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Countering Colonization

Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900

By: Carol Devens

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Countering Colonization

Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900

By: Carol Devens

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

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0520328671

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Countering Colonization

Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900

By: Carol Devens

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Countering Colonization

Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900

By: Carol Devens

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Fever of War

The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I

By: Carol R Byerly

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Fever of War

The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I

By: Carol R Byerly

The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.

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NYU Press

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0814799248

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Latino Politics in Massachusetts

Struggles, Strategies and Prospects

By: Carol Hardy-Fanta,Jeffrey Gerson

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Latino Politics in Massachusetts

Struggles, Strategies and Prospects

By: Carol Hardy-Fanta,Jeffrey Gerson

This collection of original essays explores the major challenges to Latino political representation in cities where Latino populations do not make up the majority of the population and therefore cannot rely on sheer numbers to gain representation.

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353

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Routledge

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1135672148

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9781135672140

Shocking the Conscience

A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement

By: Simeon Booker,Carol McCabe Booker

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Shocking the Conscience

A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement

By: Simeon Booker,Carol McCabe Booker

An unforgettable chronicle from a groundbreaking journalist who covered Emmett Till's murder, the Little Rock Nine, and ten US presidents

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617037893

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Race and the Making of American Liberalism

By: Carol A. Horton

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Race and the Making of American Liberalism

By: Carol A. Horton

Race and the Making of American Liberalism traces the roots of the contemporary crisis of progressive liberalism deep into the nation's racial past. Horton argues that the contemporary conservative claim that the American liberal tradition has been rooted in a "color blind" conception of individual rights is innaccurate and misleading. In contrast, American liberalism has alternatively served both to support and oppose racial hierarchy, as well as socioeconomic inequality more broadly. Racial politics in the United States have repeatedly made it exceedingly difficult to establish powerful constituencies that understand socioeconomic equity as vital to American democracy and aspire to limit gross disparities of wealth, power, and status. Revitalizing such equalitarian conceptions of American liberalism, Horton suggests, will require developing new forms of racial and class identity that support, rather than sabotage this fundamental political commitment.

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Oxford University Press

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0190286679

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9780190286675

Engaging With History in the Classroom

The American Revolution (Grades 6-8)

By: Janice I. Robbins,Carol L. Tieso

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Engaging With History in the Classroom

The American Revolution (Grades 6-8)

By: Janice I. Robbins,Carol L. Tieso

Engaging With History in the Classroom: The American Revolution is the first in a series of middle-grade U.S. history units that focus on what it means to be an American citizen, living in a democracy that expects as much from its citizens as it provides to them. In every lesson, students are asked to step into the world of the 18th-century American colonies, to hear about and to see what was happening, to read the words of real people and to imagine their hopes, dreams, and feelings. Students also learn to question the accounts left behind and to recognize different perspectives on events that marked the beginnings of our country as an independent nation. Resources for teachers include a running script useful as a model for guiding conceptualization as well as extensive teacher notes with practical suggestions for personalizing activities. Grades 6-8

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1000492648

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9781000492644

Defend This Old Town

Williamsburg During the Civil War

By: Carol Kettenburg Dubbs

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Defend This Old Town

Williamsburg During the Civil War

By: Carol Kettenburg Dubbs

Defend This Old Town is a riveting war epic of local scale and human dimensions. Taking its title from the cry raised in Williamsburg as the Federal army approached in 1862, Carol Dubbs's narrative sweeps us into the lives of residents of this small historic city from the secession of Virginia in 1861 to Lee's surrender four years later. Williamsburg's Civil War ordeal has never before been told in such depth. Located midway on the only land route between Richmond and the Union-held Fort Monroe, on the tip of the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg hosted Confederate troops for the first year of war while defensive earthworks were built across the area. After the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, 1862 -- a bloody clash neither side sought but each claimed as victor -- Union forces began an occupation of the town that lasted with only short interruptions until the end of the war. Those residents who had not fled remained to stubbornly defend their homes. Dubbs scripts a compelling chronicle of these events, interweaving quotes from diaries, letters, memoirs, and military memoranda to bring immediacy to her subject. Balancing the grim experiences of combat, shortages, tending the dead and wounded, the college's burning, restive servants, typhoid breakout, and isolation from the rest of the Confederacy are some lighter interludes: the Union marshal who arrived with his saddlebags packed with shoes and dresses to win the good opinion of the town's females; the first taste of freedom for blacks; and the issuance of travel passes -- including one to an especially sharp-tongued matron, with the order never to return. Maps, period photographs, order of battle, and a bibliography complete this substantial, comprehensive, and entertaining work. Defend This Old Town is certain to engage anyone who enjoys good history.

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LSU Press

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0807130176

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9780807130179

Liberty Street

World War Ii Correspondence Between Janice Y. Chandler and Alfred G. Chandler M.D.

By: Carol Chandler Malcarney

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Liberty Street

World War Ii Correspondence Between Janice Y. Chandler and Alfred G. Chandler M.D.

