While tourism is a major industry, I discovered that many of the grand houses on the island were owned by wealthy outsiders, often standing empty for much of the year. Despite this, the locals seemed content, with no signs of imminent revolt....
One immigrant group’s journey from outsiders to shaping 20th-century law enforcement. Read more Read more Established society in cities like Boston viewed the Irish as violent alcoholics (hence the phrase, “Don’t get your Irish up”) and labeled them with slurs like “mick.” Those who we...
The land Sutter controlled may have been sparsely populated to Anglo settlers, but it was home to Native Americans who “found their homelands now the property of outsiders who viewed them as potential laborers,” writes historian Lisa Emmerich. Those native peoples presented both a threat and ...
Anarchism has undergone a broad renewal in the US and Canada in recent decades, flowering most spectacularly in the alter-globalization movement in the years after the protests against the WTO ministerial in Seattle in November 1999. At the time, themovement seemed to outsiders to have spring ...
weeks or even months, but do not make their permanent home in the community) are generally viewed as a threat to local fishers and provide challenges to fisheries management, certain mechanisms have been developed to allow outsiders to access local resources (Cinti et al. 2010; Basurto 2005)....
Arts and crafts that reflect the local people and their ideas of the world, their interactions with outsiders. Museo Casa de La Libertad was another little place I browsed to know more about the history of Sucre and Bolivia in general. And there is a great vegetarian cafe just off the ...
we-will-never-learn:mobil phone threats are very common among young people here in norway.thing is in any group there will always be outsiders who are often also the weakest so they are mobbed thru the mobile.in some cases young people are hospitalized due to this. ...
it hit me about the economy here - maybe it's expensive to outsiders is cuz of all the north sea oil norway has, maybe for them prices don't seem as high cuz they're getting paid more. I am poor at economic understanding in many ways! raymond's helped me so much w/that but I ...
As the Native people of the Americas confronted the outsiders, they suffered a broad array of injuries. They both resisted and fell victim to violence, oppression and forced assimilation; they acted to counter the loss of their autonomy, land and economic base; they engaged in unending and ...
“Most historians would agree that there was very strong prejudice” against the Irish, Barrett explains. “That translates into a lot of different things, like problems getting jobs.” One early, violent clash came in 1837 inBoston, when an Irish funeral procession blocked a volunteer firefightin...