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Cambridge University Press The Guitar in Stuart England
Book SynopsisThis is the first history of the guitar during the reign of the Stuarts, a time of great political and social upheaval in England. In this engaging and original volume, Christopher Page gathers a rich array of portraits, literary works and other, previously unpublished, archival materials in order to create a comprehensive picture of the guitar from its early appearances in Jacobean records, through its heyday at the Restoration court in Whitehall, to its decline in the first decades of the eighteenth century. The book explores the passion of Charles II himself for the guitar, and that of Samuel Pepys, who commissioned the largest repertoire of guitar-accompanied song to survive from baroque Europe. Written in Page''s characteristically approachable style, this volume will appeal to general readers as well as to music historians and guitar specialists.Trade Review'Reading Christopher Page's monograph is not only a wonderful learning process, but also an emotionally moving experience. His sincere attitude, along with a lively wit, revitalizes the history of the old musical instrument, brings its music and highlights its connections to our century. … this is the most useful and superb source, not only for people interested in early guitar music, but anybody fascinated with British history.' Taro Takeuchi, The Galpin Society JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The guitar in Jacobean and Caroline England (I): court masque and town fashion; 2. The guitar in Jacobean and Caroline England (II): London and lodgings abroad; 3. The restoration court; 4. Regarding the female guitarist; 5. Guitars, gallants and gentlewomen; 6. Samuel Pepys and the guitar all'Italiana; 7. The autumn of the five-course guitar in England.
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Palgrave Macmillan Globalizing Ideal Beauty How Female Copywriters of the J Walter Thompson Advertising Agency Redefined Beauty for the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisGlobalizing Ideal Beauty is the forgotten history of a group of women copywriters whose successful ad campaigns went international in the 1920s and spread an American notion of feminine appeal from Bangor to Bangkok. Sutton's approach is grounded in a huge body of original archival research that has so far remained largely untapped.Trade Review"Provides a glimpse into the origins of advertising and the key role that women played in creating today's global standard of feminine beauty . . .A useful volume for marketing as well as women's studies collections . . .Recommended." - Choice "An empirically rich and beautifully written study of the complex and often contradictory roles that women and gender played in the history of American advertising. This should be essential reading for all those interested in understanding in what ways gender, class and race matter to the projection of American commercial culture at home and abroad." - Mona Domosh, Dartmouth College "This absorbing book contributes to a growing body of sophisticated work about 20th century advertising. Sutton's study follows a group of avant-garde female copy writers, the J. Walter Thompson Women's Editorial Department, focusing particularly on the interwar years. Sutton shows how these class-conscious, professional, modern, feminist style-setting copywriters created 20th century cosmetics advertising in JWT's imperialist, hyper-masculine corporate culture." - Tani E. Barlow, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Studies, History Department, Rice University.Table of ContentsIntroduction From Suffrage to Soap 'Good Looks Supremacy' Selling Prestige and Whiteness Selling Sex and Science J. Walter Thompson's International Expansion and the Ideology of Civilization J. Walter Thompson's International Ads Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The First Northern Ireland Peace Process PowerSharing Sunningdale and the IRA Ceasefires 197276
Book SynopsisThe First Northern Ireland Peace Process covers the various attempts to end the 'Troubles' from 1972-76. These attempts included secret talks with the Provisional IRA and a parallel process to build a political consensus between the British and Irish Governments and the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland.Trade Review“Thomas Hennessey’s new book is the latest addition to scholarly works exploring the early to mid-1970s, a highly significant period in Northern Ireland’s political history. A wealth of archival sources pertaining to these years is now available to researchers, and there is much within the documents to debate. … The First Northern Ireland Peace Process provides a thought-provoking contribution to the literature on this period.” (Shaun McDaid, American Historical Review, February, 2017)Table of Contents1. 'Talking to Terrorists': British Government Contacts with the IRA 1972-74 2. Power-Sharing and the Council of Ireland: the Evolution of Irish and British Policy Strategies 1972-73 3. Sunningdale 4. A New Ceasefire: British and Republican Dialogue 1974-75 5. British - IRA Talks 1975-76
