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A Mind to Stay

White Plantation, Black Homeland

By: Sydney Nathans

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A Mind to Stay

White Plantation, Black Homeland

By: Sydney Nathans

The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved to becoming owners of the very land they had worked in bondage, and who have held on to it from emancipation through the Civil Rights era. The story began in 1844, when North Carolina planter Paul Cameron bought 1,600 acres near Greensboro, Alabama, and sent out 114 enslaved people to cultivate cotton and enlarge his fortune. In the 1870s, he sold the plantation to emancipated black families who worked there. Drawing on thousands of letters from the planter and on interviews with descendants of those who bought the land, Nathans unravels how and why the planter’s former laborers purchased the site of their enslavement, kept its name as Cameron Place, and defended their homeland against challengers from the Jim Crow era to the present day. Through the prism of a single plantation and the destiny of black families that dwelt on it for over a century and a half, A Mind to Stay brings to life a vivid cast of characters and illuminates the changing meaning of land and landowning to successive generations of rural African Americans. Those who remained fought to make their lives fully free—for themselves, for their neighbors, and for those who might someday return.

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Harvard University Press

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0674977890

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9780674977891

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Vol. I

By: Sydney Smith

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The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Vol. I

By: Sydney Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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382

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382320673

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9783382320676

The German Agent

By: J, Sydney Jones

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The German Agent

By: J, Sydney Jones

A ruthless German spy is torn between love and duty in this powerful espionage thriller February, 1917. A lone German agent is despatched to Washington to prevent the British delivering a telegram to President Woodrow Wilson – by any means possible. For this is the Zimmermann telegram: it contains a devastating piece of news which is sure to bring the USA into the war on the side of Britain and her allies. Having fought in the trenches himself, Max Volkman knows that America’s involvement will only prolong the slaughter of innocents and is implacable in his determination to kill the British envoy carrying the telegram. But when his pursuit of the Englishman leads him to the home of American heiress Catherine Fitzgerald, wife to one of Washington’s most powerful politicians, he is presented with a terrible choice: loyalty to his comrades in the trenches or the loss of the one woman he has ever truly loved. His decision will determine the outcome of the First World War.

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225

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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1780105908

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9781780105901

Muckraker

The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead, Britain's First Investigative Journalist

By: W. Sydney Robinson

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Muckraker

The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead, Britain's First Investigative Journalist

By: W. Sydney Robinson

A major work by a brilliant young biographer, Muckraker details the tenacity and verve of one of Victorian Britain's most compelling characters. Credited with pioneering investigative reporting, W. T. Stead made a career of 'muckraking': revealing horrific practices in the hope of shocking authorities into reform. As the editor of the Northern Echo, he won the admiration of the Liberal statesman William Gladstone for his fierce denunciation of the Conservative government; at the helm of London's most ininfuential evening paper, the Pall Mall Gazette, he launched the career-defining Maiden Tribute campaign. To expose the scandal of child prostitution, Stead abducted thirteen-year-old Eliza Armstrong (thought by many to be the inspiration behind Eliza Doolittle, from friend George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion), thrusting him into a life of notoriety. Labelled a madman in later life for dabbling in the occult, W. T. Stead conducted his life with an invincible zeal right up until his tragic demise aboard the Titanic. Revealing a man full of curious eccentricities, W. Sydney Robinson charts the remarkable rise and fall of a true Fleet Street legend in this enthralling biography.

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189

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Biteback Publishing

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1849543887

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9781849543880

Adventures with Authors

By: Sydney Castle Roberts

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Adventures with Authors

By: Sydney Castle Roberts

An insight into the notoriously delicate relationship between author and publisher.

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290

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Cambridge University Press

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ISBN 10

0521060982

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9780521060981

A Preface to James Joyce

Second Edition

By: Sydney Bolt

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A Preface to James Joyce

Second Edition

By: Sydney Bolt

This new edition includes material on Joyce's distinctive view of femininity and a greatly expanded treatment of Finnegan's Wake. The first section outlines the biographical and cultural background, the second offers a detailed critical survey of three major works, including Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and the third section provides valuable reference material.

