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102. Hermann Lotze : An Intellectual Biography
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William R. Woodward and William R. Woodward
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- Psychology, Humanities, History, Philosophy
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As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817–81) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-siècle philosophical contemporaries emulated him, yet often without acknowledgment, precisely because he had made conjecture and refutation into a method. In spite of Lotze's status as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century intellectual thought, no complete treatment of his work exists, and certainly no effort to take account of the feminist secondary literature. Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins, scientific community, institutional context, and worldwide reception.
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- 2015
103. Making 'Nature' : The History of a Scientific Journal
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Melinda Baldwin and Melinda Baldwin
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- Science, Science publishing--History, Science--Periodicals--History, History
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Making'Nature'is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contributors include Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, and Stephen Hawking, and it has published many of the most important discoveries in the history of science, including articles on the structure of DNA, the discovery of the neutron, the first cloning of a mammal, and the human genome. But how did Nature become such an essential institution? In Making'Nature,'Melinda Baldwin charts the rich history of this extraordinary publication from its foundation in 1869 to current debates about online publishing and open access. This pioneering study not only tells Nature's story but also sheds light on much larger questions about the history of science publishing, changes in scientific communication, and shifting notions of'scientific community.'Nature, as Baldwin demonstrates, helped define what science is and what it means to be a scientist.
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- 2015
104. Sources in British Political History, 1900-1951 : Volume 2: A Guide to the Private Papers of Selected Public Services
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C. Cook, P. Jones, J. Sinclair, Jeffrey Weeks, C. Cook, P. Jones, J. Sinclair, and Jeffrey Weeks
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- World politics, History
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From 1970 to 1977 a major project to uncover source material for students of contemporary British history and politics was undertaken at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Fiananced by the Social Science Research Council, and under the direction of Dr Chris Cook, this project has attempted a unique and systematic operation to locate, and then to make readily available, those archives that provide the indispensable source material for the contemporary historian. This volume (the fifth in the series) provides a guide to the papers of propagandists who were influential in British public life. Included in this volume are the papers of such persons as newspaper editors, leading economists, social reformers, socialist thinkers, trade unionists, industrialists and a variety of theologians and philanthropists. In all, this volume not only completes the findings of the project but opens up the archive sources of a hitherto neglected area of research into contemporary social and political history.
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- 2015
105. Early motion picture
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Tint, Mikki
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Sill, Jesse ,Cinematographers ,History ,Regional focus/area studies - Abstract
EARLY MOTION PICTURE photographers had to have sound nerves as well as an eye for the interesting and newsworthy. Their heavy wooden cameras had only one lens, so getting a [...]
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- 2011
106. People have been playing
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Tint, Mikki
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History ,Regional focus/area studies - Abstract
Caption: PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PLAYING baseball in Portland since the early pioneers established the city in the mid-nineteenth century. The area's first organized team was even called the Pioneers. Several [...]
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- 2011
107. In Writing and in Sound
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Sabiha Göloğlu
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Cultural Studies ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,History ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Ottoman empire ,Ancient history ,Sound (geography) - Abstract
Copies of Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt (Proofs of Good Deeds) by the Moroccan Sufi saint Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Jazūlī (d. 870/1465) were in high demand in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This required producing manuscripts in large numbers and, later, printing the text. These mostly lithographic copies and corpora of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, when combined with references to biographical dictionaries, inheritance records, inventories, library catalogues, and endowment deeds, reveal a great deal of information about the public and private prevalence of the text, within and beyond the empire. The Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt appealed to many individuals, from Ottoman sultans to royal women, and from madrasa students to members of the learned class. Its copies were endowed to mosques and libraries, held in different book collections of the Topkapi palace, and were available from booksellers. Be it silently or aloud, the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt could be read in private homes and in mosques from Istanbul to Medina, a feature of pious soundscapes across the empire.
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- 2021
108. How ya gonna get 'em back in the stacks?
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Rockwood, Irving E.
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University and college libraries -- Management ,Collection development (Libraries) ,Periodical publishing -- Aims and objectives -- History ,Library and information science ,Literature/writing ,Company business management ,Management ,Aims and objectives ,History - Abstract
When Choice was founded in 1963-64, its mission and intended audience were laudably clear and uncomplicated. That mission was to identify and review books suitable for college libraries. The intended [...]
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- 2009
109. Paradise Found: Detroit's Paradise Valley
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Kenney, Dave
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Detroit, Michigan -- History ,African American mayors -- Elections ,Ethnic neighborhoods -- History -- Demographic aspects -- Destruction ,African Americans -- Social aspects -- Homes and haunts ,Columnists -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes ,Local elections ,Historic sites -- History -- Demographic aspects -- Destruction ,Beverages ,Young women ,Cigarettes ,Clothing ,Dance ,History ,Beliefs, opinions and attitudes ,Elections ,Social aspects ,Homes and haunts ,Demographic aspects ,Destruction - Abstract
A clarinet eased into an opening verse, inviting those who were not already on the dance floor at Detroit's famous Graystone Ballroom to join the percolating crowd. Young women--"fly chicks," [...]
