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Guardians Of The Parks

A History Of The National Parks And Conservation Association

By: John C. Miles

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Guardians Of The Parks

A History Of The National Parks And Conservation Association

By: John C. Miles

First published in 1995. This volume traces the origin and development of America's national park citizen 'watchdog' organisation. Giving an insider's perspective, and reflecting an outsiders quest for objectivity, it will be of interest to every park enthusiast and conversation historian.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317855086

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The American Aeneas

Classical Origins of the American Self

By: John C. Shields

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The American Aeneas

Classical Origins of the American Self

By: John C. Shields

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book?? "John Shields's book is a provocative challenge to the venerable Adamic myth so exhaustively deployed in examinations of early American literature and in American studies. Moreover, The American Aeneas builds wonderfully on Shields's considerable work on Phillis Wheatley. "?--American Literature?? "The American Aeneas should be of interest to classicists and American studies scholars alike." ?--The New England Quarterly?? John Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting the biblical character Adam as an archetype who has long dominated ideas of what it means to be American, Shields argues that an equally important component of our nation's cultural identity--a secular one deriving from the classical tradition--has been seriously neglected.??Shields shows how Adam and Aeneas--Vergil's hero of the Aeneid-- in crossing over to American from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of "pastlessness" that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. John C. Shields is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and the author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book award and an honorable mention in the Harry Levin Prize competition, sponsored by the American Comparative Literature Association.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572333693

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9781572333697

Education and Social Change

Contours in the History of American Schooling

By: John L. Rury

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Education and Social Change

Contours in the History of American Schooling

By: John L. Rury

This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecessors, this new edition investigates the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration and cultural conflict on the development of schools and other educational institutions. It also examines the various ways that schools have contributed to social change, particularly in enhancing the status and accomplishments of certain social groups and not others. Detailed accounts of the experiences of women and minority groups in American history consider how their lives have been affected by education. Changes in this new edition include the following: A more thorough treatment of key concepts such as globalization, human capital, social capital, and cultural capital. Enhanced attention to issues of diversity throughout. Greater thematic coherence as a result of dividing chapter 6 into two chapters, the first focusing on the postwar period and emphasizing the themes of equity and social justice and the second focusing on human capital in education, highlighting the standards movement, federal policy changes and neo-liberal reform. A revision of several focal point discussions for greater clarity and thematic releance. Update discussions of recent changes in educational politics, finance and policy, especially the troubles presently facing No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

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298

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Routledge

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0415526906

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A Short Course in Literature

By: John S. Hart

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A Short Course in Literature

By: John S. Hart

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385219701

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9783385219700

Interpreting America

Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought

By: John Ryder

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Interpreting America

Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought

By: John Ryder

More scholarly works on the history of American philosophy have been completed in Russian than in any other language outside of our own; yet most of that body of work has not been translated or studied comprehensively. Consequently, Soviet-era efforts to understand American thought have remained almost entirely unknown to Western scholars. In his pioneering new book Interpreting America John Ryder makes available for the first time to English-speaking readers Russian views of the full range of American philosophical thought: from seventeenth-century Puritanism through the colonial and revolutionary periods, nineteenth- century idealism, pragmatism, naturalism, and other twentieth-century movements and figures. Using his own accurate translations, he clearly reconstructs a chain of core ideas, emphasizes the most essential concepts of each writer's work, and gives a multidimensional reconstruction of the arguments of each author. By taking mainstream Soviet philosophical commentators like Baskin, Bogomolov, Karimsky, Melvil, Pokrovsky, Sidorov, and Yulina seriously and letting them speak for themselves, Ryder shows not only what Soviet philosophers and scholars thought of American philosophy (and why they were so interested in the first place) but also the nuances of the internal disagreements among Soviet thinkers about what American philosophers were saying. He also reveals a strong continuity between contemporary, post-Soviet Russian philosophy and earlier Soviet work. Perhaps no other book has ever explored in such a systematic manner the ways in which one philosophical system has regarded another. Ryder's revealing study of how others have viewed us helps to clarify the depth, richness, and complexity of our own American philosophical heritage.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826513344

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9780826513342

Education and Social Change

themes in the History of American Schooling

By: John Rury,John L. Rury

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Education and Social Change

themes in the History of American Schooling

By: John Rury,John L. Rury

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1135666903

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Call it North Country

The Story of Upper Michigan

By: John Bartlow Martin

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Call it North Country

The Story of Upper Michigan

By: John Bartlow Martin

From Back Cover: This is a newspaperman's history of the Upper Peninsula. Intrigued by the place name Michigamme, Martin and his wife stopped there on their wedding trip in 1940 and became enchanted with the Upper Peninsula. Out of that attraction came more visits, a string of interviews and a series of tales told by miners, loggers, hunters and trappers. Originally published in 1944, it is a collection of nineteen lively stories told in convenient chunks for quick reading.-Detroit Free Press. The passage of time provides a better test of the quality of a book than litmus paper does of the acidity of a solution. This book was originally written in 1944 by one of our most powerful documentary authors. [Call it North Country] reads like a novel. If you're a history buff, it reads better than a novel. This book could not be written today. The witnesses to the development of upper Michigan would be missing and twice or thrice told tales would lose much detail and would not have the ring of truth which authenticates history.-Inland Seas.

