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Conquests and Cultures

An International History

By: Thomas Sowell

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Conquests and Cultures

An International History

By: Thomas Sowell

This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of history, in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations. Focusing on four major cultural areas(that of the British, the Africans (including the African diaspora), the Slavs of Eastern Europe, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere -- Conquests and Cultures reveals patterns that encompass not only these peoples but others and help explain the role of cultural evolution in economic, social, and political development.

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1541601386

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The History of Printing in America

Vol. II

By: Isaiah Thomas

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The History of Printing in America

Vol. II

By: Isaiah Thomas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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3368836382

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Gifts from the Celestial Kingdom

A Shipwrecked Cargo for Gold Rush California

By: Thomas N. Layton

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Gifts from the Celestial Kingdom

A Shipwrecked Cargo for Gold Rush California

By: Thomas N. Layton

In 1850 a sailing vessel was wrecked on the California coast with a rich cargo of Chinese goods bound for the Gold Rush. This book uses the fate of the vessel for a dual purpose: to tell the story of the beginnings of direct commerce between China and California and to explore the potential of contextual archaeology by tracing the cargo back to its origins in China.

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292

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Stanford University Press

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0804746915

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9780804746915

General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

By: Thomas Holdup Stevens Hamersly

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General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

By: Thomas Holdup Stevens Hamersly

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385106958

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9783385106956

Reflections on My Life

in the Kingdom and the Academy

By: Thomas H. Olbricht

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Reflections on My Life

in the Kingdom and the Academy

By: Thomas H. Olbricht

Thomas H. Olbricht grew up in Churches of Christ, has taught in several of their universities, and has given religious lectures on six continents and in most states in the United States. He has met most leaders in Churches of Christ globally. He has been active in several religious and rhetoric societies and has worked with leaders in all these organizations to bring about changes over the past sixty years. C. Clifton Black and Duane F. Watson wrote about Olbricht, "Tom Olbricht possesses a memory of elephantine proportions. Not only does he have at his fingertips the names and places and dates; better than most he understands how the study of rhetoric has flourished among, while cross-pollinating, multiple disciplines in the humanities, classics, English, speech communication, and religion.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608994856

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9781608994854

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 20

1 July 1823 to 31 March 1824

By: Thomas Jefferson

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 20

1 July 1823 to 31 March 1824

By: Thomas Jefferson

A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson During the period covered by the 575 documents in this volume, Jefferson advises President James Monroe on what later becomes known as the “Monroe Doctrine.” He also approves of the Greek independence movement in correspondence with the scholar and political leader Adamantios Coray. Jefferson says that the “most dangerous blot” on the U.S. Constitution is the provision under which a vote by the states in the House of Representatives decides elections not settled by the Electoral College. With his allies in Virginia’s General Assembly, he succeeds in converting the University of Virginia’s loans from the state Literary Fund into an outright grant and obtains an additional $50,000 for books and scientific instruments. He seeks advice on regulating and equipping the institution, helps to obtain its architectural capitals, and designs its gymnasia. Jefferson describes coffee as “the favorite beverage of the civilised world” and advises a namesake child to “Adore God. reverence and cherish your parents. love your neighbor as yourself; and your country more than life. be just. be true. murmur not at the ways of Providence, and the life into which you have entered will be the passage to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.”

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Princeton University Press

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0691255202

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9780691255200

Essays on Literature

By: Thomas Carlyle,Fleming McClelland,Brent E. Kinser,Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche

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Essays on Literature

By: Thomas Carlyle,Fleming McClelland,Brent E. Kinser,Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche

Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. Spanning his writing career, the essays allow the reader to track Carlyle's development as a reviewer and stylist, the evolution of his perennial themes, and the tremendous impact of his writing on the development of British and American literature. In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the many editions of each essay.

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880

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University of California Press

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0520339843

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9780520339842

Saint John

The Making of a Colonial Urban Community

By: Thomas W. Acheson

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Saint John

The Making of a Colonial Urban Community

By: Thomas W. Acheson

Saint John, New Brunswick, was a small, stagnant mercantile town in 1800. Its character was set by its British garrison, a few prominent Loyalist officials, and a small merchant elite. But that character changed quickly and dramatically in the first half of the nineteenth century. T.W. Acheson traces the events that lead to the change and analyses their impact on the community.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442655097

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In the Shadow of the Pulpit

Literature and Nonconformist Wales

By: M. Wynn Thomas

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In the Shadow of the Pulpit

Literature and Nonconformist Wales

By: M. Wynn Thomas

Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.

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University of Wales Press

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0708323421

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9780708323427

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Conquests and Cultures

Conquests and Cultures

The History of Printing in America

The History of Printing in America

Gifts from the Celestial Kingdom

Gifts from the Celestial Kingdom

General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

Reflections on My Life

Reflections on My Life

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 20

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 20

Essays on Literature

Essays on Literature

Saint John

Saint John

In the Shadow of the Pulpit

In the Shadow of the Pulpit

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