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- 2019
110. SELF-DEPORTATION NATION
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Park, K-Sue
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Deportation -- History -- Demographic aspects -- Methods ,Native American relocation -- History -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Methods ,Preemption (Legislative power) -- History -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Usage ,Group dominance -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Usage ,Race discrimination -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects -- Influence ,Law ,Government regulation ,History ,Demographic aspects ,Methods ,Laws, regulations and rules ,Usage ,Political aspects ,Influence - Abstract
"Self-deportation" is a concept to explain the removal strategy of making life so unbearable for a group that its members will leave a place. The term is strongly associated with recent state and municipal attempts to "attack every aspect of an illegal alien's life," including the ability to find employment and housing, drive a vehicle, make contracts, and attend school. However, self-deportation has a longer history, one that predates and made possible the establishment of the United States. As this Article shows, American colonists pursued this indirect approach to remove native peoples as a prerequisite for establishing and growing their settlements. The new nation then adopted this approach to Indian removal and debated using self-deportation to remove freed slaves; later, states and municipalities embraced self-deportation to keep blacks out of their jurisdictions and drive out the Chinese. After the creation of the individual deportation system, the logic of self-deportation began to work through the threat of direct deportation. This threat burgeoned with Congress's expansion of the grounds of deportability during the twentieth century and affects the lives of an estimated 22 million unauthorized persons in the United States today. This Article examines the mechanics of self-deportation and tracks the policy's development through its application to groups unwanted as members of the American polity. The approach works through a delegation of power to public and private entities who create subordinating conditions for a targeted group. Governments have long used preemption as a tool to limit the power they cede to these entities. In the United States, this pattern of preemption establishes federal supremacy in the arena of removal: Cyclically, courts have struck down state and municipal attempts to adopt independent self-deportation regimes, and each time, the executive and legislative branches have responded by building up the direct deportation system. The history of self-deportation shows that the specific property interests driving this approach to removal shifted after abolition, from taking control of lands to controlling labor by placing conditions upon presence. This Article identifies subordination as a primary mode of regulating migration in America, which direct deportations both supplement and fuel. It highlights the role that this approach to removal has played in producing the landscape of uneven racial distributions of power and property that is the present context in which it works. It shows that recognizing self-deportation and its relationship to the direct deportation system is critical for understanding the dynamics of immigration law and policy as a whole., CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS OF SELF-DEPORTATION A. Indian Removal in the Colonies: An Indirect Strategy that Obscured Its Own Aim B. U.S. Removal Policy During the Early Republic 1. [...]
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- 2019
111. Recorded history meets geologic history in the Columbia River Gorge
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Tint, Mikki
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Columbia River Gorge -- Natural history ,Gorges -- Natural history ,History ,Regional focus/area studies ,Natural history - Abstract
RECORDED HISTORY MEETS geologic history in the Columbia River Gorge. Millions of years ago, flows of volcanic basalt covered the landscape, then Ice Age floods carved a channel through the [...]
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- 2008
112. OregonScape
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Tint, Mikki
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Oregon -- Natural history ,Coasts -- Natural history ,History ,Regional focus/area studies ,Natural history - Abstract
Oregon has many geologic landmarks: Crater Lake, Mount Hood, the Columbia River Gorge, Fort Rock, and others. They were formed so long ago that most people think of them as [...]
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- 2008
113. Fair America : World's Fairs in the United States
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Robert W. Rydell, John E. Findling, Kimberly Pelle, Robert W. Rydell, John E. Findling, and Kimberly Pelle
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- History
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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions.Setting more than 30 world's fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world's fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
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- 2014
114. Robert Morris : Financier of the American Revolution
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Charles Rappleye and Charles Rappleye
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- History
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In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington's armies and the American Revolution. Morris started life in the colonies as an apprentice in a counting house. By the time of the Revolution he was a rich man, a commercial and social leader in Philadelphia. He organized a clandestine trading network to arm the American rebels, joined the Second Continental Congress, and financed George Washington's two crucial victories—Valley Forge and the culminating battle at Yorktown that defeated Cornwallis and ended the war. The leader of a faction that included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Washington, Morris ran the executive branches of the revolutionary government for years. He was a man of prodigious energy and adroit management skills and was the most successful businessman on the continent. He laid the foundation for public credit and free capital markets that helped make America a global economic leader. But he incurred powerful enemies who considered his wealth and influence a danger to public'virtue'in a democratic society. After public service, he gambled on land speculations that went bad, and landed in debtors prison, where George Washington, his loyal friend, visited him. This once wealthy and powerful man ended his life in modest circumstances, but Rappleye restores his place as a patriot and an immensely important founding father.
