"Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis?all based on extensive archival research?produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative." ? The Journal of American History
In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war.
In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay.
Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were "useful mouths"—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era.
Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Автор: Herrmann, Jeremy Название: Spelling by hand ISBN: 1943582114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943582112 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A little booklet that offers simple but effective techniques to help children make sense of difficult English spelling.
Автор: Herrmann Madeleine Название: Joan of Arkansas: Awakening to the World ISBN: 163210038X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781632100382 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2614.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Sixteen-year-old Joan Larousse has a lot on her mind. She knows she is lucky to live on a big estate with her parents, two caretakers and a parrot named Victor, Joan loves the woods and a cave becomes her "church." Joan's life is generally busy and happy. With her French tutor, Joan explores existentialism and consciousness, debate and speaking your truth, patience and love. As Joan chooses a date for the prom and enjoys her first kiss, she also confronts personal delimnas. Her values differ from her wealthy parents, who do not understand her, and want her to change. Joan doesn't want an expensive prom dress or the Mercedes her father offers. She overhears her parents arguing; her father travels too often and her mother drinks too much.
When Joan and her friend Kristin find out there is a petition to fire their well-liked science teacher at school, they become determined to stop that from happening and becomes immersed in the complex workings of American politics. With the help of her father, Joan gains the audience of the President. Reflecting the bravery of Joan of Arc, Joan of Arkansas musters the courage to speak clearly from her heart for her cause. This story reminds us that the younger generation are our future problem solvers.
Описание: Exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumours facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To Feast on Us as Their Prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world.
Автор: Herrmann, Leonhard Horstkotte, Silke Название: Gegenwartsliteratur ISBN: 3476025780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783476025784 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3265.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Am Anfang der Epo-che standen der Deutsch-Deutsche Literaturstreit und die Frage nach der Einheit der deutschen Literatur. Kapitel zu Tendenzen der Lyrik und Dramatik der Gegenwart sowie zum Literaturbetrieb der Gegenwart beschliessen den Band.
Автор: Herrmann Steven L. Название: Birding Northwest Ecuador ISBN: 1534600051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781534600058 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5173.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Herrmann John Название: Foreign Born ISBN: 1942885644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942885641 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3677.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
