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The White House Looks South

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson

By: William E. Leuchtenburg

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The White House Looks South

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson

By: William E. Leuchtenburg

Perhaps not southerners in the usual sense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson each demonstrated a political style and philosophy that helped them influence the South and unite the country in ways that few other presidents have. Combining vivid biography and political insight, William E. Leuchtenburg offers an engaging account of relations between these three presidents and the South while also tracing how the region came to embrace a national perspective without losing its distinctive sense of place. According to Leuchtenburg, each man "had one foot below the Mason-Dixon Line, one foot above." Roosevelt, a New Yorker, spent much of the last twenty-five years of his life in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he built a "Little White House." Truman, a Missourian, grew up in a pro-Confederate town but one that also looked West because of its history as the entrepôt for the Oregon Trail. Johnson, who hailed from the former Confederate state of Texas, was a westerner as much as a southerner. Their intimate associations with the South gave these three presidents an empathy toward and acceptance in the region. In urging southerners to jettison outworn folkways, Roosevelt could speak as a neighbor and adopted son, Truman as a borderstater who had been taught to revere the Lost Cause, and Johnson as a native who had been scorned by Yankees. Leuchtenburg explores in fascinating detail how their unique attachment to "place" helped them to adopt shifting identities, which proved useful in healing rifts between North and South, in altering behavior in regard to race, and in fostering southern economic growth. The White House Looks South is the monumental work of a master historian. At a time when race, class, and gender dominate historical writing, Leuchtenburg argues that place is no less significant. In a period when America is said to be homogenized, he shows that sectional distinctions persist. And in an era when political history is devalued, he demonstrates that government can profoundly affect people's lives and that presidents can be change-makers.

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802

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LSU Press

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0807151424

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9780807151426

Biographical Dictionary of Anthropologists

By: William Stewart

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Biographical Dictionary of Anthropologists

By: William Stewart

This biographical dictionary provides information on 322 men and women who have made or are making significant contributions in the field of anthropology. A short biography highlights each person's professional and private background and detailed analysis of the theories or approaches that each contributed to his or her individual field and a guide to their major published works are provided. A chronological appendix lists each person's date of birth, full name, and primary field of study, guiding readers to entries covering 1681 to 2006. An extensive glossary explains technical terms used throughout the work.

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247

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McFarland

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1476615284

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9781476615288

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

By: William Barksdale Maynard

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Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

By: William Barksdale Maynard

This study traces the development of American architecture from the age of Jefferson to the antebellum era, providing a survey of this important period. W. Barksdale Maynard overturns the long-accepted notions that the chief theme of early 19th-century American architecture was a patriotic desire to escape from European influence and that competing styles chiefly reflected the American struggle for cultural uniqueness. Instead, deep and consistent aesthetic ties, especially with England, shaped American architecture and house designs. Maynard shows that the Greek Revival in particular was an international phenomenon, with American achievements inspired by British example and with taste taking precedence over patriotism.

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348

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Yale University Press

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0300093837

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9780300093834

The Power of Religious Publics

Staking Claims in American Society

By: William H. Swatos Jr.,James K. Wellman

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The Power of Religious Publics

Staking Claims in American Society

By: William H. Swatos Jr.,James K. Wellman

Currently, public religion is in a time of flux and the notion of the common good—once associated with the Protestant voice in America—is openly contested by new religious coalitions seeking to communicate their version of the truth and plant their stake in the public domain. This edited volume reflects on the changing tone and form of the public voice of religion, on its function in American society, and on its relationship to the private world of religion. It proposes that public religion, when exercised in a civil and accountable way, can be a responsible and prophetic voice in public life and enrich the American experiment in liberal democracy. The contributors—first-rate scholars including Martin Marty and Robert Belah—focus on public religion's influence on controversial issues such as multiculturalism, economic inequality, abortion, and homosexuality.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313371326

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9780313371325

Genes, Crops and the Environment

By: John H. W. Holden,William James Peacock,John Trevor Williams

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Genes, Crops and the Environment

By: John H. W. Holden,William James Peacock,John Trevor Williams

The productivity of agricultural systems is the result of human alteration of originally wild organisms over millennia. The availability of germplasm, particularly from wild relatives of crop plants, is vitally important in the development of new and improved crops for both agriculture and horticulture. The handling of these genetic resources for both immediate and future human benefits has resulted in the decades of interdisciplinary scientific research described in this book. The applications of this work and the associated operational programmes in all parts of the world are discussed in the light of their impact on the conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem rehabilitation and the future health of our planet.

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180

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Cambridge University Press

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0521437377

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9780521437370

City of Bits

Space, Place, and the Infobahn

By: William J. Mitchell

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City of Bits

Space, Place, and the Infobahn

By: William J. Mitchell

Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. William Mitchell makes extensive use of practical examples and illustrations in a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture and urbanism in the context of the digital telecommunications revolution, the ongoing miniaturization of electronics, the commodification of bits, and the growing domination of software over materialized form.

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MIT Press

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0262631768

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9780262631761

A Complete System of Commercial Arithmetic, Its Application to the Principal Branches

By: William Tate

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A Complete System of Commercial Arithmetic, Its Application to the Principal Branches

By: William Tate

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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350

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385616794

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9783385616790

The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

An Introduction

By: Victor King,William D. Wilder

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The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

An Introduction

By: Victor King,William D. Wilder

This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region. Most importantly the volume reveals the vitally important role which the study of the area has occupied in the development of the concepts and methods of anthropology: from the perspectives of Edmund Leach to Clifford Geertz, Maurice Freedman to Claude Levi-Strauss; Lauriston Sharp to Melford Spiro.

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Routledge

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1000143120

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9781000143126

Book's by William James Peacock

The White House Looks South

The White House Looks South

Biographical Dictionary of Anthropologists

Biographical Dictionary of Anthropologists

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

The Power of Religious Publics

The Power of Religious Publics

Genes, Crops and the Environment

Genes, Crops and the Environment

City of Bits

City of Bits

A Complete System of Commercial Arithmetic, Its Application to the Principal Branches

A Complete System of Commercial Arithmetic, Its Application to the Principal Branches

The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

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