A New History of Kentucky
James C. Klotter;Craig Thompson Friend;James C. Klotter;Craig Thompson Frie...
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A New History of Kentucky
2018
When originally published, A New History of Kentucky provided a comprehensive study of the Commonwealth, bringing it to life by revealing the many faces, deep traditions, and historical milestones of the state. With new discoveries and findings, the narrative continues to evolve, and so does the telling of Kentucky's rich history. In this second edition, authors James C . Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend provide significantly revised content with updated material on gender politics, African American history, and cultural history. This wide-ranging volume includes a full overview of the state and its economic, educational, environmental, racial, and religious histories.At its essence, Kentucky's story is about its people—not just the notable and prominent figures but also lesser-known and sometimes overlooked personalities. The human spirit unfolds through the lives of individuals such as Shawnee peace chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua and suffrage leader Madge Breckinridge, early land promoter John Filson, author Wendell Berry, and Iwo Jima flag–raiser Private Franklin Sousley. They lived on a landscape defined by its topography as much as its political boundaries, from Appalachia in the east to the Jackson Purchase in the west, and from the Walker Line that forms the Commonwealth's southern boundary to the Ohio River that shapes its northern boundary. Along the journey are traces of Kentucky's past—its literary and musical traditions, its state-level and national political leadership, and its basketball and bourbon. Yet this volume also faces forthrightly the Commonwealth's blemishes—the displacement of Native Americans, African American enslavement, the legacy of violence, and failures to address poverty and poor health.A New History of Kentucky ranges throughout all parts of the Commonwealth to explore its special meaning to those who have called it home. It is a broadly interpretive, all-encompassing narrative that tells Kentucky's complex, extensive, and ever-changing story.
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Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt : Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman’s Rights Advocate
Myra C. Glenn;Myra C. Glenn
Harriot Kezia Hunt was a pioneer in a number of ways. The first woman to establish a s...
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Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt : Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman’s Rights Advocate
2018
Harriot Kezia Hunt was a pioneer in a number of ways. The first woman to establish a successful medical practice in the United States, she began seeing patients in Boston in 1835 and promoted a new method of treatment by listening to women's troubles or their'heart histories.'Her unsuccessful efforts to attend lectures at Harvard's Medical School galvanized her activism in the woman's rights movement. During the 1850s she played a prominent role in the annual woman's rights conventions and was the first woman in Massachusetts to publicly protest the injustice of taxing propertied women while denying them the franchise. In this first comprehensive, full-length biography of Hunt, Myra C . Glenn shows how this single woman from a working-class Boston home became a successful physician and noted reformer, illuminating the struggle for woman's rights and the fractious and gendered nature of medicine in antebellum America.
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Women's rights--United States--History--19th century - Women physicians--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--BiographyContent provider:
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Critical Survey of World Literature, Third Edition
Robert C. Evans;Robert C. Evans
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from o...
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Critical Survey of World Literature, Third Edition
2017
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
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Authors--Biography--Dictionaries - Literature--Bio-bibliography - Literature--History and criticism - Literature--Stories, plots, etcContent provider:
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Animal As Machine : The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt
Michel Anctil;Michel Anctil
Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering betwe...
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Animal As Machine : The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt
2022
Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work , wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery.Animal as Machine explores the life, work , and ideas of scientists who, branding themselves as physiologists, subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals acquire and process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. As medical physiology thrived in the nineteenth century, zoologists struggled to forge their own distinctive physiology predicated on understanding animal functions in a context of environmental adaptation and evolutionary forces. Physiological schools with distinct emphases that shaped their outlook sprang up around the world. Dividing their time between fieldwork in marine stations and laboratory experimentation, animal physiologists stood in awe of the diversity and ingenuity of the functional strategies by which animals survived.Animal as Machine tells a remarkable and insightful story of the larger-than-life personalities and gripping historical episodes that marked the emergence and blossoming of animal physiology.
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Physiology--History - Physiologists--HistoryContent provider:
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The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I : Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877–1892
Tim Davenport;David Walters;Tim Davenport;David Walters
This is the first in a five volume series that will collect much of trade unionist and...
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The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I : Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877–1892
2019
This is the first in a five volume series that will collect much of trade unionist and Socialist Party founding father Eugene V. Debs'work for the first time in a single place. The collection makes readily accessible approximately 150 documents, only a few of which were ever subsequently republished, by one of the seminal figures in the labor movement of his era. Illuminating 19th Century labor history, particularly the complex and shifting situation in the transportation industry, this volume provides a basis for deeper understanding of Debs and his role later during the glory days of the Socialist Party of America.
