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Kazantip- The republic of Happyness in Crimea, Ukraine

Kazantip

Republic of Z - it is one of the most ambitious projects that take place in Crimea. Republic represents a huge sandy beach, where there are more than 10 different dance floors, about 25 bars, souvenir shops, sports grounds, internet cafes, tattoo parlors and body-art.

Republic of Z has all the characteristics of a sovereign state – it has its own territory, the president, the government (cabinet of ministers headed by the prime minister), anthem and national attributes. Kazantip is a constitutional republic with a presidential administration. Life President of the Republic is an athlete and a businessman from Moscow Nikita Marshunok. Symbol of a yellow bag with metal corners. National has always been a orange color, but in light of recent political developments in Ukraine in 2006 it was decided to change it to an orange color in different-sized black polka dots.

Kazantip main achievement of democracy is an internal personal freedom and independence of its citizens, even from themselves, as well as the independence of the Republic of gray and monotonous world. The indigenous population of the Republic of Kazantip – is a funny and brown loafers, which “all the orange.” KaZantip idea is to bring together all the most intelligent, funny, beautiful people on the planet.
Getting there

The festival takes place on the outskirts of the village Popovka Saki area 30 km from the Evpatoria and 112 km from Simferopol. Directions to Popovka from Evpatoria in the shuttle bus from the bus station for 2-5 hryvnia and 40 minutes by taxi 60-150 grn. and 15-20 minutes. Every taxi driver and the bus knows what Kazantip and take you to him without any problems and any number of people at any time of day. Only a matter of price! At the entrance to a. Peacetime must turn left at the sign “frontier” and a couple of minutes you are on the central square Popovka. On the one hand is the only area in the village grocery store, on the other – a cult for the people of the Republic of Z “restaurant – bar” Roman Kosh “. Tightening of the cafe, you’ll see a 30 meter long narrow passage between two walls of rakushnyaka – a stylized entrance to the territory of the Republic of Z “, which separates it from the rest of the world. Through the passage in the wall “you get on the field cluttered with cafes, Tatar Shalmanov, stalls, and behind them can see a huge building with a triumphal arch – this is the entrance!
How to get inside

Entering the territory of the Republic is not very difficult. This allowed both residents and legal temporary migrants. But do not let the bad people – for that there is a clear visa control. VISA – a pass that allows you to pass into the territory throughout the festival (for the visa – 400 hryvnia). One-time entry-100 USD. on ordinary days, 150 USD .- for opening and closing. Price factor immediately alienates the local ruffians, descended into alcoholics and drug addicts, and other antisocial personalities. Unlike kazantipskogo visas from other countries that, having received vizu, you become not just a tourist, but a full-fledged citizen of the Republic, with all its attendant privileges and features of national character. Visa is bought at the entrance visa office, you take pictures and hand a plastic card with a yellow inscription “great people” with an individual electronic code. At the entrance stands a serious security and you pass through a computer terminal, which scans your visa. Thus, no one except you on your visa to go inside can not. All attempts to cross the borders of the state over the fences or the sea violently repressed protection.
What to do inside

Inside of a special atmosphere of total happiness and freedom, a lot of unusual personalities, special rituals. Every day there are various events, celebrations and competitions. Therefore, in Kazantip just need to enjoy life, swim in the sea, to dance, drink tasty drinks, meet and have fun.

The main thing at Kazantip - is music. Here around the clock “make music” the most famous and trendy DJs Russia and Ukraine. From such well-known guru with a great past, as Lena Popova and Mitrofanov, to beginners with a great future. Each dance floor and bar are different styles of music, original design, a range of drinks and prices. On many dance floors playing music around the clock. Sold many original gifts.

On the territory there are various religious buildings: the Stone-henzh, triumphal arch, palm avenue, and many more interesting objects, the meaning and purpose which can be understood only when he found himself inside.

