Burgess, P;Kelly, M;Center for the New West;New Mexico. State Highway and T...
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Keith Guzik;Keith Guzik
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2016
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things —cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies—that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.
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Sociology (General) - Criminal law and procedureContent provider:
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History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763
Jeffery, Reginald W.;Jeffery, Reginald W.
This book, originally published in 1908, is a short narrative of the History of the Th...
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History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763
2018
This book, originally published in 1908, is a short narrative of the History of the Thirteen Colonies. The author endeavoured to give as often as possible the actual words of contemporaries, hoping that readers may thereby be tempted to search further among the mass of documentary evidence which still needs so much careful study.
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Islands of Hope : Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific
Paul D'Arcy;Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan;Paul D'Arcy;Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan
In the Pacific, as elsewhere, indigenous communities live with the consequences of env...
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Islands of Hope : Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific
2023
In the Pacific, as elsewhere, indigenous communities live with the consequences of environmental mismanagement and over-exploitation but rarely benefit from the short-term economic profits such actions may generate within the global system.National and international policy frameworks ultimately rely on local community assent. Without effective local participation and partnership, these extremely imposed frameworks miss out on millennia of local observation and understanding and seldom deliver viable and sustained environmental, cultural and economic benefits at the local level.This collection argues that environmental sustainability, indigenous political empowerment and economic viability will succeed only by taking account of distinct local contexts and cultures. In this regard, these Pacific indigenous case studies offer'islands of hope'for all communities marginalised by increasingly intrusive—and increasingly rapid—technological changes and by global dietary, economic, political and military forces with whom they have no direct contact or influence.
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Indians of North America--Pacific Coast (North America) - Human ecology--Pacific Coast (North America)Content provider:
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Ending Famine in India : A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, C. 1890-1950
Joanna Simonow;Joanna Simonow
The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twenti...
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Ending Famine in India : A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, C. 1890-1950
2023
The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century. Only decades earlier, famine in India had been believed to be a necessary evil. Now it was the reason for the increasing activities of doctors, nutritionists, social reformers, agricultural experts, missionaries, anti-colonial activists and colonial administrators, all involved in temporary relief and finding permanent solutions to famine. The involvement of this panoply of historical actors places Indian famines in the centre of the converging histories of humanitarianism, development, nutrition and (anti-) colonialism. Tracing their activities renders such convergences visible and pushes the boundaries of the history of famines in South Asia beyond its common spatial and temporal frames. Ending Famine in India examines the tripartite relationship of India, Britain and the United States, linking the late-Victorian holocausts with the struggle for food security in the 1950s.
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Famines--India--History--20th century - Agriculture--India--History--19th century - Food supply--India--History--20th century - Food supply--India--History--19th century - Agriculture--India--History--20th century - Famines--India--History--19th century - Food security--India--History--20th century - Food security--India--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Lost Harvests : Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy, Second Edition
Sarah Carter;Sarah Carter
Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the ...
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Lost Harvests : Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy, Second Edition
2019; Vol. 00003
Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Indigenous people lacked either an interest in farming or an aptitude for it. In Lost Harvests Sarah Carter reveals that reserve residents were anxious to farm and expended considerable effort on cultivation; government policies, more than anything else, acted to undermine their success. Despite repeated requests for assistance from Plains Indians, the Canadian government provided very little help between 1874 and 1885, and what little they did give proved useless. Although drought, frost, and other natural phenomena contributed to the failure of early efforts, reserve farmers were determined to create an economy based on agriculture and to become independent of government regulations and the need for assistance. Officials in Ottawa, however, attributed setbacks not to economic or climatic conditions but to the Indians'character and traditions which, they claimed, made the Indians unsuited to agriculture. In the decade following 1885 government policies made farming virtually impossible for the Plains Indians. They were expected to subsist on one or two acres and were denied access to any improvements in technology: farmers had to sow seed by hand, harvest with scythes, and thresh with flails. After the turn of the century, the government encouraged land surrenders in order to make good agricultural land available to non-Indian settlers. This destroyed any chance the Plains Indians had of making agriculture a stable economic base. Through an examination of the relevant published literature and of archival sources in Ottawa, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Carter provides an in-depth study of government policy, Indian responses, and the socio-economic condition of the reserve communities on the prairies in the post-treaty era. The new introduction by the author offers a reflection on Lost Harvests, the influences that shaped it, and the issues and approaches that remain to be explored.