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From Here to Equality, Second Edition : Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
William A. Darity Jr;A. Kirsten Mullen;William A. Darity Jr;A. Kirsten Mull...
Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at ne...
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From Here to Equality, Second Edition : Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
2022
Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Economic data indicates that for every dollar the average white household holds in wealth the average black household possesses a mere ten cents. This compelling and sharply argued book addresses economic injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, William Darity Jr . and A. Kirsten Mullen assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War and offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery. This new edition features a new foreword addressing the latest developments on the local, state, and federal level and considering current prospects for a comprehensive reparations program.
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Slavery--United States--History - Race discrimination--United States--History - Income distribution--United States--History - African Americans--Reparations - African Americans--Civil rights--HistoryContent provider:
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Magill's Medical Guide
Auday, Bryan C.;Buratovich, Michael A.;Marrocco, Geraldine F.;Moglia, Paul;...
Covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and...
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Magill's Medical Guide
2018
Covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
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Diseases--Encyclopedias - Physiology--Encyclopedias - Medicine--Encyclopedias - Pathology--Encyclopedias - Health--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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American Revolution : The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 Volumes]
Spencer C. Tucker;Spencer C. Tucker
With more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of the American Re...
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American Revolution : The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 Volumes]
2018
With more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of the American Revolution, this definitive scholarly reference covers the causes, course, and consequences of the war and the political, social, and military origins of the nation.This authoritative and complete encyclopedia covers not only the eight years of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) but also the decades leading up to the war, beginning with the French and Indian War, and the aftermath of the conflict, with an emphasis on the early American Republic. Volumes one through four contain a series of overview essays on the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution, followed by impeccably researched A–Z entries that address the full spectrum of political, social, and military matters that arose from the conflict. Each entry is cross-referenced to other entries and also lists books for further reading. In addition, there is a detailed bibliography, timeline, and glossary.A fifth volume is devoted to primary sources, each of which is accompanied by an insightful introduction that places the document in its proper historical context. The primary sources help readers to understand the myriad motivations behind the American Revolution; the diplomatic, military, and political maneuvering that took place during the conflict; and landmark documents that shaped the founding and early development of the United States.
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The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man
Paul Walker;Barbara McCaskill;Sidonia Serafini;Paul Walker;Barbara McCaskil...
Born into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised fo...
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The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man
2020
Born into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised for almost two years among Native Americans, the charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c . 1860–May 20, 1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an inventive and passionate activist and educator who championed social justice. During the post- Reconstruction era and early twentieth century, Stanford traversed the United States, Canada, and England advocating for the rights of African Americans, including access to educational opportunities; attainment of the full rights and privileges of citizenship; protections from racial violence, social stereotyping, and a predatory legal system; and recognition of the artistic contributions that have shaped national culture and earned global renown. His imprint on working-class urban residents, Afro-Canadian settlements, and African American communities survives in the institutions he led and the works that presented his imaginative, literate, ardent, and often comic voice.With a reflection by Highgate Baptist Church's former pastor, Rev. Dr. Paul Walker, this collection highlights Stanford's writings: sermons, lectures, newspaper columns, entertainments, and memoirs. Editors Barbara McCaskill and Sidonia Serafini annotate his life and work throughout the volume, placing him within the context of his peers as a writer and editor. As an American expatriate, Stanford was seminal in redirecting antislavery activism into an international antilynching movement and a global campaign to dismantle slavery and slave trading. This book squarely inserts this influential thinker and activist in the African American literary canon.
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African American Baptists--Biography - African American clergy--Biography - Baptists--United States--Clergy--Biography - African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century - Social reformers--United States--Biography - African American educators--BiographyContent provider:
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Enduring Controversies in Military History : Critical Analyses and Context [2 Volumes]
Spencer C. Tucker;Spencer C. Tucker
This provocative examination of major controversies in military history enables reader...
