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The Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale. Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Zoological Society of London, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and Member of the British Ornithologists Union

By: Arthur Hay Tweeddale,Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay

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The Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale. Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Zoological Society of London, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and Member of the British Ornithologists Union

By: Arthur Hay Tweeddale,Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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338547003X

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9783385470033

Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Vol. IV

By: Franklin George Adams,George Washington Martin,William Elsey Connelley

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Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Vol. IV

By: Franklin George Adams,George Washington Martin,William Elsey Connelley

Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.

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3385391989

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9783385391987

Visualizing the Sacred

Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World

By: George E. Lankford,F. Kent Reilly,James F. Garber

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Visualizing the Sacred

Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World

By: George E. Lankford,F. Kent Reilly,James F. Garber

The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, these artifacts of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood were the subject of the groundbreaking 2007 book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography, which presented a major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the Mississippian peoples. Visualizing the Sacred advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS). Bringing archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art, contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments. These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized, yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time.

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University of Texas Press

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0292723083

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9780292723085

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Civil War Era

By: James M. McPherson George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Princeton University

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The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Civil War Era

By: James M. McPherson George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Princeton University

Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War. It was hailed in The New York Times as "historical writing of the highest order." The Washington Post called it "the finest single volume on the war and its background." And The Los Angeles Times wrote that "of the 50,000 books written on the Civil War, it is the finest compression of that national paroxysm ever fitted between two covers." Now available in a splendid new edition is The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. Boasting some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty-four full-color maps, here is the ultimate gift book for everyone interested in American history. McPherson has selected all the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative. More important, he has written extensive captions (some 35,000 words in all, virtually a book in themselves), many of which offer genuinely new information and interpretations that significantly enhance the text. The text itself, streamlined by McPherson, remains a fast-paced narrative that brilliantly captures two decades of contentious American history, from the Mexican War to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The reader will find a truly masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities--as well as McPherson's thoughtful commentary on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. A must-have purchase for the legions of Civil War buffs, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom is both a spectacularly beautiful volume and the definitive account of the most important conflict in our nation's history.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199729360

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9780199729364

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: George Lipsitz

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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: George Lipsitz

In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.Lipsitz delineates the weaknesses embedded in civil rights laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination and school segregation. He also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to U.S. culture, and perhaps most importantly, he identifies the sustained and perceptive critique of white privilege embedded in the radical black tradition. This revised and expanded edition also includes an essay about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on working class Blacks in New Orleans, whose perpetual struggle for dignity and self determination has been obscured by the city's image as a tourist party town.

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Temple University Press

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1592134947

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The Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale. Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Zoological Society of London, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and Member of the British Ornithologists Union

The Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale. Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Zoological Society of London, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and Member of the British Ornithologists Union

Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Visualizing the Sacred

Visualizing the Sacred

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

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