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Mass Dictatorship and Memory as Ever Present Past Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Coming to Terms with the Past of Mass Dictatorship; Peter Lambert & Jie-Hyun Lim PART I: ENTANGLED MEMORY AND COMPARATIVE HISTORY 2. The Predicaments of Culture: War, Dictatorship, and Modernity in Early Postwar West Germany and Japan; Sebastian Conrad 3. Victimhood Nationalism in the Memory of Mass Dictatorship; Jie-Hyun Lim 4. Creating a Victimhood Nation: The Politics of the Austrian People's Courts and High Treason; Hiroko Mizuno PART II: THE DIALECTICAL INTERPLAY OF HISTORY AND MEMORY 5. Ukraine Faces Its Soviet Past: History vs. Policy vs. Memory; Volodymyr Kravchenko 6. History and Responsibility: On the Debates on the Sh?wa History; Naoki Sakai 7. Widukind or Karl der Große? Perspectives on Historical Culture and Memory in the Third Reich and Post-war West Germany; Peter Lambert PART III: PLURALIZING MEMORIES: FRAGMENTED, CONTESTED, RESISTED 8. The Suppression and Recall of Colonial Memory: Manchukuo and the Cold War in the Two Koreas; Suk-Jung Han 9. Accomplices of Violence: Guilt and Purification through Altruism among the Moscow Human Rights Activists of the 1960s and 1970s; Barbara Walker 10. Consuming Fragments of Mao Zedong: The Chairman's Final Two Decades at the Helm; Michael Schoenhals 11. The Lived Space of Recollection: How Holocaust Memorials are Conceived Differently Today; Jörg Gleiter
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Power Knowledge and Dissent in Morgenthaus Worldview The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive investigation into Hans Morgenthau's life and work. Identifying power, knowledge, and dissent as the fundamental principles that have informed his worldview, this book argues that Morgenthau's lasting contribution to the discipline of International Relations is the human condition of politics.Trade Review"Hans Morgenthau was one of the great intellectual figures in the study of international politics, and Felix Rösch's insightful study helps remind us why. Focusing on Morgenthau's intellectual roots in Weimar Germany, Rösch brings Morgenthau into the present by underscoring his relevance to vital strands of recent political and social thought. An indispensable contribution to the growing literature on international realism." - William E. Scheuerman, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, USA "An original, thoughtful, readable investigation of Hans Morgenthau's intellectual development that goes beyond his writings to personal, cultural, and intellectual history to understand his world view and that of realism. It is a major contribution to our understanding, not only of realism, but to the creative efforts of intellectuals to go beyond ideology and the academy to grapple with the challenges of modernity." - Richard Ned Lebow, Professor of International Political Theory, King's College London, IKTable of Contents1. Prolegomena: Realism and Worldview 2. Chapter I: Hans Morgenthau and Weimar 3. Chapter II: Power - Hans Morgenthau and Ontology 4. Chapter III: Knowledge - Hans Morgenthau and Epistemology 5. Chapter IV: Dissent - Hans Morgenthau and Political Agency 6. Epilogue: The Human Condition of Politics
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Carl Schmitt Mao Zedong and the Politics of Transition
Book SynopsisThis book develops a new way of reading and benefiting from Schmitt's legal and political theories. It explores Schmitt's theories from the perspective of what I refer to as the politics of transition. It also contributes to identifying the real theoretical relationship between Schmitt and Mao.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Schmitt, Mao and the Politics of Transition 1. Carl Schmitt in China 2. Carl Schmitt's Critique of the Positivist Understanding of Law 3. Carl Schmitt's Reconstruction of the Relationship between State and Individual 4. The Key Components of Mao Zedong's Political Philosophy 5. Mao, Schmitt and the Politics of Transition Conclusion: Towards an Approach for Democratic Transition in China
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Marx and Engelss German ideology Manuscripts Presentation and Analysis of the feuerbach Chapter Marx Engels and Marxisms
Book SynopsisSince the 1920s, scholars have promoted a set of manuscripts, long abandoned by Marx and Engels, to canonical status in book form as The German Ideology, and in particular its 'first chapter,' known as 'I.Table of ContentsContents 1. Analytical Introduction 2. Brief Apparatus Criticus 3. New Textual Presentation and English Translation from a New German Text Rough Notes, formerly known as 'I. Feuerbach', drawn from 'the German ideology' manuscripts by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Joseph Weydemeyer 4. Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Marx the Body and Human Nature
