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American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in Californiaby James N. GregoryISBN 0195071360 (0-19-507136-0)
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American Exodus takes us back to the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the war boom influx of the 1940s to explore the experiences of the more than one million Oklahomans, Arkansans, Texans, and Missourians who sought opportunities in California. Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal not only their economic trials but also their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an "Okie subculture" that over the years has grown into an essential element in California's cultural landscape.
The consequences, however, reach far beyond California. The Dust Bowl migration was part of a larger heartland diaspora that has sent millions of Southerners and rural Midwesterners to the nation's northern and western industrial perimeter. American Exodus is the first book to examine the cultural implications of that massive 20th-century population shift. In this rich account of the experiences and impact of these migrant heartlanders, Gregory fills an important gap in recent American social history. [via]More editions of American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California:
American Holocaust : Columbus and the Conquest of the New Worldby David E. StannardISBN 0195075811 (0-19-507581-1)
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American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Songby Whitney BalliettISBN 0195065735 (0-19-506573-5)
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Art from Ashesby Lawrence L. LangerISBN 0195075595 (0-19-507559-5)
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Atmospheric Convectionby Kerry A. EmanuelISBN 0195066308 (0-19-506630-8)
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Baseball: The People's Gameby Harold SeymourISBN 0195069072 (0-19-506907-2)
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Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945by George J. SanchezISBN 0195069900 (0-19-506990-0)
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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350by Abu-Lughod Janet L.ISBN 0195067746 (0-19-506774-6)
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Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Parisby Barbara B. DiefendorfISBN 0195070135 (0-19-507013-5)
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Building in Egypt : Pharaonic Stone Masonryby Dieter ArnoldISBN 0195063503 (0-19-506350-3)
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Canons and Contextsby Paul LauterISBN 0195068327 (0-19-506832-7)
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Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and European Transitions in Early Modern Europeby Richard LachmannISBN 0195075684 (0-19-507568-4)
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Comparing regions and cities within and across England, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands from the twelfth through eighteenth centuries, Lachmann breaks new ground by showing step by step how the new social relations and political institutions of early modern Europe developed. He demonstrates in detail how feudal elites were pushed toward capitalism as they sought to protect their privileges from rivals in the aftermath of the Reformation.
Capitalists in Spite of Themselves is a compelling narrative of how elites and other classes made and responded to political and religious revolutions while gradually creating the nation-states and capitalist markets which still constrain our behavior and order our world. It will prove invaluable for anyone wishing to understanding the economic and social history of early modern Europe.
Capitalists in Spite of Themselves was the winner of the 2003 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American Sociology Association. [via]More editions of Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and European Transitions in Early Modern Europe:
The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speechby Irving Lewis AllenISBN 0195075919 (0-19-507591-9)
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Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American Politics, 1960-1972by Hugh Davis GrahamISBN 0195073223 (0-19-507322-3)
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Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Studentby Edward P.J. CorbettISBN 0195062930 (0-19-506293-0)
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The Course of Mexican Historyby Michael C. Meyer, William L. ShermanISBN 0195066006 (0-19-506600-6)
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Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expressionby Herbert I. SchillerISBN 0195067835 (0-19-506783-5)
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Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient Worldby John G. GagerISBN 0195062264 (0-19-506226-4)
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The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990by Mary FulbrookISBN 0195075714 (0-19-507571-4)
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The Electrical Nature of Stormsby Donald R. MacGorman, W. David RustISBN 0195073371 (0-19-507337-1)
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Ethics With Aristotleby Sarah BroadieISBN 0195066014 (0-19-506601-4)
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Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Warsby George Lachmann MosseISBN 0195071395 (0-19-507139-5)
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The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Ageby Beatrice GottliebISBN 0195073444 (0-19-507344-4)
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The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Libertiesby Mark E. NeelyISBN 0195064968 (0-19-506496-8)
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The Female Experience: An American Documentaryby Gerda LernerISBN 0195072588 (0-19-507258-8)
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A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Publicby Ronald J. ZborayISBN 019507582X (0-19-507582-X)
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Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florenceby Michael RockeISBN 0195069757 (0-19-506975-7)
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The Founder: Cecil Rhodes And the Pursuit of Powerby Robert I. RotbergISBN 0195066685 (0-19-506668-5)
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Freedom's Lawmakers : A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstructionby Eric FonerISBN 0195074068 (0-19-507406-8)
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From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945by Gale StokesISBN 0195063821 (0-19-506382-1)
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The Future of the Pastby C. Vann WoodwardISBN 019506903X (0-19-506903-X)
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Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Exotic Orientationby John MoneyISBN 0195063317 (0-19-506331-7)
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Golf Anecdotesby Robert SommersISBN 019506299X (0-19-506299-X)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Lifeby Joan D. HedrickISBN 0195066391 (0-19-506639-1)
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Her Share of the Blessings : Women's Religions among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman Worldby Ross S. KraemerISBN 0195066863 (0-19-506686-3)
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Hermeneutics As Politicsby Stanley RosenISBN 0195061616 (0-19-506161-6)
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Hidden Attraction : The History and Mystery of Magnetismby Gerrit L. VerschuurISBN 0195064887 (0-19-506488-7)
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A History of Russiaby Nicholas Valentine RiasanovskyISBN 0195074629 (0-19-507462-9)
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The Hour of Our Deathby Philippe Aries, Helen WeaverISBN 0195073649 (0-19-507364-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hour of Our Death'Book summary:This remarkable book--the fruit of almost two decades of study--traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature.
Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Aries shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the Common Era, death was too common to be frightening; each life was quietly subordinated to the community, which paid its respects and then moved on. Aries identifies the first major shift in attitude with the turn of the eleventh century when a sense of individuality began to rise and with it, profound consequences: death no longer meant merely the weakening of community, but rather the destruction of self. Hence the growing fear of the afterlife, new conceptions of the Last Judgment, and the first attempts (by Masses and other rituals) to guarantee a better life in the next world. In the 1500s attention shifted from the demise of the self to that of the loved one (as family supplants community), and by the nineteenth century death comes to be viewed as simply a staging post toward reunion in the hereafter. Finally, Aries shows why death has become such an unendurable truth in our own century--how it has been nearly banished from our daily lives--and points out what may be done to "re-tame" this secret terror.
The richness of Aries's source material and investigative work is breathtaking. While exploring everything from churches, religious rituals, and graveyards (with their often macabre headstones and monuments), to wills and testaments, love letters, literature, paintings, diaries, town plans, crime and sanitation reports, and grave robbing complaints, Aries ranges across Europe to Russia on the one hand and to England and America on the other. As he sorts out the tangled mysteries of our accumulated terrors and beliefs, we come to understand the history--indeed the pathology--of our intellectual and psychological tensions in the face of death. [via]More editions of The Hour of Our Death:
The House of Bondage: Or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slavesby Octavia AlbertISBN 0195067843 (0-19-506784-3)
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Iliad of Homerby Ennis Rees, HomerISBN 0195068262 (0-19-506826-2)
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The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thoughtby Nicholas V. RiasanovskyISBN 0195074807 (0-19-507480-7)
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In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Workerby David BrodyISBN 0195067916 (0-19-506791-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker'Book summary:These extended essays by one of the preeminent scholars in U.S. labor history discuss central questions in the field, from the colonial period to the present: What do the first demands for a fixed workday tell us about how early American workers experienced the beginnings of the industrial revolution? Why did American labor politics never manage to break the grip of the two-party system? What was the impact of ideology, career leadership, and ethnicity on the American labor movement? How did American trade unionism cope with the market-drive forces of American capitalism? Why did so great a national crisis as World War II have so modest an impact on labor-capital-state relations in America? And finally, how did the struggle for industrial unionism produce the highly formalized "adversarial" system of workplace representation that many observers today see as one of the prime obstacles to American competitiveness in the new global economy? The book's essay structure permits detailed exploration of significant issues, while its wide chronological range and emphasis on causation broaden its scope to embrace major themes and trends. Like Brody's Workers in Industrial America (Second Edition, Oxford, 1993), In Labor's Cause makes an important contribution toward a comprehensive interpretation of the history of workers in America, and will be a fundamental component of any U.S. survey course, as well as courses in American labor or economic history. [via]
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In Our Own Image: Building an Artificial Personby Maureen CaudillISBN 019507338X (0-19-507338-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Our Own Image: Building an Artificial Person'Book summary:From Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator, to C-3PO of the Star Wars trilogy, to the comic robot-butler in Woody Allen's Sleeper, the "android" has long been a familiar figure on the American imaginative landscape. But how far removed from reality are such fictitious creations? Will there ever be an intelligent robot in our future? Neural networks expert Maureen Caudill says yes. In fact, she argues that the development of intelligent androids is a mere twenty years away.
