The New Abolition : W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
Dorrien, Gary J.;Dorrien, Gary J.
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The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new a...
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The New Abolition : W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
2015
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new abolition” would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been seriously overlooked, despite its immense legacy. Â In this groundbreaking work, Gary Dorrien describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its close association in the twentieth century with W. E. B. Du Bois. He offers a new perspective on modern Christianity and the civil rights era by delineating the tradition of social justice theology and activism that led to Martin Luther King Jr.
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Christian sociology--United States - African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century - Civil rights movements--History--20th century - African Americans--ReligionContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
William St Clair;David St Clair;Lucy Barnes;William St Clair;David St Clair...
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throug...
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
2022
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times. St Clair builds on the success of his classic text, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, to present this rich and authoritative account of the Parthenon's presentation and reception throughout history. With weighty implications for the present life of the Parthenon, it is itself a monumental contribution to accounts of the Greek Revolution, to classical studies, and to intellectual history.
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DF287.P3Content provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Civil Rights Movements: Past and Present, 2nd edition
Editors of Salem Press;Editors of Salem Press
'Not just focusing on the history of African American civil rights in the United State...
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Civil Rights Movements: Past and Present, 2nd edition
2020
'Not just focusing on the history of African American civil rights in the United States, this new edition has been expanded to include other civil rights movements--the women's movement, the LGBT movement, the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, and the disability rights movement--while still maintaining a comprehensive overview of African American civil rights '--
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Gay liberation movement--United States--History--Encyclopedias - Civil rights movements--United States--History--21st century - Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century - Civil rights movements--United States--History--Encyclopedias - Feminism--United States--History--Encyclopedias - African Americans--Civil rights--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Migrant Ecologies : Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
James Beattie;Ryan Tucker Jones;Edward Dallam Melillo;James Beattie;Ryan Tu...
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume ex...
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Migrant Ecologies : Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
2023
Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth's largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astounding long-distance migrations over time, and their profound influences on other parts of the world. This book creates an understanding of the past, present, and futures of the lands, seas, peoples, practices, microbes, animals , plants, and other natural forces that shape the Pacific. It effectively argues for the existence of an interconnected Pacific World environmental history, as well as for the Pacific Ocean as a necessary framework for understanding that history.The fifteen chapters in this comprehensive collection, written by leading experts from across the globe, span a vast array of topics, from disease ecology and coffee cultivation to nuclear testing and whaling practices. They explore regions stretching from the Tuamotu Archipelago in the south Pacific to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far north, resisting the depiction of the Pacific as isolated and uninhabited. What unites these diverse contributions is a concern for how the people, places, and non-human beings of the Pacific World have been shaped by, and have in turn modified, their oceanic realm. Building on a recent renaissance in Pacific history, these chapters make a powerful argument for the importance of the Pacific World as a coherent unit of analysis and a valuable lens through which to examine past, ongoing, and emerging environmental issues. By showcasing surprising and innovative perspectives on the environmental histories of the peoples and ecosystems in and around the Pacific Ocean, this work adds to current conversations and debates about the Pacific World and offers myriad opportunities for further discussions, both inside and outside of the classroom.
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Ecology--Pacific Area--History--Congresses - Human ecology--Pacific Area--History--CongressesContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
How New York Became American, 1890–1924
Art M. Blake;Art M. Blake
Originally published in 2006. For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century ...
