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Conflicted Colony

Critical Episodes in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador

By: Kurt Korneski

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Conflicted Colony

Critical Episodes in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador

By: Kurt Korneski

Nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an archetypal borderland - a space where changes in the authority of imperial, national, and indigenous territorial claims shaped the opportunities and identities of a socially diverse population. Conflicted Colony elucidates processes of state formation in Newfoundland through a reassessment of key moments in the country's history. Kurt Korneski closely examines five conflicts from the late nineteenth century - the Fortune Bay Dispute of 1878, the St George's Bay Dispute of 1889-92, the 1890s Lobster Controversy, the Battle of Foxtrap, and disputes over salmon grounds in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador - to explain how local regimes received, challenged, and reworked formal and informal diplomatic and commercial arrangements, as well as policies set out by the colonial and imperial government. The chapters examine antagonisms and divisions that grew out of clashes between the distinct commercial and social identities of regions in the borderlands and the sensibilities of merchants, politicians, and working people on the Avalon Peninsula. Providing new insight into the social history of Newfoundland and Labrador, these disputes illuminate contending perspectives driven by informal systems of governance, political movements, and local economic, social, demographic, and ecological circumstances. Conflicted Colony broadens, deepens, and clarifies our understanding of how Newfoundland became an integrated Dominion in the British Empire.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773599517

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9780773599512

Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s

By: Kurt Korneski

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Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s

By: Kurt Korneski

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labor leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism, prostitution, sweatshop conditions, inadequate educational facilities, and other "social evils." Although they represented an array of political positions and advocated a range of strategies to deal with what they deemed problems, historians have come to term this impulse "urban reform" or the "urban reform movement." This book considers the history of reform ideology in Canada. It does so by considering four leading reformers living in what might be described as the most Canadian of Canadian cities, Winnipeg, Manitoba. While the book engages in discussions/debates surrounding the particular individuals it considers, its more general argument is that to understand the history of reform in Canada requires viewing reformers as simultaneously experiencing and responding to two basic phenomena simultaneously. It requires understanding them as confronting the polarizing tendencies, exploitation, and sometimes grinding poverty that was central to the economic order they (often unwittingly) helped to impose in northern North America. It also, however, requires seeing them as fundamentally shaped by the process and legacy of the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples, and the changing nature of Aboriginal-settler relations that were also central to the development of Canada.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611478502

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9781611478501

Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s

By: Kurt Korneski

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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

By: Kurt Vonnegut

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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Gathers interviews with Vonnegut from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878053581

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9780878053582

Love, Kurt

The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945

By: Kurt Vonnegut

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Love, Kurt

The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945

By: Kurt Vonnegut

A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter “A glimpse into the mind of a writer finding his voice.”—The Washington Post “If ever I do write anything of length—good or bad—it will be written with you in mind.” Kurt Vonnegut’s eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother’s attic when she stumbled upon a dusty, aged box. Inside, she discovered an unexpected treasure: more than two hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship. The letters begin in 1941, after the former schoolmates reunited at age nineteen, sparked a passionate summer romance, and promised to keep in touch when they headed off to their respective colleges. And they did, through Jane’s conscientious studying and Kurt’s struggle to pass chemistry. The letters continue after Kurt dropped out and enlisted in the army in 1943, while Jane in turn graduated and worked for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C. They also detail Kurt’s deployment to Europe in 1944, where he was taken prisoner of war and declared missing in action, and his eventual safe return home and the couple’s marriage in 1945. Full of the humor and wit that we have come to associate with Kurt Vonnegut, the letters also reveal little-known private corners of his mind. Passionate and tender, they form an illuminating portrait of a young soldier’s life in World War II as he attempts to come to grips with love and mortality. And they bring to light the origins of Vonnegut the writer, when Jane was the only person who believed in and supported him supported him, the young couple having no idea how celebrated he would become. A beautiful full-color collection of handwritten letters, notes, sketches, and comics, interspersed with Edith’s insights and family memories, Love, Kurt is an intimate record of a young man growing into himself, a fascinating account of a writer finding his voice, and a moving testament to the life-altering experience of falling in love.

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Random House

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0593133021

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9780593133026

Journals

By: Kurt Cobain

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Journals

By: Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music and the people who bought and sold him and his music. More than 20 of these notebooks survived his many moves and travels, and have been locked in a safe since his death. His journals reveal an artist who loved music, who knew the history of rock, and who was determined to define his place in that history.

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280

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Viking Canada

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0670913707

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9780670913701

Kurt Vonnegut

Letters

By: Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut

Letters

By: Kurt Vonnegut

A compilation of personal correspondence written over a sixty-year period offers insight into the iconic American author's literary personality, his experiences as a German POW, his struggles with fame, and the inspirations for his famous books.

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436

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1624902871

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Correspondence H-Z

By: Kurt Gödel

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Correspondence H-Z

By: Kurt Gödel

The collected works of Kurt Godel is designed to be useful and accessible to as wide an audience as possible without sacrificing scientific or historical accuracy.

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690

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Oxford University Press

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0198500750

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9780198500759

A Man Without a Country

By: Kurt Vonnegut

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A Man Without a Country

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout, "Only Kidding" delivers Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation and writing tenderly to his fellow Americans.

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158322713X

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9781583227138

Jailbird

By: Kurt Vonnegut

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Jailbird

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Recently released from a prison for white-collar criminals, Walter Starbuck tries to rebuild the life that was ruined during the Communist witchhunt of the 1950s

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Delta

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0385292805

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9780385292801

Book's by Kurt Korneski

Conflicted Colony

Conflicted Colony

Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s

Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s

Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s

Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s

Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Love, Kurt

Love, Kurt

Journals

Journals

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

Correspondence H-Z

Correspondence H-Z

A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country

Jailbird

Jailbird

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