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by Stuart J. Hillmon
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Considering a graduate degree in economics? Good choice: the twenty-first-century financial crisis and recession have underscored the relevance of experts who know how the economy works, should work, and could work. However, Ph.D. programs in economics are extremely competitive, with a high rate of...
by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman.
Based...
An Infinity of Nations
How the Native New World Shaped Early North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard....
In Darkest Alaska
Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up...
Matter, Magic, and Spirit
Representing Indian and African American Belief
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans and African Americans have long been sources of fascination and curiosity, owing to their marked difference from the religious traditions of white writers and researchers. Matter, Magic, and Spirit explores the ways religious and...
English Letters and Indian Literacies
Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
As rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools—including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine...
The People's Network
The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations. This transformation has had a significant impact on the practice of trade law, financial regulation, and environmental law but relatively little effect...
Beyond the Good Death
The Anthropology of Modern Dying
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's disease, Youk had called upon infamous Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian to help end his life on his own terms. After delivering the videotape to 60 Minutes, Kevorkian...
Bombshell
Women and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Between 1985 and 2008, female suicide bombers committed more than 230 attacks—about a quarter of all such acts. Women have become the ideal stealth weapon for terrorist groups. They are less likely to be suspected or searched and as a result have been used to strike at the heart of coalition troops...
The Catholic Calumet
Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism....
Human Rights and Labor Solidarity
Trade Unions in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Faced with the economic pressures of globalization, many countries have sought to curb the fundamental right of workers to join trade unions and engage in collective action. In response, trade unions in developed countries have strategically used their own governments' commitments to human rights...
God Almighty Hisself
The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
When the Philadelphia Phillies signed Dick Allen in 1960, fans of the franchise envisioned bearing witness to feats never before accomplished by a Phillies player. A half-century later, they're still trying to make sense of what they saw.
Carrying to the plate baseball's heaviest and loudest...
Turning to Political Violence
The Emergence of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
What motivates those who commit violence in the name of political beliefs? Terrorism today is not solely the preserve of Islam, nor is it a new phenomenon. It emerges from social processes and conditions common to societies throughout modern history, and the story of its origins spans centuries, encompassing...