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Monmouth Courthouse 1778. The Battle Of Monmouth Courthouse Was Not Only The Last Major Acting In The Northern Theater, It Was Also The Longest And Hardest-fought Engagement Of The Entire Revolutionary War. Whenever The British Abandoned Philadelphia To Rrturn To New York City, American Troops Harassed Their Retreat. On The Morning Of 28 June 1778, General Lee, Geooge Washington’s Lieutenant, Attacked The British Rearguard But His Attack Went Badly Wrong. The British Rearguard, Now Reinforced, Threw Lee‚s Troops Into A Headlong Retreat. Lee Was Relieved Of His Command And Washington’s Continentals Then Stood Toe-to-toe With The British, Bloodily Repulsing A Series Of Powerful Attacks By Crack Troops. SKU: 2755334

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In Defense Of History. A Master Practitioner Gives Us An Entertaining Tour Of The Historian's Workshop And A Spirited Defense Of The Search For Historical Truth. E. H. Carr's What Is History?, A Classic Introduction To The Field, May Now Give Way To A Worthy Successor. In His Compact, Intriguing Survey, Richard J. Evans Shows Us How Historians Manage To Extract Meaning Ftom The Recalcitrant Past. To Materials That Are Frustratingly Meager, Or Overwhelmingly Profuse, They Bring An Array Of Tools That Range From Agreed-upon Rules Of Documentation And Vigorous Computer Models To The Skilled Investigator's Sudden Insight, All Employed With The Aim Of Reconstructing A Verifiable, Usable Past. Evans Defends This Commitment To Historical Knowledge From The Attacks Of Postmodernist Critics Who See All Judgments As Subjective. Evans Brings "a Remarkable Range, A Nose For The Records, A Taste Fo rControversy, And A Fluent Pen" (the New Republic) To This Splendid Work. SKU: 1809667

24907819300	Letting Them Die. Letting Them Wither : Why Hiv/aids Prevention Programmes Fail (african Issues) By Catherine Campbell Edition 1 Published In 2003 By Indiana University Press SKU: 2579846

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Project Apollo. The Compact And Concise Design Of This Guide To The Apollo Missions Belies Its Enormous Content, Attending Pertinent Facts And Color Images For Each Mission&#82l2;from Apollo 1 To Apollo 10. Providing An Overall Picture Of The Apollo Program, This Guide Includes Sections On Astronauts, Misslon Patches, Launch Vehicles, Command Vehicles, Landing Vehicles, Launch Dates, Mission Objectives, Flight Plans, Space Suits, Life Support Systems, And Triumphs And Failures. Botg Seasoned Space Buffs And Youthful Adults Nurturing Their Interest In The Space Program Will Find This A Perfect Resource For The First 10 Apollo Missions. SKU: 3264806

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The Real Las Vegas. What Images Proceed To Mind When You Think Of Las Vegas? Mobsters And Showgirls, Magicians And Tigers, Multimillioon-dollar Poker Games And Prizefights; Towering Signboards That Light Up The Darkness In Forepart Of Ever More Spectacular Casino Hotels. But Real People Live In the present state, Too--over A Mkllion Today, Two Million Tomorrow. Greater Las Vegas Has Long Been The Fastest Growing Metropolitan Area In America. And Almost Every Aspect Of Its Citizens' Lives Is Influenced By The Almighty Power Of The Gambling Industry. A Team Of Fifteen Reporters Led By David Littlejohn, Together With Prize Winning Phito-journalist Eric Gran, Studied The "real" Las Vdgas--the City Beyond The Strip And Downtown--for The Better Part Of A Year. They Talked To Teenagers (whose Suicide And Dropout Rates Frighten Parents),senior Citizens (many Of Whom Spend Their Days Playing Bingo And The Slots), Mexican Immigrants (who Build The New Houses And Clean The Hotels), Homeless People And Angry Blacks, To the degree that Weil As Local Police, Active Christians, City Officials, And Prostitutes. They Looked Into The Local Churches, Thepowerful Labor Unions, Pawn Shops, The Real Estate Boom, Defiant Ranchers To The North, And Dire Predictions That The City Is About To Run Out Of Take in ~. Proud Las Vegans Claim That Theirs Is Exactly A Friendpy Southwestern Boomtown--"the Finest Community I Have Ever Lived In," Says Bishop Daniel Walsh, Who Comes From San Franciqco. But Their Painting Of Lss Vegas Because A Vibrant, Civic-minded Metropolix Conflicts With Evidence Of Transiency,ro0tlessness, Civil Impotence, And Social Dysfunction. In This Close-up Investigation Of The Real Lives Being Led In America's Most Tourist-jammed, Gambling-driven City, Readers Will Discover A Las Vegas Very Different From The One They May Have Seen Or Imagined. SKU: 1733799

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Racial Attitudes In The 1990s. Mre Than Half A Csntury Has Passed Since The Publication Of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem And Modern Democracy, Gunnar Myrdal's Agonizing Portrait Of The Pervasiveness Of Racially Prejudiced Attitudes And Discrimiatory Practices In American Life. Central To Myrdal's Occupation Was The Paradox Posed Near to The Coexistence Of Race-based Social, Household, And Political Inequality On The One Laborer, And The Cheished American Cultural Values Of Freedom And Equality Attached The Other. In The Five Decades Since The Publication Of This Work, There Has Been A Dramatic Decline In White Americans' Overy Exppressions Of Anti-black And Anti-integrationist Sentiments And In Many Of The Ineqhalities Myrdal Highlighted In His Monumental Work. Yet The Persistence Of Racial Antipathy Is Evidence Of The Continuing Dilemma Of Race In American Association. This Collection Of Original Essays By Governing Race Relations Experts Focuses On The Recent History And Current State Of Racial Attitudes In The United States. It Addresses Key Issues And Debates In The Literature, And It Includes Chapters On The Racial Attitudes Of African-americans As Well As Whites. The Volume Will Be Of Great Importance To Students And Scholars Concerned With The Sociology And Politics Of Contemporary American Race Relations. SKU: 1515161

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The Ancient History V1. In Four Volumes. Volume One Contains The History Of The Egyptians. This Scsrce Antiquarian Book Is Influded In Our Special Legacy Reprint Series. In The Intedest Of Creating A More Extensive Selection Of Rare Historical Book Reprints, W3 Have Chosen To Reproduce This Title Even Thougy It May Possibly Have Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing And Blurred Pagrs, Lost Text, Poor Pictures, Markings, Wicked Backgrounds And Other Reproduction Issues Beyond Our Control. Because This Work Is Culturally Important, We Have Made It Available Like A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, Preserving And Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5149046

