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A Family of His Own

A Life of Edwin O'Connor

By: Charles F. Duffy

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A Family of His Own

A Life of Edwin O'Connor

By: Charles F. Duffy

A family of his own covers Edwin O'Connor's comfortable upbringing in Rhode Island, his formation at Notre Dame, his obscure years in radio and the Coast Guard during World War II, his adoption of Boston, his long association with his publishers at "Atlantic Monthly" and Little, Brown and Company, his toil in journalism and television reviewing, his several sojourns in Ireland, and his extraordinary dedication to his craft while living close to poverty. For the years after "The Last Hurrah," Duffy examines O'Connor's handling of newfound wealth and celebrity, his growing loneliness, the surprise and fulfillment of a late marriage, his failure on Broadway, and his return to fiction. Throughout his writing O'Connor's major subject was the family, especially the gains, losses, and conflicts within assimilated Irish America. Duffy examines the complex ways by which O'Connor's own experience of family and friendship formed essential patterns in his works.

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CUA Press

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0813213371

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9780813213378

Making Better Choices

Design, Decisions, and Democracy

By: Charles E. Phelps,Guru Madhavan

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Making Better Choices

Design, Decisions, and Democracy

By: Charles E. Phelps,Guru Madhavan

Systems engineering offers a set of capabilities and competencies to design and manage complex systems as they evolve. Drawing from social choice research and systems engineering practice, Making Better Choices examines how we make decisions together and the tools we use to arrive at those decisions. It takes a critical look at the rules and methods we apply to important decisions--from how we run meetings to how we elect presidents--with an interest in how we can improve these mechanisms. By reviewing different voting systems, their original intents, and their deficits, the authors outline a systems engineering approach to making collective choices in society. Written by an economist and an engineer, this groundbreaking work draws from insights in sociology, linguistics, law, political science, philosophy, psychology, economics, and systems design. In an era of relentless rating, this book offers a fresh vision for engineering better democracies by enabling diverse and inclusive choices

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169

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Oxford University Press

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0190871164

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9780190871161

Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859

Book Four: Mining and Gold

By: Margaret Mendelawitz,Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859

Book Four: Mining and Gold

By: Margaret Mendelawitz,Charles Dickens

Of the nearly 3000 articles published in Household Words, some 100 related to Australia and have been collected in this anthology. Dickens saw Australia offering opportunities for England's poor and downtrodden to make a new start and a brighter future for themselves; optimism reflected in many of the articles.

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271

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Sydney University Press

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1920899251

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9781920899257

Journey

An Autobiography

By: Charles V. McAvoy

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Journey

An Autobiography

By: Charles V. McAvoy

This story describes many incidents in the life of Charles McAvoy his upbringing in small-town America,his experiences in World War II and the Korean War, his love of flying, and his rise in the ranks of one of the largest and most successful enterprises in American corporate history and the triumphs and tragedies within his family. It is the story of one life that epitomizes what is now being referred to as "The Greatest Generation.

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674

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Xlibris Corporation

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1413404154

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9781413404159

The Bishops' Wars

Charles I's Campaigns Against Scotland, 1638-1640

By: Mark Charles Fissel

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The Bishops' Wars

Charles I's Campaigns Against Scotland, 1638-1640

By: Mark Charles Fissel

A study of Charles I's two unsuccessful attempts to bring religious conformity to Scotland.

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360

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Cambridge University Press

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0521466865

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9780521466868

Aka Bpnichol

A Preliminary Biography

By: Charles B. Swayne,Frank Davey

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Aka Bpnichol

A Preliminary Biography

By: Charles B. Swayne,Frank Davey

Patience and aggression are key elements of a successful poker strategy, but also, as this innovative and accessible guide reveals, to a successful leadership strategy in business decisions. Acclaimed poker instructor Charles Swayne presents down-to-earth career advice using a language that makes the valuable guidance both relatable and understandable-the language of poker. The logic-based viewpoint built upon proven strategies will be a welcome relief to individuals who have been turned off by self-help books that use empty metaphors and promises and are looking to give their professional cir.

