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The Other Quebec

Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-century Religion and Society

By: John Irvine Little

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The Other Quebec

Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-century Religion and Society

By: John Irvine Little

The Other Quebec explores some of the complex ways that religious institutions and beliefs affected the rural societies in which the majority of Canadians still lived in the nineteenth century.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802093973

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9780802093974

Crofters and Habitants

Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 1848-1881

By: John Irvine Little

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Crofters and Habitants

Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 1848-1881

By: John Irvine Little

In Crofters and Habitants, J.I. Little examines the ways in which two highly distinct social groups -- Gælic-speaking crofters from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and French-speaking habitants from south of Quebec City -- adapted to a common physical environment in the rugged Appalachian plateau of south-eastern Quebec.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773508074

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9780773508071

Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec

The Upper St Francis District

By: John Irvine Little

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Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec

The Upper St Francis District

By: John Irvine Little

In the late 1830s the governments of Britain and Lower Canada, the Catholic Church, and a number of capitalist enterprises began to play a role in the settlement and exploitation of the economically marginal Upper St Francis district of Southern Quebec. British attempts to encourage immigration were largely unsuccessful but by mid-century the building of roads attracted a flood of French Canadians from the south-shore seigneuries.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773506993

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9780773506992

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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0773515445

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9780773515444

Loyalties in Conflict

A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion, 1812-1840

By: John Irvine Little

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Loyalties in Conflict

A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion, 1812-1840

By: John Irvine Little

Loyalties in Conflict examines how the allegiance to British authority of the American-origin population within the borders of Lower Canada was tested by the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837-1838.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802097731

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9780802097736

Stoicism, Enkrasia and Happiness

How Stoic Philosophy Can Bring Happiness

By: John L. Bowman

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Stoicism, Enkrasia and Happiness

How Stoic Philosophy Can Bring Happiness

By: John L. Bowman

Cicero wrote in Tusculan Disputations that we are born with the seeds of virtue which, if allowed to ripen, would lead us to a happy life (Cicero 227). However, as things are, we find ourselves in a world of "iniquity among a medley of wrong beliefs" that inhibits the ripening process (Cicero 227). The Stoics believed many of these iniquities and wrongful beliefs are the principal sources of unhappiness. In America today, some of these sources of unhappiness are manifest in the pursuits of wealth, prestige, power, and sensual pleasure, as well as the fear of unknown things, such as death. This thesis offers a solution to achieve greater happiness for those desiring to control their own destinies through reason, self-reliance, and will-power. This solution is to adopt and practice Stoic philosophy. This thesis first describes the ancient philosophy of Stoicism whose principle objective is to bring human felicity. Stoicism's fundamental themes could be that the world is as we make it, we should live in accordance with nature, and we can achieve happiness through virtue. The Stoics also believed that we are born with the ability to act enkratically, which enables us to practice Stoic salubrious beliefs. Through reason and other factors, such as intuition, imagination, effort, the ability to learn, experience, skill, and habit, this thesis argues that we can do what we will. With Stoic philosophy and enkrasia, this thesis concludes that many people can enhance their level of happiness.

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iUniverse

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146201335X

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9781462013357

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 3

By: John Aplin

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The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 3

