Author: United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Outdoor Recreation for America
Author: United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Other People's Children
Author: Lisa D. DelpitPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595580743
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An updated edition of the award-winning analysis of the role of race in the classroom features a new author introduction and framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne, in an account that shares ideas about how teachers can function as "cultural transmitters" in contemporary schools and communicate more effectively to overcome race-related academic challenges. Original.
Raw Materials and Exchange in the Mid-South
Author: John Howard BlitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Archaeology as Political Action
Author: Randall H. McGuirePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
“It is rare to read an archaeological book that has the capacity to inspire, as this one has.”—Mark P. Leone, author of The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital “Archaeology as Political Action is a highly original work that will be important for archaeologists and others concerned with processes of social change in the world today and, more importantly, with making a difference.”—Thomas C. Patterson, coeditor of Foundations of Social Archaeology “This powerful statement by a leading archaeological thinker has profound implications for rigorous archaeological interpretation, community collaboration, and political intervention.”—Stephen W. Silliman, coeditor of Historical Archaeology
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, Illinois-Iowa-Nebraska-Wyoming-Utah
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Freedom Colonies
Author: Thad SittonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292706421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed land that had been deemed too poor for farming and turned them into successful family farms. In these self-sufficient rural communities, often known as "freedom colonies," African Americans created a refuge from the discrimination and violence that routinely limited the opportunities of blacks in the Jim Crow South. Freedom Colonies is the first book to tell the story of these independent African American settlements. Thad Sitton and James Conrad focus on communities in Texas, where blacks achieved a higher percentage of land ownership than in any other state of the Deep South. The authors draw on a vast reservoir of ex-slave narratives, oral histories, written memoirs, and public records to describe how the freedom colonies formed and to recreate the lifeways of African Americans who made their living by farming or in skilled trades such as milling and blacksmithing. They also uncover the forces that led to the decline of the communities from the 1930s onward, including economic hard times and the greed of whites who found legal and illegal means of taking black-owned land. And they visit some of the remaining communities to discover how their independent way of life endures into the twenty-first century.
Reservoir Fish Habitat Management
Author: Leandro MirandaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692798720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
To Life!
Author: Linda WeintraubPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520273613
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.
Geothermal Direct Use Engineering and Design Guidebook
Author: Paul J. LienauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geothermal engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Author: Texas