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Author: Walt Morey
Publisher: Buchanan Resources
Published: 1989-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780936085111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA portrait of the land and people of wilderness Alaska presented through the experiences of an orphan whose year of decisions, responsibilities, and growth help him to accept the future.
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher:
Published: 2011-08
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the author's life, first in Mississippi, then going to school in Texas, and then writing in New York.
Author: Malachy Tallack
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-07-12
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1681771888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden, and Norway, it crosses the tip of Greenland and the southern coast of Alaska, and slices the great expanses of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, where Malachy Tallack has spent most of his life.In Sixty Degrees North, Tallack travels westward, exploring the landscapes of the parallel and the ways that people have interacted with those landscapes, highlighting themes of wildness and community, isolation and engagement, exile and memory.An intimate journey of the heart and mind, Sixty Degrees North begins with the author's loss of his father and his own troubled relationship with Shetland, and concludes with an embrace of the place he calls home.
Author: Judith Giesberg
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0807895601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America's Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.
Author: Charles Kuralt
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a celebration of North Carolina--the people, scenery, food, history, and much more. Color and black-and-white photographs.
Author: Natasha Zaretsky
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010-01-27
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0807867802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another. Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear family collided with anxieties about the direction of the United States in the wake of military defeat in Vietnam and in the midst of economic recession, Zaretsky explains. By exploring such themes as the controversy surrounding prisoners of war in Southeast Asia, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74, and debates about cultural narcissism, Zaretsky reveals that the 1970s marked a significant turning point in the history of American nationalism. After Vietnam, a wounded national identity--rooted in a collective sense of injury and fueled by images of family peril--exploded to the surface and helped set the stage for the Reagan Revolution. With an innovative analysis that integrates cultural, intellectual, and political history, No Direction Home explores the fears that not only shaped an earlier era but also have reverberated into our own time.
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2009-09-22
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781554681228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
Author: Diane Smolinski
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781588103932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the daily life and society of northerners during the Civil War, and explains how the largely industrial economy played a role in their lives.
Author: Matthew J. Gallman
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 1994-03-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1461720974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of the firing on Fort Sumter, outraged Northerners looked forward to a quick and decisive victory over the Confederate rebels. But after the First Battle of Bull Run it became clear to supporters of the Union that the Civil War would be prolonged and deadly. How Northern society mobilized to fight this first great modern war is the subject of J. Matthew Gallman's perceptive history. Drawing on a wide range of up-to-date scholarship and addressing the issues from a fresh perspective, his book fills a surprising void in Civil War literature. Gallman's focus is on continuity and change—what traditions the North relied on in preparing for war, and what adjustments it made in its behavior and institutions. From his analysis it seems clear that the Civil War was not the great watershed in political, economic, and social development that is often supposed. Gallman's investigation of the status of women and blacks, for example, shows that wartime gains, if significant for a few, were on the whole decidedly modest. And while "total war" came to the battlefield in a frightening manner, its impact on the Northern home front was far less certain. American Ways Series.
Author: Donald Alan Messerschmidt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-12-31
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0521240670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of seventeen essays focusing on the issue of practising anthropology in one's own society.
