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Land of Promise, Land of Tears

2012-01-05 Fiction
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Release : 2012-01-05
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Book Synopsis Land of Promise, Land of Tears by : Jerry L. Twedt

Download or read book Land of Promise, Land of Tears written by Jerry L. Twedt. This book was released on 2012-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1869 and Ole and Helena Branjord are Norwegian immigrants attempting to make a new life on forty acres of central Iowa farmland. Ole is a kind, gentle man who questions his ability to provide for his family. Helena is pining for a real house, but has sadly learned through her past experiences that promises, no matter how sincere, are never certain. But Ole has lofty dreams to prove all the naysayers wrong and double his farmstead. The Branjord children each possess talents and challenges. Eleven-year-old Oline loves music. Martin is intelligent beyond his eight years. Four-year-old Berent wants to wear pants instead of the dresses Norwegian custom dictates he don every day. Populating the Branjords world are other immigrants that include a giant, strong man who can make a violin sing; a Civil War veteran with disfiguring physical scars; and members of the local Lutheran church determined to save their congregation. But among all the good is one enemy from Helenas past who wants nothing more than to destroy the Branjords. Twedts well-researched novel deserves to be awarded a place next to Rolvaag's work on the book shelves of home, public, and college libraries. It is apparent that Twedt has devoted many years to perfecting his craft as a storyteller. Brad Steiger

Land of Tears

2019-12-03 History
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Release : 2019-12-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Land of Tears by : Robert Harms

Download or read book Land of Tears written by Robert Harms. This book was released on 2019-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.

Land of Promise

2012-04-17 Business & Economics
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Release : 2012-04-17
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 725/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Land of Promise by : Michael Lind

Download or read book Land of Promise written by Michael Lind. This book was released on 2012-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] ambitious economic history of the united States...rich with details." ?—David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus? From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam engine, electricity, the internal combustion engine, computer technology. Yet technology-driven change leads to growing misalignment between an innovative economy and anachronistic legal and political structures until the gap is closed by the modernization of America's institutions—often amid upheavals such as the Civil War and Reconstruction and the Great Depression and World War II. When the U.S. economy has flourished, government and business, labor and universities, have worked together in a never-ending project of economic nation building. As the United States struggles to emerge from the Great Recession, Michael Lind clearly demonstrates that Americans, since the earliest days of the republic, have reinvented the American economy - and have the power to do so again.

AFRICAN TEARS

2002 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2002
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 406/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis AFRICAN TEARS by : Catherine Buckle

Download or read book AFRICAN TEARS written by Catherine Buckle. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 the author became the proud owners of Stow Farm, with the approval of the Zanu-PF government. In February 2000 a mob of 'veterans' claimed the farm was now their property. This is the account of what then happened, her family's experiences when their home, livelihood and investment is taken from them.

Manchild in the Promised Land

2011-12-27 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-12-27
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Manchild in the Promised Land by : Claude Brown

Download or read book Manchild in the Promised Land written by Claude Brown. This book was released on 2011-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.

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