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Listening to the Lomax Archive

The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

By: Jonathan W. Stone

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Listening to the Lomax Archive

The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

By: Jonathan W. Stone

In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the “American Negro” in several southern African American prisons. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s asks how the Lomaxes’ field recordings—including their prison recordings and a long-form oral history of jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton—contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises. Stone argues that folksongs communicate complex historical experiences in a seemingly simple package, and can thus be a key element—a sonic rhetoric—for interpreting the ebb and flow of cultural ideals within contemporary historical moments. He contends that the Lomaxes, aware of the power of folk music, used the folksongs they collected to increase national understanding of and agency for the subjects of their recordings even as they used the recordings to advance their own careers. Listening to the Lomax Archive gives readers the opportunity to listen in on these seemingly contradictory dualities, demonstrating that they are crucial to the ways that we remember and write about the subjects of the Lomaxes’ archive and other repositories of historicized sound. Throughout Listening to the Lomax Archive, there are a number of audio resources for readers to listen to, including songs, oral histories, and radio program excerpts. Each resource is marked with a ♫ in the text. Visit https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9871097#resources to access this audio content.

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University of Michigan Press

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Digital DNA

Disruption and the Challenges for Global Governance

By: Peter F. Cowhey,Jonathan D. Aronson

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Digital DNA

Disruption and the Challenges for Global Governance

By: Peter F. Cowhey,Jonathan D. Aronson

Innovation in information and production technologies is creating benefits and disruption, profoundly altering how firms and markets perform. Digital DNA provides an in depth examination of the opportunities and challenges in the fast-changing global economy and lays out strategies that countries and the international community should embrace to promote robust growth while addressing the risks of this digital upheaval. Wisely guiding the transformation in innovation is a major challenge for global prosperity that affects everyone. Peter Cowhey and Jonathan Aronson demonstrate how the digital revolution is transforming the business models of high tech industries but also of traditional agricultural, manufacturing, and service sector firms. The rapidity of change combines with the uncertainty of winners and losers to create political and economic tensions over how to adapt public policies to new technological and market surprises. The logic of the policy trade-offs confronting society, and the political economy of practical decision-making is explored through three developments: The rise of Cloud Computing and trans-border data flows; international collaboration to reduce cybersecurity risks; and the consequences of different national standards of digital privacy protection. The most appropriate global strategies will recognize that a significant diversity in individual national policies is inevitable. However, because digital technologies operate across national boundaries there is also a need for a common international baseline of policy fundamentals to facilitate "quasi-convergence" of these national policies. Cowhey and Aronson's examination of these dynamic developments lead to a measured proposal for authoritative "soft rules" that requires governments to create policies that achieve certain objectives, but leaves the specific design to national discretion. These rules should embrace mechanisms to work with expert multi-stakeholder organizations to facilitate the implementation of formal agreements, enhance their political legitimacy and technical expertise, and build flexible learning into the governance regime. The result will be greater convergence of national policies and the space for the new innovation system to flourish.

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Oxford University Press

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0190657944

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Styles of Scientific Thought

The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933

By: Jonathan Harwood

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Styles of Scientific Thought

The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933

By: Jonathan Harwood

In this detailed historical and sociological study of the development of scientific ideas, Jonathan Harwood argues that there is no such thing as a unitary scientific method driven by an internal logic. Rather, there are national styles of science that are defined by different values, norms, assumptions, research traditions, and funding patterns. The first book-length treatment of genetics in Germany, Styles of Scientific Thought demonstrates the influence of culture on science by comparing the American with the German scientific traditions. Harwood examines the structure of academic and research institutions, the educational backgrounds of geneticists, and cultural traditions, among many factors, to explain why the American approach was much more narrowly focussed than the German. This tremendously rich book fills a gap between histories of the physical sciences in the Weimar Republic and other works on the humanities and the arts during the intellectually innovative 1920s, and it will interest European historians, as well as sociologists and philosophers of science.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226318818

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River of Lost Souls

The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster

By: Jonathan P. Thompson

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River of Lost Souls

The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster

By: Jonathan P. Thompson

A vivid historical account…Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.'" —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Award–winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends. JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor–in–chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.

