Wedded To The Land

Author : Joan Donaldson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781449785499

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Whether shes writing about the staccato of a hairy woodpecker echoing through the woods, tapping sweet sap from a cluster of maples during a spring sugaring ritual or mourning the loss of her ox, Tolstoy, Joan Donaldsons sensuous prose shimmers and surprises. Her collection of essays, Wedded to the Land, peels back the skin of her blueberry farm with the precision and eloquence of a Wendell Berry, Edward Abbey, and other agrarian essayists who make us pine for the lost heart of the country. George Getschow, writer-in-residence, The Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, former editor for the Wall Street Journal John thought he was building a garage when he erected a timber-frame building only a stones throw from the house we built on the back of our farm. While washing the dishes, I mulled over how pleasant it would be to look out our kitchen window and watch goats lounge in a paddock. If goats lived in the new shed, the walk wouldnt be far when milking in the winter or during kidding season. Once outside, I scanned the sixteen-by-twenty-foot framework. You know, a couple of goats would fit nicely in here. Theres room for two stalls. Johns hammer paused. I continued. The aspens and honeysuckle on the north would shelter an outdoor pen. I tied on a nail apron and picked up a hammer.

Author : Mary N. Layoun
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822380481

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Wedded to the Land? by Mary N. Layoun Pdf

In Wedded to the Land? Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular. Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study: Greek refugees’ displacement from Asia Minor into Greece in 1922, the 1974 right-wing Cypriot coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and the Palestinian and PLO expulsion from Beirut following the Israeli invasion in 1982. Drawing on readings of literature and of official documents and decrees, songs, poetry, cinema, public monuments, journalism, and conversations with exiles, refugees, and public officials, Layoun uses each historical incident as a means of highlighting a recurring trope within constructs of nationalism. The displacement of the Greek refugees in the 1920s calls into question the very idea of home, as well as the desire for ethnic homogeneity within nations. She reads the Cypriot coup and invasion as an illustration of the gendering of nation and how the notion of the inviolable woman came to represent sovereignity. In her third example she shows how the Palestinian and PLO expulsion from Beirut highlights the ambiguity of the borders upon which many manifestations of nationalism putatively depend. These chapters are preceded and introduced by a discussion of “culturing the nation” and closed by a consideration of citizenship and silence in which Layoun discusses rights ostensibly possessed by all members of a political community. This book will be of interest to scholars engaged in cultural and critical theory, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean history, literary studies, political science, postcolonial studies, and gender studies.

Author : Alastair Macleod
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783730901779

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"Nuala had recently left Dermot for Tomas Crowley, a local Pharmacist and fellow horse enthusiast, and now the "D" word was being spoken. Father and son continued to look out over the fields below, His father turned to him. “There’s only one way out of this,” he said. “I must pass over the land to you now Ciaran, not in twenty years time but now, so it will be kept intact.” “Surely mother would not want the land?" asked Ciaran incredulously. “She would, and if she hasn’t thought of it her divorce lawyer will. Think of it. Half would be her share. Oh the lovely land, and the value of the tower, split and divided.” His father’s eyes were moist. Ciaran looked out once more at the fields. What did he feel?

Author : Mary N. Layoun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nationalism and literature
ISBN : 6612903422

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Wedded to the Land? by Mary N. Layoun Pdf

The gendered narratives of nationalism explored through Greek, Cypriot, and Palestinian examples, particularly in regard to questions of borders, crisis, and displacement.

Author : Callie Bates
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399177392

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The Waking Land by Callie Bates Pdf

