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Author : Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Poets of Virginia written by Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book 'Newes from Virginia.' written by John Smith and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book The True George Washington written by Paul Leicester Ford and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1896 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill EDUCATION The father of Washington received his education at Appleby School in England, and, true to his alma mater, he sent his two elder sons to the same school. His death when George was eleven prevented this son from having the same advantage, and such education as he had was obtained in Virginia. His old friend, and later enemy, Rev. Jonathan Boucher, said that George, like most people thereabouts at that time, had no education than reading, writing and accounts which he was taught by a convict servant whom his father bought for a schoolmaster; but Boucher managed to include so many inaccuracies in his account of Washington, that even if this statement were not certainly untruthful in several respects, it could be dismissed as valueless. Born at Wakefield, in Washington parish, Westmoreland, which had been the home of the Wash- ingtons from their earliest arrival in Virginia, George was too young while the family continued there to attend the school which had been founded in that parish by the gift of four hundred and forty acres from some early patron of knowledge. When the boy was about three years old, the family removed to Washington, as Mount Vernon was called before it was renamed, and dwelt there from 1735till 1739, when, owing to the burning of the homestead, another remove was made to an estate on the Rappahannock, nearly opposite Fredericksburg. Here it was that the earliest education of George was received, for in an old volume of the Bishop of Exeter's Sermons his name is written, and on a flyleaf a note in the handwriting of a relative who inherited the library states that this autograph of George Washington's name is believed to be the earliest specimen of his handwriting, when he was probably not more than eight or nine years old. During t...
Author : Hamilton Murray
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Mildred Vernon written by Hamilton Murray and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Satin
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487002904
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada written by Mark Satin and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2017-08-26 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In print for the first time since 1971, Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada has once again become relevant in a time of major political upheaval in the United States of America. First published in 1968 by House of Anansi Press, the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada was a handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada. Conceived as a practical guide with information on the process, the Manual also features information on aspects of Canadian society, touching on topics like history, politics, culture, geography and climate, jobs, housing, and universities. The Manual went through several editions from 1968–71. Today, as Americans are taking up the discussion of immigration to Canada once again, it is an invaluable record of a moment in our recent history.
Author : Anthony Ashbolt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131732188X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Anthony Ashbolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.
Author : Jerry Elmer
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826514950
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Felon for Peace written by Jerry Elmer and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jerry Elmer turned eighteen at the height of the Vietnam War, he publicly refused to register for the draft, a felony then and now. Later he burglarized the offices of fourteen draft boards in three cities, destroying the files of men eligible to be drafted. After working almost twenty years in the peace movement, he attended law school, where he was the only convicted felon in Harvard's class of 1990. This book is a blend of personal memoir, contemporary history, and astute political analysis. Elmer draws on a variety of sources, including never-before-released FBI files, and argues passionately for the practice of nonviolence. He describes the range of actions he took--from draft card burning to organizing draft board raids with Father Phil Berrigan; from vigils on the Capitol steps inside "tiger cages" used to torture Vietnamese political prisoners to jail time for protesting nuclear power plants; from a tour of the killing fields of Cambodia to meetings with Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. A Vietnamese-language edition of Felon for Peace has also been published.
Author : Jessica Squires
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077482526X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Building Sanctuary written by Jessica Squires and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada enjoys a reputation as a peaceable kingdom and a refuge from militarism.Yet Canadians during the Vietnam War era met American war resisters not with open arms but with political obstacles and public resistance, and the border remained closed to what were then called “draft dodgers” and “deserters.” Between 1965 and 1973, a small but active cadre of Canadian antiwar groups and peace activists launched campaigns to open the border. Jessica Squires tells their story, often in their own words. Interviews and government documents reveal that although these groups ultimately met with success – in the process shaping Canadian identity and Canada’s relationship with the United States – they had to overcome state surveillance and resistance from police, politicians, and bureaucrats. Building Sanctuary not only brings to light overlooked links between the anti-draft movement and Canadian immigration policy – it challenges cherished notions about Canadian identity and Canada in the 1960s.
