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Rio Grande Destiny

Author : Robert J. Beddoe
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595180736
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Rio Grande Destiny written by Robert J. Beddoe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1879, Laura Parr finds herself not only orphaned but also rich. She has to leave Scotland, the only home she has ever known and join her brother in far, far away Texas. Soon after she arrives in this strange and beautiful land, she meets Caleb Schultz. They are attracted to each other from the moment they meet. The bond between them grows into a love they hope will last forever, but when he leaves her because of a senseless misunderstanding, she discovers the ultimate truths of life and hope, courage and dignity, as she clings to the hope that Caleb will come back to her. Meanwhile, she’s left alone at the Los Indios Ranch to deal with uninvited passion and treachery that plunges her into terrible anguish.

The Rio Grande, River of Destiny

Author : Laura Gilpin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rio Grande, River of Destiny written by Laura Gilpin and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rio Grande: River of Destiny, is a monumental study of the Rio Grande and the people along its banks: "Near the once-fabulous, now-ghost town of Creede, Colorado, flow the springs and the trickles of melting snow which make the Rio Grande. Here at 14,000 feet, is born a river which irrigates 1,751,700 acres of farmland in the United States and Mexico. In the course of its violent, precipitous, meandering, laze descent to the Gulf of Mexico 1800 miles away, the Rio Grande is beauty and history and legend and economics and social problems - a touchstone river of American life, a river of destiny indeed." -- Excerpt from Book Jacket.

The Rio Grande

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Rio Grande written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretation of the river, the land, and the people.

Rio Grande, River of Destiny

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Rio Grande, River of Destiny written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Manifest Destiny's Underworld

Author : Robert E. May
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860409
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destiny's Underworld written by Robert E. May and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War.

Destiny's Journey

Author : Robert Ruiz Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496928520
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Destiny's Journey written by Robert Ruiz Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and younger adolescents in todays world are bombarded with information from the electronic media and, in particular, the internet. Much of what they see and read has little redeeming social value. Computer games are particularly violent and teach the lesson that, in order to have your way, it is okay to resort to strength and violence. Robert Ruiz, Jr., in writing Destinys Journey, sought to provide children and youth with an imaginative adventure story rooted in the values of family and friendship that stand the test of time: love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, faith and patience. Inculcated in the story are the concepts of a Creator and a plan of life that is greater than any individual or group of individuals on earth. There is, indeed, a divine plan for all living things. The author, in developing the Chiles family, was particularly interested in engaging Mexican and Hispanic American children and youth, many of whom have been raised in the produce fields of Mexico and the United States. Thus, Chiles family characters serve as the vehicle to share values that make any society strong. The interdependence of the characters in this story clearly demonstrates that no man is an island, entire of it self. All of us need each other, regardless of race, age or background in order to not only survive but thrive in todays world. And above all, we must recognize that there is a higher power at work in each of our lives.

Destiny's Consul

Author : Michael P. Riccards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442216263
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Destiny's Consul written by Michael P. Riccards and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a great president? Certainly leadership, accomplishments, crisis management, political skill, character, and integrity are part of the equation, but the great presidents have something more. They not only govern well, but are part of something lasting; their presidencies influence the thoughts and beliefs of generations. These powerful men are not flawless leaders, they have made mistakes and miscalculations, but in the end their decisions have changed the nation and often the world. In Destiny’s Consul: America’s Greatest Presidents, presidential scholar Michael P. Riccards provides a concise introduction to the lives, presidencies, and personal qualities of ten great individuals whom Riccards argues are our greatest presidents. Organized chronologically, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Ronald Reagan are shown to truly be great. It will be of interest to anyone interested in the presidency of American history.

The Yellow Rose

Author : Richard R. Verdugo
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 164113643X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Yellow Rose written by Richard R. Verdugo and published by IAP. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume examines the effect racial stratification had on the economic and social lives of Mexican Americans and Anglo residents in a community that was majority Mexican American. The impact was felt economically as the community was a one-crop economy, and also in creating social disharmony between Mexican Americans and the politically and economically dominant Anglo community. This is an historical study since it is based on a survey conducted in 1969. It is one of only a few complete Mexican American community studies ever conducted.

Destiny's Pawn

Author : D. A. Keeley
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738748854
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Destiny's Pawn written by D. A. Keeley and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peyton's Fate Depends on the Unlikely Pawn in a Quarter-Century-Old Crime When Agent Peyton Cote discovers a thirteen-year-old Ukrainian boy along the Canadian border, she has no idea who placed him there or why. And Victor Tankov, on his deathbed in Russia, likes it that way. By giving the boy political asylum, Peyton sets in motion a plan twenty-five years in the making, leading back to the world's largest art heist at Boston's Gardner Museum. In his most ambitious work yet, D.A. Keeley blends one of the most famous crimes of the century with the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, creating an action-packed international thriller. As events unfold, Peyton hunts for a painting worth $150 million and the criminal masterminds who are determined to sell it no matter the cost. Praise: "[A] solid third Peyton Cote novel."—Publishers Weekly "[A] superbly crafted, taut mystery...Keeley has yet another fast-paced, suspenseful and wholly believable mystery hit."—Kennebec Journal "Timely and gripping."—The Recorder

Two Armies on the Rio Grande

Author : Douglas A. Murphy
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623491894
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Two Armies on the Rio Grande written by Douglas A. Murphy and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Prize The opening campaign of the US-Mexican War transformed the map of each nation and shaped the course of conflict. Armed with a broad range of Mexican military documents and previously unknown US sources, Douglas Murphy provides the first balanced view of early battles such as Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He reassesses previously covered territory and also poses new questions. Why did Mexico establish its defenses south of the Rio Grande while claiming territory north of the river? What was Mexico’s strategy in the campaign against the United States? What factors most affected Mexico’s defeat? In confronting these questions, Murphy shows that the campaign was a complex chess match with undercurrents of political intrigue, economic motivations, and personal animosities as much as military action. Two Armies on the Rio Grande will transform our understanding of the US-Mexican War.

Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders

Author : Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527577570
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders written by Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gathers a variety of scholars representing various methodological perspectives and applying diverse critical lenses to analyze the idea of borders, borderlands, frontiers, and liminal space, as they are represented in literature and philosophy. The idea of the border and frontier is perhaps more important than ever: under the siege of COVID-19, with shattered illusions of a post-racial world, when a global effort is required as a response to a crisis that does not respect national or regional borders, we need to reconsider what frontiers and borders mean to us, and how to best understand them so that they do not divide, but point to areas of common knowledge, collective experiences, and shared humanity. Drawing upon examples from different continents (Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe) and from diverse specific places (such as the Mexico-US border, or the contested Palestinian frontiers), and using a variety of critical perspectives (evoking Gloria Anzaldua, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edward Said, for instance), this volume explores the idea of frontiers and borders in order to comment on their representations in literature, philosophy, music, and cinema, and on the human condition in general.

The Rio Grande

Author : Barbara J. McIntyre
Publisher : Wildearth Guardians
ISBN 13 : 9780615234533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Rio Grande written by Barbara J. McIntyre and published by Wildearth Guardians. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Adriel Heisey has captured the spirit of the Rio Grande with his awe-inspiring aerial images of the river. Heisey follows the waterway from its headwaters in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, through New Mexico, then as it straddles and defines the TexasMexico border and finally culminates with its outpouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Heiseys images bring to life the unmistakable signature of water that the Rio Grande represents in the arid southwestern landscape.

The Rio Grande

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (827 download)

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New Strangers in Paradise

Author : Gilbert H. Muller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150132
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book New Strangers in Paradise written by Gilbert H. Muller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbert Muller reveals how the intersections of peoples, regions, and competing cultural histories have remade the American cultural landscape in the aftermath of World War II. Muller focuses on the literature of Holocaust survivors, Chicanos, Latinos, African Caribbeans, and Asian Americans. In the quest for a new identity, each of these groups seeks the American dream and rewrites the story of what it means to be an American. New Strangers in Paradise explores the psychology of uprooted peoples and the relations of culture and power, addressing issues of race and ethnicity, multiculturalism and pluralism, and national and international conflicts. Examining the groups of immigrants in the cultural and historical context both of America and of the lands from which they originated, Muller argues that this "fourth wave" of immigration has led to a creative flowering in modern fiction. The book offers a fresh perspective on the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, Sual Bellow, William Styron, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Oscar Hijuelos, Jamaica Kincaid, Bharati Mukherjee, Rudolfo Anaya, and many others.

Race and Racism in the United States [4 volumes]

Author : Charles A. Gallagher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4036 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Race and Racism in the United States [4 volumes] written by Charles A. Gallagher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 4036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is race defined and perceived in America today, and how do these definitions and perceptions compare to attitudes 100 years ago... or 200 years ago? This four-volume set is the definitive source for every topic related to race in the United States. In the 21st century, it is easy for some students and readers to believe that racism is a thing of the past; in reality, old wounds have yet to heal, and new forms of racism are taking shape. Racism has played a role in American society since the founding of the nation, in spite of the words "all men are created equal" within the Declaration of Independence. This set is the largest and most complete of its kind, covering every facet of race relations in the United States while providing information in a user-friendly format that allows easy cross-referencing of related topics for efficient research and learning. The work serves as an accessible tool for high school researchers, provides important material for undergraduate students enrolled in a variety of humanities and social sciences courses, and is an outstanding ready reference for race scholars. The entries provide readers with comprehensive content supplemented by historical backgrounds, relevant examples from primary documents, and first-hand accounts. Information is presented to interest and appeal to readers but also to support critical inquiry and understanding. A fourth volume of related primary documents supplies additional reading and resources for research.

The Ilisu Dam and its Impact on the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq

Author : Raquella Moea Thaman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004458689
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Ilisu Dam and its Impact on the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq written by Raquella Moea Thaman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ilisu Dam and its Impact on the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq: Implications for the Future Directions of International Water Law provides an overview of the Tigris Euphrates River Basin legal regime and insights into future directions for the law.

A Perfect Gibraltar

Author : Christopher D. Dishman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184507
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Gibraltar written by Christopher D. Dishman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century's most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary Taylor, graduates of the U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterrey's ideal defensive position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call the city "a perfect Gibraltar." The first day of fighting was deadly for the Americans, especially the newly graduated West Point cadets. But they soon adjusted their tactics and began fighting building to building. Chris D. Dishman conveys in a vivid narrative the intensity and drama of the Battle of Monterrey, which marked the first time U.S. troops engaged in prolonged urban combat. Future Civil War generals and West Point graduates fought desperately alongside rough Texan, Mississippian, and Tennessean volunteers. General Taylor engineered one of the army's first wars of maneuver at Monterrey by sending the bulk of his troops against the weakest part of the city, and embedded press reporters wrote eyewitness accounts of the action for readers back in the States. Dishman interweaves descriptions of troop maneuvers and clashes between units using pistols and rifles with accounts of hand-to-hand combat involving edged weapons, stones, clubs, and bare hands. He brings regular soldiers and citizen volunteers to life in personal vignettes that draw on firsthand accounts from letters, diaries, and reports written by men on both sides. An epilogue carries the narrative thread to the conclusion of the war. Dishman has canvassed a wide range of Mexican and American sources and walked Monterrey's streets and battlefields. Accompanied by maps and period illustrations, this skillfully written history will interest scholars, history enthusiasts, and everyone who enjoys a true war story well told.