In Our Own Image reveals just how far we've come in developing an intelligent robot, describes what technical obstacles must still be cleared, and--perhaps most interesting of all--outlines the potentially massive social disruptions and tangled moral and legal dilemmas these "human machines" will cause. In a sweeping look at state-of-the-art breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, robotics, computer science, psychology, and neural networks, Caudill shows how these fields have advanced machine vision, language recognition, problem solving, memory, and other requisites of intelligent robots. She describes foot-long mechanical ants that can follow you around a room, robots that can crack eggs, shear sheep, play ping-pong, tighten wing-nuts, and other feats of dexterity. (One robot, WABOT-2, developed in Japan, can read simple sheet music and played the electric organ with the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Japan.) electric organ.) And she concludes that as our ability to make faster, smaller, cheaper computers blends with our ability to mimic the behavior of the human mind, the first truly intelligent machines come closer to fruition. But once an android has been perfected, Caudill warns, there will likely be some unexpected--and perhaps unpleasant--social changes. Androids may compete with human workers for jobs--and robots won't take vacations, won't have family problems, and might never leave the firm. Androids may also entangle our legal system in complex, difficult questions: Can an individual own an intelligent android? What rights should it have in society? Does ownership of an android imply the right to turn it off--the right to "kill" it? And does such ownership brand us as slaveholders?
The existence of intelligent androids will provoke these and other questions. Caudill concludes that we will soon be forced to come up with answers if we are to learn to share the world with another intelligent species--one of our own creation.
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In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966by Joshua B. FreemanISBN 0195072693 (0-19-507269-3)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. JacobsISBN 0195066707 (0-19-506670-7)
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Inequality at Work: Hispanics in the U.S. Labor Forceby Gregory DefreitasISBN 0195064216 (0-19-506421-6)
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Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil Warby Michael FellmanISBN 0195064712 (0-19-506471-2)
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Introduction to Philosophy : Classical and Contemporary Readingsby John Perry, Michael S. BratmanISBN 0195069366 (0-19-506936-6)
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Islam: The Straight Pathby John L. EspositoISBN 0195074726 (0-19-507472-6)
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Japanese Corporate Philanthropyby Nancy R. LondonISBN 0195064240 (0-19-506424-0)
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The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary Historyby Paul Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda ReinharzISBN 019507453X (0-19-507453-X)
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John Nelson: Merchant Adventurer A Life Between Empiresby Richard R. JohnsonISBN 0195065050 (0-19-506505-0)
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The Joys of Hebrewby Lewis GlinertISBN 0195074246 (0-19-507424-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joys of Hebrew'Book summary:When do you say mazal tov? What is the English equivalent to the Talmudic expression Alya ve-kots ba ("a sheep's tail with a thorn in it")? What is a get, a golem, a kibbutz, a chalutz? What four plant species are waved during prayers on the harvest festival of Sukkot? You'll find answers to these questions and hundreds of others--all in clear English--in this remarkable collection of the best known, most loved Hebrew words and phrases in the English speaking world.
From Acharon to Zohar, this informative and often humorous dictionary features over six hundred Hebrew words and expressions arranged in alphabetical order (the Roman alphabet is used throughout, as well as Hebrew head words). The first such guide to Hebrew, this volume is more than a mere lexicon--it is a jubilant celebration of Hebrew itself, a treasure trove of Jewish wit, wisdom, culture, and tradition. Lewis Glinert provides a concise definition of each entry, and then illustrates the word's usage with generous passages from the Bible and the Talmud, the prayers and the sayings of famous rabbis, the razor's edge of Jewish humor, excerpts from the work of Elie Wiesel, Adin Steinsaltz, S.Y. Agnon, Martin Buber, Naomi Shemer and other contemporary writers, folklore from all over the Jewish world, and colorful slices of modern Israeli life. There are words directly related to the practice of religion, such as amida (a prayer said standing, under one's breath, essentially a cry for help--for wisdom, health, peace, prosperity, and so forth) as well as the names of all the Jewish holy days and religious customs; words from everyday Jewish experience, such peot (the long sidecurls customarily worn by the Chasidim); many words familiar from their use in Israel, such as rega (literally, "one moment," it is the Israeli equivalent of Mexico's mañana) or miluim (army reserve service); and many traditional sayings, such as Tsarat rabim chatsi nechama ("A public woe is half a comfort"). In addition, Glinert provides at the back of the book an alphabetical list of familiar biblical names in English, Sephardi/Israeli Hebrew, and Ashkenazi Hebrew.
