Search Results - "The Dispossessed"

Dispossession discrimination against African American farmers in the age of civil rights / by Daniel, Pete

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Shifting terrain essays on politics, history and society / by Perusek, Glenn W. (Glenn Wesley), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Hubris of empire -- "A horizon lit with blood" : the U.S. occupation and resistance in Iraq -- Strategy and changing moods in Thucydides -- The dispossessed -- Child labor in the world economy -- The most dispossessed : hunger and poverty on a world scale -- Barren ground : American political culture -- Shifting terrain : styles of liberalism, periodization, and levels of analysis -- The politics of organized labor in the United States, 1945-1998 -- Two methodological traditions in the social sciences.…”
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Social stratification and mobility in central Veracruz by Nutini, Hugo G.

Table of Contents: “…A combined structural and expressive approach to the study of social stratification -- Córdoba and its environs -- The superordinate sector -- The middle strata -- The dispossessed.…”
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Faulkner and the Great Depression aesthetics, ideology, and cultural politics / by Atkinson, Ted, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Placement and perspective: Faulkner and the Great Depression -- History and culture : Faulkner in political context -- Decadence and dispossession : Faulkner and the "literary class war" -- Power by design : Faulkner and the specter of fascism -- Revolution and restraint : Faulkner's ambivalent agrarianism -- Destruction and Reconstruction: Faulkner's Civil War and the politics of recovery.…”
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Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy / by Diggins, John P.

Table of Contents: “…Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" -- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.…”
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Another place an ecocritical study of selected western American poets / by Elkins, Andrew, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Sand, wind, and buttes: Peggy Pond Church's lifetime love affair with the desert Southwest -- Hootin' and hollerin' in the Rocky Mountain West: cowboy poetry, the land, and the modern reader -- A terrible beauty: the Alaskan wilderness and the poetry of John Haines -- Dispossessed: the poetic inferno of Adrian Louis -- Surf, rivers, and salmon: the Northwest in the poetry of Richard Hugo -- California as the world in the poetry of Jane Hirshfield.…”
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Royals and the Reich the princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany / by Petropoulos, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…The interconnectedness of the nobility: strategies to preserve privilege through the Great War -- The Princes Von Hessen during the Weimar Republic: tribulations, the high life, and Fascist flirtations -- Nazi high society: making Hitler "Salonfähig" and helping the Nazis to power -- A place in the Reich: princely careers in the Nazi state -- Roles in an increasingly radical regime -- Miscalculation and misfortune -- Postwar justice: denazification and (partial) dispossession -- Rebuilding a life: Schloss Fasanerie, financial viability, and burdens of the past -- Understanding German princes in the twentieth century.…”
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