Unsettled Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unsettled Land write by Sam W. Haynes. This book was released on 2022-05-03. Unsettled Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regions The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people—white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent—were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years. After the battle of San Jacinto, racial lines snapped taut as a new nation, the Lone Star republic, sought to expel Indians, marginalize Mexicans, and tighten its grip on the enslaved. This is a revelatory and essential new narrative of a major turning point in the history of North America.
Going Over Home
Going Over Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Going Over Home write by Charles Thompson, Jr.. This book was released on 2019-10-03. Going Over Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Booklist Editors’ Choice “Best Books of 2019” An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky, racial disparities of white and Black landownership in the South to recent work with migrant farm workers from Latin America. In this heartfelt first-person narrative, Thompson unpacks our country’s agricultural myths and addresses the history of racism and wealth inequality and how they have come to bear on our nation’s rural places and their people.
The Unsettled Land
The Unsettled Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unsettled Land write by Jocelyn Alexander. This book was released on 2006. The Unsettled Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book engages with current debates on land and politics in Africa and provides a much needed historical narrative of the Zimbabwean case.
The Land
The Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Land write by Thomas Maltman. This book was released on 2020-10-13. The Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A story of violence at the heart of a pastoral landscape, from the author of Indie Next pick and All Iowa Reads selection Little Wolves Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Shortly after moving in, Lucien sets out to find a woman with whom he had an affair, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose of Sharon, a white supremacist church deep in the wilderness, where a cabal of outcasts awaits the end of the world at a place they call The Land. Lucien is visited at the house by a mysterious guest, who may not be who she claims, as well as a vast flock of violent ravens out of an apocalyptic vision. At once a mystery and spiritual noir, The Land explores the dark side of belief, entrenched white supremacy in the Heartland, the uniquely American obsession with end times, and the sacrifices we make for those we love.
Unsettled Frontiers
Unsettled Frontiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unsettled Frontiers write by Sango Mahanty. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Unsettled Frontiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time. Since the French colonial era, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands have witnessed successive waves of market integration, migration, and disruption. The region has been reinvented and depleted as new commodities are exploited and transplanted: from vast French rubber plantations to the enforced collectivization of the Khmer Rouge; from intensive timber extraction to contemporary crop booms. The volatility that follows these changes has often proved challenging to govern. Sango Mahanty explores the role of migration, land claiming, and expansive social and material networks in these transitions, which result in an unsettled frontier, always in flux, where communities continually strive for security within ruptured landscapes.
