The work that waits for us in Porto Rico
Van Buren, James.
Check for Full Text
"IMPROVE YOUR PRIVILEGES WHILE THEY STAY": A GUIDE TO IMPROVE THE PRIVILEGES OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP FOR EVERYBODY.
Academic Journal
|
Touro Law Review. 2024, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p657-735. 79p.
Please log in to see more details
Schroeder, Joshua J.
Academic Journal
|
Touro Law Review. 2024, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p657-735. 79p.
Please log in to see more details
PDF
Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
more
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.
Subject terms:
Biography--DictionariesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
eBook
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, Edgar Allan;Poe, Edgar Allan
It is virtually impossible to overstate Edgar Allan Poe's importance in the field of A...
more
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
2013
It is virtually impossible to overstate Edgar Allan Poe's importance in the field of American literature. He is credited not only with inventing or significantly advancing the short story, detective fiction, and science fiction, but also with being one of the first Americans to pursue a career in writing as a vocation. This comprehensive volume is a career-spanning collection of Poe's stories and poems.
Subject terms:
American literature--History and criticism - PoetryContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
more
Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and 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 and 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) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). 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: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science 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.
Subject terms:
Biography--DictionariesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Educación y Sociedad: Pensamiento e innovación para la transformación social.
Cobos-Sanchiz, David;López-Meneses, Eloy;Jaén-Martínez, Alicia;Martín-Padil...
Educación y Sociedad: Pensamiento e innovación para la transformación social.
2023
Subject terms:
Social change - Educational sociologyContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Votes of Confidence, 2nd Edition : A Young Person's Guide to American Elections
Jeff Fleischer;Jeff Fleischer
Every two years, media coverage of American elections turns into a horse-race story ab...
more
Votes of Confidence, 2nd Edition : A Young Person's Guide to American Elections
2020
Every two years, media coverage of American elections turns into a horse-race story about who's leading the polls and who said what when. Give young adult readers clear explanations about how our election process actually works , why it matters, and how they can become involved. Using real-world examples and anecdotes, this book provides readers with thorough, nonpartisan explanations about primaries, the electoral college, checks and balances, polls, fundraising, and more. Updated with facts, figures, and analysis, this edition provides the next generation of voters with essential guidance about the past, present, and future of American elections.'[A] very readable, engaging, and entertaining history of American elections and politics for young people. Highly recommended.'—starred, Booklist'Fleischer presents a potentially didactic subject matter in a digestible and organized manner. Recommended for middle to high school students, educators, and others interested in becoming civically informed and engaged.'—School Library Journal
Subject terms:
Elections--United States--Juvenile literature - Representative government and representation--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Haste to Rise : A Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim Crow
David Pilgrim;Franklin Hughes;David Pilgrim;Franklin Hughes
Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely ...
more
Haste to Rise : A Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim Crow
2020
Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses—and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. They excelled in their studies and became accomplished in their professional fields. Many went on to both ignite and help lead the explosive civil rights movement. Very few people know their stories—until now. Haste to Rise is a book about the incredible resilience and breathtaking accomplishments of those students. It was written to unearth, contextualize, and share their stories and important lessons with this generation. Along the way we are introduced to dozens of these Jim Crow–era students, including the first African American to win a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Belford Lawson, the lead attorney in New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. (1938), a landmark court battle that safeguarded the right to picket. We also meet one of Lawson's contemporaries, Percival L. Prattis, a pioneering journalist and influential newspaper executive. In 1947, he became the first African American news correspondent admitted to the U.S. House and Senate press galleries. There is also an in-depth look into the life and work of the institute's founder, Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, a racial justice pioneer who created educational opportunities for women, international students, and African Americans. Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university's official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past. This is American history done right!