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Enduring Controversies in Military History : Critical Analyses and Context [2 Volumes]
2017
This provocative examination of major controversies in military history enables readers to learn how scholars approach controversial topics and provides a model for students in the study and discussion of other historical events.Why did Alexander the Great's empire fall apart so soon after his death? How did France win the Hundred Years War despite England winning its major battles? Was slavery the primary cause of the American Civil War? Would it have benefited the Allies militarily to have gone to war against Germany in 1938 rather than in 1939? Should women be allowed to serve in combat positions in the U.S. military? All of these questions and many other historical controversies are addressed in this thought-provoking reference book.By exploring every angle of some of the most contentious debates involving military history, this book builds students'critical thinking skills by supplying a complete background of the controversial topic to provide context, and also by providing multiple perspective essays written by top scholars in the field. The perspective essays present arguments for different positions on the controversy. Readers will consider the cases for and against whether Hannibal should have marched on Rome after his momentous victory at Cannae, whether the United States was justified in using the atomic bomb in Japan, whether Adolf Hitler was primarily responsible for the Holocaust, and whether torturing prisoners during the War on Terror is warranted, among many other historical military debates.
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Military history - Military policyContent provider:
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Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation
John C. Miller;John C. Miller
Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexan...
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Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation
2017
Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation under a centralized government, he left an imprint upon this country that time has not effaced. Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation is the premier biography of Alexander Hamilton written by one of the foremost scholars of early American history. Hamilton's career was at times contradictory: born, in John Adams's words, the'bastard brat of a Scotch peddler,'he rose to high social, political, and military position in the newly born country. He dreaded divisiveness, yet his strategies and actions aggravated political sectionalism. Miller weaves together the complex facets of Hamilton's life to make a vivid, absorbing biography.
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Statesmen--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Romanticism and Women Poets : Opening the Doors of Reception
Harriet Kramer Linkin;Stephen C. Behrendt;Harriet Kramer Linkin;Stephen C. ...
One of the most exciting developments in Romantic studies in the past decade has been ...
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Romanticism and Women Poets : Opening the Doors of Reception
2015
One of the most exciting developments in Romantic studies in the past decade has been the rediscovery and repositioning of women poets as vital and influential members of the Romantic literary community. This is the first volume to focus on women poets of this era and to consider how their historical reception challenges current conceptions of Romanticism. With a broad, revisionist view, the essays examine the poetry these women produced, what the poets thought about themselves and their place in the contemporary literary scene, and what the recovery of their works says about current and past theoretical frameworks.The contributors focus their attention on such poets as Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld, Mary Lamb, and Fanny Kemble and argue for a significant rethinking of Romanticism as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon. Grounding their consideration of the poets in cultural, social, intellectual, and aesthetic concerns, the authors contest the received wisdom about Romantic poetry, its authors, its themes, and its audiences. Some of the essays examine the ways in which many of the poets sought to establish stable positions and identities for themselves, while others address the changing nature over time of the reputations of these women poets.
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Canon (Literature) - Romanticism--Great Britain - Feminist poetry, English--History and criticism - English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism - English poetry--19th century--History and criticism - Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century - Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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World War I : The Essential Reference Guide
Spencer C. Tucker;Spencer C. Tucker
With its authoritative reference entries, multiple introductory and perspective essays...
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World War I : The Essential Reference Guide
2016
With its authoritative reference entries, multiple introductory and perspective essays, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and bibliography, this single-volume reference provides all the key information readers need to understand this monumental conflict.World War I was an epic conflict that toppled centuries-old empires, transformed the Middle East and Russia, and helped elevate the United States to prominence as a world power. In essence, understanding the reasons for and outcomes of the First World War provides a cornerstone for knowledge of all modern history. In World War I: The Essential Reference Guide, detailed reference entries, a comprehensive overview essay, plus additional examinations of the causes and consequences of the conflict provide readers with the context needed to understand all aspects of World War I.Important primary source documents like the Zimmerman Telegram and Balfour Declaration are included and accompanied by explanations that supply readers with key historical perspective. Biographies on major political and military leaders, such as Wilhelm II, Woodrow Wilson, Nicholas II, John Pershing, and Ferdinand Foch, offer insight into the people who played key roles in the conflict. Entries on the key confrontations of the war—many accompanied by maps—showcase the strategies of both sides in their attempts to emerge victorious, and the bibliography presents a wealth of options to students looking to conduct further research on World War I.
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World War, 1914-1918--Encyclopedias - World War, 1914-1918--SourcesContent provider:
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Home Squadron : The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station
James C Rentfrow;James C Rentfrow
This study examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organiz...
