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Banal Security

Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses

By: Timothy Gitzen

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Banal Security

Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses

By: Timothy Gitzen

The decades-long fear of South Korean national destruction has routinized national security and the sense of threat. In present day South Korea, national security includes not only war and the military, but national unity, public health, and the family. As a result, queer Koreans have become a target as their bodies are thought to harbor deadly viruses and are thus seen as carriers of diseases. The prevailing narrative already sees being queer as a threat to traditional family and marriage. By claiming that queer Koreans disrupt military readiness and unit cohesion, that threat is extended to the entire population. Queer Koreans are enveloped by the banality of security, treated as threats, while also being overlooked as part of the nation. What does it mean to be perceived as a national threat simply based on who you would like to sleep with? In their desire to be seen as citizens who support the safety and security of the nation, queer Koreans placate a patriarchal and national authority that is responsible for their continued marginalization. At the same time, they are also creating spaces to protect themselves from the security measures and technologies directed against them. Taking readers from police stations and the galleries of the Constitutional Court to queer activist offices and pride festivals, Banal Security explores how queer Koreans participate in their own securitization, demonstrates how security weaves through daily life in ways that oppress queer Koreans, and highlights the work of queer activists to address that oppression. In doing so, queer Koreans challenge not only the contours of national security in South Korea, but global entanglements of security.

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Helsinki University Press

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9523690833

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Screw the Valley

A Coast-to-Coast Tour of America's New Tech Startup Culture: New York, Boulder, Austin, Raleigh, Detroit, Las Vegas, Kansas City

By: Timothy Sprinkle

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Screw the Valley

A Coast-to-Coast Tour of America's New Tech Startup Culture: New York, Boulder, Austin, Raleigh, Detroit, Las Vegas, Kansas City

By: Timothy Sprinkle

The most exciting high-tech startups are escaping the expensive and inbred environment of Silicon Valley. Welcome to the future. Entrepreneurs know they must embrace innovation to excel—starting with where they locate their new venture. Fortunately, budding companies seeking fertile ground have more options today than ever before. Screw the Valley calls on today's entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners to forget California and explore other options across the country—cities that offer more room to breathe, easier access to funding and talented workers, fewer heads to butt, and less money down the drain. Timothy Sprinkle visits seven areas that offer a superior landscape for tech startups: Detroit New York City Las Vegas Austin Kansas City Raleigh-Durham Boulder Sprinkle gives readers a window into the startup potential in each city, detailing which industries are thriving where, and highlighting the unique appeal and character of each location. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.

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BenBella Books, Inc.

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1940363543

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Islamic Spectrum in Java

By: Timothy Daniels

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Islamic Spectrum in Java

By: Timothy Daniels

This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. It engages with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and globalization from various perspectives through analyzing a diverse range of cultural forms, including government or palace-based celebrations, ceremonies and rituals, modern student theatre, and Islamic revival sessions. With its discussion of both old and new Islamic movements, alongside the contested religious interpretations of public cultural events, this book will be of interest not only to anthropologists, but also to scholars of religion, culture and sociology.

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Routledge

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1317112180

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Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns

By: Timothy Slonosky

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Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns

By: Timothy Slonosky

Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns demonstrates the crucial role of Scotland's townspeople in the dramatic Protestant Reformation of 1560. It shows that Scottish Protestants were much more successful than their counterparts in France and the Netherlands at introducing religious change because they had the acquiescence of urban populations. As town councils controlled critical aspects of civic religion, their explicit cooperation was vital to ensuring that the reforms introduced at the national level by the military and political victory of the Protestants were actually implemented. Focusing on the towns of Dundee, Stirling and Haddington, this book argues that the councillors and inhabitants gave this support because successive crises of plague, war and economic collapse shook their faith in the existing Catholic order and left them fearful of further conflict. As a result, the Protestants faced little popular opposition, and Scotland avoided the popular religious violence and division which occurred elsewhere in Europe.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1399510258

