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Author : Evelyn Peters,Matthew Stock,Adrian Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555664

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Rooster Town by Evelyn Peters,Matthew Stock,Adrian Werner Pdf

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city’s edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Métis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Métis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Métis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

Author : Robyn Doolittle
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143191346

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Crazy Town by Robyn Doolittle Pdf

His drug and alcohol-fuelled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s personal and political troubles have occupied centre stage in North America’s fourth largest city since news broke that men involved in the drug trade were selling a videotape of Ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine. Toronto Star reporter Robyn Doolittle was one of three journalists to view the video and report on its contents in May 2013. Her dogged pursuit of the story has uncovered disturbing details about the mayor’s past and embroiled the Toronto police, city councilors, and ordinary citizens in a raucous debate about the future of the city. Even before those explosive events, Ford was a divisive figure. A populist and successful city councillor, he was an underdog to become mayor in 2010. His politics and mercurial nature have split the amalgamated city in two. But there is far more to the story. The Fords have a long, unhappy history of substance abuse and criminal behavior. Despite their troubles, they are also one of the most ambitious families in Canada. Those close to the Fords say they often compare themselves to the Kennedys and believe they were born to lead. Regardless of whether the mayor survives the scandal, the Ford name is on the ballot in the mayoralty election of 2014. Fast-paced and insightful, Crazy Town is a page-turning portrait of a troubled man, a formidable family and a city caught in an jaw-dropping scandal.

Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623760076

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Connecticut; a Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People, by Best Books on Pdf

written by workers of the Federal writers' project of the Works progress administration for the state of Connecticut; sponsored by Wilbur L. Cross ...

Author : Amos Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Putney (Vt.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086346087

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The History of the Town of Putney ... by Amos Foster Pdf

Author : Abram English Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Bedford (Mass.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433081763025

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History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts by Abram English Brown Pdf

Author : Gina Perez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520936418

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The Near Northwest Side Story by Gina Perez Pdf

In The Near Northwest Side Story, Gina M. Pérez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico—two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. Pérez's masterful blend of history and ethnography explores the multiple and gendered reasons for migration, why people maintain transnational connections with distant communities, and how poor and working-class Puerto Ricans work to build meaningful communities. Pérez traces the changing ways that Puerto Ricans have experienced poverty, displacement, and discrimination and illustrates how they imagine and build extended families and dense social networks that link San Sebastian to barrios in Chicago. She includes an incisive analysis of the role of the state in shaping migration through such projects as the Chardon Plan, Operation Bootstrap, and the Chicago Experiment. The Near Northwest Side Story provides a unique window on the many strategies people use to resist the negative consequences of globalization, economic development, and gentrification.

Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190282455

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The City in Slang by Irving Lewis Allen Pdf

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.

Author : Antje Dallmann,Eva Boesenberg,Martin Klepper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317227748

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Approaches to American Cultural Studies by Antje Dallmann,Eva Boesenberg,Martin Klepper Pdf

Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts. Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is divided into four thematically-organised sections. The first part delineates the evolution of American Studies over the course of the twentieth century, the second elaborates on how American Studies as a field is positioned within the wider humanities, and the third inspects and deconstructs popular tropes such as myths of the West, the self-made man, Manifest Destiny, and representations of the President of the United States. The fourth part introduces theories of society such as structuralism and deconstruction, queer and transgender theories, border and hemispheric studies, and critical race theory that are particularly influential within American Studies. This book is supplemented by a companion website offering further material for study (www.routledge.com/cw/dallmann). Specifically designed for use on courses across Europe, it is a clear and engaging introductory text for students of American culture.

Author : Lora-Marie Bernard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439668832

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The Yellow Rose of Texas by Lora-Marie Bernard Pdf

A journalist searches for the truth behind the traditional folk song, and a free black woman’s role in the Texas Revolution. The legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas holds an indisputable place in Lone Star culture, tethered to a familiar song that has served as a Civil War marching tune, a pop chart staple, and a halftime anthem. Almost two centuries of Texas mythmaking successfully muddled fact with fable in song, and the true story of Emily D. West remains mired in dispute and unrecognizable beneath the tales that grew up around it. The complete truth may never be recovered, but in this book Lora-Marie Bernard seeks an honest account honoring the grit and determination that brought a free black woman from the abolitionist riots of Connecticut to the thick of a bloody Texas revolution. A Lone Star native who grew up immersed in the Yellow Rose legend, Bernard also traces other stories that legend has obscured, including the connection between Emily D. West and plans for a free black colony in Texas. Includes illustrations

Author : Samuel G. Drake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : WISC:89058268202

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The History and Antiquities of the City of Boston by Samuel G. Drake Pdf

Author : Vivian Price
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781893619890

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Historic Dekalb County by Vivian Price Pdf

An illustrated history of DeKalb County, Georgia, paired with histories of the local companies.

Author : Brooks Vanderbush
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625849618

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The National Cherry Festival in Traverse City: Blessing of the Blossoms by Brooks Vanderbush Pdf

The National Cherry Festival is northern Michigan's most popular event. It turns Traverse City, a beach town of thirty thousand, into a thriving city of nearly one million. Begun almost a century ago, the festival started out as a small, neighborhood affair and grew into an international phenomenon that draws in visitors from all over the globe. Twist and pop a pit of Cherry Festival history with author and Traverse City native Brooks Vanderbush as he recounts the festival's growth and its queens and courts, governing bodies, past personalities and other memorable stories that have made it such an essential part of this vacation paradise.

Author : Shawn Micallef
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770562615

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Stroll by Shawn Micallef Pdf

Stroll celebrates Toronto's details at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario.

Author : National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Federal aid to the arts
ISBN : IND:30000132752084

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Annual Report by National Endowment for the Arts Pdf

Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.

Author : Mark Larson
Publisher : Agate Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781572848054

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Ensemble by Mark Larson Pdf

This definitive history brings Chicago’s celebrated theater and comedy scenes to life with stories from some of its biggest stars spanning sixty-five years. Chicago is a bona fide theater town, bursting with vitality that thrills local fans and produces generation after generation of world-renowned actors, directors, playwrights, and designers. Now Mark Larson shares the rich theatrical history of Chicago through first-person accounts from the people who made it. Drawing from more than three hundred interviews, Larson weaves a narrative that expresses the spirit of Chicago’s ensemble ethos: the voices of celebrities such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Asner, George Wendt, Michael Shannon, and Tracy Letts comingle with stories from designers, composers, and others who have played a crucial role in making Chicago theater so powerful, influential, and unique. Among many other topics, this book explores the early days of the fabled Compass Players and the legendary Second City in the ‘50s and ‘60s; the rise of acclaimed ensembles like Steppenwolf in the ‘70s; the explosion of storefront and neighborhood companies in the ‘80s; and the enduring global influence of the city as the center of improv training and performance.