Encyclopedia of Local History
Amy H. Wilson;Amy H. Wilson
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, incl...
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Encyclopedia of Local History
2017
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. This encyclopedia provides both the casual browser and the dedicated historian with adept commentary by bringing the voices of over one hundred experts together in one place.Entries include:·Terms specifically related to the everyday practice of interpreting local history in the United States, such as “African American History,” “City Directories,” and “Latter-Day Saints.”·Historical and documentary terms applied to local history such as “Abstract,” “Culinary History,” and “Diaries.”·Detailed entries for major associations and institutions that specifically focus on their usage in local history projects, such as “Library of Congress” and “Society of American Archivists”·Entries for every state and Canadian province covering major informational sources critical to understanding local history in that region.·Entries for every major immigrant group and ethnicity.Brand-new to this edition are critical topics covering both the practice of and major current areas of research in local history such as “Digitization,” “LGBT History,” museum theater,” and “STEM education.” Also new to this edition are graphics, including 48 photographs.Overseen by a blue-ribbon Editorial Advisory Board (Anne W. Ackerson, James D. Folts, Tim Grove, Carol Kammen, and Max A. van Balgooy) this essential reference will be frequently consulted in academic libraries with American and Canadian history programs, public libraries supporting local history, museums, historic sites and houses, and local archives in the U.S. and Canada.This third edition is the first to include photographs.
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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott;Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important rol...
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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
2020
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States.A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans—from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern'space age'—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States.Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories of those women and men who too often have remained anonymous to historians but whose stories are just as important as those of leaders whose lives we study in our classrooms. This book provides specific details to enable comprehensive understanding of the benefits and downsides of each trade and profession discussed. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering vivid testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.
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Employees--United States--History - Labor--United States--History - Occupations--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Theater of a Separate War : The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Thomas W. Cutrer;Thomas W. Cutrer
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and thr...
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Theater of a Separate War : The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
2017
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the Trans-Mississippi Theater was site of major clashes from the war's earliest days through the surrenders of Confederate generals Edmund Kirby Smith and Stand Waite in June 1865. In this comprehensive military history of the war west of the Mississippi River, Thomas W. Cutrer shows that the theater's distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.
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The British Empire
Stephen W. Sears;Stephen W. Sears
In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, th...
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The British Empire
2014
In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa, half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution. Here are Britain's triumphs and also her stinging defeats, her heroes and her scoundrels. It is a full and fascinating chronicle of the growth of the British Empire and its people and of the impact that empire had on the rest of the world.
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Fantasies of Identification : Disability, Gender, Race
Ellen Samuels;Ellen Samuels
Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identityIn the mid-nineteenth-ce...
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Fantasies of Identification : Disability, Gender, Race
2014
Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identityIn the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the “fantasy of identification”—the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed,verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society. Yet, as Samuels demonstrates, in every case, the fantasy distorts its claimed scientific basis, substituting subjective language for claimed objective fact. From its early emergence in discourses about disability fakery and fugitive slaves in the nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation in the question of sex testing at the 2012 Olympic Games, Fantasies of Identification explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity.
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The Republic of Nature : An Environmental History of the United States
Mark Fiege;Mark Fiege
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...
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The Republic of Nature : An Environmental History of the United States
2012
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light.Among the historical moments revisited here, a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of liberty . Abraham Lincoln, an unlettered citizen from the countryside, steers the Union through a moment of extreme peril, guided by his clear-eyed vision of nature's capacity for improvement. In Topeka, Kansas, transformations of land and life prompt a lawsuit that culminates in the momentous civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education.By focusing on materials and processes intrinsic to all things and by highlighting the nature of the United States, Fiege recovers the forgotten and overlooked ground on which so much history has unfolded. In these pages, the nation's birth and development, pain and sorrow, ideals and enduring promise come to life as never before, making a once-familiar past seem new. The Republic of Nature points to a startlingly different version of history that calls on readers to reconnect with fundamental forces that shaped the American experience.For more information, visit the author's website: http://republicofnature.com/
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Nature--Effect of human beings on--United States--History - Human ecology--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Spatial analysis of environmental factors influencing dust sources in the east of Iran using a new activelearning approach.
