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University of Hawai'i Press Ethnoburb The New Ethnic Community in Urban America
Book SynopsisProvides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority.
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University of Hawai'i Press When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young 19031940
Book SynopsisTells the stories of some “1.5” and second-generation Koreans who experienced life in Hawaii or on the US mainland since childhood. Some tales are humorous, some sad. Their stories were captured from nearly a hundred interviews taken by co-author Roberta Chang. Their stories are filled with amazing personal accomplishments, family love, and unique community life.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Santa Ana The People the Pueblo and the History of Tamaya
Book SynopsisThe Santa Ana Pueblo, called Tamaya by its people, is located in central New Mexico, northwest of Albuquerque, between the Jemez Mountains and the Rio Grande. This book presents Tamaya's history, beliefs, ways of life, oral traditions, and legal systems through the end of the twentieth century.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC People Get Ready
Book SynopsisPeople Get Ready!: A New History of Gospel Music is a passionate, celebratory, and carefully researched chronology of one of America''s greatest treasures. From Africa through the spirituals, from minstrel music through jubilee, and from traditional to contemporary gospel, People Get Ready! shows the links between styles, social patterns, and artists. The emphasis is on the stories behind the songs and musicians. From the nameless slaves of Colonial America to Donnie McClurkin, Yolanda Adams, and Kirk Franklin, People Get Ready! provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of this musical genre. In addition to the more familiar stories of Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson, the book offers intriguing new insights into the often forgotten era between the Civil War and the rise of jubilee-that most intriguing blend of minstrel music, barbershop harmonies, and the spiritual. Also chronicled are the connections between some of gospel''s precursors (Blind Willie Johnson, Arizona DTrade Review"'An impassioned and mostly comprehensive overview' The Observer '...a scholarly yet extremely readable book...' Morning Star "Darden's passion keeps the words flowing through sections on styles and social movements, as well as personal narratives and musical analyses...With a through discography, notes and references, this is an essential read for those faithful to American religion, rhythm, or both." Charleston Post and Courier"Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1: Why Gospel Music?; Chapter 2: Gospel's African Roots; Chapter 3: The Rise of Spirituals in North America; Chapter 4: What Spirituals Are, What Spirituals Mean; Chapter 5: The American Civil War; Chapter 6: Reconstruction, The Jubilee Singers, and Minstrelsy; Chapter 7: The Foundations of Gospel: The Black Exodus, Barbershop Quartets, the Pentecostals, and Jack-Leg Preachers; Chapter 8: The Fathers of Gospel: William H. Sherwood, Charles A. Tindley, and Thomas A. Dorsey; Chapter 9: Chicago and the Rise of Gospel Music; Chapter 10: Three Divas: Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, and Mahalia Jackson; Chapter 11: The Great Gospel Groups: Five Unforgettable Voices; Chapter 12: Gospel on the Freedom Highway; Chapter 13: Gospel's Evolution: From Alex Bradford to James Cleveland to Andrae Crouch; Chapter 14: The Last Great Male Quartets; Chapter 15: Contemporary Gospel: Six Defining Voices; Discography; Index.