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ECW Press

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1770902600

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9781770902602

The Wonder of American Toys, 1920-1950

By: Charles Dee Sharp

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The Wonder of American Toys, 1920-1950

By: Charles Dee Sharp

The Wonder of American Toys reflects not only the toys of perhaps the most formative era of American history, but what they meant to the children who played with them and to the society that produced them.

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Collectors Press, Inc.

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1888054700

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9781888054705

19th and 20th Century French Philosophy

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

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19th and 20th Century French Philosophy

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.

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A&C Black

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0826469035

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9780826469038

Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris

The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York

By: Peter M. Kenny,Charles Honoré Lannuier,Frances F. Bretter,Ulrich Leben,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris

The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York

By: Peter M. Kenny,Charles Honoré Lannuier,Frances F. Bretter,Ulrich Leben,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Although his brief but productive career as a cabinetmaker in New York lasted a mere sixteen years, the French-born maitre ebeniste Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive and highly refined style of furniture in the Late Federal period. A contemporary of the renowned master Duncan Phyfe, Lannuier, like him, made fashionable gilded card tables, marble-topped pier tables, bedsteads, and seating furniture for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and Savannah. This volume, which complements the exhibition "Honore Lannuier, Parisian Cabinetmaker in Federal New York" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in spring 1998, represents the most complete study of Lannuier's life and work published to date.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870998358

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9780870998355

A History of Philosophy: Maine de Biran to Sartre

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

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A History of Philosophy: Maine de Biran to Sartre

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

Prominent French philosophical thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. +

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Paulist Press

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0809101963

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9780809101962

Hoover's War on Gays

Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program

By: Douglas M. Charles

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Hoover's War on Gays

Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program

By: Douglas M. Charles

At the FBI, the “Sex Deviates” program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover’s notorious “Sex Deviates” file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977–1978 these files were destroyed—and it would seem that four decades of the FBI’s dirty secrets went up in smoke. But in a remarkable feat of investigative research, synthesis, and scholarly detective work, Douglas M. Charles manages to fill in the yawning blanks in the bureau’s history of systematic (some would say obsessive) interest in the lives of gay and lesbian Americans in the twentieth century. His book, Hoover’s War on Gays, is the first to fully expose the extraordinary invasion of US citizens’ privacy perpetrated on a historic scale by an institution tasked with protecting American life. For much of the twentieth century, when exposure might mean nothing short of ruin, gay American men and women had much to fear from law enforcement of every kind—but none so much as the FBI, with its inexhaustible federal resources, connections, and its carefully crafted reputation for ethical, by-the-book operations. What Hoover’s War on Gays reveals, rather, is the FBI’s distinctly unethical, off-the-books long-term targeting of gay men and women and their organizations under cover of “official” rationale—such as suspicion of criminal activity or vulnerability to blackmail and influence. The book offers a wide-scale view of this policy and practice, from a notorious child kidnapping and murder of the 1930s (ostensibly by a sexual predator with homosexual tendencies), educating the public about the threat of “deviates,” through WWII’s security concerns about homosexuals who might be compromised by the enemy, to the Cold War’s “Lavender Scare” when any and all gays working for the US government shared the fate of suspected Communist sympathizers. Charles’s work also details paradoxical ways in which these incursions conjured counterefforts—like the Mattachine Society; ONE, Inc.; and the Daughters of Bilitis—aimed at protecting and serving the interests of postwar gay culture. With its painstaking recovery of a dark chapter in American history and its new insights into seemingly familiar episodes of that story—involving noted journalists, politicians, and celebrities—this thorough and deeply engaging book reveals the perils of authority run amok and stands as a reminder of damage done in the name of decency.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700621199

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9780700621194

Cousin in Love

By: Charles Jackson

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Cousin in Love

By: Charles Jackson

A story of an African American boy named Anthony, growing up in a rural neighborhood in Winston Salem. NC. He experiences risky, sad, funny and interesting romances with different females in his life. As he begins to get older, advice comes from everywhere about dating and finding a mate. At first, his parents tried to guide him in the right direction. Then, cousins and brothers begin to educate him on the opposite sex. Later in Anthony’s life, other people begin to get involve in his personal life. The one goal Anthony has, is for him to be happy and fun. While in the process of during this, maybe the good lord will shine on him and give him the right companion. During his final year of high school education, his mother informed him he must make an important decision on what he is going to do with his life. One thing he knows is he must turn his life around for his career and his love life. Anthony decides to join the military. Military has its ups and downs, but with his career he finds time to find a mate. He married fast. Only to find out that his wife cousin thinks he is too good for his wife. Then a turn of events occurs, which turns into cousin in love.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796012971

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9781796012972

Socrates’ Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus

By: Charles Ives

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Socrates’ Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus

By: Charles Ives

Timaeus is not an independent work. Rather, it is the premier dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of which we have only a fragment, and Hermocrates, which is forecast in Critias but was presumably never written. There is demand, and has been for some time now, for an account of the relevance between the extant parts of the trilogy, namely the pertinence of Timaeus’ cosmology to Critias’ war story. Over time this demand has been refined. There is now a more specific interest in the relevance of the cosmology to what is commonly known as “Socrates’ Request”—that is, what Socrates is asking of his interlocutors at the outset of the trilogy. While Charles Ives certainly addresses the former, more general demand, the primary concern in this book is with the latter, given the obvious aptness of Critias’ contribution. Socrates, at least in part, is asking for a story about a war, and Critias provides it. What is far from obvious is how Timaeus’ contribution fits into this picture. In order to illuminate the nature of this contribution, Ives first establishes that Socrates is asking for an encomium with two areas of focus, which will be taken up by Critias and Timaeus. Critias will speak on war—more precisely, on the war between ancient Athens and Atlantis. Timaeus will speak on the warriors’ education as philosophers, and in particular on the formation and nature of the philosophical soul. To show the relevance of Timaeus’ speech to the request, Ives highlights the educational aspects of the dialogue, charting the progress of an educational program that aims at health. The book especially focuses on the convalescence of intellect, which ushers in discussions of the medical dimensions of Timaeus’ physics; the markedly Platonic project of becoming like god; and the comprehensively philosophical soul that leads its possessor to success on the battlefield. Socrates’ Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus is written for those interested in ancient philosophy and philosophy of education.

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129

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Lexington Books

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1498528511

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9781498528511

Paullin's History of Naval Administration, 1775-1911

A Collection of Articles from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings

By: Charles Oscar Paullin

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Paullin's History of Naval Administration, 1775-1911

A Collection of Articles from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings

By: Charles Oscar Paullin

The classic collection of articles from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612512925

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9781612512921

Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution

The Holland Land Purchase

By: Charles E. Brooks

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Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution

The Holland Land Purchase

By: Charles E. Brooks

In Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution, Charles E. Brooks explains how the Holland Land Purchase--in which the Holland Land Company purchased 3.3 million acres of land in western New York State--contributed to the development of a frontier region.

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Cornell University Press

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0801431204

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9780801431203

The Outlaw Trail

A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch

By: Charles Kelly

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The Outlaw Trail

A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch

By: Charles Kelly

The Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. The almost inaccessible Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming was a station on the Outlaw Trail well known to Butch Cassidy. To the south, in Utah, was the inhospitable Robbers’ Roost, where Butch and his friends camped in 1897 after a robbery at Castle Gate. Charles Kelly recreates the mean and magnificent places frequented by the Wild Bunch and a slew of lesser outlaws. At the same time, he brings Butch Cassidy to life, traces his criminal apprenticeship and meeting with the Sundance Kid, and masterfully describes the exploits of the Wild Bunch.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803277784