Author : Michael S. Foley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854365
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Confronting the War Machine written by Michael S. Foley and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds--the core of Johnson's constituency.
Author : Anna M. Wittmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440834253
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Talking Conflict written by Anna M. Wittmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's information era, the use of specific words and language can serve as powerful tools that incite violence—or sanitize and conceal the ugliness of war. This book examines the complex, "twisted" language of conflict. Why is the term "collateral damage" used when military strikes kill civilians? What is a "catastrophic success"? What is the difference between a privileged and unprivileged enemy belligerent? How does deterrence differ from detente? What does "hybrid warfare" mean, and how is it different from "asymmetric warfare"? How is shell shock different from battle fatigue and PTSD? These are only a few of the questions that Talking Conflict: The Loaded Language of Genocide, Political Violence, Terrorism, and Warfare answers in its exploration of euphemisms, "warspeak," "doublespeak," and propagandistic terms. This handbook of alphabetically listed entries is prefaced by an introductory overview that provides background information about how language is used to obfuscate or minimize descriptions of armed conflict or genocide and presents examples of the major rhetorical devices used in this subject matter. The book focuses on the "loaded" language of conflict, with many of the entries demonstrating the function of given terms as euphemisms, propaganda, or circumlocutions. Each entry is accompanied by a list of cross references and "Further Reading" suggestions that point readers to pertinent sources for further research. This book is ideal for students—especially those studying political science, international relations, and genocide—as well as general readers.
Author : David Cortright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139471856
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Peace written by David Cortright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran scholar and peace activist David Cortright offers a definitive history of the human striving for peace and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots. This authoritative, balanced, and highly readable volume traces the rise of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in earlier centuries through the mass movements of recent decades: the pacifist campaigns of the 1930s, the Vietnam antiwar movement, and the waves of disarmament activism that peaked in the 1980s. Also explored are the underlying principles of peace - nonviolence, democracy, social justice, and human rights - all placed within a framework of 'realistic pacifism'. Peace brings the story up-to-date by examining opposition to the Iraq War and responses to the so-called 'war on terror'. This is history with a modern twist, set in the context of current debates about 'the responsibility to protect', nuclear proliferation, Darfur, and conflict transformation.
Author : Allen Morgan
Publisher : New York: Seabury Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Dropping Out in 3/4 Time written by Allen Morgan and published by New York: Seabury Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan K. Woo
Publisher : Quattro Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9781988254531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Learning How to Love China written by Dan K. Woo and published by Quattro Fiction. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning How to Love China tells the story of a young factory worker in a city near Shanghai. She tries to set down some of the weight she carries for her work and family. It's a tale of her droning daily life in our contemporary world of global economies, many run by authoritarian power structures. The book shows us the consequences of unbridled accumulation and the systemic exploitation of certain groups. And it asks the question, are we all to blame somehow?
Author : Ken Kiask
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508751694
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Draft-Dodging Odyssey written by Ken Kiask and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a young man who came of draft age during the Vietnam War and, rather than serve, embarked on a globetrotting odyssey which kept him out of the United States for eight years. In his travels he learned about himself, the Third World in which he spent most of his time, and his country's role in the world, in particular, the Third World. They were years of excitement, soul-searching, pleasure, despair, lust, loneliness, and a hundred more emotional and psychological states, subsumed within a bizarre, improbable, forbidden love affair. Read the book to find out how it all came out, which might affect your emotional or psychological state.
Author : Renée G. Kasinsky
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412832847
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Refugees from Militarism written by Renée G. Kasinsky and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick M. Dennis
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774836008
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Warriors written by Patrick M. Dennis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were generally considered slackers for not having volunteered to fight. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths about conscripts, Patrick Dennis examines whether these men arrived at the right moment, and in sufficient numbers, to make any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps. He examines the conscripts themselves, their journey to war, the battles in which they fought, and their largely undocumented sacrifice and heroism. Reluctant Warriors sheds new light on the success of the Military Service Act and provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who fought valiantly and made a crucial contribution to the war effort.
Author : David Harris
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9780312219628
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Dreams Die Hard written by David Harris and published by Saint Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
