Author: Katharine Emsden
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1878668234
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Excerpts from diaries and letters provide glimpses into the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island around the turn of the century.
Coming to America
Author: Katharine Emsden
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1878668234
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Excerpts from diaries and letters provide glimpses into the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island around the turn of the century.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1878668234
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Excerpts from diaries and letters provide glimpses into the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island around the turn of the century.
New Hope in a new Land: New York City Stories
Author: ENL Students Morris Academy of Collaborative Studies
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387766740
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
New York City is a city of immigrants. It is founded on the principle that through commerce and dedication anyone can become successful enough for their subsequent generations to thrive. Three ENL classes at Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies have explored and debated the validity of this sentiment during their academic year. This book is the product of that exploration and debate. Through their writing on language, migration, and social activism one can see the nuances, conflict, and emotion that comes with the idea of a shining city on a hill
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387766740
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
New York City is a city of immigrants. It is founded on the principle that through commerce and dedication anyone can become successful enough for their subsequent generations to thrive. Three ENL classes at Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies have explored and debated the validity of this sentiment during their academic year. This book is the product of that exploration and debate. Through their writing on language, migration, and social activism one can see the nuances, conflict, and emotion that comes with the idea of a shining city on a hill
Coronado's Land
Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
At last available in paperback, the twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here. In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work habits Simmons captures the precariousness of lives threatened by drought, crop failure, Apache raids, and accidents. Simmons's essays permit us to imagine what people long ago thought and felt, which is a considerable accomplishment. But he doesn't stop there: the final section of this volume offers a glimpse of the historian at work. Entitled "Reading History," these essays introduce three late eighteenth-century documents and provide readers with a primer in understanding economic and social problems of the past.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
At last available in paperback, the twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here. In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work habits Simmons captures the precariousness of lives threatened by drought, crop failure, Apache raids, and accidents. Simmons's essays permit us to imagine what people long ago thought and felt, which is a considerable accomplishment. But he doesn't stop there: the final section of this volume offers a glimpse of the historian at work. Entitled "Reading History," these essays introduce three late eighteenth-century documents and provide readers with a primer in understanding economic and social problems of the past.
New Land, New Life
Author: Andrew Jenkins
Publisher: Cabi
ISBN: 9781789246049
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna deltas has newly emerged 'char' islands, which are very vulnerable, socially, institutionally and environmentally. This book explains how the Governments of Bangladesh and the Netherlands cooperated on a land-based rural development project to give settlers security and purpose"--
Publisher: Cabi
ISBN: 9781789246049
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna deltas has newly emerged 'char' islands, which are very vulnerable, socially, institutionally and environmentally. This book explains how the Governments of Bangladesh and the Netherlands cooperated on a land-based rural development project to give settlers security and purpose"--
New Land
Author: Otto Neumann Sverdrup
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : "Fram" Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : "Fram" Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Reclaiming the Arid West
Author: William D. Rowley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253330024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Widely noted for his role in the passage of the National Reclamation Act of 1902, Francis G. Newlands of Nevada was a champion of the growth of federal power in the modernization of America. One of the few liberal national Democrats at the beginning of the twentieth century, he is known as a key architect of the modern regulatory state. Newlands worked to irrigate the Nevada desert and other arid western states with nationally funded reclamation and dam-building projects. As a leading western Progressive, he supported national planning for the utilization of all the nation's water resources, the Progressive conservation cause espoused by Republican Theodore Roosevelt, and the supervision of private corporations by an enlarged and more powerful federal government. Yet he opposed Progressives on many issues, voicing suspicions about centralized banking, defending the right of private corporations to fair treatment by public regulatory agencies, even advocating the denial of suffrage to African Americans through the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment. William Rowley's biography reveals a complicated and sophisticated man who successfully lived a dual political life under a cloud of personal and public scandal. It is a fascinating story of American politics in a time of immense national change.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253330024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Widely noted for his role in the passage of the National Reclamation Act of 1902, Francis G. Newlands of Nevada was a champion of the growth of federal power in the modernization of America. One of the few liberal national Democrats at the beginning of the twentieth century, he is known as a key architect of the modern regulatory state. Newlands worked to irrigate the Nevada desert and other arid western states with nationally funded reclamation and dam-building projects. As a leading western Progressive, he supported national planning for the utilization of all the nation's water resources, the Progressive conservation cause espoused by Republican Theodore Roosevelt, and the supervision of private corporations by an enlarged and more powerful federal government. Yet he opposed Progressives on many issues, voicing suspicions about centralized banking, defending the right of private corporations to fair treatment by public regulatory agencies, even advocating the denial of suffrage to African Americans through the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment. William Rowley's biography reveals a complicated and sophisticated man who successfully lived a dual political life under a cloud of personal and public scandal. It is a fascinating story of American politics in a time of immense national change.
The Tangled Lands
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
ISBN: 1481497308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST COLLECTION From award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell comes a fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire—unless the people find a way to resist. Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. It is run by a tyrant known as The Jolly Mayor and his devious right hand, the last archmage in the world. Together they try to collect all the magic for themselves so they can control the citizens of the city. But when their decadence reaches new heights and begins to destroy the environment, the people stage an uprising to stop them. In four interrelated parts, The Tangled Lands is an evocative and epic story of resistance and heroic sacrifice in the twisted remains surrounding the last great city of Khaim. Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell have created a fantasy for our times about a decadent and rotting empire facing environmental collapse from within—and yet hope emerges from unlikely places with women warriors and alchemical solutions.
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
ISBN: 1481497308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST COLLECTION From award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell comes a fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire—unless the people find a way to resist. Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. It is run by a tyrant known as The Jolly Mayor and his devious right hand, the last archmage in the world. Together they try to collect all the magic for themselves so they can control the citizens of the city. But when their decadence reaches new heights and begins to destroy the environment, the people stage an uprising to stop them. In four interrelated parts, The Tangled Lands is an evocative and epic story of resistance and heroic sacrifice in the twisted remains surrounding the last great city of Khaim. Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell have created a fantasy for our times about a decadent and rotting empire facing environmental collapse from within—and yet hope emerges from unlikely places with women warriors and alchemical solutions.
Dicitonary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The American Cyclopaedia
Author: George Ripley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The Lakeside Monthly
Author: Francis Fisher Broune
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description