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How New York Became American, 1890–1924
2020
Originally published in 2006. For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and into the 1920s, the city of New York conjured dark images of crime, poverty, and the desperation of crowded immigrants. In How New York Became American, 1890–1924, Art M. Blake explores how advertising professionals and savvy business leaders'reinvented'the city, creating a brand image of New York that capitalized on the trend toward pleasure travel. Blake examines the ways in which these early boosters built on the attention drawn to the city and its exotic populations to craft an image of New York City as America writ urban—a place where the arts flourished, diverse peoples lived together boisterously but peacefully, and where one could enjoy a visit. Drawing on a wide range of textual and visual primary sources, Blake guides the reader through New York's many civic identities, from the first generation of New York skyscrapers and their role in'Americanizing'the city to the promotion of Midtown as the city's definitive public face. His study ranges from the late 1890s into the early twentieth century, when the United States suddenly emerged as an imperial power, and the nation's industry, commerce, and culture stood poised to challenge Europe's global dominance. New York, the nation's largest city, became the de facto capital of American culture. Social reformers and tourism boosters, keen to see America's cities rival those of France or Britain, jockeyed for financial and popular support. Blake weaves a compelling story of a city's struggle for metropolitan and national status and its place in the national imagination.
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National characteristics, American - Tourism--New York (State)--New York--History - Architecture--New York (State)--New York--History - City and town life--New York (State)--New York--History - City planning--New York (State)--New York--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Miloslav Rechcigl;Miloslav Rechcigl
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is ...
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2019; Vol. Volume II
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.
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Science--Czechoslovakia - Arts--CzechoslovakiaContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” : Volume 1: 1855–1894
William F. Halloran;William F. Halloran
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of h...
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The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” : Volume 1: 1855–1894
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade'Fiona Macleod'duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote'I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out'. This three-volume collection brings together Sharp's own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right , by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp's intriguing'second self'. With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.
2018; Vol. 01855
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Rebels, Scholars, Explorers : Women in Vertebrate Paleontology
Annalisa Berta;Susan Turner;Annalisa Berta;Susan Turner
Unearthing the amazing hidden stories of women who changed paleontology forever.For ce...
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Rebels, Scholars, Explorers : Women in Vertebrate Paleontology
2020
Unearthing the amazing hidden stories of women who changed paleontology forever.For centuries, women have played key roles in defining and developing the field of vertebrate paleontology. Yet very little is known about these important paleontologists, and the true impacts of their contributions have remained obscure. In Rebels, Scholars, Explorers, Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner celebrate the history of women'bone hunters,'delving into their fascinating lives and work. At the same time, they explore how the discipline has shaped our understanding of the history of life on Earth.Berta and Turner begin by presenting readers with a review of the emergence of vertebrate paleontology as a science, emphasizing the contributions of women to research topics and employment. This is followed by brief biographical sketches and explanations of early discoveries by women around the world over the past 200 years, including those who who held roles as researchers, educators, curators, artists, and preparators. Forging new territory, Berta and Turner highlight the barriers and challenges faced by women paleontologists, describing how some managed to overcome those obstacles in order to build careers in the field. Finally, drawing on interviews with a diverse group of contemporary paleontologists, who share their experiences and offer recommendations to aspiring fossil hunters, they provide perspectives on what work still needs to be done in order to ensure that women's contributions to the field are encouraged and celebrated. Uncovering and relating lost stories about the pivotal contributions of women in vertebrate paleontology doesn't just make for enthralling storytelling, but also helps ensure a richer and more diverse future for this vibrant field. Illuminating the discoveries, collections, and studies of fossil vertebrates conducted by women in vertebrate paleontology, Rebels, Scholars, Explorers will be on every paleontologist's most-wanted list and should find a broader audience in the burgeoning sector of readers from all backgrounds eager to learn about women in the sciences.
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Paleontology--History - Vertebrates, Fossil--Research--History - Women paleontologists--History - Women in science--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture : Essays on 200 Years of Representations
Stefania Michelucci;Ian Duncan;Luisa Villa;Stefania Michelucci;Ian Duncan;L...
As traditional social hierarchies fall away, ever steeper levels of economic inequalit...
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The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture : Essays on 200 Years of Representations
2020
As traditional social hierarchies fall away, ever steeper levels of economic inequality and the entrenchment of new class distinctions lend a new glamor to the idea of aristocracy: witness the worldwide popularity of Downton Abbey, or the seemingly insatiable public fascination with the private lives of the British royal family. This collection of new essays investigates the enduring attraction to the icon of the aristocrat and the spectacle of aristocratic society. It traces the ambivalent reactions the aristocracy provokes and the needs (political, ideological, psychological, and otherwise) it caters to in modern times when the economic power of the landed classes have been eroded and their political role curtailed. In this interdisciplinary collection, aristocracy is considered from multiple viewpoints, including British and American literature, European history and politics, cultural studies, linguistics, visual arts, music, and media studies.
