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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2015
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A provocative short story collection planted at fertile and futile crossroads of self and surroundings|
In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In "How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town," an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay. A porn star trying to transition to the mainstream...
2) The Settlers
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"Jason Gurley will be a household name one day." – Hugh HoweyBook 1 of The Movement TrilogyEarth is on the brink of ruin. Great storms destroy cities. Rising seas reshape the continents. Afraid for its survival, mankind constructs a fleet of space stations in orbit, and steps off-world.Among the humans fighting for their future are Micah Sparrow, a widower who uncovers a plot to return mankind to the dark ages; Tasneem Kyoh, who undergoes life-extension...
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of China's three northeastern provinces, the area known as Manchuria. This was the greatest population movement in modern Chinese history and ranks among the largest migrations in the world.
Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that...
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Through the personal story of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's family and the food and recipes they've shared together, The Settler's Cookbook tells the history of Indian migration to the UK via East Africa. Her family was part of the mass exodus from India to East Africa during the height of British imperial expansion, fleeing famine and lured by the prospect of prosperity under the empire. In 1972, expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, they moved to the UK, where...
5) Shaping Natural History and Settler Society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape
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Springer International Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science
...7) Missouri
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The second in a series of short novels featuring Jeff Boon, a Confederate Civil War veteran who leaves his war-torn home with a group of settlers, intending to start over in Oregon. Jeff and the settlers spend the winter in Missouri, preparing to leave for the West in the spring. But tensions flare between the settlers and anti-Confederate locals, and between Jeff and Abe Hackett. Abe, who shot a man down in cold blood a few weeks earlier in Tennessee...
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When discussing the native American tribes of old, some misconceptions often come up. Some people often think of the tribes as living in an idyllic paradise with no wars or squabbles, before any settlers arrived. They often view the period before the New World arrived in rose-tinted glasses and this is quite understandable. Aside from dealing with common biases, there was no written history before the settlers arrived. This made any records of what...
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Jamila and Makena are two teenage best friends with dreams of becoming FBI detectives. When their school assignment leads them to investigate the disappearance of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, they uncover a centuries-old mystery. What happened to the 115 settlers who vanished without a trace in 1590? These determined teenage detectives delve into history, piecing together clues and uncovering secrets that have baffled scholars for generations. What...
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"Red Sticks, White Sticks and the war in Alabama
The Creek Indian War, also known as the Red Stick War, took place between 1813-1814 and has been considered by many historians as part of the War of 1812. The Creek-or Muscogee-Indians of Alabama were effectively waging a civil war among themselves. One militant faction, the so called Red Sticks, proposed an aggressive return to the traditional life of their forebears and an end to treaties with and...
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A local historian chronicles the famously remote region of the Scottish Highlands from its early Viking settlers to the present day.
Located in the "Rough Bounds" of northern Scotland, the remote region of Knoydart is Britain's last true wilderness. Deriving its name from Viking settlers, the desolate peninsula was home to warlike inhabitants who became notorious in the 18th century under the ruthless leadership of Coll of Barrisdale. Notorious...
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Springer International Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
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This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people's experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis – the degradation of Aotearoa New Zealand's Waipā River– to the settler-colonial acts of ecological dispossession resulting in intergenerational injustices for Indigenous Māori iwi (tribes). The authors draw on a rich empirical...
15) Daniel Boone
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In 1775, Daniel Boone (George O'Brien) leads thirty settler families to Kentucky where they face two threats: Indian raiders led by renegade white Simon Girty, (John Carradine) who opposes settlement; and the schemes of effete Stephen Marlowe (Ralph Forbes) to seize title to the new lands. Perils, battles, escapes, and a love interest round out the story.
16) Mohawk
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Set in 1956, an artist at a remote US army post is caught between the affections of the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. As tensions rise, a vengeful settler instigates conflict between the army and the natives.
1956 American Western drama romance western set in the backdrop of the historical events surrounding the Native American Mohawk tribe. The film delves into the complexities of love, trust,...
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During South Carolina's settlement, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. John J. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans...
18) Nebraska
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The third in a series featuring Jeff Boon, a Confederate Civil War veteran who leaves his war-torn home with a group of settlers, intending to start over in Oregon. The small wagon train continues their journey west as the trail takes them through Nebraska Territory. There they encounter warlike Indians who are rebelling against the encroachment of the white man and treaties broken by the U.S. Army, and the growing threat caused by the betrayal of...
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Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of America's most notorious serial killers wrought terror...
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Take a spine-chilling trip to Wisconsin and discover a world of ghosts and paranormal activity . . . photos included! The Chippewa Valley is nestled snugly in a vast tract of Wisconsin farmland that offered early settlers a secure place to settle into the American dream. But the valley also harbors a strange and sometimes confusing past. From the boisterous activity of the lumber boom to the lingering stillness of the Eau Claire Asylum, this northwestern...
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