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Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance

By: Damian A. Carpenter

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Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance

By: Damian A. Carpenter

With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled outlaw territory that is simultaneously a part of and apart from settled American society by examining outlaw myth, performance, and perception over time. Since the late nineteenth century, the outlaw voice has been most prominent in folk performance, the result being a cultural persona invested in an outlaw tradition that conflates the historic, folkloric, and social in a cultural act. Focusing on the works and guises of Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Carpenter goes beyond the outlaw figure’s heroic associations and expands on its historical (Jesse James, Billy the Kid), folk (John Henry, Stagolee), and social (tramps, hoboes) forms. He argues that all three performers represent a culturally disruptive force, whether it be the bad outlaw that Lead Belly represented to an urban bourgeoisie audience, the good outlaw that Guthrie shaped to reflect the social concerns of marginalized people, or the honest outlaw that Dylan offered audiences who responded to him as a promoter of clear-sighted self-evaluation. As Carpenter shows, the outlaw and the law as located in society are interdependent in terms of definition. His study provides an in-depth look at the outlaw figure’s self-reflexive commentary and critique of both performer and society that reflects the times in which they played their outlaw roles.

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Routledge

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1317107071

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9781317107071

Freedom Seekers

Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860

By: Damian Alan Pargas

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Freedom Seekers

Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860

By: Damian Alan Pargas

In this fascinating book, Damian Alan Pargas introduces a new conceptualization of 'spaces of freedom' for fugitive slaves in North America between 1800 and 1860, and answers the questions: How and why did enslaved people flee to – and navigate – different destinations throughout the continent, and to what extent did they succeed in evading recapture and re-enslavement? Taking a continental approach, this study highlights the diversity of slave fight by conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct – and continuously evolving – spaces of freedom. Namely, spaces of informal freedom in the US South, where enslaved people attempted to flee by passing as free blacks; spaces of semi-formal freedom in the US North, where slavery was abolished but the precise status of fugitive slaves was contested; and spaces of formal freedom in Canada and Mexico, where slavery was abolished and runaways were considered legally free and safe from re-enslavement.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316843831

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9781316843833

The Color Storm

A Novel of Renaissance Venice

By: Damian Dibben

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The Color Storm

A Novel of Renaissance Venice

By: Damian Dibben

Enter the world of Renaissance Venice, where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death… Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary color. Yet artist Giorgione “Zorzo” Barbarelli’s career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumor of a mysterious new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the color and secure his name in history. Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the man’s wife, Sybille, Zorzo thinks he has found a way into the merchant’s favor. Instead he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy that stretches across Europe and a marriage coming apart inside one of the floating city’s most illustrious palazzi. As the water levels rise and the plague creeps ever closer, an increasingly desperate Zorzo isn’t sure whom he can trust. Will Sybille prove to be the key to Zorzo’s success or the reason for his downfall? Atmospheric and suspenseful and filled with the famous artists of the era, The Color Storm is an intoxicating story of art and ambition, love and obsession.

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Harlequin

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1488057230

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Ponapean-English Dictionary

By: Kenneth L. Rehg,Damian G. Sohl

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Ponapean-English Dictionary

By: Kenneth L. Rehg,Damian G. Sohl

The Ponapean-English Dictionary contains approximately 6,750 Ponapean to English entries. Each entry includes a headword, grammatical information, and one or more English definitions. Where appropriate, alternate spellings of headwords, usage labels, phrase and sentence examples, loan source information, and cross-references to related workds are also provided. An English to Ponapean finder list containing approximately 4,200 entries is also included to enable the user to locate key English words used in the definitions in the Ponapean entries. Designed to serve as a reference volume for native speakers of the language, particularly for Ponapean educators working in bilingual programs, this work will also be of value to English-speaking students of Ponapean and to scholars of other Pacific languages and cultures. This dictionary was prepared as a companion volume to the Ponapean Reference Grammar by the same authors.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824843061

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9780824843069

Everyone, and the Rest

By: Damian Barrett

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Everyone, and the Rest

By: Damian Barrett

A human (Jim Wilson) can transport spirits back to earth to fulfil their one last wish. Paul Constantini is returned from hell back to earth as an invisible being to fulfil everyone’s deeds. Jim Wilson and his wife, Till, have a son named Tommy, who is born with a very special purpose and also very unique abilities.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796000124

