Author: Gerard Colby
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504048393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
A “blistering exposé” of the USA’s secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies—all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region’s indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this “well-documented” (Los Angeles Times) book—the product of eighteen years of research—which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called “an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive.”
Thy Will Be Done
Author: Gerard Colby
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504048393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
A “blistering exposé” of the USA’s secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies—all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region’s indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this “well-documented” (Los Angeles Times) book—the product of eighteen years of research—which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called “an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive.”
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504048393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
A “blistering exposé” of the USA’s secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies—all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region’s indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this “well-documented” (Los Angeles Times) book—the product of eighteen years of research—which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called “an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive.”
Autumn Conquest
Author: Charlotte Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780263093285
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780263093285
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The Conquest of Charlotte
Author: David Storrar Meldrum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love stories
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love stories
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Charlotte Lennox
Author: Norbert Schürer
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611483913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This volume compiles and annotates for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox, best known for her novel The Female Quixote. Lennox corresponded with famous contemporaries from different walks of life such as James Boswell, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and she interacted with many other influential figures including her patroness the Countess of Bute, publisher Andrew Millar, and the Reverend Thomas Winstanley. In addition to Lennox’s and her correspondents’ letters, this book presents related documents such as the author’s proposals for subscription editions of her works, her file with the Royal Literary Fund, and a series of poems and stories supposedly composed by her son but perhaps written by herself. In these carefully and extensively annotated documents, Charlotte Lennox traces the vagaries in the career of a female writer in the male-dominated eighteenth-century literary marketplace. The introduction situates Lennox in the context of contemporaneous print culture and specifically examines the contentious question of the authorship of The Female Quixote, Lennox’s experimentation with various forms of publication, and her appeals for charity to the Royal Literary Fund when she was impoverished towards the end of her life. The author who emerges from Charlotte Lennox was an active, assertive, innovative, and independent woman trying to find her place—and make a literary career—in eighteenth-century Britain. Thus, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of female authorship, literary history, and eighteenth-century studies.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611483913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This volume compiles and annotates for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox, best known for her novel The Female Quixote. Lennox corresponded with famous contemporaries from different walks of life such as James Boswell, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and she interacted with many other influential figures including her patroness the Countess of Bute, publisher Andrew Millar, and the Reverend Thomas Winstanley. In addition to Lennox’s and her correspondents’ letters, this book presents related documents such as the author’s proposals for subscription editions of her works, her file with the Royal Literary Fund, and a series of poems and stories supposedly composed by her son but perhaps written by herself. In these carefully and extensively annotated documents, Charlotte Lennox traces the vagaries in the career of a female writer in the male-dominated eighteenth-century literary marketplace. The introduction situates Lennox in the context of contemporaneous print culture and specifically examines the contentious question of the authorship of The Female Quixote, Lennox’s experimentation with various forms of publication, and her appeals for charity to the Royal Literary Fund when she was impoverished towards the end of her life. The author who emerges from Charlotte Lennox was an active, assertive, innovative, and independent woman trying to find her place—and make a literary career—in eighteenth-century Britain. Thus, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of female authorship, literary history, and eighteenth-century studies.
The Bookman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Young Folks' History of England
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Banktown
Author: Rick Rothacker
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
ISBN: 9780895873811
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With a cast containing ambitious CEOs, brash traders and powerful government officials, Banktown is poised to become the definitive account of how our national financial crisis played out in Charlotte and how its aftermath belted the economy and the pride of one of the New Souths brightest skylines.
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
ISBN: 9780895873811
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With a cast containing ambitious CEOs, brash traders and powerful government officials, Banktown is poised to become the definitive account of how our national financial crisis played out in Charlotte and how its aftermath belted the economy and the pride of one of the New Souths brightest skylines.
The Park Book
Author: Charlotte Zolotow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780060269708
Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Describes the activities of the people and animals on a typical day in the park.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780060269708
Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Describes the activities of the people and animals on a typical day in the park.
A Book of Golden Deeds
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description