Author: Johann Beckmann
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins
Author: Johann Beckmann
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2
Author: Theodore W. Allen
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 184467844X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then, neither social practice nor law recognized any special privileges in connection with being white. But by the early decades of the eighteenth century, that had all changed. Racial oppression became the norm in the plantation colonies, and African Americans suffered under its yoke for more than two hundred years. In Volume II of The Invention of the White Race, Theodore Allen explores the transformation that turned African bond-laborers into slaves and segregated them from their fellow proletarians of European origin. In response to labor unrest, where solidarities were not determined by skin color, the plantation bourgeoisie sought to construct a buffer of poor whites, whose new racial identity would protect them from the enslavement visited upon African Americans. This was the invention of the white race, an act of cruel ingenuity that haunts America to this day.Allen’s acclaimed study has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racial oppression in America. In this updated edition, scholar Jeffrey B. Perry provides a new introduction, a select bibliography and a study guide.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 184467844X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then, neither social practice nor law recognized any special privileges in connection with being white. But by the early decades of the eighteenth century, that had all changed. Racial oppression became the norm in the plantation colonies, and African Americans suffered under its yoke for more than two hundred years. In Volume II of The Invention of the White Race, Theodore Allen explores the transformation that turned African bond-laborers into slaves and segregated them from their fellow proletarians of European origin. In response to labor unrest, where solidarities were not determined by skin color, the plantation bourgeoisie sought to construct a buffer of poor whites, whose new racial identity would protect them from the enslavement visited upon African Americans. This was the invention of the white race, an act of cruel ingenuity that haunts America to this day.Allen’s acclaimed study has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racial oppression in America. In this updated edition, scholar Jeffrey B. Perry provides a new introduction, a select bibliography and a study guide.
The Sources of Invention
Author: John Jewkes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349000159
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A study of the causes and consequences of industrial innovation through the inventions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349000159
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A study of the causes and consequences of industrial innovation through the inventions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Origins of Invention
Author: Otis Tufton Mason
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Category : Industries, Primitive
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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Category : Industries, Primitive
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson ... [Edited] from the original manuscript by ... Julius Hutchinson ... Tenth edition, etc
Author: Lucy HUTCHINSON
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Letters of Junius. Including Letters by the Same Writer Under Other Signatures: to which are Added His Confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and His Private Letters to Mr. H.S. Woodfall
Author: Junius
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Invention of Ecocide
Author: David Zierler
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820339784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called “ecocide.” David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer was developed in agricultural circles and theories of counterinsurgency were studied by the military. These two trajectories converged in 1961 with Operation Ranch Hand, the joint U.S.-South Vietnamese mission to use herbicidal warfare as a means to defoliate large areas of enemy territory. Driven by the idea that humans were altering the world’s ecology for the worse, a group of scientists relentlessly challenged Pentagon assurances of safety, citing possible long-term environmental and health effects. It wasn’t until 1970 that the scientists gained access to sprayed zones confirming that a major ecological disaster had occurred. Their findings convinced the U.S. government to renounce first use of herbicides in future wars and, Zierler argues, fundamentally reoriented thinking about warfare and environmental security in the next forty years. Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies of the cold war era.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820339784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called “ecocide.” David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer was developed in agricultural circles and theories of counterinsurgency were studied by the military. These two trajectories converged in 1961 with Operation Ranch Hand, the joint U.S.-South Vietnamese mission to use herbicidal warfare as a means to defoliate large areas of enemy territory. Driven by the idea that humans were altering the world’s ecology for the worse, a group of scientists relentlessly challenged Pentagon assurances of safety, citing possible long-term environmental and health effects. It wasn’t until 1970 that the scientists gained access to sprayed zones confirming that a major ecological disaster had occurred. Their findings convinced the U.S. government to renounce first use of herbicides in future wars and, Zierler argues, fundamentally reoriented thinking about warfare and environmental security in the next forty years. Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies of the cold war era.
A Companion to British Literature, Volume 2
Author: Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118731832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118731832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Industrial Revolution-Lost in Antiquity-Found in the Renaissance
Author: Cort MacLean Johns, Ph.D.-HSG
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359838677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"The Industrial Revolution-Lost in Antiquity-Found in the Renaissance" is a revisionist, well-researched work being a definitive account of the historical roots of the Industrial Revolution that began with Ctesibius in 270 BC at the onset of the Hellenistic Period and continued on with the invention of the steam engine by James Watt in 1776 and Oliver Evans in the early 19th-century, encompassing almost 2000 years of history.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359838677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"The Industrial Revolution-Lost in Antiquity-Found in the Renaissance" is a revisionist, well-researched work being a definitive account of the historical roots of the Industrial Revolution that began with Ctesibius in 270 BC at the onset of the Hellenistic Period and continued on with the invention of the steam engine by James Watt in 1776 and Oliver Evans in the early 19th-century, encompassing almost 2000 years of history.