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The dancer's promise
By Olivia Horrox. 2024
'Oh my gosh! What a beautifully written story!... I totally loved it... I literally could not stop reading... This is…
a must if you like historical fiction!!' Reader review 5 stars 'A beautifully written and evocative story of love and loss, of family and redemption, that swept me away.' Rachel Burton, author of The Last Party at Silverton Hall When their father loses the family fortune, and their mother locks herself away, sisters Grace and Clementine are left to raise themselves in a grand London house that is slowly falling apart around them. Each of them is determined to one day restore their fortunes and their family name and make a promise to do just that. Clementine dreams of being a star on stage, a celebrated ballerina who will tour the world, earning fame and fortune. She is adamant she won't put her fate into a man's hands but take charge of it herself. Grace, in contrast, sees security in a good marriage. Their eligible new American neighbour, with wealth, charm and looks, seems like the perfect match. But when Clementine falls unexpectedly in love, it throws both sisters' lives into turmoil and forces each of them to ask if they are prepared to break their promise for a chance at true love... A beautifully imagined historical novel about the bond between sisters and a changing world. Perfect for fans of Tracy Rees, Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton. Readers love The Dancer's Promise : ' Brilliant ... I loved the characters Grace and Clementine a true story of sisterly love and support in such difficult times... Truly memorable read ... touching and inspiring' Reader review 5 stars ' What a treat! With its mystery element thrown in to enhance the plot, I found the time sped by and I was lost in another time and place ' Reader review 5 starsEducation for extinction: American indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928
By David Wallace Adams. 2024
The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only…
by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man." This fully revised edition of Education for Extinction offers the only comprehensive account of this dispiriting effort, and incorporates the last twenty-five years of scholarship. Much more than a study of federal Indian policy, this book vividly details the day-to-day experiences of Indian youth living in a "total institution" designed to reconstruct them both psychologically and culturally. Especially poignant is Adams's description of the ways in which students resisted or accommodated themselves to forced assimilation. Many converted to varying degrees, but others plotted escapes, committed arson, and devised ingenious strategies of passive resistance. He reveals the various ways in which graduates struggled to make sense of their lives and selectively drew upon their school experience in negotiating personal and tribal survival in a world increasingly dominated by white menReclaiming Diné history: the legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita
By Jennifer Denetdale. 2007
In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on…
the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816-1894), and his nearly unknown wife, Juanita (1845-1910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of these ancestors, she began to explore her family history as a way of examining broader issues in Navajo historiography. Here she presents a thought-provoking examination of the construction of the history of the Navajo people (Diné, in the Navajo language) that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the Diné past. Reclaiming Diné History has two primary objectives. First, Denetdale interrogates histories that privilege Manuelito and marginalize Juanita in order to demonstrate some of the ways that writing about the Diné has been biased by non-Navajo views of assimilation and gender. Second, she reveals how Navajo narratives, including oral histories and stories kept by matrilineal clans, serve as vehicles to convey Navajo beliefs and values. By scrutinizing stories about Juanita, she both underscores the centrality of women's roles in Navajo society and illustrates how oral tradition has been used to organize social units, connect Navajos to the land, and interpret the past. She argues that these same stories, read with an awareness of Navajo creation narratives, reveal previously unrecognized Navajo perspectives on the past. And she contends that a similarly culture-sensitive re-viewing of the Diné can lead to the production of a Navajo-centered history. AdultMedicine women: the story of the first Native American nursing school
By Jim Kristofic. 2019
"After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado…
Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors--who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives--chose a different way and persuaded the local parents and medicine men to allow them to educate their daughters as nurses. The young women struggled to step into the world of modern medicine, but they knew they might become nurses who could build a bridge between the old ways and the new. In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Kristofic's personal connection with the community creates a nuanced historical understanding that blends engaging narrative with careful scholarship to share the stories of the people and their commitment to this place"-- Provided by publisher. AdultDammed: The politics of loss and survival in anishinaabe territory
By Brittany Luby. 2023
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods…
area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the health and economy of their communities. By so doing, Canada and Ontario thwarted a future that aligned with the terms of treaty, a future in which both settlers and the Anishinabeg might thrive in shared territories. The same hydroelectric development that powered settler communities flooded manomin fields, washed away roads, and compromised fish populations. Anishinaabe families responded creatively to manage the government-sanctioned environmental change and survive the resulting economic loss. Luby reveals these responses to dam development, inviting readers to consider how resistance might be expressed by individuals and families, and across gendered and generational lines. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from archival material, oral history, and environmental observation, Dammed invites readers to confront Canadian colonialism in the twentieth centuryMourir à Verdun (Oeuvres de Julien Green)
By Pierre Miquel. 1995
"Pierre Miquel, auteur de La Grande Guerre et d'une Histoire de France, a recherché dans les archives de l'armée et…
dans les témoignages des combattants la vérité sur l'holocauste de Verdun. Les cinq cent mille victimes franco-allemandes de la bataille ont transformé ce coin de France de vingt kilomètres carrés en charnier monstrueux, en haut lieu de la guerre civile européenne, la première de l'ère industrielle."Le dernier été de l'Europe: qui a déclenché la Première Guerre mondiale?
