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Paradoxes of Prosperity

Wealth Seeking in Pre-Civil War America

By: Lorman A. Ratner,Paula T. Kaufman,Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

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Paradoxes of Prosperity

Wealth Seeking in Pre-Civil War America

By: Lorman A. Ratner,Paula T. Kaufman,Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

In the midst of the United States' immense economic growth in the 1850s, Americans worried about whether the booming agricultural, industrial, and commercial expansion came at the price of cherished American values such as honesty, hard work, and dedication to the common good. Was the nation becoming greedy, selfish, vulgar, and cruel? Was there such a thing as too much prosperity? At the same time, the United States felt the influence of the rise of popular mass-circulation newspapers and magazines and the surge in American book publishing. Concern over living correctly as well as prosperously was commonly discussed by leading authors and journalists, who were now writing for ever-expanding regional and national audiences. Women became more important as authors and editors, giving advice and building huge markets for women readers, with the magazine Godey's Lady's Book and novels by Susan Warner, Maria Cummins, and Harriet Beecher Stowe expressing women's views about the troubled state of society. Best-selling male writers--including novelist George Lippard, historian George Bancroft, and travel writer Bayard Taylor--were among those adding their voices to concerns about prosperity and morality and about America's place in the world. Writers and publishers discovered that a high moral tone could be exceedingly good for business. The authors of this book examine how popular writers and widely read newspapers, magazines, and books expressed social tensions between prosperity and morality. This study draws on that nationwide conversation through leading mass media, including circulation-leading newspapers, the New York Herald and the New York Tribune, plus prominent newspapers from the South and West, the Richmond Enquirer and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Best-selling magazines aimed at middle-class tastes, Harper's Magazine and the Southern Literary Messenger, added their voices, as did two leading business magazines.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252092228

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9780252092220

Fanatics and Fire-eaters

Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War

By: Lorman A. Ratner,Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

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Fanatics and Fire-eaters

Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War

By: Lorman A. Ratner,Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

In the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, newspapers in the North and South presented the arguments for and against slavery, debated the right to secede, and in general denounced opposing viewpoints with imagination and vigor. At the same time, new technologies like railroads and the telegraph lent the debates an immediacy that both enflamed emotions and brought the slavery issue into every home. Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. look at the power of America's fast-growing media to influence perception and the course of events prior to the Civil War. Drawing on newspaper accounts from across the United States, the authors look at how the media covered—and the public reacted to—major events like the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and the election of 1860. They find not only North-South disputes about the institution of slavery but differing visions of the republic itself—and which region was the true heir to the legacy of the American Revolution.

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University of Illinois Press

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025209221X

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9780252092213

The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

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The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382100584

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9783382100582

Colonial Chesapeake Families 1

By: Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

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Colonial Chesapeake Families 1

By: Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

Alexander, Bland, Beall, Berry, Blake, Bocock, Bond, Bonderant, Boone, Bowie, Bradford, Brooke, Broome, Boyd, Butler, Cabell-Horsley, Cadwalader, Carroll, Cavanagh, Chapman-Pearson, Clagett, Claiborne, Cole, Compton, Cullen, Denwood-Covington, Dering, Dorsey, Dunscomb, DuVal, Eltonhead, Elzey, Eversfield, Ewell, Fauntleroy, Fielder, Gantt, Gittings, Glover, Graves, Greenfield, Hall, Hay, Heighe, Hilleary, Holdsworth, Keene, King, Lee-Fearn, Lewis, Mackall, Moore-Weems, Nelson, Parker, Parrott, Perkins, Reynolds, Roberts, Semmes, Skinner, Smith (Highlands), Sprigg, Stoddert, Stoughton-Stoss, Tasker, Tryon, Waring, Weems, Wheeler, Wight (White), Williams, Winder, Wortham Worthington, Wood, Wright, Young-Smith (Halls-Creek), with 57 ancestral British pedigrees.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493188119

