Author: Sophia Duberly Delmard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375258968X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
Swiss Village Life
Author: Sophia Duberly Delmard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375258968X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375258968X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
Helvetia
Author: David H. Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933202563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Helvetia: A Swiss Village in the Hills of West Virginia explores the unique founding and development of a community nestled within the wilderness of Appalachia. Established in 1869, this tiny Swiss settlement embodies the American immigrant experience, reflecting the steadfast desire of settlers to preserve cultural traditions and values while adapting to new and extraordinary surroundings. From ramp suppers to carnivals, traditional architecture, folk music, and cheese making, this book documents a living community by exploring the ethnic customs, farming practices, community organization, and language maintenance of Helvetia residents. Drawing upon a diverse body of resources such as Swiss and American archival documents and local oral accounts, this chronicledepicts the everyday social and economic life of this village during the past two centuries. Helvetia celebrates a small community where residents and visitors alike continue to practice a Swiss American culture that binds an international history to a local heritage. Long out of print, this reissued edition of the history of Helvetia contains a new introduction, a concise index, a bibliography, an appendix of foreign-born immigrants, and an exquisite photographic essay featuring archival images of a Swiss village still thriving within the isolated backcountry of central West Virginia.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933202563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Helvetia: A Swiss Village in the Hills of West Virginia explores the unique founding and development of a community nestled within the wilderness of Appalachia. Established in 1869, this tiny Swiss settlement embodies the American immigrant experience, reflecting the steadfast desire of settlers to preserve cultural traditions and values while adapting to new and extraordinary surroundings. From ramp suppers to carnivals, traditional architecture, folk music, and cheese making, this book documents a living community by exploring the ethnic customs, farming practices, community organization, and language maintenance of Helvetia residents. Drawing upon a diverse body of resources such as Swiss and American archival documents and local oral accounts, this chronicledepicts the everyday social and economic life of this village during the past two centuries. Helvetia celebrates a small community where residents and visitors alike continue to practice a Swiss American culture that binds an international history to a local heritage. Long out of print, this reissued edition of the history of Helvetia contains a new introduction, a concise index, a bibliography, an appendix of foreign-born immigrants, and an exquisite photographic essay featuring archival images of a Swiss village still thriving within the isolated backcountry of central West Virginia.
Switzerland: A Village History
Author: D. Birmingham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333800140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Switzerland is a remarkable country half of whose territory lies in the Alps. The raising of cattle and the making of cheese eventually brought a modest wealth to the peasants but the destructive Napoleonic invasion brought revolution and poverty. The democratic unification of Switzerland created a common market and a single currency. This history of one alpine village illustrates a one-thousand-year struggle for survival on the edge of this white wilderness.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333800140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Switzerland is a remarkable country half of whose territory lies in the Alps. The raising of cattle and the making of cheese eventually brought a modest wealth to the peasants but the destructive Napoleonic invasion brought revolution and poverty. The democratic unification of Switzerland created a common market and a single currency. This history of one alpine village illustrates a one-thousand-year struggle for survival on the edge of this white wilderness.
Heidi
Author: Johanna Spyri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, Swiss (German)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, Swiss (German)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Rising
Author: Elizabeth Rush
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319700
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast “captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry” (The New York Times). Hailed as “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through these dramatic changes, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish. Rush sheds light on the unfolding crises through firsthand testimonials—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—woven together with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities. A Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book Of 2018 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award A Chicago Tribune Top Ten Book of 2018
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319700
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast “captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry” (The New York Times). Hailed as “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through these dramatic changes, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish. Rush sheds light on the unfolding crises through firsthand testimonials—a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago—woven together with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities. A Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book Of 2018 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award A Chicago Tribune Top Ten Book of 2018
The Medieval Village
Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Gospel in All Lands
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Imperial Fictions
Author: Todd Kontje
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Rethinks German literature by challenging the notion that national literature is the narrative of a spiritually united people
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Rethinks German literature by challenging the notion that national literature is the narrative of a spiritually united people
The Medieval Village
Author: George Gordon Coulton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Colonial Switzerland
Author: P. Purtschert
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137442743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
States without former colonies, it has been argued, were intensely involved in colonial practices. This anthology looks at Switzerland, which, by its very strong economic involvements with colonialism, its doctrine of neutrality, and its transnationally entangled scientific community, constitutes a perfect case in point.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137442743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
States without former colonies, it has been argued, were intensely involved in colonial practices. This anthology looks at Switzerland, which, by its very strong economic involvements with colonialism, its doctrine of neutrality, and its transnationally entangled scientific community, constitutes a perfect case in point.