Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A study of the migration patterns that characterized the colony and (later) state of Virginia over the three century history following its European founding. Dividing the topic into three patterns--migration to, within, and from Virginia--Fischer (history, Brandeis U) and Kelly (Virginia Historical Society) study the reasons behind the migrations of various populations, paying special attention to African Americans, and explore the cultural legacy of the migrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bound Away
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A study of the migration patterns that characterized the colony and (later) state of Virginia over the three century history following its European founding. Dividing the topic into three patterns--migration to, within, and from Virginia--Fischer (history, Brandeis U) and Kelly (Virginia Historical Society) study the reasons behind the migrations of various populations, paying special attention to African Americans, and explore the cultural legacy of the migrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A study of the migration patterns that characterized the colony and (later) state of Virginia over the three century history following its European founding. Dividing the topic into three patterns--migration to, within, and from Virginia--Fischer (history, Brandeis U) and Kelly (Virginia Historical Society) study the reasons behind the migrations of various populations, paying special attention to African Americans, and explore the cultural legacy of the migrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bush Bound
Author: Paolo Gaibazzi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782387803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782387803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.
Distances Between Ports
Author: United States. Naval Oceanographic Office
Publisher:
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Category : Distances
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Distances
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Distances Between Ports
Author:
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Category : Distances
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Distances
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Bound Feet & Western Dress
Author: Pang-Mei Chang
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307792242
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank. "In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this literary debut brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307792242
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank. "In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this literary debut brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.
Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
California and Hawai'i Bound
Author: Henry Knight Lozano
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496227433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496227433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Carquinez Bridge Project, Replace/retrofit the Westbound I-80 Between Cummings Skyway and CA-29, Contra Costa County, Solano County
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Western Weekly Reports
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description