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A very brief introduction to the geography and various regions of South America. ... Read more

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This series supports the study of continents, providing information on each continent as well as the way continents affect the whole world - oceans, climate, plants, animals and human culture. ... Read more

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America's Natural Places: South and Southeast examines over 50 of the most spectacular and important areas of this region, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it.

Organized by state within the volume, this book informs readers about the wide variety of natural areas across the south and southeast and identifies places near them that demonstrate the importance of preserving such regions.

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Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the process of regional integration.Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America (the 'global south'), it develops detailed case studies based on archives, interviews and critical readings of existing texts. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1855 edition by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1855 edition by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. ... Read more

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Focuses on environmental issues and concerns in the South Central States and steps being taken to counteract the damage. ... Read more

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Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the South Americans, their place in American society, and the problems they face as an ethnic group in North America. ... Read more

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The central Andes - Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador - are undergoing rapid change. Economic integration, neoliberal and adjustment policies, new communication technologies, indigenous political emancipation, and migration are major factors that are transforming the livelihoods, cultures and identities of the Andean peoples. The changes have initiated a debate on the dynamics and the permanence of an 'Andean way of life'. In addressing this debate, this book analyzes the dynamics of 'Andean-ness' in relation to neoliberal policy reform and globalization, to new forms of cultural encounter, to the revalorization of tradition in the midst of rapid change, and the so-called de-territorialization of identities and cultures. Focusing on the central Andes, it would appear that even within the heartland inherited views of Andean-ness are increasinly losing ground. Yet at the same time, specific elements of lo andino remain in place, and, according to many, are anything but losing ground. Development-related approaches are considered, as well as ethnographic, conceptual and historical accounts.Together, these contributions provide for a broad and varied discussion on the question about the degree to which the notion of lo andino as a scientific tool and category is still a useful one. ... Read more

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What routes did slaves have to choose from when they wanted to escape in search of freedom-or flee after an ill-fated rebellion against white plantation-owners? Where are the historical centers of Southern Judaism? How did the New Deal rebuild the modern south? The engrossing text and vivid maps in this new historical atlas provide a unique geographical perspective on the history of the South. Coverage includes: the first European settlers and resultant Native American migrations, the Civil War, Reconstruction, bus boycotts, the contemporary fight against poverty and crime, and much, much more. ... Read more

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Wonderful book
I loved the book! In a concise and engaging format, the author has shownhow geography and history have shaped the South.The illustrations andmaps are beautiful and it is gracefully written. A must for any Americanhistory or Civil War buff.

Very interesting, catchy to look at
Uses maps and illustrations to show how the South developed into its own, distinctive cultural region.Contains plenty of interesting anecdotes and historical tales -- and it is great to look at.... ... Read more

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A quietly powerful story of how a white, middle-class, and largely Jewish neighborhood, built from prairie on Chicago's far South Side in the optimistic years after World War II, rapidly and dramatically changed to a middle-class black community in the 1960s. Told in memoir and oral narrative, this is a tale of how dreams were both realized and shattered in the confrontation between moral courage, spiritual ethics, and personal fears. ... Read more

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The South Side
Neighborhoods are created by groups of individuals, usually of the same ethnic background. How a group grows internally, is because of there culture, religion, and political beliefs. When their (groups) stronghold, or sacred ground is challenged, fear then takes over. The first few, newblack families that moved into the author's neighborhood, were well educated, and valued their new property, as well as anybody that were currently living there. It might have been hard for some residents to accept, a black family moving in, but it was twice as hard for that family, to accept what racial bigotry that awaits them. Sacrifices must be made, in order to balance out. The rich help the poor, the strong helps the weak, the believers help the non-belivers. When you are born into a vicious cycle, that cycle must be broken. Education is the key.

Not My South Side
I will say I am unfamiliar with "Pill Hill", but that is because it is in the Bowen HS area and I went to South Shore HS when it was new and the neighborhood was idyllic and safe.It was not a "predominately Jewish neighborhood," which seems to put an onus on Pill Hill.South Shore was a collection of all religions and many Irish Catholics with the near presence of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church and School.The blacks who began moving into South Shore were not middle class, they were lower class.Their leaders had a system of buying one house in a block to frighten the residents.It took awhile, but it worked as homeowners were frightened of losing their investment.I was afraid to be on the streets as I returned home from work.That's why WE moved.My wise aunt said, if one black family lived on each block we would all get along.I agree with her, not the one resentful black reviewer who posted earlier.The blacks wanted the whole south side and did not want to be near the white residents.We had black residents in nearby areas who had been there for many years and resented the influx of these people who were committed to taking the whole south side.They succeeded and now they are segregated, as they apparently prefer to be rather than living in an urban community with a diverse population.

