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A History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II

By: John M. Hyson,Joseph W. A. Whitehorne,John T. Greenwood

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A History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II

By: John M. Hyson,Joseph W. A. Whitehorne,John T. Greenwood

A detailed history of the development of military dentistry in the United States, from beginnings in the early 17th century, through the professionalization of dentistry in the 19th century, dental care on both sides of the Civil War, the establishment of the US Army Dental Corps in 1909, and the expansion of the Corps through World War I and afterward, to the verge of the Second World War.

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900

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Government Printing Office

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0160821592

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9780160821592

The Politics of Aristocratic Empires

By: John H. Kautsky

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The Politics of Aristocratic Empires

By: John H. Kautsky

The Politics of Aristocratic Empires is a study of a political order that prevailed throughout much of the world for many centuries without any major social conflict or change and with hardly any government in the modern sense. Although previously ignored by political science, powerful remnants of this old order still persist in modern politics. The historical literature on aristocratic empires typically is descriptive and treats each empire as unique. By contrast, this work adopts an analytical, explanatory, and comparative approach and clearly distinguishes aristocratic empires from both primitive and more modern, commercialized societies. It develops generalizations that are supported and richly illustrated by data from many empires and demonstrates that a pattern of politics prevailed across time, space, and cultures from ancient Egypt five millennia ago to Saudi Arabia five decades ago, from China and Japan to Europe, from the Incas and the Aztecs to the Tutsi. Kautsky argues that aristocrats, because they live off the labor of peasants, must perform the primary governmental functions of taxation and warfare. Their performance is linked to particular values and beliefs, and both functions and ideologies in turn condition the stakes, the forms, and the arenas of intra-aristocratic conflict the politics of the aristocracy. The author also analyzes the roles of the peasantry and the townspeople in aristocratic politics and shows that peasant revolts on any large scale occur only after commercial modernization. He concludes with chapters on the modernization of aristocratic empires and on the importance in modern politics of institutional and ideological remnants of the old aristocratic order.

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445

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Routledge

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1351303279

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9781351303279

Selected Plays of St. John Ervine

By: St. John Greer Ervine

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Selected Plays of St. John Ervine

By: St. John Greer Ervine

Contents: Mixed Marriage; Jane Clegg; John Ferguson; Boyd's Shop; Friends and Relations

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392

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CUA Press

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0813206294

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9780813206295

Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt

By: John S. Kloppenborg

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Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt

By: John S. Kloppenborg

Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation, ethnic identity, neighborhood or family were among the principal means of organizing social and economic life in the ancient Mediterranean. They offered opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and contexts in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects 140 inscriptions and papyri from Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, along with translations, notes, commentary, and analytic indices. The dossier of association-related documents substantially enhances our knowledge of the extent, activities, and importance of private associations in the ancient Mediterranean, since papyri, unavailable from most other locations in the Mediterranean, preserve a much wider range of data than epigraphical monuments. The dossier from Egypt includes not only honorific decrees, membership lists, bylaws, dedications, and funerary monuments, but monthly accounts of expenditures and income, correspondence between guild secretaries and local officials, price and tax declarations, records of legal actions concerning associations, loan documents, petitions to local authorities about associations, letters of resignation, and many other papyrological genres. These documents provide a highly variegated picture of the governance structures and practices of associations, membership sizes and profiles, and forms of interaction with the State.

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772

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110710390

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9783110710397

Ghost Stories of Ontario

By: John Robert Colombo

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Ghost Stories of Ontario

By: John Robert Colombo

A collection of 69 Ontario stories of haunted houses, ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, and other eerie experiences.

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246

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Dundurn

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088882176X

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9780888821768

The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts

By: John G Pedley

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The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts

By: John G Pedley

If Indiana Jones had relied on trains . . .

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481

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University of Michigan Press

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0472118021

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9780472118021

Haunted Toronto

By: John Robert Colombo

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Haunted Toronto

By: John Robert Colombo

Haunted Toronto is a book about the ghosts and spirits that haunt (or are said to haunt) houses and other places in Toronto.