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Aristocracy (Social class) in literature - Aristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--History - Popular culture - Aristocracy (Social class) in artContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Quotable Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778);Garry Apgar;Edward M. Langille...
The author of more than 2,000 books and pamphlets, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 16...
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The Quotable Voltaire
2021
The author of more than 2,000 books and pamphlets, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) was one of the most prolific writers of the eighteenth century, and also one of the wittiest and most insightful. This unique collection of over 800 of Voltaire's wisest passages and choicest bons mots runs the gamut on topics from adultery to Zoroaster, in both English and French. Drawing from a wide range of his publications, private letters, and remarks recorded by his contemporaries, The Quotable Voltaire includes material never before gathered in a single volume. English translations appear alongside the original French, and each quote is thoroughly indexed and referenced, with page numbers for both the first known publication edition of each entry and the most recent edition of Voltaire's works. The book also features over 400 quotes about Voltaire, including commentary by eighteenth-century luminaries like Samuel Johnson, Catherine the Great, Casanova, and John Adams, as well as an eclectic assortment of modern-day personages ranging from Winston Churchill and Jorge Luis Borges to Mae West and Mike Tyson. Lavishly illustrated with nearly three dozen images of Voltaire-related art, this collection opens with a scholarly essay that recounts the great man's life and reflects on his outsized influence on Western culture. Whether you are a Voltaire scholar or a neophyte, The Quotable Voltaire is the perfect introduction to a brilliant mind.
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Voltaire--1694-1778--Quotations - Voltaire--1694-1778--Translations into EnglisContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
Veronique Pouillard;Vincent Dubé-Senécal;Veronique Pouillard;Vincent Dubé-S...
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nine...
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The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
2024
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers'revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global history. Because fashion is also a multifaceted subject with humanagency at its core, at the confluence of thematerial (fabrics, clothing, dyes, tools, and machines) and the immaterial (savoir-faire, identities, images, and brands), this volume adopts a transdisciplinary perspective, opening its pages to researchers from a variety of complementary fields. The chapters in this volume are organized based on their relationship to five fields of study: economics and commerce, politics, business, identities, and historical sources. Paying particular attention to change, the book goes beyond the great fashion capitals and well-known fashion centers and points to the broader geographies of fashion. Particular geographical areas focus on the emergence of new fashion systems and business models, whether they be in Sweden, Bangladesh, or Spain, or on the African continent, considered to be the “new frontier” of the industry. Covering myriad aspects of the subject this is the perfect companion for all those interested in history of dress and fashion in the modern world.
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Fashion--History - Clothing and dress--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Prismatic Jane Eyre : Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
Matthew Reynolds;Andrés Claro;Annmarie Drury;Mary Frank;Paola Gaudio;Rebecc...
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translate...
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Prismatic Jane Eyre : Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
2023
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than six hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë's novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated – as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel's feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as ‘passion'and ‘plain'across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë's novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.
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PR4167.J5Content provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else
William Hartston;William Hartston
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of ...
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The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else
2022
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere.The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain's views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness.
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Curiosities and wonders - Encyclopedias and dictionariesContent provider:
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost)
Great Events from History: Human Rights , Second Edition
Editors of Salem Press;Editors of Salem Press
This 4-volume work traces the path of civil liberties and natural rights through histo...
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Great Events from History: Human Rights , Second Edition
2019; Vol. Volume I
This 4-volume work traces the path of civil liberties and natural rights through history, from ancient codes to modern movements through pivotal events that have directly affected people and their freedoms.
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Human rights--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York : Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Marta Deyrup;Maura Grace Harrington;Marta Deyrup;Maura Grace Harrington
This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in th...
