63 Dias

63 Dias
Author: Ralph Griffith
Publisher: XAK Media Group Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Entre el asesinato de Martin Luther King y Robert F Kennedy fueron 63 días. Esta historia la cuenta un joven de 16 años que había escapado de un reformatorio de Nevada el 4 de abril de 1968 y vuelto a arrestar unos días después del asesinato de Robert F. Kennedy en junio. La década de 1960 fue un período violento en la historia de Estados Unidos y el autor quería contar su historia. Su cita favorita es que la mayor parte de la no ficción es ficción y la mayor parte de la ficción es no ficción. El lector puede decidir qué creer. Ralph Griffith comenzó a escribir mientras estaba en una prisión federal y ha estado en libertad desde 2017.

Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd: Political and official finances

Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd: Political and official finances
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Standards and Conduct
Publisher:
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1966
Genre: Governmental investigations
ISBN:

Investigates alleged attempt by Julius Klein to use Senator Dodd's influence to promote Klein's public relations business in West Germany. Pt. 2: Continuation of the investigation of Sen. Thomas J. Dodd's relationship with Julius Klein, a public relations representative for certain West German interests.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: University of Puerto Rico (Mayagüez Campus). Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1976
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Diplomatic List

Diplomatic List
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1198
Release: 1948
Genre: Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN:

Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.

Slave Trade and Abolition

Slave Trade and Abolition
Author: Vanessa S. Oliveira
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299325806

Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the history of this diverse, wealthy city, the gendered dynamics of the merchant community have frequently been overlooked. Vanessa S. Oliveira traces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas (a term adapted from the title granted to noble and royal women in the Iberian Peninsula) were often important cultural brokers. Acting as intermediaries between foreign and local people, they held high socioeconomic status and even competed with the male merchants who controlled the trade. Oliveira provides rich evidence to explore the many ways this Luso-African community influenced its society. In doing so, she reveals an unexpectedly nuanced economy with regard to the dynamics of gender and authority.

Calunga and the Legacy of an African Language in Brazil

Calunga and the Legacy of an African Language in Brazil
Author: Steven Byrd
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012
Genre: African languages
ISBN: 0826350860

Although millions of slaves were forcibly transported from Africa to Brazil, the languages the slaves brought with them remain little known. Most studies have focused on African contributions to Brazilian Portuguese rather than on the African languages themselves. This book is unusual in focusing on an African-descended language. The author describes and analyzes the Afro- Brazilian speech community of Calunga, in Minas Gerais. Linguistically descended from West African Bantu, Calunga is an endangered Afro-Brazilian language spoken by a few hundred older Afro-Brazilian men, who use it only for specific, secret communications. Unlike most creole languages, which are based largely on the vocabulary of the colonial language, Calunga has a large proportion of African vocabulary items embedded in an essentially Portuguese grammar. A hyrid language, its formation can be seen as a form of cultural resistance. Steven Byrd's study provides a comprehensive linguistic description of Calunga based on two years of interviews with speakers of the language. He examines its history and historical context as well as its linguistic context, its sociolinguistic profile, and its lexical and grammatical outlines.

Power in the Wild

Power in the Wild
Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2022-04-20
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0226815943

Chart a path to power -- Weigh costs and benefits -- Assess thy rivals -- Watch and be watched -- Build alliances -- Cement the hold -- Survive the battles -- Rise and fall.