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Home Squadron : The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station
2014
This study examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organization that took place on the North Atlantic Station between 1874 and 1897. At the beginning of this period, the warships assigned to this station were collectively administered by a rear-admiral, but were operationally deployed as individual units, each of whose actions were directed by their captains. By 1897 the North Atlantic, or “Home” Squadron as it was known, was a group of warships constituting a protean battle fleet – that is, an organized body moving and fighting in close-order, which meant that the actions of the captains were directed by a commanding admiral. The process of the development of an American battle fleet resulted in the construction of a new organizational identity for the North Atlantic Squadron. This process was as critical as the eventual outcome. It was not linear, but one in which progress in critical areas was modulated by conflicting demands that caused distraction. From 1874-1888, exercises in fleet tactics under steam were carried out sporadically utilizing existing wooden cruising vessels. From 1889-1894, the last wooden cruisers were decommissioned and the Squadron consisted entirely of new steel warships. Ad-hoc concentrations of vessels for purposes besides exercise and training retarded the continued development of doctrine and tactics necessary for a multi-ship fighting capability during this time. However, much work was done to develop a concept of multi-ship operations. From 1895-1897, the identity of the North Atlantic Squadron as a combat unit solidified. Tactical exercises were held that had specific offensive and defensive wartime applications. These exercises were necessary to develop a combat capability. The results of this study demonstrate that the United States government had an interest in developing an offensive naval combat capability as early as the 1870's. Based on the record of the North Atlantic Squadron, it is argued that imperial aspirations, in the sense of possessing a capability to restrict the actions of other great powers in the Caribbean region, existed prior to the War of 1898. However, the process of change often resulted in the appearance of capability without the rigorous exercise necessary to possess it.
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Naval tactics--History--19th century - Operational art (Military science)--History--19th century - Warships--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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American Civil War : The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [6 Volumes]
Spencer C. Tucker;Spencer C. Tucker
This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examina...
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American Civil War : The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [6 Volumes]
2013
This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction.The Civil War was undoubtedly the most important and seminal event in 19th-century American history. Students who understand the Civil War have a better grasp of the central dilemmas in the American historical narrative: states rights versus federalism, freedom versus slavery, the role of the military establishment, the extent of presidential powers, and individual rights versus collective rights. Many of these dilemmas continue to shape modern society and politics. This comprehensive work facilitates both detailed reading and quick referencing for readers from the high school level to senior scholars in the field.The exhaustive coverage of this encyclopedia includes all significant battles and skirmishes; important figures, both civilian and military; weapons; government relations with Native Americans; and a plethora of social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. The entries also address the many events that led to the conflict, the international diplomacy of the war, the rise of the Republican Party and the growing crisis and stalemate in American politics, slavery and its impact on the nation as a whole, the secession crisis, the emergence of the'total war'concept, and the complex challenges of the aftermath of the conflict.
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The Life of Mark Twain : The Final Years, 1891–1910
Gary Scharnhorst;Gary Scharnhorst
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 In the final volume of his three-volume bio...
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The Life of Mark Twain : The Final Years, 1891–1910
2022
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910 at age 74. During these years Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, and endures the loss of two daughters and his wife. It is also during this time that he writes some of his darkest, most critical works ; among these include Pudd'nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective; Following the Equator; No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger; and portions of his Autobiography.
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Authors, American--19th century--Biography - Humorists, American--19th century--BiographyContent provider:
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Herman Melville : A Companion
Corey Evan Thompson;Corey Evan Thompson
This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a bio...
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Herman Melville : A Companion
2021
This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works , on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville's lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.
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The Marion Thompson Wright Reader : Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Graham Russell Gao Hodges;Graham Russell Gao Hodges
In The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provid...
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The Marion Thompson Wright Reader : Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
2021
In The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright's classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of scholarly work . First published in 1941 by Teachers College Press, Thompson's landmark study has been out of print for decades. Such rarity understates the book's importance. Thompson's major book and her life are significant for the histories of New Jersey, African Americans, local and national, women's and education history. Drawing upon Wright's work , existing scholarship, and new archival research, this new landmark scholarly edition, which includes an all-new biography of this pioneering scholar, underscores the continued relevance of Marion Thompson Wright.
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Segregation in education--United States--History - Discrimination in education--United States--History - African Americans--Education--HistoryContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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The Piano in Chamber Ensemble, Third Edition : An Annotated Guide
Maurice Hinson;Wesley Roberts;Maurice Hinson;Wesley Roberts
In this expanded and updated edition, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guid...