By: Carol Chandler Malcarney

Personal letters can provide us with a unique opportunity. The letters in this collection offer a glimpse into the personal lives of two people whose lives, like so many others, were interrupted by World War II. These letters date from August 1943 to March 1946, the time that Alfred Chandler served in the Army Medical Corps. The majority of the 700 plus letters were written by Alfred and Janice, his wife, to each other. They wrote faithfully whenever they were apart. Alfred was facing an unforeseeable future as he embarked on his wartime assignment in Europe, and Janice had her own challenges living back home with her family in Massachusetts. It is unusual to have such an extensive collection of personal letters survive, given the variety of circumstances which could have caused them to be lost or destroyed. It is even more amazing that mail was so successfully delivered to battlefields and bases all over the world, a truly major accomplishment.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514425769

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Mosquito Warrior

Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas

By: Carol R. Byerly

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Mosquito Warrior

Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas

By: Carol R. Byerly

The long overdue and definitive biography of the life and work of General William Crawford Gorgas"--

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University of Alabama Press

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0817361421

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9780817361426

Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler

By: John Irving,Carol Anshaw,Chris Cleave,Vaddey Ratner,Enid Shomer,Natalie Bakopoulos

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Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler

By: John Irving,Carol Anshaw,Chris Cleave,Vaddey Ratner,Enid Shomer,Natalie Bakopoulos

This free sampler features extended excerpts from six novels coming in 2012 from Simon & Schuster. The books and authors presented in this sampler include In One Person, the first new novel in three years from John Irving, Carry the One by Carol Anshaw, Gold by Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee, In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner, The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer, and The Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos. In addition to these exclusive previews, the sample includes interviews with the writers and commentary from the books’ editors.

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1451686196

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Zouave Theaters

Transnational Military Fashion and Performance

By: Carol E. Harrison,Thomas J. Brown

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Zouave Theaters

Transnational Military Fashion and Performance

By: Carol E. Harrison,Thomas J. Brown

In this compelling new study, Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown chart the rise and fall of the Zouave uniform, the nineteenth century’s most important military fashion fad for men and women on both sides of the Atlantic. Originating in French colonial Algeria, the uniform was characterized by an open, collarless jacket, baggy trousers, and a fez. As Harrison and Brown demonstrate, the Zouaves embraced ethnic, racial, and gender crossing, liberating themselves from the strictures of bourgeois society. Some served as soldiers in Papal Rome, the United States, the British West Indies, and Brazil, while others acted in theatrical performances that combined drag and drill. Zouave Theaters analyzes the interaction of the stage and the military, and reveals that the Zouave persona influenced visual artists from painters and photographers to illustrators and filmmakers.

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0807182117

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A Soldier's Perspective

1916-1919

By: Carol Ann Asplund

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A Soldier's Perspective

1916-1919

By: Carol Ann Asplund

A Soldier's Perspective: 1916-1919 By: Carol Ann Asplund In A Soldier’s Perspective, Carol Ann Asplund presents a biography of her grandfather, Walter C.R. Krieger, and his family, focusing on his service in the 1916 Mexican Campaign and World War I. Told by Walter’s own words from his diary entries and accompanied by numerous photographs, A Soldier’s Perspective shows the heart and patriotism of a young man whose family were immigrants to the United States from the same areas of Germany and France where the war was fought.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1649572034

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9781649572035

Fields of Fire

By: Carol Ogg

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Fields of Fire

By: Carol Ogg

To read this book is to flip through scenes that rivet us with the intimate intensity of snapshots, both comic and tragic. From the hills of Wyoming to the back streets of Saigon, we see the narrator encounter experiences that test her mettle. Enlisting in the Army early, she learns codes of loyalty, secrecy, and courage. We see her confront suffering and warfare in Vietnam, even as she discovers her feelings for another woman soldier. Carol Ogg has written a story too seldom known: what it is to be a woman in war, a fellow soldier, tough, tender, and loving. She tells this story with the grace and humor of a western girl, who gives no quarter in the service of her country.

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1477164391

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American Women Leaders

1,560 Current Biographies

By: Carol Hooks Hawkins

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American Women Leaders

1,560 Current Biographies

By: Carol Hooks Hawkins

This reference work contains entries on 1,560 women who have excelled in their careers to become well-known leaders in politics, business, education and culture. From Justice Cynthia Aaron to business executive Andrea Zoop, it includes women of many races, nations of origin, economic backgrounds, and fields of interest to present a wide-ranging group of leaders who can be considered positive role models of achievement. Each entry gives an informative biography, including up-to-date details of accomplishments.

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McFarland

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0786452757

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9780786452750

Loosen Your Ears

By: Carol J. Farley

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Loosen Your Ears

By: Carol J. Farley

Josh Hemmer reminisces about his boyhood on the farm and his many interesting relatives.

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Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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0689305532

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9780689305535

In the Men's House

An Inside Account of Life in the Army by One of West Point's First Female Graduates

By: Carol Barkalow,Andrea Raab

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In the Men's House

An Inside Account of Life in the Army by One of West Point's First Female Graduates

By: Carol Barkalow,Andrea Raab

Of the 119 women who entered West Point in 1976--smashing the well-known sex barrier--only 62 of them survived the grueling ordeal to graduate. This is the true story of one of those women--taken from her heat-of-the-moment personal journal entries. Photographs.

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