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Vanderbilt University Press The History of Belle Meade
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Vanderbilt University Press Classical Nashville
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Vanderbilt University Press Angels and Absences Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century
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Vanderbilt University Press The Lives of Women
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Vanderbilt University Press Male Delivery Reproduction Effeminacy and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain
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Vanderbilt University Press Her Oxford
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Vanderbilt University Press The Way We Vote
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Vanderbilt University Press The Way We Vote
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Vanderbilt University Press Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas 18901940
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Vanderbilt University Press Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas 18901940
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Vanderbilt University Press The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa
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Vanderbilt University Press NineteenthCentury Spanish America A Cultural History
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Vanderbilt University Press NineteenthCentury Spanish America A Cultural History
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Vanderbilt University Press Alva Ixtlilxochitls Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico
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Vanderbilt University Press In the Shadow of Powers
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Vanderbilt University Press Surviving the Peace
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Vanderbilt University Press Food Texts and Cultures in Latin America and Spain
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Vanderbilt University Press Food Texts and Cultures in Latin America and Spain
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The Merlin Press Ltd The Convicts of the Eleanor Protest in Rural England New Lives in Australia
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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Education and the Labour Movement 18701920
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Let Me Speak Testimony of Domitila a Woman of the Bolivian Mines
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The Institute of Irish Studies Parishes of County Donegal
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Ulster Historical Foundation Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol 40
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Enemy in our Midst Germans in Britain During the First World War
Book SynopsisPanikos Panayi is Senior Lecturer in History at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.Trade Review'... will remain a useful reference work on the subject for some time to come.'The Slavonic Review'... will serve as the authoritative work on the subject for decades to come.'Choice'... a sound piece of historical research which fills a definite gap in our understanding of the British home front during the Great War, not to mention the position of aliens within British society.'German HistoryTable of ContentsVictorian and Edwardian background; measures against alien enemies; internment and repatriation; the experience of internment; measures against German business interests; anti-German sentiment: spy-fever, anti-alienism and the hidden hand; anti-German manifestations - witchhunts, boycotts, and movements; anti-German riots; support for alien enemies.
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Leonaur Ltd The Oatman Girls The Capture Captivity of Two Young American Women in the 1850s by the Apache Indians
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Beyond Alternative Food Networks Italys Solidarity Purchase Groups
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Wine and Culture Vineyard to Glass
Book SynopsisRachel E. Black is assistant professor and coordinator of the Gastronomy Program at Boston University, USA. She edited Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2011) and has a forthcoming monograph Porta Palazzo: Food, Place and Community at the market (University of Pennsylvania Press) that is an ethnographic study of an open-air market in Italy. Robert C. Ulin is Professor of Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA where he also served for two years as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Prior to coming to RIT, Ulin served as Chair of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Vintages and Traditions and numerous articles on the anthropology of wine. He is also well known for his work on hermeneutics, critical theory and historical anthropology.Trade ReviewThis collection is a heady investigation of wine as a sociocultural and historical commodity in diverse global sites. Fifteen engaging articles show how the ethnographic study of wine penetrates beyond the bottle to reveal labor relations, power structures, market forces, and deeply held meanings about identity and place. * Carole Counihan, author of 'Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence' and editor-in-chief of 'Food and Foodways' *This collection represents the first of its kind to focus on wine from a sociocultural perspective while bringing together current approaches to questions of identity, culture, authenticity, craft and technology, and the senses. Like terroir itself, this collection roots the taste of wine in places, in the history and emergence of new landscapes of tastes, and the changing social