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Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States

Vol. 4

By: John W. Moore

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Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States

Vol. 4

By: John W. Moore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385412900

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9783385412903

Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

By: John Taliaferro

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Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

By: John Taliaferro

Winner • National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography) Longlisted • PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell—the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America’s conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro’s commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug for dinosaurs on the Great Plains with eminent paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh—an expedition that fanned his romantic notion of wilderness and taught him a graphic lesson in evolution and extinction. Soon he joined George A. Custer in the Black Hills, helped to map Yellowstone, and scaled the peaks and glaciers that, through his labors, would become Glacier National Park. Along the way, he became one of America’s most respected ethnologists; seasons spent among the Plains Indians produced numerous articles and books, including his tour de force, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life. More than a chronicler of natural history and indigenous culture, Grinnell became their tenacious advocate. He turned the sportsmen’s journal Forest and Stream into a bully pulpit for wildlife protection, forest reserves, and national parks. In 1886, his distress over the loss of bird species prompted him to found the first Audubon Society. Next, he and Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club to promote “fair chase” of big game. His influence among the rich and the patrician provided leverage for the first federal legislation to protect migratory birds—a precedent that ultimately paved the way for the Endangered Species Act. And in an era when too many white Americans regarded Native Americans as backwards, Grinnell’s cries for reform carried from the reservation, through the halls of Congress, all the way to the White House. Drawing on forty thousand pages of Grinnell’s correspondence and dozens of his diaries, Taliaferro reveals a man whose deeds and high-mindedness earned him a lustrous peerage, from presidents to chiefs, Audubon to Aldo Leopold, John Muir to Gifford Pinchot, Edward S. Curtis to Edward H. Harriman. Throughout his long life, Grinnell was bound by family and sustained by intimate friendships, toggling between the East and the West. As Taliaferro’s enthralling portrait demonstrates, it was this tension that wound Grinnell’s nearly inexhaustible spring and honed his vision—a vision that still guides the imperiled future of our national treasures.

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Liveright Publishing

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1631490141

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9781631490149

Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

By: John Matthews

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Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

By: John Matthews

This is the consolidated and unduplicated edition of three separate volumes on the armorial bearings of American families published between 1903 and 1923. All told, Matthews furnishes illustrations of some 1,500 coats of arms, complete with heraldic descriptions of the arms and crests.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080634573X

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9780806345734

Mathews' American Armoury and Blue Book

By: John Mathews

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Mathews' American Armoury and Blue Book

By: John Mathews

First published in 1907, this book contains a list of many of the Americans with coats of arms. It includes biographical information, genealogical information, as well as a description of the arms, crest, and motto. Other information listed include clubs and societies the individual belonged to, and the persons' residences along with a list of Royal Warrant Holders. 358 pages and numerous images.

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359

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Lulu.com

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0956815774

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9780956815774

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

A Biographical Dictionary

By: John A. Schutz

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Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

A Biographical Dictionary

By: John A. Schutz

This single volume contains meticulously researched biographies of the men who served as representatives in the General Court from the Charter of 1691 to the end of the American Revolution. Schutz also provides readers with enlightening essays on the history and workings of the Massachusetts General Court, and its influence in shaping the political and cultural milieux of colonial and revolutionary America.

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458

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UPNE

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1555533043

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9781555533045

Socioeconomic Impact Management

Design And Implementation

By: John M Halstead,Robert A Chase,Steve H Murdock,F. Larry Leistritz

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Socioeconomic Impact Management

Design And Implementation

By: John M Halstead,Robert A Chase,Steve H Murdock,F. Larry Leistritz

The authors of this book present a comprehensive analysis of impact management for such large-scale resource and industrial development projects as power plants, mines, and nuclear waste disposal facilities. An overall framework for designing an impact management program is presented and specific recommendations for implementing management measures are provided. This book is unique in that it provides a conceptual framework for choosing among alternative approaches in designing a management system, as well as offering practical guidance for implementing such systems.

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220

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Routledge

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1000312100

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9781000312102

Entertaining Satan

Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

By: John Demos

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Entertaining Satan

Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

By: John Demos

In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.

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Oxford University Press

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0195174844

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Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery

By: John Walker Guss

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Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery

By: John Walker Guss

When we come to our final resting place, we may be remembered by an elaborate mausoleum, a block of stone, a wooden post, or perhaps nothing at all. Such is the manner in which those resting under the trees of Laurel Grove Cemetery are memorialized. Established in 1850 out of the property of Springfield, one of Savannah's earliest plantations, Laurel Grove Cemetery is one of the most mysterious and intriguing cemeteries in all of the city. Through her gates lie individuals who have made their mark locally and worldwide. In this beautiful sanctuary rest such notable individuals as Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America; Florence Martus, who became more popularly known as the Waving Girl; James Pierpont, author of "Jingle Bells," the popular Christmas carol; and more than 600 Confederate soldiers.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738516295