''now I understand"
I decided to chance reading this book although I was not familiar with the author Louis Rosen. I am a college educated Black American professional who has intergrated 2 predominately white/jewish neighborhoods the latter move has amazed my understanding of this "white flight" syndrome. Just as the Galloways represented in this book had no intentions of ever trying to intergrate or assimilate into these neighborhoods, I too just could'nt understand this response by white people and especially jewish people when black americans move into a neighborhood. From my experience Jews refuse to live around anyone other than their own kind and believe me upper middle class blacks have just learned to deal with it. This book was very interesting and
informally an open insight of why people flight. Everything appeared to stem from fear or down right ignorant bigotry. This book was honest and it was well appreciated to know why people feel the way they do. I read this book in 2 days and found it bitter sweet for all the people that felt that they had to run.

Neighborhood and Community
Louis Rosen grew up in the Pill Hill neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.In the 1960s Pill Hill and the surrounding area was a white Jewish and other ethnic neighborhood.By the mid-1960s, some of the white Jewish families were moving out (usually "up" to bigger houses in the suburbs) and black lower-middle class families began moving in (as they too looked to move up from old neighborhoods).The gradual change of the mid-1960s became a virtual stampede after the 1968 race riots, and even though Rosen's family did not leave until 1975, by mid-1969 the old, idyllic neighborhood of Rosen's youth was essentially gone.

Rosen has not written an historical or sociological study of why neighborhoods change, how unscrupulous real estate agents pray on white fears, or why integration did not take hold in this particular neighborhood.Instead, he has given us an impressionistic, quasi-literary study of the experiences of children and adults, principally from the Jewish but also from the African-American community.The most troubling aspect of the book is that all of the people interviewed by Rosen (his book is presented as a composite of their voices) seem to have been people of goodwill, trying to do the right thing, yet somehow at that time and place they were not able to address each other's fears and build an integrated community.We get a few tantalizing hints as to reasons for this phenomenon -- fear and racism among some of the Jews (not spelled out in detail), divisions within the Jewish community that had nothing to do with the changingracial composition of the community, a feeling on the part of African-American that it was not their place to ease fears or involve themselves with their white neighbors.It would have been interesting to hear more from some of the Jews who left in early in the process, who felt pressured by real estate agents and who left in the middle of the night, instead of just from people who (at least initially) tried to stay.

Because Rosen was a member of a Jewish community that no longer exists, the overriding impression of book leaves is one of loss -- a golden childhood, a perfect community, lost forever, to which Rosen can never hope to return, even physically.And yet, at the end of the book Rosen does return, and discovers that Pill Hill is still a neighborhood, just as important to its current residents, just as much home, as it ever was for Rosen and his neighbors.It was not destroyed by the arrival of African-American homeowners and is still a beautiful, well-kept, comfortable haven on the South Side.

The format of "The South Side" is a quasi-play with narrator, which could make it an excellent tool for discussion groups, where individual members could play the "parts" in the play.Although Rosen does not offer answers, he raises a lot of valuable questions and will make you think about the meaning of neighborhood, neighbors and community.Well written, and a fast and easy read.

Nostalgia for the South Side
Just read Mr. Rosen's book on the recommendation of another south-sider.We are (were) both Luella and then Bowen grads - a bit older than Mr. Rosen, but just as convinced that that place and time provided the best growing-up experience IN THE UNIVERSE! Memories so sweet and friends so precious.My family moved in 1970, but it was because of a job relocation for my father.I was married by then, but my sister finished her final two years of high school in California. Thank you, Mr. Rosen, for capturing the wonder that was the 50s and 60s on the South Side. ... Read more

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Focusing on the mountainous area from northern Alabama to West Virginia, this important volume explores the historic and contemporary interrelations between culture and environment in a region that has been plagued by land misuse and damaging stereotypes of its people. Committed to taking account of humankind's place in the environment, this collection is a timely contribution to debates over land use and conservation. Debunking the nature/culture dichotomy, contributors examine how physical space is transformed into culturally constituted 'place' by a variety of factors, both tangible (architecture, landmarks, artifacts) and intangible (a sense of place, long-term family habitation of land, tradition, 'a way of life worth fighting for'). Archaeologists, cultural geographers, and ethnographers examine how the land was used by its earliest inhabitants and trace the effects of agricultural decline, industrial development, and tourism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Powerful case studies recount past displacement of local populations in the name of progress or conservation and track threatened communities' struggles to maintain their claims to place in the face of extralocal counterclaims that would appropriate space and resources for other purposes, such as mountaintop removal of coal or a power company's plans to export electricity from Appalachia to distant urban centers. Contributors also record successful community planning ventures that have achieved creative solutions to seemingly intransigent conflicts between demands for economic wealth and environmental health. ... Read more

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Volume: 18 South America, The Andes RegionPublisher: London, J.S. Virtue ... Read more