and environmental relations of its production, dissemination and consumption. Uncork it for yourself and see! * David Sutton, Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, USA *Given its global, economic, social and cultural importance, it's astonishing that the anthropology of wine has been so neglected for so long. This splendid collection of incisive essays goes a long way towards establishing key issues in this emerging field, many of which are also relevant to contemporary anthropology in general. * Jeremy MacClancy, Professor of Social Anthropoology, Dept of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, uk *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Rachel Black (Boston University, USA) and Robert Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Section One - Rethinking Terroir Section Introduction - Robert Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) The Social Life of Terroir among Bordeaux Winemakers - Sarah Daynes (University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA) Rethinking Terroir in Australia - Robert Swinburn (University of Melbourne, Australia) Space and Terroir in the Chilean Wine Industry - Nicolas Sternsdorff (Harvard University, USA) Terroir and Locality: An Anthropological Perspective - Robert Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Section Two - Relationships of Power and the Construction of Place Section Introduction - Rachel Black (Boston University, USA) Tasting Wine in Slovakia: Post-socialist Elite Cultural Particularities - Juraj Buzalka (Comenius University, Bratislava) Wine Histories, Wine Memories and Local Identities in Western Poland - Ewa Kopczynska (Jagiellonian University, Poland) El Sabor de Galicia: Wine as Performance in Galicia, Spain - Christina Ceisel (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Local, Loyal and Constant: The Legal Construction of Wine in Bordeaux - Erica Farmer (University College London, UK) Traces of the Past: Cultural Patrimony and the Bureaucratization of Wine - Yuson Jung (Wayne State University, USA) Section Three - Labor, Commodification and the Politics of Wine Section Introduction - Robert Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Following Grands Crus: Global Markets, Transnational Histories and Wine - Marion Demossier (University of Southampton, UK) Georgian Wine: The Transformation of Socialist Quantity into Post-socialist Quality - Adam Walker (City University of New York Graduate School, USA) and Paul Manning (Trent University) Regimes of Regulation, Gender and Divisions of Labor in Languedoc Viticulture - Winnie Lem (Trent University, Canada) Section Four - Technology and Nature Section Introduction - Rachel Black, (Boston University, USA) Pursuits of Quality in the Vineyards: French Oenologists at Work in Lebanon - Elizabeth Saleh (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) The Artifice of Natural Wine: Jules Chauvet and the Reinvention of Vinification in Postwar France - Paul Cohen (University of Toronto, Canada) Vino Naturale: Tensions Between Nature and Technology in the Glass - Rachel Black (Boston University, USA) Contributor Biographies Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Design and the Question of History Design Histories Futures
Book SynopsisTony Fry is an adjunct professor, Griffith University, Brisbane and is a visiting professor at several universities internationally. Tony has published ten books, including Becoming Human by Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2008).Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007).Susan C. Stewart is Director of Postgraduate Studies and Curriculum Development, Design School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Trade ReviewA forceful and inspiringly articulated set of essays ... Compelling and insightful. * Journal of Design History *This is a work of intense and vital scholarship. Fry, Dilnot and Stewart cut to the heart of what is at stake in how we question design, history, and the future. Design history will either rise to the challenge of this book or fade into irrelevance. -- Matthew Kiem, University of Technology Sydney: Insearch, AustraliaThe provocative essays in this volume are at once a critique of history and a call for its relevance to the present and future. Within the provocation is the question of how design and its history can inform our actions in a world that presents extreme difficulties but also unprecedented opportunities to create a positive future. -- Victor Margolin, University of Illinois, USADesign and the Question of History offers an ambitious, compelling, and urgent challenge to design studies and to history. The world we live in has been fashioned and fabricated by design. The futures we can live are determined by these histories. This is scholarship that matters. -- Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UKThis is unashamedly a work of design philosophy. In fact, it is exactly the kind of philosophy that is needed now, as it confronts vital issues not just for design and the ‘post-discipline’ of history, but also of ‘now’ and the future. Fry, Dilnot and Stewart approach their common project with different voices, their passion and seriousness shining throughout. -- Anne- Marie Willis, German University in Cairo, EgyptDesign and the Question of History argues that the world we inhabit, and its devastation, are thoroughly a product of design. This claim requires a rewriting of the relation between history and design, from which there emerges a powerful ontologically-oriented view of design that may lead us into entirely novel ways of worlding and visions of the human. -- Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USATable of ContentsPreface, Pre-face Essential Reading Book 1: Wither Design/Whether History, Tony Fry Introduction 1. Rememberings & Dismemberings 2. Another History, Another Designing 3. Design in the Maelstrom of Time Book 2: History, Design, Futures, Clive Dilnot Preface Introduction: The structure of existence is undergoing a fundamental change 1. Unhappiness: Lack of History, Lack of the Future 2.The Artificial 3. Destructiveness and its Overcoming 4. Apparatus History Acting Book 3, Susan Stewart And so to another setting … … On Care and Education Index
