Search Results - "émigré"

Sebald's vision / by Jacobs, Carol

Table of Contents: “…Preface: "Sebald's vision" -- Acknowledgments -- "Like the snow on the Alps": After Nature -- What does it mean to count?: The Emigrants -- Frames and excursions: Rings of Saturn -- Toward an epistemology of citation: "Air war and literature" -- A is for Austerlitz: Austerlitz -- Déjà vu or ... : "Like day and night": on the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp" -- A critical eye: the interviews.…”
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Distorted mirrors Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the twentieth century / by Davis, Donald E., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Russia -- "Soviet Sam" and the émigrés -- The boys from Riga -- Assignment in Utopia -- Honeymooners -- Chums -- Mr. …”
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Sebald's vision / by Jacobs, Carol

Table of Contents: “…Preface: "Sebald's vision" -- Acknowledgments -- "Like the snow on the Alps": After Nature -- What does it mean to count?: The Emigrants -- Frames and excursions: Rings of Saturn -- Toward an epistemology of citation: "Air war and literature" -- A is for Austerlitz: Austerlitz -- Déjà vu or ... : "Like day and night": on the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp" -- A critical eye: the interviews.…”
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Looking forward comparative perspectives on Cuba's transition /

Table of Contents: “…Pérez-López -- Social policy and social welfare / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Escaping the corruption curse / Daniel P. Erikson -- The émigré community and Cuba's future / Lisandro Pérez -- Ideology, culture, and memory : symbolic dilemmas of the Cuban transition / Rafael Rojas -- Cuba's future relations with the United States / William M. …”
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Looking forward comparative perspectives on Cuba's transition /

Table of Contents: “…Pérez-López -- Social policy and social welfare / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Escaping the corruption curse / Daniel P. Erikson -- The émigré community and Cuba's future / Lisandro Pérez -- Ideology, culture, and memory : symbolic dilemmas of the Cuban transition / Rafael Rojas -- Cuba's future relations with the United States / William M. …”
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On the ideological front the Russian intelligentsia and the making of the Soviet public sphere / by Finkel, Stuart, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The Russian intelligentsia and the Bolsheviks at the end of the civil war -- Bolsheviks and professors : the struggle over university autonomy -- Exposing the caste spirit in professional and scientific organizations -- Cultural, literary, philosophical, and spiritual societies -- Publishing, censorship, and ideological struggles -- The deportations, part I : precedents and planning -- The deportations, part II : arrest, negotiation, and expulsion -- Epilogue : the deportees in emigration -- Conclusion : the intelligentsia in Soviet Russia.…”
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Memories of absence how Muslims remember Jews in Morocco / by Boum, Aomar

Table of Contents: “…Writing the periphery : colonial narratives of Moroccan Jewish hinterlands -- Outside the mellah : market, law, and Muslim-Jewish encounters -- Inside the mellah : education and the creation of a Saharan Jewish center -- "Little Jerusalems" without Jews : Muslim memories of Jewish anxieties and emigration -- Shadow citizens : Jews in independent Morocco -- Between hearsay, jokes, and the Internet : youth debate Jewish Morocco.…”
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On the ideological front the Russian intelligentsia and the making of the Soviet public sphere / by Finkel, Stuart, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The Russian intelligentsia and the Bolsheviks at the end of the civil war -- Bolsheviks and professors : the struggle over university autonomy -- Exposing the caste spirit in professional and scientific organizations -- Cultural, literary, philosophical, and spiritual societies -- Publishing, censorship, and ideological struggles -- The deportations, part I : precedents and planning -- The deportations, part II : arrest, negotiation, and expulsion -- Epilogue : the deportees in emigration -- Conclusion : the intelligentsia in Soviet Russia.…”
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Memories of absence how Muslims remember Jews in Morocco / by Boum, Aomar

