Search Results - "The Dispossessed"

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

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The Dispossessed State Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / by Maurer, Sara L.

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The Dispossessed State : Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / by Maurer, Sara L.

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Algeria anger of the dispossessed / by Evans, Martin, 1964-

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Conquest by law how the discovery of America dispossessed indigenous peoples of their lands / by Robertson, Lindsay Gordon

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Scarlet and Black : Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History /

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Luxury and Rubble : Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon / by Harms, Erik (Anthropologist)

Table of Contents: “…Rubble -- Thư Thiêm futures past : a short history of seeing without seeing -- Building a civilized, modern, and sentimental city -- From the rubble -- Conclusion : civility and dispossession.…”
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Before American History : Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession / by Mucher, Christen

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The queen and I a story of dispossessions and reconnections in Hawai'i / by Iaukea, Sydney L. (Sydney Lehua), 1969-

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Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

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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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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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In the shadow of slavery Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / by Carney, Judith Ann

Table of Contents: “…Food and the African past -- African plants on the move -- African food crops and the Guinea trade -- African food and the Atlantic crossing -- Maroon subsistence strategies -- The Africanization of plantation food systems -- Botanical gardens of the dispossessed -- Guinea's plants and European empire -- African animals and grasses in the New World tropics -- Memory dishes of Africa's botanical legacy.…”
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The testing grounds of modern empire the making of colonial racial order in the American Ohio country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s / by Strobel, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans : a comparative overview of the pre-colonial and early colonial history of the Ohio country and the Eastern Cape -- Conquest, civilization, and dispossession : the transformation of the Ohio country -- Humantiarians, settlers, and the state : the transformation of the Eastern Cape -- The Ohio Indians revolution : a struggle for sovereignty and independence -- This land is our land : Africans in the Eastern Cape and their struggle for independence and sovereignty.…”
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Virtuous Waters : Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico / by Walsh, Casey

Table of Contents: “…Waters / Cultures -- Bathing and domination in the early modern Atlantic world -- Policing waters and baths in eighteenth century Mexico City -- Enlightenment science of mineral springs -- Groundwater and hydraulic opulence in the late nineteenth century -- Chemistry, biology and the heterogeneity of modern waters -- Dispossession and bottling after the revolution -- Spa tourism in twentieth century Mexico -- Virtuous waters in the twenty first century.…”
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Family life in Native America by Volo, James M., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…An environmental geography of the northeast Woodlands -- The structure of Woodland society -- Native American kinship systems -- Child rearing from birth to marriage -- A world wrought from nature -- The bountiful earth mother -- Native American ceremonies and rituals -- The tomahawk and the cross -- Wilderness warfare -- The fur trade -- Intertribal trade and conflict -- Dispossessing the First Nations -- The Indian alliances -- Fighting back : the dark and bloody ground.…”
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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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Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Mishra -- The micropolitics of borders : the issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim) / Vibha Joshi -- Nodes of control in a South(east) Asian borderland / Nicholas Farrelly -- Histories of belonging(s) : narrating territory, possession, and dispossession at the India-Bangladesh border / Jason Cons -- Geographies and identities : subaltern partition stories along Bengal's southern frontier / Annu Jalais -- Afterword: Making the most of "sensitive" borders / Willem van Schendel.…”
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Land between waters environmental histories of modern Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…López -- Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / José Juan Juárez Flores -- Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor -- King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 / Myrna I. …”
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