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The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3

1929-1936

By: Robert Frost

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The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3

1929-1936

By: Robert Frost

The third installment of Harvard’s five-volume edition of Robert Frost’s correspondence. The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929–1936 is the latest installment in Harvard’s five-volume edition of the poet’s correspondence. It presents 589 letters, of which 424 are previously uncollected. The critically acclaimed first volume, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, included nearly 300 previously uncollected letters, and the second volume 350 more. During the period covered here, Robert Frost was close to the height of his powers. If Volume 2 covered the making of Frost as America’s poet, in Volume 3 he is definitively made. These were also, however, years of personal tribulation. The once-tight Frost family broke up as marriage, illness, and work scattered the children across the country. In the case of Frost’s son Carol, both distance and proximity put strains on an already fractious relationship. But the tragedy and emotional crux of this volume is the death, in Montana, of Frost’s youngest daughter, Marjorie. Frost’s correspondence from those dark days is a powerful testament to the difficulty of honoring the responsibilities of a poet’s eminence while coping with the intensity of a parent’s grief. Volume 3 also sees Frost responding to the crisis of the Great Depression, the onset of the New Deal, and the emergence of totalitarian regimes in Europe, with wit, canny political intelligence, and no little acerbity. All the while, his star continues to rise: he wins a Pulitzer for Collected Poems in 1931 and will win a second for A Further Range, published in 1936, and he is in constant demand as a public speaker at colleges, writers’ workshops, symposia, and dinners. Frost was not just a poet but a poet-teacher; as such, he was instrumental in defining the public functions of poetry in the twentieth century. In the 1930s, Frost lived a life of paradox, as personal tragedy and the tumults of politics interwove with his unprecedented achievements. Thoroughly annotated and accompanied by a biographical glossary and detailed chronology, these letters illuminate a triumphant and difficult period in the life of a towering literary figure.

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Harvard University Press

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0674726650

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9780674726659

Fourth International Symposium on Recycling of Metals and Engineered Materials

(Part 1: pages i - 686; Part 2: pages 687 - 1398)

By: Donald L. Stewart, Jr.,James C. Daley,Robert L. Stephens

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Fourth International Symposium on Recycling of Metals and Engineered Materials

(Part 1: pages i - 686; Part 2: pages 687 - 1398)

By: Donald L. Stewart, Jr.,James C. Daley,Robert L. Stephens

This proceedings collection continues the tradition established by earlier TMS Recycling Meetings in this series by presenting fundamental and practical aspects of recycling metals and engineered materials.

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1421

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118787935

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9781118787939

Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16

Sources Cited and Artifacts Illustrated

By: Robert Wauchope

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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16

Sources Cited and Artifacts Illustrated

By: Robert Wauchope

The publication of Volume 16 of this distinguished series brings to a close one of the largest research and documentation projects ever undertaken on the Middle American Indians. Since the publication of Volume 1 in 1964, the Handbook of Middle American Indians has provided the most complete information on every aspect of indigenous culture, including natural environment, archaeology, linguistics, social anthropology, physical anthropology, ethnology, and ethnohistory. Culminating this massive project is Volume 16, divided into two parts. Part I, Sources Cited, by Margaret A. L. Harrison, is a listing in alphabetical order of all the bibliographical entries cited in Volumes 1-11. (Volumes 12-15, comprising the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, have not been included, because they stand apart in subject matter and contain or constitute independent bibliographical material.) Part II, Location of Artifacts Illustrated, by Marjorie S. Zengel, details the location (at the time of original publication) of the owner of each pre-Columbian American artifact illustrated in Volumes 1-11 of the Handbook, as well as the size and the catalog, accession, and/or inventory number that the owner assigns to the object. The two parts of Volume 16 provide a convenient and useful reference to material found in the earlier volumes. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

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333

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University of Texas Press

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1477306919

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9781477306918

Sugarcane and Rum

The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula

By: John Robert Gust,Jennifer P. Mathews

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Sugarcane and Rum

The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula

By: John Robert Gust,Jennifer P. Mathews

While the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico may conjure up images of vacation getaways and cocktails by the sea, these easy stereotypes hide a story filled with sweat and toil. The story of sugarcane and rum production in the Caribbean has been told many times. But few know the bittersweet story of sugar and rum in the jungles of the Yucatán Peninsula during the nineteenth century. This is much more than a history of coveted commodities. The unique story that unfolds in John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Mathews’s new history Sugarcane and Rum is told through the lens of Maya laborers who worked under brutal conditions on small haciendas to harvest sugarcane and produce rum. Gust and Mathews weave together ethnographic interviews and historical archives with archaeological evidence to bring the daily lives of Maya workers into focus. They lived in a cycle of debt, forced to buy all of their supplies from the company store and take loans from the hacienda owners. And yet they had a certain autonomy because the owners were so dependent on their labor at harvest time. We also see how the rise of cantinas and distilled alcohol in the nineteenth century affected traditional Maya culture and that the economies of Cancún and the Mérida area are predicated on the rum-influenced local social systems of the past. Sugarcane and Rum brings this bittersweet story to the present and explains how rum continues to impact the Yucatán and the people who have lived there for millennia.

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193

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University of Arizona Press

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0816538883

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9780816538881

The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

By: James Robert Bent Hathaway

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The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

By: James Robert Bent Hathaway

Chief among its contents we find abstracts of land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths, marriages, wills, petitions, military records (including a list of North Carolina Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line, 1775-1782), licenses, and oaths. The abstracts derive from records now located in the state archives and from the public records of the following present-day counties of the Old Albemarle region: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington, and the Virginia counties of Surry and Isle of Wight.

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1794

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806304413

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9780806304410

Gloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir

The Complete Career

By: Robert J. Lentz

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Gloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir

The Complete Career

By: Robert J. Lentz

A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of film noir. Her talents are showcased in several classic motion pictures of the 1940s and 1950s, including It's a Wonderful Life, Crossfire, In a Lonely Place, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Big Heat, Oklahoma!, and The Bad and the Beautiful, for which she earned an Academy Award. This comprehensive overview of Gloria Grahame's life and work examines each of her feature films in detail, as well as her made-for-television productions, her television-series appearances and her stage career. Also discussed are the varied ways in which Grahame's acting performances were affected by her tumultuous personal life--which included four marriages, the second to director Nicholas Ray and the fourth to Ray's stepson Anthony.

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369

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McFarland

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0786487224

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Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880

The Early Years of American Ethnology

By: Robert E. Bieder

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Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880

The Early Years of American Ethnology

By: Robert E. Bieder

Brilliantly written and copiously footnoted, this book details the life and work of five central figures in the development of American anthropology: Albert Gallatin, Samuel G. Morton, Ephraim G. Squier, Henry R. Schoolcraft, and Lewis Henry Morgan.Plains Anthropologist

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308

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806135719

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9780806135717

Robert Smithson

The Collected Writings

By: Robert Smithson

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Robert Smithson

The Collected Writings

By: Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most important artists of his generation, produced sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, and paintings in addition to the writings collected here.

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424

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Univ of California Press

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0520203852

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9780520203853

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The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3

The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3

Fourth International Symposium on Recycling of Metals and Engineered Materials

Fourth International Symposium on Recycling of Metals and Engineered Materials

Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16

Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16

Sugarcane and Rum

Sugarcane and Rum

The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

Gloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir

Gloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir

Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880

Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880

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