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Book Synopsis Toussaint And The Lightning Bolt by : J.B. Chuks-Orji
Download or read book Toussaint And The Lightning Bolt written by J.B. Chuks-Orji and published by Baji Investments . This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toussaint was a nine year old boy who lived in Port-Au-Prince Haiti with four sisters. His father left his family, leaving him to quit school and help his mother. One day during a stormy weather, he finds a girl, wounded and bloody in the woods. He decides to help her but little did he know that this magical creature will forever change his life.
Book Synopsis The Order of Destruction by : Heinrich Wilke
Download or read book The Order of Destruction written by Heinrich Wilke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s and 1700s up to the Haitian Revolution. Researching travel literature, plantation manuals, Georgic poetry, letters, and political proclamations, this book interprets texts by Richard Ligon, Henry Drax, James Grainger, Janet Schaw, and Toussaint Louverture. As the first extended investigation into its topic, this book reads colonial Caribbean monoculture as the conjunction of racial capitalism and agrarian capitalism in the tropics. Its eco-Marxist perspective highlights the dual exploitation of the soil and of enslaved agricultural producers under the plantation regime, thereby extending Marxist analysis to the early colonial Caribbean. By focusing on textual form (in literary and non-literary texts alike), this study discloses the bearing of monoculture on contemporary writers’ thoughts. In the process, it emphasizes the significance of a literary tradition that, despite its ideological importance, is frequently neglected in (postcolonial) literary studies and the environmental humanities. Located at a crossroads of disciplines and perspectives, this study will be of interest to literary/cultural critics and historians working in the early Americas and in Atlantic studies, to students and scholars of agriculture, colonialism, and (racial) capitalism, to Marxists and postcolonial critics, and to those working in the environmental humanities and in Global South studies.
Book Synopsis Toussaint Louverture by : Philippe Girard
Download or read book Toussaint Louverture written by Philippe Girard and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, he witnessed first-hand the torture of the enslaved population. Yet he managed to secure his freedom and establish himself as a small-scale planter. He even purchased slaves of his own. In Toussaint Louverture, Philippe Girard reveals the dramatic story of how Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman to revolutionary hero. In 1791, the unassuming Louverture masterminded the only successful slave revolt in history. By 1801, he was general and governor of Saint-Domingue, and an international statesman who forged treaties with Britain, France, Spain, and the United States-empires that feared the effect his example would have on their slave regimes. Louveture's ascendency was short-lived, however. In 1802, he was exiled to France, dying soon after as one of the most famous men in the world, variously feared and celebrated as the "Black Napoleon." As Girard shows, in life Louverture was not an idealist, but an ambitious pragmatist. He strove not only for abolition and independence, but to build Saint-Domingue's economic might and elevate his own social standing. He helped free Saint-Domingue's slaves yet immediately restricted their rights in the interests of protecting the island's sugar production. He warded off French invasions but embraced the cultural model of the French gentility. In death, Louverture quickly passed into legend, his memory inspiring abolitionist, black nationalist, and anti-colonialist movements well into the 20th century. Deeply researched and bracingly original, Toussaint Louverture is the definitive biography of one of the most influential people of his era, or any other.
Book Synopsis Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow by : Bill Brooks
Download or read book Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow written by Bill Brooks and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2005 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes fate rides a man down a violent road… Jake Horn was a healer—until he was falsely accused of murder and had to run. Now the hands he once used to cure the ailing have a new purpose: wrapped around the handles of twin six-guns. A GOOD MAN IN A BAD TOWN Aptly named, the town of Sweet Sorrow, within the Dakota territories, is the kind of place that draws all manner of misfits, drunks, gamblers, and dreamers—a perfect town for Jake Horn to get lost in. But a strange plague of madness, brutality, and murder seems to run rampant here—and a slippery Texan named Roy Bean is pressuring Jake to bring a much-needed sanity to the lawless outpost. But accepting the job of Marshal could be the last humanitarian act Jake ever performs. Because thunder is rumbling on the horizon—and a famous bounty hunter from Bismarck is rolling in on the evening stage, determined to collect the substantial reward being offered for bringing the fugitive Jake Horn in stone-cold dead.
Book Synopsis The Black Napoleon by : James Jess Hannon
Download or read book The Black Napoleon written by James Jess Hannon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2000-07-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BLACK NAPOLEON relates, in fast-paced storytelling, racial conflicts caused by unbending political and social attitudes meeting head-on with strong and determined black efforts to establish a free society. Color lines are crossed and re-crossed as the passions of the many-tiered society explode. The coals of the revolution of 1795-1803 that overturned the Bourbon dynasty of the French royal house ignited a fire on the island of Haiti in the Caribbean more than two thousand miles west of France and light years distant in human affairs. French Colonists had established paradise for themselves and a living hell for five hundred thousand black slaves. A parade of memorable giants live within these pages: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Napoleon, Christophe, Leclerc, Dessalines, Rochambeau, Hardy, Rigaud, Jeannot, planter Henri Julian, Neville, Rubidoux, Susan L'Ouverture, Count de Noe, Minister Talleyrand and Pauline Leclerc, Napoleon's sibling who brought an unprecedented level of social behavior to that licentious society. Fifty years a slave, Toussaint L'Ouverture, liberator of Haiti, was a legend in his time. His passionate belief that the enslavement of his people must end carried through the terror and bloodshed that destroyed Napoleon's legions and dispossessed the French colonists. Four words tell the story, 'war of the skin,' as the parade of monumental historical characters intrigue and deceive in that garden spot of the Caribbean.
