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Author: David Winston Heron Publisher: ISBN: Category : Authors, American Languages : en Pages : 144
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Night Landing is a chronicle of the underbelly of trade along the Pacific coastline. It covers the tales of smuggling from the early days of exploration and the settling of the West to the present, with stories right out of today's headlines. It features a gallery of criminals, some ingenious, all over-optimistic, and their eventual apprehension, through underestimating the hazards of trading illegally in drugs, people, freon, AK-47s, sea otters, and diamonds. -- Only book of its kind, covering West Coast smuggling
Author: David Winston Heron Publisher: ISBN: Category : Authors, American Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
Night Landing is a chronicle of the underbelly of trade along the Pacific coastline. It covers the tales of smuggling from the early days of exploration and the settling of the West to the present, with stories right out of today's headlines. It features a gallery of criminals, some ingenious, all over-optimistic, and their eventual apprehension, through underestimating the hazards of trading illegally in drugs, people, freon, AK-47s, sea otters, and diamonds. -- Only book of its kind, covering West Coast smuggling
Author: Charles Moore Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781020334399 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The definitive history of the state of Michigan, from its early settlement by Native Americans to the end of the 19th century. Written by historian Charles Moore, this book covers all the major events and figures in Michigan's history, including the French explorers, the British occupation, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. With a wealth of archival material and personal anecdotes, this book is an engaging and informative read for anyone interested in Michigan history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Simon Schaffer Publisher: Science History Publications/USA ISBN: 9780881353747 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 566
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Collection of essays focusing on the roles of intermediaries such as brokers and spies, messengers and translators, missionaries and entrepreneurs, in linking different parts of the ever more densely entangled systems of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in the development of global scientific, commercial and political systems. The period 1770-1820 was decisive for the reformation of imperial projects in the wake of military catastrophe and politico-economic crisis, both in the Atlantic and the Asian/Pacific spheres -- economic and political worlds dominated by complex trade systems and violent contest. This conjuncture also saw the overhaul of networks and institutions of natural knowledge, whether commercial, voluntary or organs of state. Both the industrial and the second scientific revolutions have been dated to this moment. New and decisive relations were forged between different cultures' knowledge carriers. The authors consider knowledge movements of the epoch that escape simple models of metropolitan centre and remote colonial periphery. They question the immutable character of mediators and agents in knowledge communication.
Author: Robé, Chris Publisher: PM Press ISBN: 1629633313 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 666
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Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Two predominant trends emerge from this social movement-based video activism: 1) anarchist-inflected processes increasingly structure its production, distribution, and exhibition practices; and 2) video does not simply represent collective actions and events, but also serves as a form of activist practice in and of itself from the moment of recording to its later distribution and exhibition. Video plays an increasingly important role among activists in the growing global resistance against neoliberal capitalism. As various radical theorists have pointed out, subjectivity itself becomes a key terrain of struggle as capitalism increasingly structures and mines it through social media sites, cell phone technology, and new “flexible” work and living patterns. As a result, alternative media production becomes a central location where new collective forms of subjectivity can be created to challenge aspects of neoliberalism. Chris Robé’s book fills in historical gaps by bringing to light unexplored video activist groups like the Cascadia Forest Defenders, eco-video activists from Eugene, Oregon; Mobile Voices, Latino day laborers harnessing cell phone technology to combat racism and police harassment in Los Angeles; and Outta Your Backpack Media, indigenous youth from the Southwest who use video to celebrate their culture and fight against marginalization. This groundbreaking study also deepens our understanding of more well-researched movements like AIDS video activism, Paper Tiger Television, and Indymedia by situating them within a longer history and wider context of radical video activism.
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