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Torrey House Press

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1937226840

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Dying to Work

Death and Injury in the American Workplace

By: Jonathan D. Karmel

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Dying to Work

Death and Injury in the American Workplace

By: Jonathan D. Karmel

In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this book are introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and political context and represent a wide survey of the American workplace, including, among others, warehouse workers, grocery store clerks, hotel housekeepers, and river dredgers. Karmel’s examples are portraits of the lives and dreams cut short and reports of the workplace incidents that tragically changed the lives of everyone around them. Dying to Work includes incidents from industries and jobs that we do not commonly associate with injuries and fatalities and highlights the risks faced by workers who are hidden in plain view all around us. While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave millions of workers without compensation and employers without any meaningful incentive to protect their workers, Karmel offers the reader some hope in the form of policy suggestions that may make American workers safer and employers more accountable. This is a book for anyone interested in issues of worker health and safety, and it will also serve as the cornerstone for courses in public policy, community health, labor studies, business ethics, regulation and safety, and occupational and environmental health policy.

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Cornell University Press

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1501714376

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War of Nerves

Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda

By: Jonathan Tucker

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War of Nerves

Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda

By: Jonathan Tucker

In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present. At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield both feasible and cheap. Tucker explores the long debate over the military utility and morality of chemical warfare, from the first chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915 to Hitler’s reluctance to use nerve agents (he believed, incorrectly, that the U.S. could retaliate in kind) to Saddam Hussein’s gassing of his own people, and concludes with the emergent threat of chemical terrorism. Moving beyond history to the twenty-first century, War of Nerves makes clear that we are at a crossroads that could lead either to the further spread of these weapons or to their ultimate abolition.

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Anchor

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1400032334

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Memory in Shakespeare's Histories

Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

By: Jonathan Baldo

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Memory in Shakespeare's Histories

Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

By: Jonathan Baldo

A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare’s later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry V, as England contended with what were perceived to be traumatic breaks in its history and in the fashioning of a sense of nationhood. For plays ostensibly designed to recover the past and make it available to the present, they devote remarkable attention to the ways in which states and individuals alike passively neglect or actively suppress the past and rewrite history. Two broad and related historical developments caused remembering and forgetting to occupy increasingly prominent and equivocal positions in Shakespeare’s history plays: an emergent nationalism and the Protestant Reformation. A growth in England’s sense of national identity, constructed largely in opposition to international Catholicism, caused historical memory to appear a threat as well as a support to the sense of unity. The Reformation caused many Elizabethans to experience a rupture between their present and their Catholic past, a condition that is reflected repeatedly in the history plays, where the desire to forget becomes implicated with traumatic loss. Both of these historical shifts resulted in considerable fluidity and uncertainty in the values attached to historical memory and forgetting. Shakespeare’s histories, in short, become increasingly equivocal about the value of their own acts of recovery and recollection.

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Routledge

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1136497684

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The Plague

By: Jonathan Harlen

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The Plague

By: Jonathan Harlen

When Will is bitten on his arm by a weird pet store owner and becomes ill, no one believes that has been afflicted with a fatal disease.

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Capstone Classroom

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1598899171

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From Confederation to Nation

The Early American Republic, 1789-1848

By: Jonathan Atkins

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From Confederation to Nation

The Early American Republic, 1789-1848

By: Jonathan Atkins

In the era of the Early Republic, Americans determined the meaning of their Revolution and laid the foundation for the United States’ later emergence as a world power. This bookprovides students with an explanation of the major events and developments of one of the most important periods in American History. Focusing on the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, From Confederation to Nation presents a narrative of the era’s political history along with discussions of the significant social and cultural changes that occurred across the Union’s first six decades. Taking a broad approach which examines economic changes, religious influences, political reform, cultural challenges, and racial and gender inequalities in the Early Republic, Atkins’ text is useful for a vast array of critical perspectives. From Confederation to Nation presents an accessible introduction to the Early American Republic that offers readers a solid foundation for more advanced study.

