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The Top Ten Diseases of All Time (101 Collection)
Par Professor Stacey Smith. 2023
Les maladies infectieuses nous accompagnent depuis des millénaires et continuent de représenter une menace, de l’irritation de la saison de…
la grippe... à l’extinction potentielle de notre espèce.Nous les craignons instinctivement et modifions notre comportement en conséquence. Si nous enterrons les corps à deux mètres de profondeur, c’est parce que c’est cette profondeur qui a permis d’arrêter la transmission de la peste par les morts au Moyen-Âge. De nombreuses pratiques religieuses, telles que l’évitement de certaines viandes, ont été instaurées en raison de la transmission de maladies d’origine alimentaire.Dans The Top Ten Diseases of All Time, Stacey Smith? présente les dix maladies les plus meurtrières et leurs effets sur la société, fournissant une mine d’informations sur la trajectoire et l’impact terrible de chaque maladie, ainsi que sur la réaction de l’humanité à ces maladies au cours des millénaires.Saviez-vous, par exemple, que :-Le symbole médical est né de l’enroulement des vers autour d’un bâton, car c’était le seul moyen d’extraire les vers de Guinée du corps, et avoir un bâton signifiait donc que l’on était médecin.-La variole est la troisième pire maladie de tous les temps, et pourtant elle reste la seule maladie humaine éradiquée avec succès (mais pas pour longtemps !), en partie grâce à un vaccin efficace, en partie grâce à des cartes de reconnaissance photographique et en partie grâce à des vaccinations forcées par hélicoptère de villages entiers dans l’ex-Yougoslavie. Cela soulève la question des droits individuels par rapport à l’intérêt public, qui reste d’actualité.-Le paludisme était l’une des quatre maladies que l’on voulait éradiquer au 20e siècle ; l’échec de cette entreprise a directement conduit à la création du mouvement écologiste.-L’incapacité des prêtres à expliquer comment arrêter la peste au Moyen Âge a brisé l’image de l’Église en tant qu’institution toute-puissante et omnisciente et a conduit au colonialisme et à l’esclavage.The Top Ten Diseases of All Time offre une vue d’ensemble fascinante des maladies les plus meurtrières qui se sont répandues dans le monde : La syphilis, le VIH/SIDA, le choléra, la grippe espagnole, la peste de Justinien de 541-542, la rougeole, la peste noire, la variole, la tuberculose et...History of the Jews in Quebec (Canadian Studies)
Par Pierre Anctil. 2021
The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time,…
thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the world. The Jews of Quebec belong to a unique society in North America, which they have worked to fashion. The dedication with which they have defended their rights and their extensive achievements in multiple sectors of activity have helped foster diversity in Quebec. This work recounts the different contributions Jews have made over the years, along with the cultural context that encouraged the emergence in Montreal of a Jewish community like no other in North America. This is the first overview of a history that began during the French Regime and continued, through many twists and turns, up to the turn of the twenty-first century.Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom (Philosophica)
Par Réal Fillion. 2012
This work underscores the need to examine history philosophically, not only to better appreciate how it unfolds and relates to…
our own unfolding lives, but to better appreciate our free engagement in this changing world. Linking a conception of ourselves as free beings to the historical process was of central importance to the classical speculative philosophies of history of the nineteenth century, most notably Hegel’s. Michel Foucault’s work is often taken to be the antithesis of this kind of speculative approach. This book argues that Foucault, on the contrary, like Hegel, sees freedom as tied to the self-movement of thought as it realizes and shapes the world. Unlike Hegel, however, he does not see in that self-movement the process of Spirit reconciling itself with the world and thereby realizing itself as freedom. Rather, he sees in the freedom at the core of the self-movement of thought a possible threat around which that movement consolidates itself and gives shape to the world. Foucault’s work is therefore not a simple rejection of Hegel’s speculative philosophy of history, but rather an inversion of the manner in which history and freedom are related: for Hegel history realizes or actualizes the “idea” of freedom, whereas for Foucault freedom realizes or actualizes the “materiality” of history.Cahiers Charlevoix 13: Études franco-ontariennes (Cahiers Charlevoix #13)
Par Jean-Pierre Pichette, Michel Bock, Marcel Bénéteau, Simon Laflamme, Yves Frenette, Julie Boissonneault, Ali Reguigui. 2020
Fondée à Sudbury en 1992, la Société Charlevoix est un regroupement d’universitaires qui se consacrent à des travaux savants sur…
