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Latino and Hispanic History

The Story of the USA's Majority Minority

By: Michael Noricks

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Latino and Hispanic History

The Story of the USA's Majority Minority

By: Michael Noricks

Latino and Hispanic history in a handy Q & A format written for everyone. Spanish roots, Latin American civilization and the US national experience are essential components of the modern Latino and Hispanic community in the USA Did you know? • Spain’s presence began more than a hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth and Spain still claimed roughly half of today's continental USA at the close of the American Revolutionary War. • Latinos and Hispanics officially became the USA’s majority minority in 2003. • As of the 2010 Census, those numbers had swelled to 50.5 million, roughly 16.3 percent of U.S. population. • Demographers predict that one in every three US residents will be Latino and Hispanic in ethnicity by 2050. What you will learn: • The forces behind the conquistadors and the empire that stretched from Europe to the Americas to the Philippines; • The historical differences that distinguish people who trace their origins to the Caribbean’s three remaining Spanish-speaking states: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; • The diverse and divergent development of Central and South America; • The reason Mexico ceded half her territory to the USA and why her descendants account for fully 65 percent of the overall Latinos and Hispanic population; • The demographics that characterize the modern Latino and Hispanic community in the US.

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Michael Noricks

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1478738545

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9781478738541

Out of Place

Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

By: Michael Goddard

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Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

By: Michael Goddard

The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its practitioners claimed that it could adequately accommodate the cultural variation among Melanesian societies. This book compares the intent and practice of transcultural psychiatry with Kakoli interpretations of, and responses to, madness, showing the reasons for their occasional recourse to psychiatric services. Episodes involving madness, as defined by the Kakoli themselves, are described in order to offer a context for the historical lifeworld and praxis of the community and raise fundamental questions about whether a culturally sensitive psychiatry is possible in the Melanesian context.

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188

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Berghahn Books

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0857450956

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9780857450951

The Real Agricultural Revolution

The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985

By: Paul Brassley,David Harvey,Matt Lobley,Michael Winter

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The Real Agricultural Revolution

The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985

By: Paul Brassley,David Harvey,Matt Lobley,Michael Winter

WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize WINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change.

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301

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783276355

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9781783276356

Tangled Up in the Bible

Bob Dylan and Scripture

By: Michael J. Gilmour

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Tangled Up in the Bible

Bob Dylan and Scripture

By: Michael J. Gilmour

Bob Dylan has had a profound influence on the shape of modern pop music (folk, rock, blues) and as a modern literary figure. He has also attracted enormous attention from both professional and amateur "interpreters". In this book Gilmour offers a thorough study of Dylan's reading of scriptures. He explores the ways in which Dylan transforms biblical images and concepts when he incorporates them into his literary world; it is an attempt to listen to the echoes of scripture in his published works. Gilmour closely reads Dylan's poems and songs and provides commentaries on several themes found in Dylan's work: the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus; apocalypse, justice and judgement; oppressive religion and religious irony. Through these readings, Gilmour calls attention to the various ways Dylan uses scripture both in an explicit and an implicit manner.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441156739

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Latino and Hispanic History

Latino and Hispanic History

Out of Place

Out of Place

The Real Agricultural Revolution

The Real Agricultural Revolution

Tangled Up in the Bible

Tangled Up in the Bible

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