James Michael Donovan's Books

For the People

A History of St Francis Xavier University

By: James Cameron,St. Francis Xavier University

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For the People

A History of St Francis Xavier University

By: James Cameron,St. Francis Xavier University

In For The People James Cameron charts the institutional development of St Francis Xavier University from 1853 to 1970 and illustrates how the college has become an integral part of the region's history and culture through its tradition of service to the people of eastern Nova Scotia on both the mainland and Cape Breton Island.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077351385X

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9780773513853

Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: James Michael Donovan

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Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: James Michael Donovan

James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century. He demonstrates that t

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807833630

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9780807833636

The Clint Eastwood Westerns

By: James L. Neibaur

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The Clint Eastwood Westerns

By: James L. Neibaur

While the western was a staple of cinema for many decades, the form began to fade as its greatest star, John Wayne, made fewer films of distinction toward the end of his career. In the mid-1960s, the genre was redefined by a handful of directors, including Don Siegel and Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, who offered something edgier, bloodier, and more violent. Working with both directors was an actor who had made a name for himself on the small screen in the hit western Rawhide. While Clint Eastwood would also star in and direct a number of successes with contemporary settings, his work in westerns represents the most significant part of his film career. In The Clint Eastwood Westerns, James L. Neibaur takes a film-by-film look at each of the superstar’s signature works, from A Fistful of Dollars in 1964 to his modern-day classic Unforgiven, which earned him two Academy Awards, including best director. The author discusses in detail the production, impact, influences, and successes (both critical and commercial) of each film. In addition, Neibaur examines the continued success and influence of these works—how they redefined, challenged, and progressed the western genre. The book also features chapters that look at Eastwood’s other films in the context of his overall career. From the spaghetti westerns he made with Leone, including The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,to his revisionist look at the Old West in Unforgiven, The Clint Eastwood Westerns shines a spotlight on some of the most thrilling films of the genre. For devotees of Eastwood—the actor or director—or simply fans of the western, this book is an entertaining look at one of Hollywood’s most enduring stars.

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197

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442245042

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9781442245044

Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880

By: James Sumner

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Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880

By: James Sumner

How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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314

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Routledge

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1317319303

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9781317319306

Captain Rock

The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821–1824

By: James S. Donnelly, Jr

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Captain Rock

The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821–1824

By: James S. Donnelly, Jr

Named for its mythical leader “Captain Rock,” avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821–24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Originating in west Limerick, the Rockite movement spread quickly under the impact of a prolonged economic depression. Before long the insurgency embraced many of the better-off farmers. The intensity of the Rockites’ grievances, the frequency of their resort to sensational violence, and their appeal on such key issues as rents and tithes presented a nightmarish challenge to Dublin Castle—prompting in turn a major reorganization of the police, a purging of the local magistracy, the introduction of large military reinforcements, and a determined campaign of judicial repression. A great upsurge in sectarianism and millenarianism, Donnelly shows, added fuel to the conflagration. Inspired by prophecies of doom for the Anglo-Irish Protestants who ruled the country, the overwhelmingly Catholic Rockites strove to hasten the demise of the landed elite they viewed as oppressors. Drawing on a wealth of sources—including reports from policemen, military officers, magistrates, and landowners as well as from newspapers, pamphlets, parliamentary inquiries, depositions, rebel proclamations, and threatening missives sent by Rockites to their enemies—Captain Rock offers a detailed anatomy of a dangerous, widespread insurgency whose distinctive political contours will force historians to expand their notions of how agrarian militancy influenced Irish nationalism in the years before the Great Famine of 1845–51.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299233138