Book Synopsis Television by : Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Download or read book Television written by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderful . . . Toussaint is a genuinely funny writer." Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis The Black Jacobins by : C.L.R. James
Download or read book The Black Jacobins written by C.L.R. James and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
Book Synopsis The Lightning Bolt : a Discourse by : Michael Bédard
Download or read book The Lightning Bolt : a Discourse written by Michael Bédard and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :0870995952 Total Pages :730 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis Mexico by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Mexico written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precolumbian art -- Viceregal art -- Nineteenth century art -- Twentieth century art.
Book Synopsis A Bolt of Lightning from the Blue by : Martin J. Boord
Download or read book A Bolt of Lightning from the Blue written by Martin J. Boord and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Transgression by : Joshua Hood
Download or read book Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Transgression written by Joshua Hood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling isn't mutual. Levi Shaw, Treadstone's director, calls Hayes back for one more mission. "It's a walk in the park. You don't even have to go in with the strike team. I just need you to set up the safe house. You'll be home in time to pick up the birthday cake." But nothing is ever easy where Treadstone is concerned. When the mission is blown only Hayes is left alive, and everyone, it seems, is determined to correct that oversight.
Book Synopsis Puddle and Scrappy: A Story of Mischief and Friendship by : J.B. Chuks-Orji
Download or read book Puddle and Scrappy: A Story of Mischief and Friendship written by J.B. Chuks-Orji and published by Baji Investments . This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puddle and Scrappy are the best of friends, enjoying all sorts of adventures together. One day, they go for a walk through the woods and encounter a group of mischievous raccoons who chase after them, taunting and jeering. Now, they must come up with a plan to face the raccoons and become victorious.
Book Synopsis Proceedings, 2019, MaxEnt 2019 by : Udo von Toussaint
Download or read book Proceedings, 2019, MaxEnt 2019 written by Udo von Toussaint and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Proceedings book presents papers from the 39th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, MaxEnt 2019. The workshop took place at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching near Munich, Germany, from 30 June to 5 July 2019, and invited contributions on all aspects of probabilistic inference, including novel techniques, applications, and work that sheds new light on the foundations of inference. Addressed are inverse and uncertainty quantification (UQ) and problems arising from a large variety of applications, such as earth science, astrophysics, material and plasma science, imaging in geophysics and medicine, nondestructive testing, density estimation, remote sensing, Gaussian process (GP) regression, optimal experimental design, data assimilation, and data mining.
Book Synopsis A Radical Act of Free Magic by : H. G. Parry
Download or read book A Radical Act of Free Magic written by H. G. Parry and published by Redhook. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rich, sprawling epic full of history and magic, Declaration is Jonathan Strange with international politics and vampires. I loved it."―Alix E. Harrow A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Radical Act of Free Magic is the conclusion to this genre-defying series of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world. The Concord has been broken, and a war of magic engulfs the world. In France, the brilliant tactician Napoléon Bonaparte has risen to power, and under his command, the army of the dead has all but conquered Europe. Britain fights back, but Wilberforce’s own battle to bring about free magic and abolition has met a dead end in the face of an increasingly repressive government. In Saint-Domingue, Fina aids Toussaint Louverture as he navigates these opposing forces to liberate the country. But there is another, even darker war being fought beneath the surface: the first vampire war in hundreds of years. The enemy blood magician who orchestrated Robespierre’s downfall is using the French Revolutionary Wars to bring about a return to dark magic. Across the world, only a few know of his existence, and the choices they make will shape the new age of magic. Praise for The Shadow Histories: "Magnificent...[turns] the part of history class you might have slept through into something new, exciting and deeply magical."―BookPage "A witty, riveting historical fantasy . . . Parry has a historian's eye for period detail and weaves real figures from history—including Robespierre and Toussaint L'Ouverture—throughout her poetic tale of justice, liberation, and dark magic. This is a knockout." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Shadow Histories A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians A Radical Act of Free Magic For more from H. G. Parry, check out The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep.
Book Synopsis Don't Start Me To Talking . . . by : John O'Neal
Download or read book Don't Start Me To Talking . . . written by John O'Neal and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight plays by the acclaimed performer and civil rights activist John O’Neal.
Book Synopsis Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012 by : Roger Ebert
Download or read book Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of reviews from the past 30 months by the influential Pulitzer Prize-winning critic includes such entries as an interview with Justin Timberlake, a tribute to Blake Edward and an essay on the Oscars. Original.
Book Synopsis The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy by : Tim LaHaye
Download or read book The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy written by Tim LaHaye and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one-fourth of the Bible was prophetic in nature at the time it was written, and Christ's second coming is mentioned more than 300 times in Scripture. Clearly, God wants you to anticipate the last days—but Bible prophecy can seem vague and mysterious. Find the clarity and answers you need in this comprehensive resource filled with thousands of facts about Christ's return and the end times. Prophecy teachers Tim LaHaye and Ed Hindson combine knowledge from an outstanding team of more than 40 experts to bring you... detailed definitions of prophecy-related terms helpful timetables of last-days events, including the rapture and the glorious appearing thorough summaries of all the major prophetic viewpoints vital understanding of the key players, such as the Antichrist and the False Prophet Gain wisdom and insight as you repeatedly reach for this A-to-Z encyclopedia to find biblical answers to your toughest prophecy questions.