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BAR Publishing The Inkas Last Stage of Stone Masonry Development in the Andes 735 British Archaeological Reports International Series
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O'Brien Press Ltd Ways of Old Traditional Life in Ireland
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Hill & Wang The Genius of Earth Day How a 1970 TeachIn Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
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University of Tennessee Press TennesseeS Indian Peoples
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University of Tennessee Press Removal Choctaw Indians
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University of Tennessee Press Black American Roosevelt Era
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University of Tennessee Press Cherokee Archaeology
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University of Tennessee Press Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia 17501860
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University of Tennessee Press Black Women Abolitionists A Study in Activitism 18281860 Study in Activism 18281860
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University of Tennessee Press Throwed Away
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University of Tennessee Press Removal Aftershock Seminoles Struggles Survive West
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University of Tennessee Press Coal Towns
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Liturgical Press The Legacy of Thomas Merton 92 Cistercian Studies 92
Trade ReviewOne of the more comprehensive and balanced books on Merton to appear lately. . . .The Louisville Courier-Journal. . . It is not to be rushed, but read piece by piece, essay by essay, image by image.Highway
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Incredible Scream Machine A History of the
Book SynopsisIn 1984, America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device erected at Coney Island. This book examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein to demonstrate his theory of physics, to John Allen's use of psychology in designing one.Trade ReviewA good roller coaster is better than sex. - Michael Quinn, Letters to the Editor, Oui magazine, January, 1978
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Mercer University Press The Second Coming of the Invisible Empire The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
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Timber Press (OR) Native American Ethnobotany
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. More than 44,000 uses for some 4000 plants by various tribes are documented here.Trade ReviewDaniel Moerman's massive work, long anticipated by ethnobiologists and anthropologists, is striking... Its pages are brimming with the most complete explication of Native Americans ... and their interaction with plants ever undertaken. ... Moerman provides... information probably impossible to find anywhere else-nothing to date has been so thorough and systematic. ... [The book includes] several indices of great value. ...The cost [is] miraculously low for this masterpiece. No library can be without... Moerman's offering. His work will likely never be surpassed... This is probably the magnum opus of the field. We are all indebted to him for this marvelous achievement. -- Donald J. McGraw American Scientist 20000201 This monumental synthesis of ethnobotany of prehistoric and historic Indians of North America ... is an instant classic. -- Rudolf Schmid Taxon 19981101 An enormous achievement... Fun to browse through it and to discover many exciting details about plant use in North America. -- Michael Heinrich Journal of Ethnopharmacology 19990201 A monumental work. Plants and People 19980201 Congratulations to Timber Press for doing it right. Whole Earth 19990201 This scholarly and weighty tome contains a stupendous quantity of high-quality information about the use of plants by Native American peoples. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 20000201 Anyone interested in the economic botany and ethnobotany of indigenous groups of North America needs to have a copy of this book. It is the standard reference on Native American plant uses. HerbalGram 19990201 This work is an invaluable resource for ethnobotanists, anthropologists, herbalists, and other researchers. Herb Quarterly 19990201 The definitive book on the subject. Covering over 4,000 plants with some 44,000 uses, this represents years of research on the author's part. -- Connie Krochmal Washington Daily News 19991222 An impressive compilation of information on plants used by Native Americans ... An important library book. Northeastern Naturalist 19990201 Moerman has done an excellent job of presenting the information in useable form. -- Rachel Hays American Biology Teacher 20000301 I have no hesitation in recommending this book as a fundamental and highly valuable source of fascinating information on the plants and the peoples of North America. -- W. Milliken Edinburgh Journal of Botany 19990401 This typographically attractive book presents its data with interest and humor. Taxon 20000522 When I received the book I thought I had died and gone to heaven! This is one of the items I would run back to save if my house ever burned down. -- Melodye Murphy Amazon.com 20011210 Native American Ethnobotany is an essential reference for all those interested in the uses of plants. Wild Foods Forum 20050303
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