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By: Historical Society of Old Newbury

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The town of Newbury, incorporating the villages of Old Town, Byfield, and Plum Island, was settled in 1635. The extensive Newbury plantation was primarily agricultural, although many early residents also earned their living through shipbuilding along the Merrimack River. Newbury is rich with natural landmarks and stunning landscapes, including a large portion of the Great Marsh, the largest salt marsh in New England. Byfield was the site of early industry, with gristmills and sawmills sprouting up along the Quascacunquen, now the Parker River, as early as the 1630s. Mills producing products from nails to woolens and snuff prospered into the 20th century. Ancient houses, many of them the homes of famous sons and daughters, stand as a legacy to Newbury's early history. During the 19th century, Plum Island became a fashionable seaside resort and hunters and fishermen took advantage of the birds and fish that proliferated there. The three communities bring together a citizenry fiercely proud of its heritage and a rich history of working and playing on land and sea.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467128937

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9781467128933

The Land beyond the Mists

Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda

By: David Newbury

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The Land beyond the Mists

Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda

By: David Newbury

The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world. But these crises did not occur in a historical vacuum. By peering through the mists of the past, the case studies presented in The Land Beyond the Mists illustrate the significant advances to have taken place since decolonization in our understanding of the pre-colonial histories of Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Congo. Based on both oral and written sources, these essays are important both for their methods—viewing history from the perspective of local actors—and for their conclusions, which seriously challenge colonial myths about the area.

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Ohio University Press

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0821443402

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9780821443408

Newbury

By: Historical Society of Old Newbury

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Kings and Clans

Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840

By: David S. Newbury

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Kings and Clans

Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840

By: David S. Newbury

Kings and Clans questions the assumption that "clans," as traditionally defined by anthropologists and historians, are static structures that hamper political centralization. By reconstructing the history of kings and clans in Africa's Kivu Rift Valley at a time of critical social change, Newbury enlarges our understanding of social process and the growth of state power in Africa.

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388

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299128946

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9780299128944

Patrons, Clients, and Empire

Chieftaincy and Over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific

By: Colin Newbury

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Patrons, Clients, and Empire

Chieftaincy and Over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific

By: Colin Newbury

Patrons, Clients, and Empire challenges the stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies by analysing the relationship between rulers and rulers on both sides of the imperial equation. It seeks an answer to the question: how were European officials able to govern so many societies for so long? Rejecting the usual explanations of 'collaboration' and indirect rule', this study looks to pre-imperial structures in the indigenous hierarchies which supplied patrimonial models of chieftaincy for territorial government. For nawabs, chiefs, emirs, sultans, and their officials and followers there were dynastic and economic advantages in accepting the terms of European over-rule, as well as the threat of deposition. For European officials, few in numbers and with limited military and financial resources, there were ready-made systems of local government that could be co-opted, reformed, or left relatively untouched. Both sides played politics as patrons and clients within a dual system of administration based on a mixture of force and self-interest. Surveying a wide variety of cases and employing a patron-client model, this study embraces pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial politics in new states. It covers the chronology of early European dependency on local rulers; the reasons for reversal of status among chiefs and administrators; the longer period of political bargaining over access to local resources in terms of land, labour, and taxes; and the ultimate fate of indigenous rulers in the period of party politics leading to independence.

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348

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OUP Oxford

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0191555258

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9780191555251

The Cohesion of Oppression

Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960

By: Catharine Newbury

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The Cohesion of Oppression

Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960

By: Catharine Newbury

Focusing on Kenya and Tanzania, this important study suggests that the solution to third world hunger lies in the interaction of political development and the mobilization of technical resources. The book clarifies as never before the role of political institutions in successful new technology diffusion; shows the similarities between capitalist and socialist states' approaches to technology; and traces the development of assistance projects.

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Columbia University Press

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0231062575

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9780231062572

Cold War Photographic Diplomacy

The US Information Agency and Africa

By: Darren Newbury

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Cold War Photographic Diplomacy

The US Information Agency and Africa

By: Darren Newbury

The emergence of newly independent African nations onto the world stage in the mid-twentieth century precipitated a contest for influence among Cold War superpowers, leading the United States to mount an international campaign of photographic diplomacy underpinned by a faith in the medium’s capacity to cross cultural boundaries. However, the increasing global visibility of racial injustice undermined US claims that the nation had transcended colonial racism. Drawing on extensive research in the archives of the United States Information Agency (USIA) and concentrating on the period from the mid-1950s through to the late 1960s, Darren Newbury traces the role of photography in the United States’ appeal to Africa. Newbury shows how photographing the political, cultural, and educational visits of Africans to the United States provided a space for the imagination of international cooperation and friendship; how the United States presented the civil rights struggle as an example of democracy in action; and how it pictured a world of integration and racial coexistence. Cold War Photographic Diplomacy chronicles this careful scripting of images and picture stories and details the cultural and pedagogical work that photography was expected to perform as it was inserted into the visual culture of African cities through magazines, posters, pamphlets, and window displays. Locating photography at the intersection of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War, this study will especially appeal to students and scholars of the history of photography, American studies, and Africana studies.

