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A Fierce and Fractious Frontier

The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699–2000

By: Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.

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A Fierce and Fractious Frontier

The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699–2000

By: Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.

Tales of Cajuns, Creoles, and New Orleans decadence dominate both popular and professional impressions of Louisiana and have undoubtedly distracted attention from the region that arguably experienced the most dramatic pattern of development in Louisiana, if not the entire Gulf South. Louisiana's Florida Parishes, located in the southeastern part of the state, have endured a tumultuous evolution, including domination by every major power that invaded North America, exclusion from the Louisiana Purchase, insurrection and the establishment of the original Lone Star Republic, and some of the highest rates of rural homicide recorded in American history. The area was long neglected by scholars until some of its foremost experts came together to explore and recognize its singular identity. This volume is a result of that collaboration and consists of ten essays on the history and culture of this unique territory. In tracing the progress of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, the book begins with an eye-opening ethnographic history of the territory during its days as a French colony, the brief era of British rule, and slavery as it was practiced under the Spanish regime. A revealing look at the region during the War of 1812 provides a dynamic account of the only major naval battle in the South during that conflict. Subsequent essays give lucid and insightful examination to the area's guerrilla tactics during the Civil War, credit crisis of the postbellum era, and ecological transformation through pine forest harvesting. The final third of the book considers the demographic changes wrought by black labor employed in the lumber mills of the early twentieth century, the challenges confronting a rural, depression-era black community, and recent environmental changes in the parishes that impact ongoing economic development. A Fierce and Fractious Frontier employs a comprehensive approach supported by provocative groundbreaking research to explain the difficulties of the past and suggest considerations for the future of Louisiana's Florida Parishes. It will stand as a model for the emerging field of southern subregional studies.

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LSU Press

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0807129232

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Forever We Serve

A Korean War Thriller and the Third Novel in a Series

By: R. Samuel Baty

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Forever We Serve

A Korean War Thriller and the Third Novel in a Series

By: R. Samuel Baty

Although World War II is over, the world is not a safer place. The Soviet Union has lowered an iron curtain in front of Eastern Europe, and Josef Stalin desires complete world domination. American nurse Jennifer Haraldsson and her former patient and German POW, Otto Bruner, have returned to their former lives with unfinished business. Although deeply in love, both realize the obstacles to spending their lives together are too overwhelming. Haraldsson, who now serves as a nurse at Walter Reed Army Hospital, knows that Jack MacLaine, United States Army Intelligence Officer, is her best hope for romance. After she accepts his marriage proposal, she naively thinks her life will return to normal. Unfortunately, she has never been more wrong. After the North Koreans attack South Korea, MacLaine is sent overseas. It is not long before Haraldsson is enlisted by her boss, Dr. Brad Taylor, to travel to Korea to launch a mobile army hospital. As the two work tirelessly to set up their MASH unit, Haraldsson has no idea that an unexpected tragedy is about to strip away her newfound happiness. Many twists and turns occur in this continuing historical thriller. The great political and military dramas of the times unfold as the legendary Marine First Regiment Commander Chesty Puller, General Douglas MacArthur, General Matthew Ridgway, and President Harry Truman assume their commanding roles. In this continuing historical saga, an American nurse soon realizes that amidst the chaos of war, nothing is guaranteedespecially love.

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323

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iUniverse

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147593517X

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9781475935172

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions

Vol. 1

By: Samuel Lewis

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A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions

Vol. 1

By: Samuel Lewis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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686

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368742701

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9783368742706

Brooklyn Takes the Stage

Nineteenth-Century Theater in the City of Churches

By: Samuel L. Leiter

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Brooklyn Takes the Stage

Nineteenth-Century Theater in the City of Churches

By: Samuel L. Leiter

America's third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. As the city gained size and influence, more and more theatres arose, with at least 15 venues ultimately vying for favor. Too many theatregoers, however, preferred the discomforts of a ferry and horsecar trip to New York's playhouses instead of supporting the local product. Nor did the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 do Brooklyn's theatres any favors. Manhattan's Goliath slayed Brooklyn's David. This first comprehensive study of Brooklyn's old-time theatre describes the city's early history, each of its many playhouses, its plays and actors (including nearly every foreign and domestic star), and its scandals and catastrophes, including the theatre fire that killed nearly 300. Brooklyn's ongoing struggle to establish theatres in a society dominated by anti-theatrical preachers, including Henry Ward Beecher, is detailed, as are all the ways that Brooklyn typified 19th century American theatre, from stock companies to combinations. Replete with fascinating anecdotes, this is the story of a major city from which theatre all but vanished before being reborn as a present-day artistic mecca.

