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Author : K. M. Kostyal
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1426206445
An illustrated companion to the seven-hour National Geographic Channel special miniseries of the same title. It includes 250 breathtaking photos and describes all of the epic animal dramas that will be featured in the series.
Author : Robert Charles Anderson
Publisher : New England Historic Genealogical Society(NEHGS)
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN :
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Author : Elizabeth Carney
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426307012
"A National Georgraphic Channel global television event"--Cover.
Author : James Noble Gregory
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
Author : Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0679763880
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
Author : Erin Royston Battat
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1469614022
Ain t Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left"
Author : Sonia Shah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1526629216
'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN 'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER 'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT 'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious adaptability of life on earth' SCOTSMAN __________________ We are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands in a mass exodus. Politicians and the media present this upheaval of migration patterns as unprecedented, blaming it for the spread of disease and conflict, and spreading anxiety across the world as a result. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behaviour, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by borders, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, into the highest reaches of the Himalayan Mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, disseminating the biological, cultural and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis – it is the solution. __________________ Tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through to today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
Author : Bernadette Pruitt
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1603449485
The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.
Author : Laura F. Marsh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426307446
Follow the story of the longest and most demanding elephant migration on the planet.
Author : Laura Marsh
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1426310722
The monarch butterfly, one of the most seemingly delicate of all of nature’s animals, proves to be one of the toughest in this reader. Making the yearly trip from the Northern United States and Canada to the Oyamel forest of Mexico is no easy task, and it takes five generations of butterflies in order to do so. Battling cold temperatures and the threat of starvation, these beautiful insects complete an almost 3,000 mile journey over the course of two months, only to have to turn and around and head back home. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.