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9781493188116

John McMillan

The Apostle of Presbyterianism in the West, 1752-1833

By: Dwight Ray Guthrie

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John McMillan

The Apostle of Presbyterianism in the West, 1752-1833

By: Dwight Ray Guthrie

The first comprehensive biography of John McMillan, who "blew the Gospel trumpet", and spread Presbyterianism west of the Alleghenies. McMillan was a missionary, minister, politician, patriarch, and a founder of Washington and Jefferson College. The book also offers a colorful history of the Scotch-Irish pioneers who tamed a rugged and hostile region of early America.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822975335

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COLONIAL CHESAPEAKE FAMILIES British Origins and Descendants

By: Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

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COLONIAL CHESAPEAKE FAMILIES British Origins and Descendants

By: Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

British Origins and Descendants Alexander, Bland, Beall, Berry, Blake, Bocock, Bond, Bonderant, Boone, Bowie, Bradford, BROOKE, Broome, Boyd, Butler, CABELL-HORSLEY, Cadwalader, Carroll, CAVANAGH, Chapman-Pearson, Clagett, Claiborne, COLE, Compton, Cullen, Denwood-Covington, DERING, Dorsey, Dunscomb, DuVal, Eltonhead, Elzey, Eversfield, Ewell, FIELDER, GANTT, Gittings, Glover, Graves, GREENFIELD, Hall, Hay, Heighe, Hilleary, Holdsworth, Keene, King, LEE-FEARN, Lewis, Mackall, Moore-Weems, Nelson, PARKER, Parrott, Perkins, Reynolds, Roberts, Semmes, Skinner, Smith (Highlands), Sprigg, STODDERT, Stoughton-Sloss, Tasker, Tryon, Waring, WEEMS, Wheeler, Wight (White), WILLIAMS, Winder, Wortham, Worthington, Wood, Wright, Young-Smith (Halls-Creek), with 57 Ancestral British Pedigrees.

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1493188100

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9781493188109

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

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The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382135221

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Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants 2Nd Edition

By: Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

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Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants 2Nd Edition

By: Harrison Dwight Cavanagh

Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants Harrison Dwight Cavanagh The first edition was awarded the Sumner A. Parker Prize by the Maryland Historical Society in 2014. The second edition of this work features all descendants of Thomas Gantt I (b. Bullwick, N. Hants; to Md. 1654; d. Calvert County, 1692) and Ann Fielder (b. ca. 1662 Hants; d. Prince Georges County, 1726) in the first six to ten generations. Ann Fielder is an important new addition to American colonial Gateway ancestors. Her parents, Capt. William Fielder (ca. 16201679) of Burrough Court Manor and Marjorie Cole (16281699) of Lyss Abbey, Hants, have proven multiple royal and Magna Carta ancestral lines; sixty extensive British pedigrees are documented in these volumes. The name Fielder has been inherited in multiple generations of the Beall, Belt, Berry, Bowie, Calvert, Clagett, Denwood, Dorsett, Gantt, Jones (Somerset County), Parker (Calvert County), Smallwood, Smith (Calvert County), and Wight (White) Maryland families. In addition, this second edition contains important new research findings on the British origins of the Hatton-Domville and Brooke-Darnall families, as well as revealing the two lost Ann Bradfords of Prince Georges County. Colonial Chesapeake Families details the pedigrees of eighty-eight families, historical illustrations, portraits, documents, and coats of arms (where proven) are included. The publication of these volumes has been subsidized to make them more widely available to the thousands of descendants listed in their pages. And thanks to print on demand, Colonial Chesapeake Families will never go out of print.

