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The American South

A History

By: William J. Cooper Jr.,Thomas E. Terrill

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The American South

A History

By: William J. Cooper Jr.,Thomas E. Terrill

In The American South: A History, Fourth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of America. Cooper and Terrill show how the resulting tension has often propelled section and nation toward collision. In supporting their thesis, the authors draw on the tremendous amount of profoundly new scholarship in Southern history. Each volume includes a substantial biographical essay—completely updated for this edition—which provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. Coverage now includes the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, up-to-date analysis of the persistent racial divisions in the region, and the South's unanticipated role in the 2008 presidential primaries.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742563995

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9780742563995

Liberty and Slavery

Southern Politics to 1860

By: William J. Cooper, Jr.

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Liberty and Slavery

Southern Politics to 1860

By: William J. Cooper, Jr.

Explores the South's paradoxical devotion to liberty and the practice of slavery The recipient of high praise—and considerable debate for its provocative thesis—William J. Cooper, Jr.'s sweeping survey of antebellum southern politics returns to print for classroom and general use with this new paperback volume. In Liberty and Slavery Cooper contends that southerners defined their notions of liberty in terms of its opposite—slavery. He suggests that a jealous guardianship of the peculiar institution unified white southerners of differing economic, social, and religious standing and grounded their debates on nationalism and sectionalism, agriculture and manufacturing, territorial expansion and Western settlement. Cooper assesses how the South's devotion to liberty shaped its response to major legislation, judicial decisions, and military actions, and how abolitionism, in the eyes of white southerners, threatened the destruction of local control and the death of liberty.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643362178

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9781643362175

The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper

Including a Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

By: Anna J. Cooper

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The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper

Including a Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

By: Anna J. Cooper

Recently Anna Julia Cooper has emerged as the most important classic writer in the tradition of African American feminist thought. Mary Helen Washington described Cooper's work as "the most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist thought to come out of the nineteenth century." This is the first collection of all of Cooper's major writings, including many never before published. It includes all of the essays from her famous book, A Voice from the South, in addition to many other essays and letters accessible only in archives until now. The organization of this important new collection lends itself to a clearer understanding of the major themes and contributions of Cooper's thought, her development as a thinker and writer, and the critiques and controversies surrounding her work. Lemert and Bhan introduce Cooper as an activist, settlement founder, school teacher, college president, linguist, and scholar—a life that paralleled the prodigious accomplishments of W.E.B. Du Bois in so many ways.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0585120455

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9780585120454

The American South

A History

By: William J. Cooper,Thomas E. Terrill,Christopher Childers

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The American South

A History

By: William J. Cooper,Thomas E. Terrill,Christopher Childers

In The American South: A History, Fifth Edition, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the South from the history of the United States. The authors' analysis underscores the complex interaction between the South as a distinct region and the South as an inescapable part of America. Cooper and Terrill show how the resulting tension has often propelled section and nation toward collision. In supporting their thesis, the authors draw on the tremendous amount of profoundly new scholarship in Southern history. Each volume includes a substantial bibliographical essay—completely updated for this edition—which provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. This volume contains updated chapters, and tables.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442262303

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9781442262300

The Oak-Openings

By: J. Cooper

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The Oak-Openings

By: J. Cooper

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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3382114267

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9783382114268

I Simply Can't Remember

By: Zachary J Cooper

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I Simply Can't Remember

By: Zachary J Cooper

George is dying of pancreatic cancer, and turns to a cutting-edge cure that seems to bend the laws of nature. Using hyperbolic metamaterials, the strange surfaces that can cloak objects or hide events, George seeks to remove his disease, but removes much more.

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1633480585

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The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828–1856

By: William J. Cooper, Jr.

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The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828–1856

By: William J. Cooper, Jr.

Reporting on attitudes and reactions in each of the eleven states that were to form the Confederacy, William Cooper traces and analyzes the history of southern politics from the formation of the Democratic party in the late 1820s to the cessation of the Democratic-Whig struggle in the 1850s. He bases his study on extensive research of regional political manuscripts and newspapers.

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LSU Press

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0807142654

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9780807142653

Kickstands Up

By: Carol J. Cooper

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Kickstands Up

By: Carol J. Cooper

When you go on vacation, you probably travel by car or van. Sometimes you may take a train or an airplane. But have you ever wanted to travel the country on two wheels? On a motorcycle? Author Carol J. Cooper has ridden motorcycles for almost twenty years. In her book, Kickstands Up, she allows young readers the chance to ride along across the country and share many of the things motorcycle riders—bikers—experience in their travels. You will see how some of the things you learn in school can also come in handy on your journey as young bikers. Through the story and photographs, you’ll come away with a better understanding of what goes into traveling on a motorcycle. You’ll also come to know the type of people who become bikers—in other words, all types! Including a grandmother, like the author.

