Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Century of Dishonor
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Century of Dishonour
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108072070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This 1881 work addresses the history of broken treaties and massacres suffered by Native American tribes in the nineteenth century.
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish
Author: David RakoffPublisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385676174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century. David Rakoff, who died in 2012 at the age of 47, built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel, written with humour, sympathy and tenderness, proves him the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
Beyond Death and Dishonour
Author: Michiharu ShinyaPublisher: Castle Publishing Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
On the 13th of November 1942, the Japanese Destroyer Akatsuki was sunk off the coast of Guadalcanal. Torpedo officer Michiharu Shinya was captured and sent to the Featherston Prisoner-of-War Camp in New Zealand. He arrives to a camp of 800 inmates, simmering with discontent. Tensions rise and snap; a riot breaks-out and 48 Japanese POWs are killed by gunfire from New Zealand guards. Shinya's personal war continues, as he struggles with the ultimate crime against Japan: to die is honour; to live is to cease to exist. Through the kindness of a New Zealand padre, Shinya confronts his ghosts and is changed forever.
Debts of Dishonor
Author: Jill Paton WalshPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312355364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Booker Prize finalist Walsh returns to her series set at Cambridge Universityfeaturing amateur sleuth Imogen Quy.
A Century of Dishonor
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 1582182892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Annotation Originally published over 100 years ago, A Century of Dishonor is Helen Jackson's eye- opening sketch of the U.S. government's often shameful mishandling of what was called the?Indian problem?. Using official documents as authentic research materials, Jackson asserts that the government and citizens of the United States were the cause of the?problems?, and not the Native peoples. Broken treaties, inhuman treatment, restricted to reservations unfit for habitation or traditional lifestyle?all of these actions were taken against Indian tribes by a government that treated them with less consideration and compassion than that of a foreign country.
National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Niels F. MayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000396347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national specifics, the narratives of new nationalism are quite similar everywhere. National history is said to stretch back many centuries, expressesing the historical continuity of a homogeneous people and its timeless character. This people struggles for independence, guided by towering leaders and inspired by the sacrifice of martyrs. Unlike earlier forms of nationalism, the main enemies are no longer neighbouring states, but international and supranational institutions. To use national history as an integrative tool, new nationalists claim that the media and school history curricula should not contest or question the nation and its great historical deeds, as doubts threaten to weaken and dishonour the nation. This book offers a broad international overview of the rhetoric, contents, and contexts of the rise of these renewed national historical narratives, and of how professional historians have reacted to these phenomena. The contributions focus on a wide range of representative nations from around all over the globe.
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Author: Christine de PizanPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961015
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
the american indian frontier
Author: william christie macleodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Transatlantic Footholds
Author: Stephanie PalmerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429537018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers analyses British reviews of American women fiction writers, essayists and poets between the periods of literary domesticity and modernism. The book demonstrates that a variety of American women writers were intelligently read in Britain during this era. British reviewers read American women as literary artists, as women and as Americans. While their notion of who counted as "women" was too limited by race and class, they eagerly read these writers for insight about how women around the world were entering debates on women’s place, the class struggle, religion, Indian policy, childrearing, and high society. In the process, by reading American women in varied ways, reviewers became hybrid and dissenting readers. The taste among British reviewers for American women’s books helped change the predominant direction that high culture flowed across the Atlantic from east-to-west to west-to-east. Britons working in London or far afield were deeply invested in the idea of "America." "America," their responses prove, is a transnational construct.