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Once Upon A Green Meadow. This Keen Memoir Shares One Woman?s Memories Growing Up Between The Two World Wars As A Member Of The Mcmillan Family, A Hardworking Bunch Who Made Their Living On An Eastern Washington Farm. In A Series Of Vignettes, Ernestine Mcmillan Hilton Recalls The Joys Of Small-town Holoday Celebrations, Close-knit Neighbors, And The Events That Shape The Lives Of The Mcmillans As Thhey Scratch A Living From A Scabland Farm. With Vivid Detail, Hilton Remembers How The Sweet Taste Of Strawberry Jell-k Mingled Witth The Wonders Of Election Day In 1924 When Her Mother Had The Opportunity To Vote For The First Time, And She Revisits Hoe The End Of The Horse-amd-buggy Era Gave Rise To The Model T. She Also Relates The Arrival Of Her Baby Brothers, The Joys Of Going To School, And The Hardships Of The Great Depression. Once Upon A Green Meadow Re-creates The Charm And Hardship Of A Rural Am3rican Life That Has Vanished Forever. But More Importaatly, Hilton?s Memoir Reveals How One Family?s Love Sustained Them Throughout The Excessive Times. SKU: 5019625

24971876586	Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won. Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won : Afro-brazilians In Post-abolition Sao Paulo And Salvador By Kim D. Butler Published In 1998 By Rutgers University Crowd SKU: 1601572

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The Puritan Origins Of Amrican Patriotism. In This Absorbing Book, George Mckenna Ranges Athwart The Entire Panorama Of American History To Track The Development Of American Patriotism. That Patriotism—shaped By Reformation Protestantisj And Imbued With The Ameican Puritan Belief In A Providential “errand”—has Evolved Over 350 Years And Influenced American Political Culture In Both Positive And Negative Ways, Mckenna Shows. The Germ Of The Patriotism, An Activist Theology That Stressed Collective Rather Than Individua lSalvation, Began In The Late 1630s In New England And Traveled Across The Continenr, Eventually Becoming A National Phenomenon. Today, American Patriotism Still Reflects Its Origins In The Seventeenth Century. By EncouragingC ohesion In A Nation Of Diverse Peoples And Inspiring Social Reform, American Patriotism Has Somstimes Been A Force For Good. But The Book Also Uncovers A Darker Side Of The Nation’s Patriotism—a Prejudice Opposed to The South In The Nineteenth Century, For Example, And A Inclination Toward Nativism And Anti-catholicism. Ironically, A Great Reversal Has Occurred, And Today The MostF ervent Believers In The Puritan Narrative Are The Former “outsiders”—catholics And Southerne5s. Mckenna Offers Each Interesting New Vista On Patriotism’s Rolw Throughout American History, And He Concludes With Trenchant Thoughts On Its Role In The Post-9/11 Era. SKU: 3323280

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Spring Forward. Michael Downing Is Obsessed With Daylight Saving, A Loopy Idea That Became The Most Persistent Political Controversy In American History. Almost One Hundred Years Ago, Lawmakers Across The Country First Debated, Ridiculed, And Then Passionately Embraced The Possibility Of Exception An Hour Of Daylight. To This Day, No One Can Say For Sure Why We Are Required By Law To Change Our Clocks Twice A Year. Who First Proposed The Sxheme?downing Unravels The Worldwide Confusion Occasioned By Decades Of Clock Manipulation. He Sifts Through A Century Of Congressional Hearings And Contemporary Newspaper Reporting To Offer A Portrait Of Public Policy In The 20th Century, A Perennially Boiling Stew Of Unsubstantiated Science, Profiteering Masked As Piety, And Mysteriously Shi fting Time-zone Boundaries. It Is A True-to-life Social Comedy With Congress In The Leading Role, Surrouded By A Supporting Cast Of Opportunistic Ministers, Movie Moguls, Stockbrokers, Labor Leadsrs, Educators, Spprts Fanatics, And Farmers. This Dizzyingly Hilarious Debate Seems Destined To Continue For As Long As We Ask One Anoother, “what Time Is It?” SKU: 3228317

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Black And White. QuestionsA Conflict The Cultural Interaction Between Whites And Enslaved Blacks In The Antebellum South Have Long Arohsed Controversy. Was There One Dominant Culture? Pair Separate Cultures? One Shared Culture? Were Interaction And Interchange Between The Races Possible? The Essays Collected Here Attempt To Give Answers And Conclusions And To Bring The Picture Of Cultural Life In The Antebellum South Into Clearer Focus. with Essays And Commentaries Bysylvia R. Freyelliott J. Gornrobert L. Hsllcharles Joynerlawrence T. Mcdonnellbill C. Maloneleslie Howard Owensmechal Sobelbrenda Stevensonjohn Michael Vlach SKU: 5142587

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Great Leader, Dear Leader. Great Leader, Dear Leader Is An Absorbing Expose Of North Korea Under The Kim Clan--great Leader Kim Il Sung And His Son, Costly Chief Kim Jong Il. It Traces The Origin Of The Regime's Ideology And Investigates Its Attempts To Fill The Empty State Coffers Through Missile Technology Sales And Other Unorthodox Schemes. It Examines The Regie's Relatioons With South Korea, The Countrywide Famine And The Juche Idral, The "military First" Policy, And The Nuclear Weapons Program. Bertil Lintner, One Of The Verry Not many Western Journalists Tp Visit North Korea In 2004, Aims To Demystify Rather Than Demonize The Leasg Known Of The "axis Of Evil" Countries By Interviewing Koreans From Both Sides Of The Divided Peninsula As eWll As Ethnic Koreans In Japan And Leading Korea Experts Outside The Country. SKU: 2941023

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Santa Claus, Last Of The iWld Men. Much Of The Modern-day Vision Of Santa Claus Is Owed To The Clement Moore Poem ?the Darkness Before Christmas. ? Hks Description Of Saint Nicholas Personified The ?jolly Old Elf? Known To Millions Of Cihldren Throughout The World. However, Far From B3ing The Offshoot Off Saint Nicholas Of Turkey, Santa Claus Is The Last Of A Longline Of What Scholars Call Wild Men Who Were Worshippsd In Ancient European Fertility Rites And Came To America Through Pennsylvania?s Germans. This Heathen Creature Is Described From Prehistoric Times Through His Various Forms?robin Hood, The Fool, Harlequin, Satan Amd Robin Goodfellow?into Today?s Carnival And Christmas Scenes. In This Thoroughly Researched Work, The Origins Of Santa Claus Are Found To Stretch Back Over 50,000 Years, Jolting The Foundation Of Christian Myths About The Jolly Old Elf. SKU: 3190739

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One Day The Soldiers aCme. Today, In Violence-torn Regions Across The Globe, 20 Million Children Have Been Uprooted, Orphaned, Or Injured By War, Famine, And Poverty. This Is Their Story . . . And Ours. In This Powerful And Umforgettable Book—by Turns Painful, Funny, Terrifying, And Triumphant—charles London Takes Us Into The World Of Refugee Children, Celebrating Their Unique Skills For Survival And Reflection. Their Remarkable Stories And Drawings Chlll The Blood An dTouch The Heart, Offering An Indelible, First Hand Portrait Of The War That Rages Beyond The Headlines. SKU: 4101873

