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The Big House
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Author : George Howe Colt
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-08-07
The Big House written by George Howe Colt and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
The Big House And The Little House
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Author : Yoshi Ueno
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2021-03-09
The Big House And The Little House written by Yoshi Ueno and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Little Mouse and Big Bear live on opposite ends of the same road, and they both would like a friend. But every morning, Little Mouse and Big Bear pass by each other, unnoticed. Until one day, their eyes meet! It's a little awkward at firs—as most new friendships can be—but soon enough they're sipping warm tea together in Big Bear's cozy home, and making plans to meet again the following Sunday. When a nasty storm blows into town will it wreck everything they've built? This tale of friendship and bravery will warm your heart like a cookie and a warm drink shared with a friend.
Back Of The Big House
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Author : John Michael Vlach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Back Of The Big House written by John Michael Vlach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
The Big House
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Author : Stephen D. Cox
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-11-03
The Big House written by Stephen D. Cox and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-03 with Social Science categories.
""The Big House" is America's idea of the prison - a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison - its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself - and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them : problems of control and discipline, mainenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the "Big House" has attained in America's understanding of itself"--Jacket.
Big House On The Prairie
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Author : John M. Eason
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-06
Big House On The Prairie written by John M. Eason and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-06 with Social Science categories.
Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."
The Not So Big House
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Author : Sarah Susanka
language : en
Publisher: Taunton Press
Release Date : 2001
The Not So Big House written by Sarah Susanka and has been published by Taunton Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture, Domestic categories.
Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
A Season In The Big House
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Author : George Cantor
language : en
Publisher: Triumph Books
Release Date : 2006-09
A Season In The Big House written by George Cantor and has been published by Triumph Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
"A Season in the Big House: An Unscripted Insider Look at the Marvel of Michigan Football" by George Cantor chronicles the 2005 season while offering exclusive perspectives from fans, head coach Lloyd Carr and a writer who has written about Michigan for four decades.
Masters Of The Big House
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Author : William Kauffman Scarborough
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2006-04-01
Masters Of The Big House written by William Kauffman Scarborough and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-01 with History categories.
William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.
The Big House After Slavery
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Author : Amy Feely Morsman
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2010-09-13
The Big House After Slavery written by Amy Feely Morsman and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-13 with Business & Economics categories.
Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.
The Big House In A Small Town
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Author : Eric J. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-03-03
The Big House In A Small Town written by Eric J. Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Social Science categories.
This work is an in-depth, on-the-ground examination of how prisons impact rural communities, including a revealing study of two rural communities that have chosen prisons as an economic development strategy. A recent study by the Urban Institute estimates that one-third of all counties in the United States house a prison, and that our prison and jail population is now over 2.1 million. Another report indicates that more than 97 percent of all U.S. prisoners are eventually released, and communities are absorbing nearly 650,000 formerly incarcerated individuals each year. These figures are particularly alarming considering the fact that rural communities are using prisons as economic development vehicles without fully understanding the effects of these jails on the area. This book is the result of author Eric J. Williams' ground-level research about the effects of prisons upon two rural American communities that lobbied to host maximum security prisons. Through hundreds of interviews conducted while living in Florence, Colorado, and Beeville, Texas, Williams offers the perspective of local residents on all sides of the issue, as well as a social history told mainly from the standpoint of those who lobbied for the prisons.