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1524575364

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Middletown

The Making of a Documentary Film Series

By: Dwight W. Hoover

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Middletown

The Making of a Documentary Film Series

By: Dwight W. Hoover

Inspired by the immensely influential 1937 sociological study Middletown: A Case Study in Cultural Conflicts by Robert and Helen Lynd, Peter Davis's six documentary films about Muncie, Indiana, set out to examine the lives of Munsonians in the early 1980s. The disputes and conflicts accompanying the filming revealed more about American values and customs than the films themselves. While attempting to transform the data from the Middletown studies into a meaningful and interesting visual form, the filmmakers were constantly distracted by the pressures, decisions and perils of government- and corporate-funded documentary filmmaking. Dwight W. Hoover, a Muncie historian and collaborator in the Middletown film project, describes why the films were made and how they changed the lives of everyone involved.

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Taylor & Francis

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3718605430

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The Medal of Honor

The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration

By: Dwight S. Mears

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The Medal of Honor

The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration

By: Dwight S. Mears

The Medal of Honor may be America’s highest military decoration, but all Medals of Honor are not created equal. The medal has in fact consisted of several distinct decorations at various times and has involved a number of competing statutes and policies that rewarded different types of heroism. In this book, the first comprehensive look at the medal’s historical, legal, and policy underpinnings, Dwight S. Mears charts the complex evolution of these developments and differences over time. The Medal of Honor has had different qualification thresholds at different times, and indeed three separate versions—one for the army and two for the navy—existed contemporaneously between World Wars I and II. Mears traces these versions back to the medal’s inception during the Civil War and continues through the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—along the way describing representative medal actions for all major conflicts and services as well as legislative and policy changes contemporary to each period. He gives particular attention to retroactive army awards for the Civil War; World War I legislation that modernized and expanded the army’s statutory award authorization; the navy’s grappling with both a combat and noncombat Medal of Honor through much of the twentieth century; the Vietnam-era act that ended noncombat awards and largely standardized the Medal of Honor among all services; and the perceived decline of Medals of Honor awarded in the ongoing Global War on Terror. Mears also explores the tradition of awards via legislative bills of relief; extralegislative awards; administrative routes to awards through Boards of Correction of Military Records; restoration of awards previously revoked by the army in 1917; judicial review of military actions in federal court; and legislative actions intended to atone for historical discrimination against ethnic minorities. Unprecedented in scope and depth, his work is sure to be the definitive resource on America’s highest military honor.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700626654

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9780700626656

Dwight's Journal of Music, A Paper of Art and Literature

Vol. 33

By: John S. Dwight

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Dwight's Journal of Music, A Paper of Art and Literature

Vol. 33

By: John S. Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385252857

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Dwight's Journal of Music

Vol. IX

By: John S. Dwight

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Dwight's Journal of Music

Vol. IX

By: John S. Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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3375162189

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Printmaking Revolution

New Advancements in Technology, Safety, and Sustainability

By: Dwight Pogue

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Printmaking Revolution

New Advancements in Technology, Safety, and Sustainability

By: Dwight Pogue

A tome of the newest advances in printmaking for today’s environmentally conscious art students, master printers, teachers, and artists Etching, lithography, and screenprinting shouldn’t be harmful to the artist or the planet. With cutting edge, never-before-published advances in printmaking media, Printmaking Revolution provides artists, students, and teachers alike with safer, environmentally friendly and non-carcinogenic methods for creating beautiful prints. Inside, teacher and professional artist, Dwight Pogue offers groundbreaking information on embracing green, petroleum-free, nontoxic materials that comply with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements. With new alternatives for the modern era, and work by some of today’s most notable artists, including Janet Fish, James Rosenquist Walton Ford, and Louisa Chase, this book truly revolutionizes the techniques, materials, and processes of a time-honored medium.

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Watson-Guptill

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0823008126

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9780823008124

The Re-Remembered

By: Dwight Wilson

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The Re-Remembered

By: Dwight Wilson

An enthralling collection of short stories based on Dwight's own family history. He takes us through the lives of African Americans and Native Americans in the early parts of the United States. A must read.

