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The United States of Awesome

Fun, Fascinating and Bizarre Trivia about the Greatest Country in the Universe

By: Joshua Miller

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The United States of Awesome

Fun, Fascinating and Bizarre Trivia about the Greatest Country in the Universe

By: Joshua Miller

Discover amazing true facts about US history—from the fun and ridiculous to the surprising and inspiring—in this treasure trove of American trivia. The history of the United States can be great, fun, funny, inspiring, horrifying, and completely ridiculous, if not all of these at once. And there is a daunting amount of it. From the Mayflower landing on Plymouth Rock to Apollo 11’ s touchdown on the moon, it’s been quite a ride. In The United States of Awesome, author Josh Miller attempts to capture the full range of the nation’s awesome history through a dizzying array of fun facts, curious trivia and wacky revelations that are nothing short of awesome. Here are just a few of the facts you’ll discover: • In the midst of the Civil War, 10,000 Confederate soldiers had a snowball fight—Tar Heels vs. Georgians. • Washington’s four dogs were named Drunkard, Taster, Tipler and Tipsy. • The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral lasted just thirty seconds. • The incredibly unlucky son of Abe Lincoln witnessed the assassination deaths of three presidents. • The U.S. refused to pay a $400 littering fine for dropping the space station on Australia. • Ford pardoned not only Nixon but also Robert E. Lee 105 years after Lee’s death. • There is no evidence that Betsy Ross designed the American flag.

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Simon and Schuster

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1612431488

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9781612431482

Uncertain Justice

The Roberts Court and the Constitution

By: Laurence Tribe,Joshua Matz

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Uncertain Justice

The Roberts Court and the Constitution

By: Laurence Tribe,Joshua Matz

Harvard Law School scholars Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz reveal how Chief Justice John Roberts is shaking the foundation of our nation’s laws in Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution. From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, and the motivations of the nine men and women who serve for life are often obscure. Now, in Uncertain Justice, Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz show the surprising extent to which the Roberts Court is revising the meaning of our Constitution. Political gridlock, cultural change, and technological progress mean that the court’s decisions on key topics—including free speech, privacy, voting rights, and presidential power—could be uniquely durable. Acutely aware of their opportunity, the justices are rewriting critical aspects of constitutional law and redrawing the ground rules of American government. Tribe—one of the country’s leading constitutional lawyers—and Matz dig deeply into the court’s rulings, stepping beyond tired debates over judicial “activism” to draw out hidden meanings and silent battles. The undercurrents they reveal suggest a strikingly different vision for the future of our country, one that is sure to be hotly debated. Filled with original insights and compelling human stories, Uncertain Justice illuminates the most colorful story of all—how the Supreme Court and the Constitution frame the way we live. “Marvelous...Tribe and Matz’s insights are illuminating.... [They] offer well-crafted overviews of key cases decided by the Roberts Court ... [and] chart the Supreme Court’s conservative path, clarifying complex cases in accessible terms.”—The Chicago Tribune “Well-written and highly readable...The strength of the book is its painstaking explanation of all sides of the critical cases, giving full voice and weight to conservative and liberal views alike.”—The Washington Post

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Macmillan + ORM

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0805099131

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9780805099133

Regarding Victory

Adventures in Entrepreneurship Led Back to Love

By: Joshua Wallack

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Regarding Victory

Adventures in Entrepreneurship Led Back to Love

By: Joshua Wallack

By day he made deals with giants that made headlines everywhere. By night he felt his family, who he loved so much, slipping away. From the first ventures in the 1980s that started things out to massive contracts with some of the most respected companies in America, here, in Joshua Wallack’s own words, is a 40-year adventure no one could invent: the true love that forged the meaning of his life, startups, partnerships, and battles for the soul of the family. From the highest highs to the depths of hell, Wallack became one of the main business and leadership figures in the $75 Billion Orlando tourism industry. But with everything in the palm of his hand, he nearly destroyed himself. An extraordinary story of entrepreneurial achievement, execution, misery & elation, he took it to the limit 24/7 – until he learned the truth that saved his life: “No matter what level of success, wealth, or achievement you may attain, none of it matters at all if you don’t bring it home to a house full of people you love and who love you.”

