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Bacchic Medicine

Wine and Alcohol Therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox

By: Harry W. Paul

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Bacchic Medicine

Wine and Alcohol Therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox

By: Harry W. Paul

Wine has always been a part of popular medicine. Bacchic Medicine analyses the historical role of wine in the treatment of disease and preservation of health. The Hippocratic texts gave wine therapy a canonical statement over two millennia ago; but the nineteenth century was the golden age of alcohol and wine therapy. The Germans and the British gave us early canons of wine therapy and, heavily endowed with wine cultural capital, the French followed. But like all therapies, alcohol and wine therapies were not without danger and some of the ‘iatrogenic’ tales are still with us. In the twentieth century, many doctors rallied to the defence of wine both as a substitute for more dangerous alcoholic drinks and as an efficacious medicament, with an impressive case for the efficacy of wine in fighting bacteria, heart disease and cancer. New science based on animal models and ionic theory fortified their arguments. According to the controversial ‘French Paradox’, wine drinking makes it possible for a population to enjoy a high fat diet yet suffer little. Bacchic Medicine also discusses the contemporary debate over the role of alcohol and wine in preventive medicine.

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BRILL

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9004333428

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Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form

Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer

By: Paul Jenkins,Harry Smith

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Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form

Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer

By: Paul Jenkins,Harry Smith

The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a (future) ordered environment. But these notions of order and disorder need interrogation, especially as the world rapidly urbanises. Not only have such approaches failed to produce more social order, but it has become clear that the imposition of these ideas in cities of the South cuts across alternative systems of social and cultural order and creates new disorder. Thus, if we are serious about forms of urban order, then it is time to rethink what we mean by order in the fi rst place. As this provocative and timely book shows, what we think of as urban order is partial and restricted, and what we perceive as disorder usually masks underlying orders of social nature. The book is intended for architects, urban designers, planners and urban scholars, as well as urban policymakers, managers and residents, to consider a different approach to emerging urban space and form, starting from an understanding of the cultural imaginaries and social constructs that underpin the production of most urban fabric and engaging with these concepts and organisational forms to improve urban life for the majority.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317599608

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9781317599609

Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920

By: Harry M. Ward

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Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920

By: Harry M. Ward

Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. From 1905 to 1915 there was an official red light district. The police had their hands full with drunks and riffraff, and a variety of street urchins and waifs--most of whom were very poor--found themselves on the wrong side of the law. The juvenile delinquents of Richmond--some barely out of infancy--were held accountable in the Police Court. A juvenile court system was not established until 1916. Presiding over the Police Court for 32 years was Justice John Jeter Crutchfield who, though unlearned in the law, functioned like a biblical Solomon but with great showmanship. The Police Court attracted many tourists and some of Virginia's literary figures cut their teeth writing newspaper coverage of the proceedings, vying with each other for the most hilarious slant. What emerges from the public record is an amusing and touching picture of what life was really like in the post-Reconstruction urban South.

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McFarland

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0786498536

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9780786498536

The Principal of the Matter

By: Eugene "Harry" Ward

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The Principal of the Matter

By: Eugene "Harry" Ward

The Principal of the Matter. The place Yazoo City, Mississippi. One of the issues, the court-ordered desegregation of the public schools. The antagonists, the school officials. When the civil rights movement intensifi ed in the South, circa 1954, white political leaders who believed in and practiced the ideology of “white supremacy” worked in concert to reverse the direction integration was heading in America. In 1970, some sixteen years out from the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka decision, we were still trying to get bigots to obey the law of the land. In a letter dated August 13, 1971, then U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale (later Vice President Mondale) wrote: Dear Mr. Ward: I have received your recent letter describing the explosive situation in the Yazoo City. I certainly share your concern that unless the discriminatory treatment of black students in the Yazoo City school system is eliminated, the opening of school in September may be a most serious occasion. I have referred your concern to both the Justice Department and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare requesting their investigation and corrective action. In The Principal of the Matter, Eugene “Harry” Ward unfurls the calculated practices of de jure and de facto segregation, separation of the races that was supposedly equal under the “law” and “as a matter of fact.”

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Trafford Publishing

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1466928956

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9781466928954

Searching for Your Ancestors

By: Gilbert Harry Doane,James B. Bell

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Searching for Your Ancestors

By: Gilbert Harry Doane,James B. Bell

An amateur genealogist's guide to the methodology involved in tracing family histories in America or Europe

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0553201999

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9780553201994

Geochemistry

Pathways and Processes

By: Harry Y. McSween,Steven M. Richardson,Maria Uhle

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Geochemistry

Pathways and Processes

By: Harry Y. McSween,Steven M. Richardson,Maria Uhle

Written expressly for undergraduate and graduate geologists, this book focuses on how geochemical principles can be used to solve practical problems. The attention to problem-solving reflects the authors'belief that showing how theory is useful in solving real-life problems is vital for learning. The book gives students a thorough grasp of the basic principles of the subject, balancing the traditional equilibrium perspective and the kinetic viewpoint. The first half of the book considers processes in which temperature and pressure are nearly constant. After introductions to the laws of thermodynamics, to fundamental equations for flow and diffusion, and to solution chemistry, these principles are used to investigate diagenesis, weathering, and natural waters. The second half of the book applies thermodynamics and kinetics to systems undergoing changes in temperature and pressure during magmatism and metamorphism. This revised edition incorporates new geochemical discoveries as examples of processes and pathways, with new chapters on mineral structure and bonding and on organic matter and biomarkers. Each chapter has worked problems, and the authors assume that the student has had a year of college-level chemistry and a year of calculus. Praise for the first edition "A truly modern geochemistry book.... Very well written and quite enjoyable to read.... An excellent basic text for graduate level instruction in geochemistry." —Journal of Geological Education "An up-to-date, broadly conceived introduction to geochemistry.... Given the recent flowering of geochemistry as an interdisciplinary science, and given the extent to which it now draws upon the fundamentals of thermodynamics and kinetics to understand earth and planetary processes, this timely and rigorous [book] is welcome indeed." —Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Columbia University Press

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0231509030

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9780231509039

Faith-based Schools and the State

Catholics in America, France and England

By: Harry Judge

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Faith-based Schools and the State

Catholics in America, France and England

By: Harry Judge

The questions raised by government support for faith-based schools are now proving to be increasingly relevant and contentious. In one form or another they have a long history and are embedded in classical disagreements about the proper relationship between State and Church, or between secular power and religious freedom. They have been given a sharper edge by recent events, and by the emphasis laid by some governments on the importance of increasing public support for schools attached to different denominations and religions. Is it appropriate in a pluralist society to support some forms of religious expression and not others? What are the basic reasons for mingling (or indeed refusing to mingle) political and religious issues? What are the larger social effects of encouraging separate schooling for distinct sectors of society? These are among the questions raised and illuminated by this case study – historical and comparative in character – of the developing relationship between the State and the Catholic communities in three very different societies.

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Symposium Books Ltd

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1873927398

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9781873927397

Gettysburg--The First Day

By: Harry W. Pfanz

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Gettysburg--The First Day

By: Harry W. Pfanz

For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's share of attention from historians. With this book, however, the critical first day's fighting finally receives its due. After sketching the background of the Gettysburg campaign and recounting the events immediately preceding the battle, Harry Pfanz offers a detailed tactical description of events of the first day. He describes the engagements in McPherson Woods, at the Railroad Cuts, on Oak Ridge, on Seminary Ridge, and at Blocher's Knoll, as well as the retreat of Union forces through Gettysburg and the Federal rally on Cemetery Hill. Throughout, he draws on deep research in published and archival sources to challenge many long-held assumptions about the battle.

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UNC Press Books

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0807898406

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Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia

A History, 1782-1907

By: Harry M. Ward

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Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia

A History, 1782-1907

By: Harry M. Ward

Virginia's capital city knew poverty, injustice, slavery, vagrancy, substandard working conditions, street crimes, brutality, unsanitary conditions, and pandemics. One of the biggest stains in the city's past was the spectacle of public executions, attended by throngs. Thousands, including the old and the very young, reveled in a carnival-like atmosphere. This book narrates the history of the executions--hangings, and during the Civil War also firing squads--that formed a large part of Richmond's entertainment picture. Revulsion slowly mounted until the introduction of the electric chair. The history has a cast of unusual characters--the condemned, the crime victims, family members, the executioners, and not least an 182 pound "gallows" dog.