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9780738516295

The Rupture

On Knowledge and the Sublime

By: Olivia Fane,John B. Harris

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The Rupture

On Knowledge and the Sublime

By: Olivia Fane,John B. Harris

The sublime rests precariously on the edge of the abyss.' This volume is a collaboration between wordsmith Olivia Fane and painter John B. Harris. Fane's first essay is on the philosophical understanding of the sublime. The sublime first became a subject of serious philosophical thought in the eighteenth century, thanks to Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. Fane argues for an interpretation of the sublime as the radically other, and argues that its function is primarily epistemological, in that it reveals to us our own being and finitude. She goes on to show how this tallies with ideas of negative theology and post-modernism. In her second chapter,'A Short Essay on Truth’, Fane suggests that societies and cultures suffer from a ‘hermeneutic circle of knowledge’ — in other words knowledge is based on agreement rather than authentic understanding. She shows how the function of art and religion at their best is to attempt to break through the circle, turning us from sleepwalkers into people who are alive to a truth which is, paradoxically, unknowable. The third chapter, ‘Fear and Longing: A Symposium’ is named after the painting on the book’s cover and is a dialogue between Harris and Fane on the apprehension of the sublime, exploring the syzygy between images and words, intimation and explication.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1788360478

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9781788360470

Squirrels of the World

By: Richard W. Thorington Jr.,John L. Koprowski,Michael A. Steele,James F. Whatton

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Squirrels of the World

By: Richard W. Thorington Jr.,John L. Koprowski,Michael A. Steele,James F. Whatton

This is the most thorough treatment ever undertaken on the Sciuridae and promises to be the definitive book on squirrels for decades to come. Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive examination of all 285 species of squirrels worldwide. The authors reveal virtually every detail of the family Sciuridae, which includes ground squirrels, tree squirrels, flying squirrels, prairie dogs, and chipmunks. Each species—from the familiar gray squirrel of American backyards to the exotic and endangered woolly flying squirrel of Pakistan—is described in a detailed account that includes distinguishing characteristics, ecology, natural history, conservation status, and current threats to its existence. Squirrels of the World includes • stunning color photographs that document rare and unusual squirrels as well as common varieties • evolution, morphology, ecology, and conservation status • colorful range maps marking species distribution • images of the skull of each genus of squirrel • extensive references

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JHU Press

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1421408686

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9781421408682

America's Early Whalemen

Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650–1750

By: John A Strong

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America's Early Whalemen

Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650–1750

By: John A Strong

The Indians of coastal Long Island were closely attuned to their maritime environment. They hunted sea mammals, fished in coastal waters, and harvested shellfish. To celebrate the deep-water spirits, they sacrificed the tail and fins of the most powerful and awesome denizen of their maritime world—the whale. These Native Americans were whalemen, integral to the origin and development of the first American whaling enterprise in the years 1650 to 1750. America’s Early Whalemen examines this early chapter of an iconic American historical experience. John A. Strong’s research draws on exhaustive sources, domestic and international, including little-known documents such as the whaling contracts of 340 Native American whalers, personal accounting books of whaling company owners, London customs records, estate inventories, and court records. Strong addresses labor relations, the role of alcohol and debt, the patterns of cultural accommodations by Native Americans, and the emergence of corporate capitalism in colonial America. When Strong began teaching at Long Island University in 1964, he found little mention of the local Indigenous people in history books. The Shinnecocks and the neighboring tribes of Unkechaugs and Montauketts were treated as background figures for the celebratory narrative of the “heroic” English settlers. America’s Early Whalemen highlights the important contributions of Native peoples to colonial America.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816538816

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9780816538812

The Letters

By: John Greenleaf Whittier

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The Letters

By: John Greenleaf Whittier

These letters of a man deeply concerned about his country, directly involved in political action, and torn, as the Civil War approached, by the conflict between his abolitionist zeal and his Quaker pacifism--letters here collected for the first time and many of them hitherto unpublished--shatter the stereotype of Whittier as "the good gray poet." The many letters to such figures as John Quincy Adams, Charles Sumner, and William Lloyd Garrison form a detailed record of the abolitionist movement from its inception to its merging with the Free Soil party in the 1850s. The first two volumes reproduce all the extant letters from 1828 to 1860, with full annotations. The last volume is selective, excluding several thousand perfunctory items and including only the historically or biographically interesting letters of the last three decades of the poet's life.

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Harvard University Press

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0674528301

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9780674528307

Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations

Vol. II

By: John Forrest Dillon

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Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations

Vol. II

By: John Forrest Dillon

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385446384

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9783385446380

Duties of the Senior Accountant

By: Frank Weldon Thornton,John C. Martin

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Duties of the Senior Accountant

By: Frank Weldon Thornton,John C. Martin

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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0824061446

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9780824061449

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Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States

Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States

Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

Mathews' American Armoury and Blue Book

Mathews' American Armoury and Blue Book

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

Socioeconomic Impact Management

Socioeconomic Impact Management

Entertaining Satan

Entertaining Satan

Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery

Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery

The Rupture

The Rupture

Squirrels of the World

Squirrels of the World

America's Early Whalemen

America's Early Whalemen

The Letters

The Letters

Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations

Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations

Duties of the Senior Accountant

Duties of the Senior Accountant

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