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Crossing Borders--confronting History

Author : Jerry L. Johnson
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761815365
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders--confronting History written by Jerry L. Johnson and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing Borders describes author Jerry Johnson's personal struggle to adjust to life in Armenia while he was there as a community development consultant from 1995-1997. More than a diary of events, it offers a simple model for successful intercultural adjustment that readers can apply in a variety of settings. It also provides a fascinating, detailed account of the living conditions in Armenia in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, the Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the historical tragedies that shape the Armenian collective consciousness. Furthermore, Johnson uses his personal experiences as a backdrop for a broader discussion of contemporary issues such as the lasting effects of the Cold War Era, anti-communist propaganda on America's role in the so-called New World Order, and the preparation of American relief and humanitarian aid workers. Accessible to a wide audience, Crossing Borders will be of great value to those interested in intercultural adjustment, developing cultural competence, foreign travel, or the aftermath of the cold war.

Crossing the Border

Author : Sharon A. Roger Hepburn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252047117
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Border written by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in Ontario In 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen once-enslaved people he had inherited founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on Ontario land set aside for sale to Blacks. Though initially opposed by some neighboring whites, Buxton grew into a 700-person agricultural community that supported three schools, four churches, a hotel, a lumber mill, and a post office. Sharon A. Roger Hepburn tells the story of the settlers from Buxton’s founding of through its first decades of existence. Buxton welcomed Black men, woman, and children from all backgrounds to live in a rural setting that offered benefits of urban life like social contact and collective security. Hepburn’s focus on social history takes readers inside the lives of the people who built Buxton and the hundreds of settlers drawn to the community by the chance to shape new lives in a country that had long represented freedom from enslavement.

Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries

Author : Barbara Couture
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607324032
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries written by Barbara Couture and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. The concept of “border” calls for attention, and the authors in this collection respond by describing it, challenging it, confounding it, and, at times, erasing it. Motivating us to see anew the many lines that unite, divide, and define us, the essays in this volume highlight how discourse at borders and boundaries can create or thwart conditions for establishing identity and admitting difference. Each chapter analyzes how public discourse at the site of physical or metaphorical borders presents or confounds these conditions and, consequently, effective participation—a key criterion for a modern democracy. The settings are various, encompassing vast public spaces such as cities and areas within them; the rhetorical spaces of history books, museum displays, activist events, and media outlets; and the intimate settings of community and classroom conversations. Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries shows how rich communication can be when diverse cultures intersect and create new opportunities for human connection, even while different populations, cultures, age groups, and political parties adopt irreconcilable positions. It will be of interest to scholars in rhetoric and literacy studies and students in rhetorical analysis and public discourse. Contributors include Andrea Alden, Cori Brewster, Robert Brooke, Randolph Cauthen, Jennifer Clifton, Barbara Couture, Vanessa Cozza, Anita C. Hernández, Roberta J. Herter, Judy Holiday, Elenore Long, José A. Montelongo, Karen P. Peirce, Jonathan P. Rossing, Susan A. Schiller, Christopher Schroeder, Tricia C. Serviss, Mónica Torres, Kathryn Valentine, Victor Villanueva, and Patti Wojahn.

Crossing Borders

Author : Claudia Lenz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Claudia Lenz and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Congregation-to-congregation Relationship

Author : Samuel Broomfield Reeves
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761828099
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Congregation-to-congregation Relationship written by Samuel Broomfield Reeves and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles a knowledge base of the cross-cultural congregation-to-congregation relationship of two local churches: Madison square Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the Providence Baptist Church in Monrovia, Liberia.

Crossing the Borders of Time

Author : Leslie Maitland
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590515706
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Borders of Time written by Leslie Maitland and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read through her tears the farewell letter that Roland had slipped in her pocket: “Whatever the length of our separation, our love will survive it, because it depends on us alone. I give you my vow that whatever the time we must wait, you will be my wife. Never forget, never doubt.” Five years later – her fierce desire to reunite with Roland first obstructed by war and then, in secret, by her father and brother – Janine would build a new life in New York with a dynamic American husband. That his obsession with Ayn Rand tormented their marriage was just one of the reasons she never ceased yearning to reclaim her lost love. Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mother’s accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist’s vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter’s pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.

