Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027076X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1457
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027076X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1457
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027076X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1457
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: S. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270786
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1554
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270786
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1554
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Fighting Words
Author: Raymond Evans
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702231094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
With an open heart and inquiring intellect, Raymond Evans sets out to uncover a past not studied in the school books of his youth. Growing up in the 1950s, he lived in a community devoid of Aboriginal presence. It was an enclave of Welsh migrant families, with all the rituals and traditions of a faraway "Home". His evolving historical consciousness was fired by the need to connect with these shadowy absences and to engage with his adopted homeland. Interwoven with his personal journey is a revealing selection of race relations histories, which cover a wide arena from the Aboriginal/European conflicts of colonial Queensland to the anti-Chinese riots of 1888 and civilian internment during World War I. Evans also moves beyond frontier conflict into the long period of repressive government control of Aboriginal lives. In writing on race, gender and labour relations he illustrates how selective history can be by omitting the contribution of Aboriginal labourers, men and women. These form a critical bridge to understanding the complexities of race relations today.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702231094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
With an open heart and inquiring intellect, Raymond Evans sets out to uncover a past not studied in the school books of his youth. Growing up in the 1950s, he lived in a community devoid of Aboriginal presence. It was an enclave of Welsh migrant families, with all the rituals and traditions of a faraway "Home". His evolving historical consciousness was fired by the need to connect with these shadowy absences and to engage with his adopted homeland. Interwoven with his personal journey is a revealing selection of race relations histories, which cover a wide arena from the Aboriginal/European conflicts of colonial Queensland to the anti-Chinese riots of 1888 and civilian internment during World War I. Evans also moves beyond frontier conflict into the long period of repressive government control of Aboriginal lives. In writing on race, gender and labour relations he illustrates how selective history can be by omitting the contribution of Aboriginal labourers, men and women. These form a critical bridge to understanding the complexities of race relations today.
The Commonwealth Relations Office List
Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
All on a Mardi Gras Day
Author: Reid MITCHELL
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In this study, Reid Mitchell takes the reader to Mardi Gras - a yearly ritual that sweeps the multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In this study, Reid Mitchell takes the reader to Mardi Gras - a yearly ritual that sweeps the multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast.
The Spurs Alphabet
Author: Bob Goodwin
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0954043421
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A complete record of every player to have made a first team appearance for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0954043421
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A complete record of every player to have made a first team appearance for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: Frederick Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
Book Description
Blood and Village
Author: William Palmer
Publisher: William Palmer
ISBN: 9781413453522
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
At once a mystery of detection, a family history, and a rite of passage, Blood and Village traces the lives of the author's parents from the closing years of the 19th century in a small South German town to the New York neighborhoods where they raised their family. Why did they leave their bucolic village, the author asks, why them and so few others? In what sense did the village die after they left? And in having left, why did the village still have such a hold over them all their lives? In his search for some answers, the author delves into the social history of this Swabian village and describes his own return to its people, vineyards, pastures, and orchards. Along the way he ruminates on his father's World War I service and on his mother's trip back to the village in the turbulent summer of 1934, on his life in the 1940s and 1950s as a first-generation American, and on how the U.S. Navy and his research interests in physics brought him back to the village of his parents.
Publisher: William Palmer
ISBN: 9781413453522
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
At once a mystery of detection, a family history, and a rite of passage, Blood and Village traces the lives of the author's parents from the closing years of the 19th century in a small South German town to the New York neighborhoods where they raised their family. Why did they leave their bucolic village, the author asks, why them and so few others? In what sense did the village die after they left? And in having left, why did the village still have such a hold over them all their lives? In his search for some answers, the author delves into the social history of this Swabian village and describes his own return to its people, vineyards, pastures, and orchards. Along the way he ruminates on his father's World War I service and on his mother's trip back to the village in the turbulent summer of 1934, on his life in the 1940s and 1950s as a first-generation American, and on how the U.S. Navy and his research interests in physics brought him back to the village of his parents.
Judges of the United States
Author: Judicial Conference of the United States. Bicentennial Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Abba Eban
Author: Asaf Siniver
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468316486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
“Based on interviews with dozens of people and research in more than twenty archival collections, [this] cleareyed biography deserves to be called definitive.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Born in South Africa, educated in England, and ultimately a major figure in Israeli history, Abba Eban was a skilled debater, a master of multiple languages, and a passionate defender of the Jewish state. But his diplomatic presence was in many ways a contradiction unlike any the world has seen since. While he was celebrated internationally for his exceptional wit and his moderate, reasoned worldview, these same qualities painted him as elitist and foreign in his home country. The disparity in perception of Eban at home and abroad was such that both his critics and his friends agreed that he would have been a wonderful prime minister—in any country but Israel. In Abba Eban, Asaf Siniver paints a nuanced and complete portrait of one of the most complex figures in twentieth-century foreign affairs. We see Eban growing up and coming into his own as part of the Cambridge Union, and watch him steadily become known as “The Voice of Israel.” Siniver draws on a vast amount of interviews, writings, and other newly available material to show that, in his unceasing quest for stability and peace for Israel, Eban’s primary opposition often came from the homeland he was fighting for; no matter how many allies he gained abroad, the man never understood his own domestic politics well enough to be as effective in his pursuits as he hoped. The first examination of Eban in nearly forty years, this is a fascinating look at a life that still offers a valuable perspective on Israel today. “Siniver’s principal achievement is his artful documentation of the tension between Eban the intellectual and Eban the politician. Such lofty thoughts do not distract Mr. Siniver from listing the indiscretions and dishonesty to which Eban, in his politician’s guise, occasionally succumbed.” —The Wall Street Journal “Siniver’s levelheaded account looks at the history of Israel through the life of the country’s eloquent defender.” —TheNew York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468316486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
“Based on interviews with dozens of people and research in more than twenty archival collections, [this] cleareyed biography deserves to be called definitive.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Born in South Africa, educated in England, and ultimately a major figure in Israeli history, Abba Eban was a skilled debater, a master of multiple languages, and a passionate defender of the Jewish state. But his diplomatic presence was in many ways a contradiction unlike any the world has seen since. While he was celebrated internationally for his exceptional wit and his moderate, reasoned worldview, these same qualities painted him as elitist and foreign in his home country. The disparity in perception of Eban at home and abroad was such that both his critics and his friends agreed that he would have been a wonderful prime minister—in any country but Israel. In Abba Eban, Asaf Siniver paints a nuanced and complete portrait of one of the most complex figures in twentieth-century foreign affairs. We see Eban growing up and coming into his own as part of the Cambridge Union, and watch him steadily become known as “The Voice of Israel.” Siniver draws on a vast amount of interviews, writings, and other newly available material to show that, in his unceasing quest for stability and peace for Israel, Eban’s primary opposition often came from the homeland he was fighting for; no matter how many allies he gained abroad, the man never understood his own domestic politics well enough to be as effective in his pursuits as he hoped. The first examination of Eban in nearly forty years, this is a fascinating look at a life that still offers a valuable perspective on Israel today. “Siniver’s principal achievement is his artful documentation of the tension between Eban the intellectual and Eban the politician. Such lofty thoughts do not distract Mr. Siniver from listing the indiscretions and dishonesty to which Eban, in his politician’s guise, occasionally succumbed.” —The Wall Street Journal “Siniver’s levelheaded account looks at the history of Israel through the life of the country’s eloquent defender.” —TheNew York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)