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Excerpt from Curiosity Visits to Southern Plantations The following sketches of Slave Life and Labour in the Confederate States of America, from the pen of a Northern Man, which recently appeared in Fraser's Magazine, are so unlike the familiar fictions of the Abolitionists, that the friends of the South, and of the Truth, deem it expedient to re-publish them in pamphlet form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

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This book examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational relationships, activism, and more.

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Excerpt from Slavery the Mere Pretext for the Rebellion: Not Its CauseThe aspiration of Southern ambition which has reached to the climax Of rebellion, was not the growth of a month or a year. Those who have watched the course Of public events and noted the development of Opinion in the South for years past have seen many signs Of the coming peril, and, if the country was not prepared for it, it was not for want of an occasional Warning. Every...

Le nuove vicissitudini di Alice, Sonia, e del loro gruppo di amici, tra corsi, esami, party alcolici, tempeste ormonali e altri generi di problemi. Un albo erotico ma anche fortemente ironico su questo straordinario e terribile periodo che sono gli anni degli studi universitari. L'autore, lo spagnolo Man, ha al suo attivo numerosi albi pubblicati oltre che nel suo paese, in Francia negli Usa, in Germania e in Giappone.

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Excerpt from Measures as Well as Men: Or, the Present and Future Interests of Great Britain May It Please Your Grace, Should your Grace favour with your attention the present work, or a few pages of the introduction prefixed to it, you will be able to ascertain my motives for addressing your Grace on the present occasion, and for deriving to this tract that honour, which your name will confer upon it, without my having either solicited your...

Excerpt from The Diplomatic Year: Being a Review of Mr. Seward's Foreign Correspondence of 1862Now let us look at this new volume of imposture and note its history, the circumstances of its publication, and, within certain limits, its contents. All are characteristic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histor...

Turbid Rivers was written just before Ch'ae Man-Sik was arrested in 1938 by the Japanese colonial government. It is a realistic portrayal of life in Korea under Japanese colonization. The tragic story of a woman's life, the novel is also a penetrating look into the objectification of women.

Excerpt from John Bull's Open Door: A Plea for It to Be Shut John Bull's revenue amounts each year to an average of one hundred and fifty six million pounds, and is collected from several main sources, principally under the following headings, viz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Fo...

Excerpt from Letters From the South, Vol. 1 of 2 Dear Frank, In order to lay a solid foundation for my travels, I ought first to tell how this new world was made, and, secondly, how it was peopled, since, if it had never been made or peopled, it would not be worth writing about. There are two ways of making a world, lately invented by the geologists - one by fire, the other by water. I mention these to show you it is no difficult matter, an...

Excerpt from Some Views on the Tariff Question The writer of nearly all the following letters has consented to their publication in this form in deference to the solicitation of those who are interested in protecting the American market, and whose judgment in the matter he deems better than his own. The writer formed his opinions on the tariff question while a youth at work in a cotton mill, commencing in the year 1832. At that time the whol...

Excerpt from The Domestic Blunders of Women A mere man's bold and unsparing attack on woman's stronghold in the home, made originally in a serial form, provoked at once, as must have been expected, a general upris ing of the sex in strenuous defense of their position and capacities. Some few ranged themselves as his allies, but the greater number pelted him with ar row - ¿ights of winged words, not always feathered with discretion, not ever ...

Excerpt from The Remaking of a Mind: A Soldier's Thoughts on War and Reconstruction This book is intended to show the remaking of a mind during the remaking of the world. It will be a succession, in broad chronological order, of the reactions of the war, in its changing mili tary and political aspects, on the mind of a young European who has been all through it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and...

Excerpt from Picture of a Factory Village: To Which Are Annexed, Remarks on Lotteries The forms of things unknown, the Poet' Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name - Santana. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-ar...

Excerpt from Jim and Nell, A Dramatic Poem: In the Dialect of North Devon Z0 ott's this hackle vor Chewers ban't gwain to crick my back, Britting 0' thick an crazing thack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the ...