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Author |
: David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 981 |
Release |
: 1991-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199743698 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019974369X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Albion's Seed by : David Hackett Fischer
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author |
: Fred Nadis |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2020-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781643134499 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1643134493 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Star Settlers by : Fred Nadis
The story behind the elite scientists, technologists, SF enthusiasts, and billionaires who believe that humanity’s destiny is to populate the stars . . . Does humanity have a destiny “in the stars?” Should a species triggering massive extinctions on its own planet instead stay put? This new book traces the waxing and waning of interest in space settlement through the decades, and offers a journalistic tour through the influential subculture attempting to shape a multiplanetary future. What motivates figures such as billionaires Elon Musk and Yuri Milner? How important have science fiction authors and filmmakers been in stirring enthusiasm for actual space exploration and settlement? Is there a coherent motivating philosophy and ethic behind the spacefaring dream? Star Settlers offers both a historical perspective and a journalistic window into a peculiar subculture packed with members of the scientific, intellectual, and economic elite. This timely work captures the extra-scientific zeal for space travel and settlement, places it in its historical context, and tackles the somewhat surreal conceptions underlying the enterprise and prognoses for its future.
Author |
: Steven Caldwell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 60 |
Release |
: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0517292262 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780517292266 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Settlers in Space by : Steven Caldwell
Describes the present status of settlement planets that have won a place in the Federation at great cost in lives and effort.
Author |
: Idith Zertal |
Publisher |
: Bold Type Books |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 2009-06-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786744855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786744855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lords of the Land by : Idith Zertal
Lords of the Land tells the tragic story of Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of the 1967 war and Israel's devastating victory over its Arab neighbors, catastrophe struck both the soul and psyche of the state of Israel. Based on years of research, and written by one of Israel's leading historians and journalists, this involving narrative focuses on the settlers themselves -- often fueled by messianic zeal but also inspired by the original Zionist settlers -- and shows the role the state of Israel has played in nurturing them through massive economic aid and legal sanctions. The occupation, the authors argue, has transformed the very foundations of Israel's society, economy, army, history, language, moral profile, and international standing. "The vast majority of the 6.5 million Israelis who live in their country do not know any other reality," the authors write. "The vast majority of the 3.5 million Palestinians who live in the regions of their occupied land do not know any other reality. The prolonged military occupation and the Jewish settlements that are perpetuating it have toppled Israeli governments and have brought Israel's democracy and its political culture to the brink of an abyss."
Author |
: Craig Johnson |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2012-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781138000100 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1138000108 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Echinoderms in a Changing World by : Craig Johnson
Echinoderms are an ancient and diverse group of marine animals with a rich fossil record. They occur abundantly in all modern oceans and at all depths, where they contribute importantly to patterns in biodiversity and to the structure and functioning of marine systems. It is therefore vital to understand how they will respond to a rapidly changing ocean climate and other anthropogenic stressors, informed by both the dynamics of the fossil record and responses of extant species. The theme of the 13th International Echinoderm Conference (Hobart, Tasmania, 5-9 January 2009) was the response of echinoderms to global change. Echinoderms in a Changing World contains a selection of plenary and contributed papers, and a comprehensive presentation of abstracts of all oral papers and posters. The collection will be useful to all students of echinoderm biology, ecology and palaeontology, from undergraduate level to professional researchers.
