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Hawaii Place Names

Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites

By: John R. K. Clark

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Hawaii Place Names

Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites

By: John R. K. Clark

In his latest book, John Clark, author of the highly regarded "Beaches of Hawaii" series, gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawaii place names associated with the ocean--the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle. Significant features and landmarks on or near shores, such as fishponds, monuments, shrines, reefs, and small islands, are also included. The names of surfing sites are the most numerous and among the most colorful: from the purely descriptive (Black Rock, Blue Hole) to the humorous (No Can Tell, Pray for Sex). Clark began gathering information for the "Beaches" series in 1972, and during the years that followed interviewed hundreds of informants, many of them native Hawaiians, and consulted dozens of Hawaiian reference books, newspapers, and maps. A significant amount of the oral history he collected was unrecorded and remained only in his notebooks and memory. Hawaii Place Names: Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites is the final result of those years of research, and like its popular predecessors, it benefits substantially from Clark's having spent a lifetime surfing and swimming Hawaii's beaches. Presented in the same convenient format as Pukui, Elbert, and Mookini's Place Names of Hawaii (UH Press, 1974) this rich compendium of information on Hawaii's surf, shore, and beach sites will satisfy visitors and residents alike.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824824512

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9780824824518

American Astronomy

Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940

By: John Lankford

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American Astronomy

Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940

By: John Lankford

Focusing on a period that saw fundamental changes in the nature and content of astronomy, including the rise of astrophysics, Lankford has compiled remarkable data, such as the number of people with and without doctorates, the number who taught in colleges or universities versus those involved in industrial or government work, and the number of women versus men. He also addresses the crucial question of power within the community - what it meant, which astronomers had it, and what they did with it.

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494

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University of Chicago Press

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0226468860

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9780226468860

The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

Vol. II

By: John Campbell

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The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

Vol. II

By: John Campbell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368841254

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9783368841256

State and Society in Transition

The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 1838-1852

By: John Irvine Little

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State and Society in Transition

The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 1838-1852

By: John Irvine Little

Examining the process of state formation as it occurred in the Eastern Townships of Quebec following the unification of Upper and Lower Canada, J.I. Little argues that institutional reform was not simply imposed by the government but the result of a complex process of interaction between the state and the local community. While past studies look at state formation in the post-Rebellion period largely from the perspective of the central government, State and Society in Transition focuses on the significant role the local population played in shaping institutional reforms.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773515453

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9780773515451

Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500–c.1700

By: John M. Collins

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Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500–c.1700

By: John M. Collins

John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws. Further, it was a vital component of both England's domestic and imperial legal order. It was used to quell rebellions during the Reformation, to subdue Ireland, to regulate English plantations like Jamestown, to punish spies and traitors in the English Civil War, and to build forts on Jamaica. Through outlining the history of martial law, Collins reinterprets English legal culture as dynamic, politicized, and creative, where jurists were inspired by past practices to generate new law rather than being restrained by it. This work asks that legal history once again be re-integrated into the cultural and political histories of early modern England and its empire.

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335

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Cambridge University Press

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1316654141

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9781316654149

Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses

By: John A. Wagner

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Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses

By: John A. Wagner

This authoritative A–Z encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses provides accurate and concise descriptions of the major battles and events and the principal historical figures and issues involved. For centuries, historians agreed about the Wars of the Roses, seeing them as four decades of medieval darkness and chaos, when the royal family and the nobility destroyed themselves fighting for control of the royal government. Even Shakespeare got into the act, dramatizing, popularizing, and darkening this viewpoint in eight plays. Today, based on new research, this has become one of the most hotly controversial periods in English history. Historians disagree on fundamental issues, such as dates and facts, as well as interpretation. Most argue that the effects of the wars were not as widespread as once thought, and some see the traditional view of the era as merely Tudor propaganda. A few even claim that England during the late 15th century was "a society organized for peace." Historian John A. Wagner brings readers up to date on the latest research and thinking about this crucial period of England's history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576075753

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9781576075753

Pierce's Register

Register of the Certificates Issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army Under Act of July 4, 1783

By: United States. War Department. Pay Department,John Pierce

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Pierce's Register

By: United States. War Department. Pay Department,John Pierce

Published as Senate Documents, Vol. 9, no. 988, 63rd Congress, 3rd Session.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806305274

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9780806305271

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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UPNE

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1555533043

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9781555533045

Robber Baron

The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes

By: John Franch

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Robber Baron

The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes

By: John Franch

Robber Baron is the first biography of the streetcar magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905), who stands alongside J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie as one of the most colorful and controversial public figures in Gilded Age America. John Franch draws upon every available source to tell the story of the man who was the mastermind behind Chicago’s Loop Elevated and the London Underground, the namesake of the University of Chicago’s observatory, and the inspiration for Frank Cowperwood, the ruthless protagonist of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire: The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic. Despite various philanthropic efforts, Yerkes and his unscrupulous tactics were despised by the press and public, and he left Chicago a bitter man. While Yerkes’s enduring public works testify to his success and desire to leave a lasting impression on his world, Robber Baron also uncovers the cost of this boundless ambition.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252054202

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9780252054204

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,John M. Weeks

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The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

By: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,John M. Weeks

Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University of Pennsylvania Museum library and portraits of individual authors represented in the Brinton Library."--BOOK JACKET.