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- 2014
115. To Conquer the Air : The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
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James Tobin and James Tobin
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- History
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James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths—Langley's toward oblivion, the Wrights'toward the heavens—though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
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- 2014
116. The Emerald Mile : The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
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Kevin Fedarko and Kevin Fedarko
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- History
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From one of Outside magazine's “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983.In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic dam failure in history. In the midst of this crisis, the decision to launch a small wooden dory named “The Emerald Mile” at the head of the Grand Canyon, just fifteen miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam, seemed not just odd, but downright suicidal. The Emerald Mile, at one time slated to be destroyed, was rescued and brought back to life by Kenton Grua, the man at the oars, who intended to use this flood as a kind of hydraulic sling-shot. The goal was to nail the all-time record for the fastest boat ever propelled—by oar, by motor, or by the grace of God himself—down the entire length of the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead. Did he survive? Just barely. Now, this remarkable, epic feat unfolds here, in The Emerald Mile.
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- 2014
117. Chinese Newspapers in Cho Lan, 1930-1975
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Feng, Mok Mei
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- History ,National University of Singapore -- Collections and collecting ,Chinese newspapers -- Collections and collecting ,Newspaper publishing -- History ,Anthropology/archeology/folklore ,Regional focus/area studies ,Sociology and social work ,Collections and collecting ,History - Abstract
In the mid-twentieth century, Cho Lon was a powerhouse of Chinese newspaper publishing in Southeast Asia. A number of the major Chinese newspapers published there during that period are available in the Chinese Library of the National University of Singapore. The contents of these publications--editorials, commercial advertisements, personal advertisements, serialized novels--will be of interest to scholars of Sinophone studies and of modern Vietnamese history. Keywords: Chg Ldn, Chinese newspapers, Republic of Vietnam, Sinophone press., In quality and quantity, the Chinese press in Cho Lon was the best in Southeast Asia [in the 1960s], and third in Asia behind Taiwan and Hong Kong. Man Man [...]
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- 2017
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118. Race and class friction in North Carolina neighborhoods: how campaigns for residential segregation law divided middling and elite whites in Winston-Salem and North Carolina's countryside, 1912-1915
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Herbin-Triant, Elizabeth A.
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Housing discrimination -- History ,Whites -- Homes and haunts ,African Americans -- Civil rights -- Homes and haunts ,History ,Regional focus/area studies ,Homes and haunts ,Civil rights - Abstract
In 1913, W. E. B. Du Bois looked back on the deal African Americans had made with white southerners and declared it a mess of pottage. In return for giving [...]
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- 2017
119. An accident of resistance in Nazi Germany: Oskar Kalbus's three-volume history of German film (1935-37)
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Westerdale, Joel
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Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst (Critical work) -- Criticism and interpretation ,Third Reich, 1933-1945 ,Movie critics -- Criticism and interpretation ,German movies -- Criticism and interpretation -- History ,Arts, visual and performing ,Criticism and interpretation ,History - Abstract
ABSTRACT: This article reconsiders the first comprehensive history of German film, Oskar Kalbus's two-volume Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst (On the Rise of German Film Art, 1935) in terms of its [...]
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- 2017
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120. Medical Heritage Library: Opening Access to Seven Centuries of Medical History
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McElfresh, Jenessa
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- 2018
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121. PERSONAL BOOK COLLECTION OF THE HISTORIAN, ARCHAEOLOGIST, NUMISMAT, PROFESSOR OF THE ODESSA UNIVERSITY P. KARYSHKOVSKYI–IKAR IN THE STOCKS OF THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF THE ODESSA I. I. MECHNIKOV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
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T. M. Bykova and N. M. Kupriyanova
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Numismatics ,History ,Ukrainian ,language ,Black sea ,Middle Ages ,Scientific literature ,Commission ,Archaeology ,Byzantine architecture ,language.human_language ,Epigraphy - Abstract
The main purpose of the article is a subject-thematic analysis of the personal book collection of an outstanding Odessa historian-antiquarian, specialist in numismatics, Greek and Latin epigraphy of the Northern Black Sea littoral, Byzantine scholar, brilliant lecturer, professor of Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Head of the Department of History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages Petr Yosypovych Karyshkovskyi-Ikar (1921–1988) held in the stocks of the Scientific Library. The article tells the story of the delivery of the personal book collection to the Scientific Library of Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University in 2019. The collection contains 208 units of periodicals, 10 pictorial units, there are also cartographic atlases (6 units). The main part of the collection (1710 units) consists of books on historical sciences mainly on archeology, numismatics, history of the ancient world and Byzantium. Reference editions (38 units) as well as materials of domestic and international conferences (29 units) make an important part of the collection. Special attention is paid to some rare and valuable publications of the first half of the 20th century, such as the Bulletin of the Odessa Commission of Local Lore at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the Chersonese Collection. It can be noted that this collection is of great importance for the research and educational process of the university, as it contains important books on historical and other sciences carefully selected by the owner, as well as foreign scientific literature, which has not been republished and sometimes is not available in Ukrainian libraries. The collection also gives an idea of the range of scientific interests of its owner.