Book SynopsisMarx, the Body, and Human Nature shows that the body and the broader material world played a far more significant role in Marx's theory than previously recognised. It provides a fresh 'take' on Marx's theory, revealing a much more open, dynamic and unstable conception of the body, the self, and human nature.Table of Contents1. Introduction: evading the body 2. Early influences: pain and promise 3. Spinoza ' 's revolution 4. Hegel: wrestling with desire 5. Feuerbach: embracing limitation 6. Marx ' 's Objective Being 7. Marx ' 's Species Being 8. Marx and Species Consciousness 9. The promise of the body
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era Queenship and Power
Book SynopsisRoyal Mothers and their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era brings together a range of case studies from the Pre-Modern era to illustrate key themes with regard to motherhood, ambition and authority, with a focus on queens and elite women who are at the political heart of their respective realms.Trade Review“Royal mothers and their Ruling Children is an important starting point for addressing this gap, focusing on an aspect that has surprisingly been neglected in most studies on motherhood and mothering … . opens up a new field of research with rich potential for queenship specialists, since motherhood can be identified as a major power resource for royal women in premodern times.” (Julia Heinemann, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 3 (2), 2016)“Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner have, with this collection, selected chapters that not only make significant individual contributions, but also fit well together. Separately and collectively, the chapters provide a clear sense of the similarities and differences that existed in the ways that royal women exercised power and authority across different monarchies throughout history.” (Aidan Norrie, Parergon, Vol. 33 (2), 2016)Table of Contents1. To be the Queen's Daughter. Controversy, Adultery and the Legitimacy Problem in the Reign of Enrique IV of Castile (1454-1474) 2. Stepmother and mother of princes: legitimation and political actuation in the reign of Juana Enriquez German Gamero Igea 3. Matriarchs of the Royal House of Stuart: Negotiating Personal and Dynastic Ambition, Motherhood and Adversity 1613-1662 4.To Have and to Hold: Coins and Seals as Evidence for Motherly Authority 5. Nomadic Mothers as Rulers in China: Female Regents of the Khitan Liao (907-1125) 6. Empress Adelheid's Vulnerabilities as Mother and Ruler 7.Optima Mater: Power, Influence, and the Maternal Bonds between Agrippina the Younger (A. D. 15-59) and Nero, Emperor of Rome (A. D. 54-68) 8. Louise of Savoy: The Mixed Legacy of a Powerful Mother 9. Queen Mother Knows Best: Maria de Molina and the Vestiges of Medieval Politics in Modern Historiography 10. Catherine of Medici: Henri III's Inspiration to be a Father to his People
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St Martin's Press Ivory Vikings
Book SynopsisIvory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s.Trade ReviewA richly imagined journey to the Viking world that created the Lewis chessmen - "the most important chess pieces in history." - New York Times
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Palgrave Macmillan Liberalism and the Defence of Political Constructivism
Book SynopsisPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Practice of Political Justification Constructivism in Rawls Self-Respect Reasoning About Justice The Social Bases of Self-Respect Concluding Review Bibliography IndexTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Practice of Political Justification Constructivism in Rawls Self-Respect Reasoning About Justice The Social Bases of Self-Respect Concluding Review Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Mosley and British Politics 191832
Book SynopsisIntroduction: Guilty Men 1. Apprenticeships 2. Renegade 3. Elect 4. Networker 5. Minister 6. Critic 7. Explorer 8. Rejections 9. OptionsTrade Review“This new study of the early political career of Sir Oswald Mosley … is both a perceptive biography of the ambitious baronet and a painstaking reconstruction of the wider political ideas and context of the 1920s. … Howell’s study is an important contribution to the historiography, which combines thoughtful analysis of Mosley’s early years in politics with a comprehensive understanding of the internal politics of the Labour movement of the 1920s.” (Steven Woodbridge, Parliamentary History, Vol. 35 (2), June, 2016)“The book is an excellent contribution to scholarship not only about Mosley, but also about Conservative and Labour politics of the 1920s. … The book contains solid analyses of Mosley’s politics and elections prior to his entrance into fascist politics. … The book is an excellent and welcomed study about inter-war politics and Oswald Mosley.” (Ryan Shaffer, History - Journal of the Historical Association, January, 2016)'David Howell superbly charts Mosley's remarkable political journey across the political spectrum in the years following the First World War. His book is a brilliant & unique exploration of early 20th century political thought, postwar British political history and the personal odyssey of one of the most remarkable political figures of the time.' - Stewart Wood, Lord Wood of AnfieldTable of ContentsIntroduction: Guilty Men 1. Apprenticeships 2. Renegade 3. Elect 4. Networker 5. Minister 6. Critic 7. Explorer 8. Rejections 9. Options
