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"Biography of Marie Mason Potts, a Mountain Maidu woman, from her formative years in off-reservation boarding schools, through marriage and motherhood, and into the spheres of Native American politics and cultural revitalization."-- Provided by publisher.

• Das Wiedersehen
• Die Ära der bahnbrechenden Landwirte
• In Zeiten des Amtsrates
• Oderbruchkönig
• Die Söhne
• Der Enkel
• Harte Jahre : goldene Jahre
• Krieg
• Wachsende Kriegslasten
• Die letzten Jahre
• Weihnachten 1944
• Der große Aufbruch
• Trennung und Gefangennahme
• Zwischen Elbe und Oder
• Ausharren in der Heimat
• "Muss weg in andere Dorf!"
• Heimatlos
• Nachwort
• Anhang.

'A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; that this is no longer your home, for it now belongs to the crowd on your doorstep. Then the drums begin to beat.' As the land invasions gather pace, the Retzlaffs begin an epic journey across Zimbabwe, facing eviction after eviction, trying to save the group of animals with whom they feel a deep and enduring bond - the horses. When their neighbours flee to New Zealand, the Retzlaffs promise to look after their horses, and making similar promises to other farmers along their journey, not knowing whether they will be able to feed or save them, they amass an astonishing herd of over 300 animals. But the final journey to freedom will be arduous, and they can take only 104 horses. Each with a different personality and story, it is not just the family who rescue the horses, but the horses who rescue the family. Grey, the silver gelding: the leader. Brutus, the untamed colt. Princess, the temperamental mare. One Hundred and Four Horses is the story of an idyllic existence that falls apart at the seams, and a story of incredible bonds - a love of the land, the strength of a family, and of the connection between man and the most majestic of animals, the horse.
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Jim Barker, Zimbabwean born and bred, worked in agriculture for many years. In 1965 the last 15 of newly demarcated Crown Land farms were allocated. His extensive experience led to the government allocating him the virgin Nyahoa farm near Karoi - is was 3, 300 acres of virgin bush. Over the next 38 years Jim put every penny he made into the development of his farm. Meanwhile, a low key insurgency against the country was being waged by Nkomo's ZAPU and Mugabe's ZANU. After 1965, when the government declared UDI, the insurgency escalated until it became a full-scale bush war. Jim volunteered for the Police Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU) as a Reservist and fought in many successful engagements against infiltrating terrorists. He became the first policeman to be awarded a medal for gallantry - the rarely awarded and much prized Police Decoration for Gallantry. In 1972 he volunteered for the Police Reserve Air wing as an observer, but later bought his own aircraft and qualified as a pilot. He remained in PRAW until the end of the Bush War, conducting reconnaissance, casevacs, troop transportation and courier missions. 1980 brought the British 'supervised' elections (which were crooked) and which brought Mugabe and ZANU to power. Jim turned his attention back to the farm where he continued to carry out major developments. He had built his home, 20 tobacco curing barns, sheds, a hanger for his aircraft, staff houses, a farm store, 21 dams for irrigation and much more. This all came to nought when Mugabe instituted his illegal invasions of white-owned farms for handing over to black peasants. Jim successfully fought this through the courts but in the end Nyahoa was illegally grabbed without compensation, like most other white owned farms. This destroyed Zimbabwe's fragile economy. Six black families took over Nyahoa Farm. In Jim's home fires were kindled on expensive wooden floors, ceilings were ripped down and the interior grimed by wood smoke, electricity was disconnected and the plumbing for piped water had been looted. Every male, young and old, used catapults in the garden that was once was alive with bird songs, but is now eerily silent. Not a single coffee bean has been harvested - on a farm when Jim's son became the coffee grower of the year. The store and the grinding mill have closed, buses no longer run and indigenous trees that were once lovingly preserved had been chopped down for firewood to cure the pathetically few kilos of inferior tobacco grown by 'settlers'. The rich pastures have withered and died and there is a vast degradation of the veld.
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• Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements ; INTRODUCTION ; YOUTH: 1793 to 1820 ; FAME BUT NOT MUCH FORTUNE: 1820 to 1832 ; 'FLITTING': 1832 to 1841 ; ASYLUM: 1841 to 1864 ; REFLECTIONS ; Bibliography.

