Collaboration was an important area of study in writing for many years, but interest faded as scholars began to assume that those working within writing studies already “got it.” In Beyond Conversation, William Duffy revives the topic and connects it to the growing interest in collaboration within digital and materialist rhetoric to demonstrate that not only do the theory, pedagogy, and practice of collaboration need more study but there is also much to be learned from the doing of collaboration. While interrogating the institutional politics that circulate around debates about collaboration, this book offers a concise history of collaborative writing theory while proposing a new set of commonplaces for understanding the labor of coauthorship. Specifically, Beyond Conversation outlines an interactionist theory that explains collaboration as the rhetorical capacity that manifests in the discursive engagements coauthors enter into with the objects of their writing. Drawing on new materialist philosophies, post-qualitative inquiry, and interactionist rhetorical theory, Beyond Conversation challenges writing and literacy educators to recognize the pedagogical benefits of collaborative writing in the work they do both as writers and as teachers of writing. The book will reinvigorate how teachers, scholars, and administrators advocate for the importance of collaborative writing in their work.
America's evolution during the mid-19th century just prior to the Civil War was amazing. The six-fold increase in population from 1800 to 1860 was fueled by an influx of immigrants into the North and Northcentral, and the 800,000 immigrants into the North between 1861-65 alone filled the Union armies. This population explosion coincided with a dramatic territorial expansion. From 1845-48, the United States grew by over 1,200,000 square miles, a 67% increase. As a result, in the 31-year period from 1836 to 1867, 13 states joined the Union - about 1 every 2.4 years. The states carved from this new territory and populated largely by immigrants would not be conducive to plantation slavery, and the balance between free and slave states would shift rapidly and irreversibly against the South. Of the many causes of the Vivil War slavery was the decisive issue. In the ten years before the war, the slave population in the South increased by 135% and the value of the stock of slaves increased by 25% to almost $4,000,000. To prevent the imminent domination of the country by anti-slave interests, eleven states attempted to withdraw from the Union and form a separate Confederacy to protect their investment in slavery and preserve their 'white supremacy' way of life. Lincoln adamantly opposed their secession, believing that it would end the unique American experiment in self-governance. The resulting four-year war produced over 1,100,000 American casualties, more than the cumulative total of all U.S. wars before and since. The Americans redefined the nature of warfare itself, and changed Europe's attitude toward the possibility of self-government.The war also transformed the ststus of 4,000,000 slaves from chattel to voting citizens, and launched the national pursuit of civil rights which continues to the present. There are several excellent historical narratives of the Civil War, and an ever-growing body of research on specific aspects of the war. This study is intended as a comprehensive in-depth textbook - 'a standard work for the study of a particular subject.' It is a survey and synthesis of the best insights and information which has been produced about the war beginning with the many causes of the Civil War and extending through the period of Reconstruction. It is primarily a military history focused on the war's major campaigns and battles which includes a wealth of maps and data which make it an invaluable reference work for serious students of the war.
Fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers arrived in the port of Philadelphia in June 1832 to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. They all perished within six weeks. Contractor Philip Duffy hired them to work a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. For more than 180 years, the railroad maintained that cholera was to blame and kept the historical record under lock and key. In a harrowing modern-day excavation of their mass grave, a group of academics and volunteers found evidence some of the laborers were murdered. Authors and research leaders Dr. William E. Watson and Dr. J. Francis Watson reveal the tragedy, mystery and discovery of what really happened at Duffy's Cut.
The shocking murder of railroad laborers in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania—and the centuries-long coverup that followed—is revealed in this true crime history. In June 1832, railroad contractor Philip Duffy hired fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. They were sent to a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. Six weeks later, all of them were dead. For more than 180 years, the railroad maintained that cholera was to blame and kept the historical record under lock and key. In a harrowing modern-day excavation of their mass grave, a group of academics and volunteers found evidence some of the laborers were murdered. Authors and research leaders Dr. William E. Watson and Dr. J. Francis Watson reveal the tragedy, mystery, and discovery of what really happened at Duffy's Cut.
A Congressional Medal of Honor Account Extraordinary Valor is the story of Special Forces Major John Duffy’s Medal of Honor gallantry at Firebase Charlie, and the heroism of South Vietnamese paratrooper, Major Lê Văn Mễ, who fought by his side. It is the true story of their battle to defend Charlie Hill, a key to holding Vietnam's Central Highlands during North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive. John Joseph Duffy was born in New York City; Le Van Mễ in a small village outside the old imperial capital of Hue in South Vietnam. Living on opposite sides of the globe, they come together in the heat of war in Southeast Asia when Major Duffy is assigned as the American advisor to the elite South Vietnamese 11th Airborne Battalion where Mễ is second in command. The battalion receives the order to "Fight to the death" on Charlie Hill. After two weeks of intense combat, hundreds lay dead and those still standing are out of food, water, and medical supplies. Their ammunition is nearly gone. Duffy and Mễ draw on their bond of friendship and trust to make a selfless two-man last stand against the final North Vietnamese human wave assault. Both are badly wounded, Duffy multiple times. Their heroic action allows 36 members of the 471-man battalion to escape and be rescued. The rest are killed, captured, or missing in action. This is their story.
SUGAR BLUES é um livro audacioso, profético, chocante, elaborado por um escritor e pesquisador que esmiúça séculos de história secreta, folclores esquecidos, sábias tradições dos antigos e conceitos científicos inconsistentes, para trazer à tona a verdade sobre a mais dissimulada droga que dissolve os dentes e os ossos de toda uma civilização: a sacarose refinada, comumente chamada açúcar. Exaustivas pesquisas desenvolvidas nos grandes centros científicos evidenciam consideráveis vínculos entre o açúcar refinado e as mais alarmantes doenças modernas que vão da depressão ao derrame cerebral, esta substância antinutriente formadora de hábito, é consumida, a cada dia, em praticamente todos os produtos utilizados na dieta do homem civilizado, do pão aos cigarros.
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