Confronting History

Author : George L. Mosse
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299165833
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Confronting History written by George L. Mosse and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of this century's great historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century. Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century. This is a story told with the clarity, passion, and verve that entranced thousands of Mosse's students and that countless readers have found, and will continue to find, in his scholarly books. This book describes Mosse's opulent childhood in Weimar Berlin; his exile in Parts and England, including boarding school and study at Cambridge University; his second exile in the U.S. at Haverford, Harvard, Iowa, and Wisconsin; and his extended stays in London and Jerusalem. Mosse also deals with matters of personal identity. He discusses being a Jew and his attachment to Israel and Zionism. He addresses has gayness, his coming out, and his growing scholarly interest in issues of sexuality. This touching memoir, sometimes harrowing, often humorous, is guided in part by Mosse's belief that "what man is, only history tells," and by his constant themes of the fate of liberalism, the defining events that can bring about the generational political awakenings of youth (from the anti-fascism struggles of the 1930s to the campus anti-war movement of the 1960s, the meanings of masculinity and racial and sexual stereotypes, the enigma of exile, and - most of all - the importance of finding one's self through the pursuit of truth, and through an honest and unflinching analysis of one's place in the context of the times

Crossing Borders

Author : Rigoberta Menchú
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Rigoberta Menchú and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Guatemalan Indian leader Rigoberta Menchu continues the autobiography begun in "I, Rigoberta Menchu", recounting her flight from Guatemala to Mexico in 1981, and her resolve to dedicate her life to the Indian cause. 16 photos.

Crossing Borders

Author : Crossing Borders (Program)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916584535
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Crossing Borders (Program) and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia

Author : Armine Ishkanian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134076762
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia written by Armine Ishkanian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process. It argues that, contrary to the expectations of Western aid donors, who promoted civil society on the assumption that democratization would follow from the establishment of civil society, democratic regimes have failed to materialize, and, moreover, a backlash has emerged in various post-Soviet states. Armine Ishkanian explores how far the growth of civil society depends on a country's historical, political and socio-cultural context; and how far foreign aid, often provided with conditions which encouraged the promotion of civil society, had an impact on democratization. Based on extensive original research, including fieldwork interviews with participants, Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia considers various democratization initiatives in recent years, and assesses how far the Armenian experience is similar to, or different from, the experiences of other post-Soviet states.

Open Wounds

Author : Vicken Cheterian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190263512
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Open Wounds written by Vicken Cheterian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks soon re-awakened to their Armenian heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering their families endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate around Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and the extermination of the minorities. At last the silence had been broken. Open Wounds explains how, after the First World War, the new Turkish Republic forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their historic lands -- a process to which the international community turned a blind eye. The price for this amnesia was, Vicken Cheterian argues, "a century of genocide." Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities -- like the Kurds today -- nor have an open and democratic society without addressing the original sin on which the state was founded: the Armenian Genocide.

Reading Across Borders

Author : S. Stone-Mediatore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137097647
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Reading Across Borders written by S. Stone-Mediatore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of postcolonial and feminist critiques of 'experience' and 'identity', how can feminists engage stories of marginalized peoples' experience in the development of feminist theories and modes of activism that take account of the diversity of women's situations? How can feminists use the powerful tools of storytelling in ways that do not essentialize or objectify marginalized women? Shari Stone-Mediatore brings together the theoretical perspectives of Hannah Arendt and postcolonial theory to develop a 'post-positivist' account of narrative which can form the basis for a progressive feminist politics.