John Clare (1793-1864) was born at a time of great social upheaval, just months after the beheading of Louis XVI and the outbreak of war with France which was to last till the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. He also lived through the upheavals of the land enclosure movement and agricultural revolution which changed the face of the countryside and the way of life in rural England. His father was a farm worker who managed to pay for his son's schooling, though this was cut short as conditions worsened, but at least Clare had by then learnt to read and write so he could continue his own education, reading whatever books he could lay his hands on. At the age of sixteen he witnessed the social dislocation caused by the local enclosure Act and observed how the landscape was gradually transformed. Drawing on Clare's writing, this extensively researched study gives the modern reader an appreciation of the divisive effects of these policies. Structured chronologically, this exploration of John Clare's life highlights the socio-economic and environmental aspects of his observations and includes his reports on an insidious revolution taking place in the English countryside. Parliament, dominated by landowners, authorised the enclosure of large tracts of common land by private acts without considering the effect on those who had enjoyed rights of use and pasturage for centuries. Land enclosures, and the improved agricultural techniques which this permitted, was important in increasing food production at a time when the population of England was growing rapidly. While additional work was initially provided for agricultural labourers in the fencing and walling needed, this was temporary. The introduction of new, labour-saving machinery further reduced the opportunities for work. Insufficient attention, the author argues, has been given to the consequences. Those driven out of their homes in the country were left with no option but to migrate to the towns and sell their labour to whoever would pay for it. In effect, land enclosure created a market in land; landlessness created a market in labour. These are the foundations of our modern market economy. The author asserts that the harshness of the early years of the industrial revolution were the product of land enclosure which the welfare state has to some extent mitigated, although at the cost of creating a dependency culture in contrast to the sturdy independence of Clare's parents' generation of farm workers.
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John Clare (1793-1864) was born at a time of great social upheaval, just months after the beheading of Louis XVI and the outbreak of war with France which was to last till the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. He also lived through the upheavals of the land enclosure movement and agricultural revolution which changed the face of the countryside and the way of life in rural England. His father was a farm worker who managed to pay for his son's schooling, though this was cut short as conditions worsened, but at least Clare had by then learnt to read and write so he could continue his own education, reading whatever books he could lay his hands on. At the age of sixteen he witnessed the social dislocation caused by the local enclosure Act and observed how the landscape was gradually transformed. Drawing on Clare's writing, this extensively researched study gives the modern reader an appreciation of the divisive effects of these policies. Structured chronologically, this exploration of John Clare's life highlights the socio-economic and environmental aspects of his observations and includes his reports on an insidious revolution taking place in the English countryside. Parliament, dominated by landowners, authorised the enclosure of large tracts of common land by private acts without considering the effect on those who had enjoyed rights of use and pasturage for centuries. Land enclosures, and the improved agricultural techniques which this permitted, was important in increasing food production at a time when the population of England was growing rapidly. While additional work was initially provided for agricultural labourers in the fencing and walling needed, this was temporary. The introduction of new, labour-saving machinery further reduced the opportunities for work. Insufficient attention, the author argues, has been given to the consequences. Those driven out of their homes in the country were left with no option but to migrate to the towns and sell their labour to whoever would pay for it. In effect, land enclosure created a market in land; landlessness created a market in labour. These are the foundations of our modern market economy. The author asserts that the harshness of the early years of the industrial revolution were the product of land enclosure which the welfare state has to some extent mitigated, although at the cost of creating a dependency culture in contrast to the sturdy independence of Clare's parents' generation of farm workers.
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On a remote edge of the North York moors, where a grassy hillside overlooks the Vale of York, there is a secluded acre of land, edged by woods, called Scotch Corner. A mysterious war memorial chapel stands there, a simple stone building, decorated with bold carvings. Madeleine Bunting's father - an artist and visionary, but also a fiercely conservative man, with romantic, old-fashioned views about England - erected the chapel in his youth. He was a difficult, distant parent, and Bunting fled her home life in Yorkshire as a teenager. But after her father's death, Bunting wanted to understand him and his passionate, lifelong attachment to this plot of land, and she wanted to explore how we find a sense of belonging. Bunting discovered that this quiet spot has a rich history. It had been home to Neolithic forts and earthworks, farmed by the monks from nearby Byland Abbey and fought over by medieval Scots. Many have passed through the Plot. Thousands of cattle walked its drovers' road for centuries, and Wordsworth and other romantics searched for beauty and the picturesque in its views and valleys. Others have been more permanent inhabitants: the sheep that patiently crop the moorland, the grouse slaughtered there every autumn, the farmers struggling to make a living from the land. And Bunting's father, who tied his life so closely to this acre. In learning about the Plot, Bunting comes to see how 'wisdom rests in places', how important it is for us to understand the places that shape our lives, and she reaches an understanding of her father and his ideals. "The Plot" is an original and heartfelt book which deftly balances the emotional and the political, and shows what a contested, layered place we inhabit.