Subject terms:
African American professional employees--Biography - African Americans--Education--History--20th centuryContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Encyclopedia of the Sixties : A Decade of Culture and Counterculture [2 Volumes]
Abbe A. Debolt;James S. Baugess;Abbe A. Debolt;James S. Baugess
Comedian Robin Williams said that if you remember the'60s, you weren't there. This enc...
more
Encyclopedia of the Sixties : A Decade of Culture and Counterculture [2 Volumes]
2012
Comedian Robin Williams said that if you remember the'60s, you weren't there. This encyclopedia documents the people, places, movements, and culture of that memorable decade for those who lived it and those who came after.Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture surveys the 1960s from January 1960 to December 1969. Nearly 500 entries cover everything from the British television cult classic The Avengers to the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. The two-volume work also includes biographies of artists, architects, authors, statesmen, military leaders, and cinematic stars, concentrating on what each individual accomplished during the 1960s, with brief postscripts of their lives beyond the period.There was much more to the Sixties than flower power and LSD, and the entries in this encyclopedia were compiled with an eye to providing a balanced view of the decade. Thus, unlike works that emphasize only the radical and revolutionary aspects of the period to the exclusion of everything else, these volumes include the political and cultural Right, taking a more academic than nostalgic approach and helping to fill a gap in the popular understanding of the era.
Subject terms:
Biography--Encyclopedias - Counterculture--History--Encyclopedias - Counterculture--United States--History--Encyclopedias - Nineteen sixties--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
A Little History of the United States
Davidson, James West;Davidson, James West
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of fr...
more
A Little History of the United States
2015
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first contact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishing resources.  In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided and diverse.
Content provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
more
Dictionary of World Biography
2018
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and 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 and 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) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). 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: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science 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.
Subject terms:
Biography--DictionariesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Language Planning As Nation Building : Ideology, Policy and Implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850
Gijsbert Rutten;Gijsbert Rutten
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The lin...
more
Language Planning As Nation Building : Ideology, Policy and Implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850
2019; Vol. 00009
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one language–one nation was swiftly transformed into concrete top-down policies aimed at the dissemination of the newly devised standard language across the entire population of the newly established Dutch nation-state. Thus, the Dutch case offers an exciting perspective on the concomitant rise of cultural nationalism, national language planning and standard language ideology. This study offers a comprehensive yet detailed analysis of these phenomena by focussing on the ideology underpinning the new language policy, the institutionalisation of this ideology in metalinguistic discourse, the implementation of the policy in education, and the effects of the policy on actual language use.
Subject terms:
Dutch language--Standardization--History - Standard language--Netherlands--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States : [2 Volumes]
Patricia Reid-Merritt;Patricia Reid-Merritt
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settl...
more
A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States : [2 Volumes]
2019
Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states.From the initial impact of European settlement on indigenous populations to the racial divides caused by immigration and police shootings in the 21st century, each American state has imposed some form of racial restriction on its residents. The United States proclaims a belief in freedom and justice for all, but members of various minority racial groups have often faced a different reality, as seen in such examples as the forcible dispossession of indigenous peoples during the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow laws'crushing discrimination of blacks, and the manifest unfairness of the Chinese Exclusion Act.Including the District of Columbia, the 51 entries in these two volumes cover the state-specific histories of all of the major minority and immigrant groups in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Every state has had a unique experience in attempting to build a community comprising multiple racial groups, and the chronologies, narratives, and biographies that compose the entries in this collection explore the consequences of racism from states'perspectives, revealing distinct new insights into their respective racial histories.
Subject terms:
Racism--United States--States--History--ChronologyContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Sterile Insect Technique : Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management
Victor A. Dyck;Jorge Hendrichs;A.S. Robinson;Victor A. Dyck;Jorge Hendrichs...
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control t...
more
Sterile Insect Technique : Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management
2021
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT — suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication — with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.
Subject terms:
Insect pests--Integrated control - Insect sterilization - Insect pests--Biological controlContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation
Paul Finkelman;Donald R. Kennon;Paul Finkelman;Donald R. Kennon
“When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touc...
more
Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation
2016
“When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed. Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural address, noting: ‘I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.'” How, then, asks Paul Finkelman in the introduction to Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation, did Lincoln—who personally hated slavery—lead the nation through the Civil War to January 1865, when Congress passed the constitutional amendment that ended slavery outright?The essays in this book examine the route Lincoln took to achieve emancipation and how it is remembered both in the United States and abroad. The ten contributors—all on the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship on Lincoln and the Civil War—push our understanding of this watershed moment in US history in new directions. They present wide-ranging contributions to Lincoln studies, including a parsing of the sixteenth president's career in Congress in the 1840s and a brilliant critique of the historical choices made by Steven Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner in the movie Lincoln, about the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.As a whole, these classroom-ready readings provide fresh and essential perspectives on Lincoln's deft navigation of constitutional and political circumstances to move emancipation forward.Contributors: L. Diane Barnes, Jenny Bourne, Michael Burlingame, Orville Vernon Burton, Seymour Drescher, Paul Finkelman, Amy S. Greenberg, James Oakes, Beverly Wilson Palmer, Matthew Pinsker
Subject terms:
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
State of the Union Address by James K. Polk.