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Archway Publishing

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1480873268

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The Prairie

By: James Fenimore Cooper

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The Prairie

By: James Fenimore Cooper

The Prairie – Cowboy Classics - By J. Fenimore Cooper. The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man." Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, though it was published before The Pathfinder (1841) and The Deerslayer (1842). It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. The book frequently references characters and events from the two books previously published in the Leatherstocking Tales as well as the two which Cooper wouldn't write for more than ten years. Continuity with The Last of the Mohicans is indicated by the appearance of the grandson of Duncan and Alice Heyward and the noble Pawnee chief Hard Heart, whose name is English for the French nickname for the Delaware, le Coeur-dur.

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1495971562

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Brody's Fur-Ever Home

A Story of Love and Loss

By: Lori J. Cooper

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Brody's Fur-Ever Home

A Story of Love and Loss

By: Lori J. Cooper

Brody was a cute, fun and energetic white and brown tabby, who had a terminal medical condition. His family adopted him even though he looked different from other cats and some considered him ugly. Brody was given a chance at life, loved deeply by his family and lived life to the fullest. Brody's Fur-Ever home will touch the hearts of those who have lost a pet and want to connect to their grief in order to heal.

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1480881082

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Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era

By: William J. Cooper, Jr.

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Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era

By: William J. Cooper, Jr.

In his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the foremost scholar on the intriguing Confederate president. Cooper narrows his focus considerably in Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, training his expert eye specifically on Davis's participation in and influence on events central to the American Civil War. Nine self-contained essays address how Davis reacted to and dealt with a variety of issues that were key to the coming of the war, the war itself, or in memorializing the war, sharply illuminating Davis's role during those turbulent years. Cooper opens with an analysis of Davis as an antebellum politician, challenging the standard view of Davis as either a dogmatic priest of principle or an inept bureaucrat. Next, he looks closely at Davis's complex association with secession, which included, surprisingly, a profound devotion to the Union. Six studies explore Davis and the Confederate experience, with topics including states' rights, the politics of command and strategic decisions, Davis in the role of war leader, the war in the West, and the meaning of the war. The final essay compares and contrasts Davis's first inauguration in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861 with a little-known dedication of a monument to Confederate soldiers in the same city twenty-five years later. In 1886, Davis -- an old man of seventy-eight and in poor health -- had himself become a living monument, Cooper explains, and was an essential element in the formation of the Lost Cause ideology. Cooper's succinct interpretations provide straightforward, compact, and deceptively deep new approaches to understanding Davis during the most critical time in his life. Certain to stimulate further thought and spark debate, Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era offers rare insight into one of American history's most complicated and provocative figures.

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0807150096

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9780807150092

Jefferson Davis, American

By: William J. Cooper

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Jefferson Davis, American

By: William J. Cooper

From a distinguished historian of the American South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle. Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the Union—as the son of a veteran of the American Revolution and as a soldier and senator, he considered himself a patriot. William J. Cooper shows us how Davis' initial reluctance turned into absolute commitment to the Confederacy. He provides a thorough account of Davis' life, both as the Confederate President and in the years before and after the war. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, Jefferson Davis, American is the definitive examination of one of the most enigmatic figures in our nation's history.

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Vintage

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0375725423

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9780375725425

The Last of the Mohicans

By: J. Cooper

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The Last of the Mohicans

By: J. Cooper

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3382176688

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9783382176686

Shackled

A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away

By: Candy J. Cooper

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Shackled

A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away

By: Candy J. Cooper

Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist. In the early 2000s, Judge Mark Ciavarella and Judge Michael Conahan of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania were known as no-nonsense judges. Juveniles who showed up in their courtrooms faced harsh words and even harsher sentencing. In the post-Columbine era, many people believed that was just what the county needed to ensure its children and teens stayed on the straight and narrow path. But as more and more children faced shocking sentences for seemingly benign crimes, and a newly built for-profit detention center filled up further and further, a sinister pattern of abuses and bribery emerged. Through extensive research and original reporting leading into contemporary times, award-winning journalist Candy J. Cooper tells the story of a scandal that the Juvenile Law Center calls “one of the largest and most serious violations of children’s rights in the history of the American legal system.”

