Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Dialogue in Williamsburg
Author: The United States Institute of Peace Journal
Author: A Haunting in Williamsburg
Author: Lou KassemPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 038075892X
Category : Ghost stories
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Staying in Colonial Williamsburg in a house once owned by her ancestors, Jayne met an old family ghost who was haunted by a terrible wrong she had done over 200 years ago and she begged Jayne to help her set it right.
United States Institute of Peace in Brief
Author: Biennial Report of the United States Institute of Peace
Author: United States Institute of PeacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Traitor in Williamsburg
Author: Elizabeth McDavid JonesPublisher: Amer Girl Pub
ISBN: 9781593692971
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
During the time of the Revolution, Felicity must figure out who is making false accusations, saying that her father is a traitor and helping the British.
The Williamsburg Avant-Garde
Author: Cisco BradleyPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478024011
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Drawing on interviews, archival collections, musical recordings, videos, photos, and other ephemera, Bradley explores the scene’s social, cultural, and economic dynamics. Building on the neighborhood’s punk DIY approach and aesthetic, Williamsburg's free jazz, postpunk, and noise musicians and groups---from Mary Halvorson, Zs, and Nate Wooley to Matana Roberts, Peter Evans, and Darius Jones---produced shows in a variety of unlicensed venues as well as in clubs and cafes. At the same time, pirate radio station free103point9 and music festivals made Williamsburg an epicenter of New York’s experimental culture. In 2005, New York’s rezoning act devastated the community as gentrification displaced its participants farther afield in Brooklyn and in Queens. With this portrait of Williamsburg, Bradley not only documents some of the most vital music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; he helps readers better understand the formation, vibrancy, and life span of experimental music and art scenes everywhere.
Jews of Brooklyn
Author: Ilana AbramovitchPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map.
Proceedings
Author: Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty
Author: Benjamin H. IrvinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199314594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In 1776, when the Continental Congress declared independence, formally severing relations with Great Britain, it immediately began to fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to proclaim the sovereignty of the infant republic. In this marvelous social and cultural history of the Continental Congress, Benjamin H. Irvin describes this struggle to create a national identity during the American Revolution. The book examines the material artifacts, rituals, and festivities by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to exalt the United States and to win the allegiance of its inhabitants. Congress, for example, crafted an emblematic great seal, celebrated anniversaries of U.S. independence, and implemented august diplomatic protocols for the reception of foreign ministers. Yet as Irvin demonstrates, Congress could not impose its creations upon a passive American public. To the contrary, "the people out of doors"-broadly defined to include not only the working poor who rallied in the streets of Philadelphia, but all persons unrepresented in the Continental Congress, including women, loyalists, and Native Americans-vigorously contested Congress's trappings of nationhood. Vividly narrating the progress of the Revolution in Philadelphia and the lived experiences of its inhabitants during the tumultuous war, Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty sharpens our understanding of the relationship between political elites and crowds of workaday protestors as it illuminates the ways in which ideologies of gender, class, and race shaped the civic identity of the Revolutionary United States.