The inhabitants of the republic roughly the biorhythm:
17.00 – 20.00 The best hours of his life. This is the time required to spend at the beach, learn all the gossip, sunbathing, to get acquainted with the girl, and meet corporate sunset on the beach under beautiful music. Sunset escorted each day, depending on the solar disk, while listening to music and meditating – who as he wants. Only solar disk As the water surface on the horizon – a few hundred hands clap your hands!
20.00 – 22.00 The easiest way to “fix” acquaintance with the girl – is to invite her to lunch. After dinner, offer a girl “siesta” (afternoon nap) or navrite that you have the room has a hot water (works perfectly).
22.00 – 06.05 am. Concerts start “living” groups on the main stage. Time for some activity.
Who’s here

At Kazantip coming youth of the major cities of the CIS: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Minsk. There are visitors from Europe, mostly from neighboring countries. Crimeans a bit – still not cheap visa, and in season the bulk of the Crimean youth work, and not resting. Citizens of the Republic – are young people aged 17 to 35 years, students and young professionals. Most of them are working and engaged in intellectual and creative work – it’s computer programmers, senior sales managers, advertising agents and experts on P-R’u, marketers, designers. All year they work in the field of technology, information and advertising, design and “creative” to come in summer to relax on Kazantip. Probably just a holiday gives them a good relaxation and inspiration for the whole year. Of course, in Popovka come and “golden youth” representatives “of medium and large businesses”, but the total weight they lost – in the afternoon on the beach or a night on the dance floor are all equal. And the only luxury Cherokee, Hummer, Landkruzery parked in front reminiscent of social inequality beyond Kazantip.

Citizens of the republic, which betrayed idle mirth and joy around the clock guard against the encroachments of evil outside world serious security. Thus, inside there are no conflicts. Protection as the alert for violators: open fans to take drugs, the manifestations of a passionate love for people, etc Incidentally, the use and distribution of drugs in the territory of the Republic is forbidden, and this idea is strongly supported by the Government.
Than that of

After much dancing like a nap. Or at least a wash. To do this, a place with four walls and a roof. Over the past few years Popovka increased at a rate of 3 times, there was a lot of new houses, mini-hotels, private resorts. On the territory of the Republic of Z “accommodations not provided (although many are sleeping on the beach or on the couch in the cafe), accommodation can be removed in Popovka, or in nearby settlements or peace Storm. The cost of housing from 30 to 200 hryvnia per person per night depending on the location. There are rooms in private houses for 5-7 people, where in the room just a bed, and there’s room in the hotel with elegant furnishings, air conditioning, swimming pools and protected in the yard. The most famous and the main street of the village Popovka – street Rybalko, in which “zdaetsa FSE. Most decent numbers on the street Rybalko number number 5, 44, 35. Here you can stay for 50-80 hryvnia per day.

Food and drink expensive toward the center of the festival. The highest prices in the Republic of Z, the cheapest – in the streets Rybalko. While fishing a bottle of beer costs 3 hryvnia, on the dance floor is the same bottle will go for 12-14 hryvnia. Inside, Kazantip walls have an Italian cafe, sushi bar, coffee & breakfast from 25 hryvnia. The most popular drink kazantiptsev – Burn, one of the sponsors and partners of the festival – “inside” is worth about 10 hryvnia. The average threshold price in the area of “local Oriental food service – pilaf, shish kebab, Lagman cost as anywhere in the Crimea. Most cheap and tasty you can eat at the famous house on fishing № 5, as they say here, “the Tatars.” Normal catering to a mainstream eastern slope. Please everyone.

For those who need to share experiences with friends in another city is an Internet Point (20 hryvnia per hour). By the way, the portal mail.ru also one of the sponsors of the festival. For those who suddenly felt a sharp burst of sexual energy and desire I saw in the eyes of a partner, surrounded by palm trees is a famous Kazantip reed hizhinki with sheeting, mats, matting on the floor and 30 hryvnia per hour. Above the hut hangs a red lantern.

To understand what is Kazantip and whether he needed you most need to go and get inside. Wander among palm trees, daydream to the music on the dance floor sunset’a Medusa, dance under floodlights with Stonehenge, drink Burn’a new friends to the music of Lena Popova on the dance floor Piterskoy Happiness.