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1662620144

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9781662620140

Governing by Contract

Challenges and Opportunities for Public Managers

By: Phillip J. Cooper,Phillip Cooper

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Governing by Contract

Challenges and Opportunities for Public Managers

By: Phillip J. Cooper,Phillip Cooper

Is the public getting a good deal when the government contracts out the delivery of goods and services? Phillip Cooper attempts to get at the heart of this question by exploring what happens when public sector organizations—at the federal, state and local levels—form working relationships with other agencies, communities, non-profit organizations and private firms through contracts. Rather than focus on the ongoing debate over privatization, the book emphasizes the tools managers need to form, operate, terminate or transform these contracts amidst a complex web of intergovernmental relations. Cooper frames the issues of public contract management by showing how managers are caught in between governance by authority and government by contract. By looking at cases ranging from the management of Baltimore schools to the contracting of senior citizen programs in Kansas, he offers practical information to students and practitioners and a theoretical context for their work. At every turn, the author avoids bogging readers down in technical jargon. Instead the book sheds light on a crucial part of any public manager′s job with lively case material and no-nonsense guidance for making the most of taxpayer dollars.

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1544342500

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9781544342504

By Order of the President

The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

By: Phillip J. Cooper

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By Order of the President

The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

By: Phillip J. Cooper

Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action within our democracy. In this revised and expanded edition, noted scholar Phillip Cooper offers a cogent guide to these powers and shows how presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama have used and abused them in trying to realize their visions for the nation. As Cooper reveals, there has been virtually no significant policy area or level of government left untouched by the application of these presidential “power tools.” Whether seeking to regulate the economy, committing troops to battle without a congressional declaration of war, or blocking commercial access to federal lands, presidents have wielded these powers to achieve their goals, often in ways that seem to fly in the face of true representative government. Cooper defines the different forms these powers take—executive orders, presidential memoranda, proclamations, national security directives, and signing statements—demonstrates their uses, critiques their strengths and dangers, and shows how they have changed over time. Cooper calls on events in American history with which we are all familiar but whose implications may have escaped us. Examples of executive action include, Washington’s “Neutrality Proclamation”; Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation; the more than 1,700 executive orders issued by Woodrow Wilson in World War I; FDR also issued the order to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II; Truman’s orders to desegregate the military; Eisenhower’s numerous national security directives. JFK’s order to control racial violence in Alabama. As Cooper demonstrates in his balanced treatment of these and subsequent presidencies, each successive administration finds new ways of using these tools to achieve policy goals—especially those goals they know they are unlikely to accomplish with the help of Congress. A key feature of the second edition are case studies on the post-9/11 evolution of presidential direct action in ways that have drawn little public attention. It clarifies the factors that make these policy tools so attractive to presidents and the consequences that can flow from their use and abuse in a post-9/11 environment. There is an important new chapter on “executive agreements” which, though they are not treaties within the meaning of the U.S. Constitution and not subject to Senate ratification, appear in many respects to be rapidly replacing treaties as instruments of foreign policy.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700620125

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9780700620128

Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals

Abridged

By: David L. Buchbinder,Robert J. Cooper

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Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals

Abridged

By: David L. Buchbinder,Robert J. Cooper

The Fifth Abridged Edition of Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals builds on previous editions and offers a concise integration of theory and practice as a basis for improved learning. It presents readable and succinct descriptions of the bankruptcy system, with an emphasis on the paralegal’s role at every stage of a bankruptcy proceeding. Like its parent text, the Abridged Edition is written and formatted for paralegal students who need a practical introduction to the code and rules of bankruptcy law. It focuses on the nuts and bolts of a Chapter 7 consumer bankruptcy case to provide paralegals with a general understanding of other types of bankruptcy processes. New to the Fifth Edition: Coverage of the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 throughout the book Updated Official Bankruptcy Forms Citations to recent and noteworthy case opinions The most recent statutory adjustment of dollar exemption amounts (and other provisions) in the Bankruptcy Code Professors and students will benefit from: Straightforward writing that explains basic consumer bankruptcy in ordinary English A helpful overview of the bankruptcy code and rules A comprehensive introduction to client interview skills and the client interview process An integrated narrative fact pattern allowing students to learn the topic of each chapter interactively Step-by-step guidance through the paralegal’s role at every stage of the bankruptcy proceeding Simple instructions for completing and submitting documentation in a timely manner Content focused on consumer bankruptcy, primarily from the debtor’s perspective Means testing concepts covered in a dedicated chapter A useful tutorial on means testing procedure Abundant learning aids, including: Examples, procedural checklists, summaries of the law, discussion questions, learning objectives, and a glossary of common bankruptcy terms

