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The Story Of The Great Upheaval
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Author : Joseph Maillet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Story Of The Great Upheaval written by Joseph Maillet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Acadians categories.
The story of the Great Upheaval is a true account of a brave young orphan from Paris, France. At the age of thirteen, he enlisted in the French Army for duty in the wilderness outpost of Nova Scotia. He, along with 100 other young orphans, was stationed at Port Royal, now called Annapolis Royal. Soon after their arrival, the fort was attacked by English and Colonial solders and fell into their hands. He escaped being deported back to France and lived with the Hebert Family ...
The Great Upheaval
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Author : Arthur Levine
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-09-14
The Great Upheaval written by Arthur Levine and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Education categories.
"In forecasting the future of higher education in the United States, the authors conduct a 360-degree survey that looks backward, forward, and sideways to explore how other business sectors have weathered seismic transformations"--
The Great Upheaval
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Author : Jay Winik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Great Upheaval written by Jay Winik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with France categories.
The Great Upheaval
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Author : Jay Winik
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
The Great Upheaval written by Jay Winik and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with History categories.
In The Great Upheaval, New York Times bestselling author Jay Winik reveals the events of the historic decade that birthed the modern world. It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization. A sweeping, magisterial drama featuring the richest cast of characters ever to walk upon the world stage, including Washington, Jefferson, Louis XVI, Robespierre, and Catherine the Great, The Great Upheaval is a gripping, epic portrait of this tumultuous decade that will forever transform the way we see America’s beginnings and our world. “Buttressed by impeccable research, vividly narrated and deftly organized, this is popular history of the highest order.” —Publishers Weekly
The Great Upheaval
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Author : Judith A. Byfield
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-09
The Great Upheaval written by Judith A. Byfield and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-09 with History categories.
This social and intellectual history of women’s political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigeria’s colonial past and independent future. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’s Union and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, the Nigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became central to a new political vision, a way for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making that not only tells a story of women’s postwar activism but also grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the “upheaval.” Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in Nigeria’s postwar period and illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism. She thus offers new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ultimately, she challenges readers to problematize the collapse of her female subjects' greatest aspiration, universal franchise, when the country achieved independence in 1960.
Upheaval
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Author : Jared Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2020-05-12
Upheaval written by Jared Diamond and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with History categories.
A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past? Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal book yet.
Upheaval In Charleston
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Author : Susan Millar Williams
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Upheaval In Charleston written by Susan Millar Williams and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with History categories.
History and suspense combine in this scholarly account of a city recovering from the Civil War and rocked by an earthquake and murder. On August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, sent shock waves as far north as Maine, down into Florida, and west to the Mississippi River. When the dust settled, residents of the old port city were devastated by the death and destruction. Upheaval in Charleston is a gripping account of natural disaster and turbulent social change in a city known as the cradle of secession. Weaving together the emotionally charged stories of Confederate veterans and former slaves, Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius portray a South where whites and blacks struggled to determine how to coexist a generation after the end of the Civil War. This is also the story of Francis Warrington Dawson, a British expatriate drawn to the South by the romance of the Confederacy. As editor of Charleston’s News and Courier, Dawson walked a lonely, dangerous path, risking his life and reputation to find common ground between the races. Hailed as a hero in the aftermath of the earthquake, Dawson was denounced by white supremacists and murdered less than three years after the disaster. His killer was acquitted after a sensational trial that unmasked Charleston’s underworld of decadence and corruption. Combining careful research with suspenseful storytelling, Upheaval in Charleston offers a vivid portrait of a volatile time and an anguished place. “Recommended for those who appreciate books on natural disasters, American history, and the secret goings-on of the political world.”—Library Journal
Upheaval
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Author : Chris Holbrook
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2009-09-11
Upheaval written by Chris Holbrook and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-11 with Fiction categories.
In 1995, Chris Holbrook burst onto the southern literary scene with Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia, stories that Robert Morgan described as "elegies for land and lives disappearing under mudslides from strip mines and new trailer parks and highways." Now, with the publication of Upheaval, Holbrook more than answers the promise of that auspicious debut. In eight interrelated stories set in Eastern Kentucky, Holbrook again captures a region and its people as they struggle in the face of poverty, isolation, change, and the devastation of land and resources at the hands of the coal and timber industries. In the title story, Haskell sees signs of disaster all around him, from the dangers inherent in the strip-mining machinery he and his coworkers operate to the accident waiting to happen when his son plays with a socket wrench. Holbrook employs a native's ear for dialect and turns of phrase to reveal his characters' complex interior lives. In "The Timber Deal," two brothers—Russell, a recovering addict recently released from prison, and Dwight, who hasn't worked since being injured in a coal truck accident—try to convince their upwardly mobile sister, Helen, to agree to lease out timber rights to the family land. Dwight is unable to communicate his feelings, even as he seethes with rage: "Helen can't see past herself, is what it is. If John James had fractured his back in two places, it'd be a different story. If he'd broke his neck, it'd be a different story told." Written with a gritty, unflinching realism reminiscent of the work of Larry Brown and Cormac McCarthy, the stories in Upheaval prove that Holbrook is not only a faithful chronicler and champion of Appalachia's working poor but also one of the most gifted writers of his generation.
Upheaval In The Quiet Zone
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Author : Leon Fink
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Upheaval In The Quiet Zone written by Leon Fink and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Business & Economics categories.
The Pullman Strike
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Author : Almont Lindsey
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1943-12-15
The Pullman Strike written by Almont Lindsey 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 1943-12-15 with History categories.
The Pullman Strike of 1894 threatened an entire nation with social and economic upheaval. Describing both its immediate results in business and its far-reaching effects on trade unionism, the author treats the dramatic story of the strike no as an isolated conflict, but as a culminating explosion in labor-capital relations. Woven into the narrative is the rise and decline of the extraordinary Pullman experiment. To all outward appearances a philanthropic project conceived by a generous employer for his employees, the "model town" of George Pullman developed into a kind of medieval barony, operated with an iron hand. This experiment is carefully traced in all its varying aspects, with emphasis on its contribution to the origin of the strike.