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Portland in Three Centuries

Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870712074
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Portland in Three Centuries written by Carl Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon's largest city. The expected politicians and business leaders appear, but Carl Abbott also highlights workers and immigrants, union members and dissenters, women at work and in the public realm, artists and filmmakers, activists, and other movers and shakers. Incorporating social history and contemporary scholarship in his narrative, Abbott examines current metropolitan character and issues, giving close attention to historical background. He explores the context of opportunities and problems that have helped to shape the rich mosaic that is Portland. This revised and updated second edition includes greater attention to Portland's communities of color, an expanded prologue, and coverage of the 2020 protests that thrust Portland into the national spotlight. A highly readable character study of a city, and enhanced by more than sixty historic and contemporary images, Portland in Three Centuries will appeal to readers interested in Portland, in Oregon, and in Pacific Northwest history.

Brazil

Author : Thomas E. Skidmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195374551
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Brazil written by Thomas E. Skidmore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition offers an unparallelled look at Brazil in the twentieth century, including in-depth coverage of the 1930 revolution and Vargas's rise to power; the ensuing unstable democratic period and the military coups that followed; and the reemergence of democracy in 1985. It concludes with the recent presidency of Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, covering such economic successes as record-setting exports, dramatic foreign debt reduction, and improved income distribution. The second edition features numerous new images and a new bibliographic guide to recent works on Brazilian history for use by both instructors and students. Informed by the most recent scholarship available, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, Second Edition, explores the country's many blessings--ethnic diversity, racial democracy, a vibrant cultural life, and a wealth of natural resources.

The Challenge of Change

Author : Ruth Bridge
Publisher : Phoenix Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780914016434
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Change written by Ruth Bridge and published by Phoenix Pub.. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Copyright Wars

Author : Peter Baldwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169098
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Copyright Wars written by Peter Baldwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright—and its violation—a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and Google is completely new, the copyright wars in fact stretch back three centuries—and their history is essential to understanding today’s battles. The Copyright Wars—the first major trans-Atlantic history of copyright from its origins to today—tells this important story. Peter Baldwin explains why the copyright wars have always been driven by a fundamental tension. Should copyright assure authors and rights holders lasting claims, much like conventional property rights, as in Continental Europe? Or should copyright be primarily concerned with giving consumers cheap and easy access to a shared culture, as in Britain and America? The Copyright Wars describes how the Continental approach triumphed, dramatically increasing the claims of rights holders. The book also tells the widely forgotten story of how America went from being a leading copyright opponent and pirate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to become the world’s intellectual property policeman in the late twentieth. As it became a net cultural exporter and its content industries saw their advantage in the Continental ideology of strong authors’ rights, the United States reversed position on copyright, weakening its commitment to the ideal of universal enlightenment—a history that reveals that today’s open-access advocates are heirs of a venerable American tradition. Compelling and wide-ranging, The Copyright Wars is indispensable for understanding a crucial economic, cultural, and political conflict that has reignited in our own time.

Three Centuries

Author : M.C. Van Hall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524529850
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries written by M.C. Van Hall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Centuries is the captivating and once in awhile intense story about eight members of the Van Hall family, who, from father to son, narrate their experiences. It starts in 1660 around Arnhem; then Leiden and Vianen. And finally Amsterdam, where Maurits Cornelis (1768 – 1858), the patriarch of the Amsterdam Van Halls, settled in 1787. It becomes clear to the reader why Maurits van Hall, although initially a Patriot in the battle against Napoleon, started to consider Orange as the symbol of our national unity and liberation. This does not apply to his oldest brother Adriaan Teyler van Hall because, he with his friend Engel van de Stadt, became pirates. He stayed anti-English and anti-Orange. A persistent legend is settled that Jan Dereck baron van Capelle was murdered by a poison letter sent to him by a high placed political opponent. Years later Government-Minister Floris van Hall was also accused of getting rid of opponents through this method, but he was never charged. A separate chapter is devoted to the Réveil and the Separatists. Jointly with Anne Maurits Cornelis (1818 – 1844) we first meet Da Costa, Koenen, Capadose and de Clercq and later Reverend Scholte and Reverend Budding. The shameful persecution of the Separatists was forcefully denounced by Anne Maurits. Later, in the classic liberal period, the reader is taken along to grand parties in the curve of the Herengracht. Dinners with twelve courses! This a lovely period in the history of the family. Only a few of them realized at that time that the origins of the liberal period contained the seeds of it’s dissolution and that change was coming soon. This brings us to World War Two and Walraven van Hall (1906 – 1945), the “Oiler” and ultimately the Minister – President of the Dutch Resistance. In 2018 a movie was made about his life “Resistance Banker” available on Netflix. There is also a chapter devoted to the city of Hattem, where in the beginning of the century the various revolutions had not yet arrived and life had the imprint of the Middle Ages. ?As is often the case, the “little” personal histories win out from the official historiography. In particular because the Van Halls are entertaining story tellers who do not take themselves all the time too seriously, although it is funny to read how they could get all excited about events, that in the framework of history was of little or no significance.

