Greenwood.

Author : Mary A. Humphrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Kansas
ISBN : MSU:31293036428526

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The Squatter Sovereign by Mary A. Humphrey Pdf

Author : William Howitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCAL:B3324490

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Tallangetta, the Squatter's Home by William Howitt Pdf

Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513293882

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The Squatter's Dream by Rolf Boldrewood Pdf

The Squatter’s Dream (1875) is a novel by Rolf Boldrewood, the pseudonym of Australian novelist Thomas Browne. A squatter himself for nearly twenty-five years, he came to know the ways of life on the outskirts of civilization, which allowed him to lead a peaceful, uncomplicated, and inexpensive existence. Originally serialized in Australian weekly magazines, Browne’s work as Rolf Bolfrewood is an incomparable record of colonial Australia, where outlaws and speculators lived side by side on land stolen from the continent’s Aboriginal peoples. “The climate in which his abode was situated was temperate, from latitude and proximity to the coast. It was cold in the winter, but many a ton of she-oak and box had burned away in the great stone chimney, before which Jack used to toast himself in the cold nights, after a long day’s riding after cattle.” Jack Redgrave leads the kind of existence most men would dream of: a comfortable home, plenty of food, a beautiful property, and enough books to keep him curious about the world beyond the wilderness. Despite this, he begins to grow dissatisfied, dreaming of ways to increase his wealth and forgetting the reasons that first drew him to the squatting lifestyle. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rolf Boldrewood’s The Squatter’s Dream is a classic work of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Thomas Alexander Browne
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547186946

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The Squatter's Dream by Thomas Alexander Browne Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Squatter's Dream" (A Story of Australian Life) by Thomas Alexander Browne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Christopher Pemberton Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Australia
ISBN : OXFORD:N10589157

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Reminiscences of Australia, with Hints on the Squatter's Life by Christopher Pemberton Hodgson Pdf

Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : anboco
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736414891

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The Squatter's Dream - A story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood Pdf

Jack Redgrave was a jolly, well-to-do young squatter, who, in the year 185—, had a very fair cattle station in one of the Australian colonies, upon which he lived in much comfort and reasonable possession of the minor luxuries of life. He had, in bush parlance, "taken it up" himself, when hardly more than a lad, had faced bad seasons, blacks, bush-fires, bushrangers, and bankers (these last he always said terrified him far more than the others), and had finally settled down into a somewhat too easy possession of a couple of thousand good cattle, a well-bred, rather fortunate stud, and a roomy, cool cottage with a broad verandah all covered with creepers...

Author : Maggie Black
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742242521

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Up Came a Squatter by Maggie Black Pdf

Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria – a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was also a correspondent extraordinaire, and his letters to family, fellow pastoralists, colonial officials, and his chief UK business partner, Thomas Steuart Gladstone (and first cousin of the British prime minister), offer a unique insight into the time. Black’s letters and journals, now held at the State Library Victoria, are the inspiration for this revelatory book written by his great-granddaughter. Battles with local Aboriginal people, other settlers, Commissioners of Crown Lands and bush-fires, along with droughts, family feuds, multiple trips back to Scotland to find a wife and Black’s rise to gentrified excess are all vividly brought to life. ‘In this vivid, fast-moving book Niel Black comes to life’ – Geoffrey Blainey

Author : Squatting Europe Kollective
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Housing
ISBN : 1849649308

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The Squatters' Movement in Europe by Squatting Europe Kollective Pdf

The Squatters' Movement in Europe is the first definitive guide to squatting as an alternative to capitalism. It offers a unique insider's view on the movement - its ideals, actions and ways of life. At a time of growing crisis in Europe withhigh unemployment, dwindling social housing and declining living standards, squatting has become an increasingly popular option. The book is written by an activist-scholar collective, whose members have direct experience of squatting: many are stillsquatters today. There are contributions from the Netherlands, Spain, the USA, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. In an age of austerity and precarity this book shows what has been achieved by this resilient social movement, which holdslessons for policy-makers, activists and academics alike.

Author : E. J. Mather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89006400113

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The Squatter's Bairn by E. J. Mather Pdf

Author : Robert Neuwirth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135954123

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Shadow Cities by Robert Neuwirth Pdf

In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community. Visit Robert Neuwirth's blog at: http://squatterci ty.blogspot.com