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The Piano in Chamber Ensemble, Third Edition : An Annotated Guide
2021
In this expanded and updated edition, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide features over 3200 compositions, from duos to octets, by more than 1600 composers. Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts catalog published works for piano with two or more instruments with information on performance level, length, individual movements, overall style, and publisher. Divided into sections according to the number and types of instruments involved, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble then subdivides entries according to the actual scoring. Keyboard, string, woodwind, brass, and percussion players and teachers will find a wealth of chamber works from all periods in this invaluable guide.
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Chamber music--Bibliography - Piano with instrumental ensemble--BibliographyContent provider:
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Workers on Arrival : Black Labor in the Making of America
Joe William Trotter Jr;Joe William Trotter Jr
'An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American work...
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Workers on Arrival : Black Labor in the Making of America
2019
'An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American working class.'—The Nation From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing, and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” as “takers” rather than “givers,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” In his engrossing history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr ., refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class's vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, Trotter traces the complicated journey of black workers from the transatlantic slave trade to the demise of the industrial order in the twenty-first century. At the center of this compelling, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women. A dynamic and vital history of remarkable contributions despite repeated setbacks, Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America's economic and industrial growth, its cities, ideas, and institutions, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today.
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Working class African Americans--History - African Americans--Employment--HistoryContent provider:
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When the Air Became Important : A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries
Janet Greenlees;Janet Greenlees
In When the Air Became Important, medical historian Janet Greenlees examines the worki...
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When the Air Became Important : A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries
2019
In When the Air Became Important, medical historian Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part. Such enclosed environments, where large numbers of people labored in close quarters, were ideal settings for the rapid spread of diseases including tuberculosis, bronchitis and pneumonia. When workers left the factories for home, these diseases were transmitted throughout the local population, yet operatives also brought diseases into the factory. Other aerial hazards common to both the community and workplace included poor ventilation and noise. Emphasizing the importance of the peculiarities of place as well as employers'balance of workers'health against manufacturing needs, Greenlees's pioneering book sheds light on the roots of contemporary environmentalism and occupational health reform. Her work highlights the complicated relationships among local business, local and national politics of health, and community priorities.
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Textile industry - Air quality--England--Lancashire - Textile workers--Diseases--England--Lancashire--History--20th century - Work environment--England--Lancashire - Textile workers--Diseases--England--Lancashire--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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The Works of Alain Locke
Charles Molesworth;Charles Molesworth
With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over...
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The Works of Alain Locke
2012
With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author, editor, and patron, Locke rightly earned the appellation'Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance.'Yet, his intellectual contributions extend far beyond that single period of cultural history. Throughout his life he penned essays, on topics ranging from John Keats to Sigmund Freud, in addition to his trenchant social commentary on race and society. The Works of Alain Locke provides the largest collection available of his brilliant essays, gathered from a career that spanned forty years. They cover an impressively broad field of subjects: philosophy, literature, the visual arts, music, the theory of value, race, politics, and multiculturalism. Alongside seminal works such as'The New Negro'the volume features essays like'The Ethics of Culture,''Apropos of Africa,'and'Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy.'Together, these writings demonstrate Locke's standing as the leading African American thinker between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr . The foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr . and the introduction by
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African Americans--Race identity - African Americans--Civil rights - African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century - African American arts - American literature--African American authors--History and criticismContent provider:
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City of a Million Dreams : A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason Berry;Jason Berry
In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coinci...
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City of a Million Dreams : A History of New Orleans at Year 300
2018
In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods.Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C . C . Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.
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Classical Reception and Children's Literature : Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation
Owen Hodkinson;Helen Lovatt;Owen Hodkinson;Helen Lovatt
Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts...
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Classical Reception and Children's Literature : Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation
2018; Vol. 00018
Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as'valid'for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to children's literature, showing how significant the classics, as well as classically-inspired fiction and verse, have been in tackling the adolescent challenges posed by metamorphosis. Chapters address such themes as the use made by C S Lewis, in The Horse and his Boy, of Apuleius'The Golden Ass; how Ovidian myth frames the Narnia stories; classical'nonsense'in Edward Lear; Pan as a powerful symbol of change in children's literature, for instance in The Wind in the Willows; the transformative power of the Orpheus myth; and how works for children have handled the teaching of the classics.