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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1931707464

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9781931707466

Our Osage Hills

Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century

By: Michael Snyder,John Joseph Mathews

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Our Osage Hills

Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century

By: Michael Snyder,John Joseph Mathews

This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from “Our Osage Hills,” a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews. Signed only with the initials “J.J.M.,” Mathews’s column featured regularly in the Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital during the early 1930s. While Mathews is best known for his novel Sundown (1934), the pieces gathered in this volume reveal him to be a compelling essayist. Marked by wit and erudition, Mathews’s column not only evokes the unique beauty of the Osage prairie, but also takes on urgent political issues, such as ecological conservation and Osage sovereignty. In Our Osage Hills, Michael Snyder interweaves Mathews’s writings with original essays that illuminate their relevant historical and cultural contexts. The result isan Osage-centric chronicle of the Great Depression, a time of environmental and economic crisis for the Osage Nation and country as a whole. Drawing on new historical and biographical research, Snyder’s commentaries highlight the larger stakes of Mathews’s reflections on nature and culture and situate them within a fascinating story about Osage, Native American, and American life in the early twentieth century. In treating topics that range from sports, art, film, and literature to the realities and legacies of violence against the Osages, Snyder conveys the broad spectrum of Osage familial, social, and cultural history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611463025

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9781611463026

Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me

The Writings of John Wilkes Booth

By: John Wilkes Booth

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Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me

The Writings of John Wilkes Booth

By: John Wilkes Booth

All of the known writings of John Wilkes Booth are included in this collection. Of this wealth of material, the most important item is a previously unpublished twenty-page manuscript discovered at the Players Club in Manhattan. Written by Booth in 1860 in a form similar to Mark Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, it makes clear that his hatred for Lincoln was formed early and was deeply rooted in his pro-slavery and pro-Southern ideology. Also included in the nearly seventy documents are six love letters to a seventeen-year-old Boston girl, Isabel Sumner, written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln; several explicit statements of Booth's political convictions; and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination. The documents show that Booth, although opinionated and impulsive, was not an isolated madman. Rather, he was a highly successful actor and ladies' man who also was a Confederate agent. Along with many others, he believed that Lincoln was a tyrant whose policies threatened civil liberties. --From publisher's description.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252069676

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9780252069673

Gideon Welles; Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

By: John Niven

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Gideon Welles; Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

By: John Niven

A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.

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697

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195016939

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9780195016932

War on the Run

The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

By: John F. Ross

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War on the Run

The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

By: John F. Ross

Often hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers’ legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England’s dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates Rogers’s life and his spectacular battles with breathtaking immediacy and meticulous accuracy, but brings a new and provocative perspective on Rogers’s unique vision of a unified continent, one that would influence Thomas Jefferson and inspire the Lewis and Clark expedition. Rogers’s principles of unconventional war-making would lay the groundwork for the colonial strategy later used in the War of Independence—and prove so compelling that army rangers still study them today. Robert Rogers, a backwoods founding father, was heroic, admirable, brutal, canny, ambitious, duplicitous, visionary, and much more—like America itself.

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Bantam

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0553384570

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9780553384574

New York Before Chinatown

Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

By: John Kuo Wei Tchen

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New York Before Chinatown

Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882

By: John Kuo Wei Tchen

Piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes from the years before Chinatown emerged in the late 1870s, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen redraws Manhattan's historical landscape and broadens our understanding of the role of port cultures in the making of American identities."--BOOK JACKET.

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JHU Press

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0801867940

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9780801867941

Book's by John Hale

Hawaii Place Names

Hawaii Place Names

American Astronomy

American Astronomy

The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

State and Society in Transition

State and Society in Transition

Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500–c.1700

Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500–c.1700

Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses

Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses

Pierce's Register

Pierce's Register

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

Robber Baron

Robber Baron

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

Our Osage Hills

Our Osage Hills

Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me

Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me

Gideon Welles; Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

Gideon Welles; Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

War on the Run

War on the Run

New York Before Chinatown

New York Before Chinatown

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