l’Ontario français. Par son nom, la Société honore la mémoire du jésuite Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), qui a laissé des observations remarquables sur le territoire ontarien. Limités en tout temps à dix en nombre, ses membres examinent les réalités franco-ontariennes selon les perspectives variées qu’apportent leurs disciplines. Leur élection se fait par cooptation, à l’unanimité des voix. Depuis 1995, la Société Charlevoix publie les Cahiers Charlevoix. Études franco-ontariennes, un collectif exclusivement dévolu à la diffusion des travaux de ses membres. Depuis leur création, nos Cahiers Charlevoix n’ont jamais comporté plus de six essais. La présente livraison, la treizième de la série, en compte sept : précédant les six études courantes de 2020, l’hommage rendu à un membre émérite disparu, Gaétan Gervais, commandait cette première. Publiée sous le patronage de la Société Charlevoix, l’édition de ce treizième Cahier Charlevoix est le fruit d’une entente entre la Société Charlevoix et les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa. Ce livre est publié en français.Gender and Modernity in Central Europe: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy
Par Agatha Schwartz. 2010
At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates…
on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender and modernity as defined by the Habsburg Monarchy were modified by the conservative, liberal, radical right-wing and Communist regimes that ruled the empire’s successor states in the twentieth century. While these values have taken on new dimensions again in the post-Communist period, the Habsburg Monarchy’s influence on gender and modernity in Central Europe is still palpable. With a truly interdisciplinary approach – drawing on the fields of women’s studies, gender studies, sociology, history, literature, art, and psychoanalysis – that touches on a variety of subjects – gender roles, sexual identities, misogyny, painting, writing, minorities – this volume explores the lasting impact of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in contemporary Central Europe, which is fraught with gender conflict and tension between modernist and anti-modernist forces. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a fascinating multi-ethnic society. Its experience and understanding of gender and modernity provides important, relevant lessons for today’s world as it becomes increasingly intercultural and as issues of identity become more and more complex.Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille: Regards d’une minorité religieuse sur le Québec de 1945 à 1976 (Études canadiennes)
Par Simon-Pierre Lacasse. 2022
La communauté juive québécoise occupe une position politique et culturelle unique en Amérique du Nord et au Canada. Pour cette…
raison, une identité juive montréalaise distincte de l’identité juive canadienne et états-unienne s'est développée. Peu étudiée dans l’histoire contemporaine québécoise, la période d’après-guerre, jusqu’au milieu des années 1970, voit des changements décisifs s’opérer au sein de la communauté juive québécoise. Dès le lendemain de la guerre, les débats sociopolitiques québécois et les contacts croissants avec les Québécois d’origine canadienne-française influencent le positionnement idéologique de la communauté juive montréalaise. Dans une société largement clivée sur le plan confessionnel entre catholiques et protestants – les « deux solitudes » –, les activistes juifs luttent pour la reconnaissance de leur communauté et incitent les acteurs politiques à réfléchir plus largement à ce que l’on appelle aujourd’hui le « vivre-ensemble ». Loin de demeurer en marge des espaces public et politique, plusieurs activistes communautaires du Montréal juif prennent la parole et défendent une société québécoise émergente au sein de laquelle le pluralisme occupe un espace grandissant.Préface de Pierre Anctil.Mention Spéciale, Canadian Jewish Literary Awards (2023)Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu (Canadian Studies)
Par Pierre Anctil. 2017
Translated by Vivian Felsen Finalist, 2018 Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks), Translation category Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling…
in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish writers in Canada. His poetry, infused with lyricism and mysticism, along with the numerous essays and articles he penned, embodied both a rich literary tradition and the modernism of his day. Pierre Anctil has written so much more than a biography. For the first time, Segal’s poetic production is referenced, translated and rigorously analyzed, and includes over 100 pages of appendices, shedding light on the artistic, spiritual, cultural and historical importance of his oeuvre. By introducing the reader to the poet’s work through previously unpublished translations, Anctil demonstrates that in many respects it reflects the history of the Jewish immigrants who arrived in North America from Russia, the Ukraine and Poland at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the tragic experiences of Jewish intellectual refugees of the interwar period. This admirably written, sweeping yet subtle, work will appeal both to scholars and to a broader audience. The original French version was awarded the prestigious 2014 Canada Prize in the Humanities by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.L’Acadie contemporaine est souvent interprétée sous l’angle de la rupture et synthétisée par le découpage binaire tradition-modernité. Cette lecture statique…
et manichéenne oppose, en définitive, le catholicisme prétendument régressif de la première moitié du 20e siècle au libéralisme progressiste des années 1960. Pourtant, le changement social n’est-il pas un long processus ? Est-ce fantaisiste de penser, de façon continue, que le religieux omniprésent du début du siècle n’a pas été monolithique et qu’ont pu y germer les fondements idéologiques des mobilisations acadiennes ? Partant d’une étude fouillée et détaillée des mouvements étudiants et d’Action catholique en Acadie, paradoxalement méconnus, et tenant compte de leur importance, Philippe Volpé nous invite à réfléchir à ces questions. De l’Association catholique de la jeunesse acadienne aux syndicats étudiants des années 1960, en passant par la Jeunesse étudiante catholique, l’auteur nous fait découvrir des acteurs et des mouvements qui, pendant un demi-siècle, ont contribué au développement de la petite société acadienne. Entre la jeunesse et la vie adulte, l’Action catholique et l’Action nationale, le social et le politique, l’universalisme et le nationalisme, l’enceinte collégiale et la société civile, l’Acadie et le Canada français, cette étude nous mène « à la frontière des mondes », soit au carrefour de tensions et de débats qui rendent compte des itinéraires, des idées et des programmes ; bref, des intentions primordiales qui ont animé de nombreux acteurs sociaux en Acadie durant la première moitié du 20e siècle. Il en découle un récit original qui propose une relecture étonnante des paramètres de compréhension de l’Acadie contemporaine. Publié en français.Au temps de la « révolution acadienne »: Les marxistes-léninistes en Acadie (Amérique française)
Par Philippe Volpé, Julien Massicotte. 2019
Les années 1970 constituent une décennie particulièrement agitée en ce qui a trait aux mobilisations sociales, politiques et culturelles en…
Acadie. À la suite des réformes mises en oeuvre par le gouvernement de Louis J. Robichaud au Nouveau-Brunswick et de la modernisation des institutions acadiennes au cours des années 1960, les années 1970 sont le théâtre d’idéologies et d’engagements concomitants menant plus avant le militantisme de la décennie précédente. C’est le moment où entrent en scène le Parti acadien, la revue L’Acayen et plusieurs organisations et associations ouvrières, féministes et étudiantes. C’est durant cette période que commencent à paraître en Acadie les premiers groupuscules se réclamant directement de Marx, de Lénine et de Mao, ou du communisme en général. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage ont voulu rendre compte, dans une analyse à la frontière de l’histoire et de la sociologie, de ce chapitre oublié du passé acadien récent. Au centre et en marge de différents événements et phénomènes sociaux, allant de la pauvreté aux conflits économiques, culturels et générationnels, en passant par le syndicalisme et de multiples mouvements de contestation, la présence des marxistes-léninistes dans les provinces maritimes s’est fait sentir discrètement, certes, mais de nombreuses façons. C’est cette histoire que Philippe Volpé et Julien Massicotte nous livrent dans une étude fouillée et passionnante de l’extrême-gauche en Acadie. Une coédition avec le Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française. Ce livre est publié en français. - The 1970s were a particularly agitated time in the history of social, political and cultural mobilisations in Acadia. Following reforms introduced under Louis J. Robichaud in New Brunswick and the modernisation of Acadian institutions during the 1960s, the 1970s saw the rise of ideologies and engagements that furthered the activism of the previous decade. Enter the Parti acadien, the magazine L’Acayen and numerous feminist, student and labour organizations and associations. We see the emergence, during this period, of the first small groups claiming their origins directly with Marx, Lenin and Mao, or from communism in general. The authors aim to give an account of this forgotten chapter of recent Acadian history. At the very core of various social events and phenomena, from poverty to economic conflicts, cultural and generational, to unionism and a multitude of protests, but also in more indirect ways, the Marxist-Leninist presence was felt in the Maritime Provinces. This is the story presented to us by Philippe Volpé and Julien Massicotte in a fascinating and well-researched study of far-left socio-economic movements in Acadia. A co-publication with the Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française. This book is published in French.Taking Aviation to New Heights: A Biography of Pierre Jeanniot
Par Jacqueline Cardinal, Laurent Lapierre. 2013
To chart the inspiring journey of Pierre Jeanniot is to trace the remarkable development of the air transport industry. In…
