Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Calendar of State Papers
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
Proceedings of the American Electric Railway Association
Author: American Electric Railway AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
Author: Alastair HamiltonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231089043
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
American Illustrated Magazine
Author: Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
The Blind Man and the Loon
Author: Craig MishlerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496210107
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great Basin and the Great Plains. As the story has traveled through cultures and ecosystems over many centuries, individual storytellers have added cultural and local ecological details to the tale, creating countless variations. In The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale, folklorist Craig Mishler goes back to 1827, tracing the story's emergence across Greenland and North America in manuscripts, books, and in the visual arts and other media such as film, music, and dance theater. Examining and comparing the story's variants and permutations across cultures in detail, Mishler brings the individual storyteller into his analysis of how the tale changed over time, considering how storytellers and the oral tradition function within various societies. Two maps unequivocally demonstrate the routes the story has traveled. The result is a masterful compilation and analysis of Native oral traditions that sheds light on how folktales spread and are adapted by widely diverse cultures.
American Magazine
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The Naval Chronicle
Author: James Stanier ClarkePublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men.
Invisible Giants
Author: Herbert H. HarwoodPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253110602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A comprehensive biography of the rise of the famous railroad barons who developed Shaker Heights, Ohio. Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country’s largest railroad system—a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country’s first coast-to-coast rail system—a goal that still eludes us. They created the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, with its unique rapid transit access. They built Cleveland’s landmark Terminal Tower and its innovative “city within a city” complex. Indisputably, they created modern Cleveland. Yet beyond a small, closely knit circle, the bachelor Van Sweringen brothers were enigmas. Their actions were aggressive, creative, and bold, but their manner was modest, mild, and retiring. Dismissed by many as mere shoestring financial manipulators, they created enduring works, which remain strong today. The Van Sweringen story begins in early-twentieth-century Cleveland suburban real estate and reaches its zenith in the heady late 1920s, amid the turmoil of national transportation power politics and unprecedented empire-building. As the Great Depression destroyed many of their fellow financiers, the “Vans” survived through imaginative stubbornness—until tragedy ended their careers almost simultaneously. Invisible Giants is the first comprehensive biography of these two remarkable if mysterious men.