In the lush and magical tradition of Naomi Novik’s award-winning Uprooted comes this riveting debut from brilliant young writer Callie Bates—whose boundless imagination places her among the finest authors of fantasy fiction, including Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir. Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder—and must flee for her life. Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father, branded a traitor long ago. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world, she also must face the truth about the forces she has always denied or disdained as superstition—powers that suddenly stir within her. But an all-too-human threat is drawing near, determined to exact vengeance. Now Elanna has no choice but to lead a rebellion against the kingdom to which she once gave her allegiance. Trapped between divided loyalties, she must summon the courage to confront a destiny that could tear her apart. Don’t miss any of Callie Bates’s magical Waking Land trilogy: THE WAKING LAND • THE MEMORY OF FIRE • THE SOUL OF POWER Praise for The Waking Land “Callie Bates has written an exciting and involving first book, and she is clearly a writer of real talent.”—Terry Brooks “A heartbreaking, enchanting, edge-of-the-seat read that held me captive from start to finish!”—Tamora Pierce “The Waking Land is all about rising to challenges, and it succeeds wonderfully.”—Charlaine Harris “A simmering tale of magic that builds to a raging inferno, and hits like a cross between Brandon Sanderson and Pierce Brown.”—Scott Sigler “This superior novel blends passionate romance and sweeping magic. . . . Bates has a delicate, precise touch with human and superhuman relationships.”—Publishers Weekly “A wonderfully stunning debut . . . Bates’ clear, captivating, imaginative storytelling and vivid, distinctive characters will cause readers to soak up every word.”—RT Book Reviews

Author : David J. Silverman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781632869265

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This Land Is Their Land by David J. Silverman Pdf

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.

Author : Joan Donaldson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781449785505

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Essays about life on the author's family blueberry and peach farm.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : YALE:39002005873204

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The Works of President Edwards ... by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020685459

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The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Noelle Marchand
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459214859

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Unlawfully Wedded Bride by Noelle Marchand Pdf

Kate O'Brien can't believe her ears. She's been married, by proxy, to a man she's never met, thanks to her young siblings' meddling! Kate offers her "groom" room and board at her farm until the annulment is granted—nothing more. After all, what else could this predicament be but a blunder that needs fixing? Nathan Rutledge arrives on Kate's doorstep, seeking a fresh start—with a family that needs his help more than Kate will admit. The shadows in both their pasts will be no match for a bright new beginning. But first, he has to convince a woman frightened of love to throw caution to the Texas wind…

Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466807297

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Clearing Land by Jane Brox Pdf

Though few of us now live close to the soil, the world we inhabit has been sculpted by our long national saga of settlement. At the heart of our identity lies the notion of the family farm, as shaped by European history and reshaped by the vast opportunities of the continent. It lies at the heart of Jane Brox's personal story, too: she is the daughter of immigrant New England farmers whose way of life she memorialized in her first two books but has not carried on. In this clear-eyed, lyrical account, Brox twines the two narratives, personal and historical, to explore the place of the family farm as it has evolved from the pilgrims' brutal progress at Plymouth to the modern world, where much of our food is produced by industrial agriculture while the small farm is both marginalized and romanticized. In considering the place of the farm, Brox also considers the rise of textile cities in America, which encroached not only upon farms and farmers but upon the sense of commonality that once sustained them; and she traces the transformation of the idea of wilderness--and its intricate connection to cultivation--which changed as our ties to the land loosened, as terror of the wild was replaced by desire for it. Exploring these strands with neither judgment nor sentimentality, Brox arrives at something beyond a biography of the farm: a vivid depiction of the half-life it carries on in our collective imagination.

Author : Raymond C. Telfair
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780292799950

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Texas Wildlife Resources and Land Uses by Raymond C. Telfair Pdf

Natural habitats for wildlife in Texas and the many species they support are dwindling at an alarming rate as an ever-growing population continues to develop the land for commercial, industrial, and agricultural uses. To take stock of our current wildlife and land resources, identify challenges facing them, and offer strategies for future management and conservation, this book presents over twenty-five essays by experts from a wide range of governmental and private organizations involved in wildlife policy and management. Modeled on the proceedings of a 1982 wildlife symposium published by the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, this book updates and expands the issues involved in wildlife and land use. The chapters are grouped into five sections-perspectives on Texas wildlife resources, future expectations in land use, the public and future demands for wildlife, wildlife management and research, and wildlife management on public lands. The diverse and sometimes competing viewpoints presented here will be important reading for everyone concerned with managing land for wildlife.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : UCAL:B4981487

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The Works of President Edwards: Practical sermons by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : W. S. C. Russell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547207733

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Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land by W. S. C. Russell Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land" by W. S. C. Russell. 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 : Thomas Blount,William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Customary law
ISBN : PSU:000057640372

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Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by Thomas Blount,William Carew Hazlitt Pdf