By: John Aplin

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040243916

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9781040243916

The Kentucky Encyclopedia

By: John E. Kleber

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The Kentucky Encyclopedia

By: John E. Kleber

The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813128838

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9780813128832

In A Flanders Field

A Territorial Battalion at Ypres, October 1917

By: John Waite

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In A Flanders Field

A Territorial Battalion at Ypres, October 1917

By: John Waite

Written neither as a conventional biography or battalion history, this work centres on the remarkable life of Joe Waite, a boy soldier of the Great War. Though, in telling his story, the names and lives of 64 of his fallen comrades are also revealed. All were lost in just one month of fighting, during the hell that was the Third Battle of Ypres also known as Passchendaele. Born in a tough, working-class neighbourhood in Coventry, in the heart of the industrial Midlands, Joes childhood was blighted by the loss of his mother and tempered by his fathers decision to separate him from his siblings and re-marry. The need to earn his keep forced him into factory work from an early age, soon resulting in a humbling brush with the law. Eventually, the outbreak of war, and later, a family row over a pair of boots, lead to his enlistment in the army, at just 16 years old. Hiding the secret of his true age from his comrades in the 1/7th (TF) battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Joe left Coventry and its troubles far behind as he fought his way across Northern France, including at the infamous Battle of the Somme. His time on the Western Front would eventually draw to a close outside the town of Ypres in Belgium, in October 1917. In that month, and still officially too young to fight, Joe was awarded a Military Medal for his bravery at the Battle of Broodseinde. Using sources such as war diaries, personal, public, and military records, the account of not only the battle, but also the story of each man of Joes unit who fell there, is told. With further reference to a unique eyewitness account, voice is also given to what thoughts and feelings the men may have experienced as they fought in the mud of Ypres. Then, as the culmination of an exhaustive and painstaking research project, the stories of the fallen are told, together, for the first time. From civilian life to military service, each mini-biography is a sensitive and respectful telling of the unique and varied accounts of so many men, from so many different backgrounds, allowing for a renewed appreciation of a generation now lost to history. These stories tell of men from all over Britain and even beyond. Men who eventually became soldiers in an infantry battalion originally raised in Coventry, but whose makeup changed so much, as war exerted its toll. Where records allow, it also tells of how their families and communities remembered the fallen, so many of whom have no known resting place. Standing chiefly as a fitting tribute to those lost soldiers, this work concludes with the story of Joes life after the Great War. With one final tragedy to come, its telling will eventually lead to a stark truth; that it isnt only through the eyes of a soldier that the cruelty of war can be seen so harshly.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399037277

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9781399037273

Power!

A Blackout Conspiracy

By: John Gensler

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Power!

A Blackout Conspiracy

By: John Gensler

Power! exposes the foreign manipulation of U.S. financial markets, which caused us to create the ‘anti-nuke’ movement and covertly collapse our own nuclear energy program! The United States announced plans in 1965 to build one thousand nuclear power plants. Americans praised the clean, efficient, and economical energy. Fifteen years and only 90 plants later, the U.S. nuclear energy program was effectively aborted. But nuclear power programs still thrive throughout Europe and Asia. Why not in the United States? In the early 1970’s, an American engineer, Duncan Hayward, uncovered a foreign plot to take control of the electric power industry in the United States and thereby crush the U.S. economy. Foreign cartels were buying huge chunks of the U.S. nuclear power industry through an ingenious computerized scheme. Hayward soon realized that the only way to stop them was to remove their primary target, the nuclear power industry itself. Hayward’s plan, approved at the highest government levels, would systematically destroy the nuclear industry. Politicians, celebrities, and news media were used to convey messages of fear and environmental disaster to the general public. Hayward and his supporters executed the odious ‘anti-nuke’ plan and the U.S. nuclear energy program collapsed, taking with it the foreign cartels.

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0595182879

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9780595182879

Jay Cooke's Gamble

The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873

By: M. John Lubetkin

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Jay Cooke's Gamble

The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873

By: M. John Lubetkin

In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad’s mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull’s warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks—combined with alcoholic commanders—led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation’s press, and among investors. Lubetkin’s suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806182059

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9780806182056

On the Trail of Robert Burns

By: John Cairney

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On the Trail of Robert Burns

By: John Cairney

Follow Scotland's bard: the Burns trail provides a splendid introduction to Burns and a new challenge to Burns fanatics. John Cairney visits more than 100 places connected with Burns. He has been described as a living embodiment of Burns and has written and performed Burns for stage, radio, film, television, and festivals around the world. His use of Burns' own poems and correspondence helps to set the scene and the mood of Burns' travels as well as his own. -- Includes Burn's poems and correspondence -- Detailed maps and comprehensive map references.

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Dundurn

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0946487510

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9780946487516

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The Other Quebec

The Other Quebec

Crofters and Habitants

Crofters and Habitants

Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec

Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec

State and Society in Transition

State and Society in Transition

Loyalties in Conflict

Loyalties in Conflict

Stoicism, Enkrasia and Happiness

Stoicism, Enkrasia and Happiness

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 3

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 3

The Kentucky Encyclopedia

The Kentucky Encyclopedia

In A Flanders Field

In A Flanders Field

Power!

Power!

Jay Cooke's Gamble

Jay Cooke's Gamble

On the Trail of Robert Burns

On the Trail of Robert Burns

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