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Revolutionary Summer

The Birth of American Independence

By: Joseph J. Ellis

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Revolutionary Summer

The Birth of American Independence

By: Joseph J. Ellis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian “Accessible and electric.... [Ellis] crisply covers the decisive and improbable events of 1776.... [A] dramatic slice of history.” —USA Today The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.

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Vintage

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0307946371

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The Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1898-1948

Its Background and History

By: Joseph E. Campbell

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The Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1898-1948

Its Background and History

By: Joseph E. Campbell

Dr. Joseph E. Campbell (b. 1903), author, world evangelist, professor, held the first earned doctoral degree in The Pentecostal Holiness Church. An active evangelist, revivalist, and pastor, he held a longtime interest in missions. He founded the Laymen's Missionary Foundation. He traveled to Hong Kong where he established a school, college, and church. His books include What to Believe and Why, Can a Man Live above Sin?, and A Whole Gospel for the Whole Man.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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149828311X

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9781498283113

Aesthetic Persuasion

Henry James, the Jews, and Race

By: Eli Ben-Joseph

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Aesthetic Persuasion

Henry James, the Jews, and Race

By: Eli Ben-Joseph

Traces James' negative opinions about Jews throughout his life. The sources of his anti-Jewish attitudes and the antisemitic stereotypes in his works were the opinions of his father, who described the Jews as "spiritually bankrupt" and the "epitome of greed"; a broad spectrum of American and French literature, ranging from school texts to well-known authors (e.g. Hawthorne); and ethnographic ideas popular during his lifetime. Discusses discrimination against Jews in the U.S. in the late 19th century, stating that James' works reflect the prevalent negative reaction to Jews. His pro-Dreyfusard position shows some ambivalence in his attitude, but his antisemitism is clearly depicted in his works. He uses the Jews as scapegoats, and sees the Jews in New York, in particular, as immigrants conspiring to conquer the city. States that although antisemitism is a marginal element in James' writing, many other writers and many readers were influenced by his racist attitudes.

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268

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University Press of America

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076180126X

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9780761801269

Jackie Robinson

Race, Sports and the American Dream

By: Joseph Dorinson,Joram Warmund

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Jackie Robinson

Race, Sports and the American Dream

By: Joseph Dorinson,Joram Warmund

With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. This new book includes presentations from that celebration, especially chosen for their fresh perspectives and illuminating insights. A heady mix of journalism, scholarship, and memory offers a presentation that far transcends the retelling of just another sports story. Readers get a true sense of the social conditions prior to Robinson's arrival in the major leagues and the ripple effect his breakthrough had on the nation. Anecdotes enliven the story and offer more than the usual "larger than life" portrait of Robinson. A melange of contributors from the sports world, academia, and journalism, some of Robinson's contemporaries, Dodger fans, and historians of the era, all sharing a passion for baseball, reflect on issues of sports, race, and the dramatic transformation of the American social and political scene in the last fifty years. In addition to the editors, the list of authors includes Peter Golenbock, one of America's preeminent sports biographers and author of Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947-1957, Tom Hawkins, the first African-American to star in basketball at Notre Dame and currently Vice-President for Communications of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Bill Mardo a former writer for the New York Daily Worker, Roger Rosenblatt, teacher at the Southampton Campus of Long Island University, and author of numerous articles, plays, and books, Peter Williams, author of a study of sports myth, The Sports Immortals, and Samuel Regalado, author of Viva Baseball!: LatinMajor Leaguers and Their Special Hunger.

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295

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Routledge

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1317467248

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9781317467243

Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval

Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915

By: Allen Wells,Gilbert Michael Joseph

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Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval

Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915

By: Allen Wells,Gilbert Michael Joseph

This book addresses a central problem often ignored by students of twentieth-century Mexico: the breakdown of the old order during the first years of the revolutionary era. That process was more contested and gradual in Yucatan than in any other Mexican region, and this close examination of the Yucatan experience sheds light on an issue of particular relevance to students of Central America, South America’s southern cone, and other postcolonial societies: the capacity of national oligarchies to “hang on” in the face of escalating social change, the outbreak of local rebellions, and the mobilization of multiclass coalitions. Latin American historiography has generally failed to integrate the study of popular movements and rebellions with examinations of the determined efforts of elite establishments to prevent, contain, crush, and, ultimately, ideologically appropriate such rebellions. Most often, these problems are treated separately. This volume seeks to redress this imbalance by probing a set of linkages that is central to the study of Mexico’s modern past: the complex, reciprocal relationship between modes of contestation and structures and discourses of power.

