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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
Helen C. Rountree Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0813925967 |
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Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who ever lived, but during the settlement of Jamestown, and for two centuries afterward, the great chiefs Powhatan and Opechancanough were the subjects of considerably more interest and historical documentation than the young woman. It was Opechancanough who captured the foreign captain "Chawnzmit" -- John Smith. Smith gave Opechancanough a compass, described to him a spherical earth that revolved around the sun, and wondered if his captor was a cannibal. Opechancanough, who was no cannibal and knew the world was flat, presented Smith to his elder brother, the paramount chief Powhatan. The chief, who took the name of his tribe as his throne name (his personal name was Wahunsenacawh), negotiated with Smith over a lavish feast and opened the town to him, leading Smith to meet, among others, Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas. Thinking he had made an ally, the chief finally released Smith. Within a few decades, and against their will, his people would be subjects of the British Crown.Despite their roles as senior politicians in these watershed events, no biography of either Powhatan or Opechancanough exists. And while there are other "biographies" of Pocahontas, they have for the most part elaborated on her legend more than they have addressed the known facts of her remarkable life. As the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding approaches, nationally renowned scholar of Native Americans, Helen Rountree, provides in a single book the definitive biographies of these three important figures. In their lives we see the whole arc of Indian experience with the English settlers -- from the wary initial encounters presided over by Powhatan, to the uneasy diplomacy characterized by the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, to the warfare and eventual loss of native sovereignty that came during Opechancanough's reign.
Writing from an ethnohistorical perspective that looks as much to anthropology as the written records, Rountree draws a rich portrait of Powhatan life in which the land and the seasons governed life and the English were seen not as heroes but as Tassantassas (strangers), as invaders, even as squatters. The Powhatans were a nonliterate people, so we have had to rely until now on the white settlers for our conceptions of the Jamestown experiment. This important book at last reconstructs the other side of the story.
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The True Story Of Pocahontas, John Smith and Chief Powhatan.......2005-11-22
Pieces of the Real Jamestown and its Major Players.......2005-08-08
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Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Camilla Townsend Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000VR166O Release Date: 2007-09-05 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 513 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy In The Union Army: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army
Sarah Emma Edmonds , and S Emma E Edmonds Manufacturer: Diggory Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 184685041X |
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Sarah Emma Edmonds was born in New Brunswick, Canada in 1842, the fifth daughter of Isaac and Elisabeth Leeper Edmondson. Her father, a farmer, was bitterly disappointed with Sarah as he had wanted a son to work his land for him.Sarah tried very hard to be the boy her father always wanted, abandoning female dress and becoming an expert horsewoman and markswoman. However, this was all to no avail: sadly, she never won the approval of Isaac. In 1859, she ran away from home to escape the man she described as `The Brutal Father'.
Sarah fled to the USA, where dressing as a man to draw less attention to herself, she adopted the name of `Frank Thompson'. By 1861, `Frank' was working selling Bibles door-to-door in Flint, Michigan, and so successful in `his' guise that he was escorting young ladies in `his' carriage.
When President Lincoln issued his first call for volunteer troops, `Frank' wanted to answer the call and patriotically serve `his' new homeland. The army at that time didn't require a full physical examination. However, it still took `Frank' four tries to get into the Union Army. On April 25, 1861, Sarah Emma Edmonds alias Frank Thompson became a male nurse in Company F, of the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. This is 'his' story.
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Exciting Stuff.......2005-04-19
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MEMOIRS OF A SOLDIER NURSE AND SPY: A WOMAN'S ADVENTURES IN THE UNION ARMY
Manufacturer: Northern Illinois University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000ID7F0M |
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A History of the Book in America: Volume I: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World (A History of the Book in America)
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0807858269 |
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Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a "culture of the Word," organized around an essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and reading, complemented by other frameworks of meaning that included the culture of republicanism.
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Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
Paulo Freire , and Donaldo Macedo Manufacturer: Bergin & Garvey Paperback ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0897891260 |
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"At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response." Harvard Educational Review "Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it." Times Educational Supplement "[This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning." Contemporary SociologyCustomer Reviews:
Education 'is' Politics.......2004-08-14
I've Read the Word and the Word Sucks.......2004-07-06
By addressing the problems of literacy and social structure from a blended metaphysical foundation, Freire does not need to make logical inferences to support his position and can resort to faith or prescribed dogma for his rationale. Contradictions, impermissible in a logical, purely objective philosophy, are allowable in his. Why is it acceptable for Freire to impose his ethics and make it our duty to work for social justice? Why is a government's interest in one class of people wrong but in another class admirable? (p64) What exactly is a collective social conscience and how can one exist? (p48) Why is it wrong to compel students to learn their colonizer's language but permissible to teach students to read by replacing Dick and Jane with Karl and Frederick? Freire makes assertions which his philosophy permits circumventing justification. They are supposedly self-evident givens.