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The Forest City Lynching of 1900

Populism, Racism, and White Supremacy in Rutherford County, North Carolina

By: J. Timothy Cole

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The Forest City Lynching of 1900

Populism, Racism, and White Supremacy in Rutherford County, North Carolina

By: J. Timothy Cole

Politics in Rutherford County were heated a century ago: the developing textile industry, the growing population, an agricultural crisis and race relations inflamed everyone. Mills Higgins Flack, a leader of the Farmers' Alliance and the county's first Populist in the state House, was allegedly murdered on August 28, 1900, by Avery Mills, an African American. This book documents the murder and the lynching of Avery Mills. The author (Flack's great-great-grandson) considers the phenomena of racial lynching, the Populist movement in the county, the white supremacy movement of the state's Democratic party and the county's KKK activities.

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McFarland

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0786480408

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Screw the Valley: Raleigh-Durham Edition

By: Timothy Sprinkle

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Screw the Valley: Raleigh-Durham Edition

By: Timothy Sprinkle

It's time to put the Valley in your rearview mirror. Destination: New Startup America. Next stop: Raleigh-Durham. In this companion eBook to Screw the Valley, Timothy Sprinkle highlights Raleigh-Durham, one of seven areas that offers superior landscapes for tech startups. With brand new, city-specific content, an excerpt from Screw the Valley, and a compilation of the dynamic assets and support available to local startup founders and tech advocates, Screw the Valley: Raleigh-Durham Edition gives readers a glimpse into the startup potential of the "Research Triangle" and the unique resources it has to offer. Bright ideas are not geographically limited, and innovation is happening every day in cities all over the country. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to startup location. It's time to say Screw the Valley.

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1941631908

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The School of Arizona Dranes

Gospel Music Pioneer

By: Timothy Dodge

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The School of Arizona Dranes

Gospel Music Pioneer

By: Timothy Dodge

Arizona Dranes (1889-1963) was a true musical innovator whose recordings made for the Okeh label during the years 1926-1928 helped lay the foundations for what would soon be known as gospel music. Her unique blend of ragtime, barrelhouse, and boogie woogie piano plus her exciting and emotional Pentecostal style of singing influenced the development of gospel music for the next forty years and beyond. The School of Arizona Dranes: Gospel Music Pioneer covers the life and career of Dranes and situates her accomplishments in the broader history of African American gospel music and the rise of the Pentecostal movement. Starting with the earliest recordings of the music in the late nineteenth century, this book provides a history of African American sacred and gospel music that convincingly demonstrates the revolutionary nature of Dranes’s musical accomplishment. Using specific examples, the author traces the far-reaching influence of Arizona Dranes on African American gospel piano playing and singing.

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Lexington Books

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0739167138

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The Empire of Cnut the Great

Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century

By: Timothy Bolton

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The Empire of Cnut the Great

Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century

By: Timothy Bolton

Drawing on a wide range of types of evidence this book offers a fresh impression of the a ~empirea (TM) built by King Cnut (1016a "1035) in England and Scandinavia, and offers insights into contemporary developments in the conceptions of this new dominion.

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BRILL

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900416670X

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Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols,Timothy R. Robbins Ph.D.

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Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols,Timothy R. Robbins Ph.D.

This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent times, Latin American influences have permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and literature. This sweeping volume serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, focusing on Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, among other areas. The work encourages hands-on engagement with the popular culture in these places, making such suggestions as Brazilian films to rent or where to find Venezuelan music on the Internet. To start, the book covers various perspectives and issues of these regions, including the influence of the United States, how the idea of machismo reflects on the portrayal of women in these societies, and the representation of Latino-Caribo cultures in film and other mediums. Entries cover key trends, people, events, and products from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Each section gives detailed information and profound insights into some of the more academic—and often controversial—debates on the subject, while the inclusion of the Internet, social media, and video games make the book timely and relevant.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Mulatto

