Settlers In Depression
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Settlers In Depression
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Author : H. C. M. Norris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Settlers In Depression written by H. C. M. Norris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Coromandel (N.Z.) categories.
This is the story of a small New Zealand town over a period of twenty years. The story ends nearly seventy years ago. Though some of the events are within the memory of those still living, it seems indeed a remote age to the nineteen-sixties. At the beginning of the period there was no railway and scarcely any roads. The few roads were mud tracks with gorse towering above them. All goods came by river-steamer, and a coach, with relays of horses at wayside pubs, carried travellers. The military settlers of 1864 (thirteen hundred odd including men, women, and children) shrank at one time to 666. Those who had enough money to go away mostly went. The fifty-acre military allotments sometimes provided a resourceful family with food. Not one was enough in those days to provide a living. But some few, coming later and with a little capital, managed to presist, mostly as sheep farmers. The period shows the first attempts to start a dairy industry, and the persistence of a few enquiring minds who felt that somehow the proper way of getting the best out of Waikato land had still to be found. Gradually roads and bridges were made and life improved a little for the inhabitants towards the end of the period. But it was a period of poverty in which parents were able to offer their children often an education inferior to their own, and afterwards very few prospects of a career. Here is also the story of the Waikato Maoris mostly in exile behind the confiscation line. It tells the story of gradually improving race relations, the occasional visits of the King Maoris to the village of Alexandra (Pirongia) just over the border and finally the ceremonial laying down of arms by the Maori King Tawhaio in 1881 when he said "it means peace". It was a day of rejoicing at Pirongia ending with a touch of the absurd when Tawhaio was introduced to the telephone and heard the Postmaster at Hamilton greet him by singing a song over the wire. Such junketings did not of course mean the passing of Maori grievances. Maroi resentment at the confiscation of the whole Waikato valley not unnatrually continued - indeed still continues. Mr. Norris has told in detail the story of Hamilton and brought to life the impoverished community of eighty years ago, the towns people's efforts at tree planting, at running a hospital an agricultural show and a library. The town's first football team in the eighties was able to take Auckland on, and though defeated gave the big city a good game. Clearly life was hard, but also there was some resilience. It was a small community in which ankruptcies were common but which, when there was need (as there was when a very worrthy citizen died leaving a widow and young children) could raise the modern equivalent of a thousand pounds.
The Settlers Empire
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Author : Bethel Saler
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015
The Settlers Empire written by Bethel Saler and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion, argues author Bethel Saler, the United States simultaneously became a postcolonial republic and gained a domestic empire. The competing demands of governing an empire and a republic inevitably collided in the early American West. The Settlers' Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory, a process that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. These entwined administrations involved both formal institution building and the articulation of dominant cultural customs that, in turn, served also to establish boundaries of citizenship and racial difference. In the Northwest Territory, diverse populations of newcomers and Natives struggled over the region's geographical and cultural definition in areas such as religion, marriage, family, gender roles, and economy. The success or failure of state formation in the territory thus ultimately depended on what took place not only in the halls of government but also on the ground and in the everyday lives of the region's Indians, Francophone creoles, Euro- and African Americans, and European immigrants. In this way, The Settlers' Empire speaks to historians of women, gender, and culture, as well as to those interested in the early national state, the early West, settler colonialism, and Native history.
Finnish Settler Colonialism In North America
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Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson
language : en
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-29
Finnish Settler Colonialism In North America written by Rani-Henrik Andersson and has been published by Helsinki University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-29 with Social Science categories.
Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. Rather than merely exploring whether the idea of Finns as a different kind of immigrant is a myth, this book challenges it in many ways. It offers an analysis of the ways in which this myth manifests itself, why it has been upheld to this day, and most importantly how it contributes to settler colonialism in North America and beyond. The authors in this volume apply multidisciplinary perspectives in revealing the various levels of Finnish involvement in settler colonialism. In their chapters, authors seek to understand the experiences and representations of Finns in North American spatial projects, in territorial expansion and integration, and visions of power. They do so by analyzing how Finns reinvented their identities and acted as settlers, participated in the production of settler colonial narratives, as well as benefitted and took advantage of settler colonial structures. Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America aims to challenge traditional histories of Finnish migration, in which Finns have typically been viewed almost in isolation from the broader American context, not to mention colonialism. The book examines the diversity of roles, experiences, and narrations of and by Finns in the histories of North America by employing the settler colonial analytical framework.
The Worst Hard Time
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Author : Timothy Egan
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2006-09-01
The Worst Hard Time written by Timothy Egan and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with History categories.
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. This e-book includes a sample chapter of THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN.