Book
|
State of the Union Address by James K. Polk; 3/1/2006, p1-105, 105p
Please log in to see more details
Polk, James K. (James Knox);Polk, James K. (James Knox)
Book
|
State of the Union Address by James K. Polk; 3/1/2006, p1-105, 105p
Please log in to see more details
Shaped by the West, Volume 1 : A History of North America to 1877
William F. Deverell;Anne F. Hyde;William F. Deverell;Anne F. Hyde
Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of ...
more
Shaped by the West, Volume 1 : A History of North America to 1877
2018; Vol. 00001
Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in society and politics and representing all kinds of westerners—black and white, native and immigrant, male and female, powerful and powerless—from more than twenty states across the West and the shifting frontier. The sources included reflect the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, beginning with the pre-Columbian era in Volume 1 and taking us to the twenty-first century in Volume 2. Together, these volumes cover first encounters, conquests and revolts, indigenous land removal, slavery and labor, race, ethnicity and gender, trade and diplomacy, industrialization, migration and immigration, and changing landscapes and environments. Key Features & Benefits:Expertly curated personal letters, government documents, editorials, photos, and never before published materials offer lively, vivid introductions to the tools of history.Annotations, captions, and brief essays provide accessible entry points to an extraordinarily wide range of themes—adding context and perspective from leaders in the field.Highlights connections between western and national histories to foster critical thinking about America's diverse past and today's challenging issues.
Subject terms:
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) - Indians of North America--Great Plains--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR SPRING.
Review
|
Publishers Weekly. 2/20/2023, Vol. 270 Issue 8, p27-160. 118p. 35 Cartoon or Caricatures.
Please log in to see more details
Review
|
Publishers Weekly. 2/20/2023, Vol. 270 Issue 8, p27-160. 118p. 35 Cartoon or Caricatures.
Please log in to see more details
CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR SPRING.
Publishers Weekly. 2/20/2023, Vol. 270 Issue 8, p27-160. 118p. 35 Cartoon or Caricatures.
Subject terms:
Stars of Major League Baseball (Book) - Bridges (Book : Majewski) - High Line: A Park to Look Up to, The (Book) - Calcaterra, Craig - Majewski, Marc - Tentler-Krylov, Victoria - FictionContent provider:
Literary Reference Source
Full Text
Encyclopedia of Virology: New Research (6 Volume Set)
Nicolai S. Bech;Nicolai S. Bech
This six volume set presents important research on virology. Some of the topics addres...
more
Encyclopedia of Virology: New Research (6 Volume Set)
2020
This six volume set presents important research on virology. Some of the topics addressed include: the fundamentals of Zika virus; preparation for pandemic diseases; West Nile virus; the management of the spread of Ebola virus disease; human papillomaviruses; viral hemorrhagic fevers; the treatment of avian influenza virus; bronchiolitis.
Subject terms:
Virology--ResearchContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Mr. Emerson's Revolution
Jean McClure Mudge;Jean McClure Mudge
This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of Ameri...
more
Mr. Emerson's Revolution
2015
This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day: abolition and women's rights. A broad and deep, yet cautious revolutionary, he spoke about a spectrum of inner and outer realities—personal, philosophical, theological and cultural—all of which gave his mid-career turn to political and social issues their immediate and lasting power. This multi-authored study frankly explores Emerson's private prejudices against blacks and women while he also publicly championed their causes. Such a juxtaposition freshly charts the evolution of Emerson's slow but steady application of his early neo-idealism to emancipating blacks and freeing women from social bondage. His shift from philosopher to active reformer had lasting effects not only in America but also abroad. In the U.S. Emerson influenced such diverse figures as Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson and William James and in Europe Mickiewicz, Wilde, Kipling, Nietzsche, and Camus in Europe as well as many leading followers in India and Japan. The book includes over 170 illustrations, among them eight custom-made maps of Emerson's haunts and wide-ranging lecture itineraries as well as a new four-part chronology of his life placed alongside both national and international events as well as major inventions. Mr. Emerson's Revolution provides essential reading for students and teachers of American intellectual history, the abolitionist and women's rights movement―and for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century roots of these seismic social changes.