Table of Contents: “…Writing the periphery : colonial narratives of Moroccan Jewish hinterlands -- Outside the mellah : market, law, and Muslim-Jewish encounters -- Inside the mellah : education and the creation of a Saharan Jewish center -- "Little Jerusalems" without Jews : Muslim memories of Jewish anxieties and emigration -- Shadow citizens : Jews in independent Morocco -- Between hearsay, jokes, and the Internet : youth debate Jewish Morocco.…”
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Welsh Americans a history of assimilation in the coalfields / by Lewis, Ronald L., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Emigration, immigration -- Superintendents, networks, and Welsh settlement patterns -- Community, republicanism, and social mobility -- Welsh American cultural institutions -- Professional inspectors for a disaster-prone industry -- Ethnic conflict : the Welsh and Irish in anthracite country -- The Slav "invasion" and the Welsh "exodus" -- Welsh American union leadership -- From Nantymoel to Hollywood : the incredible journey of Mary Thomas -- Epilogue: Americanization and Welsh identity.…”
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Welsh Americans a history of assimilation in the coalfields / by Lewis, Ronald L., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Emigration, immigration -- Superintendents, networks, and Welsh settlement patterns -- Community, republicanism, and social mobility -- Welsh American cultural institutions -- Professional inspectors for a disaster-prone industry -- Ethnic conflict : the Welsh and Irish in anthracite country -- The Slav "invasion" and the Welsh "exodus" -- Welsh American union leadership -- From Nantymoel to Hollywood : the incredible journey of Mary Thomas -- Epilogue: Americanization and Welsh identity.…”
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Over the Rim the Parley P. Pratt exploring expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Lev Shestov existential philosopher and religious thinker / by Finkenthal, Michael, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The portrait of the philosopher as a young man -- Beginnings without ends: the Russian background -- Penultimate words -- Sola fide -- Before the emigration: all things are (still) possible -- In Job's balances: Shestov in Paris -- Shestov in Paris II: "out of the bull of Phalaris" -- Encounters with Judaism -- The last writings: between Athens and Jerusalem -- Benjamin Fondane, the disciple -- Instead of a conclusion: scattered thoughts about Lev Shestov.…”
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Over the Rim the Parley P. Pratt exploring expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Lev Shestov existential philosopher and religious thinker / by Finkenthal, Michael, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The portrait of the philosopher as a young man -- Beginnings without ends: the Russian background -- Penultimate words -- Sola fide -- Before the emigration: all things are (still) possible -- In Job's balances: Shestov in Paris -- Shestov in Paris II: "out of the bull of Phalaris" -- Encounters with Judaism -- The last writings: between Athens and Jerusalem -- Benjamin Fondane, the disciple -- Instead of a conclusion: scattered thoughts about Lev Shestov.…”
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Over The Rim /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Over The Rim /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Screening integration recasting Maghrebi immigration in contemporary France /

Table of Contents: “…Home, Displacement, and the Myth of Return in Recent Journey Films by Maghrebi-French and North African Émigré Directors / Will Higbee -- Turning Integration Inside Out: How Johnny the Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the Arab Grocer in Il était une fois dans l'oued / Hakim Abderrezak -- Re-Visions of the Algerian War of Independence: Writing the Memories of Algerian Immigrants into French Cinema / Sylvie Durmelat -- Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes: Political or Ethical Event of Memory? …”
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Screening integration recasting Maghrebi immigration in contemporary France /

Table of Contents: “…Home, Displacement, and the Myth of Return in Recent Journey Films by Maghrebi-French and North African Émigré Directors / Will Higbee -- Turning Integration Inside Out: How Johnny the Frenchman Became Abdel Bachir the Arab Grocer in Il était une fois dans l'oued / Hakim Abderrezak -- Re-Visions of the Algerian War of Independence: Writing the Memories of Algerian Immigrants into French Cinema / Sylvie Durmelat -- Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes: Political or Ethical Event of Memory? …”
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Claiming Exodus a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 / by Thomas, Rhondda Robinson

Table of Contents: “…Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800 -- Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840 -- Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861 -- Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877 -- African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900 -- Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903.…”
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