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Yariyan, Peyman;Amiri, Mahdis;Saffariha, Maryam;Avand, Mohammadtaghi;Ghiasi...
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Spatial analysis of environmental factors influencing dust sources in the east of Iran using a new activelearning approach.
Geocarto International; 2022, Vol. 37 Issue 26, p11929-11954, 26p
The frequency and intensity of dust storms in Iran has increased significantly in recent years . This study identifies the sources of dust using hybrid algorithms – probability density-index of entropy (PD-IOE), probability density-radial basic function neural network (PD-RBFNN), probability density-self-organizing map (PDSOM), and probability density-fuzzy ARTMAP (PD-FAM). Hybrid models employed several effective environmental factors: land cover, slope, soil , land use, wind speed, geology, temperature, and precipitation. A random selection of 70% of the data points were used for training the spatial models and the remainder (30%) were used to test the effectiveness of the models to determine the best algorithm. The results reveal that the PD-FAM algorithm produced the most accurate predictions of dust sources. Geology, slope, and soil were the factors that were most effective predictors of dust generation in eastern Iran. Comprehensive management is needed to manage dust production in Iran and these findings may ease identification of locations most likely to produce dust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Dante & the Unorthodox : The Aesthetics of Transgression
Miller, James L.;Miller, James L.
During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain o...
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Dante & the Unorthodox : The Aesthetics of Transgression
2005
During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned—this time as a heretic and false prophet—by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani's inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia “seduced” his readers by offering them “a vessel of demonic poison” mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the “healthful truth” of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante's poetic fame. The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante's allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed “way of salvation.” Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book's eighteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet's conflicted relation to orthodoxy. By bringing the unorthodox out of the realm of “secret things,” by uncensoring them at every turn, Dante dared to oppose the censorious regime of Latin Christianity with a transgressive zeal more threatening to papal authority than the demonic hostility feared by Friar Vernani.
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The Encyclopedia of Public Choice
Charles Rowley;Friedrich Schneider;Charles Rowley;Friedrich Schneider
The Encyclopedia provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the subject known as...
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The Encyclopedia of Public Choice
2004
The Encyclopedia provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the subject known as public choice. However, the title would not convey suf- ciently the breadth of the Encyclopedia's contents which can be summarized better as the fruitful interchange of economics, political science and moral philosophy on the basis of an image of man as a purposive and responsible actor who pursues his own objectives as efficiently as possible. This fruitful interchange between the fields outlined above existed during the late eighteenth century during the brief period of the Scottish Enlightenment when such great scholars as David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith contributed to all these fields, and more. However, as intell- tual specialization gradually replaced broad-based scholarship from the m- nineteenth century onwards, it became increasingly rare to find a scholar making major contributions to more than one. Once Alfred Marshall defined economics in neoclassical terms, as a n- row positive discipline, the link between economics, political science and moral philosophy was all but severed and economists redefined their role into that of ‘the humble dentist'providing technical economic information as inputs to improve the performance of impartial, benevolent and omniscient governments in their attempts to promote the public interest. This indeed was the dominant view within an economics profession that had become besotted by the economics of John Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson immediately following the end of the Second World War.
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Magill's Encyclopedia of Science : Plant Life
Ness, Bryan D.;Ness, Bryan D.
Magill's Encyclopedia of Science : Plant Life
2003
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History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison
Adams, Henry;Harbert, Earl N.;Adams, Henry;Harbert, Earl N.
Taylor's Dictionary for Gardeners : The Definitive Guide to the Language of Horticulture
Tenenbaum, Frances;Tenenbaum, Frances
'More than 2,000 entries illustrated with 286 useful identification drawings: horticul...
