Old Is Gold

Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.Notes from the GroundAuthor: Benjamin R. CohenPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 09/06/2011Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.70w...

Since World War II, Protestant sermons have been an influential tool for defining American citizenship in the wake of national crises. In the aftermath of national tragedies, Americans often turn to churches for solace. Because even secular citizens attend these services, they are also...

This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles...

While nearly 75 years old at this point, this work is nonetheless a colossal undertaking and still the starting point for Tazewell genealogy and history. Harman's opus is less a history than it is a vast extraction of county court records. Volume I contains...

Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals, although most historians have been content either to...

Publisher: Ibidem PressPublished: 09/27/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.80w x 1.10dISBN: 9783838216966

Representing over four decades of work, this monograph by historian Mark H. Haller includes his work on organized crime in Chicago. This book incorporates Haller's critique of the Mafia model of organized crime and his elaboration of the illegal enterprise model of gangsters and...

Während Gott als inspector cordium unmittelbar in die Seelen blickt, erscheint das Beobachtungsverhältnis zwischen Mensch und Teufel als immanent-mittelbares, laterales und potenziell reziprokes. Der nie nachlassende diabolische "Verführungsaktivismus" (Luhmann) erzeugt Aufmerksamkeitskonstellationen, deren Funktionen nicht auf disziplinierende Angsterzeugung reduziert werden können. Im Erzählen von Teufeln...

Band 1‒36 im Set erhältlich! Das 1983 begründete interdisziplinäre Jahrbuch Exilforschung widmet sich der Erforschung der Bedingungen, Erscheinungsformen und kulturellen Reflexionen des Exils. Der Begriff, der historisch die Verbannung einzelner meinte, wird programmatisch für die Untersuchung der für das 20. und 21. Jahrhundert charakteristischen...

In den 1960er Jahren intensivierte der Schriftsteller Italo Calvino seine ästhetischen Bemühungen, "die Landkarte des labyrinthischen Gefängnisses zu umrei en, in dem sich der Mensch des 20. Jahrhunderts bewegt." Es ging ihm darum, mithilfe seiner Poetik biopolitische Dispositive der Welt zu entwirren. Dabei stellt...

Als Region weist das Banat zahlreiche Eigenheiten auf, die auf seine spezifische geografische Lage, der multi- und interkulturellen Prägung seiner Struktur und der kulturellen Vielfalt seiner Menschen zurückzuführen sind. Der Band lädt ein, sich mit den Eigenheiten der lokalen und regionalen Verwaltung im Banat...

Semi-Civilized offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. Michael C. Hawkins examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked...

A milestone in American cultural history, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was one of the most broadly shared, heavily attended, and thoroughly documented public experiences of the nineteenth century. Power and Posterity illuminates how the art featured in the celebration informed and reflected...

With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways...

In January 1861, Virginia possessed the largest population of enslaved people within the United States. The institution of slavery permeated the state's social, political, economic, and legal systems. While loyalty to the Union was strong in western Virginia as Civil War loomed, the state's...

When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of...

The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides accept it as fact. Adam Laats shows that this widely held belief is simply wrong. Upending the standard narrative of American education...

Anson County, which at its formation in 1750 encompassed all of central and western North Carolina and portions of South Carolina, is the parent of the North Carolina counties of Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Richmond, Rowan, and Union. The work at hand, written by journalist and...

As the election of 1860 loomed, the United States suffered tumultuous division over the political fate of slavery in the western territories. While Northern states favored territorial sovereignty, the Deep South advocated for federal protection of slavery during the territorial period. Disagreement festered and...

Author: Sarah B. MadryPublisher: Legacy SectorPublished: 07/12/2024Pages: 414Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85dISBN: 9781998414000This title is not returnable