Latining America
Author: Claudia Milian
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 0820368350
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Collisions at the Crossroads
Author: Genevieve Carpio
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-04-16
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0520298837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.
Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa
Author: H. C. Adams
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2023-10-04
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa' by H. C. Adams, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through the heart of South Africa. The book, written in a vivid and descriptive style, captures the essence of the African landscape and wildlife, as three young boys navigate through dangerous encounters and narrow escapes. Adams' detailed descriptions immerse readers in the literary context of 19th-century adventure novels, combining elements of coming-of-age stories with the excitement of exploration in a distant land. The fast-paced narrative keeps readers on the edge of their seats as the boys face countless challenges and overcome tremendous odds. H. C. Adams, known for his passion for travel and exploration, draws from his own experiences in South Africa to craft a story that is both entertaining and educational. His deep understanding of the African wilderness shines through in the rich tapestry of sights and sounds he weaves into the narrative, making 'Hair-Breadth Escapes' a compelling and authentic read. I highly recommend 'Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa' to readers who enjoy adventure stories set in exotic locations, as well as those interested in the historical and cultural aspects of South Africa. Adams' immersive storytelling and captivating characters make this book a must-read for fans of classic adventure literature.
An Unfinished Revolution
Author: Robin Blackburn
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1781683794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKarl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the cause of "free labor" and the urgent need to end slavery. In his introduction, Robin Blackburn argues that Lincoln's response signaled the importance of the German American community and the role of the international communists in opposing European recognition of the Confederacy. The ideals of communism, voiced through the International Working Men's Association, attracted many thousands of supporters throughout the US, and helped spread the demand for an eight-hour day. Blackburn shows how the IWA in America-born out of the Civil War-sought to radicalize Lincoln's unfinished revolution and to advance the rights of labor, uniting black and white, men and women, native and foreign-born. The International contributed to a profound critique of the capitalist robber barons who enriched themselves during and after the war, and it inspired an extraordinary series of strikes and class struggles in the postwar decades. In addition to a range of key texts and letters by both Lincoln and Marx, this book includes articles from the radical New York-based journal Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, an extract from Thomas Fortune's classic work on racism Black and White, Frederick Engels on the progress of US labor in the 1880s, and Lucy Parson's speech at the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Hi Lo to Hollywood
Author: Max Evans
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780896724044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom among his numerous publications, award-winning author Max Evans has selected his personal favorites. The more than thirty pieces include short novels, essays, short stories, introductions to other works, and magazine articles spanning several genres and most of his writing career. Through them all runs a common thread: the understanding of and love Evans has for the West and its peoples, and his ability to convey that understanding with humor and compassion. Included works: Short novels Xavier's Folly One Eyed Sky The Wild One Old Bum My Pardner Essays "Sam Peckinpah: A Very Personal Remembrance" "King John" "Long John Dunn" "Dinner with Frank Waters" "Riding the Outside Circle in Hollywood" "Many Deaths, Many Lives" "Song of the West" Short Stories "The Ultimate Giver" "Blizzard" "Don't Kill My Dog" "The Far Cry" "The Wooden Cove" "The Third Grade Reunion" "Sky of Gold" "A Man Who Never Missed" "Big Shad's Bridge" "The Call" Introductions and Forewords "Patricino Barela" "Some Sweet Day" "The Hi Lo Country" "Final Harvest and other Convictions and Opinions" "Rounders 3" Magazine Articles "The Cowboy and the Professor" "A Horse to Brag About" "Showdown at Hollywood Park" "The Wild Bunch" "The World's Strangest Creature" "Super Bull"
Around the Belt
Author: Patricia Watters
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-06-24
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1304167585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI've lived in Oregon for over forty-five years, but if you ask me who I am in my heart, I'd have to say I'm still a southern girl from New Orleans. I guess you never lose those early roots. I also grew up during a time when life was much simpler. No stores were open on Sunday because that was a day for church and family. Christmas meant getting one main toy. I could ride my bicycle safely many blocks from home. A nickel candy bar was five inches long. Movies weren't rated because they were all made for family viewing. And TV was in its infancy so we found other more exciting things to do. Maybe this book will give you a snapshot back in time and a glimpse into the various escapades and misadventures of one little girl growing up in New Orleans in the 1940s and 50s. Fully Indexed.
Featuring Post-national Spain
Author: Andrés Zamora
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1781383146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by General Francisco Franco up to his death. The book explores four major issues in this regard: 1) the filmic negotiations of the borders of the nation, focusing particularly on the debated and controversial development of Basque cinema vis- -vis the films produced in the rest of Spain; 2) the persistence of the old obsession with violence, thought of as an inescapable native trait, in a large amount of post-dictatorial films; 3) the newfound insatiable appetite for cinematic travelling, for going out and coming in through all possible variations of the road and travel movie genres; 4) and the vindication of the mother qua a benign emblem of the land and its people, of the nation. There is a narrative in Spanish cinema, taken as a collective discourse, which ties together these four cinematic topoi and proposes a nation whose specificity must be precisely its impurity-difference within as essence-a hybrid nation located in temporal and spatial rendezvous of past and present, tradition and novelty, centre and margin, inside and outside, on and beyond.
An Unfinished Revolution
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1844677222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKarl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the cause of “free labor” and the urgent need to end slavery. In his introduction, Robin Blackburn argues that Lincoln’s response signaled the importance of the German American community and the role of the international communists in opposing European recognition of the Confederacy. The ideals of communism, voiced through the International Working Men’s Association, attracted many thousands of supporters throughout the US, and helped spread the demand for an eight-hour day. Blackburn shows how the IWA in America—born out of the Civil War—sought to radicalize Lincoln’s unfinished revolution and to advance the rights of labor, uniting black and white, men and women, native and foreign-born. The International contributed to a profound critique of the capitalist robber barons who enriched themselves during and after the war, and it inspired an extraordinary series of strikes and class struggles in the postwar decades. In addition to a range of key texts and letters by both Lincoln and Marx, this book includes articles from the radical New York-based journal Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, an extract from Thomas Fortune’s classic work on racism Black and White, Frederick Engels on the progress of US labor in the 1880s, and Lucy Parson’s speech at the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.