Centuries of Change

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Clipper Audio
ISBN 13 : 9781471289514
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Centuries of Change written by Ian Mortimer and published by Clipper Audio. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Third Horseman

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698163494
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Third Horseman written by William Rosen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history—years before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the forthcoming Miracle Cure In May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that followed, Europeans would be visited by a series of curses unseen since the third book of Exodus: floods, ice, failures of crops and cattle, and epidemics not just of disease, but of pike, sword, and spear. All told, six million lives—one-eighth of Europe’s total population—would be lost. With a category-defying knowledge of science and history, William Rosen tells the stunning story of the oft-overlooked Great Famine with wit and drama and demonstrates what it all means for today’s discussions of climate change.

Three Centuries of Change

Author : Richard Staton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries of Change written by Richard Staton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Winds of Change

Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807875651
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Winds of Change written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's history. Always vulnerable to hurricanes, Cuba was ravaged in 1842, 1844, and 1846 by three catastrophic storms, with staggering losses of life and property. Louis Perez combines eyewitness and literary accounts with agricultural data and economic records to show how important facets of the colonial political economy--among them, land tenure forms, labor organization, and production systems--and many of the social relationships at the core of Cuban society were transformed as a result of these and lesser hurricanes. He also examines the impact of repeated natural disasters on the development of Cuban identity and community. Bound together in the face of forces beyond their control, Cubans forged bonds of unity in their ongoing efforts to persevere and recover in the aftermath of destruction.

Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674888913
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Eliot Morison sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly, with the same genial humor and ability to see the human implications of past events that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard.

One Times Square

Author :
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 156792364X
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book One Times Square written by and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the story of this intersection, from when Broadway was a mere dirt path known as Bloomingdale Road, through the district's decades of postwar decay, to its renewal as a tourist-friendly mecca.

Three Centuries of Change

Author : Richard Staton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries of Change written by Richard Staton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Venezuela

Author : Judith Ewell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804712132
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Venezuela written by Judith Ewell and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.

Three Centuries and the Island

Author : Andrew Hill Clark
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442654805
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries and the Island written by Andrew Hill Clark and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1959-12-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is one of the first in the field of historical geography to be published in Canada. Written after exhaustive research, it uses a particular approach to the study of historical agricultural geography which concentrates on the use of basic distributional evidence for the description and interpretation of the changing character of any region through any period of time. By the analysis of over 1200 maps, some of which form part of the text of the book, Professor Clark studies agriculture as the dominant economic activity of Prince Edward Island and traces with remarkable clarity through the changing patterns of land culture throughout the province. The book begins with a description of the natural geography of the Island which, despite its small size, shows surprising variety. It goes on to prove the necessity for careful consideration of the background of habit and prejudice of groups of different origin when studying the changing geographies of land use. The settlement of the Island is traced from the time it was used as a summer campground by the Micmac Indians. Details of the arrival of the first Acadians, the transfer to British rule, and the subsequent influx of Scottish, Irish, Loyalist, and English stock are given together with evidence of the effect their coming had on the agriculture of the region. One hundred and fifty-five maps and sixteen tables to illustrate the distribution of population by area and origin, changes in kind and distribution of crops, census of livestock, etc., from the early eighteenth century to the present day, and from the days when the potato was unknown as a crop through the fur-farming era. The author presents this study as part of his life-work, a programme of research on the settlement overseas in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries of the people from the British Isles. He is descended from Prince Edward Island settlers and writes of the province from a background of personal knowledge of, and affection for, the land of his forbears.

Three Centuries of Change

Author : Richard Staton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 9780003271133
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries of Change written by Richard Staton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible text for Social and Economic History syllabuses at GCSE.

Bellevue

Author : David Oshinsky
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038554085X
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Bellevue written by David Oshinsky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a half centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe—or groundbreaking scientific advance—that did not touch Bellevue. David Oshinsky, whose last book, Polio: An American Story, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered public hospital bringing first-class care to anyone in need. With its diverse, ailing, and unprotesting patient population, the hospital was a natural laboratory for the nation's first clinical research. It treated tens of thousands of Civil War soldiers, launched the first civilian ambulance corps and the first nursing school for women, pioneered medical photography and psychiatric treatment, and spurred New York City to establish the country's first official Board of Health. As medical technology advanced, "voluntary" hospitals began to seek out patients willing to pay for their care. For charity cases, it was left to Bellevue to fill the void. The latter decades of the twentieth century brought rampant crime, drug addiction, and homelessness to the nation's struggling cities—problems that called a public hospital's very survival into question. It took the AIDS crisis to cement Bellevue's enduring place as New York's ultimate safety net, the iconic hospital of last resort. Lively, page-turning, fascinating, Bellevue is essential American history.

Overthrow

Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805082409
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Overthrow written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.