 

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Czech Republic $8.15 From familiar neighbors to distant parts of the globe, this engaging series offers readers a close-up look at countries around the world. Vivid color photographs enhance up-to-date information on each country’s geography, history, system of government, lifestyle, language, art, food, and more. An intriguing section of special features provides a window into each country’s unique customs as well as its current issues. Each volume details its country’s current and historical relations with the United States and Canada, emphasizing the rich sharing of cultures that helps define today’s global society. Also included in each volume is a black and white classroom map, easy to photocopy for classroom activities. Once part of communist Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic has endured years of foreign occupation and cultural oppression. This book investigates the age-old traditions behind one of the world’s youngest countries and celebrates the spirit of freedom that inspires its people.

Deep Black $53.03 ASSASSINATIONA Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassin’’s bullet. And Desk Three, a covert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside the Republic of Vietnam.INTERROGATIONOnce, Charlie Dean was a Marine sniper in Quang Nam Province. Today he’’s a Deep Black operator, returning to Vietnam to find the source of some threatening e-mail. Instead, he comes face to face with a man he once hunted down?and thought he had killed.FEAR FOR THE NATION?Back in the U.S., Deep Black agent Lia DeFrancesca has uncovered the trail of a killer in Dean’’s path. Now, with every asset, weapon, bug and high-tech magic wand Desk Three can wave, the agents enter a terrifying global race against time. Because ghosts of the past have risen to life?to strike a death blow at the heart of the U.S.A.?Coonts knows how to write and build suspense.? ? The New York Times Book Review

Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica $24.95 Mimi Sheller’s ground-breaking comparative study analyzes the struggle for freedom and democracy in two Caribbean societies in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery. Pairing the revolutionary Republic of Haiti with the British colony of Jamaica, the author shows how peasants in the 19th-century Caribbean developed a radical critique of elite liberalism and constructed an alternative Pan-Caribbean African identity. Comparing two major peasant rebellions and the relation between them, she describes how Haitian and Jamaican survivors of slavery contributed to the making of democracy in the West.

Democracy Reborn $17 A riveting narrative of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, an act which revolutionized the U.S. constitution and shaped the nation’s destiny in the wake of the Civil WarThough the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation inspired optimism for a new, happier reality for blacks, in truth the battle for equal rights was just beginning. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s successor, argued that the federal government could not abolish slavery. In Johnson’s America, there would be no black voting, no civil rights for blacks.When a handful of men and women rose to challenge Johnson, the stage was set for a bruising constitutional battle. Garrett Epps, a novelist and constitutional scholar, takes the reader inside the halls of the Thirty-ninth Congress to witness the dramatic story of the Fourteenth Amendment’s creation. At the book’s center are a cast of characters every bit as fascinating as the Founding Fathers. Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, among others, understood that only with the votes of freed blacks could the American Republic be saved. Democracy Reborn offers an engrossing account of a definitive turning point in our nation’s history and the significant legislation that reclaimed the democratic ideal of equal rights for all U.S. citizens.

Emergence Black Cath Comm $24.98 Since the early days of the Republic, Washington has nurtured an increasingly prosperous and articulate community of black Catholics. For much of that time the spiritual welfare of these citizens as well as their material aspirations centered on St. Augustine’s parish. From the days of Civil War, through the decades when Jim Crow ruled Washington, to recent times and new challenges for the inner city, black Catholics from all over the area have worshipped regularly at St. Augustine’s. Popularly called The Mother Church of Black Catholics, it provides a beacon of hope for its parishioners, and its history offers a unique lens through which to view the emergence of an important Washington community.Morris J. MacGregor traces the history of St. Augustine’s from its beginning as a modest chapel and school to its recent years as one of the city’s most imposing and active churches. For more than a century, the congregation has counted among its members many of the intellectual and social elite of black society as well as impoverished newcomers struggling with the perils of urban life. This socially diverse membership, enhanced by a constant stream of visitors of all races and classes drawn by the beauty of the church and the artistry of its musicians, has made St. Augustine’s an exemplar of Christian brotherhood.The book presents in considerable detail the history of race relations in church and state since the founding of the Federal City. Parish lay leaders have long been crusaders in the fight for racial justice; they have played important roles in the Congress of Colored Catholics, the Federation of Colored Catholics, the Catholic Interracial Council, and the NAACP. MacGregordiscusses these groups as well as more recent urban institutions such as the vibrant 14th and U Streets Coalition. The religious, racial, and social insights uncovered in this fascinating history make it a valuable resource for the study of American social and church history.