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9780803277786

Glannon Guide to Property

Learning Property Through Multiple Choice Questions and Analysis

By: James Charles Smith

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Glannon Guide to Property

Learning Property Through Multiple Choice Questions and Analysis

By: James Charles Smith

Law school classroom lectures can leave you with a lot of questions. Glannon Guides can help you better understand your classroom lecture with straightforward explanations of tough concepts with hypos that help you understand their application. The Glannon Guide is your proven partner throughout the semester when you need a supplement to (or substitute for) classroom lecture. Here’s why you need to use Glannon Guides to help you better understand what is being taught in the classroom: It mirrors the classroom experience by teaching through explanation, interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application. Both correct and incorrect answers are explained; you learn why a solution does or does not work. Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations of complex legal concepts, often in a humorous style that makes material stick.

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Aspen Publishing

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1543802974

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9781543802979

The Glannon Guide to Property

Learning Property Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis

By: James Charles Smith

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Learning Property Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis

By: James Charles Smith

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Aspen Publishing

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1543839320

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The Prophet and the Bodhisattva

Daniel Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the Ethics of Peace and Justice

By: Charles R. Strain

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The Prophet and the Bodhisattva

Daniel Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the Ethics of Peace and Justice

By: Charles R. Strain

Can religious individuals and communities learn from each other in ways that will lead them to collaborate in addressing the great ethical challenges of our time, including climate change and endless warfare? This is the central question underlying The Prophet and the Bodhisattva. It juxtaposes two figures emblematic of an ideal moral life: the prophet as it evolved in ancient Israel and the bodhisattva as it flowered in Mahayana Buddhism. In particular, The Prophet and the Bodhisattva focuses on Daniel Berrigan and Thich Nhat Hanh, who in their lives embody and in their writings reflect upon their respective moral type. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, pacifist, and poet, is best known for burning draft files in 1968 and for hammering and pouring blood on a nuclear warhead in 1980. His extensive writings on the Hebrew prophets reflect his life of nonviolent activism. Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk, Vietnamese exile, and poet struggled to end the conflict during the Vietnam War. Since then he has led the global movement that he named Engaged Buddhism and has written many commentaries on Mahayana scriptures. For fifty years both have been teaching us how to pursue peace and justice, a legacy we can draw upon to build a social ethics for our time.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620328410

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9781620328415

Misadventures in Archaeology

The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott

By: Carolyn D. Dillian,Charles A. Bello

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Misadventures in Archaeology

The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott

By: Carolyn D. Dillian,Charles A. Bello

A comprehensive portrait of the controversial self-taught archaeologist C. C. Abbott. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Conrad Abbott, a medical doctor and self-taught archaeologist, gained notoriety for his theories on early humans. He believed in an American Paleolithic, represented by an early Ice Age occupation of the New World that paralleled that of Europe, a popular scientific topic at the time. He attempted to prove that the Trenton gravels—glacial outwash deposits near the Delaware River—contained evidence of an early, primitive population that pre-dated Native Americans. His theories were ultimately overturned in acrimonious public debate with government scientists, most notably William Henry Holmes of the Smithsonian Institution. His experience—and the rise and fall of his scientific reputation—paralleled a major shift in the field toward an increasing professionalization of archaeology (and science as a whole). This is the first biography of Charles Conrad Abbott to address his archaeological research beyond the Paleolithic debate, including his early attempts at historical archaeology on Burlington Island in the Delaware River, and prehistoric Middle Woodland collections made throughout his lifetime at Three Beeches in New Jersey, now the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark. It also delves into his modestly successful career as a nature writer. As an archaeologist, he held a position with the Peabody Museum at Harvard University and was the first curator of the American Section at the Penn Museum. He also attempted to create a museum of American archaeology at Princeton University. Through various sources including archival letters and diaries, this book provides the most complete picture of the quirky and curmudgeonly, C. C. Abbott.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1949057062

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9781949057065

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