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Indians of North America--Agriculture--Prairie Provinces - Indians of North America--Prairie Provinces--Government relations - Indians of North America--Land tenure--Prairie ProvincesContent provider:
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Travellers Through Empire : Indigenous Voyages From Early Canada
Cecilia Morgan;Cecilia Morgan
In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented...
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Travellers Through Empire : Indigenous Voyages From Early Canada
2017; Vol. 00091
In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people – especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree – travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Travellers through Empire unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Mississauga woman who advocated for her people with Queen Victoria, E. Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk poet and performer, and many others. Cecilia Morgan retraces their voyages from Ontario and the northwest fur trade and details their efforts overseas, which included political negotiations with the Crown, raising funds for missionary work , receiving an education, giving readings and performances, and teaching international audiences about Indigenous cultures. As they travelled, these remarkable individuals forged new families and friendships and left behind newspaper interviews, travelogues, letters, and diaries that provide insights into their cross-cultural encounters. Chronicling the emotional ties, contexts, and desires for agency, resistance, and negotiation that determined their diverse experiences, Travellers through Empire provides surprising vantage points on First Nations travels and representations in the heart of the British Empire.
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Indians of North America--Canada--History--19th century - Voyages and travels--History--18th century - Indians of North America--Canada--History--18th century - Indians of North America--Travel--Great Britain--History--18th century - Indians of North America--Travel--Great Britain--History--19th century - Electronic books - Voyages and travels--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Reproduction on the Reservation : Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century
Brianna Theobald;Brianna Theobald
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Reproduction on the Reservation : Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century
2019
This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly. As Brianna Theobald illustrates, the federal government and local authorities have long sought to control Indigenous families and women's reproduction, using tactics such as coercive sterilization and removal of Indigenous children into the white foster care system. But Theobald examines women's resistance, showing how they have worked within families, tribal networks, and activist groups to confront these issues. Blending local and intimate family histories with the histories of broader movements such as WARN (Women of All Red Nations), Theobald links the federal government's intrusion into Indigenous women's reproductive and familial decisions to the wider history of eugenics and the reproductive rights movement. She argues convincingly that colonial politics have always been--and remain--reproductive politics. By looking deeply at one tribal nation over more than a century, Theobald offers an especially rich analysis of how Indigenous women experienced pregnancy and motherhood under evolving federal Indian policy. At the heart of this history are the Crow women who displayed creativity and fortitude in struggling for reproductive self-determination.
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Maternal health services--North America - Indian women--North America - Indians of North America--Health and hygiene - Reproductive rights--North AmericaContent provider:
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Sowing. The Construction of Historical Longitudinal Population Databases
Kees Mandemakers;George Alter;Hélène Vézina;Paul Puschmann (eds.);Kees Mand...
Twenty-three major databases containing historical longitudinal population data are pr...
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Sowing. The Construction of Historical Longitudinal Population Databases
2023
Twenty-three major databases containing historical longitudinal population data are presented and discussed in this edited volume, focusing on their aims, content, design, and structure. Some of these databases are based on pure longitudinal sources, such as population registers that continuously observe and record demographic events, including migration and family and household composition. Other databases are family reconstitutions, based on civil records. The third and last category consists of semi-longitudinal databases, that combine, for instance, civil records and censuses and/ or tax registers. The volume traces the origins of historical longitudinal databases from the 1970s and discusses their expansion worldwide, in terms of sources and hard- and software. The contributions highlight the unique genesis and common developmental arcs of these databases, which are rooted in the fields of quantitative history, social and demographic history, and the history of ordinary people. The importance of these databases in advancing knowledge and insights in various disciplines is emphasized and demonstrated, along with the challenges and opportunities they face. The collection of technical descriptions of these databases represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of large databases with longitudinal micro-data on historical populations. It includes descriptions of databases from Europe, North America , East Asia, Australia, South Africa, and Suriname. Technical details, in terms of data entry, cleaning, standardization, and record linkage are meticulously documented. The volume is a must-have for all scholars in the field of historical life course studies.
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Population--Statistical methods - Population--DatabasesContent provider:
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How Democracy Survives : Global Challenges in the Anthropocene
Michael Holm;R. S. Deese;Michael Holm;R. S. Deese
How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetar...