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1961804581

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9781961804586

Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP

By: Joshua D. Farrington

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Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP

By: Joshua D. Farrington

Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight." As Joshua Farrington recounts in his comprehensive history, Lee was one of many black Republican leaders who remained loyal after the New Deal inspired black voters to switch their allegiance from the "party of Lincoln" to the Democrats. Ideologically and demographically diverse, the ranks of twentieth-century black Republicans included Southern patronage dispensers like Lee and Robert Church, Northern critics of corrupt Democratic urban machines like Jackie Robinson and Archibald Carey, civil rights agitators like Grant Reynolds and T. R. M. Howard, elected politicians like U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke and Kentucky state legislator Charles W. Anderson, black nationalists like Floyd McKissick and Nathan Wright, and scores of grassroots organizers from Atlanta to Los Angeles. Black Republicans believed that a two-party system in which both parties were forced to compete for the African American vote was the best way to obtain stronger civil rights legislation. Though they were often pushed to the sidelines by their party's white leadership, their continuous and vocal inner-party dissent helped moderate the GOP's message and platform through the 1970s. And though often excluded from traditional narratives of U.S. politics, black Republicans left an indelible mark on the history of their party, the civil rights movement, and twentieth-century political development. Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP marshals an impressive amount of archival material at the national, state, and municipal levels in the South, Midwest, and West, as well as in the better-known Northeast, to open up new avenues in African American political history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812293266

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9780812293265

Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Contemporary Issues

By: Joshua C. Watson,Michael K. Schmit

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Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Contemporary Issues

By: Joshua C. Watson,Michael K. Schmit

Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling presents a broad overview of the field of clinical mental health and provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully put theory into practice in real-world settings. Drawing from their experience as clinicians, authors Joshua C. Watson and Michael K. Schmit cover the foundations of clinical mental health counseling along with current issues, trends, and population-specific considerations. The text introduces students to emerging paradigms in the field such as mindfulness, behavioral medicine, neuroscience, recovery-oriented care, provider care, person-centered treatment planning, and holistic wellness, while emphasizing the importance of selecting evidence-based practices appropriate for specific clients, issues, and settings. Aligned with 2016 CACREP Standards and offering practical activities and case examples, the text will prepare future counselors for the realities of clinical practice.

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SAGE Publications

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1506323766

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The Grand Old Man of Maine

Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914

By: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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The Grand Old Man of Maine

Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914

By: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807828645

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The New Demagogues

Religion, Masculinity and the Populist Epoch

By: Joshua M. Roose

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The New Demagogues

Religion, Masculinity and the Populist Epoch

By: Joshua M. Roose

Focused on the emergence of US President Donald Trump, the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, and the recruitment of Islamic State foreign fighters from Western Muslim communities, this book explores the ways in which the decay and corruption of key social institutions has created a vacuum of intellectual and moral guidance for working people and deprived them of hope and an upward social mobility long considered central to the social contract of Western liberal democracy. Examining the exploitation of this vacuum of leadership and opportunity by new demagogues, the author considers two important yet overlooked dimensions of this new populism: the mobilization of both religion and masculinity. By understanding religion as a dynamic social force that can be mobilized for purposes of social solidarity and by appreciating the sociological arguments that hyper-masculinity is caused by social injury, Roose considers how these key social factors have been particularly important in contributing to the emergence of the new demagogues and their followers. Roose identifies the challenges that this poses for Western liberal democracy and argues that states must look beyond identity politics and exclusively rights-based claims and, instead, consider classical conceptions of citizenship.

