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The Rocky Mountain Revolution

Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rocky Mountain Revolution written by Stewart H. Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Orchard devoted most of his early life to lawlessness and crime on a fantasically large scale. As the hired assassin of the Western Federation of Miners, he blasted a trail of violence through the West, ending in the 1905 bomb-slaying of a former Idaho governor. Orchard's skill with dynamite and the fearful results of this talent produced some colorful pages of Americana that, up to now, have escaped the history books. This is more than just the story of Harry Orchard, however. It is also the story of the Western Federation of Miners, of William "Big Bill" Harwood, a onetime idol of American labor, and the organization of the Industrial Workers of the World by Haywood before he fled to the Soviet Union. Stewart Halbrook writes of the labor conditions that led to violence in the hardrock, first in the mines of Northern Idaho and later in the Cripple Creek region and the San Juans of Colorado. Time and again Orchard sparked new violence in the hope of winning the approval of Haywood and the other union leaders. By the time Orchard had killed twenty men or more, there was so much fear, hate, and violence in the hardrock mining towns that the Western Federation of Miners was doomed. Harry Orchard's last assignment, the dynamiting of former Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, put the Western Federation of Miners out of business. Orchard was persuaded to confess his crimes and turn state's evidence. In one of the great courtroom dramas of all times, Clarenece Darrow defended Haywood and one of the prosecutors was William E. Borah, then newly elected to the United States Senate.

Dancing with the Revolution

Author : Elizabeth B. Schwall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469662981
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with the Revolution written by Elizabeth B. Schwall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and folkloric dance, Schwall analyzes how and why dance artists interacted with republican and, later, revolutionary politics. Drawing on written and visual archives, including intriguing exchanges between dancers and bureaucrats, Schwall argues that Cuban dancers used their bodies and ephemeral, nonverbal choreography to support and critique political regimes and cultural biases. As esteemed artists, Cuban dancers exercised considerable power and influence. They often used their art to posit more radical notions of social justice than political leaders were able or willing to implement. After 1959, while generally promoting revolutionary projects like mass education and internationalist solidarity, they also took risks by challenging racial prejudice, gender norms, and censorship, all of which could affect dancers personally. On a broader level, Schwall shows that dance, too often overlooked in histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, provides fresh perspectives on what it means for people, and nations, to move through the world.

The Rocky Mountain Company

Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786014705
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Rocky Mountain Company written by Richard S. Wheeler and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain that someone is trying to cause the Rocky Mountain Company to lose its trading license when they discover forbidden grain alcohol planted in the hold of their boat, Brokenleg Fitzhugh and his partner, Guy Straus, prepare to argue their case. Reissue.

The Rocky Mountains

Author : Molly Aloian
Publisher : Mountains Around the World
ISBN 13 : 9780778775638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book The Rocky Mountains written by Molly Aloian and published by Mountains Around the World. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rocky Mountain range has been witness to the decimation of Native peoples, the westward expansion of European settlers, several gold rushes, and the blazing of transcontinental railways. This fascinating book describes the geological makeup and history of the Rocky Mountains, as well as the cultures and ways of life of the people in the United States and Canada who live in its shadows.

The Retail Revolution

Author : Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429989718
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Retail Revolution written by Nelson Lichtenstein and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism, Sam Walton's firm became a byword for cheap goods and low-paid workers, famed for the ruthless efficiency of its global network of stores and factories. But the revolution has gone further: Sam's protégés have created a new economic order which puts thousands of manufacturers, indeed whole regions, in thrall to a retail royalty. Like the Pennsylvania Railroad and General Motors in their heyday, Wal-Mart sets the commercial model for a huge swath of the global economy. In this lively, probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein deepens and expands our knowledge of the merchandising giant. He shows that Wal-Mart's rise was closely linked to the cultural and religious values of Bible Belt America as well as to the imperial politics, deregulatory economics, and laissez-faire globalization of Ronald Reagan and his heirs. He explains how the company's success has transformed American politics, and he anticipates a day of reckoning, when challenges to the Wal-Mart way, at home and abroad, are likely to change the far-flung empire. Insightful, original, and steeped in the culture of retail life, The Retail Revolution draws on first hand reporting from coastal China to rural Arkansas to give a fresh and necessary understanding of the phenomenon that has transformed international commerce.

Days of Revolution

Author : Mary Elaine Hegland
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804788855
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Days of Revolution written by Mary Elaine Hegland and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. She became the only American researcher to witness the Islamic Revolution firsthand over her eighteen-month stay. Days of Revolution offers an insider's view of how regular people were drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution and its aftermath. Conventional wisdom assumes Shi'a religious ideology fueled the revolutionary movement. But Hegland counters that the Revolution spread through much more pragmatic concerns: growing inequality, lack of development and employment opportunities, government corruption. Local expectations of leaders and the political process—expectations developed from their experience with traditional kinship-based factions—guided local villagers' attitudes and decision-making, and they often adopted the religious justifications for Revolution only after joining the uprising. Sharing stories of conflict and revolution alongside in-depth interviews, the book sheds new light on this critical historical moment. Returning to Aliabad decades later, Days of Revolution closes with a view of the village and revolution thirty years on. Over the course of several visits between 2003 and 2008, Mary Hegland investigates the lasting effects of the Revolution on the local political factions and in individual lives. As Iran remains front-page news, this intimate look at the country's recent history and its people has never been more timely or critical for understanding the critical interplay of local and global politics in Iran.