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Fields of Fire

The Inside Story of Hurling's Great Renaissance

By: Damian Lawlor

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Fields of Fire

The Inside Story of Hurling's Great Renaissance

By: Damian Lawlor

These are exceptional times for the game of hurling. The skill, speed and summer long edge of the seat drama of recent All Ireland championships has led many to conclude that something very special is happening in the ancient game. The Kilkenny team of the last decade has undoubtedly been the greatest in the history of hurling. Their extraordinary record speaks for itself. But has a chink finally begun to appear in Kilkenny’s armour? Or is it that the challengers have begun to catch up, at last recognising the immense effort required to compete at the highest level? Fields Of Fire tells the story of Kilkenny’s phenomenal success and explores how the Cats became an almost indomitable force. But it also looks at the profound challenge which their supremacy presented to other counties, revealing how the struggle for competitiveness has positively transformed the game. Old rivals have adapted and learned. But new powers too have emerged – from Clare and from Limerick, from Dublin and from Waterford - young bloods who do not fear the Kings of the Game. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of current and former legends, among them Eddie Brennan, Cha Fitzpatrick, Brendan Cummins, John Mullane, Davy Fitzgerald, Damien Hayes, Liam Dunne, DJ Carey and Ger Cunningham, award-winning journalist Damian Lawlor offers a unique and compelling insight into hurling’s spectacular renaissance.

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Random House

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1473509262

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9781473509269

St. Mary’s at Mazinde Juu

African Pilgrimage Volume Ii

By: Father Damian J. Milliken O.S.B.

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St. Mary’s at Mazinde Juu

African Pilgrimage Volume Ii

By: Father Damian J. Milliken O.S.B.

This book, African Pilgrimage Volume II: St. Mary’s at Mazinde Juu, traces the growth of St. Mary’s through the years since its founding by Father Damian in 1989. The story is told in a series of anecdotes and comments excerpted from the monthly thank-you letters Father Damian writes to supporters and benefactors. Volume II is rich in fascinating detail, not only about St. Mary’s but also about the history and culture of Tanzania. This book is composed of reports and reflections centered on the founding and first decades of a secondary school for young Tanzanian women that has sent two thousand-plus highly qualified graduates on to higher education since 1993. Both books are available on Amazon under “African Pilgrimage.” Information can be found at the end of this volume.

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iUniverse

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1532080328

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9781532080326

Liquid Thinking

Inspirational Lessons from the World's Great Achievers

By: Damian Hughes

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Liquid Thinking

Inspirational Lessons from the World's Great Achievers

By: Damian Hughes

Stuck in a rut? Know what you want but don’t know how to get it? Feel like life is passing you by? Sick of getting mediocre results? Then enter the wonderful world of Liquid Thinking… A practical, jargon-free and easily accessible self-help book drawing on a diverse range of experiences and containing digestible lessons and exercises used by sports captains, charity leaders and business leaders. It is the only self-help book which has ever been endorsed by Sir Richard Branson, Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali, and Jonny Wilkinson. It is a brave man who starts his book on self development by quoting Jerry Springer and discussing the literary merits of the Joy of Sex; however, this is Damian Hughes to a tee. Combining his own experiences as a Manchester United football coach, HR Director and youth club leader with exclusive insights from Sir Richard Branson, Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali and Jonny Wilkinson, Hughes will help you to step forward to achieve your own special hopes, dreams and ambition. The books have been credited with helping people build their own houses, fight cancer and run marathons, so come on and be a fellow Liquid Thinker!

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John Wiley & Sons

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1906465428

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9781906465421

Irish in the American Civil War

By: Damian Shiels

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Irish in the American Civil War

By: Damian Shiels

This is the story of the forgotten role of the 200,000 Irish men and women who were involved in various ways in the US Civil War.This book is based on several years of research by the author, a professional historian, who has put together a series of the best of his collected stories for this collection.The book is broken into 4 sections, ‘beginnings’, ‘realities’, ‘the wider war’ and ‘aftermath’.Within each section there are 6 true stories of gallantry, sacrifice and bravery, from the flag bearer who saved his regimental colours at the cost of his arms, to the story of Jennie Hodgers, who pretended to be a man and served throughout the war in the 95th Illinois.