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258

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Dundurn

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1459725077

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9781459725072

The British Critic

Vol. XVIII

By: James Shergold Boone,John Henry Newman

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The British Critic

Vol. XVIII

By: James Shergold Boone,John Henry Newman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1801.

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738

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368511580

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9783368511586

Confederate Seadog

John Taylor Wood in War and Exile

By: John Bell

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Confederate Seadog

John Taylor Wood in War and Exile

By: John Bell

John Taylor Wood, the grandson of President Zachary Taylor and a nephew of Jefferson Davis, was one of the most daring and remarkable participants of the Civil War and among the few people to hold dual rank in the Confederate military as a captain in the Confederate States Navy (CSN) and a colonel in the cavalry. Wood was widely known for his wartime activities, but at the time of his death in 1904, he had been largely forgotten. This work combines a thorough biography of John Taylor Wood and three of his memoirs that were published in Century magazine between 1885 and 1898. The biography gives special attention to Wood's childhood and youth, such as his harrowing experiences in Florida during the Seminole Wars, his service in the United States Navy during and after the Mexican War, his experiences in California during the Gold Rush and his leading role among the members of the little-known postwar Confederate naval colony in Halifax, Nova Scotia, organized to fight the Fenian forces for the British in 1866. His writings about the war and other literary activities, and his friendship with William Hall, the first African American to win the Victoria Cross are covered. The memoirs in this book cover his service on the CSS Virginia, the cruise of the CSS Tallahassee (of which he was the commander), and his gutsy escape from the South as the Confederacy collapsed.

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194

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McFarland

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0786413522

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9780786413522

The Charleston Orphan House

Children's Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America

By: John E. Murray

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The Charleston Orphan House

Children's Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America

By: John E. Murray

The first public orphanage in America, the Charleston Orphan House saw to the welfare and education of thousands of children from poor white families in the urban South. From wealthy benefactors to the families who sought its assistance to the artisans and merchants who relied on its charges as apprentices, the Orphan House was a critical component of the city’s social fabric. By bringing together white citizens from all levels of society, it also played a powerful political role in maintaining the prevailing social order. John E. Murray tells the story of the Charleston Orphan House for the first time through the words of those who lived there or had family members who did. Through their letters and petitions, the book follows the families from the events and decisions that led them to the Charleston Orphan House through the children’s time spent there to, in a few cases, their later adult lives. What these accounts reveal are families struggling to maintain ties after catastrophic loss and to preserve bonds with children who no longer lived under their roofs. An intimate glimpse into the lives of the white poor in early American history, The Charleston Orphan House is moreover an illuminating look at social welfare provision in the antebellum South.

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291

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University of Chicago Press

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0226924106

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9780226924106

Heirs to Dionysus

A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism

By: John Burt Foster, Jr.

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Heirs to Dionysus

A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism

By: John Burt Foster, Jr.

Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectual and artistic example helped shape an interconnected series of major literary projects from 1900 to the 1940s. He portrays Nietzsche as a stimulating but disturbing force who left a well-defined legacy of concerns that modernists appropriated for their fiction. The author focuses particularly on Gide, D. H. Lawrence, Malraux, and Mann, analyzing their strategies of acceptance, revision, and subversion. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400886120

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9781400886128

The Tenants in the Vineyard

Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine

By: John S. Kloppenborg

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The Tenants in the Vineyard

Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine

By: John S. Kloppenborg

John S. Kloppenborg gives a detailed analysis of one of the most difficult of Jesus' parables, the parable of the Tenants (Mark 12:1-12; Gospel of Thomas 65). He examines the ways in which Christians have typically read and mis-read the parable, and places the parable firmly in the context of the practices of ancient viticulture. The author models a new approach to the interpretation of the parables of Jesus. First, he critically engages the history of interpretation of the text, inquiring into the ideological interests that the parable has engaged during the history of its use in Christian churches and in political discourse. Second, he reconstructs the social world in which the parable was first told, in particular the economic, social, and legal aspects of ancient viticulture. He demonstrates that the parable of the Tenants has mostly been interpreted from the standpoint of those who wield social and political power, a strange irony considering the social status of the Jesus of history and the literary uses of the parable. All of the features common to the parable as it is told by Mark and the Gospel of Thomas make it a perfectly realistic story. It is only Mark's editing of the story that takes it beyond the realistic idiom characteristic of Jesus' other parables. The book concludes with a dossier of 58 papyrus documents relating to various aspects of viticulture and agrarian conflict. It was awarded the 2007 Francis W. Beare Book Award by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.

