Vom Kampf eines Mannes gegen den Ausverkauf seiner Heimat Seit zwölf Generationen leben und sterben die Bewohner von Sweetland auf der kleinen Insel vor Neufundland. Nun stehen sie plötzlich vor einer Umsiedlung. Der fast siebzigjährige Moses Sweetland weigert sich als Einziger und bleibt auf der nach seinen Vorfahren benannten Insel zurück. Abwechselnd düster-komisch und herzzerreißend traurig erzählt der kanadische Erfolgsautor Michael Crummey die Überlebensgeschichte eines einsamen Mann...

Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley focuses on the largely forgotten history of slavery in New York and the African American freedom struggle in the central Hudson Valley prior to the Civil War. Slaves were central actors in the drama that unfolded in the region during the Revolution, and they waged a long and bitter battle for freedom...

Colonialism and decolonization are historical phenomena that are part of the historical experience of many European countries. This volume offers students and teachers a new understanding of how colonialism and decolonization fit into our shared European past and contains teaching materials for history classes in European schools. The contributions have been produced by the EU project CoDec, involving partners from Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Great Britain, Austria, Poland and Switzerland. ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.Though organizational scholarship traces its intellectual lineage from a diversity of sources, there is little doubt that in recent years a key divide has emerged amongst organization scholars and sociologists. For many, if not most, it has become unclear what role sociology is supposed to play in organization studies. Against this backdrop, the editors of Sociological Thinking i...