Emmet Gowin $45 Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, and the Middle East for over twenty years. In his most compelling photographs, one witnesses how man’s footprint has visually scarred and continually altered the earth’s surface. This extraordinary book, published in conjunction with the first major touring exhibition of Gowin’s photographs in over ten years, focuses on images created after 1986. That was the year Gowin began to extend his aerial photography explorations in America by recording images of military test sites, missile silos, ammunition storage and disposal facilities, coal mining, pivot irrigation, offroad motor traffic, and more. The book also surveys his more recent works, which focus on other regions of the world, including the battlefields of Kuwait, new golf courses in Japan, and the chemo-petrol industries of the Czech Republic. Gowin’s richly toned black-and-white images have been characterized as immorally gorgeous, since at a distance even his most disturbing images can appear to be beautiful.In this exquisitely produced volume, Jock Reynolds provides an overview of Gowin’s aerial photography and places it in the context of his earlier work and that of such photographers as Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Frederick Sommer. Philip Brookman illuminates Gowin’s recent work in the Czech Republic, while Terry Tempest Williams discusses Gowin’s images from the American West, especially his Nevada Test Site series.

From Black To Schwarz $54.29 From Black to Schwarz explores the long and varied history of the exchanges between African America and Germany, with a particular focus on cultural interplay. Covering a wide range of media of expression — music, performance, film, scholarship, literature, visual arts, reviews — these essays trace and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration, and mutual transformation that began in the eighteenth century, boomed during the Harlem Renaissance/Weimar Republic, survived the Third Reich’’s Degenerate Art campaigns, and (with new media available to further exchanges), is still increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of the Atlantic.

Fun with the Flute [With 2 CDs] $14.95 A popular collection of 47 folk songs arranged in big-note, easy style for the beginning student. Written to provide engaging playing material at an early level of development. An excellent method supplement containing many fun and familiar melodies including: Alouette; Aura Lee; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Bill Bailey; Won”t You Please Come Home; Black is the Color of My True Love’’s Hair; Blow the Man Down; Down By the Riverside; Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes; Frankie and Johnny; Greensleeves; and more. Includes 2 CDs which contain all the songs from the book. Each song is played twice on the CD. Once with flute and piano accompaniment and a second time with only piano accompaniment so that the student can play along.

Greek and Roman Colonization $85.07 The term aecolonisationAe encompasses much diversity, from the settlement of the western Mediterranean and the Black Sea by Greeks in the archaic period to the foundation of Roman colonies in mainland Italy during the Republic. Though very different in their motives and methods, both Greek and Roman colonisations are presented by our sources as organised and clearly defined processes, within which internal and external relations were firmly delineated. This volume contains six new studies, two Greek and four Roman. Contributors employ historiographical, comparative and post-colonial approaches to question ancient constructs. The book contains detailed case-studies as well as synoptic treatments. Contributors build on recent research in Greek and Roman history to show how ideologies of colonisation develop and come to dominate the historical record.

Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America $21.06 The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians–slaves, white colonists, and free blacks–fled the upheaval and flooded southern U.S. ports, most notably New Orleans, bringing with them everything from French opera to voodoo. Alfred N. Hunt discusses the ways these immigrants influenced southern agriculture, architecture, language, politics, religion, and the arts. By affecting the development of racial ideology in antebellum America, Hunt concludes, the Haitian Revolution was a major contributing factor to the attitudes that led to the Civil War.