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Running Wild, LLC

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1955062455

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9781955062459

Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George A. Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

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Mississippi Black History Makers

By: George A. Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight

This book of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi includes a total of 166 figures, all who have made significant contributions. Black history makers are defined herein as those who have achieved national prominence in their fields, who have made lasting contributions within the state as pioneers in their fields, or who contributed to their own communities or fields as role models. Each of those included in the book either was born in Mississippi, spent a part of their childhood there, or migrated to Mississippi and remained. History makers covered include Hiram R. Revels, the first Black US Senator; Blanche K. Bruce, the first Black US Senator to serve a six-year term; political and civil rights leaders such as Aaron Henry, Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer; William Johnson, a free Black man from antebellum Natchez; Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T. Washington; Walter Payton, former running back for the Chicago Bears; and contributors to arts and letters such as Leontyne Price, William Grant Still, Margaret Walker Alexander, James Earl Jones, and “Bo Diddley” McDaniel, a pioneer rock-and-roll musician; as well as other notable Black Mississippians. The book is organized into ten thematic sections: politics, civil rights, business, education, performing and visual arts, journalism and literature, military, science/medicine/social work, sports, and religion. And each section is introduced by an historical overview of this field in the state of Mississippi. This book is a valuable reference work for those wishing to assess the contributions of African Americans to the history of Mississippi. Of particular significance is the fact that it is a collection which brings attention to lesser-known figures as well as those of considerable renown.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628469765

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9781628469769

Drinking Occasions

Comparative Perspectives on Alcohol and Culture

By: Dwight B. Heath

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Drinking Occasions

Comparative Perspectives on Alcohol and Culture

By: Dwight B. Heath

The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist around the world, primarily in modern, industrialized countries. As such, it celebrates the diversity of normal drinking behavior and illustrates a wide range of beneficial drinking patterns. Attention is also paid to the relations between drink and culture that prevail in non-Western societies and in developing countries. The aims of the book are twofold: to deal directly with the challenge of how to define responsible drinking in the face of the world's many different drinking styles, and to portray the many ways in which people have thought about or used alcohol as an integral part of their culture

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Routledge

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113584187X

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9781135841874

New York Folks

Updated 2010 Edition

By: Dwight Foster

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New York Folks

Updated 2010 Edition

By: Dwight Foster

NEW YORK FOLKS narrates the saga of Sure-Lite Brands Corporation, a producer of matches founded in 1893 by Hiram Ryder, a blacksmith's apprentice. Sure-Lite evolves, after a public offering in 1965, into a Fortune 200 NYSE listed corporation with CARSON'S a high growth retailer in the Home Center industry developing into Sure-Lite's principal business. A major power struggle erupts between the Ryder brothers for control of the company. Their struggle attracts predators, ambitious operating executives, slippery investment bankers, and corporate knaves, along with easy and hard ladies sporting high heels and sharp elbows. The narrative is brim with board of directors meeting conflicts, and self minded men and women who occasionally find themselves in foreign bedrooms. They are New York folks. Dwight Foster is also the author of Shattered Covenants, a seven book cycle narrating the formation, rise, decline, and fall of a major management consulting firm.

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iUniverse

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1450252451

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9781450252454

The Resistors

By: Dwight L Wilson,Lisa D. Kastner

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The Resistors

By: Dwight L Wilson,Lisa D. Kastner

The Resistors is a parallel sequel to 2018's The Kidnapped. It focuses on blacks, whites, and Native Americans resisting pre-Civil War oppression while attempting to establish dignified identities. It is also in the voice of Sarah, one of the author's direct ancestors. She was the daughter of Esi and Kofi two fictionalized Fante kidnapped from West Africa in 1795. With the help of Quakers, together with two brothers, Robin and Dan, Sarah escaped from being enslaved in Culpeper, Virginia and settled in Warren County, Ohio where she met and married the Scots-Irish Quaker, Charles Ferguson. It is imagined that Sarah was primarily educated by her father who himself was taught reading and writing by Nathan Prescott, his slave master, and secondarily through two years of education at Goose Creek Friends School, a Quaker school in Northern Virginia, renown for being integrated prior to Nat Turner's revolt which led to state laws forbidding the education of people of color.