Subject terms:
Antislavery movements--United States - Slavery--United States--History--19th century - Women's rights--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits
Rebecca Yamin;Donna J. Seifert;Rebecca Yamin;Donna J. Seifert
Case studies of nineteenth-century sites from New York City to the American WestThe A...
more
The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits
2019
Case studies of nineteenth-century sites from New York City to the American WestThe Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits synthesizes case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points—New York City's most notorious neighborhood—and parlor houses a few blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill. Rebecca Yamin and Donna Seifert also examine brothels in the American West—in urban Los Angeles and in frontier sites and mining camps in Sandpoint, Idaho; Prescott, Arizona; and Fargo, North Dakota. The artifact assemblages found at these sites often contradict written records, allowing archaeologists to construct a more realistic and complicated picture of daily life for working-class women involved in commercial sex. Recognizing the agency involved in practicing a profession that has never been considered respectable, even when it wasn't outright illegal, Yamin and Seifert also look at the agency of other individuals who participated in illicit activities, defying society privately or even publicly. The authors demonstrate the various ways disempowered groups including immigrants, African Americans, women, and the poor wielded autonomy while constrained by cultural norms. They also consider similar, contemporary expressions of agency, with particular attention to ongoing arguments surrounding the legalization of prostitution. Juxtaposing today's debates alongside the clandestine pursuits of the past reveals how dominant moral standards determine what individual choices are publicly permissible. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Subject terms:
Prostitution--United States--History - Brothels--United States--History - Social archaeology--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Spatial Formats Under the Global Condition
Matthias Middell;Steffi Marung;Matthias Middell;Steffi Marung
Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the ...
more
Spatial Formats Under the Global Condition
2019; Vol. 00001
Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other hand. Under the global condition spatial formats are products of collective negotiations on the most effective and widely acceptable balance between the claim for sovereignty and the need for interconnectedness.
Subject terms:
Space--Economic aspects - GlobalizationContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2020 : Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes
Gen Tanabe;Kelly Tanabe;Gen Tanabe;Kelly Tanabe
Information on 1.5 million scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in th...
more
The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2020 : Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes
2019
Information on 1.5 million scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this revised directory with more than 300 new listings that feature awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more. Each entry contains all the necessary information for students and parents to complete the application process, including eligibility requirements, how to obtain an application, how to get more information about each award, sponsor website listings, award amounts, and key deadlines. With scholarships for high school, college, graduate, and adult students, this guide also includes tips on how to conduct the most effective search, how to write a winning application, and how to avoid scams.
Subject terms:
Student aid--United States--Directories - Scholarships--United States--DirectoriesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Reproduction on the Reservation : Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century
Brianna Theobald;Brianna Theobald
This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and poli...
more
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.
Subject terms:
Maternal health services--North America - Indian women--North America - Indians of North America--Health and hygiene - Reproductive rights--North AmericaContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature
George Thomas Kurian;James D. Smith;George Thomas Kurian;James D. Smith
The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience. As vigorous ...
more
The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature
2010; Vol. 00002
The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience. As vigorous in the 1st century as it is in the 21st, Christian literature has had a significant function in history, and teachers and students need to be reminded of this powerful literary legacy. Covering 2,000 years, The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature is the first encyclopedia devoted to Christian writers and books. In addition to an overview of the Christian literature, this two-volume set also includes 40 essays on the principal genres of Christian literature and more than 400 bio-bibliographical essays describing the principal writers and their works . These essays examine the evolution of Christian thought as reflected in the literature of every age.The companion volume also features bibliographies, an index, a timeline of Christian Literature, and a list of the greatest Christian authors. The encyclopedia will appeal not only to scholars and Christian evangelicals, but students and teachers in seminaries and theological schools, as well as to the growing body of Christian readers and bibliophiles.