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How Democracy Survives : Global Challenges in the Anthropocene
2023
How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state. The authors bring perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America , and North America , their chapters engaging with the concept of transnational democracy by tracing its development in the past, assessing its performance in the present, and considering its potential for survival in this century and beyond. Coming from a wide array of intellectual disciplines and policymaking backgrounds, the authors share a common conviction that our global institutions—both governments and international organizations—must become more resilient, transparent, and democratically accountable in order to address the cascading political, economic, and social crises of this new epoch, such as climate change, mass migration, more frequent and severe natural disasters, and resurgent authoritarianism. This book will be relevant for courses in international relations and political science, environmental politics, and the preservation of democracy and federalism around the world. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched www.knowledgeunlatched.org
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Government accountability--Cross-cultural studies - Democratization--History--Cross-cultural studies - Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene - Political culture--Cross-cultural studiesContent provider:
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Ernest Small;Ernest Small
Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising as candi...
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2013
Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising as candidates for expanding our food supply and generating new economically competitive crops. This book is an informative analysis of the top 100 indigenous food plants of North America , focusing on those species that have achieved commercial success or have substantial market potential. The book's user-friendly format provides concise information on each plant. It examines the geography and ecology, history, economic and social importance, food and industrial uses, and the economic future of each crop.
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Endemic plants--North America - Plants, Edible--North AmericaContent provider:
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American Founders : How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World
Christina Proenza-Coles;Christina Proenza-Coles
American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the ...
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American Founders : How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World
2018
American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in reality African residents preceded the English by a century and arrived in the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European migrants up until 1820. Afro-Americans were omnipresent in the founding and advancement of the Americas , and recurrently outnumbered Europeans at many times and places, from colonial Peru to antebellum Virginia. African-descended people contributed to every facet of American history as explorers, conquistadores, settlers, soldiers, sailors, servants, slaves, rebels, leaders, lawyers, litigants, laborers, artisans, artists, activists, translators, teachers, doctors, nurses, inventors, investors, merchants, mathematicians, scientists, scholars, engineers, entrepreneurs, generals, cowboys, pirates, professors, politicians, priests, poets, and presidents. The multitude of events and mixed-race individuals included in the book underscores that black and white Americans share the same history, and in many cases, the same ancestry. American Founders is meant to celebrate this shared heritage and strengthen these bonds.
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African Americans--HistoryContent provider:
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Early Rock Art of the American West : The Geometric Enigma
Ekkehart Malotki;Ellen Dissanayake;Ekkehart Malotki;Ellen Dissanayake
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEThe earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewher...
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Early Rock Art of the American West : The Geometric Enigma
2018
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEThe earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early human mind?With some two hundred striking color images and discussions of chronology, dating, sites, and styles, this pioneering investigation of abstract geometrics on stone (as well as bone, ivory, and shell) explores its wide-ranging subject from the perspectives of ethology, evolutionary biology, cognitive archaeology, and the psychology of artmaking. The authors'unique approach instills a greater respect for a largely unknown and underappreciated form of paleoart, suggesting that before humans became Homo symbolicus or even Homo religiosus, they were mark-makers - Homo aestheticus.
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Picture-writing--West (U.S.) - Petroglyphs--West (U.S.) - Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--Antiquities - Rock paintings--West (U.S.)Content provider:
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The Land Speaks : New Voices at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History
Debbie Lee;Kathryn Newfont;Debbie Lee;Kathryn Newfont
The Land Speaks explores the intersection of two vibrant fields, oral history and envi...
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The Land Speaks : New Voices at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History
2017
The Land Speaks explores the intersection of two vibrant fields, oral history and environmental studies. Ranging across farm and forest, city and wilderness, river and desert, this collection of fourteen oral histories gives voice to nature and the stories it has to tell. These essays consider topics as diverse as environmental activism, wilderness management, public health, urban exploring, and smoke jumping. They raise questions about the roles of water, neglected urban spaces, land ownership concepts, protectionist activism, and climate change. Covering almost every region of the United States and part of the Caribbean, Lee and Newfont and their diverse collection of contributors address the particular contributions oral history can make toward understanding issues of public land and the environment. In the face of global warming and events like the Flint water crisis, environmental challenges are undoubtedly among the most pressing issues of our time. These essays suggest that oral history can serve both documentary and problem-solving functions as we grapple with these challenges.
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Environmentalism--North America - Oral history--North America - Human ecology--North America - Ecology--North America - Environmental protection--Social aspects - Communication in the environmental sciences - Environmental sciences--Social aspectsContent provider:
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The Greens' Dilemma: Building Tomorrow's Climate Infrastructure Today.