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The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York : Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
2013
This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using case studies, interviews, scholarly research in primary historical documents and theory, and first-hand experience, the authors delve into what it has meant, and means, to be Irish American in the New Jersey and New York area, projecting what this ethnic identity will signify in years to come. Representing a variety of scholarly and professional disciplines, from archivists; to historians; to lawyers; to scholars of literature and theology; the authors share their own unique perspectives on the significance of the contributions of Irish-Americans to American life in various arenas. Each chapter is interdisciplinary, revealing the interconnections among cultural history, biography, contemporary events, and literary appreciation. It is through these intersections of disciplines, of past and present, of individual and community, that we can best analyze and appreciate the ways that Irish-Americans have shaped life in the New Jersey/New York area over the past two centuries.
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Immigrants--New York Metropolitan Area--History - Irish Americans--New Jersey--History - Irish Americans--New York Metropolitan Area--History - Immigrants--New Jersey--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost)
Brett C. McInelly;Paul E. Kerry;Brett C. McInelly;Paul E. Kerry
The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swep...
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2018
The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way to the secularization of Western society and to modernity. To whatever extent the Enlightenment can be credited with giving birth to modern Western culture, historians in more recent years have aptly demonstrated that the Enlightenment hardly singled the death knell of religion. Not only did religion continue to occupy a central pace in political, social, and private life throughout the eighteenth century, but it shaped the Enlightenment project itself in significant and meaningful ways. The thinkers and philosophers normally associated with the Enlightenment, to be sure, challenged state-sponsored church authority and what they perceived as superstitious forms of belief and practice, but they did not mount a campaign to undermine religion generally. A more productive approach to understanding religion in the age of Enlightenment, then, is to examine the ways the Enlightenment informed religious belief and practice during the period as well as the ways religion influenced the Enlightenment and to do so from a range of disciplinary perspectives, which is the goal of this collection. The chapters document the intersections of religious and Enlightenment ideas in such areas as theology, the natural sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.
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Enlightenment--Religious aspects - Enlightenment--InfluenceContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
We Are the Land : A History of Native California
Damon B. Akins;William J. Bauer Jr;Damon B. Akins;William J. Bauer Jr
“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Expos...
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We Are the Land : A History of Native California
2021
“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today's casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.
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Indian reservations--California--History - Indians of North America--California--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Medical History: Some Perspectives
Greydanus, Donald E.;Merrick, Joav;Greydanus, Donald E.;Merrick, Joav
A variety of topics are presented in this book that seek to reflect on medical history...
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Medical History: Some Perspectives
2018
A variety of topics are presented in this book that seek to reflect on medical history before and after the golden age of the Medical Renaissance. These topics include newborn care, the story of adolescence, behavioral pediatrics, psychopharmacology, substance abuse, psychodermatology, the story of diabetes mellitus, specific organ systems that range from the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, kidney and the heart in pediatrics, and other motifs. Reflections on adolescence are provided based on society's classic disdain and envy of its youth seen throughout the ages of human life. In this book, the authors include a variety of scholars, who stood on the shoulders of giants and made exponential progress in medicine of their own. Throughout the centuries, from the Mesopotamian masters to present physicians, these giants advanced the field of medicine to represent what has been understood as the standard of current medical care, and perhaps we can learn what it will be like in the future. These esteemed experts learned from the past, made mistakes, exhibited amazing courage, and faced scientific and sometimes sacerdotal criticism. Their courage was astonishing, as many were confronted by minacious, inauspicious, portentous, and unpropitious attacks on their ethics and accomplishments. However, they persisted and were able to develop verifiable data that others could independently substantiate and sometimes improve upon for the benefit of all humans. This book celebrates their astounding, awe-inspiring achievements.
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Medicine--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Careers & Employment Canada, 2021
Grey House Publishing Canada;Grey House Publishing Canada
Careers & Employment Canada is a valuable reference tool that gives job seekers and ca...