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Routledge

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0429775253

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9780429775253

Making Music Indigenous

Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes

By: Joshua Tucker

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Making Music Indigenous

Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes

By: Joshua Tucker

When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even heard in the nightclubs of Lima. In Making Music Indigenous, Joshua Tucker traces the history of this music and its key performers over fifty years to show that there is no single way to “sound indigenous.” The musicians Tucker follows make indigenous culture and identity visible in contemporary society by establishing a cultural and political presence for Peru’s indigenous peoples through activism, artisanship, and performance. This musical representation of indigeneity not only helps shape contemporary culture, it also provides a lens through which to reflect on the country’s past. Tucker argues that by following the musicians that have championed chimaycha music in its many forms, we can trace shifting meanings of indigeneity—and indeed, uncover the ways it is constructed, transformed, and ultimately recreated through music.

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University of Chicago Press

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022660733X

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The Politics of Place

Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty

By: Joshua Bandoch

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The Politics of Place

Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty

By: Joshua Bandoch

A critical reexamination of Montesquieu's political science, revealing the primacy of place in the development of the best political order.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1580469027

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The Significance Impulse

On the Unimportance of Our Cosmic Unimportance

By: Joshua Glasgow

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The Significance Impulse

On the Unimportance of Our Cosmic Unimportance

By: Joshua Glasgow

Why should we strive to be important? Does it make our lives go better if we are especially significant? The Significance Impulse argues that the common impulse to seek exceptionally high levels of significance is misguided. Although many people strive to be extraordinarily significant, ultimately cosmic importance is out of reach for us. And though we do matter somewhat, it can be a liberating relief to take a more irreverent stance towards our lives and embrace our unimportance. This book is a testament to being ordinary.

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Oxford University Press

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0197754759

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Names of New York

Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

By: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

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Names of New York

Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

By: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods. Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York. As recent arrivals continue to find new ways to make New York’s neighborhoods their own, the names that stick to the city’s streets function not only as portals to explore the past but also as a means to reimagine what is possible now.

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Pantheon

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1524748927

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Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars

Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru

By: Joshua Tucker

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Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars

Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru

By: Joshua Tucker

Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio, DJs, and program directors that drive it, this book is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226923959

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Theodore Roosevelt

Preacher of Righteousness

By: Joshua David Hawley

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Theodore Roosevelt

Preacher of Righteousness

By: Joshua David Hawley

Joshua Hawley examines Roosevelt's political thought to arrive at a revised understanding of his legacy. He sees Roosevelt as galvanizing a 20-year period of reform that permanently altered American politics and Americans' expectations for government social progress and presidents.

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Yale University Press

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0300145144

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9780300145144

Lincoln's Melancholy

How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

By: Joshua Wolf Shenk

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Lincoln's Melancholy

How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

By: Joshua Wolf Shenk

A nuanced psychological portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Lincoln’s Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the President’s character and his leadership. Mired in personal suffering as a young man, Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health. Shenk draws on seven years of research from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of Lincoln’s unhappiness. In the process, Shenk discovers that the President’s coping strategies—among them, a rich sense of humor and a tendency toward quiet reflection—ultimately helped him to lead the nation through its greatest turmoil. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post Book World, Atlanta Journal-Constituion, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette As Featured on the History Channel documentary Lincoln “Fresh, fascinating, provocative.”—Sanford D. Horwitt, San Francisco Chronicle “Some extremely beautiful prose and fine political rhetoric and leaves one feeling close to Lincoln, a considerable accomplishment.”—Andrew Solomon, New York Magazine “A profoundly human and psychologically important examination of the melancholy that so pervaded Lincoln's life.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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054752689X

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9780547526898

Healing Conversations on Race

Four Key Practices from Scripture and Psychology

By: Veola Vazquez,Joshua Knabb,Charles Lee-Johnson,Krystal Hays

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Healing Conversations on Race

Four Key Practices from Scripture and Psychology

By: Veola Vazquez,Joshua Knabb,Charles Lee-Johnson,Krystal Hays

Racism complicates our relationships, even when we reject it and seek to walk a better path. In this book, four experts in psychology and social work present a Scripturally-grounded model for building and deepening cross-race relationships. These insights and practices will help Christians grow in Christlikeness and follow his example.

