Distant Islands

Distant Islands

Author: Daniel H. Inouye

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1607327937

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Distant Islands is a modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Often overshadowed in historical literature by the Japanese diaspora on the West Coast, this community, which dates back to the 1870s, has its own fascinating history. The New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using a wealth of primary sources—oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more—Daniel H. Inouye tells the stories of the business and professional elites, mid-sized merchants, small business owners, working-class families, menial laborers, and students that made up these communities. The book presents new knowledge about the history of Japanese immigrants in the United States and makes a novel and persuasive argument about the primacy of class and status stratification and relatively weak ethnic cohesion and solidarity in New York City, compared to the pervading understanding of nikkei on the West Coast. While a few prior studies have identified social stratification in other nikkei communities, this book presents the first full exploration of the subject and additionally draws parallels to divisions in German American communities. Distant Islands is a unique and nuanced historical account of an American ethnic community that reveals the common humanity of pioneering Japanese New Yorkers despite diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and life stories. It will be of interest to general readers, students, and scholars interested in Asian American studies, immigration and ethnic studies, sociology, and history. Winner- Honorable Mention, 2018 Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award


Distant Islands

Distant Islands

Author: Steve K. Bertrand

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1796018805

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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Author: Judith Schalansky

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-11-12

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0143126679

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A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.


Toward the Distant Islands

Toward the Distant Islands

Author: Hayden Carruth

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1556592361

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Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.


Islands Beyond the Horizon

Islands Beyond the Horizon

Author: Roger Lovegrove

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-09-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0191651907

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Islands have an irresistible attraction and an enduring appeal. Naturalist Roger Lovegrove has visited many of the most remote islands in the world, and in this book he takes the reader to twenty that fascinate him the most. Some are familiar but most are little known; they range from the storm-bound island of South Georgia and the ice-locked Arctic island of Wrangel to the wind-swept, wave-lashed Mykines and St Kilda. The range is diverse and spectacular; and whether distant, offshore, inhabited, uninhabited, tropical or polar, each is a unique self-contained habitat with a delicately-balanced ecosystem, and each has its own mystique and ineffable magnetism. Central to each story is also the impact of human settlers. Lovegrove recounts unforgettable tales of human endeavour, tragedy, and heroism. But consistently, he has to report on the mankind's negative impact on wildlife and habitats — from the exploitation of birds for food to the elimination of native vegetation for crops. By looking not only at the biodiversity of each island, but also the uneasy relationship between its wildlife and the involvement of man, he provides a richly detailed account of each island, its diverse wildlife, its human history, and the efforts of conservationists to retain these irreplaceable sites.


African Islands

African Islands

Author: Toyin Falola

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 158046954X

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Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories of islands off the African coast


Remote Islands

Remote Islands

Author: Yves Earhart

Publisher: Publifye AS

Published: 2024-10-16

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 8233934488

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""Remote Islands: Exploring Earth's Most Isolated Ecosystems"" delves into the fascinating world of Earth's most secluded islands, examining their unique geological features, biodiversity, and the challenges of human habitation. This comprehensive exploration presents remote islands as natural laboratories for studying evolution, climate change, and human adaptability, offering valuable insights into global environmental processes. The book is structured in three parts, beginning with an introduction to the concept of remoteness and criteria for identifying the world's most isolated islands. It then delves into specific case studies, examining island formation, unique flora and fauna, and geological characteristics. The final section explores the challenges and opportunities these islands present for conservation, research, and sustainable human presence. By combining scientific studies with firsthand accounts, the book provides a multi-faceted perspective on island life. What sets this book apart is its holistic approach, presenting remote islands as whole systems rather than focusing solely on biological or geological aspects. It balances scientific rigor with engaging narratives, making it accessible to a broad audience interested in environmental science, earth sciences, and extreme habitats. Through its exploration of these isolated ecosystems, the book highlights the interconnectedness of global environments and the importance of preserving Earth's biodiversity.


Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

Author: Alan P. Lightman

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1101871865

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In this meditation on religion and science, Lightman explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world. As a physicist, he has always held a scientific view of the world. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea he was overcome by the sensation that he was merging with a grand and eternal unity, a hint of something absolute and immaterial. This is his exploration of these seemingly contradictory impulses, and the journey along the different paths of religion and science that become part of his quest. -- adapted from publisher info.