Hayti; Or, the Black Republic $32.75 This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR”d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life $22.44 Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes–individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black villains? Villains, just as much as heroes, have helped define the black experience. Ranging from black slaveholders and frontier outlaws to serial killers and gangsta rappers, Hoodlums examines the pivotal role of black villains in American society and popular culture. Here, William L. Van Deburg offers the most extensive treatment to date of the black badman and the challenges that this figure has posed for race relations in America. He first explores the evolution of this problematic racial stereotype in the literature of the early Republic–documents in which the enslavement of African Americans was justified through exegetical claims. Van Deburg then probes antebellum slave laws, minstrel shows, and the works of proslavery polemicists to consider how whites conceptualized blacks as members of an inferior and dangerous race. Turning to key works by blacks themselves, from the writings of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois to classic blaxploitation films like Black Caesar and The Mack, Van Deburg demonstrates how African Americans have combated such negative stereotypes and reconceptualized the idea of the badman through stories of social bandits–controversial individuals vilified by whites for their proclivity toward evil, but revered in the black community as necessarily insurgent and revolutionary. Ultimately, Van Deburg brings his story up-to-date with discussions of prison and hip-hop culture, urban rioting, gangwarfare, and black-on-black crime. What results is a work of remarkable virtuosity–a nuanced history that calls for both whites and blacks to rethink received wisdom on the nature and prevalence of black villainy.

Icon $7.99 From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow’s headlines. It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets. For the West, Russia is a basket case. But for Igor Komarov, one-time army sergeant who has risen to leadership of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos is made to order. As he waits in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, his striking voice rings out over the airwaves offering the roiling masses hope at last–not only for law, order, and prosperity, but for restoring the lost greatness of their land. Who is this man with the golden tongue who is so quickly becoming the promise of a Russia reborn? A document stolen from party headquarters and smuggled to Washington and London sends nightmare chills through those who remember the past, for this Black Manifesto is pure Mein Kampf in a country with frightening parallels to the Germany of the Weimar Republic. Officially the West can do nothing, but in secret a group of elder statesmen sends the only person who can expose the truth about Komarov into the heart of the inferno. Jason Monk, ex-CIA and the best damn agent-runner we ever had, had sworn he would never return to Moscow, but one name changes his mind. Colonel Anatoli Grishin, the KGB officer who tortured and murdered four of Monk’s agents after they had been betrayed by Aldrich Ames, is now Komarov’s head of security. Monk has a dual mission: to stop Komarov, whatever ittakes, and to prepare the way for an icon worthy of the Russian people. But he has a personal mission as well: to settle the final score with Grishin. To do this he must stay alive–and the forces allied against him are ruthless, the time frighteningly short….

Irish War Of Independence $27.95 The Irish War of Independence was a sporadic guerrilla campaign taht lasted from January 1919 until July 1921. Michael Hopkinson makes full use of the recently opened files of the Bureau of Military Archives in Dublin, which contain valuable first-hand contemporary accounts of the war, meticulously piecing together the many disparate local actions to create a coherent narrative. He stresses the importance of local and contingent issues over the idea of a master plan developed by the Dublin-based republican leadership. The war was prosecuted ruthlessly by the Irish Republican Army which, paralleling the political efforts of Sinn Fein, hoped to break Britain’s will to rule Ireland and create an independent Irish republic. The British retaliated by introducing two new irregular forces into Ireland, the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries, Fighting took place principally in counties Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Monaghan, Armagh, Clare, Kerry, and Longford. It was sporadic but vicious, with fewer than 2,000 IRA volunteers facing over 50,000 crown forces. The IRA depended upon energetic local leaders – where there were none, there was little fighting.

Jango Fett Standard Child $19.99 Who are the most fearsome bounty hunters in the galaxy? The Fetts – their very name carrying with it an aura of dread and fear. Their employers love them because their missions end in success while for their prey, it means capture and death. Not bad work if you can stand it, and Jango Fett could. Does your son want to be one of the most feared bounty hunters in the final years of the Republic? Then this costume is for him! It features a grey, black and blue jumpsuit with a brown belt and mask. It is available in small, medium and large. Add a Jango Fett blaster and some black child gloves (sold separately) and you’re young hunter can seek the enemies of the Republic with ease! This is a super Halloween outfit, or one that can be worn for imaginative play or at a Star Wars cosplay or even con. No one messes with the bounty hunter!

