The Last Generation

Author : Peter S. Carmichael
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146962589X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Generation written by Peter S. Carmichael and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He finds them deeply engaged in the political, economic, and cultural forces of their time. Age, he concludes, created special concerns for young men who spent their formative years in the 1850s. Before the Civil War, these young men thought long and hard about Virginia's place as a progressive slave society. They vigorously lobbied for disunion despite opposition from their elders, then served as officers in the Army of Northern Virginia as frontline negotiators with the nonslaveholding rank and file. After the war, however, they quickly shed their Confederate radicalism to pursue the political goals of home rule and New South economic development and reconciliation. Not until the turn of the century, when these men were nearing the ends of their lives, did the mythmaking and storytelling begin, and members of the last generation recast themselves once more as unreconstructed Rebels. By examining the lives of members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds new light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity during the turbulent last half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407068814
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Generation written by Fred Pearce and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is not a matter of gradually increasing temperatures. New scientific findings about how our planet works show that it does not do gradual change. Under pressure, it lurches into another mode of operation. Man-made global warming is on the verge of unleashing unstoppable planetary forces. Biological and geological monsters are being woken, and they will consume us. Virtually overnight Nature's revenge will be sudden and brutal, like a climatic tsunami sweeping across the globe. No question, we are the last generation to live with any kind of climatic stability. In this impassioned report, Fred Pearce travels the world on the story to end them all. Most troubling, while visiting the places where the action may start: deep in the Amazon, high in the Arctic and among the bogs of Siberia, he uncovers the first signs that nature's revenge is already under way.

Author : Ben Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983526803
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Generation written by Ben Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridget Thorsdottir is a seventeen-year-old girl living during the waning days of the Norse colony in Greenland in the year 1501. At the brink of an age of discovery, her colony has been taken over by a new bishop who turned the people's farms into a more lucrative fishing village. The lone voice of opposition in this sea of change is Bridget's own father, Thor, whose stubborn adherence to his farm makes it harder and harder for him to pay the rising taxes owed to the bishop. When Thor refuses to give up his ways and leave the family home, Bridget realizes that it is up to her to make the dangerous journey to the New World in order to establish a new life for herself and her family.

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520342038
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Generation of the Roman Republic written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction that reviews related scholarship of the past twenty years, Erich Gruen's classic study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities, social tensions as well as politics, the plebs and the army as well as the aristocracy.

Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807085855
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Speed and Violence written by Fred Pearce and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature is fragile, environmentalists often tell us. But the lesson of this book is that it is not so. The truth is far more worrying. Nature is strong and packs a serious counterpunch . . . Global warming will very probably unleash unstoppable planetary forces. And they will not be gradual. The history of our planet's climate shows that it does not do gradual change. Under pressure, whether from sunspots or orbital wobbles or the depredations of humans, it lurches-virtually overnight. —from the Introduction Fred Pearce has been writing about climate change for eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and more of them fear we will soon be dealing with abrupt change resulting from triggering hidden tipping points. Even President Bush's top climate modeler, Jim Hansen, warned in 2005 that "we are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption." As Pearce began working on this book, normally cautious scientists beat a path to his door to tell him about their fears and their latest findings. With Speed and Violence tells the stories of these scientists and their work-from the implications of melting permafrost in Siberia and the huge river systems of meltwater beneath the icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica to the effects of the "ocean conveyor" and a rare molecule that runs virtually the entire cleanup system for the planet. Above all, the scientists told him what they're now learning about the speed and violence of past natural climate change-and what it portends for our future. With Speed and Violence is the most up-to-date and readable book yet about the growing evidence for global warming and the large climatic effects it may unleash.

Author : Jirí Moskala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816363612
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Character and the Last Generation written by Jirí Moskala and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Steven Harris
Publisher : IDW Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781600104756
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Generation written by Andrew Steven Harris and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, IDW Publishing proudly joins forces with Simon & Shuster's Pocket Books division to deliver a Myriad Universe title in conjunction with the Star Trek alternate-universe prose novels of the same name. Starfleet is no more. The Federation lies in ruin & the Klingons have conquered Earth. But a resistance, led by Jean-Luc Picard, seeks to free humanity from Klingon rule. Now, finally, it may have the means to do it: An android named Data, who has scrutinized the timeline & discovered that things are not as they should be. A crucial moment, buried in the past, has gone awry and as the Klingon warlord Worf closes in, time itself is running out...

Author : Daniel L. Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780932581587
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Generation of Truth written by Daniel L. Butler and published by . This book was released on 1989-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George R. Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816363957
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book End Time Events and the Last Generation written by George R. Knight and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary H. Blewett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Generation written by Mary H. Blewett and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.