By: Randy R.,Timothy Durham

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Mulatto

By: Randy R.,Timothy Durham

This is a story about the struggles of a strong, resilient biracial woman during the prohibition era in the 1920s. We share in her arduous journey as she aims to navigate through a time when greed, power, murder, and romance were highly prevalent in the streets of Harlem. I would like to thank you for letting me share in This Womans life that is fictional but seems non-fictional to me it comes to me like shes trying to tell me something I do not have any proof that this woman even existed but it comes to me like a ghost in the night 25 years ago Im finally putting it into words to share with you please join me in this ongoing saga of a woman that went through a lot of adversity but somehow overcame because of the strength that lies inside her. - Randy R.

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The Sounds of Capitalism

Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture

By: Timothy D. Taylor

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The Sounds of Capitalism

Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture

By: Timothy D. Taylor

Here, Timothy D. Taylor tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows like 'The Clicquot Club Eskimons' to the rise of the jingle, from the postwar growth of consumerism, to the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226791157

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Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France

Walking by Night

By: Timothy Chesters

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Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France

Walking by Night

By: Timothy Chesters

Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550-1610) was one of the most haunted in European history. Although existing studies of this climate have been attentive to the extensive body of writing on witchcraft and demons, they have had little to say of its ghosts. Combining techniques of literary criticism, intellectual history, and the history of the book, this study examines a large and hitherto unexplored corpus of ghost stories in late Renaissance French writing. These are shown to have arisen in a range of contexts far broader than was previously thought: whether in Protestant polemic against the doctrine of purgatory, humanist discussions of friendship, the growing ethnographic consciousness of New World ghost beliefs, or courtroom wrangles over haunted property. Chesters describes how, over the course of this period, we also begin to see emerge characteristics recognisable from modern ghost tales: the setting of the 'haunted house', the eroticised ghost, or the embodied revenant. Taking in prominent literary figures including Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, d'Aubigné, as well as forgotten demonological tracts and sensationalist pamphlets, Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France sheds new light on the beliefs, fears, and desires of a period on the threshold of modernity. It will be of interest to any scholar or student working in the field of early modern European history, literature or thought.

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OUP Oxford

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0191616702

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9780191616709

Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord

Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655

By: Timothy L. Wood

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Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord

Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655

By: Timothy L. Wood

This book explores the authorities of Puritan Massachusetts balanced concern for the stability of the colony and the integrity of its Puritan mission with the hopes of reconciling dissidents back into the colonial community.

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Routledge

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1135513082

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100 Years on the Road

The Traveling Salesman in American Culture

By: Timothy B. Spears

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100 Years on the Road

The Traveling Salesman in American Culture

By: Timothy B. Spears

Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.

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Yale University Press

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0300070667

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9780300070668

Radio Free Dixie

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

By: Timothy B. Tyson

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Radio Free Dixie

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

By: Timothy B. Tyson

This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers used machine guns, dynamite, and Molotov cocktails to confront Klan terrorists. Advocating "armed self-reliance" by blacks, Williams challenged not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights establishment. Forced to flee during the 1960s to Cuba--where he broadcast "Radio Free Dixie," a program of black politics and music that could be heard as far away as Los Angeles and New York City--and then China, Williams remained a controversial figure for the rest of his life. Historians have customarily portrayed the civil rights movement as a nonviolent call on America's conscience--and the subsequent rise of Black Power as a violent repudiation of the civil rights dream. But Radio Free Dixie reveals that both movements grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and reflected the same quest for African American freedom. As Robert Williams's story demonstrates, independent black political action, black cultural pride, and armed self-reliance operated in the South in tension and in tandem with legal efforts and nonviolent protest.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807899011