Jango Fett Standard Child $20.59 Who are the most fearsome bounty hunters in the galaxy? The Fetts – their very name carrying with it an aura of dread and fear. Their employers love them because their missions end in success while for their prey, it means capture and death. Not bad work if you can stand it, and Jango Fett could. Does your son want to be one of the most feared bounty hunters in the final years of the Republic? Then this costume is for him! It features a grey, black and blue jumpsuit with a brown belt and mask. It is available in small, medium and large. Add a Jango Fett blaster and some black child gloves (sold separately) and you’re young hunter can seek the enemies of the Republic with ease! This is a super Halloween outfit, or one that can be worn for imaginative play or at a Star Wars cosplay or even con. No one messes with the bounty hunter!

Jedi Search $7.99 As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children — the Jedi twins — will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraordinary new Star Wars RM saga begins….While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. But when Han and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret Imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes — and go from one danger to a far greater one…. On Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends, only to come face-to-face with a weapon so awesome, it can wipe out an entire solar system. It is a death ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by a reclusive genius and piloted by none other than Han himself….

King of the Benighted: Houshang Golshiri as Manouchehr Irani $12.95 First published pseudonymously and mailed out of Iran page by page, King of the Benighted is a firsthand account of the hard realities of life under the Islamic Republic. It creatively combines modern techniques of fiction with the rich tradition of Persian poetry to tell a timeless tale. The novella invites the reader to join the flow of the artist’s imagination and to share moments in the life a contemporary Iranian poet, including his imprisonment and incredible encounter with a young prisoner. King of the Benighted epitomizes a new emerging spirit in contemporary Persian literature and shows that despite Iran’s isolation today, its literature is very much part of the spirit sweeping the world. Included in this volume is an English prose rendition of the central metaphor of the novella, the 12th century poet Nezami’s The Black Dome. An insightful introduction by Nasrin Rahimich and a perceptive afterword by the translator reflect on the state of post revolutionary Persian literature.

LP Tambora with Wood Rim $305.41 The LP Tambora is essential for performing authentic Merengue the rhythm of the Dominican Republic. This instrument is traditionally played with the drum on the lap and hit with a beater on one end and a bare hand on the other. The LP Tambora is crafted from specially selected, kiln dried, environmentally friendly Siam Oak with 11” natural rawhide skins. Comes complete with a black nylon strap, tuning wrench, LP Lug Lube and wooden beater.

Leaven; A Black and White Story $14.8 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Alston Rivers in 1908 in 369 pages; Subjects: History / Africa / General; History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Minority Studies; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations;

Long Before Stonewall $27.44 A major, ground-breaking study of early America. Readers will come away with a fresh sense of the centrality of sexuality to any understanding of the formation of the new Republic. –Martha Vicinus, author of Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 This splendid collection, interdisciplinary but deeply historical, illustrates the maturation of lesbian and gay history as it has expanded its chronological and regional scope and its methodological depths.. –Estelle B. Freedman, author of Feminism, Sexuality, and PoliticsAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions.Long Before Stonewall seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic, as well as to expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a path-breaking, interdisciplinary collection of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England. It also includes a challenge to commonly accepted understandings of the Native American berdache. Throughout, connections of race, class, status, and gender areemphasized, exposing the deep foundations on which modern sexual political movements and identities are built.

Mariners, Renegades & Castaways $24.95 Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 – 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as a centrally important 20th-century figure. Through such landmark works as The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary, and American Civilization, James’s thought continues to influence and inspire scholars in a wide variety of fields. There is little doubt, wrote novelist Caryl Phillips in The New Republic, that James will come to be regarded as the outstanding Caribbean mind of the twentieth century. In his seminal work of literary and cultural criticism, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, James anticipated many of the concerns and ideas that have shaped the contemporary fields of American and Postcolonial Studies, yet this widely influential book has been unavailable in its complete form since its original publication in 1953. A provocative study of Moby Dick in which James challenged the prevailing Americanist interpretation that opposed a totalitarian Ahab and a democratic, American Ishmael, he offered instead a vision of a factory-like Pequod whose captain of industry leads the mariners, renegades and castaways of its crew to their doom. In addition to demonstrating how such an interpretation supported the emerging US national security state, James also related the narrative of Moby Dick, and its resonance in American literary and political culture, to his own persecuted position at the height (or the depth) of the Truman/McCarthy era. It is precisely this personal, deeply original material that was excised from the only subsequent edition. With a new introduction by Donald E. Pease that places thework in its critical and cultural context, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways is once again available in its complete form.