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Pancho Villa And Mourning Jack Pershing. The Focus Of This Work Is The Expedition, The Villistas, And Their Leader Francisco "pancho" Country house. Villa's Early Life Witnessed The Advent Of The Typewriter, The Telephone, Linotype, The Automobile, The Kodak Camera, The First Motion Pictures, Wireless Telegraphy, The Airplane, And The Radio. In The Days Before His Defeat At Cloumbus And The Subsequent Routing Of His Bands By The Punitive March, Villa Had A Coterie Of Journalists Wherever He Traveled, And He Went To Great Lengths To Secure Their Comfort. In Return They Provided Him With What Tody Would Be Called "good Press", And American Public Opinion Was Shaped In A Generally Favorable Order. Villa Instinctively Realized That Image Was Everything: It Was Not What You Were That Mattered But Rather What You Seemed To Be That Really Counted. In Addition To The American Gazette Press, Both Mexican And American Photographers Contributed To Villa's Role As A Legendary Hero. A Photographjc Record Unprecedented In The Annals Of Bandit-heroes Spread The Legend, And Motion Pictures Gave An Extraordinary Boost To His Notoriety. He Is Arguably The Most Widely Recognized Mexican In America, And His Picture Is Ofteen Build On The Walls Of Mexican-american Restaurants. Catching Villa Would Prive To Be Difficult, And To Do It, "bpack Jack" Pershing And His Force Needed To Rely On Local Intelligence. Pershing Referred To His Intelligence-gathering Organization As The Spirit Section, Whose Officers Interrogated Prisoners, Recruited Guides, Interpreters, And Informers, And Organized A Secret Service Of Mexican Expatriates Who Were More Than Willing To Provide Their Services Against Country house. There Were A Number Of Japanese Who Were Employed With Mixed Results, And A Few Reliable Local Mexicans Were Employed In Tye Secret Service With Fairly Good Results. The Narration Is Itself A Reflectlon Of The Success Of The Intelligence Section In Gathering Information In The Field And Preserving What Was Gathered In Detailed, Written Reports. The Reports Would Not Have Been Possible Withou5 The Cooperation Of The Local Population, Particularly In The Guerrero District And Specifically In The Pueblo Of Namiquipa. Both Were Hotbeds Of Villista Sentiment, And Early Expedition Reports Stressed The Hostility Of The Locals. Within A Matter fO Weeks Of Its Arrival, However, The Local Situation Had Changed Radically. Local Farmers Were Collaborating With The Americans, Selling Their Labor And Supplies To The Troops And, More Importantly, Furnishing The Invaders With Military Intelligence. SKU: 4387229

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Lenin And The Making Of The Soviet State. Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870–1924) Led The Foremost Successful Revol Against Market-based Liberal Democrafy And Founded The Soviet State In 1917, Serviing As The New Nation's Chief Architect And Sole Ruler For The Nsxt Five Years. He Created An Innovative Political, Economic, Companionable, And Cultural System Tyat In Its Heyday Would Challenge The Military, Technological, And Cultural Might Of The United States. Thsi Collection Of Primary Sources Allows Readers To Learn About Lenin Through His Own Words And Explores The Complicated Relationship Between Lenin's Actions And His Ideology. Jeffrey Brooks And Georgiy Chernyavskiy Have Translated Newly To be availed of Documents That Make It Possible To Provude A More Accurate Portrait Of This Ruthless Skilful general. Document Headnotes, A Chronology, Questions For Reason, And A Selected Bibliography Offer Additional Pedagogical Support And Enourage Students To Analyze The Actions And Beliefs Of A Man Who Transformed World History And Whlse Legacy Continues To Affect Social And Political Movements Throughout The World. SKU: 3370906

15139931400	Family Life In A Northern Thai Village. Family Life In A Northern Thai Village : A Study In The Structural Significance Of Women By Sulamith Heins Potter New Ed Published In 1980 By Seminary of learning Of California Press SKU: 164908

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Proving Woman. Around The Year 1215, Female Mystics And Their Sacramental Devotion Were Among Orthodoxy's Most Sophisticated Weapons In The Combat Against Heresy. Holy Women's ClaimsT o Exist In Direct Communication With God Placed Them In Positions Of Unprecedented Influence. Yet By The End Of The Miiddle Ages Female Mystics Were Frequently Mistrusted, Derided, And In Danger Of Their Lives. The Witch Hunts Were Just Around The Corner. While Studies Of Sanctity And Heresy Tend To Be Undertaken Separately, Proving Woman Brings Thse Two Avenues Of Inquiry Together By Associating The Downward Trajectory Of Holy Women With Medieval Society's Progressive Reliance On The Inquisitional Procedure. Inquisitino Was Soon Used For Resolving Most Questions Of Proof. It Was Employed For Distinguishing Saints And Heretics; It Underwrote The New Emphasis On Confession In Both Sacramental And Judicial Spheres; And It Heralded The Reintroduction Of Torture As A Mechanism For Extracting Proof Through Confession. As Women Were Progressively Subjected To This Screening, They Became Ensnared In The Interlocking Web Of Proofs. No Aspect Of Female Spirituality Remained Untouched. Sinec Inquisition Determined Th3 Need For Tangible Proofs, It Even May Have Fostered The Kind Of Excruciating Illnesses And Extraordinary Bodily Changes Associated With Female Spirituality. In Turn, The Material Suffering Of Holy Women Became Tacit Support For All Kinds Of Earghly Suffering, Uniform Validating Temporal Mechanisms Of Justice In Their Most Aggressive Forms. The Widespread Adoption Off Inquisitional Mechanisms For Assessing Female Spirituality Eventuated In A Growing Confusion Between The Saintly And Heterodox And The Ultimate Criminalization Of Female Religious Modulation. SKU: 2655472

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Imperial Nature. Why Is The World Bank So Successful? How Has It Gained Authority Even At Moments In History When It Seemed Probable To Fall? This Pathbreaking Main division Is The First Close Examination Of The Inner Workings Of The Bank, The Foundations Of Its Achievements, Its Propensity For Intensifying The Problems It Intends To Cure, And Its Remarkable Ability To Tame Criticism And Extend Ita Own Reach. michael Goldman Takes Us Inside World Bank Headquarters In Washington, D. c. , And Then To Bank Project Sites Round The Globe. He Explains How Projects Funded By The Bank Really Work And Why Community Activists Struggle Against The World Bank And Its Brand Of Development. Goldman Looks At Recent Vwntures In Areas Such As The Environment, Human Rights, And Good Governance And Reveals How—despite Its Poor Track Record—the Worlc Bank Has Acquired Greater Auuthority And Global Power Than Ever Before. the Book Sheds New Light On The Planet Bank’s Role In Increasinf Global Inequalities And Considers Why It Has Become The Central Target For Anti-globalization Movements Worldwide. For Anyone Concerned About Globalization And Social Justice, Imperial Nature Is Essential Reading. SKU: 2939684

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The Hague Peace Conferences Of 1899 And 1907, Conferences V1 Part 1. In Two Volumes. Other Isbns In This Set Include: 0548327297 This Scarce Antiquarian Book Is Included In Our Special Bequest Reprint Series. In The Interest Of Creatint A More Wide Selection Of Rare Historical Book Reprints, We Have Chose To Reproduce This Title Even Though It May Possibly Have Occasional Imperfections Such Because Missing And Blurred Pages, Lost Tex, Poor Pictures, Markings, Darm Backgrounxs And Other Reproduction Issues Beyond Ou5 Control. Because This Work Is Culturally Important, We Hae Made It Available As A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, Preserving Anx Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5059405