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- 2021
122. An Early Attempt at Flight
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Lederle, Cheryl
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Engineers -- Aims and objectives ,Human powered aircraft -- Design and construction -- History ,Ornithopters -- Design and construction -- History ,Education ,Science and technology ,Design and construction ,Aims and objectives ,History - Abstract
Orville and Wilbur Wright are known as the brothers who first solved the problem of powered, controlled, and sustained human flight, but few remember the inventors who tried but didn't [...]
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- 2018
123. Collecting in the Twenty-First Century : From Museums to the Web
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Endres, Johannes, Zeller, Christoph, Endres, Johannes, and Zeller, Christoph
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- 2022
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124. Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-century America.
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Planer, John H.
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CHURCH music ,JEWISH music ,COMMUNITY music ,HISTORY ,SACRED vocal music ,HYMNALS - Published
- 2020
125. History as it happens.
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WEBSITES ,HISTORY ,COMPUTER network resources - Abstract
The article discusses news stories and resources that are available at the journal's website including an article on the digitization of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, photographic slides documenting poverty at the beginning of the 20th century, and an excavation near Raqqa, Syria that is being conducted by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute.
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- 2010
126. Excise Taxation and the Origins of Public Debt
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D'Maris Coffman and D'Maris Coffman
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- Business enterprises—Finance, Accounting, Finance, History, Business enterprises—Taxation, Business tax—Law and legislation
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This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolution of the 1690s. By analysing hitherto unpublished manuscript and print sources, D'Maris Coffman resolves divergent accounts of these constitutionally problematic but fiscally significant new taxes. Parliament's success at imposing on a deeply divided kingdom an extra-legal species of indirect taxation, which hitherto had been a constitutional anathema and a political impossibility, remains one of the most striking features of the period. A fresh reading of William Petty's Treatise on Taxes illustrates the development of an indigenous discourse in defence of the tax state. By highlighting the importance of fiscal innovation during the Civil Wars and Interregnum for the development of the fiscal state in Britain, this study challenges'stylised facts'about the economic significance of 1688/89. The final chapter delivers new insight into why the eighteenth-century British public accepted both unprecedented levels of government borrowing and one of the heaviest tax burdens in Western Europe. Coffman reveals how a'new financial history,'rooted in closely contextualised studies, can contribute to current debates about sustainable levels of taxation and to fundamental questions of economic theory.
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- 2013
127. St. Clair
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Anthony Wallace and Anthony Wallace
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- History, Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--Saint Clair (Schuylkill County)--History--19th century, Coal miners--Pennsylvania--Saint Clair (Schuylkill County)--History--19th century
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Located near the southern edge of the Pennsylvania anthracite, the town of St. Clair in the early half of the 19th century seemed to be perfectly situated to provide fuel to the iron and steel industry that was the heart of the Industrial Revolution in America. It was a time of unprecedented promise and possibility for the region, and yet, in the years between 1830 and 1880, only grandiose illusions flourished there. St. Clair itself succumbed early on to a devastating economic blight, one that would in time affect anthracite mining everywhere. In this dramatic work of social history, Anthony F. C. Wallace re-creates St. Clair in those years when expectations collided with reality, when the coal trade was in chronic distress, exacerbated by the epic battles between the forces of labor and capital. As he did in his Bancroft Prize-winning Rockdale, Wallace uses public records and private papers to reconstruct the operation of an anthracite colliery and the life of a working-man's town totally dependent upon it. He describes the labor hierarchy of the collieries, the communal spirit that sprang up in the outlying mine patches, the polyglot immigrant life in the taverns and churchs, and the workingmen's societies that provided identity to the miners and gave relief to families in distress. He examines the birth of the first effective miners'union and documents the escalating antagonism between Irish immigrant workers—mostly Catholic—and the Protestant middle classes who owned the collieries. Wallace reveals the blindness, greed, and self-congratulation of the mine owners and operators. These “heroes” of the entrepreneurial wars disregarded geologists'warnings that the coal seams south of St. Clair were virtually inaccessible and, at best, extremely costly to mine, and then blamed their economic woes on the lack of a high tariff on imported British iron. To cut costs, they ignored the most basic and safety engineering practices and then blamed “the careless miner” and “Irish hooligans” for the catastrophic accidents that resulted. In thrall to a great dream of wealth and power, they plunged ahead to bankruptcy while the miners paid with their lives. St. Clair is a rich and illuminating work of scholarship—an engrossing portrait of a disaster-prone industry (a portrait that stands as a sober warning to the nuclear-power industry) and of the tragic hubris of a ruling class that brough ruin upon a Pennsylvania coal town at a crucial moment in its history.
