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Author : Samuel R. Ogden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (74 download)
Download or read book This Country Life written by Samuel R. Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David E. Shi
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820329754
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Simple Life written by David E. Shi and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking across more than three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, Shi introduces a rich cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Jimmy Carter.
Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057132021X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Simple Life written by Fiona MacCarthy and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones.) It tells of a venturesome effort to enact an Edwardian Utopia in a small town in the Cotswolds. The leader of this endeavour was progressive-minded architect Charles Robert Ashbee, who in 1888 founded the Guild of Handicraft in Whitechapel, specialising in metalworking, jewellery and furniture and informed by the desire to improve society. In 1902 Ashbee and his East London comrades removed the Guild to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, hoping to construct a socialistic rural idyll. MacCarthy explores the impact of the experiment on the lives of the group and on the little town they occupied - tracing the Guild's fortunes and misfortunes, hilarious and grave, and the many fellow idealists and artists who were involved (among them William Morris, Roger Fry, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.)
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Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wade Rouse
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307451917
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream written by Wade Rouse and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all dream about it, but Wade Rouse actually did it. Discover his journey to live the simple life in this hilarious memoir. Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life and a job he hates, Wade Rouse decided to make either the bravest decision of his life or the worst mistake since his botched Ogilvie home perm: to uproot his life and try, as Thoreau did some 160 years earlier, to "live a plain, simple life in radically reduced conditions." In this rollicking and hilarious memoir, Wade and his partner, Gary, leave culture, cable, and consumerism behind and strike out for rural Michigan—a place with fewer people than in their former spinning class. There, Wade discovers the simple life isn’t so simple. Battling blizzards, bloodthirsty critters, and nosy neighbors equipped with night-vision goggles, Wade and his spirit, sanity, relationship, and Kenneth Cole pointy-toed boots are sorely tested with humorous and humiliating frequency. And though he never does learn where his well water actually comes from or how to survive without Kashi cereal, he does discover some things in the woods outside his knotty-pine cottage in Saugatuck, Michigan, that he always dreamed of but never imagined he’d find–happiness and a home. At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream is a sidesplitting and heartwarming look at taking a risk, fulfilling a dream, and finding a home–with very thick and very dark curtains.
Author : W. J. Dawson
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Quest of The Simple Life written by W. J. Dawson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a considerable number of years I had been a resident in London, which city I regarded alternately as my Paradise and my House of Bondage. I am by no means one of those who are always ready to fling opprobrious epithets at London, such as 'a pestilent wen,' a cluster of 'squalid villages,' and the like; on the contrary, I regard London as the most fascinating of all cities, with the one exception of that city of Eternal Memories beside the Tiber. But even Horace loved the olive-groves of Tivoli more than the far-ranged splendours of the Palatine; and I may be pardoned if an occasional vision of green fields often left my eye insensitive to metropolitan attractions.
Author : William J. Dawson
Publisher : HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS
ISBN 13 : 625632613X
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Quest of the Simple Life written by William J. Dawson and published by HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. J Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752364505
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book The Quest of the Simple Life written by W. J Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Quest of the Simple Life by W.J Dawson
Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824884612
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Spreading Protestant Modernity written by Harald Fischer-Tiné and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), founded in 1855, the Y movement defined its global mission in 1889. Although their agendas have been characterized as predominantly religious, both the YMCA and YWCA were also known for their new vision of a global civil society and became major agents in the worldwide dissemination of modern “Western” bodies of knowledge. The YMCA’s and YWCA’s “secular” social work was partly rooted in the Anglo-American notions of the “social gospel” that became popular during the 1890s. The Christian lay organizations’ vision of a “Protestant Modernity” increasingly globalized their “secular” social work that transformed notions of science, humanitarianism, sports, urban citizenship, agriculture, and gender relations. Spreading Protestant Modernity shows how the YMCA and YWCA became crucial in circulating various forms of knowledge and practices that were related to this vision, and how their work was co-opted by governments and rival NGOs eager to achieve similar ends. The studies assembled in this collection explore the influence of the YMCA’s and YWCA’s work on highly diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia; North America; Africa; and Eastern Europe. Focusing on two of the most prominent representative groups within the Protestant youth, social service, and missionary societies (the so-called “Protestant International”), the book provides new insights into the evolution of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for today’s world. Spreading Protestant Modernity offers a compelling read for those interested in global history, the history of colonialism and decolonization, the history of Protestant internationalism, and the trajectories of global civil society. While each study is based on rigorous scholarship, the discussion and analyses are in accessible language that allows everyone from undergraduate students to advanced academics to appreciate the Y movement’s role in social transformations across the world.
Author : Edwin C. Hagenstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300137095
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book American Georgics written by Edwin C. Hagenstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, writers from Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur to Wendell Berry reveal not only the great reach and durability of the American agrarian ideal, but also the ways in which society has contested and confronted its relationship to agriculture over the course of generations. Drawing inspiration from Virgil's agrarian epic poem, Georgics, this collection presents a complex historical portrait of the American character through its relationship to the land. From the first European settlers eager to cultivate new soil, to the Transcendentalist, utopian, and religious thinkers of the nineteenth century, American society has drawn upon the vision of a pure rural life for inspiration. Back-to-the-land movements have surged and retreated in the past centuries yet provided the agrarian roots for the environmental movement of the past forty years. Interpretative essays and a sprinkling of illustrations accompany excerpts from each of these periods of American agrarian thought, providing a framework for understanding the sweeping changes that have confronted the nation's landscape.
Author : Ross Dealy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487506597
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Before Utopia written by Ross Dealy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the influence of Stoicism on the evolution of Thomas More's mind, asserting that More's engagement with the work of Erasmus radicalized his understanding of Christianity and shaped the writing of Utopia.
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Graham
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book A Tramp's Sketches written by Stephen Graham and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Tramp's Sketches" by Stephen Graham Stephen Graham was a British journalist, travel writer, essayist, and novelist. His work inspired countless people to pack a bag and go wandering for themselves. This book is a collection of snippets written chiefly whilst tramping along the Caucasian and Crimean shores of the Black sea, and on a pilgrimage with Russian peasants to Jerusalem. Each so-called sketch might be short, but they're all vividly described and full of wonder.
Author : Rebecca C. McIntyre
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081305978X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Souvenirs of the Old South written by Rebecca C. McIntyre and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written in a clear, accessible, and lively style, Souvenirs of the Old South will be the foundational work for subsequent scholars and readers interested in tourism in the New South."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory "This study of southern images offers readers a glimpse of how history, culture, race, and class came together in the tourist imagination. If the South emerged from the Civil War a distinctive place, Rebecca McIntyre would remind us that’s because distinctiveness sells."--Richard Starnes, author of Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters saw tourist dollars begin flowing southward, but this cultural construction was damaging to southerners, particularly African Americans. Rebecca McIntyre focuses on the years between 1870 and 1920, a period framed by the war and the growth of automobile tourism. These years were critical in the creation of the South’s modern identity, and she reveals that tourism images created by northerners for northerners had as much effect on making the South "southern" as did the most ardent proponents of the Lost Cause. She also demonstrates how northern tourism contributed to the worsening of race relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The New Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constance Kimmerle
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812238433
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Edward W. Redfield written by Constance Kimmerle and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive study of Pennsylvania impressionism's leading artist, Constance Kimmerle offers both an accessible biographical study of Edward Redfield (1869-1965) as well as a rich discussion of his role in the changes that swept the American art world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
