Author: Feliks Gross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Presents the concept of a federation to underdeveloped areas in Europe, traces its growth, and outlines a democratic and pragmatic plan for its realization.
Crossroads of Two Continents
Author: Feliks Gross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Presents the concept of a federation to underdeveloped areas in Europe, traces its growth, and outlines a democratic and pragmatic plan for its realization.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Presents the concept of a federation to underdeveloped areas in Europe, traces its growth, and outlines a democratic and pragmatic plan for its realization.
Crossroads of a Continent
Author: Peter A. Hansen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253062373
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253062373
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Back Pocket Crosswords
Author: The Puzzle Society
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449409059
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Everyday casual, Back Pocket™ Crosswords combines a stylish and portable package with 75 crossword puzzles—perfect for the every-day-is-jeans-day man who enjoys a good crossword challenge. The Posh and Pocket Posh® puzzles series have over 3 million copies in print since their inception in May 2008. Everyday casual meets approachability stylish and smart with Back Pocket Crosswords Specially designed for men on the move, this offering features the same production values that have made the Pocket Posh line so successful, including a lay-flat binding, an elastic band, and a handy collection of the most popular puzzles offered by the Puzzle Society.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449409059
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Everyday casual, Back Pocket™ Crosswords combines a stylish and portable package with 75 crossword puzzles—perfect for the every-day-is-jeans-day man who enjoys a good crossword challenge. The Posh and Pocket Posh® puzzles series have over 3 million copies in print since their inception in May 2008. Everyday casual meets approachability stylish and smart with Back Pocket Crosswords Specially designed for men on the move, this offering features the same production values that have made the Pocket Posh line so successful, including a lay-flat binding, an elastic band, and a handy collection of the most popular puzzles offered by the Puzzle Society.
At the Crossroads of Time
Author: Andrew C. Scott
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445698331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The incredible story of how the village of Lesmahagow has influenced the world in a variety of fields, from industry to espionage, throughout history.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445698331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The incredible story of how the village of Lesmahagow has influenced the world in a variety of fields, from industry to espionage, throughout history.
USA TODAY Crossword 3
Author: U. S. A. USA TODAY
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449418279
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
USA TODAY Crossword 3 is a brand-new collection of 200 crosswords for puzzle-smiths of all skill levels. Crossword is a classic puzzle that continues to be one of the most popular puzzle types. Keep your mind sharp with this assortment from the nation's No. 1 newspaper and gaming authority, USA TODAY.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449418279
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
USA TODAY Crossword 3 is a brand-new collection of 200 crosswords for puzzle-smiths of all skill levels. Crossword is a classic puzzle that continues to be one of the most popular puzzle types. Keep your mind sharp with this assortment from the nation's No. 1 newspaper and gaming authority, USA TODAY.
Continental Crossroads
Author: Samuel Truett
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822386321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. Continental Crossroads rediscovers this forgotten terrain, laying the foundations for a new borderlands history at the crossroads of Chicano/a, Latin American, and U.S. history. Drawing on the historiographies and archives of both the U.S. and Mexico, the authors chronicle the transnational processes that bound both nations together between the early nineteenth century and the 1940s, the formative era of borderlands history. A new generation of borderlands historians examines a wide range of topics in frontier and post-frontier contexts. The contributors explore how ethnic, racial, and gender relations shifted as a former frontier became the borderlands. They look at the rise of new imagined communities and border literary traditions through the eyes of Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Indians, and recover transnational border narratives and experiences of African Americans, Chinese, and Europeans. They also show how surveillance and resistance in the borderlands inflected the “body politics” of gender, race, and nation. Native heroine Bárbara Gandiaga, Mexican traveler Ignacio Martínez, Kiowa warrior Sloping Hair, African American colonist William H. Ellis, Chinese merchant Lee Sing, and a diverse cast of politicos and subalterns, gendarmes and patrolmen, and insurrectos and exiles add transnational drama to the formerly divided worlds of Mexican and U.S. history. Contributors. Grace Peña Delgado, Karl Jacoby, Benjamin Johnson, Louise Pubols, Raúl Ramos, Andrés Reséndez, Bárbara O. Reyes, Alexandra Minna Stern, Samuel Truett, Elliott Young
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822386321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. Continental Crossroads rediscovers this forgotten terrain, laying the foundations for a new borderlands history at the crossroads of Chicano/a, Latin American, and U.S. history. Drawing on the historiographies and archives of both the U.S. and Mexico, the authors chronicle the transnational processes that bound both nations together between the early nineteenth century and the 1940s, the formative era of borderlands history. A new generation of borderlands historians examines a wide range of topics in frontier and post-frontier contexts. The contributors explore how ethnic, racial, and gender relations shifted as a former frontier became the borderlands. They look at the rise of new imagined communities and border literary traditions through the eyes of Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Indians, and recover transnational border narratives and experiences of African Americans, Chinese, and Europeans. They also show how surveillance and resistance in the borderlands inflected the “body politics” of gender, race, and nation. Native heroine Bárbara Gandiaga, Mexican traveler Ignacio Martínez, Kiowa warrior Sloping Hair, African American colonist William H. Ellis, Chinese merchant Lee Sing, and a diverse cast of politicos and subalterns, gendarmes and patrolmen, and insurrectos and exiles add transnational drama to the formerly divided worlds of Mexican and U.S. history. Contributors. Grace Peña Delgado, Karl Jacoby, Benjamin Johnson, Louise Pubols, Raúl Ramos, Andrés Reséndez, Bárbara O. Reyes, Alexandra Minna Stern, Samuel Truett, Elliott Young
Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads
Author: Chris Jochnick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019803752X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in raising public awareness of the devastating effects of debt, coupled with the highly publicized Bono/O'Neill tour of Africa, and the spectacular default and economic implosion of Argentina have helped spur a global debate over debt. A growing chorus of globalization critics, galvanized by the Catholic Church's demand for forgiveness and bolstered by recent defaults, has put debt near the top of the international agenda. Creditor governments and international financial institutions have belatedly recognized the need for more sustainable progress on debt as an inescapable step towards economic recovery in many parts of the world. This book is intended to advance the dialogue around these issues by providing a comprehensive overview of the problems raised by debt and describing new and practical approaches to overcoming them. It will be the first in more than a decade to bring together under one cover the voices of prominent members of the international debt community. It will include pieces from the most relevant constituencies: from creditors (the IMF/World Bank, government lenders, private investors) to critics (debtor representatives, activists, and academics) and analysis from economists, bankers, lawyers, social scientists, and politicians. As contributions come from such leading thinkers across a range of disciplines, this book will offer a timely guide for understanding and influencing the debt debate.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019803752X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in raising public awareness of the devastating effects of debt, coupled with the highly publicized Bono/O'Neill tour of Africa, and the spectacular default and economic implosion of Argentina have helped spur a global debate over debt. A growing chorus of globalization critics, galvanized by the Catholic Church's demand for forgiveness and bolstered by recent defaults, has put debt near the top of the international agenda. Creditor governments and international financial institutions have belatedly recognized the need for more sustainable progress on debt as an inescapable step towards economic recovery in many parts of the world. This book is intended to advance the dialogue around these issues by providing a comprehensive overview of the problems raised by debt and describing new and practical approaches to overcoming them. It will be the first in more than a decade to bring together under one cover the voices of prominent members of the international debt community. It will include pieces from the most relevant constituencies: from creditors (the IMF/World Bank, government lenders, private investors) to critics (debtor representatives, activists, and academics) and analysis from economists, bankers, lawyers, social scientists, and politicians. As contributions come from such leading thinkers across a range of disciplines, this book will offer a timely guide for understanding and influencing the debt debate.
Crossroads in the Black Aegean
Author: Barbara Goff
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191607606
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, can articulate the postcolonial moment. Capitalizing on classical reception studies, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, Crossroads in the Black Aegean co-ordinates theory and theatre. It crucially investigates how the plays engage with the 'Western canon', and shows how they use their self-consciously literary status to assert, ironize, and challenge their own place, and that of the Greek originals, in relation to that tradition. Beyond these oedipal reflexes, the adaptations offer alternative African models of cultural transmission.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191607606
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, can articulate the postcolonial moment. Capitalizing on classical reception studies, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, Crossroads in the Black Aegean co-ordinates theory and theatre. It crucially investigates how the plays engage with the 'Western canon', and shows how they use their self-consciously literary status to assert, ironize, and challenge their own place, and that of the Greek originals, in relation to that tradition. Beyond these oedipal reflexes, the adaptations offer alternative African models of cultural transmission.
Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #21
Author: John M. Samson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982157003
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Celebrate more than ninety-five years of Simon & Schuster crossword puzzle excellence with this engaging collection of 300 new, never-before-published crosswords, designed for fans of all skill levels. In 1924, Simon & Schuster published its first title The Cross Word Puzzle Book. Not only was it the publisher’s first release, it was the first collection of crossword puzzles ever printed. Today, more than ninety-five years later, Simon & Schuster’s legendary crossword puzzle book series continues with this new and appealing collection, offering hours of stimulation for solvers of every level. Created by the best contemporary constructors—and edited by top puzzle master John M. Samson—it’s designed with convenience in mind and features perforated pages so you can tear out puzzles individually and work on them on-the-go. So pick up a pencil and enjoy some screen-free fun with this timeless and unique collection of puzzles that is sure to delight existing fans and challenge new puzzle enthusiasts alike.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982157003
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Celebrate more than ninety-five years of Simon & Schuster crossword puzzle excellence with this engaging collection of 300 new, never-before-published crosswords, designed for fans of all skill levels. In 1924, Simon & Schuster published its first title The Cross Word Puzzle Book. Not only was it the publisher’s first release, it was the first collection of crossword puzzles ever printed. Today, more than ninety-five years later, Simon & Schuster’s legendary crossword puzzle book series continues with this new and appealing collection, offering hours of stimulation for solvers of every level. Created by the best contemporary constructors—and edited by top puzzle master John M. Samson—it’s designed with convenience in mind and features perforated pages so you can tear out puzzles individually and work on them on-the-go. So pick up a pencil and enjoy some screen-free fun with this timeless and unique collection of puzzles that is sure to delight existing fans and challenge new puzzle enthusiasts alike.
Russia at a Crossroads
Author: Nurit Schleifman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135225265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The meaning of Russia's past is in a process of continuous deconstruction, reshaping and negotiation by various social and political groupings. Of the deluge of group memories which have broken loose, this collection focuses on several new voices which have never been heard in Russia in this way before: women, Tatars, Cossacks, as well as the voices of religious and provincial populations. In addition, the volume sheds light on the creation of a multi-party system which paved the way for the expression of particular views and interests and generated much of memory's concepts and language.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135225265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The meaning of Russia's past is in a process of continuous deconstruction, reshaping and negotiation by various social and political groupings. Of the deluge of group memories which have broken loose, this collection focuses on several new voices which have never been heard in Russia in this way before: women, Tatars, Cossacks, as well as the voices of religious and provincial populations. In addition, the volume sheds light on the creation of a multi-party system which paved the way for the expression of particular views and interests and generated much of memory's concepts and language.