This celebration of Hebrew language and culture is a joy to read and to use. Everyone from Bible students to collectors of Judaica, from Woody Allen fans to people planning a journey to the Holy Land, will be delighted by this informative volume.
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Mencken: The American Iconoclastby Marion Elizabeth RodgersISBN 0195072383 (0-19-507238-3)
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Modern Latin Americaby Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. SmithISBN 0195076494 (0-19-507649-4)
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The Moral Framework of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930by Paula BakerISBN 0195064526 (0-19-506452-6)
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Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850'sby Tyler AnbinderISBN 0195072332 (0-19-507233-2)
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The Old World's New Worldby Comer Vann WoodwardISBN 0195064518 (0-19-506451-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old World's New World'Book summary:No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, yearnings and forebodings. America and Americans--according to one of their more indulgent European critics--have long been considered "a fairlyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters."
In The Old World's New World, award-winning historian C. Vann Woodward has written a brilliant study of how Europeans have seen and discussed America over the last two centuries. Woodward shows how the character and the image of America in European writings often depended more upon Old World politics and ideology than upon New World realities. America has been seen both as human happiness resulting from the elimination of monarchy, aristocracy, and priesthood, and as social chaos and human misery caused by their removal. It was proof that democracy was the best form of government, or that mankind was incapable of self government. America was regularly used both as an inspiration for revolutionaries and as a stern warning against radicals of all kinds. Americans have been seen as uniformly materialistic, hot in pursuit of dollars: "Such unity of purpose," wrote Mrs. Trollope, "can, I believe, be found nowhere else except, perhaps, in an ants' nest." And they have been admired for their industry--one young Russian Communist visited New York in 1925 and wrote that America is "where the 'future,' at least in terms of industrialization, is being realized." Decade after decade, America has been hailed for its youth, and lambasted for its immaturity. It has been looked to as a model of liberty, and attacked for maintaining the tyranny of the majority. But always it has been a metaphor for the possibilities of human society--possibilities both bright and foreboding. After a year of heady talk of a "New World Order," of American victory in the Cold War, of a new American Century, The Old World's New World provides a thoughtful and sobering perspective on how America has been seen in centuries past.
C. Vann Woodward is one of America's foremost living historians. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Parkman prizes--and he has served as president of the American Historical Association as well as the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. With this new book, he further enhances his reputation while making his vast learning accessible to a general audience. [via]More editions of The Old World's New World:
The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduismby A. L. Basham, Kenneth G. ZyskISBN 0195073495 (0-19-507349-5)
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The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Societyby Norval Morris, David J. RothmanISBN 0195061535 (0-19-506153-5)
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In The Oxford History of the Prison, a team of distinguished scholars offers a vivid account of the rise and development of this critical institution. Penalties other than incarceration were once much more common, from such bizarre death sentences as the Roman practice of drowning convicts in sacks filled with animals to a frequent reliance on the scaffold and on to forms of public shaming (such as the classic stocks of colonial America). The first decades of the nineteenth century saw the rise of the full-blown prison system--and along with it, the idea of prison reform. Alexis de Tocqueville originally came to America to write a report on its widely acclaimed prison system.
The authors trace the persistent tension between the desire to punish and the hope for rehabilitation, recounting the institution's evolution from the rowdy and squalid English jails of the 1700s, in which prisoners and visitors ate and drank together; to the sober and stark nineteenth-century penitentiaries, whose inmates were forbidden to speak or even to see one another; and finally to the "big houses" of the current American prison system, in which prisoners are as overwhelmed by intense boredom as by the threat of violence. The text also provides a gripping and personal look at the social world of prisoners and their keepers over the centuries. In addition, thematic chapters explore in-depth a variety of special institutions and other important aspects of prison history, including the jail, the reform school, the women's prison, political imprisonment, and prison and literature.
