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The Big House

Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439124914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Big House written by George Howe Colt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.

The Big House and the Little House

Author : Yoshi Ueno
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1646141059
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Big House and the Little House written by Yoshi Ueno and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Mouse and Big Bear live on opposite ends of the same road, and they both would like a friend. But every morning, Little Mouse and Big Bear pass by each other, unnoticed. Until one day, their eyes meet! It's a little awkward at firs—as most new friendships can be—but soon enough they're sipping warm tea together in Big Bear's cozy home, and making plans to meet again the following Sunday. When a nasty storm blows into town will it wreck everything they've built? This tale of friendship and bravery will warm your heart like a cookie and a warm drink shared with a friend.

The Big House

Author : Stephen D. Cox
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030015495X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Big House written by Stephen D. Cox and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Big House" is America's idea of the prison - a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison - its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself - and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them : problems of control and discipline, mainenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the "Big House" has attained in America's understanding of itself"--Jacket.

Back of the Big House

Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Back of the Big House written by John Michael Vlach and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery

The Not So Big House

Author : Sarah Susanka
Publisher : Taunton Press
ISBN 13 : 1561583766
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Not So Big House written by Sarah Susanka and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.

The Big House After Slavery

Author : Amy Feely Morsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813930030
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Big House After Slavery written by Amy Feely Morsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.

Masters of the Big House

Author : William Kauffman Scarborough
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131555
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Masters of the Big House written by William Kauffman Scarborough and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.

Big House on the Prairie

Author : John M. Eason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641034X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Big House on the Prairie written by John M. Eason and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn

Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584653721
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn written by Thomas C. Hubka and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.

A Season in the Big House

Author : George Cantor
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1617499323
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book A Season in the Big House written by George Cantor and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Season in the Big House: An Unscripted Insider Look at the Marvel of Michigan Football" by George Cantor chronicles the 2005 season while offering exclusive perspectives from fans, head coach Lloyd Carr and a writer who has written about Michigan for four decades.

The Big House in a Small Town

Author : Eric J. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313383669
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Big House in a Small Town written by Eric J. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an in-depth, on-the-ground examination of how prisons impact rural communities, including a revealing study of two rural communities that have chosen prisons as an economic development strategy. A recent study by the Urban Institute estimates that one-third of all counties in the United States house a prison, and that our prison and jail population is now over 2.1 million. Another report indicates that more than 97 percent of all U.S. prisoners are eventually released, and communities are absorbing nearly 650,000 formerly incarcerated individuals each year. These figures are particularly alarming considering the fact that rural communities are using prisons as economic development vehicles without fully understanding the effects of these jails on the area. This book is the result of author Eric J. Williams' ground-level research about the effects of prisons upon two rural American communities that lobbied to host maximum security prisons. Through hundreds of interviews conducted while living in Florence, Colorado, and Beeville, Texas, Williams offers the perspective of local residents on all sides of the issue, as well as a social history told mainly from the standpoint of those who lobbied for the prisons.

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Author : Patricia C. McKissack
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters written by Patricia C. McKissack and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

The Big House

Author : Carolyn Coman
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932425093
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Big House written by Carolyn Coman and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ivy and Ray are left in the custody of the accusers who send their parents to jail, they decide to look for evidence that will "spring" Mom and Dad.

Burning the Big House

Author : Terence A. M. Dooley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300260741
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Burning the Big House written by Terence A. M. Dooley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful symbols of conquest, plantation, and colonial oppression, and were caught up in the struggle for independence and the conflict between the aristocracy and those demanding access to more land. Stripped of their most important artifacts, most of the houses were never rebuilt and ruins such as Summerhill stood like ghostly figures for generations to come. Terence Dooley offers a unique perspective on the Irish Revolution, exploring the struggles over land, the impact of the Great War, and why the country mansions of the landed class became such a symbolic target for republicans throughout the period. Dooley details the shockingly sudden acts of occupation and destruction--including soldiers using a Rembrandt as a dart board--and evokes the exhilaration felt by the revolutionaries at seizing these grand houses and visibly overturning the established order.

The Big House

Author : J. Keck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Big House written by J. Keck and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By late 1936, the worst years of the Great Depression are over. Wealth has created new opportunities for Minnie: a beautiful home in California, a luxury car, the yearning desire by a handsome lieutenant, and the family's summer retreat, which draws her like a magnet. Secrets abound. A hidden bohemian community of writers, poets, artists, and escapists is scattered across the shifting, coastal dunes near the cottage.In contrast to the seclusion of the cottage, Minnie's screenwriter cousin introduces her to the intrigue and excitement of Hollywood. Dwayne warns her about the "ruthless" characters willing to do anything to satisfy their lust for fame, fortune, and forbidden pleasures.A crisis forces Minnie to return temporarily to the South and the plantation. Hospitality greets her, but her guard remains razor sharp. Some past grudges will only be settled by the gun. Only Minnie's character will determine her future.

Creating the Not So Big House

Author : Sarah Susanka
Publisher : Taunton Press
ISBN 13 : 1561586056
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Creating the Not So Big House written by Sarah Susanka and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at twenty-five examples of small designs to show readers what they need to know to plan the home that best fits their goals and lifestyles.

Appalachian State Silences the Big House

Author : David J. Marmins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629323
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian State Silences the Big House written by David J. Marmins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are known as “cupcake games”—lower division teams get paid to travel to college football Meccas where the hosts make a nice profit from an extra game. On September 1, 2007, the University of Michigan Wolverines, with more wins than any team in history, hosted the Appalachian State Mountaineers from Boone, North Carolina, in the first such game at Michigan Stadium, the largest stadium in the country. App State was no cupcake. Coach Jerry Moore, in the spirit of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team and other memorable underdogs, assembled his team with two things in mind—speed and character—and conditioned them to the breaking point. “We’re fixin’ to shock ’em,” he shouted at practice, in the locker room, at the dinner table. This book tells the inside story of Moore’s legendary team and the Mountaineers’ historic win.