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The Man who was Rip Van Winkle

Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-century American Theatre

By: Benjamin McArthur

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The Man who was Rip Van Winkle

Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-century American Theatre

By: Benjamin McArthur

The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and theatrical and cultural history, Benjamin McArthur chronicles Jefferson's remarkable career and offers a lively and original account of the heroic age of the American theatre. Joe Jefferson's entire life was spent on the stage, from the age of Jackson to the dawn of motion pictures. He extensively toured the United States as well as Australia and Great Britain. An ever-successful career (including acclaim as painter and memoirist) put him in the company of the great actors, artists, and writers of the day, including Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, John Singer Sargent, and William Dean Howells. This book rescues a brilliant figure and places him, appropriately enough, on center stage of a pivotal time for American theatre. McArthur explores the personalities of the period, the changing theatrical styles and their audiences, the touring life, and the wide and varied culture of theatre. Through the life of Jefferson, McArthur is able to illuminate an era.

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Yale University Press

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0300122322

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9780300122329

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

By: Benjamin Franklin,Ellen R. Cohn

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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

By: Benjamin Franklin,Ellen R. Cohn

After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin’s official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. Great Britain refused to negotiate a commercial agreement, and Congress failed to act on the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that Franklin had sent them the previous summer. In the six months after the peace was settled, Franklin’s sole diplomatic achievement was a draft consular convention with France. With his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin eagerly followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement, and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.

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756

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Yale University Press

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0300203748

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9780300203745

The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Vol. III

By: Martha Joanna Lamb,John Austin Stevens,Henry Phelps Johnston,Benjamin Franklin DeCosta,Nathan Gillett Pond,William Abbatt

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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Vol. III

By: Martha Joanna Lamb,John Austin Stevens,Henry Phelps Johnston,Benjamin Franklin DeCosta,Nathan Gillett Pond,William Abbatt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1879.

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822

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385558468

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9783385558465

Diesel Nuts

By: Benjamin E. Jenkins

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Diesel Nuts

By: Benjamin E. Jenkins

Diesel Nuts By: Benjamin E. Jenkins William Williams grew up in racist rural Kentucky. He came to be known as “Diesel Nuts” to the locals. “Diesel” because of his love of diesel engines, and “Nuts” because of his psyche. Diesel wasn’t clinically crazy. At least that’s what the city doctors told his mother when the boy was young. He was just extremely aloof with a pesky stutter. Diesel got his smokey good looks from his deadbeat dad, but he got his motoring skills from his Uncle Jesse. Shunned and bullied as a kid, Diesel enlisted in the Army immediately after high school. While in the Army, he meets and falls in love with Malane Morrison, a beautiful African American officer. Returning home after the war, Diesel joins the local law enforcement as an Interceptor. In a time when gas prices have skyrocketed beyond the means of most, electric cop cars are no match for the delinquents’ souped-up crotch rockets and backyard hotrods—modified to run hot and fast on illegal moonshine. The Interceptors are often the last resort to counter the rising crime.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1637644906

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9781637644904

Continental Drift

By: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon

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Continental Drift

By: Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon

A fascinating new account of Britain's uneasy relationship with the European continent since the end of the Second World War, set against the backdrop of decolonization, the Cold War and the Anglo-American relationship. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon charts Britain's evolution from an island of imperial Europeans to one of post-imperial Eurosceptics.

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605

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Cambridge University Press

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1107071267

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9781107071261

Congress

The First Branch

By: Benjamin Ginsberg,Kathryn Wagner Hill

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Congress

The First Branch

By: Benjamin Ginsberg,Kathryn Wagner Hill

An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachers In this accessible overview of the United States Congress’s past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country’s most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the President, and Congress and the courts. Congress: The First Branch offers a fresh approach to the First Branch grounded in a historical, positive frame.

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Yale University Press

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0300249616

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9780300249613

Presidential Government

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

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Presidential Government

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg’s comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presidential power. He explores the history and essential aspects of the office, the president’s relationship to the rest of the executive branch and to a subordinated Congress, and the evolution of the American president from policy executor to policy maker. Compelling photo essays delve into topics of special interest, including First Spouses, Presidential Eligibility, and Congressional Investigations of the White House.

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Yale University Press

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0300212062

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9780300212068

Hybridity and Ideology

By: Leonard Williams,Benjamin Franks

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Hybridity and Ideology

By: Leonard Williams,Benjamin Franks

Hybridity and Ideology analyzes the structure, development, and significance of political perspectives that mix or fuse the distinct beliefs, practices, and identities found in other ideologies—for example, hybrid worldviews such as liberal nationalism, ecosocialism, and anarchafeminism. Employing concepts and methods drawn from ideology studies, discourse theory, and cultural studies, Leonard Williams and Benjamin Franks explore the meaning of hybridity, the processes by which ideologies hybridize, and the political implications of the blended ideologies that result. Their hybrid inquiry fashions a theoretical vocabulary and framework for understanding and studying ideological hybridization. Using examples from a broad spectrum of ideologies, the book discusses the characteristic patterns by which hybrids are constructed from parent ideologies. It explores the operations and processes that enable hybrids to emerge from other ideologies and develop within social and political contexts. Lastly, it addresses how ideologies provide resources for political action and discusses the criteria for judging the success of hybrid ideologies. Hybridity and Ideology offers insight into the dynamic processes of hybridization central to ideological transformation and political change. It provides a helpful resource for students and researchers in political theory, cultural studies, and philosophy.

