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The Emperor's Mirror

Understanding Cultures Through Primary Sources

By: Russell J. Barber,Frances Berdan

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The Emperor's Mirror

Understanding Cultures Through Primary Sources

By: Russell J. Barber,Frances Berdan

Russell J. Barber and Frances F. Berdan have created the ultimate guide for anyone doing cross-cultural and/or document-driven research. Presenting the essentials of primary-source methodology, The Emperor's Mirror includes nine chapters on paleography, calendrics, source and quantitative analysis, and the visual interpretation of artifacts such as pictographs, illustrations, and maps. As an introduction to ethnohistory, this book clearly defines terminology and provides practical and accessible examples, effectively integrating the concerns of historians and anthropologists as well as addressing the needs of anyone using primary sources for research in any academic field. A leading theme throughout the book is the importance of a researcher's awareness of the inherent biases of documents while doing research on another culture. Documents are the result of people interpreting reality through the filter of their own experience, personality, and culture. Barber and Berdan's reality mediation model shows students how to analyze documents to detect the implicit biases or subtexts inherent in primary-source materials. Students and scholars working with primary sources will particularly appreciate the case studies that Barber and Berdan use to illustrate the practical implications of using each methodology. These case studies not only apply method to actual research but also are fascinating in their own right: they range from a discussion of the debate over Tupinamba cannibalism to the illustration of Nahuatl, Spanish, and hybrid place names of Tlaxcala, Mexico.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816518483

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9780816518487

Open Standards and the Digital Age

By: Andrew L. Russell

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Open Standards and the Digital Age

By: Andrew L. Russell

This book answers how openness became the defining principle of the information age, examining the history of information networks.

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325

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Cambridge University Press

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1107039193

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9781107039193

A More Perfect Union

A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community

By: Adam Russell Taylor

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A More Perfect Union

A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community

By: Adam Russell Taylor

America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. A new public narrative is needed to unite Americans around common values and to counter the increasing discord and acrimony in our politics and culture. The process of healing and creating a more perfect union in our nation must start now. The moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Beloved Community, which animated and galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, provides a hopeful way forward. In A More Perfect Union, Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, reimagines a contemporary version of the Beloved Community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings. In the Beloved Community, neither privilege nor punishment is tied to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or economic status, and everyone is able to realize their full potential and thrive. Building the Beloved Community requires living out a series of commitments, such as true equality, radical welcome, transformational interdependence, E Pluribus Unum ("out of many, one"), environmental stewardship, nonviolence, and economic equity. By building the Beloved Community we unify the country around a shared moral vision that transcends ideology and partisanship, tapping into our most sacred civic and religious values, enabling our nation to live up to its best ideals and realize a more perfect union.

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268

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Broadleaf Books

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1506464548

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9781506464541

The White Man's Burden

Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

By: William Easterly,William Russell Easterly

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The White Man's Burden

Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

By: William Easterly,William Russell Easterly

Argues that western foreign aid efforts have done little to stem global poverty, citing how such organizations as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are not held accountable for ineffective practices that the author believes intrude into the inner workings of other countries. By the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth. 60,000 first printing.

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456

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Penguin

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1594200378

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9781594200373

How Agriculture Made Canada

Farming in the Nineteenth Century

By: Peter A. Russell

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How Agriculture Made Canada

Farming in the Nineteenth Century

By: Peter A. Russell

An original and textured analysis of how agricultural developments in Quebec and Ontario had a significant and direct impact on rural settlement in the Prairies.

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400

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773540644

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9780773540644

Prince Henry 'the Navigator'

A Life

By: Peter Edward Russell

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Prince Henry 'the Navigator'

A Life

By: Peter Edward Russell

Studie over de centrale rol die prins Hendrik de Zeevaarder (1394-1460) speelde bij de eerste Portugese ontdekkingsreizen.

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508

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Yale University Press

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0300091303

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9780300091304

Global Past Volume 1 and Mapping the Global Past Volume 1

Volume 1 with Map Workbook

By: Fields Newman,Lanny B. Fields,Russell J Barber,Cheryl A Riggs

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Global Past Volume 1 and Mapping the Global Past Volume 1

Volume 1 with Map Workbook

By: Fields Newman,Lanny B. Fields,Russell J Barber,Cheryl A Riggs

Moving beyond Eurocentric paradigms, The Global Past provides a new and better model for teaching world history, with extensive and integrated treatment of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To provide students with a coherent framework, it places key historical themes within a chronological structure that helps students make comparisons and see connections across time and place.

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644

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Bedford Books

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031218459X

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9780312184599

The Emperor's Mirror

Understanding Cultures Through Primary Sources

By: Russell J. Barber,Frances Berdan

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Understanding Cultures Through Primary Sources

By: Russell J. Barber,Frances Berdan

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University of Arizona Press

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The Emperor's Mirror

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Open Standards and the Digital Age

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A More Perfect Union

A More Perfect Union

The White Man's Burden

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How Agriculture Made Canada

How Agriculture Made Canada

Prince Henry 'the Navigator'

Prince Henry 'the Navigator'

Global Past Volume 1 and Mapping the Global Past Volume 1

Global Past Volume 1 and Mapping the Global Past Volume 1

The Emperor's Mirror

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