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- 2013
128. The Race Beat : The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff, Gene Roberts, and Hank Klibanoff
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- History
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An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation's thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s. Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen—black and white—revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat is an extraordinary account of one of the most calamitous periods in our nation's history, as told by those who covered it.
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- 2013
129. Essays on the Future : In Honor of Nick Metropolis
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Siegfried Hecker, Gian-Carlo Rota, Siegfried Hecker, and Gian-Carlo Rota
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- Physics—Philosophy, Mathematics, History, Nuclear physics, Physics, Astronomy
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The present work represents a unique undertaking in scientific publishing to honor Nick Metropolis, who passed away in October, 1999. Nick was the last survivor of the Manhattan Project that began during World War II in Los Alamos and later became the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In this volume, some of the leading scientists and humanists of our time have contributed essays related to their respective disciplines exploring various aspects of future developments in science, technology, and society. Speculations on the future developments of science and society, philosophy, national security, nuclear power, pure and applied mathematics, physics and biology, particle physics, computing, information science, among many others, are included. Contributors include: H. Agnew • R. Ashenhurst • K. Baclawski • G. Baker • N. Balazs • J.A. Freed • R. Hamming • M. Hawrylycz • O. Judd • D. Kleitman • M. Krieger • N. Krikorian • P. Lax • J.D. Louck • T. Puck • M. Raju • R. Richtmyer • J. Schwartz • R. Sokolowski • E. Teller • M. Waterman
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- 2013
130. Whatever Shines Should Be Observed : [quicquid Nitet Notandum]
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Susan M.P. McKenna-Lawlor and Susan M.P. McKenna-Lawlor
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- Astronomy—Observations, History
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It is good to mark the new Millennium by looking back as well as forward. Whatever Shines Should Be Observed looks to the nineteenth century to celebrate the achievements of five distinguished women, four of whom were born in Ireland while the fifth married into an Irish family, who made pioneering contributions to photography, microscopy, astronomy and astrophysics. The women featured came from either aristocratic or professional families. Thus, at first sight, they had many material advantages among their peers. In the ranks of the aristocracy there was often a great passion for learning, and the mansions in which these families lived contained libraries, technical equipment (microscopes and telescopes) and collections from the world of nature. More modest professional households of the time were rich in books, while activities such as observing the stars, collecting plants etc. typically formed an integral part of the children's education. To balance this it was the prevailing philosophy that boys could learn, in addition to basic subjects, mathematics, mechanics, physics, chemistry and classical languages, while girls were channelled into'polite'subjects like music and needlework. This arrangement allowed boys to progress to University should they so wish, where a range of interesting career choices (including science and engineering) was open to them. Girls, on the other hand, usually received their education at home, often under the tutelage of a governess who would not herself had had any serious contact with scientific or technical subjects. In particular, progress to University was not during most of the nineteenth century an option for women, and access to scientific libraries and institutions was also prohibited. Although those women with aristocratic and professional backgrounds were in a materially privileged position and had an opportunity to'see'through the activities of their male friends and relatives how professional scientific life was lived, to progress from their places in society to the professions required very special determination. Firstly, they had to individually acquire scientific and technical knowledge, as well as necessary laboratory methodology, without the advantage of formal training. Then, it was necessary to carve out a niche in a particular field, despite the special difficulties attending the publication of scientific books or articles by a woman. There was no easy road to science, or even any well worn track. To achieve recognition was a pioneering activity without discernible ground rules. With the hindsight of history, we recognise that the heroic efforts which the women featured in this volume made to overcome the social constraints that held them back from learning about, and participating in, scientific and technical subjects, had a consequence on a much broader canvas. In addition to what they each achieved professionally they contributed within society to a gradual erosion of those barriers raised against the participation of women in academic life, thereby assisting in allowing University places and professional opportunities to gradually become generally available. It is a privilege to salute and thank the wonderful women of the nineteenth century herein described for what they have contributed to the women of today. William Herschel's famous motto quicquid nitet notandum (whatever shines should be observed) applies in a particular way to the luminous quality of their individual lives, and those of us who presently observe their shining, as well as those who now wait in the wings of the coming centuries to emerge upon the scene, can each see a little further by their light.