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Aspen Publishing

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1543820751

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9781543820751

Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals

By: David L. Buchbinder,Robert J. Cooper

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Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals

By: David L. Buchbinder,Robert J. Cooper

Thoroughly up to Date, Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals Provides Students with the Necessary Theory and Practice Needed to Represent Debtors or Creditors The Twelfth Edition of Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals builds on previous editions and offers a concise integration of theory and practice as a basis for improved learning. It presents readable and succinct descriptions of the bankruptcy system with an emphasis on the paralegal’s role at every stage of a bankruptcy proceeding. With thorough coverage of the practical aspects of representing debtors or creditors, this popular text prepares students to succeed as paralegals in all areas of bankruptcy. It focuses on the nuts and bolts of commercial bankruptcies, including the Chapter 11 process. New to the Twelfth Edition: Updated Official Bankruptcy Forms Cites to recent and noteworthy case opinions The most recent statutory adjustment of dollar exemption amounts (and other provisions) in the Bankruptcy Code Professors and students will benefit from: Straightforward writing that explains basic consumer bankruptcy in ordinary English Thorough coverage of bankruptcy consumer representation creditor representation assisting with the handling of a Chapter 11 case A helpful overview of the bankruptcy code and rules A comprehensive introduction to client interview skills and the client interview process An integrated narrative fact pattern allowing students to learn the topic of each chapter interactively Step-by-step guidance through the paralegal’s role at every stage of the bankruptcy proceeding Simple instructions for completing and submitting documentation in a timely manner Detailed treatment of means testing, including a tutorial A downloadable forms manual on the publisher’s website A wealth of helpful teaching aids within the book, including: examples procedural checklists summaries of the law discussion questions learning objectives glossary of common bankruptcy terms

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1543858449

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An Evening at Mr. Saturday's

By: Zachary J Cooper

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An Evening at Mr. Saturday's

By: Zachary J Cooper

Joe Durante is a typical Mardi Gras reveler; young, drunk, and ready for debauchery. The beautiful Bri decided to introduce him to Mr. Saturday's, a bar dripping with New Orleans culture and a party to die for.

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1633483967

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We Have the War Upon Us

The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861

By: William J. Cooper

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We Have the War Upon Us

The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861

By: William J. Cooper

In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, during which all efforts to avoid or impede secession and prevent war failed. Here is the story of the men whose decisions and actions during the crisis of the Union resulted in the outbreak of the Civil War. Sectional compromise had been critical in the history of the country, from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 through to 1860, and was a hallmark of the nation. On several volatile occasions political leaders had crafted solutions to the vexing problems dividing North and South. During the postelection crisis many Americans assumed that once again a political compromise would settle yet another dispute. Instead, in those crucial months leading up to the clash at Fort Sumter, that tradition of compromise broke down and a rapid succession of events led to the great cataclysm in American history, the Civil War. All Americans did not view this crisis from the same perspective. Strutting southern fire-eaters designed to break up the Union. Some Republicans, crowing over their electoral triumph, evinced little concern about the threatened dismemberment of the country. Still others—northerners and southerners, antislave and proslave alike—strove to find an equitable settlement that would maintain the Union whole. Cooper captures the sense of contingency, showing Americans in these months as not knowing where decisions would lead, how events would unfold. The people who populate these pages could not foresee what war, if it came, would mean, much less predict its outcome. We Have the War Upon Us helps us understand what the major actors said and did: the Republican party, the Democratic party, southern secessionists, southern Unionists; why the pro-compromise forces lost; and why the American tradition of sectional compromise failed. It reveals how the major actors perceived what was happening and the reasons they gave for their actions: Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, Stephen A. Douglas, William Henry Seward, John J. Crittenden, Charles Francis Adams, John Tyler, James Buchanan, and a host of others. William J. Cooper has written a full account of the North and the South, Republicans and Democrats, sectional radicals and sectional conservatives that deepens our insight into what is still one of the most controversial periods in American history.