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Taylor's Dictionary for Gardeners : The Definitive Guide to the Language of Horticulture
1997
'More than 2,000 entries illustrated with 286 useful identification drawings: horticultural terms, the anatomy of plants, botanical names of common species, gardening techniques and tools, pests and diseases, landscaping styles, famous gardens and gardeners.'--Cover.
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The Reader's Companion to American History
Foner, Eric;Garraty, John Arthur;Society of American Historians;Foner, Eric...
Encyclopedia of Deserts
Michael A. Mares;Michael A. Mares
Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive referenc...
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Encyclopedia of Deserts
1999
Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive reference to the first comprehensive reference to deserts and semideserts of the world. Approximately seven hundred entries treat subjects ranging from desert survival to the way deserts are formed. Topics include biology (birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, bacteria, physiology, evolution), geography, climatology, geology, hydrology, anthropology, and history. The thirty-seven contributors, including volume editor Michael A. Mares, have had extensive careers in deserts research, encompassing all of the world's arid and semiarid regions. The Encyclopedia opens with a subject list by topic, an organizational guide that helps the reader grasp interrelationships and complexities in desert systems. Each entry concludes with cross-references to other entries in the volume, inviting the reader to embark on a personal expedition into fascinating, previously unknown terrain. In addition a list of important readings facilitates in-depth study of each topic. An exhaustive index permits quick access to places, topics, and taxonomic listings of all plants and animals discussed. More than one hundred photographs, drawings, and maps enhance our appreciation of the remarkable life, landforms, history, and challenges of the world's arid land.
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Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history
Tucker, Spencer;Tucker, Spencer
'This encyclopedia is unique for its comprehensive coverage of the military, social, a...
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Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history
1998
'This encyclopedia is unique for its comprehensive coverage of the military, social, and political aspects of the Vietnam War. There are clear articles on military tactics and weapon systems, detailed biographies with particularly thorough coverage of the Communist leaders analytical articles describing the contributions of various nations, antiwar movement, and military strategy. Each entry has a substantial bibliography, as well as see-also references. Volume three consists of a documentary history of the war, i
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Edmund Burke
Lock, F. P.;Lock, F. P.
Edmund Burke
1998
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Reading Hemingway : The Facts in the Fictions
Mandel, Miriam B.;Mandel, Miriam B.
Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
Cressy, David;Cressy, David
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Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
1999
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The Newbery Companion : Booktalk and Related Materials for Newbery Medal and Honor Books
Gillespie, John Thomas;Naden, Corinne J.;Gillespie, John Thomas;Naden, Cori...
'A brief introduction of John Newbery and his publishing record plus a history of the ...
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The Newbery Companion : Booktalk and Related Materials for Newbery Medal and Honor Books
1996
'A brief introduction of John Newbery and his publishing record plus a history of the award and a description of how the winners are chosen'precedes a chronological arrangement of the awards from 1922 to 1996, with information on the author, plot summary, themes and subjects, incidents for booktalking, related titles, etc.
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The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture
Murray, Peter;Murray, Linda;Murray, Peter;Murray, Linda
The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture is a unique and fascinating exp...
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The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture
1996
The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture is a unique and fascinating exploration of the art and architecture that has been influenced and inspired by biblical stories and Christian history and beliefs. Richly illustrated the Companion combines general essays on the periods and styles important in the history of Christian art with hundreds of shorter entries that describe specific works, artists, themes, and visual images and which give the reader practical guidance on where in Europe to locate the works described.
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EGU General Assembly 2015.
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Encyclopedia of Anthropology; 2005, following p1-2373, 3128p, 368 Color Photographs, 85 Black and White Photographs, 25 Diagrams, 22 Charts, 16 Graphs, 12 Maps
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Birx, H. James
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What Is the Relationship between Outdoor Time and Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Physical Fitness in Children? A Systematic Review.
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