Author |
: Fred Nadis |
Publisher |
: Penguin Group |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2014-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780399168840 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0399168842 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Man from Mars by : Fred Nadis
Now in paperback, the rollicking, critically acclaimed true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America's sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century: Ray Palmer. “Palmer could not have asked for a more sympathetic chronicler, or a better one, than Fred Nadis. His prose and his pronouncements are everything Palmer’s practically never were: restrained, nuanced, intelligently considered. Nadis has a great story, and he relates it exquisitely.” —Jerome Clark, Fortean Times “Fred Nadis’s insightful biography demonstrates that Palmer is significant as well as intriguing.” —The Washington Post “One of science fiction’s greatest gadflies gets his due in this lively and entertaining biography.” —Publishers Weekly “Lucidly written and unfailingly lively, The Man from Mars is a biography worthy of its subject.” —Fate magazine
Author |
: Callan J. Mulligan |
Publisher |
: Callan J. Mulligan |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2024-02-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798878157339 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World Settlers by : Callan J. Mulligan
After the cradle was lost, humankind expanded across the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. Centuries of conflict followed, but peace returned under the rule of the Commonwealth. Now, the enormous world settling starships of the past have been recommissioned, and the Astraeus has set sail to find new worlds at the centre of the galaxy. Not long into the journey, Lizabeth Denning witnesses a horrific murder and sees the wrong man framed. And to make matters worse, the ship begins to experience violent tremors. In a race against time, the passengers must find the killer and repair the ship before they fall victim to the cold, empty, void of space. But things are not as they seem on this World Settler. When secrets are uncovered, Lizabeth and her new friends find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy, and the galaxy will never be the same...
Author |
: Joseph V. Hickey |
Publisher |
: Rural America |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015034025448 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ghost Settlement on the Prairie by : Joseph V. Hickey
Four miles southeast of the village of Matfield Green in Chase County, Kansas—the heart of the Flint Hills—lies the abandoned settlement of Thurman. At the turn of the century Thurman was a prosperous farming and ranching settlement with fifty-one households, a post office, two general stores, a blacksmith shop, five schools, and a church. Today, only the ruins of Thurman remain. Joseph Hickey uses Thurman to explore the settlement form of social organization, which—along with the village, hamlet, and small town—was a dominant feature of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American life. He traces Thurman's birth in 1874, its shallow rises and falls, and its demise in 1944. Akin to what William Least Heat-Moon did for Chase County in PrairyErth, Hicky provides a "deep map" for one post-office community and, consequently, tells us a great deal about America's rural past. Describing the shifting relationships between Thurmanites and their Matfield Green neighbors, Hickey details how social forces set in motion by the American ideal of individualism and the machinations of capitalist entrepreneurs produced a Darwinian struggle between Thurman stock raisers and Flint Hills "cattle barons" that ultimately doomed Thurman. Central to the story are the concept of "ordinary entrepreneurship" and the profoundly capitalist attitudes of the farmers who settled Thurman and thousands of other communities dotting the American landscape. Hickey's account of Thurman's social organization and disintegration provides a new perspective on what happened when the cattle drives from Texas and the Southwest shifted in the 1880s from the Kansas cowtowns to the Flint Hills. Moreover, he punctures numerous myths about the Flint Hills, including those that cattle dominated because the land is too rocky to farm or that Indians refused to farm because of traditional beliefs. Like many other small rural communities, Hickey argues, Thurman during its seventy-year history was actually several different settlements. A product of changing social conditions, each one resulted from shifting memberships and boundaries that reflected the efforts of local entrepreneurs to use country schools, churches, and other forms of "social capital" to gain advantages over their competitors. In the end, Thurman succumbed to the impact of agribusiness, which had the effect of transforming social capital from an asset into a liability. Ultimately, Hickey shows, the settlement's fate echoed the decline of rural community throughout America.
Author |
: Jeff Keshen |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1551115441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781551115443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Fabric Or Patchwork Quilt by : Jeff Keshen
Both historical and contemporary features of Canadian social welfare are explored in this wide-ranging and in-depth collection. Social Fabric or Patchwork Quilt explores the evolution of the Canadian social welfare state from a system based upon voluntarism and philanthropy to one in which the State's involvement has increased considerably. It also shows how the roles of governments at all levels have changed in recent times. Chapters describe the developing Canadian welfare state from Confederation to the present. Beginning with an integrative framework in the general introduction, the selected essays represent many perspectives: chronological, regional, multidisciplinary and ideological. An important feature of this collection is the consideration of providers and recipients. Such wide-ranging outlooks are possible given the diverse backgrounds of contributors, which include historians, sociologists, social workers, public policy experts and political scientists. As well as historical and sociological studies, topics include key programs (discussed in detail), the quality of services received by principal target groups, new directions in research; some contributions even revisit foundational older works and key government documents.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 494 |
Release |
: 1922 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112108094886 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |