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Vaughan Williams

By: Eric Saylor

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This single-volume life-and-works biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams provides a contemporary reassessment of one of the twentieth century's most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians. Throughout his wide-ranging career-as composer, conductor, editor, scholar, folksong collector, teacher, author, administrator, and philanthropist-Vaughan Williams worked tirelessly to improve the standards and quality of British musical life. His compelling and original musical language-inspired in part by elements drawn from English folksong, French impressionism, Wagnerian post-chromaticism, Tudor-era sacred music, and Anglican hymnody-presented a distinctively British response to musical modernism over his sixty-year-long career, and in works ranging from art songs for amateurs to perhaps the finest symphonic cycle of the twentieth century. Alternating between biographical and analytical chapters, it draws upon previously inaccessible primary sources alongside a wealth of secondary material to craft a concise and engaging overview of Vaughan Williams's life and music"--

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Oxford University Press

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019091856X

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9780190918569

Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

By: Eric K. Washington

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Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

By: Eric K. Washington

Winner • Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History Winner • GANYC Apple Award for Outstanding Book Writing (Nonfiction) Finalist • Brendan Gill Prize (Municipal Art Society of New York) Open Letters Review • 10 Best Biographies of 2019 The Bowery Boys Podcast • 10 Favorite Books of 2019 A long-overdue biography of the head of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps, who flourished in the cultural nexus of Harlem and American railroads. In a feat of remarkable research and timely reclamation, Eric K. Washington uncovers the nearly forgotten life of James H. Williams (1878–1948), the chief porter of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps—a multitude of Harlem-based black men whom he organized into the essential labor force of America’s most august railroad station. Washington reveals that despite the highly racialized and often exploitative nature of the work, the Red Cap was a highly coveted job for college-bound black men determined to join New York’s bourgeoning middle class. Examining the deeply intertwined subjects of class, labor, and African American history, Washington chronicles Williams’s life, showing how the enterprising son of freed slaves successfully navigated the segregated world of the northern metropolis, and in so doing ultimately achieved financial and social influence. With this biography, Williams must now be considered, along with Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jacqueline Onassis, one of the great heroes of Grand Central’s storied past.

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Liveright Publishing

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163149323X

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9781631493232

Capitalism and Slavery

By: Eric Williams

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Capitalism and Slavery

By: Eric Williams

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

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UNC Press Books

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1469619490

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9781469619491

Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition

By: Eric Williams

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Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition

By: Eric Williams

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. William A. Darity Jr.'s new foreword highlights Williams's insights for a new generation of readers, and Colin Palmer's introduction assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

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UNC Press Books

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1469663694

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9781469663692

The Essential Student Government Guide

High School & Middle School Edition

By: Eric Williams

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The Essential Student Government Guide

High School & Middle School Edition

By: Eric Williams

This is the essential guide for every high school and middle school student government leader. It hits the common problems that students face trying to become the best leaders they can be, from elected officers to volunteers. The guide covers everything from the initial planning steps to putting on great events, getting more students involved, and getting young leaders track for success. This manual contains brief and easy to use guides including the following topics: time management, priority setting, effective short and long term planning, recruitment methods, on-line organizing, leadership development, visibility, and coalition building for your issues.

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Cinecycle Publishing

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0978787838

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9780978787837

It's Your Money

What Will You Do with It?

By: Eric Randall Williams

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It's Your Money

What Will You Do with It?

By: Eric Randall Williams

Eric and Kelsey were a few years out of college with a brand new house they could barely afford and nearly $40,000 in debt. After overspending $1,500 one month, the Williamses decided to clean up their act before starting a family and spent the next 23 months digging their way out of debt on a very average household income. This book will tell you how they did it and give you practical steps on how you can do it, too. You might be frustrated with all of the money advice you get. It can be very pointed and opinionated. But there is usually more than one way of doing things. While understanding financial principles is great, you'll ultimately have to discover what works for you and your money. It's Your Money is a book with two parts. The first part tells the Williamses' story, filled with money lessons they learned throughout their early adult life - how they ended up in debt due to financial mistakes and lessons they were never taught growing up. Part II is filled with practical action steps to help you get a handle on your own finances and start developing a plan to help you achieve your goals. You'll be motivated and inspired to win with your money.

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1492134589

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9781492134589

The Tunnel

By: Eric Williams

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The Tunnel

By: Eric Williams

This book traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, interrogation and first two POW camps. It gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes dreamt up, very few ever got started and of those only a tiny handful ever came to fruition and of those a home run was as rare as a lottery win. But none of this could suppress the determination, ingenuity and courage of those who were driven to try. This is a thrilling opportunity to read what is virtually lost masterpiece of the Prisoner of War escaping genre.

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Pen and Sword

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1844155382

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9781844155385

The Power Presentation

By: D. Eric Williams

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The Power Presentation

By: D. Eric Williams

Studies show the #1 factor for career success is communication skills. In these tough economic times it is critical that you learn to communicate with power and effectiveness. Public speaking is the language of leadership. If you can stand in front of a group and convey your ideas in an understandable and interesting fashion, you will automatically be seen as a leader. You will be recognized as an expert - even if you are only one step ahead of the crowd. Think about the great leaders and business personalities in history. William Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill, FDR, Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan, Lee Iacocca and others. Everyone of these people were mere mortals like you. However, everyone of them knew how to speak the language of leadership; they knew how to convey their ideas in a public presentation in an understandable and interesting way. The Power Presentation will show you how to do the same.

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1434818985

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9781434818980

The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man

The Last Testament of Eric Williams

By: Brinsley Samaroo

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The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man

The Last Testament of Eric Williams

By: Brinsley Samaroo

This book represents the final instalment of research and analysis by one of the Caribbean's foremost historians. In this volume, Eric Williams reflects on the institution of slavery from the ancient period in Europe down to New World African Slavery. The book also includes other forms of bondage which followed slavery, including Japanese, Chinese, Indians and Pacific peoples in many locations worldwide. The book points ways in which this bondage led to European and American prosperity and the manner in which bonded peoples created their own spaces. This they did through the preservation and revival of the transported culture to the new locations. The book makes a significant contribution in that it moves beyond African slavery. It continues the narrative after abolition by showing how the capitalist impulse enabled Europe and the United States to devise other (non-slavery) ways of further exploitation of non-African people in third world countries. These nations fought this further exploitation in banding together to create the south-to-south nonaligned movement which gave mutual assistance in a number of areas. Most other works tend to separate these issues or deal with them on a regional basis. Eric Williams offers a comprehensive view, tying up many themes in a vast compendium.

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9766407479

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9789766407476

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Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams

Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal

Capitalism and Slavery

Capitalism and Slavery

Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition

Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition

The Essential Student Government Guide

The Essential Student Government Guide

It's Your Money

It's Your Money

The Tunnel

The Tunnel

The Power Presentation

The Power Presentation

The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man

The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man

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