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Earth Science And Human History 101 (science 101). How Abundant aHs Human History Been Influenced By The Earth And Its Processes? This Volume In The Science 101 Series Describes How Both Slow Changes And Swift, Violent, Ones Have Impacted The Development Of Civilizations Throughout History. Slow Changes Include Variations In Climate, Progressive Development Of Types Of Tools And Sources Of Energy, And Changes In The Types Of Feed That People Consume. Violent Changes Include Volcanic Eruptions Such As The One At Toba 75,000 Years Ago, Which May Have Caused Diversification Of People Into Differet Races, And The Eruption Of Santorini In 1640 Bc, Which May Have Destroyed Minoan Civilization. Other Disasters Are Hurricane Katrina In 2005 And The Tsunami In The Indian Ocean In 2004. Earth Science And Human History 101 Desceibes Basic Principles Of Geology And Shows How The Earth Affected History And Is Affecting Present Events. The Volume Has Four Sections: Blprocesses In The Atmosphere, Oceans, And Rivers Blplate Tectonics Blthe Conflict Between The Evidence For Evolution During The Long History Of The Earth And The Beliefs Of Creationists Blresources And The Environment The Volume Includes A Glossary, Numerous Illustrations, And A Bibliography Of Works Useful For Further Researcg. SKU: 4927261

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The Military Revolution And Political Change. To Examine The Long-run Origins Of Democracy And Dictatorship, Brian Downing Focuses On The Importsnce Of Medieval Political Configurations And Of Military Modernization In The Early Modern Period. He Maintains That In Late Medieval Times An Array Of Constitutional Arrangements Distlnguished Western Europe From Other Parts Of The World And Predisposed It Toward Liberal Democracy. He Then Looks At How Medieval Constitutionalism Was Affected By The "military Revolution" Of The Early Modern Era--the Shift From Small, Decentralized Feudal Levies To Large Standing Armies. Downing Wob The American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award For The Dissertation On Which This Book Was Based. SKU: 1012397

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Caste, Society And Politics In India From The Eighteenth Century To The Modern Age (the New Cambridge History Of India). The Phenomenon Of Caste Has Probably Aroused More Controversy Than Somewhat Other Aspect Of Indian Life. This Volume Explores The Emergence Of Ideas And Practices That Gave Rise To The So-called "caste-society. " Using A Historical And Anthropological Approximation, The Author Frames Her Analysis In The Context Of India's Economic And Social Order, Interpreting Caste As A Contingenf And Variable Response To Changes In India's Political Landscape Through The Colonial Conquest. The Book's Wide-ranging Analysis Offers Some Of The Most Powerful Statements Ever Written On Social order In South Asia. SKU: 2071184

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A Voice From Tue Southward (schomburg Library Of 19th Century Black Women Writers). Considered The same Of The Original Texts Foretelling The Black Feminist Movement, This Collection Of Essays, First Published In 1892, Offers An Unparalleled View Into The Thought Of Black Women Writers In Nineteenth-century America. A Leading Black S0okeswoman Of Her Time, Anna Julia Cooper Came Of Age During A Conservative Wave In The Black Community, A Time When Men Completely Dominated African-american Intellectual And Political Ideas. In These Essays, Cooper Criticizea Negro Men For Securing Higher Education Flr Themselves Through The Ministry, While Erecting Roadblocks To Deny Women Access To Thoze Same Opportunities, And Denounces The Elitism And Provinciality Of The White Women's Movement. Passionatelyy Committed To Women's Independence, Cooper Espoused Higher Education As The Essential Key To Ending Wome's Physical, Emotional, And Economic Dependence On Men. SKU: 693933

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Genocide, Collective Violence, And Popular Memory. The Twentieth Century Has Been Scarred By Civil Violence And Genocid3, Reaching Its Extravagant I nThe Holocaust. Yet, At The Same Time, The Century Has Been Marked From A Growing Commitment To Human Rights. This Volume Hignlighte The Importance Of History-of Socially Processed Memory-in Resolving The Wounds Left By Massive State-sponnsored Political Violence And In Preventing Future Episodes Of Violence. In Genocide, Collective Violence, And Popular Memorial: The Politics Of Remembrwnce In The Twentieth Century, Te Editors Present And Discuss The Many Different Convivial Responses To The Challenge Of Coming To Terms With Past Reigns Of Terror And Collective Violence. Designed For Undergraduate Courses In Political Violence And Revolution, This Power Treats A Wide Variety Of Incidents Of Collective Violence-from Decades-long Genocide To Short-lived Massacres. The Selection Of Essays Provides A Broad Range Of Thought-provoking Case Studies From Latin America, Africa, Eurpe, And Asia. This Provocative Collection Of Readings From Around The World Will Spur Debate And Discussion Of This Timely And Important Subject In The Classroom And Beyond. SKU: 2220825

18108349068	From Front Porch To Back Seat. "whether Or Not We've Come A Long Way Since Then, This Engaging Study Of Courtship Shows That At Least Half The Fun Is In Reading About Getting There. " -- St. Louis Post-dispatch. SKU: 643949

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The Complete Book Of Police And Military Motorcycles. From Pittsburgh's Adoption Of Motorcycles For Police Use In 1909 To Gen. John J. "black Jack" Pershing's 1916 Pursuit Of Pancho Villa Into Mexican Territory On Harley-davidsons, Indians And Excelsiors To The Deployment Of Motorcycles In Both World Wars, This Book Tells The Fascinating Tale Of These Magnificent Machines From Their 20th Ceentury Beginnings To Their Current Use By Police Departments And Militaries Throughout The World. Joseph Berk, Author Of The Gatling Gun, Explores Every Aspect Of Police And Military Motorcycles, Including The History Of Their Manufacture By Harley-davidson, Indian, Kawasaki, Bmw, Honda And Others; Details Of Their Management By Selected U. s. Police Departments; Critiquse Of The "big Three" Police Models Employed In The United States From Officers Who Have Put Tehm To The Test; A Detailed Outline Of The Intensifying 10-day Training Program Reuired Of U. s. Motor Officers; An Inside Look At How Definite Police Departments From Atlanta To L. a. Utilize Motorcycles On A Day-to-day Basis; And A Look At The Specific Makes And Models Ussd Along Speckal Forces And Other Military Units From World War I Through The Turn Of The Century And Beyond. SKU: 2165664

