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Author: Alison Chapman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2003-06-28
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780719061301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA radically new version of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods that corrects traditional male-centred accounts.
Author: Rakesh Ratti
Publisher: Alyson Books
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Unfolding of the South Asian gay and lesbian,experience,Gay men and lesbians from India, Pakistan and,other South Asian countries tell their stories.
Author: Kevin Waite
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2021-04-01
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1469663201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white southerners defended the institution of African American chattel slavery as well as systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations. Slaveholders' western ambitions culminated in a coast-to-coast crisis of the Union. By 1861, the rebellion in the South inspired a series of separatist movements in the Far West. Even after the collapse of the Confederacy, the threads connecting South and West held, undermining the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.
Author: Julian Müller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-07-06
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1351055801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUbuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, that is, a person is a person through persons. This edited collection illustrates the power of fictionalised representation in reporting research conducted on Ubuntu in Southern Africa. The chapters insert the concept of Ubuntu within the broad intellectual debate of self and community, to demonstrate its intellectual and philosophical value and theoretical grounding in known practices emanating from the African continent, and indeed how it works to unsettle some of our received notions of the self.
Author: Geri H. Malandra
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1993-07-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1438411774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEllora is one of the great cave temple sites of India, with thirty-four major Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monuments of the late sixth to tenth centuries A. D. This book describes the Buddhist caves at Ellora and places them in the context of Buddhist art and iconography. Ellora's twelve Buddhist cave temples, dating from the early seventh to the early eighth centuries, preserve an unparalleled one-hundred-year sequence of architectural and iconographical development. They reveal the evolution of a Buddhist mandala at sites in other regions often considered "peripheral" to the heartland of Buddhism in eastern India. At Ellora, the mandala, ordinarily conceived as a two-dimensional diagram used to focus meditation, is unfolded into the three-dimensional program of the cave temples themselves, enabling devotees to walk through the mandala during worship. The mandala's development at Ellora is explained and its significance is considered for the evolution of Buddhist art and iconography elsewhere in India.
Author: David Walker
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Published: 1830
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wendy Hamand Venet
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0820351369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1845 Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. A Changing Wind is the first history to explore what it meant to live in Atlanta during its rapid growth, its devastation in the Civil War, and its rise as a “New South” city during Reconstruction. A Changing Wind brings to life the stories of Atlanta’s diverse citizens. In a rich account of residents’ changing loyalties to the Union and the Confederacy, the book highlights the unequal economic and social impacts of the war, General Sherman’s siege, and the stunning rebirth of the city in postwar years. The final chapter focuses on Atlanta’s collective memory of the Civil War, showing how racial divisions have led to differing views on the war’s meaning and place in the city’s history.
Author: Rachel May
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 168177478X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era—all through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. While studying objects in a textile collection, May opened a veritable treasure-trove: a carefully folded, unfinished quilt made of 1830sera fabrics, its backing containing fragile, aged papers with the dates 1798, 1808, and 1813, the words “shuger,” “rum,” “casks,” and “West Indies,” repeated over and over, along with “friendship,” “kindness,” “government,” and “incident.” The quilt top sent her on a journey to piece together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Juba—the enslaved women behind the quilt—and their owner, Susan Crouch. May brilliantly stitches together the often-silenced legacy of slavery by revealing the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. Beautifully written and richly imagined, An American Quilt is a luminous historical examination and an appreciation of a craft that provides such a tactile connection to the past.
Author: Zach Vertin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 1643130889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe untold story of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from euphoric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. South Sudan's independence was celebrated around the world—a triumph for global justice and an end to one of the world's most devastating wars. But the party would not last long: South Sudan's freedom fighters soon plunged their new nation into chaos, shattering the promise of liberation and exposing the hubris of their foreign backers. Chronicling extraordinary stories of hope, identity, and survival, A Rope from the Sky journeys inside an epic tale of paradise won and then lost. This character-driven narrative is first a story of power, promise, greed, compassion, violence, and redemption from the world's most neglected patch of territory. But it is also a story about the best and worst of America—both its big-hearted ideals and its difficult reckoning with the limits of American power amid a changing global landscape. Zach's Vertin's firsthand acounts, from deadly war zones to the halls of Washington power, brings readers inside this remarkable episode—an unprecedented experiment in state-building and a cautionary tale. It is brilliant and breathtaking, a moder-day Greek tragedy that will challenge our perspectives on global politics.
Author: Laura L. Aten
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Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781612961743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a man dies in his Georgia home and is buried, it is reported in the obituary section of the local newspaper. When that same man is spotted in California four months later, it makes front page news nationwide. Such is the case in Not at Peace with this Unfolding. Yancey Riggs is an entrepreneurial farmer forging a life for himself and his young family in the 1920's South. Riggs endures a string of failures that leaves him in deep despair and unable to fulfill the promise of financial success that he made to his wife Eleanor, a formerly wealthy Georgia debutant. When a devastating fire destroys the home and life of Yancey Riggs, and a large insurance company refuses to pay his widow the benefits, the story takes a complex series of turns. Accusations of fraud and murder will leave the reader yearning for a resolution to this mysterious unfolding of events. Will the truth be revealed? Can Yancey and Eleanor find justice?