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- 2013
131. Decolonization in the 1960s: On Legitimate and Illegitimate Nationalist Claims-Making *.
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Walker, Lydia
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HISTORY of nationalism ,DECOLONIZATION ,NAMIBIAN history, 1946-1990 ,POSTCOLONIALISM ,MINORITIES ,NAGA (South Asian people) ,TWENTIETH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
What happened to peoples who felt colonized in post-colonial states? After the Second World War, the formal international order of the United Nations and Cold War political alignments recognized national self-determination as a right, but only saw claims of self-determination within European empires. However, there are hidden stories of anti-colonial claims within post-colonial states, claims that operated through informal networks because they were invisible to international institutions. These networks produced a layer of international relations that took on the issue of minority nationalisms. Through the travelogues and visa difficulties of nationalist claimants from Nagaland in Northeast India and Namibia in Southern Africa, this article makes visible this layer of politics. It considers the peoples for whom 1960s global decolonization did not mean national liberation, the unofficial individuals who spoke for them that were empowered by the UN's inability to do so, and the symbiotic relationship between these two sets of actors. By showing the mutual, yet unequal dependence of nationalists and their advocates, this article argues that certain nationalist claimants achieved forms of pre-independence recognition from advocacy, but that this support came with strings–strings that constrained nationalist claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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132. The Washington County Civil War Rolls of Honor.
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Shell, Deb Root
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MILITARY personnel ,AUDITORS ,PRISONERS of war ,MILITARY deserters ,AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 ,HISTORY - Published
- 2019
133. 'LINK' TO THE PAST: MATERIALS BRING TO LIGHT PIONEERING LATINA/O LESBIAN AND GAY ORGANIZATION
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Discrimination ,History ,Gays ,News, opinion and commentary - Abstract
WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by American University: Collection of materials on ENLACE, former advocacy group in Washington, D.C., are available to researchers, students and general public By [...]
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- 2022
134. Nina Sibirtzeva, or the Hidden Half of Musical Globalization.
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Palomino, Pablo
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MUSIC & globalization ,POPULAR music -- History & criticism ,YIDDISH language ,RUSSIAN music ,RUSSIAN Jewish history ,YIDDISH theater ,WOMEN musicians ,HISTORY - Abstract
Actress and singer Nina Sibirtzeva (1899, Russia–1957, Buenos Aires) developed her inconspicuous career in the popular Jewish theater in Russia and Eastern Europe and moved to Buenos Aires in 1938, where she adapted her repertoire and from where she toured other cities in the Americas, always performing on circuits that were removed from mainstream entertainment. What can we make of her obscure journey? This article attempts to understand Sibirtzeva's artistic choices and, through them, some structural but unexplored aspects of the globalization of popular music in the twentieth century. Based on evidence rescued from the almost destroyed archives of the IWO (Idisher Visnshaftlejer Institut or Yiddish Research Institute) in Buenos Aires, the article focuses on the meaning of the words popular and populism in music; the engagement of popular artists with musical technologies, markets, migration, and politics; and the conceptual and historiographical question of how to deal with biographies that do not match the cultural mainstream, operating instead at the intersection of different cultural streams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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135. Benefits of Empire? Capital Market Integration North and South of the Alps, 1350–1800.
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Chilosi, David, Schulze, Max-Stephan, and Volckart, Oliver
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CAPITAL market ,ROMAN history ,NINETEENTH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
This article addresses two questions. First, when and to what extent did capital markets integrate north and south of the Alps? Second, how mobile was capital? Analysing a unique new dataset on pre-modern urban annuities, we find that northern markets were consistently better integrated than Italian markets. Long-term integration was driven by initially peripheral places in the Netherlands and Upper Germany integrating with the rest of the Holy Roman Empire where the distance and volume of inter-urban investments grew primarily in the sixteenth century. The institutions of the Empire contributed to stronger market integration north of the Alps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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136. Aetiological doctrines and prevalence of pellagra: 18th century to middle 20th century.
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Viljoen, Margaretha, Bipath, Priyesh, and Roos, Johannes L.
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PELLAGRA ,ETIOLOGY of diseases ,DEFICIENCY diseases ,NIACIN ,CORN breeding ,SKIN inflammation ,PUBLIC health ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the pellagra, a nutrition-deficiency disease, which is caused by dermatological and gastrointestinal and neuropsychiatric manifestations. It is noted that pellagra is the syndrome of a severe deficiency of the water-soluble vitamin niacin and its symptoms include dermatitis, diarrhoea and dementia. Topics include the history of the disease, diagnosis of Pellagra in South Africa among Zulu rebel prisoners in 1906 and the link between maize and pellagra.
