Distant Islands

Author : Daniel H. Inouye
Publisher : Nikkei in the Americas
ISBN 13 : 1607327929
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Islands written by Daniel H. Inouye and published by Nikkei in the Americas. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The turn of the century New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using primary sources Inouye tells the stories of the professional elites, small business owners, working-class, laborers, and students from these communities"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126679
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands written by Judith Schalansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.

Author : Steve K. Bertrand
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796018805
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Islands written by Steve K. Bertrand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.

Author : Daniel H. Inouye
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607327937
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Islands written by Daniel H. Inouye and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant Islands is a modern narrative history of the Japanese American community in New York City between America's centennial year and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Often overshadowed in historical literature by the Japanese diaspora on the West Coast, this community, which dates back to the 1870s, has its own fascinating history. The New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using a wealth of primary sources—oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more—Daniel H. Inouye tells the stories of the business and professional elites, mid-sized merchants, small business owners, working-class families, menial laborers, and students that made up these communities. The book presents new knowledge about the history of Japanese immigrants in the United States and makes a novel and persuasive argument about the primacy of class and status stratification and relatively weak ethnic cohesion and solidarity in New York City, compared to the pervading understanding of nikkei on the West Coast. While a few prior studies have identified social stratification in other nikkei communities, this book presents the first full exploration of the subject and additionally draws parallels to divisions in German American communities. Distant Islands is a unique and nuanced historical account of an American ethnic community that reveals the common humanity of pioneering Japanese New Yorkers despite diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and life stories. It will be of interest to general readers, students, and scholars interested in Asian American studies, immigration and ethnic studies, sociology, and history. Winner- Honorable Mention, 2018 Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award

Author : Hayden Carruth
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592361
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward the Distant Islands written by Hayden Carruth and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.

Author : Scott M. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063140
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Shores, Distant Pasts written by Scott M. Fitzpatrick and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An excellent compilation of new methods and theories in Caribbean archaeology. . . . Not only materialize[s] the methodological advance in Caribbean archaeology, but also signif[ies] the strong theoretical progression that this discipline is experiencing."--Journal of Caribbean Archaeology "Look[s] beyond the field of archaeology to include new techniques from genetics, computer simulation, and physical anthropology. . . . Unquestionably moves our understanding of the settling of the Caribbean forward and provides several new provocative avenues for further exploration."--New West Indian Guide "Demonstrate[s] various methods that introduce new insights into the investigation of Caribbean prehistory, revealing the complexity of pre-Columbian cultures, peoples, and their movements. . . . [and] contributes to a totalizing view of the colonization process in the Caribbean."--Caribbean Quarterly "Can be considered as a real starting point for a biological approach of the pre-Columbian settlement of the Caribbean."-- Benoit Berard, Universite des Antilles For more than a century, archaeologists and anthropologists have searched for evidence of when and how peoples first settled the Caribbean islands. Research on this area is pivotal for understanding the migration of peoples in the New World and how small and large populations develop biologically and culturally through time. This unique collection synthesizes our archaeological and biological knowledge about the pre-Columbian settlement of the Caribbean and highlights the various techniques we can use to analyze human migration and settlement patterns throughout history. Newer and well-established techniques, like computer simulations of seafaring, radiocarbon dating, three-dimensional and traditional craniometrics, stable isotopes, and ancient and modern DNA analysis, show great promise for helping us better understand pre-Columbian Caribbean population expansions, while demonstrating the utility of integrating and comparing biological markers with the archaeological record. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to migrations, population movements, and island colonization in the Caribbean islands. This volume fills that void. Scott M. Fitzpatrick is professor of archaeology at the University of Oregon and founding coeditor of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. Ann H. Ross is professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University. She is a contributor to Digging Deeper: Current Trends and Future Directions in Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
ISBN 13 : 158046954X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Islands written by Toyin Falola and published by Rochester Studies in African H. This book was released on 2019 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast

Author : Martin L. Cody
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520338103
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plants on Islands written by Martin L. Cody and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough and meticulous study, the result of nearly a quarter-century of research, examines the island biogeography of plants on continental islands in Barkley Sound, British Columbia. Invaluable both because of its geographical setting and because of the duration of the study, Plants on Islands summarizes the diversity, dynamics, and distribution of the approximately three hundred species of plants on more than two hundred islands. Martin Cody uses his extensive data set to test various aspects of island biogeographic theory. His thoughtful analysis, constrained by taxon and region, elucidates and enhances the understanding of the biogeographic patterns and dynamics. He provides an overview of the basic theory, concepts, and analytical tools of island biogeography. Also discussed are island relaxation to lower equilibrium species numbers post-isolation, plant distributions variously limited by island area, isolation and climatic differences, adaptation to local abiotic and biotic environments within islands, and the evolution of different island phenotypes. The book concludes with a valuable consideration of equilibrium concepts and of the interplay of coexistence and competition. Certain to challenge, Plants on Islands is among the first books to critically analyze the central tenets of the theory of island biogeography.

Author : Heinrich Leutemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graphic pictures of native life in distant lands, with explanatory text by A. Kirchoff, tr. by G. Philip written by Heinrich Leutemann and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1558 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statutory Instruments written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: