Freedom's Shore
Title | Freedom's Shore PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Duncan |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2021-07-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820362050 |
Freedom's Shore
Title | Freedom's Shore PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Duncan |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820369438 |
Freedom on the Fatal Shore
Title | Freedom on the Fatal Shore PDF eBook |
Author | John Hirst |
Publisher | Black Inc. |
Pages | 784 |
Release | 2008-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1921866322 |
Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author. Convicts with their "own time", convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: "This was not a society that had to become free; its freedoms were well established from the earliest times." “Colonial Australia was a more ‘normal’ place than one might imagine from the folkloric picture of society governed by the lash and the triangle, composed of groaning white slaves tyrannised by ruthless masters. The book that best conveys this and has rightly become a landmark in recent studies of the System is J.B. Hirst’s Convict Society and Its Enemies.” —Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore “Anyone with an interest in Australian political culture will find The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy invaluable.” —Professor Colin Hughes, former Electoral Commissioner for the Commonwealth
The People on the Beach
Title | The People on the Beach PDF eBook |
Author | Rosie Whitehouse |
Publisher | Hurst & Company |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Holocaust survivors |
ISBN | 1787383776 |
One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches--now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories--some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we--and don't we--remember the Holocaust today? This remarkable, important book digs deep and travels far in search of answers.
Freedom from Suffering, a Spiritual Approach
Title | Freedom from Suffering, a Spiritual Approach PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Shore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-09-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780938660217 |
Becoming free of suffering is now possible. Freedom From Suffering is a clear description of how to dissolve the root causes of depression, pain, anger, fear, anxiety and low self-esteem. The book is purposely kept short and concise to focus primarily on the practical steps and 14 practices for rising above suffering and truly feeling inner peace. Thousands of people have been able to shed the darkness with Jon's methods and you can too.
"Myne Owne Ground"
Title | "Myne Owne Ground" PDF eBook |
Author | T. H. Breen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 0195175379 |
During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
The Ukrainian Night
Title | The Ukrainian Night PDF eBook |
Author | Marci Shore |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2018-01-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300231539 |
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.