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Instruments of Empire

Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines

By: Mary Talusan

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Instruments of Empire

Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines

By: Mary Talusan

At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States extended its empire into the Philippines while subjugating Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. And yet, one of the most popular musical acts was a band of “little brown men,” Filipino musicians led by an African American conductor playing European and American music. The Philippine Constabulary Band and Lt. Walter H. Loving entertained thousands in concert halls and world’s fairs, held a place of honor in William Howard Taft’s presidential parade, and garnered praise by bandmaster John Philip Sousa—all the while facing beliefs and policies that Filipinos and African Americans were “uncivilized.” Author Mary Talusan draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts and exclusive interviews with band members and their descendants to compose the story from the band’s own voices. She sounds out the meanings of Americans’ responses to the band and identifies a desire to mitigate racial and cultural anxieties during an era of overseas expansion and increasing immigration of nonwhites, and the growing “threat” of ragtime with its roots in Black culture. The spectacle of the band, its performance and promotion, emphasized a racial stereotype of Filipinos as “natural musicians” and the beneficiaries of benevolent assimilation and colonial tutelage. Unable to fit Loving’s leadership of the band into this narrative, newspapers dodged and erased his identity as a Black American officer. The untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America’s racial ideologies, exploring musical pleasure at the intersection of Euro-American cultural hegemony, racialization, and US colonization of the Philippines.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496835700

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9781496835703

Up, Up, and Away

Helping Reading Haters Become Reading Lovers

By: Dr. Mary Moore Nance

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Up, Up, and Away

Helping Reading Haters Become Reading Lovers

By: Dr. Mary Moore Nance

A Synopsis of Materials and Teaching Process: Values-based stories, grades 522, three stories each level, address interest categories of adventure, biography, children/family, church history/religion, cross-cultural stories, history, problems/challenges, human relations, and missions. The first class session offers an inventory of each students reading experience, interests, and felt needs. Students indicate story preferences within the categorized stories. A graded story list aids teacher planning. In daily free class discussion, students use questions generated while reading and the thought questions provided with each story. Appendix C: The Daily Class Discussion Assignment helps thinking flow. The teacher assigns the Final Written Reflection for that days story and begins process on the subsequent story. Dr. Nance did not see a truck driver who could not read or write wellshe saw potential. I cannot really comment on the technical side of what she did, and I cannot tell you how or what she didbut whatever it wasit obviously worked. She transformed a truck driver who had done little reading into someone who finished his bachelors, masters, and has now completed a doctoral degree! What I do know is that her kind spirit and gentle encouragement spurred me onwards toward a thirst for reading and learning all I can. The simple reality is this: the work Dr. Mary Nance has done works! I am living proof! Dr. Ashley Olinger, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Williston, North Dakota

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306

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WestBow Press

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1449780385

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9781449780388

Northern Virginia's Equestrian Heritage

By: Mary Fishback

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Northern Virginia's Equestrian Heritage

By: Mary Fishback

For over 200 years, Northern Virginia has enjoyed a respected reputation for its equestrian heritage. The present-day home of horse museums and libraries, as well as breeding, sports, and shows of all sort, Northern Virginia truly is "hunt country." Northern Virginia's Equestrian Heritage showcases the area's early hunting history and offers a singular glimpse into the past glory days of fox hunts, hound-breeding, horse races, and horse shows. Beautiful estates where men and women gathered, partied, and hunted once dotted the landscape; today, however, many of these estates remain only in photographs and memories. The area's picturesque countryside has enticed well-known families, including the Kennedys and the DuPont Scotts, to join in the local favored pastime. Some of the world's best fox hunting took place in Loudoun County before the Civil War; afterwards, the hounds were let loose and very few quality packs remained. It took the combined help of fox hunters and land barons to reinstate the breeding of prestigious hounds and increase the sport's popularity once again. Upperville, the home of America's oldest horse show, dates to 1853 and has given shape to horse shows all over the country. Even women's place in equestrian history was rallied for in Northern Virginia; Viola Townsend Winmill, who became one of the "first ladies" of fox hunting, and her husband Robert C. Winmill lived in Warrenton for more than 50 years and played polo, raced horses, raised hounds, and collected coaches.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738514195

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9780738514192

For the Enjoyment of the People

The Creation of National Identity in American Public Lands

By: Mary E. Stuckey

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For the Enjoyment of the People

The Creation of National Identity in American Public Lands

By: Mary E. Stuckey

National parks are widely revered as “America’s best idea”—they are abundantly popular and remarkably noncontroversial in the United States. American presidents use these parks to stake their claims to environmentalism, assert a singular national history, and define a unified national identity, often doing so inside the parks themselves. However, the establishment and history of almost every national park has been riddled with conflict over competing claims to land, knowledge, and economic interests. Like any major area of public policy, the fissures present in debates over the national parks also represent important fracture lines in the public understanding of the meaning of America and of individual claims to citizenship. The park system, in other words, does a lot of political work for both presidents and the mass public, even though much of that work goes largely unnoticed. This book explores that political work by addressing themes of national origins and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples; monuments to the national past, heritage, and the assertion of a national narrative; environmentalism and natural resources; and exploitation of the national landscape for economic gain. In For the Enjoyment of the People, Mary Stuckey looks at the politics of the parks as well as what the parks can teach us about citizenship and what it means to be American. Stuckey asserts that through the national parks we can hope to explain the past, clarify the present, and project the future. Combining interdisciplinary conversations about tourism, public memory, national history, park history, the presidency, and national identity, Stuckey contributes insightful ideas to the conversation on the history of national parks while examining the natural, military, and patriotic nature of America’s best idea.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700634797

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9780700634798

Advocacy and Objectivity

A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905

By: Mary Furner

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Advocacy and Objectivity

A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905

By: Mary Furner

This award-winning book of the Frederick Jackson Turner Studies describes the early development of social science professions in the United States. Furner traces the academic process in economics, sociology, and political science. She devotes considerable attention to economics in the 1880s, when first-generation professionals wrestled with the enormously difficult social questions associated with industrialization. Controversies among economists reflected an endemic tension in social science between the necessity of being recognized as objective scientists and an intense desire to advocate reforms. Molded by internal conflicts and external pressures, social science gradually changed. In the 1890s economics was defined more narrowly around market concerns. Both reformers and students of social dynamics gravitated to the emerging discipline of sociology, while political science professionalized around the important new field of public administration. This division of social science into specialized disciplines was especially significant as progressivism opened paths to power and influence for social science experts. Professionalization profoundly altered the role and contribution of social scientists in American life. Since the late nineteenth century, professionals have exerted increasing control over complex economic and social processes, often performing services that they themselves have helped to make essential. Furner here seeks to discover how emerging groups of American social scientists envisioned their role what rights and responsibilities they claimed how they hoped to perform a vital social function as they fulfilled their own ambitions, and what restraints they recognized.

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507

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Routledge

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1351533738

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9781351533737

Women's Work in the Civil War (Civil War Classics)

Profiles in Strength During the Civil War

By: L.P. Brockett,Mary C. Vaughn,Civil War Classics

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Profiles in Strength During the Civil War

By: L.P. Brockett,Mary C. Vaughn,Civil War Classics

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. While men fought the battles, it was the women who fought the war. Thrust onto sides of a fence, still decades away from even the right to vote, women kept the country from crumbling upon itself during the brutal conflict. These profiles of women both historically notable, like Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix, as well as women history has forgotten until now, will enthrall readers with stories of the war as seen by those who healed soldiers, kept the homefront safe, and ensured that the country would be strong after the final shot was fired.

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Diversion Books

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162681693X

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9781626816930

"This Ghastly War"

The Diary and Letters of a Woman Doctor in the American Ambulance Hospital in France, 1914-1915

By: Mary M. Crawford, M.D.

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"This Ghastly War"

The Diary and Letters of a Woman Doctor in the American Ambulance Hospital in France, 1914-1915

By: Mary M. Crawford, M.D.

