Exiles And Islanders

Author : Brendan O'Grady
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773527683
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiles and Islanders written by Brendan O'Grady and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.

Author : Brendan O'Grady
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773572007
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiles and Islanders written by Brendan O'Grady and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-08-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exiles and Islanders describes Irish settlement in Prince Edward Island from 1763 to 1880. By tracing the history of these early settlers, Brendan O'Grady demolishes the myth that the Island's Irish settlers were largely refugees from the Great Potato Famine. Using a wide variety of sources, including folklore, newspaper reports, personal interviews, letters, shipping records, and historical data, O'Grady goes beyond mere statistics. We learn about settlers' hometowns in Ireland, why they left, when and how they came to Prince Edward Island, where they settled, and how they adapted to living in PEI. Over ten thousand Irish settled in PEI in the nineteenth century; by 1850 they comprised about a quarter of the Island's population. They were mainly pre-Famine immigrants and mostly Catholic. They came from all thirty-two counties of Ireland and settled in all sixty-seven townships of PEI. They took up farming, fishing, and rural occupations; raised large families; and retained their Irishness for several generations. Exiles and Islanders includes family names and places of origin that will be of particular interest to the Island's Irish descendants. An intriguing cultural history, the book provides new insight into the early settlers of Prince Edward Island.

Author : Margaret E. Kenna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134436890
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Organization of Exile written by Margaret E. Kenna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with prints from a unique archive of glass and celluloid negatives from the Aegean island of Anafi, this book deals with the life of people who were sent into internal exile under the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-1942). Like others before and after, this regime used imprisonment, internal deportation and exile as a means of containing and isolating a wide variety of people who were thought to be 'public dangers'. Drawing on published and unpublished memoirs and on firsthand accounts of former exiles, it gives a vivid picture of a by no means unified collection of people, facing a common set of problems on an island at the borders of the Greek State. During the Occupation, the Anafi exiles faced privation, hunger and finally the dissolution of the commune. This is a human drama which will interest a wide range of readers.

Author : Polymeris Voglis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571813084
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Subject written by Polymeris Voglis and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voglis (New York U.) examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. He asks what impact an exceptional situation, such as a civil war, has on practices of punishment; how the category of political prisoners is constructed; how a social and political subject is made; and how political prisoners experienced their internment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459730259
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-08-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transformative work that explodes assumptions about the importance of the Great Irish Potato Famine to Irish immigration. In this major study, Lucille Campey traces the relocation of around ninety thousand Irish people to their new homes in Atlantic Canada. She shatters the widespread misconception that the exodus was primarily driven by dire events in Ireland. The Irish immigration saga is not solely about what happened during the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s; it began a century earlier. Although they faced great privations and had to overcome many obstacles, the Irish actively sought the better life that Atlantic Canada offered. Far from being helpless exiles lacking in ambition who went lemming-like to wherever they were told to go, the Irish grabbed their opportunities and prospered in their new home. Campey gives these settlers a voice. Using wide-ranging documentary sources, she provides new insights about why the Irish left and considers why they chose their various locations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. She highlights how, through their skills and energy, they benefitted themselves and contributed much to the development of Atlantic Canada. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the history of the Irish exodus to North America and provides a mine of information useful to family historians.

Author : Margaret E. Kenna
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058231413
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Island Life written by Margaret E. Kenna and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a vivid and engaging account of anthropological exploration on a remote Greek island in the 1960s and is based on letters, progress reports, field notes and diary entries made at the time. These allow the reader to experience the bewildering early weeks of fieldwork in the Spring of 1966, the writer's first impressions, mistakes and understandings, and her attempts to make sense of what was going on during the sixteen months she spent on the island. The reader can also share in the emerging understanding resulting from long-term association and familiarity, gaining a sense of how months of work can be summed up in a short phrase or single sentence in later writings. Since the 1960s the author has returned to the island many times, and her later impressions and understandings are integrated in this book adding richness and depth to the material. This enables the reader, together with the author, to look back on those months from a viewpoint in the 90s.The islanders who regarded themselves as far from God in the sixties are now struggling to make a living from tourism, marketing their island as one of the unspoilt places in Greece. This is not only a dynamic and important reflexive account for the anthropologist, but an engaging and thoroughly enjoyable read for anyone interested in Greece or travel writing. Readers with an interest in modern history, sociology or Greek studies will also appreciate the depth and quality of Kenna's research as well as her accessible writing style.

Author : Jemima Garrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733304859
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Exiles written by Jemima Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the experiences of the inhabitants of Nauru during three years of Japanese occupation in WWII. Based largely on interviews, diaries and other contemporary writings, it tells of the initial invasion of the island, and the brutal treatment the Islanders received, including starvation, beatings, deportation and forced labour. Also provides an account of the Island's liberation and subsequent rebuilding of Nauruan community life. Includes references and an index. The author is a journalist who has been the ABC's South Pacific correspondent for many years, and has also reported for the 'Pacific Islands Monthly' and the BBC.

Author : Edward J. González
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648070X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuban Exiles on the Trade Embargo written by Edward J. González and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First implemented in 1962, the American embargo against Cuba is one of the most enduring anti-trade measures in human history, having outlived most of the original government and military leaders responsible for its creation. But has it benefited the United States as intended, by weakening Fidel Castro's grip on his country? Or has it, instead, strengthened his position? This unique work draws upon interviews with Cuban exiles to provide broad-ranging insights on the embargo's effects on the Cuban people, and an evaluation of its diminishing role as an effective political tool.

Author : Patricia Arredondo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319957384
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latinx Immigrants written by Patricia Arredondo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly detailed reference offers a strengths-based survey of Latinx immigrant experience in the United States. Spanning eleven countries across the Americas and the Caribbean, the book uses a psychohistorical approach using the words of immigrants at different processes and stages of acculturation and acceptance. Coverage emphasizes the sociopolitical contexts, particularly in relation to the US, that typically lead to immigration, the vital role of the Spanish language and cultural values, and the journey of identity as it evolves throughout the creation of a new life in a new and sometimes hostile country. This vivid material is especially useful to therapists working with Latinx clients reconciling current and past experience, coping with prejudice and other ongoing challenges, or dealing with trauma and loss. Included among the topics: · Argentines in the U.S.: migration and continuity. · Chilean Americans: a micro cultural Latinx group. · Cuban Americans: freedom, hope, endurance, and the American Dream. · The drums are calling: race, nation, and the complex history of Dominicans. · The Obstacle is the Way: resilience in the lives of Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S. · Cultura y familia: strengthening Mexican heritage families. · Puerto Ricans on the U.S. mainland. With its multiple layers of lived experience and historical analysis, Latinx Immigrant, is inspiring and powerful reading for sociologists, economists, mental health educators and practitioners, and healthcare providers.

Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023866
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Volume III written by Geoffrey P. Megargee and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of significant sites in Hungary, Vichy France, Italy, and other nations, part of the multi-volume reference praised as a “staggering achievement” (Jewish Daily Forward). This third volume in the monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, prepared by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, offers a comprehensive account of camps and ghettos in, or run by, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Vichy France (including North Africa). Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses to persecution; demographic changes; and details of the ghetto’s liquidation. Personal testimonies help convey the character of each ghetto, while source citations provide a guide to additional information. Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites—previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust—make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.