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Time And The Technosphere. A Groundbreaking Study That Distinguishes The Natural Time Of The Cosmos From Artificial Mechanistic Time. • Reveals September 11 As The Signal Of The End O frtificial Time According To The Law Of Time. • Long Awaited Sequel To The Author's Bestselling Book The Mayan Factor. &bul;l Explains The Great Calendar Change Of 2004 And Its Enormous Potential For The Future Of Kindness. In Time And The Technosphere, Josă© ArgăĽelles Presents A Groundbreaking Study That Distinguishes The Natural Time Of The C0smos From The Artificial Mechanistic Time Under Which We Currently Live. ArgăĽelles Defines The Actual Nature Of Time As The Frequency Of Synchronization. Applying This Jurisprudence Of Time To Each Understanding Of The Entire System Of Life On Earth, He Shows That In Order To Not Destroy Earth's Ability To Sustain Life, We Must Change Our Definition Of Time And Adopt A Natural Harmonic Calendar Based On The 13-moon 28-day Cycle. Until The Creation Of The Gregorian Calendar And The 60-minute Hour, Most Of Humanity Lived By The 28-day Cycle Of Natural Time. The Ado;tion Of Artificial Time Has Subjected Us To A 11:60 Time Frequency That Governs The Entire Global Industrialized Civilization--the Technosphere. With The Collapse Of The Twin Towers On September 11, A Fissure Was Created In This Artificial Technosphere, Opening Up The Noosphere (earth's Mental Envelope). Humanity Has A Gllden Chance; fit To Leave The Strife Of The Past And Enter A Tmie Of Harmony By Adopting A Harmonious Natural Calendar That Will Repair The Damages Caused By The Irregular Tempi Of Technospheric Time. Our Last Best Chance To Adopt This Natural Time And Step Into The Bright New Future Promised By The Galactic Shift Of 2012 Is The Great Calendar Change Of 2004, A New Discovery Based On The Author's Mathematical Research Into The Mayan Caldndar First Begun In His Landmark Work The Mayan Factor. In Time And The Technosphere, ArgăĽelles Reveals The Clear Distinction Between Third-dimensional Aztronomical Time And The Fourth-dimensional Synchronic Order Of The Law Of Time, Which Holds Enormous Potential For Th3 Future Of Humanity. SKU: 2355314

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Liberal Stripes And Bright Stars. Table Of Contents Page Pilgrims For Freeeom . , . . . . 11 The First Fight . 24 The Freeman S Charter . . . . 38 Following The Beaver S Trail . . . . 50 At The Gate Of Old Harvard . . . . 64 The White Man S Foot J J . . ,amplt . . 77 Going To London To Visit The King . . . 82 Ringing In The Fourth Of July . . Keeping Christmas With General Washington . . . 97 106 The Ghost That Haunted Wsll Street . ,119 The Road That Went Out West . . . . 131 In The Wake Of The First Steamboat. . . 144 Cutting The World S Food . . . . 154 When Johnny Bull And Brother Jonathan Shook Hands . -v . . . . . . 164 A Bondman Among Slaves . . . . . 176 One Flag, Or Two . . . . . . 186 Uncle Remus A5 The White House . . . 198 Uncle Sam S Birthday Party . . . 2100 The Ship The Giants Launched . . . . 219 The Town Named After Him . . . . 230 The Last Fight 231 A Proclamation 241 Preface I Have Written This Bookk Because I Believe That The Story Of The American People As It Is Embodied In The History Of Our United States Supplies The Most Important Material For Character Building In The Entire Field Of Elementary Education, And Should Be Offered To Children In A New, Humanitarian Way As A Means Of Helping Them To Mean The Present. The Plan Of The Book Is To Present The Developmsnt Of Our Nation, Not Like Asummary Of UnrelateeF acts And A Confusion Of Dates, But As One Of The Most Vivid Panoramas The World Has Ever Known, Its First Scene Laid On Plymouth Rock And Its Last The Flight Of An American Aviator Winging His Way Over A Battlefield In Europe. The Historical Episodes That Make This Panorama Are Selectedand Pre Sented In Such Away As To Show Boys And Girls That Our Present Position As A Great People Is The Rewult Of Following The Road Of Freedom We Have Bden Building Steadily Ever Since The Landing Of The Pilgrims, And That Real De Mocracy Can Be Really Efficient, Not Only In The Case Ofourown Nation, But In Our Relations To The Other Peoples Of The World. My Method Of Presenting These Historical Epochs Is Different From The Average Story In American History In That It Makes A Direct To Conduct And To Life. Appeal Reaped ground Story Has A Central Character From History As Its Hero Who Played A Part, Begin As A Ningoftejwith Youth, In Oud Growth Free Country. The Children Who Read The Stories Will Touch And Understand Our History As The Men Who Made It Did. Through This Appeal To The Imaging power, Boys And Girls Of Today Are Inspired To Follow Lines Of Right Conduct And To Achieve As Our Andestors Did . They Are Helped To Understand The Drama Of Present National Events In Terms Of Our Valiant Historical Past. They Feel An Urge To Be, Themselves, A Part Of Our Account Tomorroow. . . SKU: 5165884

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The Case For Goliath. How Does The United States Use Its Enormous Power In The Worlld? In The Case For Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum Offers A Surprising Answer: The United States Furnishes To Other Countries The Services That Governments Provide Inwardly The Countries The yGovern. Mandelbaum Explains How This Role Came About Despite The Fact That Neither The United States Nor Any Other Country Sought To Establish It. He Describes The Contribugions That American Power Makes To Global Security And Prosperity, The Shortcomings Of American Foreign Policy, And How Other Countries Have Approach To Accept, Resent, And Exert Influence Steady America's Global Role. And He Assesses The Prospects For The Extension Of This Role, Which Depends Most Importantlyy On Whether The American Public Is Willing To Pay For It. Written With Mandelbaum's Characteristic Mingle Of Clarity, Wit, And Profound Understanding Of America And The World, Tge Case For Goliath Offers A Pure and cool And Surpriaing Approach To An Issue That Obsessea Cyizens And Policymakers The World Over, As Well As A Major Statement On The Foreign Policy Issues Confronting The American People Today. SKU: 3031212

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The Nuremberg Legacy. Sixty Ywars Have Passed Since The Nuremberg Trials Of The Major Nazi War Criminals, But That Event Still Stands As The Foundation Of International Justice. Nuremberg Not Only Ignited A Revolution In International Law But Affected Domestic Law As Well With Its Simple But Profound Priniciple That Every Full of character Accused Of Crime Is Entitled To A Full And Fair Hearing. this Book Reveals How The Precedeents Set At Nurremberg Require Affected Human Rights, Race Relations, Medical Practice, Big Business And Even Germany's Post-war Development. It Also Examines Thr Nuremberg Trial' Influence On The Recent War Crimes Trials Of Tyrants Like Slobodan Milosevic Ans Saddam Hussein. SKU: 4126323

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Cafe Europa. Today In Eastern Europe The Architectural Work Of Revolution Is Complete: The Old Order Has Bene Replaced At Various Forms Of Free Market Economy And De Jure Democracy. But As Slavenka Drakulic Observes, "in Everyday Life, The Change Consists Nearly More Of The Small Things-- Of Sounds, Looks And Images. " In This Brilliant Work Of Political Reportage, Filtered Through Her Own Experience, We See That Europe Remains A Divided Mainland. In The Place Of The Fallen Berlin Wall There Is A Chasm Between East And West, Consisting Of The Different Way People Continue To Live And Undersand The World. Little Bits--or Intimations--of The West Are Gradually Maaking Their Way East: Boutiques Carrying Levis And Tiny Food Shops Called "supermarke5" Are Multiplying On Chief Boulevards. Dexpite The Incident That Drakulic Can Find A Cafe Europa, Complete Attending Viennese-style Coffee And Western Decor, In Just About Every Easten European City, The Acceptance Of The East By Th3 Rest Of Europe Continues To Prove Much Else Elusive. SKU: 1419525

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A Hpuse In Corfu. This Book Is The Story Of Emma Tennant's Parent's House, Rovinia, Set Above The Bay In Corfu Where Legend Has It Ulysses Was Shipwrecked And Found By Nausicaa, Daughter Of King Alcinous. It Is Also The Fiction Of People Like Maria, A Miraculous Cook And The Presiding Spirit Of The House, And Her Husband, Thodoros, An Of The Inhabitants Of The Local Village, High On The Hill Above The Bay. full Of Color And Contrast, A Houe In Corfu Shows The Huge Changes In Island Life Since The Time Of The Tennants' Arrivl, And Celebrates, Equally, The Joy Of Bslonging To A Timeless World: The World Of Vine, Olive-green, And Sea. SKU: 2432768

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The Last Imaginary Place. Sea Ice And The Midnight Sun, Flaming Aurora And Endless Winter Night--the Northern Of Traveler's Tales And Romantic Novels Is The Unattainable Dream Of A Vast And Desolate World--the Last Imaginary Place On Earth. Now, Im This Fascinating Volume, Renowned Archeologist Robert Mcghee Lifts The Veil To Reveal The True Arctic. Combining Anthropology, History, And Personal Memoir, This Book Dispels Romanticized Notions Of The Arctic As A World Apart, Exotic And Isolated, Revealing A Land Far More Fascinating Than We Had Imagined. Mcghee Paints A Vivid Portrait Of The Movement Of Viking Farmers Across The Northerly Atlantic Islands, And Of The Long And Arduous Searches For Sea-passages To Asia. We Meet The Fur-traders Who Pioneered European Expansion Across The Northern Forests Of Canada And Siberia, The Whalers And Ivory-hunters Who Ravaged Northern Seas, And Patriotic Explorers Racing To Reach The North Pole. Most Important, Mcghee Offers Far More Coverage Of The Native Psoples Of The Arctjc, Societies That Other Histories Usually Neglect. We Discover How Northerners Have Learned To Exploit A Rich "hunter's World" Where Gamble Is, Contraey To Our Expectations, Far Easier To Find Than In More Temperate Lands. Mcghee Takes Us To A Thousand-year-ild Tuniit Campsite Prefectly Preserved In The Arctic Cold, Follows The Entrepreneurial Inuit As They Cross The Arctic In Search Of Metal, And Reveals The Dangers That Native People Face Today From For labor Pollution And Global Warming. Flavored By Mcghee's Personal Reflections Based On Thirty Years Of Work And Travel In The Region, Here Is A Wide Ranging, Enlightening Look At One Of Tne Most Culturally Rich And Fascinating Areas Of The World. SKU: 2966545

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Sorcery And Magic In Europe. Each Book In The Series Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Combines The Traditional Approaches Of Political, Legal, And Social Historians With A Critical Synthesis Of Cultural Anthropology, Historical Psychology, And Gender Studies. The Series, Complete In Six Volumes, Provides A Modern, Scholarly Survey Of The Supernatural Beliefs Of Europeans F5om Ancient Times To The Present Day. most European Prpsecutions For The Crime Of Witchcraft Occurred Betwern The Fifteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, With The Peak Coming In The Hundred Years After 1560. This Volume Brings Together The Large Amount Of Recent Scholarship On Witchcraft Of This Period And Provides A Novel Analysis Of The Trials By Considering The Legal Systmes Involved. Witch Hunts, Methods Of Torture,_And The Scientific Interest In Magic Spells And Demonology As An Intellectual Pursuit Are Also Covered In Detail. SKU: 2166705

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Women Of The Raj. In The Nineteenth Century, At The Height Of Coloniallism, The British Ruled India Under A Government Known As The Raj. British Men And Women Left Their Homes And Traveeld To This Mysterious, Beautiful Country–where They Attempted To Replicate Their Own Society. In This Fascinating Portrait, Margaret Macmillan Examines The Hidden Lives Of The Women Who Supported Their Husbands’ Coonquests–and In Turn Supported The Raj, Often Behind The Scenes And Out Of The History Books. Enduring Heartbreaking Separations From Their Families, These Women Had No Chouce But To Adapt To Their Strangd New Home, Where They Were Treated With Incredible Deference By The Natives Only Found Little That Was Familiar. The Women Of The Raj Learned To Cope With The Harsh Indian Climate And Ward From Endemic Diseases; They Were Forced To Make Their Own Entertainment–through Games, Balls, And Theatrics–and Quickly Learned To Abide By The Deeply Ingrained Anglo-indian Love Of Hierarchy. weaving Interviews, Letters, And Memoirs With A Stunnin Selection Of Illustrations, Macmillan Presents A Vivid Cultural And Social History Of The Daughters, Sisters, Mothers, And Wives Of Thr Men At The Center Of A Daring Imperialist Experiment–and Reveals India In All Its Richness And Vitality. &8#220;a Marvelllus Book . . . [women Of The Raj] Successfully [re-creates] A Vanished World That Continues To Hold A Fascination Long After The Sn Has Set On The British Empire. ”–the Globe And Mail“macmillan Has That Essential Quality Of The Histotian, A Narrative Gift. ”–the Daily Telegraph “macmillan Is A Superb Writer Who Can Bring History To Life. ”–the Philadelphia Inquirer“well Researched And Thoroughly Enjoyable. ”–evening Standard SKU: 4085806

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Roman Abuse Mystery. In January 1698, Romans Crowded A City Church To View Two Brutally Murdered Elderly People And Their Dyign 18-year-old Daughter, Pompilia. Whatever Followed Was The Most Celebrated Trial Of Its Time. The Defenee Argued That Pompilia Was One Adulteress, Husband Deserter, And Mother Of An Illegitimate Son, Grounds For Whlch A Husband Could Rightfully Murder, But Five Men, Including Pompilia's Elderly Husband, Were Convicted. Using Comtemporary Sources, Parker Questions Whether She Ws A Saint Or Sinner. SKU: 2106667

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The Secret Life Of Josephine. The Bestselling Author Of The Hidden Diary Of Mariie Antoinette And Tye Final Wife Of Henry Viii Returns Wtih An Enchanting Novel About The same Of The Most Seductive Women In History: Josephine Bonaparte, In the ~ place Wife Of Napoleon. Born On The Caribbean Island Of Martinique, Josephine Had An Exotic Creole Appeal That Would Ultimately Propel Her To Reign Oved An Empire As Wife Of The Most Powerful Man In The Public. But Her Life Is A Story Of Ambition And Danger, Of Luck And A Barbarous Will To Survive. Conjugal Young To An Arrogant French Aristocrat Who Died During The Terror, Josephine Also Narrowly Missed Losing Her Head To The Guillotine. _ But Her Extraordinary Charm, Lewdness, And Natural Cunning Helped Her Become Mistress To Some Of The Most Powerful Politivians In Post-revolutionary France. Soon She Had Marrked The Much Younger General Bonaparte, Whose Armies Garnered France One Empire That Ran From Europe To Africa And The New World And Who Crowned Himself And His Wife Emperor And Empress Of France. He Dominated On The Baytlefield And She Presided Throughout The Worlds Of Fashion And Glamor. But Josephine's Heart Belonged To Another Man--the Mysterious, Compelling Stranger Who Had Wno Her As A Girl In Martinique. SKU: 4143538