By David Fromkin. 2004
L'affaire des origines de la Première Guerre mondiale semble depuis longtemps entendue : conflit entre puissances impérialistes occidentales, qui rivalisent…
pour le partage du monde, précipité par une suite d'événements où le hasard et les passions nationalistes ont leur part. Le livre de David Fromkin, appuyé sur une exploitation minutieuse d'archives inédites, ruine cette thèse : il montre que tout, dans cette catastrophe, fut prémédité. La désinformation, la manipulation furent cyniquement mises au service d'objectifs de guerre délibérés. Seulement, ce n'était pas un, mais deux conflits qui se préparaient : les Autrichiens souhaitaient ramener la Serbie dans le giron de l'empire, tandis que l'Allemagne voulait la guerre avec la Russie et la France. Rivaux mais alliés, les deux empires ont cru pouvoir faire converger leurs efforts et mener chacun leur propre guerre. Aussi déclenchèrent-ils l'apocalypse qui devait inaugurer un nouveau siècle. Écrit d'une plume alerte, cet ouvrage d'un historien reconnu se lit comme un véritable roman qui tient le lecteur en haleine du début à la fin. -- 4e de couv" Après l'armistice du 11 novembre 1918, cinq terribles années de guerres se clôturent enfin, cinq années qui ont vu…
l'apparition des armes chimiques, la généralisation des bombardements, l'enlisement des armées. Et qui ont fait dix millions de morts... Depuis août 1914, que le chemin fut long pour entrevoir cette paix ! Alors que la guerre semblait sans issue, que politiques et généraux se disputaient pouvoir et décisions, un homme avait foi en la vaillance des soldats, au nom d'une certaine France, au nom de la République. Cet homme, c'était Clemenceau. Mais si le traité de Versailles de 1919 a ouvert sur un monde nouveau, les frustrations et les vengeances trouveront un terreau qui nourrira le XXe siècle. Les espoirs déçus des anciens combattants, les vies brisées feront le lit des fascismes, les sociétés déstabilisées, les frontières contestées, les empires désagrégés seront la proie d'une crise sans précédent. La Deuxième Guerre Mondiale succédera à la "der des der". " -- 4e de couvAce of aces: the life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
By H. Paul Jeffers. 2003
A biography of captain Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973), the much decorated "Ace of Aces" who destroyed twenty-six enemy planes in World…
War I. Fascinated with engines and speed, he began his career as a race-car driver, becoming third-ranked in the country. He later founded Eastern Airlines. 20031914 ((Champs. Histoire #1108)
By Luciano Canfora. 2014
" Et si l'on concevait la tâche de l'historien comme l'enquête d'un Sherlock Holmes ? Si la guerre pouvait être…
assimilée à un crime, les coupables se dissimulant, des alibis étant invoqués, des innocents désignés du doigt ? Dans cet ouvrage - ni livre édifiant ni commémoration -, Luciano Canfora aborde la guerre non comme un monument, mais comme un événement vivant qu'il s'agirait de retourner dans tous les sens pour comprendre ce qui s'est vraiment passé . L'enquête menée au fil de ces pages - puisqu'il s'agit bien d'une enquête - se déroule en une vingtaine de courts chapitres, tirés de conférences à la radio publique italienne, à lire d'une traite comme autant de petites histoires. Les idées reçues - surtout celles qui ont cours dans les pays vainqueurs - ne survivent pas à l'examen. La fin ne nous livre pas un unique coupable, mais nous laisse vaccinés contre les reconstructions apologétiques. C'est le livre que doit lire qui veut se faire en quelques pages une idée de la multiplicité des causes et des conjonctures qui ont conduit à la Première Guerre mondiale. " -- 4e de couv'' Paris, gare de l'Est, en ce dimanche 2 août 1914, c'est la mobilisation générale. Il y a bientôt cent…
ans, le samedi 1er août, l'Allemagne a déclaré la guerre à la Russie, l'alliée de la France. L'Empire austro-hongrois est, dès le 28 juillet, entré en guerre contre la Serbie. L'engrenage des alliances, des ultimatums, des mobilisations, entraîne les nations dans sa mécanique sanglante. Berlin est solidaire de Vienne. Paris, lié à Londres, soutient Saint-Pétersbourg. En quelques heures, toutes les grandes gares européennes ressemblent à la gare de l'Est. Tous ces hommes qui partent, innocents, inconscients, n'imaginent pas que des centaines de milliers d'entre eux vont mourir ou être blessés avant que l'année 1914 se termine, et que cette guerre, qui devait être brève et locale, deviendra la Première Guerre mondiale. '' -- 4e de couvThe First World War: an illustrated history (Penguin Bks.)