his youth, Jeanniot survived the bombing of Rome, the occupation of France, and was a witness to the Resistance in the Jura Mountains. In 1963, after the Sainte-Thérèse air tragedy and the threat of finding himself jobless, Jeanniot was inspired to create the famous Black Box, which has since become a pillar of aviation security. Under his direction, Air Canada chose the Airbus rather than the Boeing to renew its fleet, in the midst of a highly visible political crisis. Against all odds, Jeanniot also orchestrated the successful privatization of the airline. His visionary speech at Amman, delivered when he was at the helm of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), laid out modern aviation’s most urgent priorities regarding accident prevention, protection of the environment, and technological progress. A master of logistics, he successfully negotiated the impasse in the skies following the September 11 terrorist attacks and handled the many complications that came in their wake. Pierre Jeanniot’s influence has been felt far beyond the aviation world. His longstanding desire to facilitate access to higher learning led him to participate actively in the founding of the Université du Québec. A skilled diplomat, he also helped to resolve political problems in Iran, Libya, North Korea, and the Middle East. Taking Aviation to New Heights is the story of a great leader who has left an indelible mark on his milieu. He has truly piloted aviation to new heights. - This book is published in EnglishCahiers Charlevoix 12: Études franco-ontariennes (Cahiers Charlevoix #12)
Par M. Jean-Pierre Pichette, Professeur Simon Laflamme, Professeur Yves Frenette, Professeure Julie Boissonneault, Professeur Ali Reguigui, Marcel Bénéteau, Professeur Michel Bock. 2018
Coïncidant avec le vingt-cinquième anniversaire de la Société Charlevoix, la fournée 2018 de ce douzième cahier réunit six études. Simon…
Laflamme publie l’affidavit qui a été utilisé par le Commissariat aux langues officielles pour appuyer la cause qu’il défendait contre la Société Radio-Canada. À la suite des compressions budgétaires de 2009 dont elle avait été victime, la société d’État réduisait fortement sa programmation à la station de radio Cbef de Windsor. Yves Frenette propose un regard comparatif de l’historiographie dans trois aires de la francophonie canadienne entre 1970 et 2000. Au cours de cette période de transition, les identités traditionnelles acadienne et canadienne-française déclinent progressivement au profit de nouvelles identités francophones provincialisées. Julie Boissonneault se penche sur la perception qu’on a de la langue des Franco-Ontariens. La langue française parlée en Ontario fait souvent l’objet d’un discours dépréciatif qui établit la compétence des Franco-Ontariens à l’aune de leurs manquements au français de référence. Or, ce discours, qui ne tient pas compte de l’enjeu de la variation interne de toute langue et des processus naturels d’évolution des parlers, nourrit des représentations à l’égard du parler qui sont souvent partielles ou fausses et qui, en retour, peuvent mener à un sentiment d’incompétence chez le locuteur franco-ontarien. Ali Reguigui inscrit son étude dans le cadre de la phonétique articulatoire et de la sociophonétique, fondée sur les données d’un questionnaire sociolinguistique recueillies auprès de sujets franco-ontariens. Il examine le cas de la consonne roulée alvéolaire voisée /r/ du latin, qui a persévéré en ancien français et moyen français jusqu’au xviie siècle dans les centres urbains, et jusqu’au XVIIIe siècle en général pour se faire remplacer par la consonne roulée uvulaire voisée, communément qualifiée de grasseyée et marquée comme variante de prestige Marcel Bénéteau fait le bilan de la chanson traditionnelle française en Ontario et trace son évolution dans le temps et l’espace. L’auteur décrit le travail qu’il a entrepris pour déterminer en premier lieu en quoi consiste le répertoire de l’Ontario français ; à cette fin, il précise quelles sont ses balises historiques et géographiques (où et quand le répertoire s’est-il implanté sur le territoire ?) et ce qu’il comprend au juste (combien de chansons ? quelles chansons ? quelles catégories de chansons ?). Jean-Pierre Pichette verse un nouveau chapitre au dossier de la transposition des récits oraux dans des oeuvres littéraires. À l’analyse des écrits destinés à la jeunesse de l’écrivaine Marie-Rose Turcot (Cahiers Charlevoix 3) et de l’ethnologue Marius Barbeau (Cahiers Charlevoix 4), il ajoute l’examen des « petits contes drolatiques » qu’un autre écrivain d’Ottawa, Régis Roy (1864-1944), a publiés entre 1906 et 1928. Michel Bock a compilé dans la « Chronique » les faits saillants survenus depuis la parution du dernier volume et les nouvelles des membres reliées à leurs activités professionnelles. Nous y joignons le compte rendu des activités récentes de la Société des Dix que son secrétaire, Fernand Harvey, a préparé à notre intention. Publié en françaisUn historien dans la cité: Gaétan Gervais et l’Ontario français (Amérique française)
Par François-Olivier Dorais. 2016
À la fois témoin et acteur des grandes transformations socio-identitaires qui ont marqué l’Ontario français depuis la fin des années…