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The Greens' Dilemma: Building Tomorrow's Climate Infrastructure Today.
Emory Law Journal. 2023, Vol. 73 Issue 2, preceding p1-82. 83p.
"We need to make it easier to build electricity transmission lines." This plea came recently not from an electric utility executive but from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, one of the Senate's champions of progressive climate change policy. His concern is that the massive scale of new climate infrastructure urgently needed to meet our nation's greenhouse gas emissions reduction policy goals will face a substantial obstacle in the form of existing federal, state, and local environmental laws. A small but growing chorus of politicians and commentators with impeccable green credentials agrees that reform of that system will be needed. But how? How can environmental law be reformed to facilitate building climate infrastructure faster without unduly sacrificing its core progressive goals of environmental conservation, distributional equity, and public participation? That hard question defines what this Article describes as the Greens' Dilemma, and there are no easy answers. We take the position in this Article that the unprecedented scale and urgency of required climate infrastructure requires reconsidering the "Grand Bargain" of the 1970s that established stronger environmental protection in exchange for more challenging infrastructure development. Green interests, however, largely remain resistant even to opening that discussion. As a result, with few exceptions, reform proposals thus far have amounted to modest streamlining "tweaks" compared to what we argue will be needed to accelerate climate infrastructure sufficiently to achieve national climate policy goals. To move beyond tweaking to a "New Grand Bargain," we explore how to assess the trade -off between speed to develop and build climate infrastructure, on the one hand, and ensuring adequate conservation, distributional equity, and public participation on the other. We outline how a new regime would leverage streamlining methods more comprehensively and, ultimately, more aggressively than has been proposed thus far, including through federal preemption, centralizing federal authority, establishing strict timelines, and providing more comprehensive and transparent information sources and access. The Greens' Dilemma is real. The trade -offs inherent between building climate infrastructure quickly enough to achieve national climate policy goals versus ensuring strong conservation, equity, and participation goals are difficult. The time for serious debate is now. This is the first law review article to lay the foundation for that emerging national conversation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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THE GREENS' DILEMMA: BUILDING TOMORROW'S CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY.
Emory Law Journal. 2023, Vol. 73 Issue 1, p1-82. 82p.
"We need to make it easier to build electricity transmission lines." This plea celine recently not from an electric utility executive but from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, one of the Senate's champions of progressive climate change policy. His concern is that the massive scale of new climate infrastructure urgently needed to meet our nation's greenhouse gas emissions reduction policy goals will face a substantial obstacle in theform of existing®deral, state, and local environmental laws. A small but growing chorus of politicians and commentators with impeccable green credentials agrees that reform of that systent will be needed. But how? How can environmental law be reformed to facilitate building climate infrastructure faster without unduly sacriticing its core progressive goals of environmental conservation. distributional equity. and public participation? That hard question defines what this Article describes as the Greens' Dilemma, and there are no easy answers. We take the position in this Article that the unprecedented scale and urgency of required climate infrastructure requires reconsidering the "Grand Bargain" of the 1 970% that established stronger environmental protection in exchange for more challenging infrastructure development. Green interests, however. largely remain resistant even to opening that discussion. As a result, with few exceptions, reform proposals thus jar have amounted to modest streamlining "tweaks" compared to what we argue will be needed to accelerate climate infrastructure sufficiently to achieve national climate policy goals. To move beyond tweaking to a "New Grand Bargain," we explore how to assess the trade -off between speed to develop and build climate infrastructure, on the one hand, and ensuring adequate conservation, distributional equity, and public participation on the other. We outline how a new regime would leverage streamlining methods more comprehensively and. ultimately, more aggressively than has been proposed thus far, including through federal preemption, centralizingfederal authority, establishing strict timelines, and providing more comprehensive and transparent information sources and access. The Greens' Dilemma is real. The trade -offs inherent between building climate infrastructure quickly enough to achieve national climate policy goals versus ensuring strong conservation, equity, and participation goals are difficult. The time.for serious debate is now. This is the, first law review article to lay the foundation for that emerging national conversation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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CLEAN energy - ENVIRONMENTAL protection - ELECTRIC power transmission equipment - ENVIRONMENTAL policy - GREEN technology - WIND power - SOLAR energyContent provider:
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Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature
Rani-Henrik Andersson;Boyd Cothran;Saara Kekki;Rani-Henrik Andersson;Boyd C...
