Ruin Nation

Author: Megan Kate Nelson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034379X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change. Megan Kate Nelson examines the narratives and images that Americans produced as they confronted the war’s destructiveness. Architectural ruins—cities and houses—dominated the stories that soldiers and civilians told about the “savage” behavior of men and the invasions of domestic privacy. The ruins of living things—trees and bodies—also provoked discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being blown apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime technologies on nature and on individual identities. The obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared experience. Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the war’s ruination—in a time of the most extreme national divisiveness people found common ground as they considered the war’s costs. And yet, very few of these ruins still exist, suggesting that the destructive practices that dominated the experiences of Americans during the Civil War have been erased from our national consciousness.

Lying In Ruins: A FREE Post-Apocalyptic Enemies to Lovers Romantic Suspense Series

Author: Jami Gray
Publisher: Celtic Moon Press
ISBN: 1948884526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Looking for a good post-apocalyptic romance to sink your teeth into? Then don’t miss out on this FREE series starter in Jami Gray’s gripping action-adventure series that runs the gamut from heart-breaking betrayal to redeeming second-chance love. The world as we know it is long gone and in its place is the ravaged, post-apocalyptic landscape known as The Collapse. From the ashes rises a new breed of mercenary warriors called Fate’s Vultures, four enigmatic protectors who hold to their code even as loyalties shift with the winds of this chaotic reality, testing their bonds to each other and their found families. Steel yourself for an all-consuming ride through this riveting romantic suspense series. In a world gone to hell, better to choose the devil you know… As a ‘Hound, Charity puts her lethal survival skills learned at an early age to good use by sniffing out pivotal secrets for one of the most powerful leaders on what remains of the west coast. Her work is deceptive, deadly, and best performed solo, but when her path crosses with a member of the notorious mercenary group known as Fate’s Vultures, she’s faced with a less than stellar choice – join the sexy as hell Ruin in a mockery of teamwork or waste her valuable time shaking him loose. As one of Fate’s Vultures, a nomadic band of ruthless arbitrators, Ruin knows well the type of carnage created by the corruption and greed of what remains of humanity, so when he rides into a brutal murder scene and discovers his friend has been taken hostage, he’ll use whatever resources he can to save him. Even if one of those resources is a damn ‘Hound who’s clearly trouble. Trouble, Ruin knows he should avoid, especially since the suspicious circumstance of Charity’s involvement leaves every cell of his body skeptical—and painfully aroused. But Fate has other plans for them, especially when Ruin and Charity realize they have a common enemy. Can they set aside their distrust to achieve their mutual goal of justice and revenge? For fans of Evie Mitchell, E.A. Chance, and Kyla Stone, LYING IN RUINS is the first novel in The Collapse: Fate’s Vultures, a complete post-apocalyptic romantic suspense that should be read in order, but can be read as standalones. This enemies-to-lovers romantic suspense follows the first of four evocative couples that will let no one and nothing stop them from claiming their happily ever afters, even as the world burns. *This is a heavily revised edition of previously released title

Ohio Annals

Author: Charles Hallowell Mitchener
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description

In Near Ruins

Author: Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816631230
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
If culture is suspect, what of cultural theory? At a moment when culture's traditional caretakers -- humanism, philosophy, anthropology, and the nation-state -- are undergoing crisis and mutation, this volume charts the tensions and contradictions in the development and deployment of the concept of culture. A genuinely interdisciplinary venture, In Near Ruins brings together respected writers from the fields of history, anthropology, literary criticism, and communications. Together their essays present an intriguing picture of "culture" at the edges of humanism, of the politics of critical inquiry amid current social transformations, of the status and practice of historical knowledge in an age of theory. Skeptical of the concept of culture but fascinated with cultural forms, the authors take up diverse topics, from debates over sexuality in the contemporary United States to relations between empire, capitalism, and gender in nineteenth-century Britain; from poverty in U.S. inner cities to violence in war-torn Sri Lanka; from the operation of nostalgia on cultural practices in Japan to anthropological forms of state power in Indonesia and the writing of history in India. Linked by a common urge to think through the aesthetics and politics of particular social relations amid a variety of globalizing forces -- revolution, colonialism, nationalism, and the disciplinary institutions of the academy itself -- these writers contribute to the ongoing work of remapping the terrain of cultural analysis and reevaluating the stakes in such a daunting effort.

The Oathbreakers

Author: Mike D. Martin
Publisher: Mike D. Martin
ISBN: 1737996006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 828

Book Description
The Kingdom of Elesia stands upon the brink of ruin. A brewing war with the empire to the south threatens to engulf the entire continent in turmoil and chaos. But while kings and lords fight over petty things like power and control, a far greater threat grows in the shadows. Monsters and strange beasts roam the countryside in numbers which seem to be growing faster than once thought possible. Darkness sweeps over the land. Some even believe that an ancient evil stirs, awaiting the chance to break free of its eternal prison. A lone monster hunter finds himself being drawn back into a world he thought he’d left behind when he is tasked with hunting and killing a monster for the man who had caused the grief and traumas that have left him a broken man. Aided by an assorted crew of powerful fighters, the monster hunter must confront both his own past and a world falling to chaos as he fights both man and beast on a perilous quest that will bring him ever closer to the rising darkness and the powerful creatures that draw strength from it. But in a world full of monsters, the monster hunter may yet come to realize that the worst monster of all is the one born of grief and trauma that lurks within himself.

African Roots

Author: Melody Herr
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781432923907
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Tells the history of black men and women around he world. Examines the thriving culture with primary sources.

Does the World Exist?

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401000476
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 934

Book Description
"Does the World exist?" There would be no reason to resurrect this question of modernity from its historical oblivion were it not for the fact that recent evolution in science and technology, impregnating culture, makes us wonder about the nature of reality, of the world we are living in, and of our status as living beings within it. Thus great metaphysical subjacent queries are forcefully revived, calling for new investigations to proceed in the light of the innumerable novel insights of science. This collection presents a wealth of material toward an elaboration of a new metaphysical groundwork of the ontopoiesis/ phenomenology of life sought to effect such investigations. The classic postulates of the metaphysics of reality, those of necessity and certainty here find a new formulation. Away from sclerotized ontological and cognitive assumptions and congenial with the views of contemporary science, the understanding of reality, of our world of life, and of ourselves within it is to be sought in the existential/ontopoietic ciphering of life (Tymieniecka).

The Ruins

Author: Scott Smith
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307266044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today

The Day the War Ended

Author: Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1429900377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527

Book Description
One of Britain's most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months, the war in Europe is officially over. This is the story of that single day and of the days leading up to it. Hour by hour, place by place, this masterly history recounts the final spasms of a continent in turmoil. Here are the stories of combat soldiers and ordinary civilians, collaborators and resistance fighters, statesmen and war criminals, all recounted in vivid, dramatic detail. But this is more than a moment-by-moment account, for Sir Martin Gilbert uses every event as a point of departure, linking each to its long-term consequences over the following half century. In our attempts to understand the world we inherited in 1945, there is no better starting point than The Day the War Ended.

The Conquest of Ruins

Author: Julia Hell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022658819X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633

Book Description
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.