1960, Gaétan Gervais est aussi connu à titre de créateur du drapeau franco-ontarien en 1975. Les divers lieux d’enracinement de sa pensée sont étudiés depuis le Sudbury français des années 1940 et 1950, en passant par le contexte de mutations culturelles, politiques et historiographiques des décennies d’après-guerre. L’étude s’étend au contenu des écrits de l’historien ainsi qu’à ses interventions dans les sphères publique et gouvernementale de l’Ontario et de la francophonie canadienne, notamment au regard de l’éducation postsecondaire. L’analyse fait ressortir les paramètres structurants de sa pensée et montre comment celle-ci opère dans l’espace propre au milieu minoritaire francoontarien. Elle fait apparaître l’historien comme l’une des principales figures énonciatrices d’une représentation identitaire axée sur une continuité référentielle avec la mémoire du Canada français historique.Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Alternative Perspectives in Criminology)
Par Chris Affor, Uju Agomoh, Biko Agozino, Clever Akporherhe, Sylvester Monday Anagaba, O. Oko Elechi, Osa Eribo, Mechthild Nagel, Igho Odibo, Julia Sudbury, Chukwuma Ume, Unyierie Idem. 2008
A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive…
presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prisonFrom the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark…
and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today."Moore has written a masterpiece of nonfiction."—Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened—by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum.The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line—conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored.No one is willing to fight for their freedom and, disenfranchised both by gender and the stigma of their supposed madness, they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose…Bestselling author Kate Moore brings her sparkling narrative voice to The Woman They Could Not Silence, an unputdownable story of the forgotten woman who courageously fought for her own freedom—and in so doing freed millions more. Elizabeth's refusal to be silenced and her ceaseless quest for justice not only challenged the medical science of the day, and led to a giant leap forward in human rights, it also showcased the most salutary lesson: sometimes, the greatest heroes we have are those inside ourselves."The Woman They Could Not Silence is a remarkable story of perseverance in an unjust and hostile world."—Susannah Cahalan, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on FireFatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
Par Rabia Chaudry. 2022
&“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into…
who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!&” —Valerie BertinelliRabia Chaudry—known from the podcast Serial and her bestselling book, Adnan&’s Story, as well as her own wildly popular podcast, Undisclosed—serves up a candid and intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a tight knit but sometimes overly concerned Pakistani immigrant family. &“My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but never not fat.&” Rabia Chaudry was raised with a lot of love—and that love looked like food. Delicious Pakistani dishes—fresh roti, chaat, pakoras, and shorba—and also Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen, and an abundance of American processed foods, as her family discovered its adopted country through its (fast) food. At the same time, her family was becoming increasingly alarmed about their chubby daughter&’s future. Most important, how would she ever get married? In Fatty Fatty Boom Boom, Chaudry chronicles the dozens of times she tried and failed to achieve what she was told was her ideal weight. The truth is, though, she always loved food too much to hold a grudge against it. At once an ode to Pakistani cuisine, including Chaudry&’s favorite recipes; a love letter to her Muslim family both here and in Lahore; and a courageously honest portrait of a woman grappling with a body that gets the job done but refuses to meet the expectations of others. For anyone who has ever been weighed down by their weight— whatever it is—Chaudry shows us how freeing it is to finally make peace with body we have.Military uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history. In…
The Fabric of Civil War Society, Shae Smith Cox examines the material culture of America’s bloodiest conflict, offering a deeper understanding of the war and its commemoration.Cox’s analysis traces the influence of sewn materials throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction as markers of power and authority for both the Union and the Confederacy. These textiles became cherished objects by the turn of the century, a transition seen in veterans replacing wartime uniforms with new commemorative attire and repatriating Confederate battle flags. Looking specifically at the creation of material culture by various commemoration groups, including the Grand Army of the Republic, the Woman’s Relief Corps, the United Confederate Veterans, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Cox reveals the ways that American society largely accepted their messages, furthering the mission of their memory work.Through the lens of material culture, Cox sheds new light on a variety of Civil War topics, including preparation for war, nuances in relationships between Native American and African American soldiers, the roles of women, and the rise of postwar memorial societies.The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Nhb Modern Plays Ser.)
