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Taming the Land

The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains

By: John Miller Morris

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Taming the Land

The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains

By: John Miller Morris

A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards—sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives. These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a "significant visual legacy" of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In Taming the Land, he shares those finds with readers, introducing each photographer and providing interpretive descriptions of the places, people, or events depicted in the photographs. The stories the cards tell—in the images captured and the messages carried—add an exceptional dimension to our understanding of life in rural Texas a century ago. Taming the Land presents postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. This is the first book in a set called Plains of Light, which will collect and document turn-of-the-twentieth-century photo postcards from all over West Texas.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603440372

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9781603440370

Spain in the Southwest

A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

By: John L. Kessell

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Spain in the Southwest

A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

By: John L. Kessell

John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the Spanish empire. Chronicling the period of Hispanic activity from the time of Columbus to Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821, Kessell traces the three great swells of Hispanic exploration, encounter, and influence that rolled north from Mexico across the coasts and high deserts of the western borderlands. Throughout this sprawling historical landscape, Kessell treats grand themes through the lives of individuals. He explains the frequent cultural clashes and accommodations in remarkably balanced terms. Stereotypes, the author writes, are of no help. Indians could be arrogant and brutal, Spaniards caring, and vice versa. If we select the facts to fit preconceived notions, we can make the story come out the way we want, but if the peoples of the colonial Southwest are seen as they really were--more alike than diverse, sharing similar inconstant natures--then we need have no favorites.

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484

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806189444

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9780806189444

Buffalo Soldier Regiment

History of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, 1869-1926

By: John Henry Nankivell

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Buffalo Soldier Regiment

History of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, 1869-1926

By: John Henry Nankivell

Personal recollections and official documents record the history, service, exploits, travels, traditions, and battles with racism experienced by one of the units comprising a black infantry regiment from 1869 to 1926.

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288

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803283792

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9780803283794

Citizen of the World

The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume One: 1919-1968

By: John English

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Citizen of the World

The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume One: 1919-1968

By: John English

One of the most important, exciting biographies of our time: the definitive, major two-volume biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau—written with unprecedented, complete access to Trudeau’s enormous cache of private letters and papers. Bestselling biographer John English gets behind the public record and existing glancing portraits of Trudeau to reveal the real man and the multiple influences that shaped his life, providing the full context lacking in all previous biographies to-date. As prime minister between 1968 and 1984, Trudeau, the brilliant, controversial figure, intrigued Canadians and attracted international attention as no other Canadian leader has ever done. Volume One takes us from his birth in 1919 to his election as leader in 1968. Born into a wealthy family in Montreal, Trudeau excelled at the best schools, graduating as a lawyer with conservative, nationalist and traditional Catholic views. But always conscious of his French-English heritage, desperate to know the outside world, and an adventurer to boot, he embarked on a pilgrimage of discovery—first to Harvard and the Sorbonne, then to the London School of Economics and, finally, on a trip through Europe, the Middle East, India and China. He was a changed man when he returned—socialist in his politics, sympathetic to labour, a friend to activists and writers in radical causes. Suddenly and surprisingly, he went to Ottawa for two mostly unhappy years as a public servant in the Privy Council Office. He frequently shocked his colleagues when, on the brink of a Quebec election, for example, he departed for New York or Europe on an extended tour. Yet in the 1950s and 60s, he wrote the most important articles outlining his political philosophy. And there were the remarkable relationships with friends, women and especially his mother (whom he lived with until he was middle-aged). He wrote to them always, exchanging ideas with the men, intimacies with the women, especially in these early years, and lively descriptions of his life. He even recorded his in-depth psychoanalysis in Paris. This personal side of Trudeau has never been revealed before—and it sheds light on the politician and statesman he became. Volume One ends with his entry into politics, his appointment as Minister of Justice, his meeting Margaret and his election as leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada. There, his genius and charisma, his ambition and intellectual prowess, his ruthlessness and emotional character and his deliberate shaping of himself for leadership played out on the national stage and, when Lester B. Pearson announced his retirement as prime minister in 1968, there was but one obvious man for the job: Pierre Trudeau. In 1938 Trudeau began a diary, which he continued for over two years. It is detailed, frank, and extraordinarily revealing. It is the only diary in Trudeau’ s papers, apart from less personal travel diaries and an agenda for 1937 that contains some commentary. His diary expresses Trudeau’s own need to chronicle the moments of late adolescence as he tried to find his identity. It begins on New Year’s Day 1938 with the intriguing advice: “If you want to know my thoughts, read between the lines!” —from Citizen of the World

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626

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Vintage Canada

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0307373584

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9780307373588

Organizational Behavior I

Essential theories of motivation and leadership

By: John B. Miner

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Organizational Behavior I

Essential theories of motivation and leadership

By: John B. Miner

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

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236

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765621835

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9780765621832

Centennial Proceedings and Other Historical Facts and Incidents Relating to Newfane. The County Seat of Windham County, Vermont

