Author: Allan CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Lord Roldan
Author: Allan CunninghamLord Roldan. A Romance
Author: Allan CunninghamPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368761528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
The Young Lords
Author: Johanna FernándezPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising socialist vision for a new society, skillful ability to link local problems to international crises, and uncompromising vision for a new society riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and black power protest. The group called itself the Young Lords. Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police surveillance files released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law request and subsequent court battle, Johanna Fernandez has written the definitive account of the Young Lords, from their roots as a Chicago street gang to their rise and fall as a political organization in New York. Led by poor and working-class Puerto Rican youth, and consciously fashioned after the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords occupied a hospital, blocked traffic with uncollected garbage, took over a church, tested children for lead poisoning, defended prisoners, fought the military police, and fed breakfast to poor children. Their imaginative, irreverent protests and media conscious tactics won reforms, popularized socialism in the United States and exposed U.S. mainland audiences to the country's quiet imperial project in Puerto Rico. Fernandez challenges what we think we know about the sixties. She shows that movement organizers were concerned with finding solutions to problems as pedestrian as garbage collection and the removal of lead paint from tenement walls; gentrification; lack of access to medical care; childcare for working mothers; and the warehousing of people who could not be employed in deindustrialized cities. The Young Lords' politics and preoccupations, especially those concerning the rise of permanent unemployment foretold the end of the American Dream. In riveting style, Fernandez demonstrates how the Young Lords redefined the character of protest, the color of politics, and the cadence of popular urban culture in the age of great dreams.
Fortune and Fate
Author: Erran T. GalePublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480970565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Fortune and Fate: Prophesy By Erran T. Gale The world is young, so much so that the Southlands have yet to be united as a country or even to be ruled under a single power. This young land is known for the gift of magic and the few mages who wield its power. In the shadows of this land exist mysterious, phantom-like creatures known simply as the darkborn. They are believed to be linked to ill intent and corruption and, in one of the many small villages of this land, two boys, as different as night and day, are born. At the start of their seventh year, a seer looks into their futures and predicts that one boy will grow into a hero of great power who will save the world from a horrible fate and, while the other will also grow in power, his actions will bring destruction to this world. In spite of this prediction, the two boys become the best of friends and decide to change fate and prevent the ruin that is to come, not just for the sake of the world, but also to prove that no one is destined to be evil.
The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register
Author: New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register
Author: Thomas CampbellNew Monthly Magazine and Humorist
Author: The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: George Flavel DanforthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
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