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9780807899014

Green County

By: Joseph Y. DeSpain,John R. Burch Jr.,Timothy Q. Hooper

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Green County

By: Joseph Y. DeSpain,John R. Burch Jr.,Timothy Q. Hooper

Green County was founded on December 20, 1792, out of portions of Lincoln and Nelson Counties. Named after Revolutionary War hero Gen. Nathanael Greene, it was the 16th county formed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Established by a legislative act in 1794, Greensburg became the county seat and the economic hub of Green County. Although the county has experienced boom periods with the iron industry and oil exploration and development, those periods have unfortunately proven unsustainable. Yet, the county has shown resilience in overcoming challenges. The continuing strength of Green County's agricultural base combined with the growth of small businesses in Green County, particularly in Greensburg, signal a resurgence in the economic activity within the county's borders.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738590916

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Lord of the North

By: Timothy LaPlant

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Lord of the North

By: Timothy LaPlant

Lord of the North By: Timothy LaPlant Set in the time of the Norman conquest of Great Britain, Lord of the North is a story of self-determination and redemption. It follows Wilfred, an orphan bastard saved from the gallows by William, Duke of Normandy in 1054. Years at William’s side, transforms Wilfred into a professional soldier who is fiercely loyal to William’s cause and bonded in friendship to his lord. He is tasked with securing and protecting the Northern District of Great Britain. While in New Castle, he meets and falls in love Lady Anne McCallester, finding family and happiness just as he must battle a formidable invading enemy. This is a story of the transformation of a man who rises from murderous mercenary to loving father and friend fighting to protect his home and lands.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1649571089

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9781649571083

Cnut the Great

By: Timothy Bolton

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Cnut the Great

By: Timothy Bolton

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon kings: Cnut, the powerful Danish warlord who conquered England and created a North Sea empire in the eleventh century. This seminal biography draws from a wealth of written and archaeological sources to provide the most detailed accounting to date of the life and accomplishments of a remarkable figure in European history, a forward-thinking warrior-turned-statesman who created a new Anglo-Danish regime through designed internationalism.

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Yale University Press

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0300208332

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9780300208337

James Z. George

Mississippi’s Great Commoner

By: Timothy B. Smith

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James Z. George

Mississippi’s Great Commoner

By: Timothy B. Smith

“When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the ‘Great Commoner’ of public life in his state," wrote Mississippi’s premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, “he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George.” While George’s prominence, along with his white supremacist views, have decreased through the decades since then, many modern historians still view him as a supremely important Mississippian, with one writing that George (1826–1897) was “Mississippi's most important Democratic leader in the late nineteenth century.” Certainly, the Mexican War veteran, prominent lawyer and planter, Civil War officer, Reconstruction leader, state Supreme Court chief justice, and Mississippi’s longest-serving United States senator to that time deserves a full biography. And George’s importance was greater than just on the state level as other southerners copied his tactics to secure white supremacy in their own states. That James Z. George has never had a full, academic biography is inexplicable. James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner seeks to rectify the lack of attention to George’s life. In doing so, this volume utilizes numerous sources, never or only slightly used, primarily a large collection of George’s letters held by his descendants and never used by historians. Such wonderful sources allow a glimpse not only into the life and times of James Z. George, but perhaps more importantly an exploration of the man himself, his traits, personality, and ideas. The result is a picture of an extremely commonplace individual on the surface, but an exceptionally complicated man underneath. James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner will bring this important Mississippi leader of the nineteenth century back into the minds of twenty-first-century Mississippians.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1626742375

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Campbellsville

By: Joseph Y. DeSpain,John R. Burch, Jr.,Timothy Q. Hooper

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Campbellsville

By: Joseph Y. DeSpain,John R. Burch, Jr.,Timothy Q. Hooper

Taylor County became the 100th county in the commonwealth of Kentucky when it was created on March 1, 1848. The county was named after Zachary Taylor, who gained fame as a general in the Mexican War and eventually became president of the United States. The town of Campbellsville, founded in 1817, was selected to serve as the county's seat of government. Throughout its history, the growth of Campbellsville and Taylor County has been marked by both boom periods and years of severe trials and tribulations. Despite the difficulties faced by the residents of Taylor County, its citizens have always shown admirable grit and determination in improving the circumstances of their families and community. Today the county features a diversified economic base that serves a population of 24,069. Of that number, 11,010 reside within Campbellsville's borders.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738586560