By: Joseph J. Green,Charles Burnham,John Hastings Merrifield

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Centennial Proceedings and Other Historical Facts and Incidents Relating to Newfane. The County Seat of Windham County, Vermont

By: Joseph J. Green,Charles Burnham,John Hastings Merrifield

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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290

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385550378

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9783385550377

Governance of Teaching Hospitals

Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins

By: John A. Kastor

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Governance of Teaching Hospitals

Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins

By: John A. Kastor

What forces lead to changes in governance among medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals? To what extent do such changes affect how well those schools and hospitals do their work? In this book, John A. Kastor, M.D., focuses on the academic medical centers of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University, two institutions that underwent dramatic change in governance during the late 1990s. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than three hundred administrators, physicians, and other medical professionals at Penn, Hopkins, and elsewhere, Kastor identifies the factors that influenced changes in governance at these two institutions. Chief among these, he finds, are structure, personality conflicts, and current events. This book will be of interest to administrators of teaching hospitals as well as professionals in health policy and management.

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376

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JHU Press

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0801881447

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9780801881442

Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers

By: W. John L. Sullivan

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Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers

By: W. John L. Sullivan

Sullivan recalls his time spent as sergeant of the legendary Texas Rangers during the years from 1889 to 1901, and his most intriguing memories that include hanging murderers, wrestling buffalo, and rounding up cattle poachers.

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260

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803292872

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9780803292871

Human Ecology As Human Behavior

Essays in Environmental and Development Anthropology

By: John William Bennett

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Human Ecology As Human Behavior

Essays in Environmental and Development Anthropology

By: John William Bennett

Human interaction with the natural environment has a dual character. By turning increasing quantities of natural substances into physical resources, human beings might be said to have freed themselves from the constraints of low-technology survival pressures. However, the process has generated a new dependence on nature in the form of complex "socionatural systems", as Bennett calls them, in which human society and behavior are so interlocked with the management of the environment that small changes in the systems can lead to disaster. Bennett's essays cover a wide range: from the philosophy of environmentalism to the ecology of economic development; from the human impact on semi-arid lands to the ecology of Japanese forest management. This expanded paperback edition includes a new chapter on the role of anthropology in economic development. Bennett's essays exhibit an underlying pessimism: if human behavior toward the physical environment is the distinctive cause of environmental abuse, then reform of current management practices offers only temporary relief; that is, conservationism, like democracy, must be continually reaffirmed. Clearly presented and free of jargon, Human Ecology as Human Behavior will be of interest to anthropologists, economists, and environmentalists.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412825628

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9781412825627

Civil War High Commands

By: John Eicher,David Eicher

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Civil War High Commands

By: John Eicher,David Eicher

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders. Numbering 3,396, they include the presidents and their cabinet members, state governors, general officers of the Union and Confederate armies (regular, provisional, volunteers, and militia), and admirals and commodores of the two navies. Civil War High Commands will become a cornerstone reference work on these personalities and the meaning of their commands, and on the Civil War itself. Errors of fact and interpretation concerning the high commanders are legion in the Civil War literature, in reference works as well as in narrative accounts. The present work brings together for the first time in one volume the most reliable facts available, drawn from more than 1,000 sources and including the most recent research. The biographical entries include complete names, birthplaces, important relatives, education, vocations, publications, military grades, wartime assignments, wounds, captures, exchanges, paroles, honors, and place of death and interment. In addition to its main component, the biographies, the volume also includes a number of essays, tables, and synopses designed to clarify previously obscure matters such as the definition of grades and ranks; the difference between commissions in regular, provisional, volunteer, and militia services; the chronology of military laws and executive decisions before, during, and after the war; and the geographical breakdown of command structures. The book is illustrated with 84 new diagrams of all the insignias used throughout the war and with 129 portraits of the most important high commanders.

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Stanford University Press

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0804780358

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9780804780353

Book's by John Miller Morris

Taming the Land

Taming the Land

Spain in the Southwest

Spain in the Southwest

Buffalo Soldier Regiment

Buffalo Soldier Regiment

Citizen of the World

Citizen of the World

Organizational Behavior I

Organizational Behavior I

Centennial Proceedings and Other Historical Facts and Incidents Relating to Newfane. The County Seat of Windham County, Vermont

Centennial Proceedings and Other Historical Facts and Incidents Relating to Newfane. The County Seat of Windham County, Vermont

Governance of Teaching Hospitals

Governance of Teaching Hospitals

Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers

Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers

Human Ecology As Human Behavior

Human Ecology As Human Behavior

Civil War High Commands

Civil War High Commands

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