Frontier Passages

Author : Xiaoyuan Liu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804749602
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Passages written by Xiaoyuan Liu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, Xiaoyuan Liu establishes the ways in which the history of the Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan’an period onward, intertwined with the ethnopolitics of the Chinese “periphery.” As a Han-dominated party, the CCP had to adapt to an inhospitable political environment, particularly among the Hui (Muslims) of northwest China and the Mongols of Inner Mongolia. Based on a careful examination of CCP and Soviet Comintern documents only recently available, Liu’s study shows why the CCP found itself unable to follow the Russian Bolshevik precedent by inciting separatism among the non-Han peoples as a stratagem for gaining national power. Rather than swallowing Marxist-Leninist dogma on “the nationalities question,” the CCP took a position closer to that of the Kuomintang, stressing the inclusiveness of the Han-dominated Chinese nation, “Zhongua Minzu.”

Author : Gang Lin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804749190
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China after Jiang written by Gang Lin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first evaluations of China's leadership transition with Jiang Zemin's 2002 retirement as Communist Party chief, this book probes the country's related institutional transitions—both those under way and those still needed if China is to remain stable and prosperous in the 21st century.

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 : Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814329115
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooner Passage written by Theodore J. Karamanski and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the Lake Michigan Schooner -- The maritime frontier : schooners and urban development on the Lake Michigan shore -- Before the mast and at the helm : captains and crews on Lake Michigan schooners -- Schooner City : the life and times of the Chicago River port -- Lost on Lake Michigan wrecks, rescues, and navigational aids.

Author : Jane Maufe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147293573X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frozen Frontier written by Jane Maufe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Passage proved so elusive for so long that many sailors and explorers believed it didn't actually exist. A sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic archipelago, it wasn't until Roald Amundsen's 1903–06 voyage that the Northwest Passage's existence was finally proved, but the transit is treacherous and entirely dependent upon the ice giving up its grip for sufficient time to allow vessels through. This is not a journey undertaken by average sailors in small private boats. But David Scott Cowper, 73, is no ordinary sailor. There are seven possible routes through the Northwest Passage, and Cowper had sailed through six of them singlehanded. This is the account of the sixth and most northerly – from ocean to ocean through the McClure Strait, this time accompanied by Jane Maufe, his crew. The account of the voyage is written by Jane and she captures Cowper's steely determination, resourcefulness in the face of adversity and humility in the wake of great achievement. Theirs is an old-fashioned relationship, where each party expects to fulfil their stereotypical roles. But Jane is no push-over - she can steer a watch, haul sails, and leap ashore slippery pontoons with heavy ropes like the best of them. As well as a captivating story of adventurous sailing it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between two serious and dedicated sailors, alone together in some of the most isolated and forbidding desolate wastes on earth. It is a relationship built on respect and high expectations, mutual ambition and also self-sacrifice, and the book is a uniquely revealing and charming account.

Author : Robert J. Beddoe
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059523514X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Passage written by Robert J. Beddoe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier Passage is a dramatic novel about four mid-teenage kids: two white, two Indian - two boys and two girls, that come inadvertently together subsequent to their families having been torn apart by bloodshed and suffering through war and disease. As they travel across central and east Texas, an open prairie country interspersed with bandits, Comancheros, and Indians, they find themselves bound together by their common experiences of life in the wilderness. On the other hand, they also found themselves on a collision course between the mesh of life and death that puts their newfound feeling for each other in peril.

Author : Ann Bridge
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448210143
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Passage written by Ann Bridge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of Spain and its Civil War, and a pair of star-crossed lovers. This new novel has many virtues, all of them attractive -- picturesque montage, an appealing cast, substantial-and often exciting -- action, and her usual quality writing. - Kirkus

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968447
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King of the Mild Frontier written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age A riveting, scorching—and hilarious—autobiography by the award-winning author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Deadline. From trying to impress a member of the girls’ softball team (with disastrous dental results) to enduring the humiliation of his high school athletic club initiation (olives and oysters play unforgettable roles), Chris Crutcher’s memoir of the tricky road to adulthood is candid, disarming, laugh-out-loud funny, relevant, and never less than riveting. He vividly describes a temper that was always waiting to trip him up even as it sustained him through some of the most memorable mishaps any child has survived. And how did this guy (he lifted his brother’s homework through the entire tenth grade) ever become a writer, not to mention the author of fourteen critically acclaimed books for young people? The frontier may be mild, but the book is not. Fans of Tara Westover’s Educated, Jack Gantos’s Hole in My Life, and Walter Dean Myers’s Bad Boy will laugh, will cry, and will remember. “Funny, bittersweet and brutally honest. Readers will clasp this hard-to-put-down book to their hearts even as they laugh sympathetically.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Ann Bridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Passage written by Ann Bridge and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Bridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Passage written by Ann Bridge and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: