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The Wisest Council in the World

Restoring the Character Sketches by William Pierce of Georgia of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787

By: John R. Vile,William Pierce

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The Wisest Council in the World

Restoring the Character Sketches by William Pierce of Georgia of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787

By: John R. Vile,William Pierce

Of all the written portraits of the delegates who attended the Federal Convention of 1787, few are as complete and compelling as those penned by William Pierce Jr. (1753–89), one of four delegates from Georgia. While at the convention or shortly thereafter, Pierce produced character sketches of fifty-three of the fifty-five delegates. Although widely quoted and cited, the sketches—until now—have never been analyzed or annotated in detail. John R. Vile's study offers new insights into the workings of the convention and the character and roles of its delegates, as well as Pierce's little-known life, which included time as an artist. Vile reveals, for example, that the time prior to the establishment of national parties when the framers could have successfully met together in convention may have been a relatively narrow historical window. Following overviews of events leading to the 1787 convention and of Pierce and his immediate family, several chapters deal specifically with the character sketches. They cover Pierce's arrangement of the sketches and their subjects, his evaluations of the delegates' personal qualities and reputations, his assessments of their rhetorical abilities, and his descriptions of their public services, occupations, and miscellaneous matters. Two concluding chapters add further context. One examines a set of somewhat overlapping sketches that Louis Guillaume Otto, the French minister to the United States, penned about members of Congress in 1788. The other looks at writings by Pierce's son and namesake that also include assessments of various Founding Fathers. Gathering Pierce's sketches in full, with ample annotations and secondary materials, this is a valuable reference on Pierce's life, work, and times.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820348864

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9780820348865

Real NASCAR

White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France

By: Daniel S. Pierce

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Real NASCAR

White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France

By: Daniel S. Pierce

Pierce offers a revealing new look at NASCAR racing from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its Southern roots and gained national recognition.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807833843

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9780807833841

Tar Heel Lightnin'

How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World

By: Daniel S. Pierce

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Tar Heel Lightnin'

How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World

By: Daniel S. Pierce

From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation's leading producer of bootleg liquor. Over the years, written accounts, popular songs, and Hollywood movies have turned the state's moonshiners, fast cars, and frustrated Feds into legends. But in Tar Heel Lightnin', Daniel S. Pierce tells the real history of moonshine in North Carolina as never before. This well-illustrated, entertaining book introduces a surprisingly varied cast of characters who operated secret stills and ran liquor from the swamps of the Tidewater to Piedmont forests and mountain coves. From the state's earliest days through Prohibition to the present, Pierce shows that moonshine crossed race and economic lines, linking men and women, the rebellious and the respectable, the oppressed and the merely opportunistic. As Pierce recounts, even churchgoing types might run shipments of "that good ol' mountain dew" when hard times came and there was no social safety net to break the fall. Folklore, popular culture, and changing laws have helped fuel a renaissance in making and drinking commercial moonshine, and Pierce shows how today's producers understand their ties to the past. Above all, this book reveals that moonshine's long, colorful history features surprises that can change how we understand a state and a region.

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519

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UNC Press Books

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1469653567

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9781469653563

Negro Business and Business Education

Their Present and Prospective Development

By: Joseph A. Pierce

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Negro Business and Business Education

Their Present and Prospective Development

By: Joseph A. Pierce

A reprint of the classic volume originally published by Harper & Brothers in 1947, this scholary work provides important insights for understanding contemporary issues in African-American business and business education as well as in the rebuilding of American communities today.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489910735

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9781489910738

Behavior Analysis and Learning

A Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition

By: W. David Pierce,Carl D. Cheney

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Behavior Analysis and Learning

A Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition

By: W. David Pierce,Carl D. Cheney

Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition provides an advanced introduction to the principles of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, covering a full range of principles from basic respondent and operant conditioning through applied behavior analysis into cultural design. The textbook uses Darwinian, neurophysiological, and biological theories and research to inform B. F. Skinner’s philosophy of radical behaviorism. The sixth edition expands focus on neurophysiological mechanisms and their relation to the experimental analysis of behavior, providing updated studies and references to reflect current expansions and changes in the field of behavior analysis. By bringing together ideas from behavior analysis, neuroscience, and epigenetics under a selectionist framework, this textbook facilitates understanding of behavior at environmental, genetic, and neurophysiological levels. This "grand synthesis" of behavior, neuroscience, and neurobiology roots behavior firmly in biology. The book includes special sections, "New Directions," "Focus On," "Note On," "On the Applied Side," and "Advanced Section," which enhance student learning and provide greater insight on specific topics. This book is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology or other behavior-based disciplines, especially behavioral neuroscience. For additional resources to use alongside the textbook, consult the Companion Website at www.routledge.com/cw/pierce.

