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UNINA9910964137003321 |
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Autore |
Asfour John |
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Titolo |
Blindfold / / John Mikhail Asfour |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011 |
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9786613841704 |
9780773586307 |
077358630X |
9781283529259 |
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9780773585607 |
0773585605 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (106 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Hugh MacLennan poetry series |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""A Different World""; ""Mediterranean Eyes""; ""The Blind Shepherd""; ""Call to Mind""; ""Admitting the Light""; ""Telling Her Stories""; ""The Straw Chair""; ""Uncle""; ""Silver Threads""; ""Wings""; ""December 25th""; ""The Intruder""; ""A Sunday in June""; ""Blindfold""; ""The Cutting Edge""; ""Surgery""; ""Ultimate""; ""Anticipation""; ""A Shot in the Paper""; ""Reflections""; ""Booting the PC""; ""Confined Kisses""; ""Did Not Own Up""; ""Beyond Belief""; ""In the Metro""; ""The Interview""; ""The Curtainà‚€?s Down""; ""Division of Labour""; ""Etched on the Mind"" |
""Falling-Out""""Black Hole""; ""Eggs""; ""Morning Coffee""; ""Oblivious""; ""At Fifty-Five""; ""Passing Desires""; ""Repudiation""; ""Second Hand Love""; ""Short of History""; ""Waiting""; ""Casual Hand Shake""; ""We Only Meet in a Poem Now""; ""Acknowledgments"" |
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A sense of exile and belonging dominates the poems, following the journey of a blind man whose life in his new land has been hampered by prejudice and barriers to communication. Exposing the rich and surprising possibilities of a life that has undergone a frightening transformation, Blindfold relates feelings of loss, displacement, and |
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disorientation experienced not only by the disabled but by everyone who finds themselves separated from the norm. Silver Threads He recalls the absence of sound, the impossible silence the disappearance of light. He is only aware of the movement of his mother's hand inside her purse, looking for her handkerchief. He recalls her warning not to play with unknown objects the type that explode on impact. Later, he lies in the dark remembering how she pointed out the silver threads of the morning light just the day before and he sparkles with guilt. |
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UNINA9910970947903321 |
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Autore |
Bergmann William H. <1975-> |
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The American national state and the early West / / William H. Bergmann |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
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1-139-88857-9 |
1-139-57943-6 |
1-139-57341-1 |
1-139-56905-8 |
1-139-05838-X |
1-139-57261-X |
1-139-57086-2 |
1-283-63862-2 |
1-139-56995-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Indians of North America - Northwest, Old - Government relations |
Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley - Government relations |
United States Territorial expansion History 18th century |
United States Territorial expansion History 19th century |
United States Territorial expansion Government policy |
Northwest, Old Economic policy |
Ohio River Valley Economic policy |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Property war -- Martial economies -- A bordered land -- Webs of commerce -- The national state in Indian country -- Bureaucratic expansionism. |
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This book challenges the widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic. William H. Bergmann reveals how the federal government used its fiscal and military powers, as well as bureaucratic authority, to enhance land acquisitions, promote infrastructure development and facilitate commerce and communication in the early trans-Appalachian West. Energetic federal state-building efforts prior to 1815 grew from national state security interests as Native Americans and British imperial designs threatened to unravel the republic. White Westerners and Western state governments partnered with the federal government to encourage commercial growth and emigration, to transform the borderland into a bordered land. Taking a regional approach, this work synthesizes the literatures of social history, political science and economic history to provide a new narrative of American expansionism, one that takes into account the unique historical circumstances in the Ohio Valley and the southern Great Lakes. |
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