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Mattasqwatt Island

By: Thomas Temple Allan

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When the modern members of the Mattasqwatt tribe are approached with a proposal to reclaim their lost land, tribal leader Ronnie Bates cannot resist the possibility. To fulfill the dream, however, he will have to deal with an unscrupulous contractor, a mystery owner, an ambitious attorney, a possibly criminal senator, a former police detective, and his own daughter.

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294

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Vantage Press, Inc

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0533152771

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9780533152773

First Fruits of Freedom

The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900

By: Janette Thomas Greenwood

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First Fruits of Freedom

The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900

By: Janette Thomas Greenwood

A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War. Janette Thomas Greenwood relates the history of a network forged between Worcester County, Massachusetts, and eastern North Carolina as a result of Worcester regiments taking control of northeastern North Carolina during the war. White soldiers from Worcester, a hotbed of abolitionism, protected refugee slaves, set up schools for them, and led them north at war's end. White patrons and a supportive black community helped many migrants fulfill their aspirations for complete emancipation and facilitated the arrival of additional family members and friends. Migrants established a small black community in Worcester with a distinctive southern flavor. But even in the North, white sympathy did not continue after the Civil War. Despite their many efforts, black Worcesterites were generally disappointed in their hopes for full-fledged citizenship, reflecting the larger national trajectory of Reconstruction and its aftermath.

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256

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807895784

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9780807895788

Melancholia of Freedom

Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa

By: Thomas Blom Hansen

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Melancholia of Freedom

Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa

By: Thomas Blom Hansen

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state.

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373

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Princeton University Press

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1400842611

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9781400842612

Church and Estate

Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia

By: Thomas F. Rzeznik

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Church and Estate

Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia

By: Thomas F. Rzeznik

In Church and Estate, Thomas Rzeznik examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s. The book demonstrates how their religious beliefs informed their actions and shaped their class identity, while simultaneously revealing the ways in which financial influences shaped the character of American religious life. In tracing those connections, it shows how religion and wealth shared a fruitful, yet ultimately tenuous, relationship.

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302

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Penn State Press

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0271061073

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9780271061078

Musicals in Film

A Guide to the Genre

By: Thomas S. Hischak

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Musicals in Film

A Guide to the Genre

By: Thomas S. Hischak

This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this uniquely American art form—and discover films they'll love. This comprehensive guide covers movie musicals from their introduction with the 1927 film The Jazz Singer through 2015 releases. In all, it describes 125 movies, opening up the world of this popular form of entertainment to preteens, teens, and adults alike. An introduction explains the advent of movie musicals; then, in keeping with the book's historical approach, films are presented by decade and year with overviews of advances during particular periods. In this way, the reader not only learns about individual films but can see the big picture of how movie musicals developed and changed over time. For each film covered, the guide offers basic facts—studio, director, songwriters, actors, etc.—as well as a brief plot synopsis. Each entry also offers an explanation of why the movie is noteworthy, how popular it was or wasn't, and the influence the film might have had on later musicals. Sidebars offering brief biographies of important artists appear throughout the book.

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365

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216120674

Miracle Of The Desert

By: Thomas H. Williams

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Miracle Of The Desert

By: Thomas H. Williams

The Thomas Ward is like a small stream in the mountains, that emerges from a tiny spring and trickles on down the hillside to join the creek on its way to the river. No attempt has been made to get all the information, about all the people who live, or have lived, within its boundaries. Neither is the material collected, considered to be the most important or free from errors. This book is just "a cup of water" dipped from the little stream, as it journeys on its way, no attempt is made to dip up all the water or stop its flow. It is hoped, that like the cup of cool water from the tiny stream, this book will refresh the reader, and the stream of time flows on. To those pioneers, both young and old who had the courage to combine all the natural resources which the creator so wisely stored in these mountains, rivers and valleys along with the brawn and brain that He gave man. The Miracle of the Desert came to be.

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704

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462873693

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9781462873692

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time

By: Thomas Kent Miller

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The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time

By: Thomas Kent Miller

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time is an unconventional and breath-taking tour de force that flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres. The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal pages from across two millennia, much of it held together by the pithy comments (in the form of short notations on the edges of a quarter-century-old yellowed journal) of a certain elderly beekeeper residing in Sussex, England. While comparatively few, these notes are nonetheless the essential marble skeleton on which the whole denouement and structure of the book hangs. In a sense, much of the book comprises a straightforward objective record of the excavation of "historical" minutiae and “forgotten” manuscripts. But then those mildewed scraps of parchment, paper, and scrolls are assembled into something far greater than the sum of their parts. The objective reportage plus the finished assemblage comprises the novel.

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259

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787051641

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9781787051645

The Hein and Fischer Families of Oberstedten, Germany, and Indiana, USA: Volume 3

By: Thomas Hein

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The Hein and Fischer Families of Oberstedten, Germany, and Indiana, USA: Volume 3

By: Thomas Hein

The history and descendants of the Hein and Fischer families of Oberstedten, Germany who immigrated to Clark and Washington Counties Indiana in 1853. Includes the Blackman, Dodge, and Conway families. Volume 1 of 3. See www.TomHeinFamily.com for more information.

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597

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Legacy Books

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1733459286

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9781733459280

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Mattasqwatt Island

Mattasqwatt Island

First Fruits of Freedom

First Fruits of Freedom

Melancholia of Freedom

Melancholia of Freedom

Church and Estate

Church and Estate

Musicals in Film

Musicals in Film

Miracle Of The Desert

Miracle Of The Desert

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time

The Hein and Fischer Families of Oberstedten, Germany, and Indiana, USA: Volume 3

The Hein and Fischer Families of Oberstedten, Germany, and Indiana, USA: Volume 3

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