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Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages

Essays Presented to Karl Leyser

By: Timothy Reuter

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Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages

Essays Presented to Karl Leyser

By: Timothy Reuter

While Karl Leyser was pre-eminent in the English-speaking world as the historian of medieval Germany, his work has increased our understanding of European society as a whole. In particular, he brought to life nobles and ecclesiastics, by combining a profound knowledge of the primary sources with an imaginative ability to understand motives and attitudes. Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages brings together essays by Karl Leyser's pupils, many of them distinguished historians in their own right, on subjects which he himself illuminated.

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A&C Black

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0826426751

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9780826426758

Controversies in the Management of STEMI, An Issue of the Interventional Cardiology Clinics

By: Timothy D. Henry

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Controversies in the Management of STEMI, An Issue of the Interventional Cardiology Clinics

By: Timothy D. Henry

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Timothy Henry, will cover controversies in the management of STEMI. Topics discussed in this issue include: Systems of care; false positive activation; time to treatment; in hospital STEMI; optimal antiplatelet; advanced cardiogenic shock; out of hospital cardiac arrest; and global challenges, among other topics.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323463185

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Science Interrupted

Rethinking Research Practice with Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, and Ethnography

By: Timothy G. McLellan

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Science Interrupted

Rethinking Research Practice with Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, and Ethnography

By: Timothy G. McLellan

Science Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracy—work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to the informal and interpersonal channels through which bureaucracy is often navigated. Homing in on an agroforestry research organization in southwest China, the author takes the experiences of the organization's staff in navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state institutions as entry points for understanding the pervasiveness of bureaucracy in contemporary science. He asks: What if we take the tools, sensibilities, and practices of bureaucracies seriously not only as objects of critique but as resources for re-thinking scientific practice? Extending a mode of anthropological research in which ethnography serves as source of theory as well as source of data, Science Interrupted thinks with, and not only against, bureaucracy. McLellan shows that ethnographic engagement with bureaucracy enables us to imagine more democratic and more collaborative modes of scientific practice.

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Cornell University Press

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1501773348

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The Elusive Quest of the Spiritual Malcontent

Some Early Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Mavericks

By: Timothy C. F. Stunt

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The Elusive Quest of the Spiritual Malcontent

Some Early Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Mavericks

By: Timothy C. F. Stunt

Timothy C. F. Stunt has gathered a range of his essays, both published and unpublished in a collection of largely biographical studies. His subjects range from discontented Quakers hesitating over their identity, to respectable Anglicans who were fascinated with the charismatic phenomena of tongue speaking and healing. Some of the characters with whom he is concerned can be described as "mavericks" on account of their strikingly individualist inclinations. Occasionally their unpredictability takes on a quasi-comic identity, which could even qualify them to be described as "loose cannons." On the other hand, some of them like Edward Irving, Norris Groves, and John Darby played a crucial part in the development of nineteenth-century evangelicalism. In their quest for the ideal church of their dreams, they were often disappointed but one cannot but admire the single-mindedness of their quest.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498209327

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9781498209328

Youth Violence Prevention

A Sourcebook for Community Action

By: Timothy N. Thornton

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Youth Violence Prevention

A Sourcebook for Community Action

By: Timothy N. Thornton

This important book deals with the problem of youth violence by attacking it at the grass-roots level -- the community.

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Nova Publishers

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159454705X

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Describing Cinema

By: Timothy Corrigan

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Describing Cinema

By: Timothy Corrigan

Written by award-winning author Timothy Corrigan, Describing Cinema is an argument for the creative energies of writing in general and for the revelatory intersection of personal experience and film analysis. Describing Cinema demonstrates the pleasures and energies of precise discussions and detailed writing about the films that move us.