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The History Press

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0752491970

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9780752491974

The Quarters and the Fields

Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South

By: Damian Alan Pargas

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The Quarters and the Fields

Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South

By: Damian Alan Pargas

The Quarters and the Fields offers a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane. He reveals how the demands of different types of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves' family life. By presenting a broader view of the complex forces that shaped enslaved people's family lives, not only from outside but also from within, this book takes an inclusive approach to the slave agency debate. A comparative study that examines the importance of time and place for slave families, The Quarters and the Fields provides a means for understanding them as they truly were: dynamic social units that were formed and existed under different circumstances across time and space.

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University Press of Florida

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0813059070

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9780813059075

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

By: Damian Alan Pargas

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Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

By: Damian Alan Pargas

This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. It analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107031214

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The Trauma of the Cross

How the Followers of Jesus Came to Understand the Crucifixion

By: Damian Barry Smyth

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The Trauma of the Cross

How the Followers of Jesus Came to Understand the Crucifixion

By: Damian Barry Smyth

An informal meditation on the passion of Christ that explores how the early Christians understood the crucifixion.

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Paulist Press

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0809139081

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9780809139088

Letters

By: Saint Peter Damian

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Letters

By: Saint Peter Damian

Peter Damian (1007-1072), an 11th-century monk and man of letters, left a large and significant body of correspondence. This third volume of The Letters of Peter Damian is an annotated translation of Letters 61-90. These letters reveal the author's concern with the contemporary need for reforms, centering on clerical, especially episcopal, celibacy and on the heresy of simony which involved the purchase of ecclesiastical offices. Because Damian's Latin was a living language that surpasses the ability of classical Latin lexicography to cope with it, all disciplines that make use of medieval thought will welcome this English translation. Owen J. Blum's notes to each letter indicate the vocabulary problems he encountered and how they were resolved. This third volume, like its companions, uses Damian's thought to understand an important and gripping period in the history of church and state.

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CUA Press

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0813207509

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9780813207506

Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire

Christian Promotion and Practice 313-450

By: Richard Damian Finn

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Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire

Christian Promotion and Practice 313-450

By: Richard Damian Finn

This work highlights the importance of gifts to the poor for Christians in the later Roman Empire. It asks what it meant to give to the poor, the virtues it displayed and the role it played in articulating or challenging the standing of bishops, monks and ordinary lay men and women.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199283605

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9780199283606

Letters, 61-90

By: Peter Damian

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Letters, 61-90

By: Peter Damian

Peter Damian (1007-1072), an eleventh-century monk and man of letters, left a large and significant body of correspondence. Over one hundred and eighty letters have been preserved, principally from Damian's own monastery of Fonte Avellana. Ranging in length from short memoranda to longer monographs, the letters provide a contemporary account of many of the controversies of the eleventh century: purgatory, the Eucharist, clerical marriage and celibacy, immorality, and others. Peter Damian, or "Peter the Sinner" as he often referred to himself, was one of the most learned men of his day, and his letters are filled with both erudition and zeal for reform.

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Catholic University of America Press

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0813226384

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9780813226385

Fred’s Gift

Once Opened, the World Will Never Be the Same

By: Damian Barrett

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Fred’s Gift

Once Opened, the World Will Never Be the Same

By: Damian Barrett

Wouldn’t you love to save the world? Imagine going back in time, or even better still, to be able to visit other worlds. These are only a few of the things that happen to Chris and Sandy along their amazing adventure. And please let us not forget the two beautiful aliens from Orin who help our fine young friends achieve their incredible journey.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984505238

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9781984505231

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 1, The University to 1546

By: Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke,Damian Riehl Leader

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A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 1, The University to 1546

By: Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke,Damian Riehl Leader

This is the first of a four volume History of the University of Cambridge, under the General Editorship of Professor C.N.L. Brooke, and the first volume on the medieval University as a whole to be published in over a century. It provides a synthesis of the intellectual, social, political, and religious life of the early University, and gives serious attention to the development of classroom studies and how they changed with the coming of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Following the first stirrings of the University in the early thirteenth century, the evolution of the University is traced from the original Corporation of Masters and Scholars through the early development of the colleges. The second half of the book focuses on the century from the 1440s to the 1540s, which saw the flowering of the University under Tudor patronage. In the decades preceding the Reformation many colleges were founded, the teaching structures reorganized, and the curriculum made more humanistic. The place of Cambridge at the forefront of northern European universities was eventually assured when Henry VIII founded Trinity College in 1546, in the face of changes and difficulties experienced during the course of the Reformation.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521328829

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9780521328821

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