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1317425189

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Integration of Membrane Filtration Into Water Treatment Systems

By: Jonathan R. Pressdee

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Integration of Membrane Filtration Into Water Treatment Systems

By: Jonathan R. Pressdee

Proceedings of the 2006 AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition held June 2006 in San Antonio TX CD-ROM provides current information on all aspects of drinking water Topics include water quality water resources and conservation water utility security water utility vulnerability assessments conventional and advanced water treatment desalination water reclamation and reuse water transmission and distribution system infrastructure water utility management water plant operations privatization and competition automation regulations benchmarking

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American Water Works Association

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1583214429

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The First 40 Presidents of Queens' College Cambridge

Their Lives and Times

By: Jonathan Dowson

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The First 40 Presidents of Queens' College Cambridge

Their Lives and Times

By: Jonathan Dowson

Queens' College, part of the University of Cambridge, was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, wife of the inept and ill-fated Henry VI. The first of its 40 Presidents to date was Andrew Doket, an ambitious Catholic priest, while the latest, the eminent economist Dr. Mohamed El-Erian, was installed in 2020, in the midst of the Covid pandemic. This account traces the history of the College through the lives and times of each of the 40 Presidents in chronological order. Their varied careers, (which encompass the martyrdom of Saint John Fisher, incarceration in a prison ship in the Civil War and preaching at the burning of heretics on Cathedral Green at Ely), illustrate the interactions between the academic community and the social, religious, cultural and political life in Britain, over five and a half centuries.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1839759488

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The Underwood Family of Stanly County, North Carolina: A Biography and Genealogy

By: Jonathan Underwood

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The Underwood Family of Stanly County, North Carolina: A Biography and Genealogy

By: Jonathan Underwood

A history of the descendants of Thomas Underwood (who landed in America in 1650) who migrated to North Carolina in 1762. The history primarily pertains to Alexander and Mary Underhill Underwood and their sons Samuel, Joseph, and Henry who made their home in Montgomery County (now Stanly County), North Carolina in 1794. Includes a narrative of each branch of the Underwood family, biographical sketches, proofs of relationship, photographs, maps, and a record of generations down to the present time. Includes an index.

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Lulu.com

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055753738X

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Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

By: Louise Henson,Geoffrey Cantor,Gowan Dawson,Richard Noakes,Sally Shuttleworth,Jonathan R. Topham

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Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

By: Louise Henson,Geoffrey Cantor,Gowan Dawson,Richard Noakes,Sally Shuttleworth,Jonathan R. Topham

Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles, the six sections comprise: 'Women, Children, and Gender', 'Religious Audiences', 'Naturalizing the Supernatural', 'Contesting New Technologies', 'Professionalization and Journalism', and 'Evolution, Psychology, and Culture'. The essays offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations between science and the nineteenth-century media.

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Routledge

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1351946846

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Listening to the Lomax Archive

The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

By: Jonathan W. Stone

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The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

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Listening to the Lomax Archive

Listening to the Lomax Archive

Digital DNA

Digital DNA

Styles of Scientific Thought

Styles of Scientific Thought

River of Lost Souls

River of Lost Souls

Dying to Work

Dying to Work

War of Nerves

War of Nerves

Memory in Shakespeare's Histories

Memory in Shakespeare's Histories

The Plague

The Plague

From Confederation to Nation

From Confederation to Nation

Integration of Membrane Filtration Into Water Treatment Systems

Integration of Membrane Filtration Into Water Treatment Systems

The First 40 Presidents of Queens' College Cambridge

The First 40 Presidents of Queens' College Cambridge

The Underwood Family of Stanly County, North Carolina: A Biography and Genealogy

The Underwood Family of Stanly County, North Carolina: A Biography and Genealogy

Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media

Listening to the Lomax Archive

Listening to the Lomax Archive

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