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1947041371

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9781947041370

Mexican Financial Development

By: Dwight S. Brothers,Leopoldo Solís M.

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Mexican Financial Development

By: Dwight S. Brothers,Leopoldo Solís M.

The development of the Mexican financial system as it has related to the remarkable growth of the Mexican economy is examined in this book. Believing that a better understanding of the past will permit a more nearly accurate appraisal of contemporary problems and facilitate the choice of intelligent policies in the future, the authors present a detailed chronicle and analysis of components of the Mexican financial system, with primary emphasis on the period from 1940 to the mid-1960s. Separate chapters are devoted to the money and capital market, the formulation and execution of monetary and financial policies, and the nature of Mexican financial experience in both the public and private sectors of the economy. The authors offer a theoretical explanation of the record of Mexican experience, based upon their analysis of relationships between monetary policy, domestic stability, and external equilibrium, as well as upon their analysis of factors governing the growth of domestic indebtedness, the development of financial intermediation, and the operation of the loanable funds market. The final chapter of the book, a review of Mexican experience from 1960 to 1965, speculates with respect to the future course of Mexican financial development and offers specific proposal for future monetary and financial policies. This record of Mexican financial development contains much that should be of interest to others engaged in related theoretical and empirical studies, including many lessons for those countries confronted with circumstances and problems not too unlike those encountered in Mexico.

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University of Texas Press

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0292769970

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9780292769977

Garner's Quotations

A Modern Miscellany

By: Dwight Garner

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Garner's Quotations

A Modern Miscellany

By: Dwight Garner

A selection of favorite quotes that the celebrated literary critic has collected over the decades. From Dwight Garner, the New York Times book critic, comes a rollicking, irreverent, scabrous, amazingly alive selection of unforgettable moments from forty years of wide and deep reading. Garner’s Quotations is like no commonplace book you’ll ever read. If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on in the world of letters today, this book will make you sit up and take notice. Unputdownable!

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374722145

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9780374722142

A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Irish Ancestors

By: Dwight A. Radford,Kyle J. Betit

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A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Irish Ancestors

By: Dwight A. Radford,Kyle J. Betit

Discover your roots! Everything you need to start your Irish ancestry is in this book. You'll learn how to investigate the various generation of your family, the events that shaped their lives, the details about how they lived, and the story of their emigration.Inside you'll find: • Guidelines for determining an Irish ancestor's place of origin • Advice for accessing Irish cemetery, land, church, estate, census, and military records • Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths as well as emigration lists • Sources and strategies for researching Irish ancestors that settled in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Wales, and the Caribbean Plus answers to common questions: How far back in time can you expect to trace your family; and how does Protestant Irish research differ from Catholic Irish research?

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Penguin

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144032428X

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9781440324284

International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture

By: Dwight B. Heath

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International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture

By: Dwight B. Heath

The first authoritative guide to how the world drinks, this reference details alcohol use in different countries and cultures. Variation is striking, with alcohol sometimes a food, a sacrament, a symbol, a tool, a tranquilizer, a medicine, a love potion, or an object of scorn—often with very different meanings and uses in a single country. This volume reveals multicultural and ethnic beliefs, practices, and attitudes about drinking around the world. An extensive introduction discusses the close link between alcohol and culture and provides a foundation for the rest of the book. Each of the following chapters is written by an expert contributor and discusses alcohol and culture in a particular country. Chapters discuss historical trends, drinking among ethnic and religious minorities, national policies, and social outcomes. Countries range from industrial nations known for their alcohol research, to developing nations and to places famous for drinking. A concluding chapter highlights important similarities and differences.

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0313034389

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9780313034381

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