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Our Common Ground

A History of America's Public Lands

By: John D. Leshy

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Our Common Ground

A History of America's Public Lands

By: John D. Leshy

The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.

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Yale University Press

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030023578X

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9780300235784

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

Prelude to Pearl Harbor

Ideology and Culture in US-Japan Relations, 1919–1941

By: John Gripentrog

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Prelude to Pearl Harbor

Ideology and Culture in US-Japan Relations, 1919–1941

By: John Gripentrog

In this absorbing account of the origins of the Asia-Pacific War, historian John Gripentrog argues that competing ideologies of world order—chiefly the rift between liberal internationalism and Pan-Asian regionalism—lay at the heart of the conflict. Drawing from a rich diversity of primary and secondary sources, the author also examines the Japanese government’s vigorous cultural diplomacy in the U.S., which sought to win over American hearts and minds and soft-pedal its imperialist ambitions in Asia. The result is a book that both challenges and amplifies standard interpretations of US-Japan relations in the interwar era, while weaving diplomatic, political, intellectual, and cultural history. Moreover, the author’s wide-angle lens offers readers insights into a fascinating assemblage of historical actors—from Japanese and American diplomats, politicians, and military leaders, to cosmopolitan art enthusiasts and major league baseball players.

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285

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538149443

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9781538149447

Hamburg

1910-1970

By: John R. Edson

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Hamburg

1910-1970

By: John R. Edson

Hamburg: 1910-1970 highlights the great growth and prosperity of Hamburg as the population expanded, roads and highways improved, and numerous businesses opened throughout the western New York State town. Among the fascinating people who made Hamburg life interesting were Amanda Michael and Lillian Eddy of the Nineteenth Century Club, which helped found the Hamburg Free Library; Broadway playwright George F. Abbott, who brought glamor to Hamburg; and Fred Weiss, the first chief of police of Hamburg Village, who had original ideas about criminal justice. In 1962, Hamburg marked its sesquicentennial with a celebration that is said to have surpassed everyone's wildest expectations.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738512729

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9780738512723

The Mining Law

A Study in Perpetual Motion

By: John D. Leshy

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The Mining Law

A Study in Perpetual Motion

By: John D. Leshy

Originally published in 1987, John D. Leshy presents this scholarly study of the 1872 Mining Law as a legal treatise and history of mining in the West from the point of view of mineral exploration and production. This mining law governed the United States mining practice yet had never been changed. The Mining Law attempts to highlight the role of policy and government as well as the more obscure elements of the law which complicated mining practice in the eighties. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and policy makers.

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494

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Routledge

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1317359593

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9781317359593

Catboat Summers

By: John E. Conway

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Catboat Summers

By: John E. Conway

In the winter of 1993 Conway and his family purchased the 24-foot Buckrammer, an almost 100-year-old leak- and rust-plugged wooden boat. They then set about restoring the old bucket into the family yacht. Catboat Summers chronicles a decade's worth of adventures in New England waters.

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230

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Sheridan House, Inc.

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1574091719

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9781574091717

Pattern of Circles

An Ambassador's Story

By: John Dolibois

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Pattern of Circles

An Ambassador's Story

By: John Dolibois

This text is the autobiography of John E. Doilbois, US Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1981. Doilbois was born in Luxembourg in 1918 and moved to the USA in 1931. Having graduated from Miami University, he served in American Military Intelligence where he interrogated Nazi war criminals.

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Kent State University Press

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0873387023

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9780873387026

The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947

The Letters and Diary of Colonel John Hart Caughey

By: John Hart Caughey

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The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947

The Letters and Diary of Colonel John Hart Caughey

By: John Hart Caughey

Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environmental concerns, ignoring the broader questions of social control that arise when food production methods become corporate-owned intellectual property. Drawing on legal documents and dozens of interviews with farmers and other stakeholders, Corporate Crops covers four case studies based around litigation between biotechnology corporations and farmers. Pechlaner investigates the extent to which the proprietary aspects of biotechnologies--from patents on seeds to a plethora of new rules and contractual obligations associated with the technologies--are reorganizing crop production. The lawsuits include patent infringement litigation launched by Monsanto against a Saskatchewan canola farmer who, in turn, claimed his crops had been involuntarily contaminated by the company's GM technology; a class action application by two Saskatchewan organic canola farmers launched against Monsanto and Aventis (later Bayer) for the loss of their organic market due to contamination with GMOs; and two cases in Mississippi in which Monsanto sued farmers for saving seeds containing its patented GM technology. Pechlaner argues that well-funded corporate lawyers have a decided advantage over independent farmers in the courts and in creating new forms of power and control in agricultural production. Corporate Crops demonstrates the effects of this intersection between the courts and the fields where profits, not just a food supply, are reaped.

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325

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442212942

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9781442212947

The Artful Dickens

The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist

By: John Mullan

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The Artful Dickens

The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist

By: John Mullan

This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book ... It doesn't go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens' Howard Jacobson Discover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens. From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters? What was Dickens's favourite way of killing his characters? When is a Dickens character most likely to see a ghost? Why is Dickens's trickery only fully realised when his novels are read aloud? In thirteen entertaining and wonderfully insightful essays, John Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens's eccentric genius, from his delight in clichés to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences. A treat for all lovers of Dickens, this essential companion puts his audacity, originality and brilliance on full display.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526643898

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9781526643896

Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Cases & Materials

By: Edward Hector Burn,John Cartwright,Ronald Harling Maudsley

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Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Cases & Materials

By: Edward Hector Burn,John Cartwright,Ronald Harling Maudsley

The 9th edition of Maudsley and Burn's Land Law Cases and Materials continues to provide an essential reference work for students and practitioners. It includes a wide range of extracts from cases, statutes, Law Commission reports and other literature, which highlight the key issues to understand the present law and its continuing development.

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0199226172

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9780199226177

Political Liberalism

By: John Rawls

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Political Liberalism

By: John Rawls

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines—religious, philosophical, and moral—coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines? This edition includes the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," which outlines Rawls' plans to revise Political Liberalism, which were cut short by his death. "An extraordinary well-reasoned commentary on A Theory of Justice...a decisive turn towards political philosophy." —Times Literary Supplement

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Columbia University Press

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0231527535

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9780231527538

The Populist Revolt

A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party

By: John Donald Hicks

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The Populist Revolt

A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party

By: John Donald Hicks

Populist Revolt was first published in 1931. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. When The Populist Revolt was originally published, the New York Times critic called it "far and away the best account of populism that we have—and one not likely to be replaced." That prophecy proved right; the book has not been replaced, and historians and critics agree that it is the definitive work on its subject. Now it is made available once more, after being out of print for some time. This is a history of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, under whose banners a great crusade for farm relief was waged in the 1880's and 1890's. As important as the chronicle of the political movement itself is the detailed picture which Professor Hicks gives of the conditions which set the stage for this agrarian revolt. He describes the inequities and malpractices which beset both the new settlers of the West and the poverty-ridden whites and Negroes of the South following the Civil War. The story of Populism itself is a lively one, people with such picturesque leaders as "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman of South Carolina, "Sockless" Jerry Simpson and Mary Elizabeth Lease—the "Patrick Henry in petticoats"—of Kansas, "Bloody Bridles" Waite of Colorado, Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, Dr. C. W. Macune of Texas, James B. Weaver of Iowa, and Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota. In these pages, Professor Hicks has, as Frederic L. Paxson pointed out, "presented the case for Populism better than the Populists themselves could do it." Henry Steele Commanger calls the book a "thorough, scholarly, sympathetic and spirited history of the entire Populist movement.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816660085

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9780816660087

Supposing Bleak House

By: John O. Jordan

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Supposing Bleak House

By: John O. Jordan

Supposing "Bleak House" is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickens’s and nineteenth-century England’s greatest work of narrative fiction. Focusing on the novel’s retrospective narrator, whom he identifies as Esther Woodcourt in order to distinguish her from her younger, unmarried self, John Jordan offers provocative new readings of the novel’s narrative structure, its illustrations, its multiple and indeterminate endings, the role of its famous detective, Inspector Bucket, its many ghosts, and its relation to key events in Dickens’s life during the years 1850 to 1853. Jordan draws on insights from narratology and psychoanalysis in order to explore multiple dimensions of Esther’s complex subjectivity and fractured narrative voice. His conclusion considers Bleak House as a national allegory, situating it in the context of the troubled decade of the 1840s and in relation to Dickens’s seldom-studied A Child’s History of England (written during the same years as his great novel) and to Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx.Supposing "Bleak House" claims Dickens as a powerful investigator of the unconscious mind and as a "popular" novelist deeply committed to social justice and a politics of inclusiveness. Victorian Literature and Culture Series

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University of Virginia Press

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0813930928

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9780813930923

The Arid Lands

By: John Wesley Powell

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The Arid Lands

By: John Wesley Powell

?One of the most significant and seminal books ever written about the West, . . . the classic statement of the terms on which the West could be peopled.??Wallace Stegner (from the introduction). John Wesley Powell's arid lands report was the first to argue that the American West could not support a conventional system of agriculture and that its lands could not sustain unlimited development. He recognized that water was a more precious resource than land, that rainfall could never support agriculture in the region, and that controlled irrigation offered the best use of its natural resources. Years of drought have proved the value of his advice, which was not well received by an expansionist nation. Despite opposition from the timber, cattle, and mining industries, Powell's work led to the first assessments of the available water supplies and to the consolidation of government surveys and policies under one administration.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080328781X

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9780803287815

Following the Drums

African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee

By: John M. Shaw

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Following the Drums

African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee

By: John M. Shaw

Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John M. Shaw follows the music from its roots in West Africa and early American militia drumming to its prominence in African American communities during the time of Reconstruction, both as a rallying tool for political militancy and a community music for funerals, picnics, parades, and dances. Carefully documenting the music's early uses for commercial advertising and sports promotion, Shaw follows the strands of the music through the nadir of African American history during post-Reconstruction up to the form's rediscovery by musicologists and music researchers during the blues and folk revival of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although these researchers documented the music, and there were a handful of public performances of the music at festivals, the story has a sad conclusion. Fife and drum music ultimately died out in Tennessee during the early 1980s. Newspaper articles from the period and interviews with music researchers and participants reawaken this lost expression, and specific band leaders receive the spotlight they so long deserved. Following the Drums is a journey through African American history and Tennessee history, with a fascinating form of music powering the story.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496839560

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9781496839565

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Our Common Ground

Our Common Ground

Pierce's Register

Pierce's Register

Prelude to Pearl Harbor

Prelude to Pearl Harbor

Hamburg

Hamburg

The Mining Law

The Mining Law

Catboat Summers

Catboat Summers

Pattern of Circles

Pattern of Circles

The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947

The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947

The Artful Dickens

The Artful Dickens

Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Maudsley & Burn's Land Law

Political Liberalism

Political Liberalism

The Populist Revolt

The Populist Revolt

Supposing Bleak House

Supposing Bleak House

The Arid Lands

The Arid Lands

Following the Drums

Following the Drums

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