By A. J. P Taylor. 1981
Oxford historian's year-by-year chronicle of World War I, which began with the assassination of Hapsburg archduke Franz Ferdinand and his…
wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, in Bosnia. Describes battles and behind-the-scenes politics, the use of poison gas and U-boats, and America's entry into the conflict. 1963Versailles 1919: chronique d'une fausse paix (Production Jeannine Balland)
By Patrick De Gmeline. 2009
« 12 novembre 1918 : au lendemain même de l'armistice de Rethondes, les troupes françaises, britanniques et américaines rentrent victorieusement…
en Alsace-Lorraine. La conférence de la paix s'ouvre solennellement à Paris le 18 janvier 1919. Elle s'achèvera le 28 juin par la signature du traité dans la galerie des Glaces du château de Versailles, devant tous les représentants des puissances alliées. Pour la première fois, cet événement politique, diplomatique et militaire majeur du xxe siècle, qui a modelé le visage de l'Europe jusqu'à notre époque, est abordé sous l'angle de la chronique quotidienne. Ce livre met en scène les acteurs politiques et militaires de l'époque, les premiers rôles comme les seconds, qu'ils soient français, britanniques, américains, italiens ou allemands, mais aussi ceux représentant les puissances associées ". Il aborde simultanément les événements qui se déroulent au même moment dans les différents pays où se joue alors l'avenir immédiat de l'Europe, événements qui étaient le plus souvent connus avec un décalage dans le temps expliquant bien des décisions, bien des ignorances et des incompréhensions aussi ! Cette approche met en évidence les difficultés extrêmes de la négociation et les oppositions violentes, voire les affrontements, des Quatre Grands pour tenter de régler la paix du monde [...]. » -- 4e de couvGoshawk Squadron
By Derek Robinson. 2005
1918. Twenty-three-year-old Stanley Woolley, the disillusioned commander of a British flight squadron on the Western Front during World War I,…
trains his younger, inexperienced pilots to fly biplanes in combat--knowing they will all soon be dead. Some violence and some strong language. 1971Cheated: The laurier liberals and the theft of first nations reserve land
By Bill Waiser. 2023
You won't find the Ocean Man and Pheasant Rump reserves on a map of southeastern Saskatchewan. In 1901, the two…
Nakoda bands reluctantly surrendered the seventy square miles granted to them under treaty. It's just one of more than two dozen surrenders aggressively pursued by the Laurier Liberal government over a fifteen-year period. One in five acres was taken from First Nations. This confiscation was justified on the grounds that prairie bands had too much land and that it would be better used by white settlers. In reality, the surrendered land was largely scooped up by Liberal speculators-including three senior civil servants and a Liberal cabinet minister-and flipped for a tidy profit. None were held to account. Cheated is a gripping story of single-minded politicians, uncompromising Indian Affairs officials, grasping government appointees, and well-connected Liberal speculators, set against a backdrop of politics, power, patronage, and profit. The Laurier government's settlement of western Canada can never be looked at the same way againTheir promised land: my grandparents in love and war
By Ian Buruma. 2016
Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger were German-Jewish immigrants living in England. Their grandson weaves the story of their marriage, using letters…
written between the two as they faced separation, anti-Semitism, and the difficulties of war. Depicts how their marriage remained strong throughout it all. Some violence. 2016Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By Michael Palin. 2023
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier—his great-uncle Harry.Some years ago a…
stash of family records was handed down to Michael Palin, among which were photos of an enigmatic young man in army uniform, as well as photos of the same young man as a teenager looking uncomfortable at family gatherings. This, Michael learned, was his Great-Uncle Harry, born in 1884, died in 1916. He had previously had no idea that he had a Great-Uncle Harry, much less that his life was cut short at the age of 32 when he was killed in the Battle of the Somme. The discovery both shocked him and made him want to know much more.The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them. He walked the route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid the mud of northern France. And as he did so, a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him.Great-Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. A blend of biography, history, travelogue and personal memoir, this is Michael Palin at his very finest.By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families