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Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature
2021; Vol. 00001
National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a result, for generations of Indigenous peoples, these protected spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places. Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature brings together anthropologists and archaeologists, historians, linguists, policy experts, and communications scholars to discuss differing views and presents a compelling case for the possibility of more productive discussions on the environment, sustainability, and nature protection. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, the volume challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate. This original and timely edited collection offers a global perspective on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their governmental and NGO counterparts in the co-management of the planet's vital and precious preserved spaces of nature.
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Protected areas - Nature conservation - Indigenous peoplesContent provider:
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This Indian Country : American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
Frederick Hoxie;Frederick Hoxie
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Na...
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This Indian Country : American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
2012
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The general conclusion is inescapable: Most Americans instinctively view Indians as people of the past who occupy a position outside the central narrative of American history. These three individuals were warriors, men who fought violently against American expansion , lost, and died. It's taken as given that Native history has no particular relationship to what is conventionally presented as the story of America . Indians had a history too; but theirs was short and sad, and it ended a long time ago. In This Indian Country, Hoxie has created a bold and sweeping counter-narrative to our conventional understanding. Native American history, he argues, is also a story of political activism, its victories hard-won in courts and campaigns rather than on the battlefield. For more than two hundred years, Indian activists—some famous, many unknown beyond their own communities—have sought to bridge the distance between indigenous cultures and the republican democracy of the United States through legal and political debate. Over time their struggle defined a new language of “Indian rights” and created a vision of American Indian identity. In the process, they entered a dialogue with other activist movements, from African American civil rights to women's rights and other progressive organizations. Hoxie weaves a powerful narrative that connects the individual to the tribe, the tribe to the nation, and the nation to broader historical processes. He asks readers to think deeply about how a country based on the values of liberty and equality managed to adapt to the complex cultural and political demands of people who refused to be overrun or ignored. As we grapple with contemporary challenges to national institutions, from inside and outside our borders, and as we reflect on the array of shifting national and cultural identities across the globe, This Indian Country provides a context and a language for understanding our present dilemmas.
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Political activists--United States--History - Indian activists--United States--History - Indians of North America--Politics and governmentContent provider:
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Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests
Andrew M. Barton;William S. Keeton;Andrew M. Barton;William S. Keeton
The landscapes of North America, including eastern forests, have been shaped by humans...
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Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests
2018
The landscapes of North America , including eastern forests, have been shaped by humans for millennia, through fire, agriculture, hunting, and other means. But the arrival of Europeans on America's eastern shores several centuries ago ushered in the rapid conversion of forests and woodlands to other land uses. By the twentieth century, it appeared that old-growth forests in the eastern United States were gone, replaced by cities, farms, transportation networks, and second-growth forests. Since that time, however, numerous remnants of eastern old growth have been discovered, meticulously mapped, and studied. Many of these ancient stands retain surprisingly robust complexity and vigor, and forest ecologists are eager to develop strategies for their restoration and for nurturing additional stands of old growth that will foster biological diversity, reduce impacts of climate change, and serve as benchmarks for how natural systems operate. Forest ecologists William Keeton and Andrew Barton bring together a volume that breaks new ground in our understanding of ecological systems and their importance for forest resilience in an age of rapid environmental change. This edited volume covers a broad geographic canvas, from eastern Canada and the Upper Great Lakes states to the deep South. It looks at a wide diversity of ecosystems, including spruce-fir, northern deciduous, southern Appalachian deciduous, southern swamp hardwoods, and longleaf pine. Chapters authored by leading old-growth experts examine topics of contemporary forest ecology including forest structure and dynamics, below-ground soil processes, biological diversity, differences between historical and modern forests, carbon and climate change mitigation, management of old growth, and more. This thoughtful treatise broadly communicates important new discoveries to scientists, land managers, and students and breathes fresh life into the hope for sensible, effective management of old-growth stands in eastern forests.
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Old growth forest conservation--East (U.S.) - Old growth forests--East (U.S.) - Old growth forest ecology--East (U.S.)Content provider:
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The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century : American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources, Second Edition
Donald Fixico;Donald Fixico
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition is updated thr...