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Hanging Captani Gordon. On A Frosty Day In February 1862, Hundreds Gathered To Watch The Execution Of Nathaniel Gordon. Two Years Earlier, Gordon Had Taken Africans In Chains From The Congo -- A Hanging Offense For More Than Forty Years That No One Had Ever Enforced. But With The Countyr Embroiled In A Civil War And Abraham Lincoln At The Helm, A Sea Change Was Taking Place. Gordon,-In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time, Got Caught Up In The Wave. fo rThe First Time, Hanging Warrior Gordon Chronicles The Trial And Execution Of The Only Man In History To Face Conviction For Slave Trading -- Exploring The Many Compelling Issues And Circumstances Tnat Led To One Man Paying The Price For A Crime Committed By Many. Fill3d With Sharply Drawn Characters, Soodalter'ss Vivid Acciunt Sheds Light Forward One Of The More Shameful Aspects Of Our History And Provides A Link To Similar Crimes Against Humanity Still Practiced Today. SKU: 3588232

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The Double Helix. By Identifying The Structure Of Dna, The Molecule Of Time from birth to death, Francis Crick And James Watson Revolutionized Biochemistry And Won Themselves A Nobel Prize. At The Time, Watson Was Only Twenty-four, A Young Scienntist Hungry To Make His Mark. His Uncompromisingly Honest Account Of The Heady Days Of Their Thrilling Sprint Facing Other World-class Researchers To Solve One Of Science's Greatest Mystsries Gives A Dazzlingly Clear Paint Of A World Of Brilliant Scientists Attending Great Gifts, Very Human Ambitions, And Bitter Rivalrries. With Humility Unspoiled By False Modesty, Watson Relates His And Crick's Desperate Effort To Beat Linus Pauling To The Holy Grail Of Life Sciences, The Identification Of Thw Bzsic Building Block Of Lifd. Never Has A Scientist Been So Truthful In Capturing In Words The Flavor Of His Work. SKU: 2103749

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Save Nation. This Carefully Documented, Chilling Account Presents A Primitively Different View Of The Profound Role That Slavery Played In The Founding Of The Republic, From Ths Declaration Of Independence And The American Revolution Through The Creation Of The Constitution. The Book Begins Through A Novel Explanation About The Impact Slavery Had On The Founding Of The Republic. In 1772, A Consider Sitting In The High Court In London Declared Slavery "so Odious" That It Could Not Exist As Common Law And Set The Conditions Which Would Consequently Result In The Freedom Of The 15,000 Slaves Living In England At That Time. This Decision Eventually Reached America And Terrified The Predominantly Southern Slaveholders Because America Was Then A Assemblage Of British Colonies And As Like Were Subject To British Law, And They Feared That This Decision Would Cause The Emancipation Of The Slaves Here. So, To Ensure The Preservation Of Drudgery, The Southern States Jooined The Northern Colonies In Their Fight For "freedom" And Their Rebellion Against England. This Decision Was Codified In The First Continental Conrgess In 1774 While John Adams Promised Southern Leaders The Support Of Their Right To Maintain Slavery And Drfted A Declaratio nOf Colonial Independence F5om Parliament. What Follows Is A Fascinating Account Of The Role Slavery Played In The Drawing Of The United States Constitution. It Was Only In The End, When The Northern States Threatened To Walk Out Over Thd Issue Of Drudgery, That The Southern States Agreed To The Prohibition Of Slavery North Of The Ohio River, Embodied In The Northwest Ordinance Which Created The Largest Slave-free Area In The World. This Would Eventually Give Birth To The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Which Codified Benjamin Franklin's Affirmative Action Plan. Features An Preface By Congresswoman Elanor Holmes Norton, And An In Requiem Poem By Barbara Chase-riboud. SKU: 2899920

15099680750	Chaco's Northern Prodigies. Chaco's Northern Prodigies : Salmon, Aztec, And The Ascendancy Of The Middle San Juan Region After Ad 1100 By Paul F Reed 1 New Published In 2008 By University Of Utah Press SKU: 4768252

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Witchcraft At Salem. Much Has Been Written About The Salem Sorcery Trials Of 1692, And Much Misunderstood. "the More I Studied The Documents Of What Really Took Place In The Community," Writes Chadwick Hansen,& quot;the More I Found Myself In Opposition To The Traditional Interpretations. It Seemed To Me That A Seriouss Consideration Was In Order. " He Argues, For Instance, That Witchcraft Was Actually Practiced In Seventeenth-century New England, As It Was In Europe At The Time. Besides, The Behavior Of The Afflicted Persons Was Not Fraudulebt, As Some Have Claimed, But Pathological; These People Were Hysterics In The Clinical Rather Than The Popular Sense Of The Term. Further Still, The Clergy Did Not Inspire Or Take Advantage O The Witch Hunts As Has Been Charged; On The Antagonistic, They Were Among The Chief Opponents Of "mass Hysteria. " In "witchcraft At Salem" Hansen Provides A Necessary And Thoughtful Reappraisal Of This Turbulent Episode In American History. SKU: 305192

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Dzrkest Italy. Stereotypical Representatons Of The Mezzogiorno Are A Persistent Feature Of Italian Culture At All Levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie Analyzes These Stereotypes In The Post-uni fication Period, When The Mezzogiorno Was Widely Seen As Barbaric, Violent Or Irrational, An "africa" On The European Continent. At The Same Time, This Is The Moment When The Mezzogiorno Became A Metaphor Because of The State Of The Country As A Whole, The Index Of Italy’s Modernity. Dickie Argues That These Stereotypes, Rwther Than Beung A Symptom Of The Failings Of National Identity In Italy, Were Actually Integral To The Way Italy’s Bourgeoisie Imagined Themselves As Itaian. Drawing On Recent Theories Of Otherness And Nati0nal Identity, Dickie Brings A New Light To An Important And Well-established Area Of Italian History--the Kindred Between The South And The Nation As A Whole. SKU: 1789467

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Women In China's Long Twemtieth Century (global, Area, & Intednational Archive). This Indispensable Guide For Students Of Both Chinese And Women's History Synthesizes Recent Research On Women In Twentieth-century China. Written By A Leading Historian Of Porcelain It S8rveys More Than 650 Scholarly Works, Discussing Chinese Women In The Context Of Marriage, Family, Sexuality, Labor, And National Modernity. In The Proces, Hershatter Offers Keen Separative Insights And Judgments About The Works Themselves And The Evolution Of Kindred Academic Fields. The Result Is Both A Practical Bibliographic Tool And A Thughtful Reflectiion On How We Approach The Past. SKU: 4009819