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Taylor & Francis

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104025747X

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9781040257470

Street Rebellion

Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence

By: Benjamin S. Case

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Street Rebellion

Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence

By: Benjamin S. Case

The complex relationship between violence and nonviolence in social movements. We are living in a time of uprisings that routinely involve physical confrontation—burning vehicles, barricades, vandalism, and scuffles between protesters and authorities. Yet the Left has struggled to incorporate rioting into theories of change, remaining stuck in recurring debates over violence and nonviolence. Civil resistance studies have popularized the term “strategic nonviolence,” spreading the notion that violence is wholly counter-productive. Street Rebellion scrutinizes recent research and develops a broad and grounded portrait of the relationship between strategic nonviolence and rioting in the struggle for liberation.

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176

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AK Press

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1849354871

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9781849354875

He'enalu Days

By: Benjamin Lane

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He'enalu Days

By: Benjamin Lane

Based on the life experience of Benjamin Lane and written as an autobiographical novel, He'enalu Days tells the spiritual journey of Dennis Hill, a wild-child surfer growing up in Kai Town, Honolulu, in the early 1980's, who walks into a life of drugs and parties. As a boy, Dennis falls in love with the ocean and the sport of surfing and feels that to he'enalu (surf or slide across a breaking wave) sets him free like nothing else can. Twenty years later, Dennis realizes his brokenness as a human being and cries out to God to save him. A war over his soul emerges, and Dennis discovers the physical realm we all live in reflects a coexisting spiritual realm that we cannot see, a spiritual realm that wields the power to overwhelm the physical realm in an instant. When no person can save him or ease his pain, Dennis discovers that Jesus Christ - the way and the truth and the life - is the only one who can set him free, and that eternity is too long to be wrong. These are his new He'enalu Days.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1683486684

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9781683486688

Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812

Volume I

By: Lossing, Benjamin J.

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Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812

Volume I

By: Lossing, Benjamin J.

Originally published in 1868, this history features in-depth research and interviews with veterans, illuminating the events of the war in greater detail than any previous work. It also brings to view soldiers whose deeds have been overlooked by history, but whose sacrifices will forever be remembered.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455607665

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9781455607662

History of Old Chester from 1719 to 1869

By: Benjamin Chase

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History of Old Chester from 1719 to 1869

By: Benjamin Chase

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

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3846059854

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9783846059852

The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages

A Legal History

By: Benjamin Geva

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The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages

A Legal History

By: Benjamin Geva

Examining the legal history of the order to pay money initiating a funds transfer, the author tracks basic principles of modern law to those that governed the payment order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Exploring the legal nature of the payment order and its underpinning in light of contemporary institutions and payment mechanisms, the book traces the evolution of money, payment mechanisms and the law that governs them, from developments in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, Rome, and Greco-Roman Egypt, through medieval Europe and post-medieval England. Doctrine is examined in Jewish, Islamic, Roman, common and civil laws. Investigating such diverse legal systems and doctrines at the intersection of laws governing bank deposits, obligations, the assignment of debts, and negotiable instruments, the author identifies the common denominator for the evolving legal principles and speculates on possible reciprocity. At the same time he challenges the idea of 'law merchant' as a mercantile creation. The book provides an account of the evolution of payment law as a distinct cohesive body of legal doctrine applicable to funds transfers. It shows how principles of law developed in tandem with the evolution of banking and in response to changing circumstances and proposes a redefinition of 'law merchant'. The author points to deposit banking and emerging technologies as embodying a great potential for future non-cash payment system growth. However, he recommends caution in predicting both the future of deposit banking and the overall impact of technology. At the same time he expresses confidence in the durability of legal doctrine to continue to evolve and accommodate future payment system developments.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1847318665

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9781847318664

Book's by Benjamin Sargent

The Man who was Rip Van Winkle

The Man who was Rip Van Winkle

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries

Diesel Nuts

Diesel Nuts

Continental Drift

Continental Drift

Congress

Congress

Presidential Government

Presidential Government

Hybridity and Ideology

Hybridity and Ideology

Street Rebellion

Street Rebellion

He'enalu Days

He'enalu Days

Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812

Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812

History of Old Chester from 1719 to 1869

History of Old Chester from 1719 to 1869

The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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