Joseph Reidy: 4 books
by Joseph Reidy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
This book is about a journey that I went on into the catacombs of being in a hospital with a brain injury. This book is based on true events that happened to me. Doing a journey like this has certainly changed me for the better at the end of the day, I believe. There is just something about having...
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
Central Georgia, 1800-1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps,...
Illusions of Emancipation
The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental...
Communicating Science
The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English, and German focuses on the changes in the style, organization, and argumentative structure of scientific...