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Wayne State University Press

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081431869X

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9780814318690

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory

Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620–1860

By: John McWilliams

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New England's Crises and Cultural Memory

Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620–1860

By: John McWilliams

In this magisterial study, John McWilliams traces the development of New England's influential cultural identity. Through written responses to historical crises from early New England through the pre-Civil War period, McWilliams argues that the meaning of 'New England' despite claims for its consistency was continuously reformulated. The significance of past crises was forever being reinterpreted for the purpose of meeting succeeding crises. The crises he examines include starvation, the Indian wars, the Salem witch trials, the revolution of 1775–76 and slavery. Integrating history, literature, politics and religion this is one of the most comprehensive studies of the meaning of 'New England' to appear in print. McWilliams considers a range of writing including George Bancroft's History of the United States, the political essays of Samuel Adams, the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the poetry of Robert Lowell. This compelling book is essential reading for historians and literary critics of New England.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139453734

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9781139453738

Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

By: John Wilson Foster

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Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

By: John Wilson Foster

This is a story of a scarcely credible abundance, of flocks of birds so vast they made the sky invisible. It is also a story of a collapse into extinction so startling as to provoke a mystery. In the fate of the North American passenger pigeon we can read much of the story of wild America—the astonishment that accompanied its discovery, the allure of its natural “productions” the ruthless exploitation of its “commodities” and the ultimate betrayal of its peculiar genius. And in the bird’s fate can be read, too, the essential vulnerability of species, the unpredictable passage of life itself.

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New York Review of Books

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1910749338

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9781910749333

Nation and Province in the First British Empire

Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800

By: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society,John Carter Brown Library

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Nation and Province in the First British Empire

Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800

By: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society,John Carter Brown Library

For more than four decades, historians have devoted ever-increasing attention to the affinites that linked Scotland with the American colonies in the eighteenth century. This volume moves beyond earlier discussions in two ways. For one, the geographical coverage of the papers extends beyond the territories that became the United States to include what became Canada, The Carribean and even Africa. For another, the volume attends not only those areas in which Scotland was closely linked to the Americas, but also to those where it was not.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838754880

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9780838754887

The English in America

The Puritan Colonies Vol. II

By: John Andrew Doyle

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The English in America

The Puritan Colonies Vol. II

By: John Andrew Doyle

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.

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3368635433

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9783368635435

Armed Men and Armadillos

By: John Earl Sharp

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Armed Men and Armadillos

By: John Earl Sharp

Vernon came out of the Civil War with a honed talent for violence that disallowed any opportunity for a peaceful existence. Pursuant to a confluence of circumstances, five children living a scratch existence on the outskirts of Jackson, Texas will come to rely on that talent for their very lives. Indeed, one runaway Chickasaw with vengeance in her blood and another with destruction in his will force Vernon to extremes that challenge not only his skill with a revolver but his very survival. With an old man carrying an old shotgun riding at his side, Vernon seeks to control his personal demons while going up against the very real threats that seek to destroy both him and the people he cares about. “The author delivers a strong protagonist and an engaging supporting cast. … A likeable, quirky hero and delightful youngsters make this violent yarn appealing.” — Kirkus Reviews.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457562499

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9781457562495

Entertaining Satan

Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

By: John Putnam Demos

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Entertaining Satan

Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

By: John Putnam 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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0199884064

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9780199884063

Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University

Vol. 1

By: John Langdon Sibley

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Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University

Vol. 1

By: John Langdon Sibley

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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3385200342

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Book's by John Mather

Guardians Of The Parks

Guardians Of The Parks

The American Aeneas

The American Aeneas

Education and Social Change

Education and Social Change

A Short Course in Literature

A Short Course in Literature

Interpreting America

Interpreting America

Education and Social Change

Education and Social Change

Call it North Country

Call it North Country

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory

Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

Nation and Province in the First British Empire

Nation and Province in the First British Empire

The English in America

The English in America

Armed Men and Armadillos

Armed Men and Armadillos

Entertaining Satan

Entertaining Satan

Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University

Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University

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