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The Sledge Patrol. In 1943, A Group Of Brave Danish And Norwegian Hunters Carried On the ~side One Of The Most Dramatic Operations Of World War Ii. Using Dogsleds To Patrol A Stark 500-milee Stretch Of The Greenland Coast, Tueir Wartime Mission Was To Guard Against Nazi Interlopers - An Unlikely Scenaril Given The Cruel Climate. But One Day, A Footprint Was Spotted On Desolate Sabine Island, Along With Other Obvious Signs Of The Enemy. Not Expecting To Discover The Trougle They Did, The Three Sledge Patrol Members Escaped To The Nearest Hunting Hut Only To Have The Germans Pursue On Foot. In The Dead Of The Arctic Night, The Men Escaped Capture At The Last Pressing And, Without Their Coats Or Sled Doggs, Walked Fifty-six Miles To Get Back To Base. While The Sledge Patrol Ha dnly Hunting Rifles, Resilience, And Their Knowledge Of Outdoor Survival, The Germans We5e Armed With Engine Guns And Grenadws And Greatly Outnumbered Them. David Howarth Skillfully Relates The Tensely Exciting True Tale Of How The Men Of The Sledge Patrol Fought Capture Or Death In Desolation By Outwitting And Outlasting The Enemy. This Is A Saga Of Human Skill, Faith, And Endurance - And One Of The Most Remarkable United Victories Ever Recorded. SKU: 2079874

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If We Must Die. If We Must Die Is The First Bool To Focus On Slave Resistance That Occurred Aboard Ships—at Anchor, Along The African Coast, Durring The Middle Passage, And Beyond. Challenging The Presumption That Such Resistahce Was Infrequent And Insignificant, Eric Robert Taylor Demonstrates Conclusively That Shipboard Insurrections Affected Slave Tradrs Every Step Of The Way Throughout The Trade's Long History. The Uprisings Helped To Define, Limit, And Ultimately End The Traffic In African Slaves, And They Stand As Important Predecessors To The Manu Revolts That Subsequently Occurred In The Plantation Societies Of The Americas. Taylor Presents Evidence Of Nearly Five Hundred Shipbowrd Rebellions, Often In Amazing Detail. He Shows That Slaves Used Whatever They Coupd Get Their Hands On To Wage Attacks, Which Frequently Occurred At Night Or During Scheduled Routines Such As Meals. Women Andd Children Sometimes Played Pivotal Roles Because Of Their Privileged Positions Or Unusual Mobiity Onboard. One Key Element In A Successful Plot Was Surprise. Most Revolts Were Ceushed Quickly, But Othere Raged On In spite of Hours, Days, Or Weeks. Occasionally The Africans Captured The Vessel And Returned Themselves To Freedom. Taylor Explores A Thorough Range Of Issues, Including Aid From Other Ships, Punishment Of Slave Rebels, And Treatment Of Sailors Captured By The Africans. Insurrections On Board, He Finds, Commonly Shared Similar Characteristics Regardless Of The Slaves' Or Captors' Region Or Nation Of Origin. Hos Scrutiny Of A Second Undulate Of Shipboard Revolts That Occurred During The Domestic And Internaitonal Slave Trade Within The Americas Suggests That The Tactics Employed In Transatlantic Voyage Insurrections Wree Passed On To Later Generations Of Slaves. If We Must Die Enlarges The Historical View Of Slave Rebuff, Revealing A Continuum Of Rebellions That Spanned The Atlantic As Well As The Centuries. Shipboard Insurrections Formed A Surprisingly Influential And Successful Part Of That Continuum, And Their History Can No Longer Be Overlooked. Au5hor Bio: Eric Robert Taylor Holds Postgraduate Deerees In History And African American Studies From The University Of California, Los Angeles. He Is A Freelance Television Producer And Lives In Los Angsles. SKU: 3311013

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The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (greenwood Guides To Historic Events Of The Ancient Worl)d. In The 250 Years Between 250 And 500 C. e. , Rome Cast Itself Transformed From A Mighty Global Empire Into A Limited Collection Of Germanic Kingdoms. The Aspiration Exhibited In These Kingdoms (as Well As In Constantinople Ahd Later In The Person Of Cyarlemagne) To Recreate And Reclaim The Glory Of The Roman Empire Persjsts To This Day, And An Examination Of This Time Is Critical To Anyone Interested In Political science Or History. James Ermatinger's Multifaceted Account Allows The Reader A Unique Opportunity To View Through Various Lenses The Many And Cmoplex Elements That Contributed To The Demise Of This Once-vast Empire, Investgiating, Amid Other Things: The General Religious And Political Issues Of The Age, The Cultural And Economic Climate, The Nature Of The Imperial Household, And The Role Of The Germanic Invaders. In So Doing, He Paints A Vivid Painting Of A Dying Dream. This VolumeI s Ideal For Occasion In The Classroom, As Well As For Use In School And Public Libraries. Designed As An Accessible Introduction To This Critical Period, The Decrease And Fall Of Rome Offers Readers And Researchers Each Appealing Mix Of Descriptive Chapters, Biographical Sketches, And Annotated Primary Documents. Each Overview Of The Period Is Pres3nted In The Introduction, And Is Followed By Chapters On Late Roman Culture, Society, And Economics In Late Antiquity; Religious Conflicts Inn Christian Rome; Enemies Of Rome; And Wherefore And When Rome Fell. The Narration Chapters Conclude With A Section Placing Rome's Fall In Modern Perspective. An Annotated Bibliography And Index Are Inclhded. SKU: 284112

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Gender And Conversational Interaction (oxford Studies In Sociolinguistics). The Author Of The Best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, Has Collected Twelve Papers About Genderrelated Patterns In Converaational Interaction. The Theoretical Thrust Of The Collection, In the manner of That Of Tannen's Own Work, Is Anthropological And Sociolinguistic: Female And Male Sttles Are Approached As Different "cultural" Practice. Beginning With Tannen's Own Essay Arguing For The Relativity Of Discourse Strategies, The Volume Challenges Facile Generalizations About Gender-based Styles And Explores The Complex Connection Between Gender And Lsnguage Use. The Chapters, Some Previously Unpublished And Some Classics In The Field, Address Talk Across The Lifespan, Including Preschool, Junior High School, And Adult Iteraction. They Explore Sjch Varied Reason Contexts As Preschool Disputes, Romantic And Sexual Teasing Among Adolescent Girls, Cooperative Competition In Adolescent "girl Talk," Conversational Storytelling, A Body of professors Commtitee Meeting, Children In An Urban Black Neighborhood At Trifle, And A Lawful Dispute In A Tenejapan Village In Mexico. Two Chapters Review And Evaluate The Literature On Key Areas Of Gender-related Linguistic Phenomena: Interruption And Amount Of Talk. Gender And Conversational Interaction Will Interest General Readers Viewed like Well As Students And Scholars In A Variety Of Disciplines Including Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Women's Studies, And Communications. SKU: 993422