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• 1. Imperial Land Policy and Women Landlords in Prince Edward Island
• 2. Anne Saunders, Lady Melville: Managing at Home and Abroad
• 3. Jane Saunders, Lady Westmorland: Perpetual Motion
• 4. Georgiana Fane: Defending Position and Property
• 5. Charlotte Sulivan: The Final Defence
• 6. Differences That Matter
• App. Proprietors' Estates Purchased by the Prince Edward Island Government, 1875-1880.

• Illustrations and Maps-- Acknowledgments-- Note on Names 1 Imperial Land Policy and Woman Landlords in Prince Edward Island-- 2 Anne Saunders, Lady Melville: Managing at Home and Abroad-- 3 Jane Saunders, Lady Westmorland: Perpetual Motion-- 4Georgiana Fane: Defending Position and Property-- 5 Charlotte Sulivan: The Final Defence-- 6 Differences That MatterAppendix: Proprietors' Estates Purchased by the Prince Edward Island Government, 1875-1880 Notes-- Bibliography-- Index.
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The 1767 decision to divide Prince Edward Island among elite British grantees shaped Island history for more than a century. "Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island" examines this history through the lives of four women who, due to the vagaries of family formation and inheritance, became Island landlords. As absentee owners of large estates, each of the four women faced challenges from those who wanted land redistributed in freehold lots to actual settlers. Their individual management strategies were determined in part by class standing and marital status, as well as individual eccentricities and prejudices. Drawing on family and official papers, Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum provide engaging portraits of these women - orphaned heiress, prudent wife and property manager, countess estranged from her husband, independent spinster - as they negotiated relations of power and privilege in a domain dominated by men. "Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island" is a compelling narrative that provides a unique perspective on landed society in England in the age of industrialization and reform, making an important contribution to trans-Atlantic, British social, legal, and women's histories.
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• Introduction-- Contested Terrain-- Revealing King Tiger-- Clean Before God-- Valle de Paz: Texts, Visions and Landscapes-- A Struggle for Voice-- A Continuing Vision-- Index.
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Throughout his career in New Mexican land grant politics, Reies Tijerina frequently used this fable to inspire persistence in the face of impossible odds. As the leader of a grassroots Hispano land rights organisation, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes Reales (The Federal Alliance of Land Grants), Tijerina has made an indelible imprint on New Mexico's Hispano culture. 'King Tiger' details Tijerina's life and efforts -- those real, rumoured, and mythologised -- in the first systematic study of the origin of his political ideas. Rudy Busto shows how one of Tijerina's particularly powerful mystical visions led him to northern New Mexico to fight to restore land to those who lost it during various nineteenth-century land grant title conflicts. More than three decades after the infamous Tierra Amarilla County courthouse raid, Tijerina remains an important touchstone for all New Mexicans. In his life and activism are found the interdependent issues of land, water, language, economic development, sovereignty, political power, and rights to cultural formation in the Southwest.
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• Introduction-- 1 Family-- 2 Early Life-- 3 Service as a Marine-- 4 Relocation-- 5 Reclaiming Roots-- Notes-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche of the Quahada band, has led an ordinary modern American Indian life filled with extraordinary moments. Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s on his family's allotment outside Duncan, Oklahoma, Mihesuah was a member of a family of farmers who gave part of what they grew to black sharecroppers and often helped feed their poorer white neighbors. Never afraid of controversy and always the first to fight, Henry Mihesuah fell in love with and married a white woman and then served a dangerous tour of duty in the Marines in post-World War II China. In the 1950s he took a chance and, encouraged by a federal government program, relocated along with many other Indians to seek urban employment in California. Barely surviving a horrific traffic accident, Mihesuah eventually returned home to Oklahoma, where he has spent the last few decades fighting racism and attempts to take his family's land, eschewing local politics yet also taking many steps to reclaim and revitalize connections to his Comanche family and culture, past and present. Henry Mihesuah spoke at length about his life to his daughter-in-law, accomplished historian Devon Abbott Mihesuah, who has carefully researched and edited those hours of conversation into an engaging, detailed account that is at once honest, informative, and moving. Readers come to know and respect how one forthright Comanche man unyieldingly walks his own path in the modern world, the ways in which events big and small have affected him, and how, with his wife, family, land, strong opinions, and tough choices made along the way, Henry Mihesuah leads a happy and fulfilling life. Devon Abbott Mihesuah is a professor of applied indigenous studies and history at Northern Arizona University. She is the editor of the American Indian Quarterly and numerous books on Native history and culture, including Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains and Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians, both published by the University of Nebraska Press.
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