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Palgrave MacMillan UK EighteenthCentury British Premiers Walpole to the Younger Pitt
Book SynopsisFollowing his earlier surveys of 19th and 20th Century British Prime Ministers, Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 18th Century predecessors, including such major figures as Robert Walpole, the Elder Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord North and the Younger Pitt.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Road to the Prime Ministership Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford – 'all these men have their price' Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington – 'George II's favourite nonentity' Henry Pelham – Pragmatic Heir to Walpole Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle – Mighty Panjamdrum, Feeble Premier William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire – 'I have no motive but the King's service' John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute – the King's 'dearest friend' George Grenville – Able Premier, Undermined by his own Prolixity Charles Wentworth-Watson, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham – the Conscience of the Whigs William Pitt, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham – 'I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can' Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Gracfton – Well-intentioned Dilettante Frederick North, styled Lord North – Outstanding Parliamentarian, Pity about the Colonies… William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne – Too Clever by Half William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland – Twice a Figurehead William Pitt, the Younger – Peacetime Prodigy, Less Successful in War Epilogue Appendix Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Conceiving Carolina Proprietors Planters and Plots Proprietors Planters and Plots 16621729
Book SynopsisWritten from a transatlantic perspective and based largely on primary sources, Conceiving Carolina provides the first systematic treatment of the colonization of South Carolina in over a century. It argues that the political culture that developed in the colony amounted to an extension of the political life in early modern England.Trade Review"Roper's subject is compelling, given the cast of characters and events that made proprietary South Carolina what it was. Roper's original take on the formative period of South Carolina's distinctive history will catch the scholar's notice and raise an eyebrow or two, but all who pore over Conceiving Carolina will be treated to a fascinating story that is as instructive as it is well told." - Warren M. Billings, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of History, University of New Orleans "Conceiving Carolina is a welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on colonial South Carolina. Focusing on the era of proprietary government, it delineates the complex relationships that arose between London courtiers, West Indian planters, Yamassee warriors, Anglican missionaries, Huguenot refugees, British and Irish settlers, and African slaves. As Roper shows, the colony's early social and political development replicated patterns evident throughout the British Atlantic; at the same time, a major theme is the weakness of the centralizing Anglo-British state along its transoceanic periphery. Historians will find much of value in this book." - Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire "Roper's study is a rich source of information on the first sixty-seven years of Carolina's history." - Catherine Cardno, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Prologue Genesis Blueprint Birthpangs The Rise of the Goose Creek Men Plots Stuarts Town Treachery Plots Consternation Conclusions Abbreviations Notes
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia Palgrave Concise Historical Atlases
Book SynopsisThis atlas graphically illuminates the region's history tracing back to the 8th-7th century B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongols, the area has been at the crossroads of some of the world's most important developments, all succinctly explained in this book.Trade Review'The atlas serves as a useful reference, valuable for its clarity and wealth of information.' - www.museo-on.com '...as a cheap, up to date, nearly pocket-sized guide to a little-known area of enormous geopolitical importance, this book is unrivalled. It seems to me that most public reference libraries, and academic libraries catering for courses in geography, history, politics or international relations, ought to consider it for acquisition.' - Martin Guha, Reference Reviews '...contains a wealth of clear and easily accessible information; it is a bold attempt to describe and graphically illustrate the history of a complex region and the author is to be warmly congratulated for it. The paperback atlas is an affordable and worthy addition to any library.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic SocietyTable of ContentsIntroductory Maps * Early History, 6th Century B.C.-6th Century A.D. * Islamic Golden Age * Mongols and Decline of Central Asia * Era of Colonialism and Nation State Building * Post-Communism and Independence