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The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century : American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources, Second Edition
2012
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition is updated through the first decade of the twenty-first century and contains a new chapter challenging Americans--Indian and non-Indian--to begin healing the earth. This analysis of the struggle to protect not only natural resources but also a way of life serves as an indispensable tool for students or anyone interested in Native American history and current government policy with regard to Indian lands or the environment.
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Indians of North America--Land tenure - Natural resources--United States - Indians of North America--Government relations - Indian reservations--United States - Indians--Land tenure - Indian land transfersContent provider:
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Beyond States: A Constitutional History of Territory, Statehood, and Nation-Building.
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University of Chicago Law Review. May2023, Vol. 90 Issue 3, p813-908. 96p.
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Green, Craig
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Beyond States: A Constitutional History of Territory, Statehood, and Nation-Building.
University of Chicago Law Review. May2023, Vol. 90 Issue 3, p813-908. 96p.
The United States has always been more than simply a group of united states. The constitutional history of national union and component states is linked to a third category: federal territory. This Article uses an integrated history of territory, statehood, and union to develop a new framework for analyzing constitutional state-hood. Three historical periods are crucial--the Founding Era, the Civil War, and Reconstruction--as times when statehood was especially malleable as a matter of constitutional law. During each of those formative periods, the most important constitutional struggles about statehood and the union involved federal territories. Conflicts about territories reveal an important distinction between theories of states' constitutional authority to participate in national politics (the "skeleton" of statehood) and their constitutional authority to resist the national government (the "muscle" of statehood). The skeletal authority of states to participate in federal politics has been legally explicit and essential since the Articles of Confederation. By comparison, advocates for muscular states' rights have relied on dubious inferences and historical distortions. During the Founding Era and the Civil War, pivotal disputes concerning territories were resolved to favor the skeleton of representational statehood instead of the muscular statehood of antifederal resistance. During Reconstruction, however, the Supreme Court created new doctrines of muscular statehood that were based on inaccurate histories of the Founding and the Civil War. Judicial decisions like the Slaughter-House Cases and the Civil Rights Cases applied those doctrinal theories of muscular statehood to limit individual rights and congressional power under the Reconstruction Amendments. In the late twentieth century, such precedents gained force after the confirmation of politically conservative Supreme Court Justices, and similar doctrines might be even more powerful with the modern Court's conservative supermajority. This is not how constitutional law should work . Muscular statehood achieved doctrinal success much later than most observers assume, and it has neither the positivist pedigree nor the compelling results to justify antimajoritarian constitutional status. Although the constitutional skeleton for states' participation in the federal government is foundationally important, constitutional doctrines of muscular statehood to resist national democracy should be presumptively disfavored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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CONSTITUTIONAL history - STATEHOOD (American politics) - STATE governments - CONSTITUTIONAL amendments - CIVIL warContent provider:
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made : Migration and Violence in Early America
Stephen Warren;Stephen Warren
In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British,...
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made : Migration and Violence in Early America
2014
In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British,'We have always been the frontier.'Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond. Warren's deft analysis makes clear that Shawnees were not anomalous among Native peoples east of the Mississippi. Through migration, they and their neighbors adapted to disease, warfare, and dislocation by interacting with colonizers as slavers, mercenaries, guides, and traders. These adaptations enabled them to preserve their cultural identities and resist coalescence without forsaking their linguistic and religious traditions.
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Shawnee Indians--Wars - Shawnee Indians--Migrations - Shawnee Indians--HistoryContent provider:
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Assessing the Potential Impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on Least Developed Countries: A Case Study of Malawi.
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Journal of Southern African Studies. Aug2020, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p773-792. 20p. 4 Charts.
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Ndonga, Dennis;Laryea, Emmanuel;Chaponda, Murendere
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Journal of Southern African Studies. Aug2020, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p773-792. 20p. 4 Charts.
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Media - Migration - Integration : European and North American Perspectives
Rainer Geißler;Horst Pöttker;Rainer Geißler;Horst Pöttker
Following economists and scientists, politicians of various European countries have re...
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Media - Migration - Integration : European and North American Perspectives
2009
Following economists and scientists, politicians of various European countries have realized that a modern society with a declining birthrate is in need of immigrants. What can journalists contribute, in order to enable migrants to feel at home in their receiving country? What can be missed and ruined by journalists and media with regard to the integration of ethnic minorities? Scholars from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and the U.S. present their findings on the matter of media integration of migrants. Can European media learn from experiences in the classic countries of immigration in North America ?