Mirabeau B. Lamar $17.95 State House Press is launching a new series of Texas biographies aimed at students in the fourth grade. The series focuses on important, but perhaps lesser known, Texans and their contributions to Texas history. The first two books in the series look at Henrietta King, matriarch of the King Ranch family, and Mirabeau B. Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas. They are among the personalities whose names appear on study guides for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test taken by all children in the fourth grade. Written by noted Texas children’s author Judy Alter, the biographies are concisely presented in language that can be understood by fourth graders but also enjoyed by older readers. West Texas artist Patrick Messersmith illustrates the books with compelling black and white sketches. The books are designed to be inviting and approachable to readers of any age, with extra spacing between lines to enhance readability and creative use of informative side-bar material. The Stars of Texas Series is a natural fit for State House Press, an imprint of the McWhiney Foundation, whose mission is to promote and encourage the study of history.

NS Design NXT 4-String Electric Double Bass Black $1356 The NXT Series Double Bass opens up a new horizon for the serious bassist looking to play a great instrument on a limited budget. These new instruments, crafted in the Czech Republic by the makers of the renowned CR Series, exemplify flawless workmanship at an incredible value. The NXT 4-String Electric Double Bass has a ? sized solid maple body and neck, and a graduated ebony fingerboard for a rich, full tone that rings true for every note. Asymmetrical fingerboard relief facilitates an even ‘growl’ from the higher strings and a clear, powerful lower register. The adjustable bridge and truss rod allow for low, fast action, or for higher string settings that encourage the traditional acoustic player to ‘dig in’ with gusto. The on-board Polar Pickup System is an exciting new dimension in string instrument performance that offers powerful dynamics and rich full sound. Two separate mounted transducers beneath the adjustable bridge offer unlimited expressive potential. Each pickup is specialized for a specific task. A convenient switch gives you the choice to select a traditional arco mode for percussive attack and dynamic bowed response, or pizzicato mode for a smooth, sustained tone. Equipped with single volume and tone controls, the passive electronics provide plenty of overhead for the ultimate sound without cumbersome batteries. The NXT 4-string Double Basses can be strung with electric or traditional acoustic strings, allowing the player to select from a wide range of set-up options, each with a unique sound and feel. In combination with the easy adjustment of basic set-up parameters, this versatile bass is adaptable to many different styles of music. Includes a self-supporting tripod stand with full adjustments for height and angle, and a padded gig bag that holds the stand and also has a pocket for a bow.4-string acoustic-electric bass3/4 size41.73 (106 cm) scale lengthSolid maple body and neckAmberburst or black satin finishes52 (132cm) body length Ebony fin

Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 $27.95 Mart nez-Vergne examines the development of a sense of nationhood in the Dominican Republic, with particular focus on the cities of Santo Domingo (the capital) and San Pedro de Macor’’s (a booming sugar town) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She argues that the Dominican intelligentsia impressed on the rest of society a discourse based on modern agricultural techniques, secular education, private property, and an open political process, but black immigrants from the West Indies, bourgeois women, and working class men and women developed their own–suprisingly modern–notions of citizenship in their daily interactions with city officials.

Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic $24.95 Ernesto Sagas examines the historical development and political use of antihaitianismo, a set of racist and xenophobic attitudes prevalent today in the Dominican Republic that broadly portray Dominican people as white Catholics, while Haitians are viewed as spirit-worshipping black Africans. More than just a ploy to generate patriotism and rally against a neighboring country, the ideology also is used by Dominican leaders to divide their own lower classes.Sagas looks at the notions of race held by Dominican elites in their creation of an imaginary white nation, particularly as the ideas were developed throughout the colonial era, then intellectually refined in the late 19th century, and later exalted to a state ideology during the Trujillo era. Finally, he examines how race and nationalist anti-Haitian feelings still are manipulated by conservative politicians and elites who seek to maintain the status quo, drawing on examples from recent political rhetoric and cartoons, campaign advertisements, and public school history textbooks.The first book-length study of antihaitianismo, this work offers important lessons for studying racial and ethnic conflict as well as nationalism and comparative politics.

Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma $27 A classic work on religion and the racial problems of modern america -now brought up to date. Since the early days of the Republic, Americans” exuberant, unchastened idealism, their commitment to the notion of a perfect society in the New World, has clashed with the reality of ugly American society, and religious groups have all too often accommodated themselves to these injustices. In Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma, C. Eric Lincoln reevaluates what Gunnar Myrdal called the American dilemma and studies particularly the influence of the black church. This revised edition takes into account the weakening of welfare and affirmative action, and argues that the black church must serve today as a vital moral authority to lead us in to the twenty-first century..

Reconstruction $23.99 This masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history ( New Republic ) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans — black and white — responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This smart book of enormous strengths ( Boston Globe ) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period — an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.

Restavec $19.95 African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society – the children of the poor – by using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children were – and still are – restavecs, a French term whose literal meaning of staying with disguises the unremitting labor, abuse, and denial of education that characterizes the children’s lives. In this memoir, Jean Robert Cadet recounts the harrowing story of his youth as a restavec, as well as his inspiring climb to middle-class American life. He vividly describes what it was like to be an unwanted illegitimate child staying with a well-to-do family whose physical and emotional abuse was sanctioned by Haitian society. He also details his subsequent life in the United States, where, despite American racism, he put himself through college and found success in the Army, in business, and finally in teaching.

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture $22.5 The publication of DNA test results showing that Thomas Jefferson was probably the father of his slave Sally Hemings’s children has sparked a broad but often superficial debate. The editors of this volume have assembled some of the most distinguished American historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, and other experts on Jefferson, his times, race, and slavery. Their essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson has raised about American history and national culture.The DNA tests would not have been conducted had there not already been strong historical evidence for the possibility of a relationship. As historians from Winthrop D. Jordan to Annette Gordon-Reed have argued, much more is at stake in this liaison than the mere question of paternity: historians must ask themselves if they are prepared to accept the full implications of our complicated racial history, a history powerfully shaped by the institution of slavery and by sex across the color line.How, for example, does it change our understanding of American history to place Thomas Jefferson in his social context as a plantation owner who fathered white and black families both? What happens when we shift our focus from Jefferson and his white family to Sally Hemings and her children? How do we understand interracial sexual relationships in the early republic and in our own time? Can a renewed exploration of the contradiction between Jefferson’s life as a slaveholder and his libertarian views yield a clearer understanding of the great political principles he articulated so eloquently and that Americans cherish? Are there moral or political lessons to be learned from the lives ofThomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings and the way that historians and the public have attempted to explain their liaison?Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture promises an open-ended discussion on the living legacy of slavery and race relations in our na

Slavery and the Literary Imagination $27 Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass’s Narrative (1845)– treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews– to Sheley Anne William’s Dessa Rose (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads W.E.B. DuBois’s classic work The Souls of Black Folk (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels of slavery and novels of sharecropping and questions the critical tendency to conflate the two, thereby also conflating the nineteenth century with the twentieth, the rural with the urban. Although works by Afro-American writers are the primary focus, the authors also examine antislavery novels by white women. Hortense J. Spillers gives extensive attention to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin , in juxtaposition with Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada ; Carolyn L. Karcher reads Lydia Maria Child’s A Romance of the Republic as an abolitionist vision of America’s racial destiny. In a concluding chapter, Deborah E. McDowell’s reading of Desa Rose reveals how slavery and freedom– dominant themes in nineteenth-century black literature– continue to command the attention of contemporary authors.