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9780299233136

The Homecoming Seasons

An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island

By: James P. MacGuire

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The Homecoming Seasons

An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island

By: James P. MacGuire

The Homecoming Seasons: An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island is a deeply moving memoir of a returning native's re-experience of his childhood community. After many years abroad as a graduate student at Cambridge, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, and as a country program director of health care and agricultural programs in central Africa, James MacGuire returned to New York and spent most of the 1980s at Time Inc., Macmillan and the Manhattan Institute. In 1990 he married and several years later, with a second child on the way, he and his wife decamped from Manhattan for a small enclave called the Isle of Wight in the village of Lawrence on the south shore of Long Island, where MacGuire had grown up. This book tells the story of MacGuire’s return to this world—how it had evolved from ancient times; been inhabited by indigenous peoples; colonized by the Dutch and English; and then grew from a sparsely populated agricultural corner of western Long Island to an early summer resort, then an outer, and, finally, an inner suburb of New York City. Jamie MacGuire skillfully weaves memories of his childhood in this almost hidden world with sketches of his family and their friends before updating his account with a lovingly detailed, diary-like depiction of returning. His parents’ friends now much older, the community more diverse, as he, his wife and children make new friends as they proceed into this changed world. He captures in cinematic detail the wonder of the wetlands and surrounding natural world, the poignant life, death and rebirth of community, the joys and sorrows of marriage and parenthood, and the profound exultation of safely shepherding two beloved sons to triumphant adulthood. This is an uplifting literary memoir that will earn and deserve the widest possible audience.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0761873317

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9780761873310

Isaac Asimov

The Foundations of Science Fiction

By: James Gunn

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Isaac Asimov

The Foundations of Science Fiction

By: James Gunn

Updates and expands science fiction scholar James Gunn's definitive, Hugo Award-winning critical volume about Isaac Asimov and his contributions to the science fiction genre.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810854201

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9780810854208

Agents of Orthodoxy

Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil

By: James E. Wadsworth

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Agents of Orthodoxy

Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil

By: James E. Wadsworth

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this new study, based on extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest, wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the Inquisition was an integral part of colonial society and that it reflected and reinforced deeply held social and religious values that crossed the Atlantic, recreated themselves in colonial Brazil, and became powerful tools for exclusion and promotion in Brazilian society. The Inquisition successfully appropriated widely held social norms and manipulated social tensions to create and recreate its own power and prestige for almost three hundred years. It finally declined only when its capacity to socially promote its officials diminished in the late eighteenth century. Agents of Orthodoxy places the men who ran the Inquisition in historical context and demonstrates that they were often motivated by social aspirations in seeking inquisitional appointments. Beautifully written and extensively researched, this book sheds new light on a long-standing institution and its participants.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742569659

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9780742569652

The Winds of Wexford

By: Edith Saint James

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The Winds of Wexford

By: Edith Saint James

Dear Reader, what follows is a tale filled with high adventure, mysterious intrigue and romantic entanglements written within the Golden Pages of the Book of Heaven! Intense with Romance and faithful to Fidelity, it is a tale of loving soul mates, star-crossed Destiny and endless devotion to Divine Sacrifice. It is a tale of the braves of all angels who have come to Earth armed with the shining swords of the Principles of Divinity - those guiding lights that inspire the deepest love in all of us, the heated desires that attract one soul to another, the endless dedication to a Sacred Devotion so intense that it shatters the mortal shell of human understanding! Dear Reader, as you venture into the twists and turns embedded within the following pages, leave behind all doubts about invisible kingdoms and guardian spirits, about forces of Nature and the powers of wind and rain and thunder clash, and allow your spirit to soar into the celestial realms where angelic voices ring strong and true with the gentle strains of intense cosmic love!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499039832

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9781499039832

The Blood of Heroes

The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation

By: James Donovan

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The Blood of Heroes

The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation

By: James Donovan

On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed a final assault. The defenders fought valiantly-for their lives and for a free and independent Texas-but in the end, they were all slaughtered. Their ultimate sacrifice inspired the rallying cry "Remember the Alamo!" and eventual triumph. Exhaustively researched, and drawing upon fresh primary sources in U.S. and Mexican archives, The Blood of Heros is the definitive account of this epic battle. Populated by larger-than-life characters -- including Davy Crockett, James Bowie, William Barret Travis -- this is a stirring story of audacity, valor, and redemption.

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359

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Little, Brown

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0316202541

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9780316202541

Sport Americana Series

Alphabetical Baseball Card Checklist No. 4

By: James Beckett

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Sport Americana Series

Alphabetical Baseball Card Checklist No. 4

By: James Beckett

Lists all of the baseball cards printed for each professional baseball player, including minor league players, team cards, and world series cards.

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Edgewater Books

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0937424455

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9780937424452

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For the People

For the People

Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

The Clint Eastwood Westerns

The Clint Eastwood Westerns

Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880

Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700–1880

Captain Rock

Captain Rock

The Homecoming Seasons

The Homecoming Seasons

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Agents of Orthodoxy

Agents of Orthodoxy

The Winds of Wexford

The Winds of Wexford

The Blood of Heroes

The Blood of Heroes

Sport Americana Series

Sport Americana Series

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