Par Andrea Levy. 2010
Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.A Sunday Times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for…
the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in Jamaica, for those who loved Homegoing, The Underground Railroad, or the film 12 Years a Slave.'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial TimesYou do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse.Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.Distributed on behalf of the University of Florida College of Journalism and CommunicationsRae O. Weimer founded the University of Florida’s…
first school of journalism, and within one year of his arrival in Gainesville, the school received accreditation. No longer would Florida’s students have to leave the state to pursue dreams of becoming journalists. Just Call Me Rae chronicles the life of the man who pioneered journalism education in Florida and built one of the most innovative journalism and communications programs in the country. Rae grew up in a small Midwestern town where he learned to be resourceful and hardworking, traits that would make him—along with his reputation—the prime candidate to lead UF’s small journalism department. Due to economic hardship, he dropped out of college in his final year, but he knew he was destined to be a newspaperman. He learned everything he could about the profession, taking any job that came his way. Between 1925 and 1940, Rae worked for eleven newspapers in six states, including the Akron Beacon Journal and Cleveland Press in Ohio and the Buffalo Times in New York. The culmination of his newspaper career was his role at the revolutionary and historic PM newspaper in New York City. At PM, Rae rubbed elbows with some of the greatest journalists and writers of his generation, including Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Max Lerner, I. F. “Izzy” Stone, Dashiell Hammett, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Ferber. Rae’s reputation ran ahead of him to Florida, where the state’s newspapers were agitating for upgrading journalism education at UF. Rae might not have had the degrees that other candidates had, but he had the credentials—he was a seasoned newspaperman, a trained newspaper technician, and his years at PM had honed his teaching instinct. UF President J. Hillis Miller agreed to hire Rae, and so would begin the legend of the degreeless dean. Rae re-envisioned journalism at the University of Florida. With his leadership, what had been a three-person department that rarely exceeded twenty students grew into the School of Journalism. He expanded the school to include advertising and radio and television journalism in the curriculum, and by the 1960s UF's School of Journalism was the fastest growing journalism program in the country. In 1968, shortly after Rae retired, the School became the College of Journalism and Communications, and today it is still ranked among the nation’s top journalism programs, with students hired at news organizations across the country, including highly competitive newsrooms in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles. With the communication skills they developed at the college, many pursue careers in public service, politics, law and public relations. This book is an eye-opening chronicle of Rae Weimer’s lasting legacy to journalism in the state of Florida.Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of the University of Florida College of Journalism and CommunicationsWith the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship, Germany not only experienced a deep political turning point but the private…
life of Germans also changed fundamentally. The Nazi regime had far-reaching ideas about how the individual should think and act.In "A Third Reich, as I See It" Janosch Steuwer examines the private diaries of ordinary Germans written between 1933 and 1939 and shows how average citizens reacted to the challenges of National Socialism. Some felt the urge and desire to adapt to the political circumstances. Others felt compelled to do so. They all contributed to the realization of the vision of a homogeneous, conflict-free, and "racially pure" society.In a detailed manner and with a convincing sense of the bigger picture, Steuwer shows how the tense efforts of people to fit in, and at the same time to preserve existing opinions and self-conceptions, led to a close intertwining of the private and the political."A Third Reich, as I See It" offers a surprisingly new look at how the ideological visions of National Socialism found their way into the everyday reality of Germans.A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American…
Southwest trailer park named Cloud 9.Abandoned by his father at age two, Rick Sylvester lived with an abusive mother whose struggles as a member of the working poor led her to drugs, alcohol, theft, and prostitution--and eventually attempted suicide. Rick battled depression, anxiety, and PTSD as the chaos, neglect, and unpredictability of his childhood seemed to doom him to follow in his mother's footsteps.Well into adulthood, Rick stumbled through unemployment and divorce, using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain until he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Miraculously, though, he overcame the odds and today is a happy husband and father. How did this happen? Rick's answer is this: "It was the Lord."A message of hope to those who are drowning from an undeserved childhood, Leaving Cloud 9 speaks to millions who grew up poor, feeling ignored and hopeless, and who need the healing power of God. This indelibly American story conveys the steadfast love of Jesus and his power to deliver us from the most devastating of pasts.