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Nottingham Date Book 1 850 -1800

By: Richard Pearson

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Nottingham Date Book 1 850 -1800

By: Richard Pearson

This is book 1 of a two Volume set. The Nottingham Date Book is a book of the history of Nottingham from 850 to 1884. In particular, after about 1750, it is full of references to every-day happenings in the town and its people. Not just important people, but normal people too. Its fascination for me is not only because I was born in Nottingham and interested in its history, but also as a family historian, as it contains so many references to people and every-day events. It is a particularly rare book, and even more so in its complete edition up to 1884.

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Lulu.com

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0244467161

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9780244467166

Edmund G. Ross

Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist

By: Richard A. Ruddy

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Edmund G. Ross

Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist

By: Richard A. Ruddy

Thanks to John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, most twenty-first-century Americans who remember Edmund G. Ross (1826–1907) know only that he cast an important vote as a U.S. senator from Kansas that prevented the conviction of President Andrew Johnson of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” allowing Johnson to stay in office. But Ross was also a significant abolitionist, journalist, Union officer, and, eventually, territorial governor of New Mexico. This first full-scale biography of Ross reveals his importance in the history of the United States. Ross’s life reveals a great deal about who we were as Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century. He was involved in the abolitionist movement as both a journalist and a participant, as well as in the struggle to bring Kansas into the union as a free state. His career also involved him in the expansion of railroads west of the Mississippi, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the Gilded Age with its greedy politicians and businessmen, and the expansion of the United States into the Southwest. In short, Ross’s career represents the changes that the whole country experienced in the course of his lifetime. Moreover, Ross was an interesting character, resolute and consistent in his beliefs, who often paid a price for his integrity.

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346

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UNM Press

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0826353754

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9780826353757

Reasonable Self-Esteem, Second Edition

A Life of Meaning

By: Richard Keshen

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Reasonable Self-Esteem, Second Edition

A Life of Meaning

By: Richard Keshen

For this new edition, Keshen has written an extensive introductory essay in which he explores the contrast between his philosophical approach to self-esteem and the approach of many psychologists. In this fascinating look at the philosophy of self-esteem, Richard Keshen develops and defends the idea of reasonable self-esteem -- a concept based on an ideal of reasonableness -- and argues that individuals who think of themselves in terms of this paradigm will lead happier and more fulfilling lives. Keshen presents a set of guidelines for analysing self-esteem and examines various factors that influence our self-esteem, such as other people's evaluations, comparisons with others, social relationships, and inherent qualities. He asserts that self-esteem not founded on individual achievement leads to a continual search for external supports and is easily shaken when such supports are not found. A key element of Keshen's argument is the ideal of egalitarian respect, and he shows how we can integrate this ideal into our lives. Reasonable Self-Esteem demonstrates the attraction of a life in which reasonableness is a central commitment. It will appeal to those with an interest in philosophy, ethics, and moral psychology and is essential reading for those concerned with self-esteem.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773550739

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9780773550735

The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

By: Richard Hakluyt

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The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

By: Richard Hakluyt

This twelve-volume edition of the geographical works of Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was published in 1903-5.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108071414

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9781108071413

William Byrd

A Research and Information Guide

By: Richard Turbet

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William Byrd

A Research and Information Guide

By: Richard Turbet

This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. This new edition includes research since the publication of the last edition.

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Routledge

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113628205X

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9781136282058

Gunfighter Nation

The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America

By: Richard Slotkin

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Gunfighter Nation

The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America

By: Richard Slotkin

National Book Award Finalist: The “impressive” conclusion to the “magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history” (Film Quarterly). “The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites’ conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society—is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ‘Indian country.’ President John Kennedy invoked ‘New Frontier’ symbolism to seek support for counterinsurgency abroad. In an absorbing, valuable, scholarly study, [the author] traces the pervasiveness of frontier mythology in American consciousness from 1890. . . . Dime novels and detective stories adapted the myth to portray gallant heroes repressing strikers, immigrants and dissidents. Completing a trilogy begun with Regeneration Through Violence and The Fatal Environment, Slotkin unmasks frontier mythmaking in novels and Hollywood movies. The myth’s emphasis on use of force over social solutions has had a destructive impact, he shows.” —Publishers Weekly “Stirring . . . Breaks new ground in its careful explication of the continuing dynamic between politics and myth, myth and popular culture.” —The New York Times “A subtle and wide-ranging examination how America’s fascination with the frontier has affected its culture and politics. . . . Intellectual history at its most stimulating—teeming with insights into American violence, politics, class, and race.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Open Road Media

