Windmills and Wooden Shoes

Windmills and Wooden Shoes
Author: Maude Margaret Grant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1920
Genre: Netherlands
ISBN:

Historical fiction account of Holland through the everyday events of two Dutch chidren, Jan and Katrina, and their friends.

Windmills and Wooden Shoes

Windmills and Wooden Shoes
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1903-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN:

1890. A volume of poetry from Field, the American journalist and bibliophile who also wrote light verse for adults and children. The best years of his life were spent in Chicago as contributing editor to The Chicago Record. In his daily column of Sharps and Flats appeared his most characteristic verse, which was later collected to form A Little Book of Western Verse. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Windmills and Wooden Shoes

Windmills and Wooden Shoes
Author: Crystal Bowman
Publisher: Cygnet Books
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1999
Genre: Clogs
ISBN: 9780963605023

A young boy visits his grandmother in Holland, Michigan during the Tulip Time Festival and enjoys seeing a windmill and parades, hearing stories and music, and looking for the perfect souvenir.

Windmills and Millwrighting

Windmills and Millwrighting
Author: Stanley Freese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2011-06-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107600138

This book provides a concise, yet highly detailed, record of the processes involved in building and maintaining windmills.

Delft Blue to Denim Blue

Delft Blue to Denim Blue
Author: Anneke Smelik
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-04-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1838608354

Contemporary fashion in the Netherlands shows a unique mix of playful individualism, conceptual strength, and organisational innovation. Delft Blue to Denim Blue maps the landscape of Dutch fashion in all its rich variety and complexity.Luxuriously illustrated in colour, the book uncovers the cultural roots of Dutch fashion in a globalized context. The authors debunk myths surrounding Dutch fashion, dig up new facts and stories, and explore the creative relation of fashion design to cultural heritage. Written by experts in the field, Delft Blue to Denim Blue gives a rich overview of designers, ranging from G-Star jeans, and affordable retailer C&A, to a savvy brand like Vanilia, and from the famous designer duo Viktor&Rolf to a futuristic designer like Iris van Herpen. The book assesses the diversity of Dutch fashion designers, firms and brands in their historical and cultural contexts.

The Dutch American Identity

The Dutch American Identity
Author: Terence Schoone-Jongen
Publisher: Cambria Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1604975652

Each year, thousands of communities across the United States celebrate their ethnic heritages, values, and identities through the medium of festivals. Drawing together elements of ethnic pride, nostalgia, religious values, economic motives, cultural memory, and a spirit of celebration, these festivals are performances that promote and preserve a community's unique identity and heritage, while at the same time attempting to place the ethnic community within the larger American experience. Although these aims are pervasive across ethnic heritage celebrations, two festivals that appear similar may nevertheless serve radically different social and political aims. Accordingly, The Dutch American Identity examines five Dutch American festivals-three of which are among the oldest ethnic heritage festivals in the United States-in order to determine what such festivals mean and do for the staging communities. Although Dutch Americans were historically among the first ethnic groups to stage ethnic heritage festivals designed to attract outside audiences, and despite the fact that several Dutch American festivals have met with sustained success, little scholarship has focused on this ethnic group's festivals. Moreover, studies that have considered festivals staged by communities of European descent have typically focused on a single festival. The Dutch American Identity thus, on the one hand, seeks to call attention to the historical development and current sociocultural significance of Dutch American heritage festivals. On the other hand, this study aims to elucidate the ties that bind the five communities that stage these festivals together rather than studying one festival in isolation from the others. Creatively combining several methodologies, The Dutch American Identity describes and analyzes how the social, political, and ethical values of the five communities are expressed (performed, acted out, represented, costumed, and displayed) in their respective festivals. Rather than relying on familiar, even stereotypical, notions of "the Midwest," "rural America," "conservative America," etc., that often appear in contemporary political discourse, Schoone-Jongen shows just how complex and contradictory these festivals are in the ways they represent each community. At the same time, by placing these festivals within the context of American history, Schoone-Jongen also demonstrates how and why each festival is a microcosm of particular cultural, social, and political developments in modern America. The Dutch American Identity is an important book for sociology, performance studies, folklore, immigration history, anthropology, and cultural history collections.

Fighting with the Screaming Eagles

Fighting with the Screaming Eagles
Author: Robert Bowen
Publisher: Casemate
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1935149903

A member of the 101st Airborne’s Glider Infantry recalls WWII, from the horror of D-Day to the despair of Nazi captivity, in this compelling memoir. As World War II broke out, Robert Bowen was drafted into Company C, 401st Glider Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. Soon afterwards, he found himself storming Utah Beach amid the chaos of D-Day, through unfamiliar terrain littered with minefields and hidden snipers. Bowen was wounded during the Normandy campaign but went on to fight in Holland and the Ardennes, where he was captured. That’s when his “trip through hell” truly began. In each of Bowen’s campaigns, the 101st “Screaming Eagles” spearheaded the Allied effort against the Nazi occupation of Europe. At Bastogne, they stood nearly alone against the onslaught of enemy panzers and grenadiers. His insights into life behind enemy lines after his capture provide as much fascination as his exploits on the battlefield. Written shortly after the war, Bowen’s narrative is immediate and compelling. An introduction by the world’s foremost historian of the 101st Airborne, George Koskimaki, further enhances this classic work.