My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs
My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs

Author: Henry Lawson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 71

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Henry Lawson's poems narrate the rawness of life in the Australian bush between the late 19th and early 20th century, among humble herdsmen, sheep shearers and itinerant labourers, the compassion for the fates of others, the active solidarity, the austerity of the situations in which women and children live at the mercy of an impervious landscape. Lawson portrays them with great empathy and is able to capture the strenuous struggle to survive in a hostile world and the courage to face the unknown. "My Army, O, My Army" is one collection of his poems.

A Singing Army
A Singing Army

Author: Kim Ruehl

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2021-03-23

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 147732156X

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Zilphia Horton was a pioneer of cultural organizing, an activist and musician who taught people how to use the arts as a tool for social change, and a catalyst for anthems of empowerment such as “We Shall Overcome” and “We Shall Not Be Moved.” Her contributions to the Highlander Folk School, a pivotal center of the labor and civil rights movements in the mid-twentieth century, and her work creating the songbook of the labor movement influenced countless figures, from Woody Guthrie to Eleanor Roosevelt to Rosa Parks. Despite her outsized impact, Horton’s story is little known. A Singing Army introduces this overlooked figure to the world. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, as well as numerous interviews with Horton's family and friends, Kim Ruehl chronicles her life from her childhood in Arkansas coal country, through her formative travels and friendship with radical Presbyterian minister Claude C. Williams, and into her instrumental work in desegregation and fostering the music of the civil rights era. Revealing these experiences—as well as her unconventional marriage and controversial death by poisoning—A Singing Army tells the story of an all-but-forgotten woman who inspired thousands of working-class people to stand up and sing for freedom and equality.

The Elder Son
The Elder Son

Author: Henry Lawson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 87

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Henry Lawson's poems narrate the rawness of life in the Australian bush between the late 19th and early 20th century, among humble herdsmen, sheep shearers and itinerant labourers, the compassion for the fates of others, the active solidarity, the austerity of the situations in which women and children live at the mercy of an impervious landscape. Lawson portrays them with great empathy and is able to capture the strenuous struggle to survive in a hostile world and the courage to face the unknown.

The Skyline Riders and Other Verses
The Skyline Riders and Other Verses

Author: Henry Lawson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 100

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"Against the light of a dawning white, My Skyline Riders stand, There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead, And the selfish wrongs of a land; There are hurrying feet of fools to repeat, The follies of Nineteen Eight, But darkly still on each distant hill, My riders watch and wait." Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". 'The Skyline Riders and Other Verses' is a collection of some of his poems, featuring vivid descriptions of the Australian bush experience.

When I was King and Other Verses
When I was King and Other Verses

Author: Henry Lawson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 167

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"When I was King and Other Verses" by Henry Lawson is a poignant collection of poems that captures the essence of human emotions, experiences, and the world around us. Lawson's verses resonate with timeless themes, offering readers a glimpse into the depths of the human soul. Set against the backdrop of history, this classic collection showcases Lawson's poetic prowess and his ability to touch the heart with his words.

Blowout!
Blowout!

Author: Mario T. García

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0807834483

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In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts,

The Woman Warrior
The Woman Warrior

Author: Maxine Hong Kingston

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1447275233

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With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood. Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.

The Great War and the British Empire
The Great War and the British Empire

Author: Michael J.K. Walsh

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1317029836

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In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.