By R. H. Thomson. 2023
From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape…
us and the reach that the past can have across generations.Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the carpet of his grandmother’s house, recreating the Battle of Britain with model planes in his bedroom, or sitting at the local theatre watching World War II B movies—ones that offered a very clear perspective on who were the heroes and who the villains; which side were the victors and which the vanquished. Yet Thomson’s childhood was also shaped by the spirits of real-life warriors in his family, their fates a brutal and more complicated reminder of the true human cost of war. Eight of Robert’s great uncles—George, Joe, Jack, Harold, Arthur, Warren, Wildy, and Fred—fought in the First World War, while his great Aunt Margaret served as a wartime surgical nurse in Europe. Five of the great uncles—George, Joe, Fred, Wildy, and Warren—were killed in battle while two others—Jack and Harold—would return home greatly diminished, spending the rest of their lives in and out of sanitariums, their lungs scarred by disease and poison gas. Throughout their lives, the great uncles, as well as great aunts and cousins, were faithful letter writers, their correspondence offering profound insights into their experiences on the front lines to their loved ones back home, a somber record of the sacrifice the family paid. In By the Ghost Light, R.H. Thomson offers an extraordinary look at his family’s history while providing a powerful examination of how we understand war and its aftermath. Using his family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly, touching on areas of military history, art, literature, and science, to express the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades, memorials, and monuments. In an urgent call for new ways to acknowledge the dead, R.H. has created "The World Remembers," an ambitious international project to individually name each of the millions killed in the First World War. Epic in its scope and incredibly intimate in its exploration of lives touched by the tragedy of war, By the Ghost Light is a truly original book that will challenge the way we approach our history.Conquer we must: A military history of britain, 1914-1945
By Robin Prior. 2023
A major new account of Britain's military strategy between 1914-1945, including the two world wars and everything between The First…
and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914-1945 an unprecedentedly intense and violent era of history. But how did Britain develop its complex military strategy during these wars, and how were decisions made by those at the top? Robin Prior examines the influence politicians had on military operations, in the first history to assess both world wars together. Drawing uniquely on both military and political archives and previously unexamined sources Prior explores the fraught relationships between civilian and military leaders: from Lloyd George's remarkably interventionist stance on military tactics during the First World War to Churchill's near-constant arguments with American leaders during the Second. Conquer We Must tells the complex story of this military decision-making, revealing how politicians attempted to control strategy-but had little influence on how the army, navy, and air force actually fought"From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian…
history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag SystemIn 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, tied to a colonial institution retired decades ago: 'What was your disc number?'"Still haunted by this question years later, Dunning took it upon herself to reach out to Inuit community members who experienced the Eskimo Identification Tag System first-hand, providing vital perspective and nuance to the scant records available on the subject. Written with incisive detail and passion, Dunning provides readers with a comprehensive look into a bureaucracy sustained by the Canadian government for over thirty years, neglected by history books but with lasting echoes revealed in Dunning’s intimate interviews with affected community members. Not one government has taken responsibility or apologized for the E-number system to date — a symbol of the blatant dehumanizing treatment of the smallest Indigenous population in Canada.A necessary and timely offering, Kinauvit? provides a critical record and response to a significant piece of Canadian history, collecting years of research, interviews and personal stories from an important voice in Canadian literature." - Douglas & McIntyre