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Knights, Lords, and Ladies

In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 118-122

By: John W. Baldwin

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Knights, Lords, and Ladies

In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 118-122

By: John W. Baldwin

At the beginning of the twelfth century, the region around Paris had a reputation for being the land of unruly aristocrats. Entrenched within their castles, the nobles were viewed as quarrelling among themselves, terrorizing the countryside, harassing churchmen and peasants, pillaging, and committing unspeakable atrocities. By the end of the century, during the reign of Philip Augustus, the situation was dramatically different. The king had created the principal governmental organs of the Capetian monarchy and replaced the feudal magnates at the royal court with loyal men of lesser rank. The major castles had been subdued and peace reigned throughout the countryside. The aristocratic families remain the same, but no longer brigands, they had now been recruited for royal service. In his final book, the distinguished historian John Baldwin turned to church charters, royal inventories of fiefs and vassals, aristocratic seals and documents, vernacular texts, and archaeological evidence to create a detailed picture of the transformation of aristocratic life in the areas around Paris during the four decades of Philip Augustus's reign. Working outward from the reconstructed biographies of seventy-five individuals from thirty-three noble families, Baldwin offers a rich description of their domestic lives, their horses and war gear, their tourneys and crusades, their romantic fantasies, and their penances and apprehensions about final judgment. Knights, Lords, and Ladies argues that the aristocrats who inhabited the region of Paris over the turn of the twelfth century were important not only because they contributed to Philip Augustus's increase of royal power and to the wealth of churches and monasteries, but also for their own establishment as an elite and powerful social class.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812296281

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9780812296280

The History of Duelling (Volume 2 of 2)

Volume 2

By: John Gideon Millingen

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The History of Duelling (Volume 2 of 2)

Volume 2

By: John Gideon Millingen

Reproduction of the original: The History of Duelling (Volume 2 of 2) by John Gideon Millingen

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286

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752421649

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9783752421644

American Military Leaders

From Colonial Times to the Present [2 volumes]

By: John C. Fredriksen

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American Military Leaders

From Colonial Times to the Present [2 volumes]

By: John C. Fredriksen

A comprehensive collection of biographies of the most prominent military leaders in American history. American Military Leaders contains over 400 A–Z biographies of individuals such as Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, who ended hundreds of years of tradition by allowing women to serve on Navy ships; and, Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, whose rules of clandestine warfare are still followed by the U.S. Special Forces. Coverage centers on the outstanding generals, sergeants, fighter aces, militiamen, theorists, doctors, and nurses who make up America's military history. This volume presents their backgrounds, contributions, and significance to America's fortunes in war. This title also cites works for further research, includes a list of leaders organized by their military titles, and a comprehensive index.

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943

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576074692

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9781576074695

The Corpse in the Kitchen

Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War

By: Adam John Waterman

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The Corpse in the Kitchen

Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War

By: Adam John Waterman

Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the conflict as gratuitous, Adam John Waterman argues that the war part of a struggle over the dispensation of mineral resources specifically, mineral lead—and the emergence of new cultures of killing and composition. The elemental basis for the fabrication of bullets, lead drawn from the mines of the upper Mississippi, contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples through the consolidation of U.S. control over a vital military resource. Rendered as metallic type, Mississippian lead contributed to the expansion of print culture, providing the occasion for literary justifications of settler violence, and promulgating the fiction of Indigenous disappearance. Treating the theft and excarnation of Black Hawk’s corpse as coextensive with processes of mineral extraction, Waterman explores ecologies of racial capitalism as forms of inscription, documentary traces written into the land. Reading the terrestrial in relation to more conventional literary forms, he explores the settler fetishization of Black Hawk’s body, drawing out homoerotic longings that suffuse representations of the man and his comrades. Moving from print to agriculture as modes of inscription, Waterman looks to the role of commodity agriculture in composing a history of settler rapine, including literal and metaphoric legacies of anthropophagy. Traversing mouth and stomach, he concludes by contrasting forms of settler medicine with Black Hawk’s account of medicine as an embodied practice, understood in relation to accounts of dreaming and mourning, processes that are unforgivably slow and that allow time for the imagination of other futures, other ways of being.

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288

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Fordham University Press

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0823298795

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9780823298792

Pacifica

By: John Gregory Betancourt,Linda E. Bushyager

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Pacifica

By: John Gregory Betancourt,Linda E. Bushyager

Pacifica is an artificial island designed to feed the starving millions of the world. For a holographic artist in love with a woman who abandoned him, it is a chance to win her back. For eco-terrorists, it is a dream gone horribly wrong. From the bestselling authors of "The Dawn of Amber, Master of Hawks" and "The Spellstone of Shaltus.

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190

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Wildside Press LLC

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1592240178

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9781592240173

Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy

Marking the Limits of Neoliberalism

By: John Buschman

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Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy

Marking the Limits of Neoliberalism

By: John Buschman

In Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy, Dr. Buschman details the connections between our educative institutions and democracy, and the resources within democratic theory reflecting on the tensions between marketing, advertising, consumption, and democracy.

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249

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Scarecrow Press

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081088528X

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9780810885288

Cases in Financial Management

By: Joseph M. Sulock,John S. Dunkelberg

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Cases in Financial Management

By: Joseph M. Sulock,John S. Dunkelberg

This book offers 58 cases that combine both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of financial management. The cases are based on real firms, real products, real individuals, and most importantly, real issues and offer a complete picture of the financial management process.

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390

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471110434

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9780471110439

The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Third Series

Vol. 7

By: John Evans,Barclay V. Head,Herbert A. Grueber

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The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Third Series

Vol. 7

By: John Evans,Barclay V. Head,Herbert A. Grueber

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.

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3368759647

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9783368759643

Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

By: John Stewart

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Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

By: John Stewart

On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals--some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference work provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma's 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a three-part history: first, the pre-Broadway story of the show, including out-of-town try-outs and Broadway previews; next, the Broadway run itself, with dates, theatres, and cast and crew, including replacements, chorus and understudies, songs, gossip, and notes on reviews and awards; and finally, post-Broadway information with a detailed list of later notable productions, along with important reviews and awards.

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McFarland

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1476603294

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9781476603292

The History of Blyth

By: John Wallace

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The History of Blyth

By: John Wallace

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

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270

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3846050776

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9783846050774

From Humors to Medical Science

A History of American Medicine

By: John Duffy

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From Humors to Medical Science

A History of American Medicine

By: John Duffy

John Duffy's classic history, formerly titled The Healers, has been thoroughly revised and updated for this second edition, which includes new chapters on women and minorities in medicine and on the challenges currently facing the health care field. "This remains the only comprehensive history of American medicine. The treatment of the emergence of modern medicine and the flowering of surgery is especially fresh and well done. As one of the respected scholars in our profession, John Duffy has again demonstrated his wide knowledge of the subject." -- Thomas N. Brunner, author of To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine

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University of Illinois Press

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0252063007

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9780252063008

Book's by John Beaumont

Knights, Lords, and Ladies

Knights, Lords, and Ladies

The History of Duelling (Volume 2 of 2)

The History of Duelling (Volume 2 of 2)

American Military Leaders

American Military Leaders

The Corpse in the Kitchen

The Corpse in the Kitchen

Pacifica

Pacifica

Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy

Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy

Cases in Financial Management

Cases in Financial Management

The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Third Series

The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Third Series

Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

The History of Blyth

The History of Blyth

From Humors to Medical Science

From Humors to Medical Science

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