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436

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Stanford University Press

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0804726566

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9780804726566

The Edwardian Detective

1901-15

By: Professor Joseph A Kestner

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The Edwardian Detective

1901-15

By: Professor Joseph A Kestner

This title was first published in 1999 & examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain, during the reign of Edward VII and the early reign of George V. The book assesses the literature as cultural history, with a focus on issues such as legal reform, marital reform, surveillance, Germanophobia, masculinity/femininity, the "best-seller", the arms race, international diplomacy and the concept of "popular" literature. The work also addresses specific issues related to the relationship of law to literature, such as: the law in literature; the law as literature, the role of literature in surveillance and policing; the interpretation of legal issues by literature; the degree to which literature describes and interprets law; the description of legal processes in detective literature; and the connections between detective literature and cultural practices and transitions.

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420

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Routledge

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135181527X

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9781351815277

Faith in Bikinis

Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South Since the Civil War

By: Anthony Joseph Stanonis

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Faith in Bikinis

Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South Since the Civil War

By: Anthony Joseph Stanonis

An untold story of the southern coastline that explores how tourism played a central role in revitalizing the southern economy and transformed its culture. By negotiating the rigid religious, social, and racial practices of the inland cotton country and the more indulgent consumerism of vacationers, many from the North, a New South emerged.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820333840

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9780820333847

The Author's Due

Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright

By: Joseph Loewenstein

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The Author's Due

Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright

By: Joseph Loewenstein

The Author's Due offers an institutional and cultural history of books, the book trade, and the bibliographic ego. Joseph Loewenstein traces the emergence of possessive authorship from the establishment of a printing industry in England to the passage of the 1710 Statute of Anne, which provided the legal underpinnings for modern copyright. Along the way he demonstrates that the culture of books, including the idea of the author, is intimately tied to the practical trade of publishing those books. As Loewenstein shows, copyright is a form of monopoly that developed alongside a range of related protections such as commercial trusts, manufacturing patents, and censorship, and cannot be understood apart from them. The regulation of the press pitted competing interests and rival monopolistic structures against one another—guildmembers and nonprofessionals, printers and booksellers, authors and publishers. These struggles, in turn, crucially shaped the literary and intellectual practices of early modern authors, as well as early capitalist economic organization. With its probing look at the origins of modern copyright, The Author's Due will prove to be a watershed for historians, literary critics, and legal scholars alike.

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361

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University of Chicago Press

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0226490416

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9780226490410

The Politics of Defense in Japan

Managing Internal and External Pressures

By: Joseph P. Keddell

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The Politics of Defense in Japan

Managing Internal and External Pressures

By: Joseph P. Keddell

Examines how the Japanese government used a series of incremental measures in three different periods to manage conflicting international and domestic pressure over defense issues in the context of the county's military dependence on the US since World War II. Details the influence and origins of such constraints as the one-percent of GNP ceiling of defense spending, various international treaties, and the strong public opinion against the military; and concludes that domestic political tranquility is more important to the government than military parity with other countries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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M.E. Sharpe

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1563241293

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9781563241291

The Soul of Soil

A Guide to Ecological Soil Management

By: Grace Gershuny,Joseph Smillie

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The Soul of Soil

A Guide to Ecological Soil Management

By: Grace Gershuny,Joseph Smillie

Besides an introduction to soil chemistry and ecology, this book deals with basic principles of tillage and organic matter management. Further it includes a chapter on observing and testing the soil (with special reference to the Pfeiffer chromatographic method)

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G A I a Services

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0961649607

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9780961649609

Book's by Joseph Holmes Summers

Revolutionary Summer

Revolutionary Summer

The Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1898-1948

The Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1898-1948

Aesthetic Persuasion

Aesthetic Persuasion

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval

Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval

The Edwardian Detective

The Edwardian Detective

Faith in Bikinis

Faith in Bikinis

The Author's Due

The Author's Due

The Politics of Defense in Japan

The Politics of Defense in Japan

The Soul of Soil

The Soul of Soil

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