Prison of Grass
Title | Prison of Grass PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Adams |
Publisher | Saskatoon : Fifth House |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
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Originally published in 1975, this important book is now back in print in a revised and updated edition. Since its first publication it has become a classic of revisionist history. Bringing a Native viewpoint to the settlement of the West, Howard Adam's book shook its readers. What Native people had to say for themselves was quite different from the convenient picture of history that even the most sympathetic books by white authors had presented. Until Adams's book, the cultural, historical, and psychological aspects of colonialism for Native people had not been explored in depth. In Prison of Grass Adams objects to the popular historical notion that Natives were warring savages, without government, seeking to be civilized. He contrasts the official history found in the federal government's documents with the unpublished history of the Indian and Metis people. In this new edition Howard Adams brings the latest statistics to bear on his arguments and provides a new Preface.
Prison of Grass
Title | Prison of Grass PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1979 |
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Grass Soup
Title | Grass Soup PDF eBook |
Author | Xianliang Zhang |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781567920307 |
Grass Soup is a portrait of degradation and redemption during the Cultural Revolution.
Tallgrass
Title | Tallgrass PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Dallas |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2007-04-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429917172 |
An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.
Paths to Prison
Title | Paths to Prison PDF eBook |
Author | Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2020-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781941332665 |
Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States.
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Title | Prisons We Choose to Live Inside PDF eBook |
Author | Doris Lessing |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 1992-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 177089022X |
In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.
My Fellow Prisoners
Title | My Fellow Prisoners PDF eBook |
Author | Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1468311611 |
The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post). Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. Then he was arrested at gunpoint. Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges in 2003, Khodorkovsky was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years on new charges that contradicted the previous ones. While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times. After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners’ rights, and this book is dedicated to that work. A moving portrait of the prisoners Khodorkovsky met, My Fellow Prisoners is an eye-opening account of Russia’s brutal prison system. “Vivid, humane and poignant” —Financial Times