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InterVarsity Press

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1514003937

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9781514003930

The Exiles of Florida

By: Joshua R. Giddings

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The Exiles of Florida

By: Joshua R. Giddings

Reproduction of the original: The Exiles of Florida by Joshua R. Giddings

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752334630

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Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injuries

By: Jacqueline E. Reznik,Joshua Simmons

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Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injuries

By: Jacqueline E. Reznik,Joshua Simmons

- Specialised chapters about biomechanics, paediatric spinal cord injury and high cervical injuries - Insight into the lived experience of individuals with a spinal cord injury - Documentation of the patient journey from injury to total rehabilitation - Practical information on mobility devices and returning to driving - Appendix of common assessments for spinal cord injuries - Includes an eBook with purchase of the print book

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729587606

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9780729587600

The Sea Is My Country

The Maritime World of the Makahs

By: Joshua L. Reid

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The Sea Is My Country

The Maritime World of the Makahs

By: Joshua L. Reid

For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah people have long placed marine space at the center of their culture, finding in their own waters the physical and spiritual resources to support themselves. This book is the first to explore the history and identity of the Makahs from the arrival of maritime fur-traders in the eighteenth century through the intervening centuries and to the present day. Joshua L. Reid discovers that the “People of the Cape” were far more involved in shaping the maritime economy of the Pacific Northwest than has been understood. He examines Makah attitudes toward borders and boundaries, their efforts to exercise control over their waters and resources as Europeans and Americans arrived, and their embrace of modern opportunities and technology to maintain autonomy and resist assimilation. The author also addresses current environmental debates relating to the tribe's customary whaling and fishing rights and illuminates the efforts of the Makahs to regain control over marine space, preserve their marine-oriented identity, and articulate a traditional future.

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Yale University Press

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0300213689

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9780300213683

Political Islam and Masculinity

Muslim Men in Australia

By: Joshua M. Roose

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Political Islam and Masculinity

Muslim Men in Australia

By: Joshua M. Roose

The question of Muslim identity–and, more specifically, Muslim masculinities, political loyalty, and action–has become the central pivot for the debate on the place of Islam in the West, state polices on multiculturalism, and even foreign policy towards the Middle East. Young, western-born Muslim men are central figures in these questions, yet their lives and identities remain poorly understood. Political Islam and Masculinity: Muslim Men in Australia reveals important and timely insights into why young Muslim men, often from very similar social backgrounds, are pursuing such dramatically different political paths in the name of Islam. Based on an unprecedented depth of engagement and quality of sources, this book examines the key social influences behind exceptional examples of political action by young Australian Muslim men who have extended their reach into the international realm, from the streets of Jakarta to the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.

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Springer

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1137522305

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9781137522306

Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England

By: Joshua Eckhardt,Daniel Starza Smith

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Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England

By: Joshua Eckhardt,Daniel Starza Smith

Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and ’material’ reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the renewed and expanding interest in early modern English miscellanies, anthologies, and other compilations. Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England models and refines the study of these complicated collections. Several of its contributors question and redefine the terms we use to describe miscellanies and anthologies. Two senior scholars correct the misidentification of a scribe and, in so doing, uncover evidence of a Catholic, probably Jesuit, priest and community in a trio of manuscripts. Additional contributors show compilers interpreting, attributing, and arranging texts, as well as passively accepting others’ editorial decisions. While manuscript verse miscellanies remain appropriately central to the collection, several essays also involve print and prose, ranging from letters to sermons and even political prophesies. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, the collection offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics, and religion in the early modern period, and promises to make important interventions in academic studies of the history of the book.

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Routledge

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1317101057

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