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1504090349

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9781504090346

Murphy on Evidence

By: Peter Murphy,Richard Glover

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Murphy on Evidence

By: Peter Murphy,Richard Glover

Murphy on Evidence frames the law in its practical context. Suitable for both undergraduates and BPTC students, the text is supported by a wealth of online resources based around two fictional cases, bringing the law to life, and developing a clear contextual understanding of the subject.

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815

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Oxford University Press

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0198788738

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9780198788737

OLD AND NEW NOTTINGHAM 1881

By: Richard Pearson

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OLD AND NEW NOTTINGHAM 1881

By: Richard Pearson

Nottingham continued to grow rapidly, especially after 1845 when a great deal of land around it was released for building. Nottingham gained gas street lighting in 1819. However like all towns in the early 19th century Nottingham was a dirty, unsanitary place. There was a cholera epidemic in 1833, which killed 330 people. However life in 19th century Nottingham gradually improved. In the mid-19th century the piped water supply was taken over by the corporation and was greatly expanded. After 1835 Nottingham had its first proper police force and a new prison was built in 1846. Meanwhile the railway first reached Nottingham in 1839. The first public library in Nottingham opened in 1868 and University College was formed in 1881, when ""Nottingham Old And New"" was published.

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0244768560

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9780244768560

Hall's Essay on the Rights of the Crown

By: Richard Loveland Loveland

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Hall's Essay on the Rights of the Crown

By: Richard Loveland Loveland

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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338522182X

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9783385221826

The History of the Study of Landforms - Volume 3

Historical and Regional Geomorphology, 1890-1950

By: Robert P. Beckinsale,Richard J. Chorley

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The History of the Study of Landforms - Volume 3

Historical and Regional Geomorphology, 1890-1950

By: Robert P. Beckinsale,Richard J. Chorley

This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War. The book deals with the burgeoning of the eustatic theory, the concepts of isostasy and epeirogeny, and the first complete statements of the cycle of erosion and of polycyclic denudation chronology.

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Routledge

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1134935161

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Liturgical Calendars, Saints and Services in Medieval England

By: Richard W. Pfaff

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Liturgical Calendars, Saints and Services in Medieval England

By: Richard W. Pfaff

This book includes four hitherto unpublished papers together with a substantial introductory historiographical and bibliographical overview. Many of the studies concern the liturgical views of figures like Lanfranc, St Hugh of Lincoln, and William of Malmesbury (an edition of William’s Abbreviatio Amalarii is included) and the ways Thomas Becket and the Venerable Bede were viewed liturgically. Others reveal the achievement of an 11th-century Canterbury scribe, lay out a hagiographical puzzle as to the saints venerated on the 19th January, ask why calendars come to be attached to psalters, demonstrate that monks at Canterbury Cathedral were still reading Old English homilies in the 1180s, and present a fascinating, previously misunderstood, psalter owned by bishop Ralph Baldock, c.1300. Two final papers deal with ’Sarum’ services in late medieval parish churches and with the devotional practice called St Gregory’s Trental.

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Taylor & Francis

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104024422X

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9781040244227

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Nottingham Date Book 1 850 -1800

Nottingham Date Book 1 850 -1800

Edmund G. Ross

Edmund G. Ross

Reasonable Self-Esteem, Second Edition

Reasonable Self-Esteem, Second Edition

The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

William Byrd

William Byrd

Gunfighter Nation

Gunfighter Nation

Murphy on Evidence

Murphy on Evidence

OLD AND NEW NOTTINGHAM 1881

OLD AND NEW NOTTINGHAM 1881

Hall's Essay on the Rights of the Crown

Hall's Essay on the Rights of the Crown

The History of the Study of Landforms - Volume 3

The History of the Study of Landforms - Volume 3

Liturgical Calendars, Saints and Services in Medieval England

Liturgical Calendars, Saints and Services in Medieval England

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