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Routledge

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1351779796

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9781351779791

Behavior Analysis and Learning

A Biobehavioral Approach International Student Edition

By: Erin B. Rasmussen,Casey J. Clay,W. David Pierce,Carl D. Cheney

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Behavior Analysis and Learning

A Biobehavioral Approach International Student Edition

By: Erin B. Rasmussen,Casey J. Clay,W. David Pierce,Carl D. Cheney

Using a behavioral perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning provides an advanced introduction to the principles of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, covering a full range of principles from basic respondent and operant conditioning through applied behavior analysis into cultural design. The text uses Darwinian, neurophysiological, and biological theories and research to inform B. F. Skinner’s philosophy of radical behaviorism. The seventh edition expands the focus on neurophysiological mechanisms and their relation to the experimental analysis of behavior, providing updated studies and references to reflect current expansions and changes in the field of behavior analysis. By bringing together ideas from behavior analysis, neuroscience, epigenetics, and culture under a selectionist framework, the text facilitates understanding of behavior at environmental, genetic, neurophysiological, and sociocultural levels. This "grand synthesis" of behavior, neuroscience, and neurobiology roots behavior firmly in biology. The text includes special sections, "New Directions," "Focus On," "Note On," "On the Applied Side," and "Advanced Section," which enhance student learning and provide greater insight on specific topics. This edition was also updated for more inclusive language and representation of people and research across race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, and neurodiversity. Behavior Analysis and Learning is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology or other behavior-based disciplines, especially behavioral neuroscience. The text is supported by Support Material that features a robust set of instructor and student resources: www.routledge.com/9781032065144.

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691

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Taylor & Francis

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1000817210

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9781000817218

Choosing the Chief

Presidential Elections in France and the United States

By: Roy Pierce

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Choosing the Chief

Presidential Elections in France and the United States

By: Roy Pierce

A comparison of two nations--France and the United States--that enhances the understanding of each. By focusing on how presidential candidates emerge and how voters evaluate them, CHOOSING THE CHIEF demonstrates how party systems, social structures, and pivotal historical developments have converged to produce distinctive patterns of presidential politics in both countries.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472084747

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9780472084746

Telling Stories

The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

By: Mary Jo Maynes,Jennifer L. Pierce,Barbara Laslett

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Telling Stories

The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

By: Mary Jo Maynes,Jennifer L. Pierce,Barbara Laslett

In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor history and class analysis, feminist sociology, race relations, and anthropology to demonstrate the value of personal narratives for scholars and students alike. Telling Stories explores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use. The authors stress the importance of recognizing that stories that people tell about their lives are never simply individual. Rather, they are told in historically specific times and settings and call on rules, models, and social experiences that govern how story elements link together in the process of self-narration. Stories show how individuals' motivations, emotions, and imaginations have been shaped by their cumulative life experiences. In turn, Telling Stories demonstrates how the knowledge produced by personal narrative analysis is not simply contained in the stories told; the understanding that takes place between narrator and analyst and between analyst and audience enriches the results immeasurably.

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Cornell University Press

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0801459036

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9780801459030

Painting a New World

Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821

By: Donna Pierce,Rogelio Ruiz Gomar,Clara Bargellini,Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art

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Painting a New World

Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821

By: Donna Pierce,Rogelio Ruiz Gomar,Clara Bargellini,Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art

The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Texas Press

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0914738496

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9780914738497

The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath

Slavery and the Meaning of America

By: Robert Pierce Forbes

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The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath

Slavery and the Meaning of America

By: Robert Pierce Forbes

Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although Missouri was allowed to join the union with slavery, the compromise in fact closed off nearly all remaining federal territories to slavery. When Congressman James Tallmadge of New York proposed barring slavery from the new state of Missouri, he sparked the most candid discussion of slavery ever held in Congress. The southern response quenched the surge of nationalism and confidence following the War of 1812 and inaugurated a new politics of racism and reaction. The South's rigidity on slavery made it an alluring electoral target for master political strategist Martin Van Buren, who emerged as the key architect of a new Democratic Party explicitly designed to mobilize southern unity and neutralize antislavery sentiment. Forbes's analysis reveals a surprising national consensus against slavery a generation before the Civil War, which was fractured by the controversy over Missouri.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807877581

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9780807877586

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The Wisest Council in the World

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Real NASCAR

Real NASCAR

Tar Heel Lightnin'

Tar Heel Lightnin'

Negro Business and Business Education

Negro Business and Business Education

Behavior Analysis and Learning

Behavior Analysis and Learning

Behavior Analysis and Learning

Behavior Analysis and Learning

Choosing the Chief

Choosing the Chief

Telling Stories

Telling Stories

Painting a New World

Painting a New World

The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath

The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath

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