Fascinating, provocative, and authoritative, The Oxford History of the Prison offers a deep, informed perspective on the rise and development of one of the central features of modern society--capturing the debates that rage from generation to generation on the proper response to crime. [via]More editions of The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society:
Panbiogeography: Tracking the History of Lifeby John R. Grehan, Michael J. Heads, R. C. CrawISBN 0195074416 (0-19-507441-6)
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The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985by Thomas E. SkidmoreISBN 0195063163 (0-19-506316-3)
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Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Surveyby Peter ManuelISBN 0195063341 (0-19-506334-1)
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Pornography and Representation in Greece and Romeby Amy RichlinISBN 0195067231 (0-19-506723-1)
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Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836by William W. FreehlingISBN 0195076818 (0-19-507681-8)
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It tells the story of the Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, describing how from 1816 to 1836 aristocratic planters of the Palmetto State tumbled from a contented and prosperous life of elegant balls and fine Madeira wines to a world rife with economic distress, guilt over slavery, and apprehension of slave rebellion. It shows in compelling detail how this reversal of fortune led the political leaders of South Carolina down the path to ever more radical states rights doctrines: in 1832 they were seeking to nullify federal law by refusing to obey it; four years later some of them were considering secession.
As the story unfolds, we meet a colorful and skillfully drawn cast of characters, among them John C. Calhoun, who hoped nullifcation would save both his highest priority, slavery, and his next priority, union; President Andrew Jackson, who threatened to hang Calhoun and lead federal troops into South Carolina; Denmark Vesey, who organized and nearly brought off a slave conspiracy; and Martin Van Buren, the "Little Magician," who plotted craftily to replace Calhoun in Jackson's esteem. These and other important figures come to life in these pages, and help to tell a tale--often in their own words--central to an understanding of the war which eventually engulfed the United States.
Demonstrating how a profound sensitivity to the still-shadowy slavery issue--not serious economic problems alone--led to the Nullification Controversy, Freehling revises many theories previously held by historians. He describes how fear of abolitionists and their lobbying power in Congress prompted South Carolina's leaders to ban virtually any public discussion of the South's "peculiar institution," and shows that while the Civil War had many beginnings, none was more significant than this single, passionate controversy.
Written in a lively and eminently readable style, Prelude to Civil War is must reading for anyone trying to discover the roots of the conflict that soon would tear the Union apart. [via]More editions of Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836:
The Pride of Havana : A History of Cuban Baseballby Roberto Gonzalez EchevarriaISBN 0195069919 (0-19-506991-9)
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Reason & Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religionby Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, David BasingerISBN 0195061551 (0-19-506155-1)
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The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678by Russell BourneISBN 0195069765 (0-19-506976-5)
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Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaismby Michael A. MeyerISBN 0195063422 (0-19-506342-2)
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Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War IIby Joseph RothschildISBN 0195073827 (0-19-507382-7)
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Ring Lardner and the Otherby Douglas Robinson, Ellen GardinerISBN 0195076001 (0-19-507600-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ring Lardner and the Other'Book summary:Ring Lardner and the Other is actually two books, mutually embedded. The first is about Ring Lardner: a long reading of a single Lardner short story, "Who Dealt?", a briefer look at his life and work, and an exploration of his reception. The second is about the "Other," in an expanded Lacanian sense: the speaking of various unconscious voices (mother and father and child, culture and anarchy, majority and minority) through literary characters and their authors and readers. The Lardner book explores the contradictions of Lardner's patriarchal masculinity--how such a dour, sexist alcoholic who hated humor and bad grammar could have created such a rich body of minoritarian writing, steeped in the emergent voices of women and the lower middle class--and the social functions served by Lardner's writing in twentieth-century America. The other book exfoliates Lacan's germinal concept of the Other by interweaving it with a series of theoretical formulations by Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari, and others. Robinson's book is an important reappraisal of a critically neglected American writer of the teens and twenties. The book includes an essay by Ellen Gardiner. [via]
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Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865by Louis P. MasurISBN 0195066634 (0-19-506663-4)
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Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Musicby Barbara B. HeymanISBN 0195066502 (0-19-506650-2)
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Science for All Americansby Andrew Ahlgren, Floyd James RutherfordISBN 0195067711 (0-19-506771-1)
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The Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnettby Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Trudier Harris-Lopez, Trudier HarrisISBN 0195062027 (0-19-506202-7)
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Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Frontby Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. SmithISBN 0195067959 (0-19-506795-9)
