Автор: St-denis, Guy Название: True face of sir isaac brock ISBN: 1773850202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781773850207 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In the more than two centuries since then, Brock's likeness has been lost in a confusing array of portraits-most of which are misidentified or conceptual. The 1824 monument constructed to honour Brock's sacrifice was destroyed in 1840 by Benjamin Lett, a disgruntled disciple of William Lyon Mackenzie and critic of the Upper Canadian elite. The replacement and subsequent commemorations emphasized a patriotic desire to visualize the hero's appearance. But despite uncovering an authentic portrait painted only a few years before Brock's death, a series of false faces were promoted to serve competing claims and agendas. St-Denis situates Brock's portraits within an emerging English Canadian imperial nationalism that sought a heroic past which reflected their own aspirations and ambitions. A work of detailed scholarship and a fascinating detective story, The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock details the sometimes petty world of self-proclaimed guardians of the past, the complex process of identification and misidentification that often occurs even at esteemed Canadian institutions, and St-Denis' own meticulous work as he separates fact from fiction to finally reveal Brock's true face.
Автор: Mimi Thi Nguyen Название: The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages ISBN: 0822352222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822352228 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 97240.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress, Nguyen proposes "the gift of freedom" as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actions—such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war—in an age of liberal empire. From the Cold War to the global war on terror, the United States simultaneously promises the gift of freedom through war and violence and administers the debt that follows. Focusing here on the figure of the Vietnamese refugee as the twice-over target of the gift of freedom—first through war, second through refuge—Nguyen suggests that the imposition of debt precludes the subjects of freedom from escaping those colonial histories that deemed them "unfree." To receive the gift of freedom then is to be indebted to empire, perhaps without end.
Автор: Edds Margaret Название: We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow ISBN: 0813942640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813942643 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle. In We Face the Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping story of how the South's most significant grassroots legal team challenged the barriers of racial segregation in mid-century America.Virginians Oliver Hill and Spottswood Robinson initiated and argued one of the five cases that combined into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, but their influence extends far beyond that momentous ruling. They were part of a small brotherhood, headed by social-justice pioneer Thurgood Marshall and united largely through the Howard Law School, who conceived and executed the NAACP's assault on racial segregation in education, transportation, housing, and voting. Hill and Robinson's work served as a model for southern states and an essential underpinning for Brown. When the Virginia General Assembly retaliated with laws designed to disbar the two lawyers and discredit the NAACP, they defiantly carried the fight to the United States Supreme Court and won.At a time when numerous schools have resegregated and the prospects of many minority children appear bleak, Hill and Robinson's remarkably effective campaign against various forms of racial segregation can inspire a new generation to embrace educational opportunity as the birthright of every American child.
Автор: Sandoval Edgar Название: The New Face of Small-Town America: Snapshots of Latino Life in Allentown, Pennsylvania ISBN: 0271060824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271060828 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A collection of essays on the experiences of Latino immigrants in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Автор: Mimi Thi Nguyen Название: The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages ISBN: 0822352397 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822352396 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 25150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress, Nguyen proposes "the gift of freedom" as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actions—such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war—in an age of liberal empire. From the Cold War to the global war on terror, the United States simultaneously promises the gift of freedom through war and violence and administers the debt that follows. Focusing here on the figure of the Vietnamese refugee as the twice-over target of the gift of freedom—first through war, second through refuge—Nguyen suggests that the imposition of debt precludes the subjects of freedom from escaping those colonial histories that deemed them "unfree." To receive the gift of freedom then is to be indebted to empire, perhaps without end.
Автор: Severine Antigone Marin Название: L`apprentissage de la mondialisation: Les milieux economiques allemands face a la reussite americaine (1876–1914) ISBN: 9052018537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789052018539 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 58080.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Cet ouvrage a re u le Prix Maurice Baumont, d cern par l'Acad mie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. Pour comprendre pourquoi l' conomie allemande a particuli rement r ussi son insertion dans la premi re mondialisation, cet ouvrage examine les conditions pratiques de ce processus. Il prend en compte l'extr me diversit des milieux conomiques, depuis les grandes firmes comme Bayer jusqu'aux petites entreprises tent es par l'aventure de l'exportation, en passant par les universitaires, les publicistes et les fonctionnaires de l'administration du Reich. partir du cas am ricain, un march lointain mais apparemment familier par ses normes comme par ses liens avec l'Allemagne, ce livre met en vidence les techniques empiriques, tenant parfois du bricolage, auxquelles se livr rent ces diff rents acteurs afin de rassembler et d'utiliser l'information conomique dont ils avaient besoin pour conqu rir de nouveaux march s. Il montre que la mondialisation implique, d s cette poque, de voir dans chaque pays industrialis non seulement un march , mais aussi un concurrent. Au-del de son utilisation commerciale, l'information conomique a galement servi construire des mod les trangers th oriques, fruits pour une part de d bats transnationaux, mais transform s en instruments au service de controverses nationales. Le livre tablit ainsi que, loin de se r duire un d bat sur l'am ricanisation, l'utilisation de l'argument am ricain au tournant du XXe si cle s'inscrit dans une multiplication, pour tous les secteurs conomiques, des r f rences trang res destin es in fine affirmer une sp cificit allemande.
Название: The Face of Struggle: An Allegory Without Words ISBN: 1849353778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849353779 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Usingthe time-honored technique of the wordless graphic novel as developed by Franz Masereel and Lynd Ward, this book is an allegorical take on our current age strongman politics, a worldwide nightmare in which thugs like Trump herald the possible rise of a new, modern form of fascism. In a series of thirty-seven striking two-color images, Tobocman traces the dynamics of political discontent and struggle, including how right-wing politicians like Donald Trump co-opt and redirect mass frustration and anger in ways that strengthen the very forces that cause discontent in the first place.
Автор: Mary McCormick Maaga Название: Hearing the Voices of Jonestown: Putting a Human Face on an American Tragedy ISBN: 0815611226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815611226 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown restores the individual voices that have been erased so that we can better understand what was created - and destroyed - at Jonestown, and why.
Автор: Margaret Edds Название: We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow ISBN: 0813940443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813940441 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals. In We Face the Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping story of how the South`s most significant grassroots legal team challenged the barriers to racial segregation in mid-century America.
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