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McFarland

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1476693595

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9781476693590

Good People, Bad Managers

How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions

By: Samuel A. Culbert

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Good People, Bad Managers

How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions

By: Samuel A. Culbert

There's far more bad management behavior taking place today than the well-intentioned doling it out realize... and even more than those on the receiving end are aware of! There's little mystery about what good management entails; the biggest mystery is why people are calling this bad behavior "good enough." Today's managers work in a success and self-preservation mindset, which doesn't always translate to a productive and mission-oriented environment. Too many erroneous assumptions are involved when following the mainstream tenets of work culture, which sap morale, well-being, and performance at both the individual and organizational levels. In Good People, Bad Managers: How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions, author Samuel A. Culbert makes readers aware of what bad habits are routinely followed by well-intended managers. Managers need to understand the causes for their constant distraction, become more aware of the negatives they inadvertently inflict, and the hollowness of the rationales they use to justify what they do. Company leaders, CEOs, and top tier managers need to become more aware of the ever-present concerns of their own workforce, implementing the management mentality they want in their company and then teaching their managerial employees how to absorb it. Culbert offers practical advice for effecting this necessary cultural change in the workplace. Peppered with illuminating and helpful case studies throughout, this is the perfect guide for showing managers exactly how to conduct themselves more intelligently, and, as opportunities arise, in a manner that contributes to the common good.

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209

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Oxford University Press

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0190652403

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9780190652401

Wisconsin Birdlife

Population & Distribution Past & Present

By: Samuel D. Robbins

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Wisconsin Birdlife

Population & Distribution Past & Present

By: Samuel D. Robbins

As initially planned in 1939 by Owen J. Gromme, then curator of birds at the Milwaukee Public Museum, Wisconsin Birdlife would not only describe and document every species of bird known to have visited this state, but would also depict each species with his own original paintings. During the next two decades, Gromme concentrated primarily on the latter, resulting in the separate publication in 1963 of his now classic Birds of Wisconsin. Work on the present volume was assumed in the late 1960s by Samuel D. Robbins, whose labors of more than 20 years give us a veritable encyclopedia of the state's ornithological knowledge. A complement and supplement to field guides, picture books, and recordings, the book is designed to enlarge the reader's understanding and appreciation of statewide history, abundance, and habitat preference of every species reliably recorded in Wisconsin. The volume opens with a summary of the ornithological history of the state and an exposition of its ecological setting. The heart of Wisconsin Birdlife ensues: detailed accounts of nearly 400 species, with information on status (population and distribution), habitat, migration dates, breeding data, and wintering presence, followed by extensive discussion and commentary. Dr. James Hall Zimmerman, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides a special discussion of bird habitats for the book. In addition, Wisconsin Birdlife features a comprehensive status and seasonal distribution chart, a detailed habitat preference chart, and an exhaustive bibliography. The ultimate resource, Wisconsin Birdlife belongs within easy reach of everyone from armchair appreciators and casual birdwatchers to ardent birders and professional ornithologists.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299102602

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9780299102609

Berryman's Henry

Living at the Intersection of Need and Art

By: Samuel Fisher Dodson

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Berryman's Henry

Living at the Intersection of Need and Art

By: Samuel Fisher Dodson

Berryman’s Henry: Living at the Intersection of Need and Art offers scholars and students the first thorough and well-researched vehicle into John Berryman’s epic poem The Dream Songs. Through a close reading of the text, an examination of the history of its criticism and some of Berryman’s letters, notes, and pertinent manuscripts, Sam Dodson offers the reader a solid starting point to appreciate the presiding structure and thematic focus of this American classic. This structure, resulting from the poet’s crafting and the poem’s internal growth, is illustrated in the text by more than thirty reproductions of some of the Dream Song drafts in progress. No existing critical work examines anywhere near the number of individual Dream Songs as this reader’s guide, which will enable students and teachers to enter Berryman’s difficult poem with confidence and a proper sense of direction. Its purpose is to provide the beginning reader and the scholar with a map for approaching this large work and finding their way through its elegiac structure and appreciating its unity. A close look at the poem's language and stylistic innovations, epic qualities and author’s poetics, and most especially the elegiac movement of the poem, will allow even the novice reader to enter Henry’s world. The elegies as a whole provide the note of mourning that is at the core of Berryman’s epic.