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Penn State Press

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0271098228

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9780271098227

Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

By: Michael Newbury

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Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

By: Michael Newbury

Through studies of such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe, this book shows how the increased demand for salable entertainment fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional mode of work in the first half of the nineteenth century in America.

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Stanford University Press

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0804728585

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9780804728584

Tahiti Nui

Change and Survival in French Polynesia, 1767–1945

By: Colin W. Newbury

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Tahiti Nui

Change and Survival in French Polynesia, 1767–1945

By: Colin W. Newbury

Tahiti Nui is an account of the survival of a Polynesian society in the face of successive settlements of missionaries, traders, and administrators. Beginning with the first explorers and Captain Cook's scientific observations at Point Venus, Dr. Newbury has separated the various strands interwoven in the fabric of Tahitian society, tracing their development and showing how they interacted at successive stages. Missionaries and foreign traders, administrators and Polynesians, planters and immigrant Chinese have all contributed to the distinctive flavor of French Polynesia, with Tahiti and Tahitians becoming increasingly dominant, not just as the focus of the French administration in Pape'ete, but in the social networks and trading patterns that have evolved.

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384

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824880323

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9780824880323

The British Imperial Pyramid of Power: Manning an Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914

By: Colin Newbury

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The British Imperial Pyramid of Power: Manning an Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914

By: Colin Newbury

This study aims at revising past and current emphasis on central and official British imperial establishments in the metropolis. The focus, rather, incorporates both central and peripheral manning techniques in London and in overseas territories. By using archival and published sources for the military, technical, medical and other professional cadres, plus the manpower enslaved, indentured or employed in executive categories, the study is intended to broaden our understanding of the base and middle strata of the imperial "pyramid". This book is an essential revaluation of British imperial methods that has a place in university and public libraries alongside works on Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Ceylon, the Pacific, and British North America.

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294

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Cambria Press

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1621967441

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9781621967446

The Speculative City

Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles

By: Susanna Phillips Newbury

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The Speculative City

Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles

By: Susanna Phillips Newbury

A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City, Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one another’s evolution. She compellingly articulates how together they transformed the Southland, establishing the foundation for its contemporary art infrastructure, and explains how artists came to influence Los Angeles’s burgeoning definition as the global city of the twenty-first century. Pairing particular works of art with specific innovations in real estate development, The Speculative City reveals the connections between real estate and contemporary art as they constructed Los Angeles’s present-day cityscape. From banal parking lots to Frank Gehry’s designs for artists’ studios and museums, Newbury examines pivotal interventions by artists and architects, city officials and cultural philanthropists, concluding with an examination of how, in the wake of the 2008 global credit crisis, contemporary art emerged as a financial asset to fuel private wealth and urban gentrification. Both a history of the transformation of the Southland and a forensic examination of works of art, The Speculative City is a rich complement to the California chronicles by such writers as Rebecca Solnit and Mike Davis.

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U of Minnesota Press

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145296601X

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9781452966014

Legal Aid in Crisis

Assessing the Impact of Reform

By: Moore, Sarah,Newbury, Alex

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Legal Aid in Crisis

Assessing the Impact of Reform

By: Moore, Sarah,Newbury, Alex

One of the many areas of social support affected by the recent austerity measures in Britain is legal aid, which has suffered under cuts so substantial that, this book argues, the result is the most radical set of changes in the sixty-year history of legal aid in the nation, a transformation of its very meaning and purpose. From an original position as a form of social welfare to which nearly anyone could get access, it is now seen as a benefit, outside the legal system, and almost wholly cast in economic terms. This book looks at this shift and its far-reaching consequences not just for individuals but for the whole of the court system.

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Policy Press

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1447335457

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9781447335450

Newbury

By: Shelly Candidus,Newbury Historical Society

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Newbury

By: Shelly Candidus,Newbury Historical Society

Collection of vintage photograph postcards of the tow of Newbury, New Hampshire.

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Arcadia Pub

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0738564907

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9780738564906

Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Newbury, June 10, 1885

By: Mas Society of Old Newbury (Newburyport

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Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Newbury, June 10, 1885

By: Mas Society of Old Newbury (Newburyport

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0526086971

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9780526086979

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Patrons, Clients, and Empire

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The Cohesion of Oppression

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Cold War Photographic Diplomacy

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Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

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The British Imperial Pyramid of Power: Manning an Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914

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Legal Aid in Crisis

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Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Newbury, June 10, 1885

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