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Lectures on the Will to Know
Book SynopsisIn the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.Trade Review"Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are." - The Nation "Ideas spark off nearly every page . . . The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s], but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday." - BookforumTable of ContentsForeword: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana Translator's Note 1. 9 December 1970 2. 16 December 1970 3. 6 January 1971 4. 13 January 1971 5. 27 January 1971 6. 3 February 1971 7. 10 February 1971 8. 17 February 1971 9. 24 February 1971 10. 3 March 1971 11. 10 March 1971 12. 17 March 1971 13. Lecture On Nietzsche Course summary Oedipal Knowledge Course context Index of notions Index of names
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Simon & Schuster The Power of Product Platforms
Table of ContentsContentsPreface1. The Power of Product Platforms2. Managing Product Platforms3. Platform Strategy4. Achieving Product Elegance Through Composite Design5. Organizing for Renewal6. Measuring the Performance of Product Families7. Product Family and Platform Concepts for Software8. Electronic Information Products9. Bridging to the FutureNotesIndex
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Simon & Schuster Corporate Culture and Performance
Book SynopsisGoing far beyond previous empirical work, John Kotter and James Heskett provide the first comprehensive critical analysis of how the culture of a corporation powerfully influences its economic performance, for better or for worse. Through painstaking research at such firms as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI, Nissan, and First Chicago, as well as a quantitative study of the relationship between culture and performance in more than 200 companies, the authors describe how shared values and unwritten rules can profoundly enhance economic success or, conversely, lead to failure to adapt to changing markets and environments.With penetrating insight, Kotter and Heskett trace the roots of both healthy and unhealthy cultures, demonstrating how easily the latter emerge, especially in firms which have experienced much past success. Challenging the widely held belief that strong corporate cultures create excellent business performance, Kotter and Heskett show that while many shared values and institutionalized practices can promote good performances in some instances, those cultures can also be characterized by arrogance, inward focus, and bureaucracy -- features that undermine an organization''s ability to adapt to change. They also show that even contextually or strategically appropriate cultures -- ones that fit a firm''s strategy and business context -- will not promote excellent performance over long periods of time unless they facilitate the adoption of strategies and practices that continuously respond to changing markets and new competitive environments.Fundamental to the process of reversing unhealthy cultures and making them more adaptive, the authors assert, is effective leadership. At the heart of this groundbreaking book, Kotter and Heskett describe how executives in ten corporations established new visions, aligned and motivated their managers to provide leadership to serve their customers, employees, and stockholders, and thus created more externally focused and responsive cultures.Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceI. Introduction1. The Power of CultureII. The Performance Question: What Kind of Corporate Cultures Enhance Long-Term Economic Performance?2. Strong Cultures3. Strategically Appropriate Cultures4. Adaptive Cultures5. The Case of Hewlett-Packard6. The Nature of Low-Performance CulturesIII. The Change Question: How Can Corporate Cultures Be Purposefully Changed to Make Them More Performance Enhancing?7. People Who Create Successful Change8. Leaders in Action9. The Case of ICI10. The Case of NissanIV. Summary and Conclusions11. On the Role of Top ManagementAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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Wildside Press Congressional Club Recipes
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Behind the Rifle Women Soldiers in Civil War
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi - either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned, and the horrors they experienced.