His discussion of the necessity of politics being a component of education (which is true but the other branches of philosophy: ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and metaphysics are as well) is absent of dialogue on whether political beliefs can be moral or immoral and the consequences of validating the propagation of immoral politics. If the political views of the dominant power are moral, regardless of whether educators are critical or astutely naïve of their practices, and individuals choose whether or not they or their children will learn these ideas, there is no oppression and no dilemma to resolve. If the politics of the dominant power are immoral and are being imposed upon individuals, as is the case in our current global situation, we need a revolution - not the political revolution Freire seeks but a lasting, metaphysical one.
Freire recognizes the danger of the dominant culture monopolizing education, but rather than proposing decentralizing the field to reduce the control and impact of those in power, he wants to transfer power from one group to another. He wants to use the public school forum for social change. The "Popular Culture Notebooks" are filled with same communist rhetoric shared by role models Freire cites in Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Marx, Lenin, Castro and Mao Tse-tung. Oppression of one group will just be replaced with oppression of another. History has shown this to be exactly what happens.
Additionally, Literacy: Reading the Word and the World offers no new ideas for pedegogical practices. The dialogue in which Freire wants us to engage with our students is Lev Vygotsky's mandate for effective teachers. Vygotsky speaks to constructing an inclusionary classroom where learning disabled, gifted and those in between (including the instructor) learn from each other in an environment crafted by the teacher. The school's role then becomes helping students develop a conscious awareness of language.
Recognizing students' autonomy and respecting them as individuals was eloquently implored by Maria Montessori. Both she and Freire disapproved of authority figures imposing their ideas onto passive students. Both she and Freire worked with poverty-stricken students, but while Freire wanted educators to help the oppressed learn to define and understand his idea of the world, Montessori wanted educators to arrange an environment where students would develop the ability to self-educate. Montessori, recognized by UNESCO along with Freire, writes of how education is liberatory but on an individual level - not as a component of Freire's Marxist revolutionary agenda.
Freire also implores educators to use "their students' cultural universe as a point of departure" (p127). Disparate educational theorists John Dewey and Lev Vygotsky would concur. While Dewey fits less seamlessly with Freire, his directive that education be both active and contextual does meld with Freire's praxis. Vygotsky's constructivist model for literacy identifies the need to begin knowledge building within a student's zone of proximal development where they can actively construct meaning through inference. Vygotsky's praxis of organizing knowledge is more general than Freire's call to arms. Freire compels citizens to learn and then use what they learn as a means by which to fight for his social ideal.
Freire is right that education should be student-centered, that knowledge should begin with the contextual and that a student's culture should be validated. He is also correct that many problems we confront are political, but he is wrong to remain on a political level while waging his war. You cannot change the world through politics. It must be addressed at the more fundamental metaphysical level first - and there, Freire offers nothing to the revolution.
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Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, Circa 1450-1520
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 080149902X |
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Alfabetizacion / Literacy. Reading the Word and the World (Temas De Educacion / Education Topics)
Paulo Freire , and Donaldo Macedo Manufacturer: Ediciones Paidos Iberica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8475095682 |
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More Than Words: Readings in Transport, Communication, and the History of Postal Communication (Mercury Series, Canadian Postal Museum)
Manufacturer: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadie ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0660196964 |
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More Than Words features the work of more than twenty scholars from Canada and abroad on topics related to postal communication. Drawing on recent trends in social and cultural history, the authors address the history and importance of the post from such perspectives as infrastructure, technology, nation-building, and interpersonal communications. Demonstrating the power of the written word, these new essays examine the post's essential role in building contacts, exchanging emotions, and forging a culture of communication - in which more than words are exchanged.
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The Words on the Page, the World in Your Hands: Book 1
Catherine Lipkin Manufacturer: Harpercollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0060551542 |
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The Words on the Page: The World in Your Hand : Book 3
Catherine Lipkin Manufacturer: Harpercollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0060551569 |
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The tyranny of words. (special education student's need to be part of the literate world) (column): An article from: Exceptional Children
Jeptha V. Greer Manufacturer: Council for Exceptional Children ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00092BDB4 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Exceptional Children, published by Council for Exceptional Children on May 1, 1991. The length of the article is 1113 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Hunger for the Printed Word: Books and Libraries in the Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe
David Shavit Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0786402032 |
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In the years leading up to World War II, libraries played an increasingly significant role in the culture lives of East European Jews. Amid the squalor, books provided many with an opportunity to escape for a while and offered renewed hope and willpower. Maintaining libraries was also an act of resistance, helping the people keep a hold on their humanity and a cultural link with the past. This work details the story of libraries in five of the largest ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe: Ldz and Warsaw in Poland, Kovno and Vilna in Lithuania, and Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia.Customer Reviews:
FASCINATING - illuminates a (mostly) unknown phenomenon.......1997-10-20
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World of Words With Flemming Cd, 6th Ed + Hm Reading Cd-rom, 5th Ed + Webster's II Pocket Dictionary
Margaret Richek Manufacturer: Not Avail ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0618596682 |
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The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park
Daniel S. Pierce Manufacturer: University of Tennessee Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1572330767 |
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The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains and The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park.: An article from: Journal of Southern History
Kathleen A. Brosnan Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FBNZ8 Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 895 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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