A Century of Dishonor
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 540
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A Century of Dishonour
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1108072070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1881 work addresses the history of broken treaties and massacres suffered by Native American tribes in the nineteenth century.
The History of the American Indians
Author: James Adair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-06
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1108060188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnique upon publication in 1775, this history provides an invaluable insight into Native American social and political culture.
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish
Author: David Rakoff
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 0385676174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century. David Rakoff, who died in 2012 at the age of 47, built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel, written with humour, sympathy and tenderness, proves him the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
Beyond Death and Dishonour
Author: Michiharu Shinya
Publisher: Castle Publishing Limited
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the 13th of November 1942, the Japanese Destroyer Akatsuki was sunk off the coast of Guadalcanal. Torpedo officer Michiharu Shinya was captured and sent to the Featherston Prisoner-of-War Camp in New Zealand. He arrives to a camp of 800 inmates, simmering with discontent. Tensions rise and snap; a riot breaks-out and 48 Japanese POWs are killed by gunfire from New Zealand guards. Shinya's personal war continues, as he struggles with the ultimate crime against Japan: to die is honour; to live is to cease to exist. Through the kindness of a New Zealand padre, Shinya confronts his ghosts and is changed forever.
National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Niels F. May
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1000396347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national specifics, the narratives of new nationalism are quite similar everywhere. National history is said to stretch back many centuries, expressesing the historical continuity of a homogeneous people and its timeless character. This people struggles for independence, guided by towering leaders and inspired by the sacrifice of martyrs. Unlike earlier forms of nationalism, the main enemies are no longer neighbouring states, but international and supranational institutions. To use national history as an integrative tool, new nationalists claim that the media and school history curricula should not contest or question the nation and its great historical deeds, as doubts threaten to weaken and dishonour the nation. This book offers a broad international overview of the rhetoric, contents, and contexts of the rise of these renewed national historical narratives, and of how professional historians have reacted to these phenomena. The contributions focus on a wide range of representative nations from around all over the globe.
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Author: Christine de Pizan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2003-10-30
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0141961015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
That Neutral Island
Author: Clair Wills
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780674026827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island mines deeper layers of experience. Stories, letters, and diaries illuminate this small country as it suffered rationing, censorship, the threat of invasion, and a strange detachment from the war.
Take No Farewell
Author: Robert Goddard
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-09-05
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0552164526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLove stories. Geoffrey Staddon had never forgotten the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect. Twelve years before the day in September 1923 when a paragraph in the newspaper made his blood run cold, he had turned his back on it for the last time, turned his back on the woman he loved, and who loved him. But when he read that Consuela Caswell had been charged with murder by poisoning he knew, with a certainty that defied the great divide of all those years, that she could not be guilty. As the remorse and shame of his own betrayal of her came flooding back, he knew too that he could not let matters rest. And when she sent her own daughter to him, pleading for help, he knew that he must return at last to Clouds Frome and to the dark secret that it held.
A Century of Dishonor
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1582182892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Originally published over 100 years ago, A Century of Dishonor is Helen Jackson's eye- opening sketch of the U.S. government's often shameful mishandling of what was called the?Indian problem?. Using official documents as authentic research materials, Jackson asserts that the government and citizens of the United States were the cause of the?problems?, and not the Native peoples. Broken treaties, inhuman treatment, restricted to reservations unfit for habitation or traditional lifestyle?all of these actions were taken against Indian tribes by a government that treated them with less consideration and compassion than that of a foreign country.
