Search Results - Colonization

Mormonism's Last Colonizer The Life and Times of William H. Smart / by Smart, William B. (William Buckwalter), 1922-

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Mormonism's Last Colonizer : The Life and Times of William H. Smart / by Smart, William B. (William Buckwalter), 1922-

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The struggles of John Brown Russwurm the life and writings of a pan-Africanist pioneer, 1799-1851 / by James, Winston

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African American settlements in West Africa John Brown Russwurm and the American civilizing efforts / by Beyan, Amos Jones

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The African American odyssey of John Kizell a South Carolina slave returns to fight the slave trade in his African homeland / by Lowther, Kevin

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Land was theirs : Jewish farmers in the garden state / by Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick, 1926-

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Augustus Cleveland y el colonialismo en la India / by Devalle, Susana B. C.

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Arthur Ruppin and the production of pre-Israeli culture

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Ship of death : a voyage that changed the Atlantic world / by Smith, Billy G. (Billy Gordon)

“…Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau) Colonization.…”
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A living man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa chief and missionary, and the making of nineteenth-century South Africa / by Levine, Roger S.

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Lincoln & Darwin shared visions of race, science, and religion / by Lander, James

Table of Contents: “…Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality.…”
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Sidney J. Furie : life and films / by Kremer, Daniel, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The boy in his own company -- Colonizing a wilderness -- Making a name in London -- Man's favorite sport -- Through a glass refracted: the wild angles picture show -- Professional winners and professional losers -- Idol worship in jazz: Lady sings the blues and Hit! …”
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Freedom's prophet Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / by Newman, Richard S.

Table of Contents: “…I will not rest" -- Gospel labors -- The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people -- The year of the fever, part 2 : Allen's antislavery appeal -- "We participate in common" : Allen's role as a Black mediator -- A liberating theology : establishing the AME Church -- Stay or go : Allen and African colonization -- Allen challenged : shadow politics and community conflict in the 1820s -- A Black founders' expanding visions -- Last rights -- Conclusion: Richard Allen and the soul of Black reform.…”
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Life at the center of the energy crisis a technologist's search for a black swan / by Miley, George H. (George Hunter), 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Early days and searching for a starting path -- Burnable poison control for nuclear submarine reactors -- Nuclear pulse propagation and fission reactor kinetics -- Nuclear pumped laser (NPL) research -- Direct electron beam pumped laser -- Advanced lasers -- Alpha particle effects in thermonuclear fusion devices -- Alternate fusion concepts -- Advanced fuel fusion and direct energy conversion -- Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) -- Inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion -- Low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) -- Hydrogen economy and fuel cells -- Fusion propulsion and space colonization -- Nuclear batteries -- Computation and theory -- Nuclear power plant safety board and Illinois low-level waste site -- Teaching, education, and university administration -- Creation of a small company, NPL Associates, Inc -- Where am I in the search? …”
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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Ornish, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.…”
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