Encyclopedia of Social Networks

Author : George A. Barnett
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452266506
Total Pages : 1113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social Networks written by George A. Barnett and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Request a FREE 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial This two-volume encyclopedia provides a thorough introduction to the wide-ranging, fast-developing field of social networking, a much-needed resource at a time when new social networks or "communities" seem to spring up on the internet every day. Social networks, or groupings of individuals tied by one or more specific types of interests or interdependencies ranging from likes and dislikes, or disease transmission to the "old boy" network or overlapping circles of friends, have been in existence for longer than services such as Facebook or YouTube; analysis of these networks emphasizes the relationships within the network . This reference resource offers comprehensive coverage of the theory and research within the social sciences that has sprung from the analysis of such groupings, with accompanying definitions, measures, and research. Featuring approximately 350 signed entries, along with approximately 40 media clips, organized alphabetically and offering cross-references and suggestions for further readings, this encyclopedia opens with a thematic Reader's Guide in the front that groups related entries by topics. A Chronology offers the reader historical perspective on the study of social networks. This two-volume reference work is a must-have resource for libraries serving researchers interested in the various fields related to social networks.

Crossing Borders

Author : Toivo Waske
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781548796334
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Toivo Waske and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Ingria, amidst the harsh realities of Stalin's Russia, Toivo describes life under Communism, collectivization, food shortages and arbitrary arrests of family members who simply disappear. As a teen, he bravely escapes to Finland where he enjoys an interlude of a few years until war breaks out and he voluntarily enlists. As one war ends and another soon begins, Toivo takes part in secret missions with the specialized battalion, ErP4, created to send small reconnaissance patrols deep into Russian territory. At war's end, he is forced to flee to Sweden from the Communist-controlled Finnish National Police, Valpo, who are pressured by the Soviets to arrest and send members of ErP4 to Russia to face trial. Eventually, due to housing shortages in Sweden, Toivo and his wife decide to immigrate to Canada where he is faced with the challenge of finding employment for himself and housing for his family, all without knowing the language. A compelling life story of steadfast determination, humbleness and unwavering courage; in essence, one that embodies the attributes of that unique Finnish characteristic known as Sisu.

Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative

Author : Elisabeth Guerrero
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting History and Modernity in Mexican Narrative written by Elisabeth Guerrero and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two motifs of an angel of history, one European and one Mexican, provide a theoretical framework for this book. The first is Walter Benjamin's interpretation of the Klee painting angelus novus, a figure that gazes upon the ruins of the past, powerless to repair the broken pieces as it keels into the future. Although Benjamin envisions history as catastrophe piled upon catastrophe, he also sees in this angel the possibility for redemption in divine destruction. Mexico City's key monument, the Angel of Independence, also embodies redemption and destruction through history, marking moments of staggering transformation beyond the conquest. Drawing from these two theoretical angels, the study delineates three major narrative tendencies in contemporary historical novels from Mexico. First, these novels humanize canonized heroes and bring them down to earth. Secondly, they demonumentalize the European legacy, renegotiating Europe's five hundred year bequest of conquest and colonialism. Thirdly, the novels have begun to recover secondary figures previously lost to history, particularly women and people of color. While these three tendencies apply throughout Latin America, they are particularly pronounced in Mexican literary production.

Border and Rule

Author : Harsha Walia
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642593885
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Border and Rule written by Harsha Walia and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, and racist nationalist rule. Ambitious in scope and internationalist in orientation, Border and Rule breaks through American exceptionalist and liberal responses to the migration crisis and cogently maps the lucrative connections between state violence, capitalism, and right-wing nationalism around the world. Illuminating the brutal mechanics of state formation, Walia exposes US border policy as a product of violent territorial expansion, settler-colonialism, enslavement, and gendered racial ideology. Further, she compellingly details how Fortress Europe and White Australia are using immigration diplomacy and externalized borders to maintain a colonial present, how temporary labor migration in the Arab Gulf states and Canada is central to citizenship regulation and labor control, and how racial violence is escalating deadly nationalism in the US, Israel, India, the Philippines, Brazil, and across Europe, while producing a disaster of statelessness for millions elsewhere. A must-read in these difficult times of war, inequality, climate change, and global health crisis, Border and Rule is a clarion call for revolution. The book includes a foreword from renowned scholar Robin D. G. Kelley and an afterword from acclaimed activist-academic Nick Estes.

Crossing Borders

Author : Dorothee Schneider
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674047567
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Dorothee Schneider and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants’ passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers’ debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the histories of Europeans, Asians, and Mexicans, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant expectations and government responses.