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Vintage

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0307960889

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9780307960887

Poisoned Water

How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation

By: Candy J Cooper,Marc Aronson

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Poisoned Water

How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation

By: Candy J Cooper,Marc Aronson

Based on original reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an industry veteran, the first book for young adults about the Flint water crisis In 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motors. As part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Then it got worse: children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Citizens of Flint protested that the water was dangerous. Despite what seemed so apparent from the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets, officials refused to listen. They treated the people of Flint as the problem, not the water, which was actually poisoning thousands. Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and news accounts, journalist Candy J. Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveals the true story of Flint. Poisoned Water shows not just how the crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that fueled it, and how the people of Flint fought-and are still fighting-for clean water and healthy lives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1547602333

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9781547602339

Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention

By: J. Cooper

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Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention

By: J. Cooper

This book is the first complete biography of Raphael Lemkin, the father of the United Nations Genocide Convention, based on his papers; and shows how his campaign for an international treaty succeeded. In addition, the book covers Lemkin's inauguration of the historical study of past genocides.

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Springer

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0230582737

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9780230582736

Jack Tier

By: J. Cooper

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Jack Tier

By: J. Cooper

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3382176750

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9783382176754

In His Steps

The Life and Times of Wilberforce Cooper, Vancouver's Skid Road Priest

By: Peter J. Cooper

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In His Steps

The Life and Times of Wilberforce Cooper, Vancouver's Skid Road Priest

By: Peter J. Cooper

This book describes the experiences of the author's great-uncle, Wilberforce Cooper, who was an Anglican priest ministering to the people of Vancouver's downtown east side during 1921-1952. Reverend Cooper began his ecclesiastical calling in the slums of London and then as a British Army chaplain in the hospitals and trenches of WW1 before moving to Canada - first to the B.C. Cariboo and then to be the rector of St. James Church in Vancouver. During the early-mid 1900s the East End of Vancouver was home to most of the city's poor, homeless, addicted and unemployed, and was a magnet for illegal intoxicants, disreputable venues and prostitution. In addition, the East End was where Chinese and Japanese immigrants had settled and their presence attracted the continuing attention of white racists. And all this vice and prejudice was enabled by a corrupt Civic Administration that depended upon graft. This was the parish that Father Cooper presided over and where he became well known and loved as someone who cared and fought for the physical as well as the spiritual wellbeing of each individual resident. The author has made use of unpublished memoirs as well as stories in newspapers and other writings to document his great-uncle's life and times. While a number of references to Rev. Cooper's religious thought and outreach can be found in the literature, this is the first book to address his work and actions solidly within the context of the social and political milieu of the Lower Mainland during his tenure.

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FriesenPress

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1525544543

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9781525544545

Wyandotte

By: J. Cooper

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Wyandotte

By: J. Cooper

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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336814149X

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9783368141493

The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

By: William J. Cooper

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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

By: William J. Cooper

“A vivid and convincing account of one of the most significant—but too often overlooked—figures in our history.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as an aloof intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from defeat in 1828’s presidential election to lead the nation as a lonely Massachusetts congressman in the fight against slavery. Award-winning historian William J. Cooper’s “balanced, wellsourced, and accessible work” (Publishers Weekly) demonstrates that Adams should be considered our lost Founding Father, his moral and political vision the final link to the visionaries who created our nation. With his heroic arguments in the Amistad trial forever memorialized, Adams stood strong against the expansion of slavery that would send the nation hurtling into war. This “well-crafted” (William McFeely) biography reveals Adams to be one of the most battered, but courageous and inspirational, politicians in American history.

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1631493892

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The Chainbearer

By: J. Cooper

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The Chainbearer

By: J. Cooper

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Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions

Challenges of War, Terrorism, and Civil Disorder

By: Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas

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Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions

Challenges of War, Terrorism, and Civil Disorder

By: Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas

In the midst of great crisis, it is difficult to contemplate the future. In recent decades, determining what kind of future to imagine has been an ongoing challenge for millions of people around the world who have been subjected to war, terrorism, and civil disorder. While destruction of the environment has long been part of warfare, it has become increasingly important as environmental pressures have intensified in our time. Focusing on the challenges and issues that arise for those contemplating a way forward in the wake of catastrophic upheavals, Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions takes a broad-based and integrative approach. What emerges is that the post-WWII reconstruction or nation-building perspectives are inadequate and inappropriate to most of the contemporary post-conflict challenges--a successful response requires a sustainable development approach, and Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions is a preliminary exploration of this complex subject.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742531333

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Implementing Sustainable Development

From Global Policy to Local Action

By: Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas

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Implementing Sustainable Development

From Global Policy to Local Action

By: Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas

There is a great deal of rhetoric and no shortage of ideas about sustainable development. However, note Cooper and Vargas (both of the U. of Vermont), there has also been an implementation gap. Saying that implementation is the art of the feasible, they present a feasibility framework for profes

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