Geological Biology

Author : Henry Shaler Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Geological Biology written by Henry Shaler Williams and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introduction to Historical Geology

Author : William John Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Historical Geology written by William John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Total Transition

Author : Sandeep Pai
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 177160249X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Total Transition written by Sandeep Pai and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the journey of a Canadian and Indian couple, Savannah and Sandeep, as they travel the world to capture the human side of one of the biggest energy transitions of our times - the global shift from fossil fuels to renewables. In this exciting and provocative new book, readers are taken into the homes of the coal miners who live and work in Jharia, a town in India that has been on fire for the past 100 years due to poor coal mining practices. Life in Jharia is a version of Dante's inferno - 700,000 people live in the most unimaginable conditions. Yet even though residents of Jharia say they are dying slowly every day, they also say they'll never leave. Almost 11,000 kilometres away, in the Canadian oil sands, workers and indigenous people similarly describe their complex relationship with the industry that employs them. Although fossil fuel extraction is harming the environment and impacting people's way of life in the oil sands region, a much-needed shift to renewable energy could also leave communities without their livelihoods. Written in the form of a travelogue, Total Transition provides a whirlwind look at the global growth of renewable energy - highlighting exciting developments in solar and wind energy in Canada, India, Africa and Europe, and discussing hurdles standing in the way of a total transition. Energy experts and leaders of innovative renewable energy projects share hope and optimism about the future of fossil fuel workers and their communities in an increasingly renewable world.

Empire and Revolution

Author : John Mason Hart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246713
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Empire and Revolution written by John Mason Hart and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an extraordinarily important history of both U.S.-Mexico relations and of the political, economic, social, and cultural activities of Americans in Mexico."—Friedrich Katz, author of The Life and Times of Pancho Villa "Empire and Revolution is empowering as well as informative, providing a detailed record and judicious interpretation of the protean relations between the United States and Mexico. As John Mason Hart convincingly narrates, the association is of dynamic importance for people of both countries. While there have been studies on discrete parts and periods of the U.S.-Mexico relation, this book charts and anchors the relation globally. Hart allows the reader intellectual as well as imaginative insight into the multifaceted social, cultural, and political reality of the sharing of North America—then, now, and in the future."—Juan Gomez-Quinones, author of Mexican-American Labor, 1790-1990

Revolutionary Medicine

Author : Jeanne E Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081475936X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Medicine written by Jeanne E Abrams and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America. Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the Founding Fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and national leaders, the Founders occupied a unique position regarding the development of public health in America. Historian Jeanne E. Abrams’s Revolutionary Medicine refocuses the study of the lives of George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, and James and Dolley Madison away from politics to the perspective of sickness, health, and medicine. For the Founders, republican ideals fostered a reciprocal connection between individual health and the “health” of the nation. Studying the encounters of these American Founders with illness and disease, as well as their viewpoints about good health, not only provides a richer and more nuanced insight into their lives, but also opens a window into the practice of medicine in the eighteenth century, which is at once intimate, personal, and first hand. Today’s American public health initiatives have their roots in the work of America’s Founders, for they recognized early on that government had compelling reasons to shoulder some new responsibilities with respect to ensuring the health and well-being of its citizenry—beginning the conversation about the country’s state of medicine and public healthcare that continues to be a work in progress.

Geology

Author : Albert Perry Brigham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Geology written by Albert Perry Brigham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introduction to Geology (physical and Historical)

Author : William John Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Geology (physical and Historical) written by William John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rockies

Author : David Sievert Lavender
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803280199
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Rockies written by David Sievert Lavender and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of Coronado?s discovery to the era of modern ski resorts and sport climbing routes, adventurers have been lured irresistibly to the Rocky Mountains. In this book distinguished writer David Lavender traces the colorful history of the Rockies, focusing on the period that began in 1859 with the first gold strikes. The real and fabled attractions of gold, silver, furs, lumber, and lead brought swarms of people into the mountains, eagerly seeking wealth. A get-rich-quick spirit pervaded the Rockies, leading to lawlessness, violence, vigilantism, and political expediency. The Rockies is particularly revealing about the struggles which resulted in codes peculiar to the mountainous West. Duane A. Smith provides a new introduction to this Bison Books edition of The Rockies.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains

Author : George Frederick Ruxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains written by George Frederick Ruxton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fossils

Author : P.R. Yadav
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788171417223
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Fossils written by P.R. Yadav and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present title Fossils has been carefully organized and clearly written for the undergraduate students, however, it would also supplement the students of postgraduate classes. It has been written in a simple language and in a straight forward manner. Our approach throughout is critical and evaluative, neither old nor new theories are taken trust but are examined rigorously and often critical, the students should be aware of what materials is sound and what untested or controversial. Those principles which survive such analysis have put together in a new and current synthesis of the state of the art . Contents: Introduction, Stratigraphy, Rocks, Fossils, Searching Fossils, Fossilisation, Geographical Time Scale, Microfossils, Trace Fossils, Origin of Chordates, Origin of the Vertebrates, Origin of Amphibians, Mesozoic Reptiles, Origin of Birds, Origin of Mammals.

Swimming to Freedom

Author : Kent Wong
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647001862
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Swimming to Freedom written by Kent Wong and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kent Wong was a young boy, his father, a patriotic Chinese official in the customs office in Hong Kong, joined an insurrection at work and returned with the family to the newly established People’s Republic of China. Hailed as heroes, they settled in the southern city of Canton. But Mao’s China was dangerous and unstable, with landlords executed en-masse and millions dying of starvation during the Great Leap Forward.