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Careers & Employment Canada, 2021
2020
Careers & Employment Canada is a valuable reference tool that gives job seekers and career explorers an edge in today's job market. Users will be able to access leads they may not have heard about if it weren't for this great new resource, in print and online. In addition, self-assessment tests assist people in exploring what career is the right fit, while relevant websites provide further information to help them determine a career path.
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Job hunting--Canada--DirectoriesContent provider:
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost)
Brill's Companion to Camus : Camus Among the Philosophers
Matthew Sharpe;Maciej Kałuża;Peter Francev;Matthew Sharpe;Maciej Kałuża;Pet...
This book is the first English-language collection of essays by leading Camus scholars...
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Brill's Companion to Camus : Camus Among the Philosophers
2020; Vol. 00005
This book is the first English-language collection of essays by leading Camus scholars from around the world to focus on Albert Camus'place and status as a philosopher amongst philosophers. After a thematic introduction, the dedicated chapters of Part 1 address Camus'relations with leading philosophers, from the ancient Greeks to Jean-Paul Sartre (Augustine, Hume, Kant, Diderot, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Hegel, Marx, Sartre). Part 2 contains pieces considering philosophical themes in Camus'works, from the absurd in The Myth of Sisyphus to love in The First Man (the absurd, psychoanalysis, justice, Algeria, solidarity and solitude, revolution and revolt, art, asceticism, love).
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The City Is More Than Human : An Animal History of Seattle
Frederick L. Brown;Frederick L. Brown
Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical...
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The City Is More Than Human : An Animal History of Seattle
2016
Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History AssociationSeattle would not exist without animals . Animals have played a vital role in shaping the city from its founding amid existing indigenous towns in the mid-nineteenth century to the livestock-friendly town of the late nineteenth century to the pet-friendly, livestock-averse modern city. When newcomers first arrived in the 1850s, they hastened to assemble the familiar cohort of cattle, horses, pigs, chickens, and other animals that defined European agriculture. This, in turn, contributed to the dispossession of the Native residents of the area. However, just as various animals were used to create a Euro-American city, the elimination of these same animals from Seattle was key to the creation of the new middle-class neighborhoods of the twentieth century. As dogs and cats came to symbolize home and family, Seattleites'relationship with livestock became distant and exploitative, demonstrating the deep social contradictions that characterize the modern American metropolis. Throughout Seattle's history, people have sorted animals into categories and into places as a way of asserting power over animals , other people, and property. In The City Is More Than Human, Frederick Brown explores the dynamic, troubled relationship humans have with animals . In so doing he challenges us to acknowledge the role of animals of all sorts in the making and remaking of cities.
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Social change--Washington (State)--Seattle--History - City and town life--Washington (State)--Seattle--History - Human-animal relationships--Washington (State)--Seattle--History - Urban ecology (Biology)--Washington (State)--Seattle--History - Animals--Social aspects--Washington (State)--Seattle--History - Animals--Washington (State)--Seattle--History - Urban ecology (Sociology)--Washington (State)--Seattle--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Rivers Run Through Us : A Natural and Human History of Great Rivers of North America
Eric B. Taylor;Eric B. Taylor
An engaging, informative, and personal exploration of some of the great rivers of Nort...
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Rivers Run Through Us : A Natural and Human History of Great Rivers of North America
2021
An engaging, informative, and personal exploration of some of the great rivers of North America.The physical nature of rivers has influenced the course of human history and development, whether it be in the prosecution of major conflicts (US Civil War), patterns of development and social change (dams on the Columbia River), the economy (gold rushes, agricultural development), or international relations (US and Mexico and the Colorado River). The centrality of human–river interactions has had great impacts on the biodiversity of rivers (salmon and other threatened species) that have been the focus of historical and current intense conflicts of values (e.g., water in the Sacramento–San Joaquin system and California “water wars” in general). Of the thousands of rivers in North America, 10 are profiled in Rivers Run Through Us:Mackenzie RiverYukon RiverFraser RiverColumbia RiverSacramento–San Joaquin RiverColorado RiverRio Grande/Rio Bravo RiverMississippi RiverHudson RiverSt. Lawrence RiverIn this engaging new work, Eric Taylor takes readers on a grand tour of 10 of North America's more important river systems, exploring one fundamental issue for each that illustrates the critical role each particular stream has had — and will have — in the human development of North America.