During World War I, Dr. Mary M. Crawford spent nearly a year volunteering at the American Ambulance Hospital in France. Among the first American physicians to join the Allied war effort in 1914, she was the only woman doctor on the hospital staff. Her diary and letters, presented here with historical context, narrate day-to-day life in a hospital on the Western Front, with clinical descriptions of the human toll at the battles of Ypres and Champagne. Torn between devotion to family and her commitment to the war effort, Crawford reveals her dedication to her patients, many of whom were French colonial soldiers.

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266

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McFarland

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1476650926

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9781476650920

Health and Well-Being Across the Life Course

By: Mary Larkin

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Health and Well-Being Across the Life Course

By: Mary Larkin

Using a life course approach, the main chapters in this truly original and enlightening text focus on health and well-being during each of our life stages. A wide range of contemporary literature from disciplines such as public health, sociology, epidemiology and social policy are drawn upon to examine key health and well-being issues in these stages, and to illustrate how health effects can accumulate across the life course. Interactive activities based on the text and on extracts from primary sources are used to encourage critical reflection and debate. Mary Larkin′s book will be essential reading for students on the many courses that need an understanding of health and well-being across all age groups. It will also be an invaluable resource for those in the health and social care sector as well as practitioners working in the field.

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SAGE

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1446291200

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9781446291207

From Your Loving Son

Civil War Correspondence and Diaries of Private George F. Moore and His Family

By: George Frederick Moore,Mary Ellen Hoover,Elin Williams Neiterman,E. Dianne James

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From Your Loving Son

Civil War Correspondence and Diaries of Private George F. Moore and His Family

By: George Frederick Moore,Mary Ellen Hoover,Elin Williams Neiterman,E. Dianne James

Moore was twenty years old when he joined the 35th Massachusetts Regiment in 1862. The eight-four letters in this collection span the years from August 1862 to the end of the War and include correspondence to and from Pvt. Moore and five family members. Moore's diaries from 1863 to 1864 are also included, as well as the 1867 diary of Sarah Jones, the girl he married. The family is traced long after the war, revealing their travels and accomplishments. -- P. [4] of cover.

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iUniverse

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1462036945

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9781462036943

The Elusive Eden

A New History of California, Fifth Edition

By: Richard B. Rice,William A. Bullough,Richard J. Orsi,Mary Ann Irwin,Michael F. Magliari,Cecilia M. Tsu

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The Elusive Eden

A New History of California, Fifth Edition

By: Richard B. Rice,William A. Bullough,Richard J. Orsi,Mary Ann Irwin,Michael F. Magliari,Cecilia M. Tsu

California is a region of rich geographic and human diversity. The Elusive Eden charts the historical development of California, beginning with landscape and climate and the development of Native cultures, and continues through the election of Governor Gavin Newsom. It portrays a land of remarkable richness and complexity, settled by waves of people with diverse cultures from around the world. Now in its fifth edition, this up-to-date text provides an authoritative, original, and balanced survey of California history incorporating the latest scholarship. Coverage includes new material on political upheavals, the global banking crisis, changes in education and the economy, and California's shifting demographic profile. This edition of The Elusive Eden features expanded coverage of gender, class, race, and ethnicity, giving voice to the diverse individuals and groups who have shaped California. With its continued emphasis on geography and environment, the text also gives attention to regional issues, moving from the metropolitan areas to the state's rural and desert areas. Lively and readable, The Elusive Eden is organized in ten parts. Each chronological section begins with an in-depth narrative chapter that spotlights an individual or group at a critical moment of historical change, bringing California history to life.

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1478639911

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Instruments of Empire

Instruments of Empire

Up, Up, and Away

Up, Up, and Away

Northern Virginia's Equestrian Heritage

Northern Virginia's Equestrian Heritage

For the Enjoyment of the People

For the Enjoyment of the People

Advocacy and Objectivity

Advocacy and Objectivity

Women's Work in the Civil War (Civil War Classics)

Women's Work in the Civil War (Civil War Classics)

"This Ghastly War"

"This Ghastly War"

Health and Well-Being Across the Life Course

Health and Well-Being Across the Life Course

From Your Loving Son

From Your Loving Son

The Elusive Eden

The Elusive Eden

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