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Oxford University Press

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0197625363

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9780197625361

Anesthetic Care for Abdominal Surgery, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

By: Timothy Miller

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Anesthetic Care for Abdominal Surgery, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics

By: Timothy Miller

Because anesthesia and surgery affect every system in the body, there are many different forms of anesthesia. This issue will cover the risks to recovery of 6 major specialty areas in abdominal surgery, as well as major open and laparoscopic abdominal surgery.

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0323356729

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Making the Green Revolution

Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia

By: Timothy W. Lorek

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Making the Green Revolution

Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia

By: Timothy W. Lorek

In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As an important research center of the so-called Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, CIAT emphasizes its contributions to sustainability, food security, gender equity, inclusive markets, and resilient, climate-smart agriculture. Yet these terms hardly describe the Cauca Valley where CIAT is physically located, a place that has been transformed into an industrial monoculture of sugarcane where thirteen Colombian corporations oversee the vast majority of this valley's famously fertile soil. This exemplifies the paradox Timothy W. Lorek describes in Making the Green Revolution: an international research center emphasizing small-scale and sustainable agricultural systems sited conspicuously on a landscape otherwise dominated by a large-scale corporate sugarcane industry. Utilizing archives in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the United States, Lorek tracks the paradoxical but intertwined twentieth-century processes that produced both CIAT and sugar in the Cauca Valley. This history reveals how Colombians contributed to the rise of a global Green Revolution and how that international process in turn intersected with a complex and long-running rural conflict in Colombia.

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1469673835

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Moral Atmospheres

Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace

By: Timothy P. A. Cooper

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Moral Atmospheres

Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace

By: Timothy P. A. Cooper

Lahore’s Hall Road is the largest electronics market in Pakistan. Once the center of film and media piracy in South Asia, it now specializes in smartphones and accessories. For Hall Road’s traders, conflicts between the economic promises and the moral dangers of film loom large. To reconcile their secular trade with their responsibilities as devoted Muslims, they often look to adjudicate the good or bad moral “atmosphere” (mahaul) that can cling to film and media. Timothy P. A. Cooper examines the diverse and coexisting moral atmospheres that surround media in Pakistan, tracing public understandings of ethical life and showing how they influence economic behavior. Drawing on extensive ethnographic work among traders, consumers, collectors, archivists, cinephiles, and cinephobes, Moral Atmospheres explores varied views on what the relationship between film and faith should look, sound, and feel like for Pakistan’s Muslim-majority public. Cooper considers the preservation and censorship of film in and outside of the state bureaucracy, contestations surrounding heritage and urban infrastructure, and the production and circulation of sound and video recordings among the country’s religious minorities. He argues that a focus on atmosphere provides ways of seeing moral thresholds as mutable and affective, rather than as fixed ethical standpoints. At once a vivid ethnography of a market street and a generative theorization of atmosphere, this book offers fresh perspectives on moral experience and the relationship between religion and media.

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0231558406

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After the Dream

Black and White Southerners since 1965

By: Timothy J. Minchin,John A. Salmond

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After the Dream

Black and White Southerners since 1965

By: Timothy J. Minchin,John A. Salmond

Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech, King declared that segregation was "on its deathbed" and that the movement had already achieved significant milestones. Although the civil rights movement had won many battles in the struggle for racial equality by the mid-1960s, including legislation to guarantee black voting rights and to desegregate public accommodations, the fight to implement the new laws was just starting. In reality, King's speech in Montgomery represented a new beginning rather than a conclusion to the movement, a fact that King acknowledged in the address. After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965 begins where many histories of the civil rights movement end, with King's triumphant march from the iconic battleground of Selma to Montgomery. Timothy J. Minchin and John Salmond focus on events in the South following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. After the Dream examines the social, economic, and political implications of these laws in the decades following their passage, discussing the empowerment of black southerners, white resistance, accommodation and acceptance, and the nation's political will. The book also provides a fascinating history of the often-overlooked period of race relations during the presidential administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, and both George H. W. and George W. Bush. Ending with the election of President Barack Obama, this study will influence contemporary historiography on the civil rights movement.

