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"In America's historical imagination, toil and triumph against nature and overwhelming odds characterizes such achievements as the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad. Triumph transformed canal and railroad entrepreneurs into visionaries whose work brought the nation bountiful riches and did the Lord's bidding. Celebrated for their spirit and perseverance in 'building' the nation's infrastructure, they found respect for looking to tomorrow and creating a future. For generations, most indexes of American history supported and reinforced this narrative of progress. Yet, if this is the historical memory, it is conveniently stunted. What of those whose bodies strained and broke under the load of such glories? What of those men beyond the din and fanfare who only appear in old photographs with faces blurred and indistinguishable? In their lives and deaths in the mud, muck, and mountains is another history of American achievement. These barely visible and forgotten, ordinary men, 'unskilled' immigrants from Ireland and China, Mormons, and native-born American workingmen rank, as well, as the creators of national growth and progress. Their experiences and voices, along with those of the privileged and well-connected, are the subjects of this study. I examine the rise of Western canals and railroads to national prominence through the menial labor of countless men, largely hidden from view because they left virtually no paper trail, who strung together livelihoods at the economic fringes of society. This book examines the contest for control of American progress and history as distilled from the competing narratives of canal and railroad construction workers and those fortunate enough to avoid this fate"--Provided by publisher

"We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, women's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition. ln Millennium, bestselling historian Ian Mortimer takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the last ten centuries of Western history. It is a journey into a past vividly brought to life--and bursting with ideas--that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which century saw the greatest change. We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burned to the ground by invaders--and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer--to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilizations came into conflict with each other on an epic scale. Here is a story of brilliant scientists, fearless adventurers, cold-hearted entrepreneurs, and strong-minded women--a story of discovery, invention, revolution, and cataclysmic shifts in perspective. Millennium is a journey into the past like no other. Our understanding of human development will never be the same again."--Jacket flap

Au seul nom d'Action Française, deux images viennent le plus souvent à l'esprit : celle de Charles Maurras et celle des Camelots du Roi, ces gendarmes supplétifs qui mirent « la violence au service de la raison ». Fondés en 1908, les Camelots du Roi préexistaient, du moins dans l'esprit, depuis les années 1904-1905, dates de la fondation des Étudiants d'Action Française et de la Ligue du même nom. Leur histoire est celle d'un vaste mouvement national et populaire dont la mission était de défendre l'honneur de la France et de diffuser le quotidien L'Action française. L'histoire des Camelots s'écoule sur vingt-huit années. En 1936, le Front populaire prononce la dissolution des organisations d'Action Française. Mais l'esprit des Camelots subsiste

Preliminary Material -- Introduction. Towards a Historical Socio-semantics of a Word in Vogue -- Introduction to Part 1 -- The Word of the Septuagint -- The Religious Space of Dispersion -- Towards a Secular Concept -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Next Year in Ethiopia: Blacks at the Jewish Mirror -- A Name of One's Own: The Emergence of the Black/African Diaspora -- The Reversal -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Constructing the Field of Diaspora Studies -- The Critical Turn -- States and Their Diasporas -- Conclusion. Two Cats and Three Demons -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.