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- 2018
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137. Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on Parkinson’s disease.
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Blonder, Lee Xenakis
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PARKINSON'S disease & genetics ,PARKINSON'S disease treatment ,PARKINSON'S disease ,ASIANS ,GENETIC polymorphisms ,NATIVE Americans ,MEDICINE ,AYURVEDIC medicine ,CHINESE medicine ,NEUROLOGISTS ,CULTURAL pluralism ,HISTORY - Abstract
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting up to 10 million people worldwide according to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation. Epidemiological and genetic studies show a preponderance of idiopathic cases and a subset linked to genetic polymorphisms of a familial nature. Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda recognized and treated the illness that Western Medicine terms PD millennia ago, and descriptions of Parkinson’s symptomatology by Europeans date back 2000 years to the ancient Greek physician Galen. However, the Western nosological classification now referred to in English as “Parkinson’s disease” and the description of symptoms that define it, are accredited to British physician James Parkinson, who in 1817 authored The Shaking Palsy. Later in the nineteenth century, French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot re-labeled paralysis agitans “Parkinson’s disease” and over a century of scientific research ensued. This review discusses European, North American, and Asian contributions to the understanding and treatment of PD from ancient times through the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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138. A HISTORY OF THE FTC'S BUREAU OF ECONOMICS.
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Pautler, Paul A.
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ECONOMIC competition ,ANTITRUST law ,LAW enforcement ,ECONOMISTS ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) - Abstract
The Bureau of Economics in the Federal Trade Commission has a three-part role in the Agency and the strength of its functions changed over time depending on the preferences and ideology of the FTC's leaders, developments in the field of economics, and the tenor of the times. The over-riding current role is to provide well considered, unbiased economic advice regarding antitrust and consumer protection law enforcement cases to the legal staff and the Commission. The second role, which long ago was primary, is to provide reports on investigations of various industries to the public and public officials. This role was more recently called research or "policy R&D". A third role is to advocate for competition and markets both domestically and internationally. As a practical matter, the provision of economic advice to the FTC and to the legal staff has required that the economists wear "two hats," helping the legal staff investigate cases and provide evidence to support law enforcement cases while also providing advice to the legal bureaus and to the Commission on which cases to pursue (thus providing "a second set of eyes" to evaluate cases). There is sometimes a tension in those functions because building a case is not the same as evaluating a case. Economists and the Bureau of Economics have provided such services to the FTC for over 100 years proving that a sub-organization can survive while playing roles that sometimes conflict. Such a life is not, however, always easy or fun. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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139. Origins of School Nursing.
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Houlahan, PhD, RN, Bridget
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NURSING schools ,SCHOOL nursing ,HEALTH services accessibility ,NURSES ,NURSING practice ,TRUST ,CULTURAL awareness ,OCCUPATIONAL roles ,HISTORY - Abstract
This study investigated the origin and implementation of school nursing in New York City, using traditional historical methods with a social history framework. The intent of this research was to produce a comprehensive historical analysis of school nursing at the turn of the 20th century in order to provide a historical framework to promote the work of school nurses today. Understanding the core fundamental concepts of school nursing from its origins and the significance of the emergence of community support for the role of the school nurse at the turn of the 20th century can inform current policy to back school nursing and school health today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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140. RISE AND FALL
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McCallister, Kathleen
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Collection development (Libraries) -- Forecasts and trends ,Border security -- Analysis ,Walls -- History -- Social aspects ,Fortifications -- History ,Library and information science ,Market trend/market analysis ,Social aspects ,Analysis ,History ,Forecasts and trends - Abstract
The principles of a barrier wall are simple. On one side are yourself and the things you wish to defend and on the other are the dangers you wish to [...]
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- 2019
141. Black Society in Spanish Florida
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HOFFMAN, PAUL E.
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History ,Regional focus/area studies - Abstract
Black Society in Spanish Florida. By Jane Landers. Foreword by Peter H. Wood. Blacks in the New World. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 1999. Pp. xvi, 390. [...]
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- 2001
142. Contextualizing Anne Bradstreet's literary remains: why we need a new edition of the poems
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Thickstun, Margaret Olofson
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The Tenth Muse (Poetry collection) -- Criticism and interpretation ,Several Poems (Poetry collection) -- Criticism and interpretation ,Literary histories -- Analysis ,Reprints (Publications) -- Analysis ,Book printing -- History ,Poets -- Criticism and interpretation ,Literature/writing ,Regional focus/area studies ,Criticism and interpretation ,Analysis ,History - Abstract
Over the past thirty years, historians of the book have developed a rich and nuanced understanding of what it meant to write poetry in the early modern period and of [...]