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0813139996

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Radio Free Dixie, Second Edition

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

By: Timothy B. Tyson

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Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

By: Timothy B. Tyson

This classic book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, Williams, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, and his followers used machine guns, dynamite, and Molotov cocktails to confront Klan terrorists. Advocating "armed self-reliance," Williams challenged not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights establishment. Forced to flee during the 1960s to Cuba--where he broadcast "Radio Free Dixie," a program of black politics and music that could be heard as far away as Los Angeles and New York City--and then to China, Williams remained a controversial figure for the rest of his life. Radio Free Dixie reveals that nonviolent civil rights protest and armed resistance movements grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and reflected the same quest for African American freedom. As Robert Williams's story demonstrates, independent black political action, black cultural pride, and armed self-reliance operated in the South in tension and in tandem with legal efforts and nonviolent protest.

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1469652048

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Marginalized Voices

A History of the Charismatic Movement in the Orthodox Church in North America 1972-1993

By: Timothy B. Cremeens

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Marginalized Voices

A History of the Charismatic Movement in the Orthodox Church in North America 1972-1993

By: Timothy B. Cremeens

The Orthodox Church has been characterized by some as “the best-kept secret in North America.” Making use of personal interviews and correspondence, magazine and news articles, and other publications, Timothy Cremeens weaves the story of a spiritual renewal movement that began in the United States in the early 1960s and rapidly spread around the globe touching millions of Roman Catholics and Protestants, what is today called the Charismatic Renewal Movement. In 2017, this Movement, celebrated its 50th Jubilee anniversary in the Roman Catholic Church. However, Cremeens presents here the never-before heard story of that Movement among the Orthodox Churches in North America. He recounts the history of this spiritual renewal movement through the first-hand accounts and eyewitnesses of Orthodox clergy and laity who testify to their life-changing encounters with the Holy Spirit.

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1532617089

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Carson's army

The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910–22

By: Timothy Bowman

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Carson's army

The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910–22

By: Timothy Bowman

The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was established in January 1913, as a militant expression of Ulster Unionist opposition to the Third Home Rule Bill. Academic historians have tended to overlook Ulster Loyalism. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the UVF in this period, considering in detail the composition of the officer corps, the marked regional recruiting differences, the ideologies involved, the arming and equipping of the UVF and the contingency plans made by UVF Headquarters in the event of Home Rule being imposed on Ulster. Using previously neglected sources, it demonstrates that the UVF was better armed and less well-trained, with the involvement of fewer British army officers than previous historians have allowed, and suggests that the UVF was quite capable of seizing control of Ulster and installing the Ulster Provisional Government in the event of Home Rule being implemented in 1914. This book will be essential reading for military and Irish historians and their students, and will interest any general reader interested in modern paramilitary forces.

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Manchester University Press

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1526129566

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Ruthless Democracy

A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance

By: Timothy B. Powell

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Ruthless Democracy

A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance

By: Timothy B. Powell

In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. Taking his title from Melville, Powell identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism. Powell challenges existing perceptions of the American Renaissance--the period at the heart of the American canon and its evolutions--by expanding the parameters of American identity. Drawing on the critical traditions of cultural studies and new historicism, Powell invents a new critical paradigm called "historical multiculturalism." Moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric of the culture wars, Powell grounds his multicultural conception of American identity in careful historical analysis. Ruthless Democracy extends the cultural and geographical boundaries of the American Renaissance beyond the northeast to Indian Territory, Alta California, and the transnational sphere that Powell calls the American Diaspora. Arguing for the inclusion of new works, Powell envisions the canon of the American Renaissance as a fluid dialogue of disparate cultural voices.

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0691227772

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