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Rivers--North America - Nature--Effect of human beings on--North America - Human ecology--North AmericaContent provider:
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Condemnation of Blackness : Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface
Khalil Gibran Muhammad;Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Winner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeA Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year“A brill...
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The Condemnation of Blackness : Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface
2019
Winner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeA Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year“A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us.”—Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of BooksHow did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this pernicious myth, rooted in crime statistics, has had on our society and our sense of self. Black crime statistics have shaped debates about everything from public education to policing to presidential elections, fueling racism and justifying inequality. How was this statistical link between blackness and criminality initially forged? Why was the same link not made for whites? In the age of Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump, under the shadow of Ferguson and Baltimore, no questions could be more urgent.“The role of social-science research in creating the myth of black criminality is the focus of this seminal work…[It] shows how progressive reformers, academics, and policy-makers subscribed to a ‘statistical discourse'about black crime…one that shifted blame onto black people for their disproportionate incarceration and continues to sustain gross racial disparities in American law enforcement and criminal justice.”—Elizabeth Hinton, The Nation“Muhammad identifies two different responses to crime among African-Americans in the post–Civil War years, both of which are still with us: in the South, there was vigilantism; in the North, there was an increased police presence. This was not the case when it came to white European-immigrant groups that were also being demonized for supposedly containing large criminal elements.”—New Yorker
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Racism in criminology--United States--History--20th century - Racism in criminal justice administration--United States--History--20th century - Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--History--20th century - Crime and race--United States--History--20th century - African Americans--Social conditions--History--20th century - African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--20th century - Hate crimes--United States--History--20th century - Racism against Black people--PolitiContent provider:
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The Atlas of Disease : Mapping Deadly Epidemics and Contagion From the Plague to the Zika Virus
Sandra Hempel;Sandra Hempel
Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from t...
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The Atlas of Disease : Mapping Deadly Epidemics and Contagion From the Plague to the Zika Virus
2018
Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its discovery and its place in history. The Atlas of Disease is the first book to tell these stories in a new an innovative way, interweaving new maps with contemporary illustrations to chart some of the world's most deadly pandemics and epidemics. In The Atlas of Disease, Sandra Hempel reveals how maps have uncovered insightful information about the history of disease, from the seventeenth century plague maps that revealed the radical idea that diseases might be carried and spread by humans, to cholera maps in the 1800s showing the disease was carried by water, right up to the AIDs epidemic in the 1980s, and the recent devastating ebola outbreak. Crucially, The Atlas of Disease will also explore how cartographic techniques have been used to combat epidemics by revealing previously hidden patterns. These discoveries have changed the course of history, affected human evolution, stimulated advances in medicine and saved countless lives.
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Epidemics--HistoryContent provider:
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Selma : A Bicentennial History
Alston Fitts;Alston Fitts
In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from it...
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Selma : A Bicentennial History
2017
In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History is a greatly revised and expanded version of Fitts's history of the city, replete with a wealth of new , never-before-published illustrations, which further develops a number of significant events, corrects critical errors, and, most importantly, incorporates many new stories and materials that document Selma's establishment, growth, and development. Comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and nonpartisan, Fitts's pleasantly accessible history addresses every major issue, movement, and trend from the city's settlement in 1815 to the end of the twentieth century. Its commerce, institutions, governance, as well as its evolving racial, religious, and class composition are all treated with candor and depth. Selma's transformative role within the state and the nation is fully explored, and most notable is a nuanced and complex discussion of race relations from the rise of the civil rights era to modern times. Historians, scholars, and Alabamians will find great use for this updated and fully developed exploration of Selma's rich, complex, and significant history.