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BRILL

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9401201560

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9789401201568

Written on the Water

British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture

By: Samuel Baker

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Written on the Water

British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture

By: Samuel Baker

The very word "culture" has traditionally evoked the land. But when such writers as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and, later, Matthew Arnold developed what would become the idea of modern culture, they modeled that idea on Britain's imperial command of the sea. Instead of locating the culture idea’s beginnings in the dynamic between the country and the city, Samuel Baker insists on taking into account the significance of water for that idea’s development. For the Romantics, figures of the island, the deluge, and the sundering tide often convey the insularity of cultures understood to stand apart from the whole; yet, Baker writes, the sea also stands in their poetry of culture as a reminder of the broader sphere of circulation in which the poet's work, if not the poet's subject, inheres. Although other books treat the history of the idea of culture, none synthesizes that history with the literary history of maritime empire. Written on the Water tracks an uncanny interrelationship between ocean imagery and culturalist rhetoric of culture forward from the late Augustans to the mid-Victorians. In so doing, it analyzes Wordsworth's pronounced ambivalence toward the sea, Coleridge's sojourn as an imperial functionary in Malta, Byron's cosmopolitan seafaring tales, and Arnold's dual identity as "poet of water" and prose arbiter of "culture." It also considers Romanticism's classical inheritance, arguing that the Lake Poets dissolved into the idea of culture the Virgilian system of pastoral, georgic, and epic modes of literature and life. This compelling new study will engage any reader interested in the intellectual and literary history of Britain and the lived experience of British Romanticism.

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University of Virginia Press

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081393043X

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9780813930435

Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel

Constructing the Context for Contact

By: Samuel L. Boyd

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Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel

Constructing the Context for Contact

By: Samuel L. Boyd

In Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel, Boyd offers the first book-length incorporation of language contact theory with data from the Bible. It allows for a reexamination of the nature of contact between biblical authors and the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Achaemenid empires.

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BRILL

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9004448764

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9789004448766

Marriage Material

A Novel

By: Barbara Samuel

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Marriage Material

A Novel

By: Barbara Samuel

Lance Forrest was the sexiest thing Tamara Flynn had ever laid eyes on. Once, he'd hightailed it out of Red Creek, Colorado, on his wild reputation, leaving behind a string of broken hearts and a son he never knew about. A son Tamara raised as her own. When he walked back into her life five years later, Tamara knew she could no longer deny Lance the knowledge of his son, or the joy of his company. But the more time the three of them spent together, the more Lance started to feel like family. Tamara had always thought Lance and marriage didn't mix... until now.

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Barbara Samuel

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1937688240

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The Eukaryotic Nucleus

Molecular Biochemistry and Macromolecular Assemblies

By: Samuel H. Wilson,Phyllis Strauss

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The Eukaryotic Nucleus

Molecular Biochemistry and Macromolecular Assemblies

By: Samuel H. Wilson,Phyllis Strauss

This series provides, in two volumes, a complete and exhaustive review of the subject of the eukaryotic nucleus, the site of the DNA. The focus of the book is how the information in the DNA is transcribed, accessed and maintained.

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CRC Press

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0936923326

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9780936923321

Book's by Samuel Hickey

A Fierce and Fractious Frontier

A Fierce and Fractious Frontier

Forever We Serve

Forever We Serve

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions

Brooklyn Takes the Stage

Brooklyn Takes the Stage

Good People, Bad Managers

Good People, Bad Managers

Wisconsin Birdlife

Wisconsin Birdlife

Berryman's Henry

Berryman's Henry

Written on the Water

Written on the Water

Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel

Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel

Marriage Material

Marriage Material

The Eukaryotic Nucleus

The Eukaryotic Nucleus

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