American Passage

Author : Katherine Grandjean
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674289919
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Passage written by Katherine Grandjean and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Grandjean shows that the English conquest of New England was not just a matter of consuming territory, of transforming woods into farms. It entailed a struggle to control the flow of information—who could travel where, what news could be sent, over which routes winding through the woods along the early American communications frontier.

Author : Vincent J. Cannato
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060742739
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Passage written by Vincent J. Cannato and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.

Author : Kori Schake
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674975073
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safe Passage written by Kori Schake and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. To explain why this transition was nonviolent, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis between Britain and the U.S., from the Monroe Doctrine to the unequal “special relationship” during World War II.

Author : Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520927214
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth as an American Rite of Passage written by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever.

Author : Charles Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439125031
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Passage written by Charles Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)—now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is lost in the underworld of 1830s New Orleans. Desperate to escape the city’s unscrupulous bill collectors and the pawing hands of a schoolteacher hellbent on marrying him, he jumps aboard the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins a voyage of metaphysical horror and human atrocity, a journey which challenges our notions of freedom, fate and how we live together. Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave narrative and philosophical allegory. Now with a new introduction from renowned writer and critic Stanley Crouch, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Middle Passage celebrates a cornerstone of the American canon and the masterwork of one of its most important writers. "Long after we’d stopped believe in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just that" (Chicago Tribune).

Author : Robert Campbell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201523
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Darkest Alaska written by Robert Campbell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Icy Strait. Both the famous—including wilderness advocate John Muir, landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, and photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Curtis—and the long forgotten—a gay ex-sailor, a former society reporter, an African explorer, and a neurasthenic Methodist minister—returned with fascinating accounts of their Alaskan journeys, becoming advance men and women for an expanding United States. In Darkest Alaska explores the popular images conjured by these travelers' tales, as well as their influence on the broader society. Drawing on lively firsthand accounts, archival photographs, maps, and other ephemera of the day, historian Robert Campbell chronicles how Gilded Age sightseers were inspired by Alaska's bounty of evolutionary treasures, tribal artifacts, geological riches, and novel thrills to produce a wealth of highly imaginative reportage about the territory. By portraying the territory as a "Last West" ripe for American conquest, tourists helped pave the way for settlement and exploitation.

Author : George Omi
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 150690226X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Yellow written by George Omi and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hagan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674004719
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northern Passage written by John Hagan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50,000 Americans migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War. Hagan, himself a member of the exodus, searched declassified government files, consulted previously unopened resistance organization archives and contemporary oral histories, and interviewed American war resisters settled in Toronto to learn how they made the momentous decision.

Author : Joseph M. Cheruvelil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781524556099
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Passage to America written by Joseph M. Cheruvelil and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Passage to America: Notes of an Adopted Son is an anecdotal autobiography of Prof. Joseph M. Cheruvelil, a naturalized citizen of the United States. Submerged in this long narrative is a social history of three generations from British subjects in India to Baby Boomers and Millennials in America. Prof. Cheruvelil, who taught many years at St. John's University in New York, is a Catholic in religion, a Hindu in culture, a conservative in politics, and an eclectic in taste. The book abounds with succinct comments on the major issues and potentates of the world from a global perspective. Education is its primary theme, geography and history its guides, and myths and legends its images.

Author : Joseph Kanon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439156433
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Istanbul Passage written by Joseph Kanon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945 Istanbul, American undercover agent Leon Bauer's attempt to save a life leads to a desperate manhunt, a game of shifting loyalties, and an unexpected love affair.