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Sociological Insight: An Introduction to Non-Obvious Sociologyby Randall CollinsISBN 0195074424 (0-19-507442-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociological Insight: An Introduction to Non-Obvious Sociology'Book summary:Revised and expanded to incorporate recent research, this classic text now offers a more comprehensive introduction to many of sociology's most interesting and elegant ideas, written with a grace and wit that have delighted a generation of students. Beginning with a central problem that distinguishes sociology from most other ways of looking at the world, Randall Collins examines the limits of human rationality and sociological theories of religion, showing how they open up a general theory of social rituals that holds the key to much of the rest of sociology. With these conceptual tools in hand, he invites students to ponder how sociological analysis can illuminate a variety of urgent topics--power, crime, sex, love, and the position of women in society--as it reveals both their visible social symbols and their paradoxical deep structures. In a new final chapter, Collins stakes out an important role for sociology in the information age, while coming full circle to the theories of rationality and ritual with which he began, showing that artificial intelligence can approximate human creativity only if it can take part in ritual interactions. Uniquely engaging, Sociological Insight dramatizes the major issues and concerns of sociology in a way that gets students thinking and talking, and whets their appetites for more. [via]
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The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbeliefby George M. MarsdenISBN 0195070461 (0-19-507046-1)
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Stalin's Peasants: Collectiveness and Popular Resistance in Russiaby Sheila FitzpatrickISBN 019506982X (0-19-506982-X)
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Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes: Observations and Theory of Weather Systemsby Howard B. BluesteinISBN 019506268X (0-19-506268-X)
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Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes: Principles of Kinematics and Dynamicsby Howard BluesteinISBN 0195062671 (0-19-506267-1)
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Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Readerby Alexander Bloom, Wini BreinesISBN 0195066243 (0-19-506624-3)
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Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy : The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935by Robert W. McChesneyISBN 0195071743 (0-19-507174-3)
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Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805by Alan SchomISBN 0195075188 (0-19-507518-8)
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Tube of Plenty: Evolution of American Televisionby Erik BarnouwISBN 0195064844 (0-19-506484-4)
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The Unfinished Journey: American [sic] since World War IIby William Henry ChafeISBN 0195066278 (0-19-506627-8)
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Visions of Jazz: The First Centuryby Gary GiddinsISBN 0195076753 (0-19-507675-3)
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War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imaginationby H. Bruce FranklinISBN 0195066928 (0-19-506692-8)
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When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Centuryby Carolyn MarvinISBN 0195063414 (0-19-506341-4)
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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in Americaby Roger LaneISBN 0195065662 (0-19-506566-2)
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William Faulkner and Southern Historyby Joel WilliamsonISBN 0195074041 (0-19-507404-1)
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Women and Social Protestby Guida West, Rhoda Lois BlumbergISBN 0195065174 (0-19-506517-4)
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Writing Under Pressure: The Quick Writing Processby Sanford KayeISBN 0195066618 (0-19-506661-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Under Pressure: The Quick Writing Process'Book summary:Most writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to write a one-page action memo by noon. A graduate student has a twenty-page research paper due in a week. Yet, while most students and professionals write under pressure--with limited time, limited space, and a supervisor or instructor to please--few approach the task systematically.
In Writing Under Pressure, Sanford Kaye, a renowned expert on the subject, presents a system he calls the Quick Writing Process (QWP) that focuses on real-world writing tasks and demonstrates how to produce the clearest, most honest, most powerful work possible under the constraints of time and space. A writing instructor with twenty-five years' experience teaching students and professionals in business and government, Kaye tells writers how to budget their time and how to use this time efficiently.
Exploring particular writing situations in which QWP can be applied to make the most of what the writer knows, Kaye discusses the process of taking exams, focusing on how instructors select questions and evaluate essays. He also considers writing in business and government, featuring an insightful analysis of a memo written by Colonel Oliver North. This memo highlights one of the most important issues writers in business and government face: whether to write the truth as they see it or simply what their bosses want to hear. Presenting a wealth of such examples, Kaye reveals how to break through stifling organizational codes in order to write memos and position papers that count.
While most guides to writing ignore the constraints of time and space, Writing Under Pressure tackles these problems head on, making it an essential reference for students, business professionals, government officials, or anyone else faced with a difficult writing assignment that has to be done now. [via]More editions of Writing Under Pressure: The Quick Writing Process:
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