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McFarland

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0786492597

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9780786492596

The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

War and Society in the United States, 1775-83

By: Harry M. Ward

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The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

War and Society in the United States, 1775-83

By: Harry M. Ward

The War fo Independence had a substantial impact on the lives of all Americans, establishing a nation and confirming American identity. The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society focuses on a conflict which was both civil war and revolution and assesses how Americans met the challenges of adapting to the ideals of Independence and Republicanism. The war effected political reconstruction and brought economic self sufficiency and expansion, but it also brought oppression of dissenting and ethnic minorities, broadened the divide between the affluent and the poor and strengthened the institution of slavery. Focusing on the climate of war itself and its effects on the lives of those who lived through it, this book includes discussion of: *Recruitment and Society *The Home Front *Constraints on Liberty *Women and family during the war years *African Americans and Native Americans The War for Independence is a fascinating account of the wider dimension to the meaning of the American Revolution.

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Routledge

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1135361916

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9781135361914

The Department of War, 1781–1795

By: Harry M. Ward

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The Department of War, 1781–1795

By: Harry M. Ward

Harry M. Ward examines the formative years of the Department of War as a microcosm of the development of a centralized federal government. The Department of War was unique among early government agencies, as the only office that continued under the same administrator from the time of the Confederation to government under the Constitution. After the peace was established with Britain, citizens were suspicious of keeping a standing army, but administrator Benjamin Lincoln's efficient administration did much to dispel their fears. Henry Knox was the second Secretary, and he faced the problem of maintaining peace on the frontier, as his tiny army twice lost battles with Indians. It was only after the Whiskey Rebellion and Shay's Rebellion, that the young nation fully comprehended the importance of a maintaining a national military.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822975467

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9780822975465

For Virginia and for Independence

Twenty-Eight Revolutionary War Soldiers from the Old Dominion

By: Harry M. Ward

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For Virginia and for Independence

Twenty-Eight Revolutionary War Soldiers from the Old Dominion

By: Harry M. Ward

The phrase "American Revolutionary War Hero" usually brings to mind George Washington, John Paul Jones and other famous officers. Heroes, however, existed throughout the ranks during the Revolution, and many made their marks without ever receiving proper recognition. These portraits of 28 Virginia Revolutionary soldiers expand the historical record of those who can be called a "hero." Whether as infantryman, cavalryman, marine, militiaman, spy, frontier fighter or staffer, all performed with distinction that contributed to victory. A strongman who performed superhuman feats during battle; a woman who fought as a soldier; a militiaman who sounded a fateful alarm--some gave their lives, others were terribly wounded, but all demonstrated heroism beyond the call of duty.

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McFarland

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0786486015

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Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920

Sharpers, Snatchers, Swindlers, Flimflammers and Other Con Men

By: Harry M. Ward

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Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920

Sharpers, Snatchers, Swindlers, Flimflammers and Other Con Men

By: Harry M. Ward

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The former Confederate capital's under-staffed police force and dense population--large numbers of immigrants and the very poor--accommodated the enterprising criminal. Newspaper reports of the day offer a glimpse of a wide variety of crimes and misdemeanors, often with a bit of humor or pathos. Based on reports from the proceedings of the Police Court, this book provides a portrait of Richmond--then the most congested city in the U.S.--during the "Golden Age of the Con," when gamblers, hustlers and frauds plied their trades across the country.

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1476626170

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Book's by Harry Ward Richardson

Bacchic Medicine

Bacchic Medicine

Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form

Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form

Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920

Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920

The Principal of the Matter

The Principal of the Matter

Searching for Your Ancestors

Searching for Your Ancestors

Geochemistry

Geochemistry

Faith-based Schools and the State

Faith-based Schools and the State

Gettysburg--The First Day

Gettysburg--The First Day

Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia

Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia

The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

The Department of War, 1781–1795

The Department of War, 1781–1795

For Virginia and for Independence

For Virginia and for Independence

Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920

Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920

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