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Trafford Publishing The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions: The Story of the Olympic Art Competitions of the 20th Century
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Paraclete Press Gregorian Chant A Guide to the History and Liturgy
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Orbis Books (USA) A Brief History of Vatican II
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Beard Books The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America
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Beard Books A History of Italian Law: v. I
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Beard Books A History of Italian Law: v. II
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files
Book SynopsisUses long-forgotten WPA files archived in the Library of Congress to paint a detailed picture of Depression Era Americans through the food that they ate and the local traditions and customs they observed when preparing meals.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc High on the Hog
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Jo Ann Staples Jane Austen's Card Games - 11 Classic Card Games And 3 Supper Menus From The Novels And Letters Of Jane Austen
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Bucknell University Press Lycoming College, 1812–2012: On the Frontiers of American Education
Book SynopsisLycoming College, 1812-2012: On the Frontiers of American Education is the story of Lycoming College, a liberal arts and sciences college in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The College is one of the fifty oldest institutions of higher education in the nation and the oldest that retains a relationship to the United Methodist Church. The College shares many characteristics with peer institutions which have retained the liberal arts and sciences as the basis of their academic programs. It also has the distinction of having evolved through four different stages of American education, and has reached a fifth. It began as the Williamsport Academy in 1812, a school that offered a higher level of education than common schools. Academies became the ancestors of public high schools. In 1848 a group of Methodists bought the Academy and transformed it into Dickinson Seminary, soon renamed Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. It was a preparatory school, not a school of theology, despite its name. In 1929 the leaders of the Seminary added a Junior College to their school. Junior colleges were a new frontier of American education in the early 20th Century and Dickinson Junior College became the first fully accredited private junior college in Pennsylvania. After World War II the Junior College became a four year institution and chose the name Lycoming. In 2000 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching included Lycoming in its list of 213 national liberal arts colleges. This latest frontier has become a challenge to the College to sustain its program in an ever changing American educational landscape.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Illustrations 1. Frontier Education: Williamsport Academy (1812-1848) 2. Methodists Transform the Academy: Dickinson Seminary (1848-1849) 3. A Decade of Academic Success and Financial Failure (1849-1859) 4. Rescued Twice: Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (1860-1874) 5. New Leadership: Growth and Prosperity (1874-1905) 6. An Expanding Campus; An Emerging Student Culture (1874-1905) 7. A Greater Dickinson (1905-1912) 8. Challenges to the Mission (1912-1921) 9. A Vision and Signs of Change (1921-1929) 10. A New Frontier: Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Junior College (1929-1934) 11. The Seminary and Junior College in Peace and War (1935-1947) 12. The College on the Hill: Lycoming College (1946-1948) 13. Transitions: Achieving Accreditation and Seeking Space (1948-1955) 14. The Heart of the College: New Leadership (1948-1955) 15. Building Years: Old Main to New Main (1955-1968) 16. A Liberal Arts College: The Faculty and the Curriculum (1955-1968) 17. A Liberal Arts College: The Students (1955-1968) 18. The Campus Crisis (1968-1969) 19. Depression and Recovery (1969-1989) 20. Equality and Excellence (1969-1989) 21. Reaching Another Frontier (1989-2000) Epilogue (2000-2010) Appendix Notes Bibliography
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University of Tennessee Press Been Coming through Some Hard Times: Race,
Book SynopsisFrom the earliest days when slaves were brought to western Kentucky, the descendants of both slaves and slave owners in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, have continued to inhabit the same social and historic space. Part ethnography and part historical narrative, Been Coming through Some Hard Times offers a penetrating look at this southern town and the surrounding counties, delving particularly into the ways in which its inhabitants have remembered and publicly represented race relations in their community.Neither Deep South nor Appalachian, this western Kentucky borderland presented unique opportunities for African American communities and also deep, lasting tensions with powerful whites. Glazier conducted fieldwork in Hopkinsville for some ten months, examining historical evidence, oral histories, and the racialized hierarchy found in the final resting places of black and white citizens. His analysis shows how structural inequality continues to prevail in Hopkinsville. The book’s ethnographic vignettes of worship services, school policy disputes, segregated cemeteries, a “dressing like our ancestors” day at an elementary school, and black family reunions poignantly illustrate the ongoing debate over the public control of memory. Ultimately, the book critiques the lethargy of white Americans who still fail to recognize the persistence of white privilege and therefore stunt the development of a truly multicultural society.Glazier’s personal investment in this subject is clear. Been Coming through Some Hard Times began as an exploration of the life of James Bass, an African American who settled in Hopkinsville in 1890 and whose daughter, Idella Bass, cared for Glazier as a child. Her remarkable life profoundly influenced Glazier and led him to investigate her family’s roots in the town. This personal dimension makes Glazier’s ethnohistorical account especially nuanced and moving. Here is a uniquely revealing look at how the racial injustices of the past impinge quietly but insidiously upon the present in a distinctive, understudied region.
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Echo Point Books & Media Seeing the Insane
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