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706

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Mohr Siebeck

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316148908X

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9783161489082

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The Yale Class of 1970 on the Occasion of their 40th Reunion

By: Tom Weil,John Boak

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The Yale Class of 1970 on the Occasion of their 40th Reunion

By: Tom Weil,John Boak

The collected thoughts and reflections of the Yale class of 1970 upon the occasion of their 40th college reunion.

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185

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The Public Press

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1456523163

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9781456523169

The ‘Ukulele

A History

By: Jim Tranquada,John King

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The ‘Ukulele

A History

By: Jim Tranquada,John King

Since its introduction to Hawai‘i in 1879, the ‘ukulele has been many things: a symbol of an island paradise; a tool of political protest; an instrument central to a rich musical culture; a musical joke; a highly sought-after collectible; a cheap airport souvenir; a lucrative industry; and the product of a remarkable synthesis of western and Pacific cultures. The ‘Ukulele: A History explores all of these facets, placing the instrument for the first time in a broad historical, cultural, and musical context. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, Jim Tranquada and John King tell the surprising story of how an obscure four-string folk guitar from Portugal became the national instrument of Hawai’i, of its subsequent rise and fall from international cultural phenomenon to “the Dangerfield of instruments,” and of the resurgence in popularity (and respect) it is currently enjoying among musicians from Thailand to Finland. The book shows how the technologies of successive generations (recorded music, radio, television, the Internet) have played critical roles in popularizing the ‘ukulele. Famous composers and entertainers (Queen Liliuokalani, Irving Berlin, Arthur Godfrey, Paul McCartney, SpongeBob SquarePants) and writers (Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie) wind their way through its history—as well as a host of outstanding Hawaiian musicians (Ernest Kaai, George Kia Nahaolelua, Samuel K. Kamakaia, Henry A. Peelua Bishaw). In telling the story of the ‘ukulele, Tranquada and King also present a sweeping history of modern Hawaiian music that spans more than two centuries, beginning with the introduction of western melody and harmony by missionaries to the Hawaiian music renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824865871

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9780824865870

Poetry Train America

By: John E WordSlinger

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Poetry Train America

By: John E WordSlinger

A colorful combination of storytelling, poets, poetry, and railways presented using America's fifty states as a backdrop. 3 men who travel the U.S.A. in the year of 2012... To write a written documentary on Poets and the Railroad in our times... When they sleep they get taken back in time to the 19th Century, when the roads were built, and they have such great experiences, and meet key Poets, and figures... Upon waking they have conversations about Poets from the 20th Century, and RxR events... Then it goes into their written documentary on Poetry and Poets now... Main Characters that Andy and Red and Train Marshal Charlie journey within their Dreams, and they are Alphonso G. Newcomer, Mad Bear, Jung Hem Sing, Mr. Welchberry, Patrick O'Hara, Jimmy New Orleans, and many more

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672

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Lulu.com

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1304119785

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9781304119780

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A History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II

A History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II

The Politics of Aristocratic Empires

The Politics of Aristocratic Empires

Selected Plays of St. John Ervine

Selected Plays of St. John Ervine

Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt

Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt

Ghost Stories of Ontario

Ghost Stories of Ontario

The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey

Haunted Toronto

Haunted Toronto

The British Critic

The British Critic

Confederate Seadog

Confederate Seadog

The Charleston Orphan House

The Charleston Orphan House

Heirs to Dionysus

Heirs to Dionysus

The Tenants in the Vineyard

The Tenants in the Vineyard

70@40

70@40

The ‘Ukulele

The ‘Ukulele

Poetry Train America

Poetry Train America

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