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Hubert Harrison
This first full-length biography of Harrison offers a portrait of a man ahead of his time in synthesizing race and class struggles in the U.S. and a leading influence on better known activists from Marcus Garvey to A. Philip Randolph. Harrison emigrated from St. Croix in 1883 and went on to become a foremost organizer for the Socialist Party in New York, the editor of the Negro World, and founder and leader of the World War I-era New Negro movement. Harrison s enormous political and intellectual appetites were channeled into his work as an orator, writer, political activist, and critic. He was an avid bibliophile, reportedly the first regular black book reviewer, who helped to develop the public library in Harlem into an international center for research on black culture. But Harrison was a freelancer so candid in his criticism of the establishment-black and white-that he had few allies or people interested in protecting his legacy. Historian Perry s detailed research brings to life a transformative figure who has been little recognized for his contributions to progressive race and class politics. Copyright Booklist Reviews 2008.
Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means of daring mystical interpretations of Scripture, entered a Paradise, representing different means of imaginative reading, perception, memory and application of the law. One of them died, one went mad, another became a heretic and the other came back as a traditional exegete and teacher. Based on that legend, this book examines a small group of late 19th and early 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams, writings, and moments of crisis. These men and women, comedians in both the sense of stage actors and clowns or witty performers, believed they had entered a new secular and tolerant society, but discovered that there was no escape from their Jewish heritage and way of seeing the world. This monograph looks into the imperfect mirror of cultural experience, discovers a hazy world of illusions, dreams and nightmares on the other side of the looking glass, and sometimes constructs a midrashic conceit of the comical and grotesque screen between them.
School of Racism
Exposing the history of racism in Canada’s classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec’s school system has, from its inception and for decades, taught and endorsed colonial domination and racism. This English translation extends its crucial lesson to readers worldwide, bridging English- and French-Canadian histories to deliver a better understanding of Canada’s past and present identity. Guided by postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist theories and methodologies, Larochelle examines late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century classroom materials us...
Diary of Forty-one Days at Sea, 1881
Rosamunde Hayes Mudie was born 1 December 1842 in St. Croix, Danish West Indies. Her father was George James Mudie. She received her education in England and Denmark. Records the daily events of her return home in 1881.
Parisiana
Présentation des sculptures, affiches et peintures des artistes qui ont consacré Paris au XIXe siècle : Auguste Clésinger, Gustave Courbet, Adolphe Willette, Berthe Morisot, Alfons Mucha, etc.
Les Cahiers de Chantilly
Les Cahiers de Chantilly sont une publication créée en 2008 par le département d'histoire locale du centre culturel de Chantilly. Ils traitent de sujets inédits, dans des domaines aussi divers que l'histoire politique, sociale, artistique, littéraire de Chantilly et sa région de l'époque médiévale à nos jours. Dans le numéro 9 : - Christophe Potter, le maestro des arts du feu à Chantilly - Accueillir, soigner, soulager, l'hospitalisation des civils à l'Hospice Condé de Chantilly au XIXe siècle - La Maison Jacobée : 350 ans à Chantilly, histoire d'une entreprise - La lessive du duc d'Aumale ou le duc trois en un - Supplément spécial centenaire de la Grande Guerre : Le carnet de guerre d'H. Barbusse, enfer, feu, clarté - collection : le pharmacien en colère
Les belles passantes de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Qui sont ces Belles passantes venues à Saint-Germain-en-Laye au XIXe siècle ? Quelle image donnent-elles d'une époque si riche en événements, en inventions, en transformations sociales ? En quoi les problèmes de leur temps nous renvoient-ils aux nôtres ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles l'auteur de ce livre a voulu répondre en choisissant d'évoquer la vie ou le passage à Saint-Germain de ces douze femmes surprenantes. Les voici : Femmes célèbres qui ont marqué leur passage à Saint-Germain-en-Laye Une petite esclave africaine, Ourika, donnée en cadeau au château du Val au prince et à la princesse de Beauvau.