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- 2017
143. In search of C.B. wade, research director and labour historian, 1944-1950
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Frank, David
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Historians -- Social aspects ,Labor movement -- History ,Coal miners ,Business ,Human resources and labor relations ,Business, international ,Social aspects ,History - Abstract
HE DROVE INTO GLACE BAY OVER DIRT ROADS, through clouds of coal dust and past rows of housing in disrepair. It was a "bleak and dreary scene," he later recalled, [...]
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- 2017
144. Mothers' milk: slavery, wet-nursing, and black and white women in the antebellum South
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West, Emily and Knight, R.J.
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Southern United States -- History ,Working women -- Demographic aspects ,Exploitation -- Analysis ,Slavery -- Social aspects ,Wet nurses -- Social aspects ,White women -- Family ,History ,Regional focus/area studies ,Social aspects ,Analysis ,Family ,Demographic aspects - Abstract
WET-NURSING IS A UNIQUELY GENDERED KIND OF EXPLOITATION, AND under slavery it represented the point at which the exploitation of enslaved women as workers and as reproducers literally intersected. Feeding [...]
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- 2017
145. General index: traces of Indiana and Midwestern history (2006-16)
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Dixon, Douglas
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History - Abstract
A native of Evansville, Indiana, and a Traces author, Douglas Dixon began enjoying various Indiana Historical Society publications after sharing stories of original Korean War letters with the editors. Dixon's [...]
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- 2017
146. The Octagonal Pavilion Library of Macao: a study in uniqueness
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Xie, Jingzhen and Reilly, Laura
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Public libraries -- History -- Analysis ,History ,Library and information science ,Analysis - Abstract
Privately owned by the Macao Chamber of Commerce, the Octagonal Pavilion Library was the first free Chinese library service as well as the most used Chinese public library in Macao [...]
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- 2017
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147. Claude Fleury (1640–1723) As an Educational Historiographer and Thinker : Introduction by W.W. Brickman
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R. Wanner and R. Wanner
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- History
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This study has grown out of an interest in French education and cul ture that dates from fondly remembered student days in France. Specifically, it is an attempt to explain the educational thought of Claude Fleury, a literate, responsible homme de leUres who analyzed the historical origins of public education as it existed in seventeenth-cen tury France and, on that basis, proposed what he considered to be a more generally useful program of studies. Generous space has been devoted to historical, social, and pedagogical background in an effort to place Fleury's thought in its proper cultural context; namely, that of the decline of the Classical Age and the dawn of the Age of Reason. This background material represents also an attempt to explain, at times in detail, the origin of Fleury's Traite du Choix et de la Methode des Etudes and his rise to scholarly and pedagogical prominence at court. It is possible that Fleury's thought, while of most immediate interest to students of seventeenth-century cultural history, will be of interest also to a more general audience. In particular, those charged with providing education that must respond to the ever increasing practical needs of society and at the same time give to contemporary man a of his cultural heritage may find in Fleury's thought some useful sense historical perspective. It is a pleasure to acknowledge that this study would not have been possible without the encouragement and guidance of Dr. William W.
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- 2012
148. The Netherlands and the United States : Their Relations in the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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J.C. Westermann and J.C. Westermann
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- History, Business, Management science
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- 2012
149. Transcultural History : Theories, Methods, Sources
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Madeleine Herren, Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille, Madeleine Herren, Martin Rüesch, and Christiane Sibille
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- History, Historiography, Cross-cultural studies
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For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation ‘past is prologue'reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a narrative, which aims to overcome cultural essentialism by focussing on crossing borders of all kinds. Transcultural History reflects critically on the way history is constructed, asking who formed history in the past and who succeeded in shaping what we call the master narrative. Although trained European historians, the authors aim to present a useful approach to global history, showing first of all how a Eurocentric but universal historiography removed or essentialised certain topics in Asian history. As an empirical discipline, history is based on source material, analysed according to rules resulting from a strong methodological background. This book accesses the global past after World War I, looking at thewell known stage of the Paris Peace Conferences, observing the multiplication of new borders and the variety of transgressing institutions, concepts, actors, men and women inventing themselves as global subjects, but sharing a bitter experience with almost all local societies at this time, namely the awareness of having relatives buried in far distant places due to globalised wars.
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- 2012
150. The Lizardi Brothers: a Mexican family business and the expansion of New Orleans, 1825-1846
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Salvucci, Linda K. and Salvucci, Richard J.
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New Orleans, Louisiana -- History -- Economic aspects ,Family corporations -- History ,Family-owned business enterprises -- History ,History ,Regional focus/area studies ,Economic aspects - Abstract
THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, DIPLOMATIC AND economic historians of the antebellum United States defined and dominated the fields of hemispheric relations and American capitalism, respectively. In recent years, [...]
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- 2016
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