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230

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Routledge

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1317874455

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9781317874454

Tigers of a Different Stripe

Performing Gender in Dominican Music

By: Sydney Hutchinson

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Tigers of a Different Stripe

Performing Gender in Dominican Music

By: Sydney Hutchinson

Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue típico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders—something nearly unheard of in the macho Caribbean music scene. Examining this cultural phenomenon, Sydney Hutchinson offers an unexpected and fascinating account of gender in Dominican art and life. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and New York among musicians, fans, and patrons of merengue típico—not to mention her own experiences as a female instrumentalist—Hutchinson details a complex nexus of class, race, and artistic tradition that unsettles the typical binary between the masculine and feminine. She sketches the portrait of the classic male figure of the tíguere, a dandified but sexually aggressive and street-smart “tiger,” and she shows how female musicians have developed a feminine counterpart: the tíguera, an assertive, sensual, and respected female figure who looks like a woman but often plays and even sings like a man. Through these musical figures and studies of both straight and queer performers, she unveils rich ambiguities in gender construction in the Dominican Republic and the long history of a unique form of Caribbean feminism.

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292

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University of Chicago Press

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022640563X

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9780226405636

Jailhouse Stories from Early Pacific County

By: Sydney Stevens

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Jailhouse Stories from Early Pacific County

By: Sydney Stevens

Hangings, lynchings and jail breaks are long forgotten in Pacific County, where tourists flock to quaint attractions every season. But back in the early days, when the first jailhouse was built, this was a rough, rustic setting. Popular cannery worker Lum You was hanged here in 1902--the only legal execution in county history. Industrious smugglers and creative entrepreneurs outwitted state-sanctioned prohibition measures, though some still did time in the jailhouse. Historian Sydney Stevens presents a collection of tales culled from a forgotten prison record book. Opium fiends, thieves, military deserters and even wayward girls jailed for incorrigible acts are brought out of the shadows of a wilderness long gone.

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208

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467135291

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9781467135290

No More Bad Decisions

By: Sydney Finkelstein

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No More Bad Decisions

By: Sydney Finkelstein

Business success stories may be instructive, but we need to know more about why smart people make bad decisions. Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School who has studied these crucial questions for 15 years, tells how decisions really get made and describes the four signals that can alert you when emotions are interfering with your thinking. Business bookshelves teem with success stories. Companies in search of excellence always go from good to great; Jack Welch tells how he made General Electric a winner; we learn the “seven secrets of intelligent people” and “the art of investing." Writers pay lip service to learning from mistakes, but, in practice, no one says much about failure. Yet, bad decisions pose some of the most interesting questions in business. Why did so many smart people invest with Bernie Madoff? As the housing bubble swelled, why did so many bankers keep doubling down on subprime mortgages? In the great meltdown, why did Ken Lewis, then CEO of Bank of America, overpay so wildly for Merrill Lynch? Why did Dick Fuld of Lehman Brothers refuse to sell his company until it was too late?

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Pearson Education

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0132479966

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9780132479967

Identity, Cause, and Mind

Philosophical Essays

By: Sydney Shoemaker

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Identity, Cause, and Mind

Philosophical Essays

By: Sydney Shoemaker

This is an expanded edition of Sydney Shoemaker's seminal collection of his work on interrelated issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Reproducing all of the original papers, many of which are now regarded as classics, and including four papers published since the first edition appeared in 1984, Identity, Cause, and Mind's reappearance will be warmly welcomed by philosophers and students alike.

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494

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Oxford University Press

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0199264708

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9780199264704

Book's by Sydney Lewis

A Mind to Stay

A Mind to Stay

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

The German Agent

The German Agent

Muckraker

Muckraker

Adventures with Authors

Adventures with Authors

A Preface to James Joyce

A Preface to James Joyce

Tigers of a Different Stripe

Tigers of a Different Stripe

Jailhouse Stories from Early Pacific County

Jailhouse Stories from Early Pacific County

No More Bad Decisions

No More Bad Decisions

Identity, Cause, and Mind

Identity, Cause, and Mind

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