Unwanted Mexican Americans In The Great Depression
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Author : Abraham Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: VNR AG
Release Date : 1974
Unwanted Mexican Americans In The Great Depression written by Abraham Hoffman and has been published by VNR AG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Mexican Americans categories.
South Korea In Transition
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Author : Kyung-Sup Chang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
South Korea In Transition written by Kyung-Sup Chang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
South Korea has continued to impress the world in the way it has harnessed social modernization, economic development, political democratization and, most recently, multi-faceted globalization. Relying on both established and inventive citizenship perspectives, the authors in this volume collectively show that all these diverse societal transformations and achievements can be concretely and systematically comprehended in conjunction with citizens reshaping identities, rights, and duties in civil society and national polity. South Koreans eye-catching traits and trends of educational zeal, economic development, civil activism, nationalism, and neoliberal globalization are analyzed here as diverse yet often interconnected manifestations of citizenship politics. As shown comprehensively in this volume, the necessity of such citizenship-focused analyses is particularly evident in recent years as South Korea has been undergoing a condensed transition from class politics to citizenship politics.This book is a highly inclusive yet incisive account of modern and late modern Korea, utilizing citizenship as a powerful theoretical and analytical tool. Such judicious theoretical and analytical use of citizenship in respect to modern Korean history and society will in turn enable a meaningful expansion of theoretical and methodological utility of citizenship in contemporary global social sciences.This book was based on a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
Settlers
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Author : Jock Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Settlers written by Jock Phillips and has been published by Auckland University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.
Who were our Pakeha ancestors? Did our forefathers and mothers come from particular areas of Britain, did they tend to be rural or city folk, were they Catholics or Protestants, farmers or factory workers? Drawing on a major analysis of death registers and shipping records as well as hundreds of biographical accounts of individuals and families, Settlers gives the first comprehensive account of the origins of Pakeha New Zealanders. Phillips and Hearn use individual examples of immigrants and their families, vividly depicted in the numerous illustrations, and show that these settlers were a distinctive group. They were predominantly rural dwellers practising pre-industrial crafts, Low-Church Protestants and as often of Celtic as Anglo-Saxon heritage. They added elements of their diverse cultures to the new land - from Cornwall's meat pies to Scotland's country shows - and their shared characteristics shaped New Zealand's culture and history, from the movement for temperance and women's suffrage to New Zealanders' enthusiasm for the outdoors. Settlers makes a significant contribution to understanding the origins of Pakeha New Zealand.
Geography Urbanisation And Settlement Patterns In The Roman Near East
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Author : Henry Innes MacAdam
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Geography Urbanisation And Settlement Patterns In The Roman Near East written by Henry Innes MacAdam and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with History categories.
This title was first published in 2002: This volume focuses on the Roman provinces of Syria and Arabia, above all the lands now within Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The first articles look at questions of geography, cartography and toponymy, particularly in Strabo, Pliny and Ptolemy. The following sections are concerned with settlement patterns and urban development in the region. In the Roman and early Byzantine periods, the inland areas underwent a gradual transformation, from a semi-sedentary, lightly populated and predominantly rural region, to one of large cities and a network of prosperous, socially sophisticated villages, linked by a network of roads. That change is documented by a wealth of epigraphy from both the urban communities and their outlying settlements (the subject of several articles). By the 4th century, too, Christianity had become the dominant religion and remained such until the arrival of Islam.
Economic Aspects Of Land Settlement In The Cut Over Region Of The Great Lakes States
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Author : W. A. Hartman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
Economic Aspects Of Land Settlement In The Cut Over Region Of The Great Lakes States written by W. A. Hartman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with Agriculture categories.
Sojourners And Settlers
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Author : Lillian Petroff
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Sojourners And Settlers written by Lillian Petroff and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with History categories.
Macedonians started immigrating to Canada in the late 1800s, yet the community has never had its history recorded - until now. Lillian Petroff, in her book Sojourners and Settlers, has remedied that omission in an informative and enjoyable manner. She charts the settlement patterns, living and working conditions, religious life, and political activity of Macedonians in Toronto from the early twentieth century to the Second World War. The first Macedonians who came to Toronto lived an almost isolated existence in a distinct set of neighbourhoods that were centred around their church, stores, and boarding houses. They moved with little awareness of the city-at-large since the needs of their families in the old country and political events in their homeland were much more important to them than developments in Toronto and Canada. A greater interest in Canada began to take root only after Macedonians began to think less like sojourners and more like settlers. This transition was often accompanied by a move from bachelorhood to marriage and from industrial labour to individual entrepreneurial activities. Employing a wealth of primary written and oral source material, Petroff tells the remarkable story of the men and women who laid the foundation for what would become a significant community in the Toronto area, which today represents the largest community of Macedonians outside the Balkans.