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Faku

Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c. 1780-1867)

By: Timothy J. Stapleton

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Faku

Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c. 1780-1867)

By: Timothy J. Stapleton

From roughly 1815 to 1867, Faku was the ruler of the Mpondo kingdom, which was located in what is now the northeast section of the Eastern Cape of South Africa. In this biography of the African ruler, Stapleton (history, Trent U., Ontario) assesses Faku's role in state formation and his diplomatic skill in negotiating with the colonial powers of the British and the Boers. Stapleton concludes that Faku was one of the most effective rulers of a Xhosa-speaking population. The ruler's pragmatic approach, in a period of intruding alien beliefs and serious threats to his sovereignty, was one of the main reasons the Mpondo kingdom was the last African state in the sub-continent to come under colonial rule some 30 years after his death. c. Book News Inc.

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217

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889203458

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9780889203457

Tris Speaker

The Rough-And-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend

By: Timothy M. Gay

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Tris Speaker

The Rough-And-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend

By: Timothy M. Gay

A three-time World Series winner and an early inductee into the Hall of Fame, lauded by Babe Ruth as the finest defensive outfielder he ever saw and described as "perfection on the field" by the great Grantland Rice, Tris Speaker enjoys the peculiar distinction of being one of the least-known legends of baseball history. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend is the first book to tell the full story of Speaker's turbulent life and to document in sharp detail the grit and glory of his pivotal role in baseball's dead-ball era. Playing for the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians in the early part of the twentieth century, Tris "Spoke" Speaker put up numbers that amaze us even today: his record for career doubles--792--may never be approached, let alone broken. Tris Speaker explores the colorful life behind the statistics, introducing readers to a complex and contradictory Texan whose cowboy mentality never left him as he brawled his way through two decades in the big leagues. Speaker's career put him in the company of Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Honus Wagner, and in describing it Timothy M. Gay gives a rousing account of some of the best baseball ever played--and some of the darkest moments that ever tainted a game and hastened the end of a career. His four years of research on Speaker unearthed a document that suggests that cheating induced by gambling was far more widespread in early baseball than officials have acknowledged. Gay's book captures the bygone spirit of the big leagues' rough-and-tumble early years and restores one of baseball's true greats--and a truly larger-than-life personality--to his rightful place in the American sports pantheon.

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455

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496235401

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9781496235404

Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 3

By: Timothy Alborn

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Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 3

By: Timothy Alborn

By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.

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1472

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Routledge

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1351576496

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9781351576499

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Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 3

Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 3

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