2501 results for "American History"

Conservatism in America: making sense of the American right

Gottfried, Paul
This book argues that the American conservative movement, as it now exists, does not have deep roots. It began in the 1950s as the invention of journalists and men of letters reacting to the early Cold War and trying to construct a rallying point for likeminded opponents of international Communism. The resulting movement has exaggerated the permanence of its values; while its militant anti-Communism, instilled in its followers, and periodic suppression of dissent have weakened its capacity for internal debate. Their movement came to power at least partly by burying an older anti-welfare state Right, one that in fact had enjoyed a social following that was concentrated in a small-town America. The newcomers played down the merits of those they had replaced; and in the 1980's the neoconservatives, who took over the postwar conservative movement from an earlier generation, belittled their predecessors in a similar way. Among the movement's major accomplishments has been to recreate its own past. The success of this revised history lies in the fact that even the movement's critics are now inclined to accept it.
Palgrave 2007-09-25 189 pages

Anarchist voices: an oral history of anarchism in America

Avrich, Paul
Through his many books on the history of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public's conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists. In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets American anarchists speak for themselves. This book contains 180 interviews conducted by Avrich over a period of 30 years, interviews that portray the human dimensions of a movement much maligned by the authorities and contemporary journalists. Most of the interviewees (anarchists as well as their friends and relatives) were active during the heyday of the movement, between the 1880s and the 1930s. They represent all schools of anarchism and include both famous figures and minor ones, previously overlooked by most historians. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti. The interviews are grouped in six sections organized around individuals or major aspects of the movement. Each section begins with an explanatory essay, and each interview with a biographical note. Avrich also includes a selected bibliography and a list of anarchist periodicals. This work of impeccable scholarship will be an invaluable resource not only for scholars of anarchism but also for those studying immigration, ethnic politics, the history of education, and legal and labor history. -- "Publishers Weekly"
Princeton University Press 1995 574 pages

New directions in Anglo-Jewish history

Geoffrey Alderman
The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable renaissance in the academic study of the history of the Jews in Great Britain and of their impact upon British history. In this volume Professor Geoffrey Alderman presents essays that reflect the richness of this renaissance, penned by a new generation of British and American scholars who are uninhibited by the considerations of communal image and public obligation that once exercised a powerful influence on Anglo-Jewish historiography. History does not have lessons, says Alderman, but it may provide signposts, and he adds that in the case of the essays presented here "I believe there is one signpost that we would all do well to ponder: in multicultural Britain hard-working immigrants may be welcome, or they may be feared -- or both. They are destined to remain not quite British, and, for better or worse, they are destined to bequeath this otherness to the generations that follow them."
Academic Studies Press 2010 195 pages

American Raj America & the Muslim World

Eric S. Margolis
Shortlisted for the 2009 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction Revised with new materials for this edition! "Covers all the main themes, ideas, places, and personalities that have shaped the area over the last century... Comprehensive, clearly written, with a strong perspective from years of experience comparing reality with rhetoric, American Raj is an excellent start for anyone wishing to understand the many inter-related ideas and forces that shape the US empire's actions in the Muslim World." -- Political Affairs "[T]he culmination of veteran journalist and foreign policy expert Eric S. Margolis' years of feet-on-the-ground reporting and analysis in the Middle East and Asia. Margolis brings the weight of his authority on the Middle East to answer the question, 'How did we get to this place in history and this ancient conflict be resolved?'" -- The Hill Times From the veteran journalist, Middle East policy expert and author of War at the Top of the World , comes a bluntly honest, provocative and timely book about how to resolve the conflict between the West and the Muslim world. American Raj takes the reader into the thinking and worldview of anti-Western Islamic radicals, identifies the historical, political and religious factors that have played such a huge role in generating mutual hostilities, and offers a blue print for resolution.
Key Porter Books 2009 432 pages

The marginalization of poetry: language writing and literary history

Perelman, Bob
Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular culture, avoiding the standard stylistic indications of poetic lyricism, and using nonsequential sentences are some of the ways in which language writers make poetry a more open and participatory process for the readers. Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class. It is this barrier that Bob Perelman seeks to break down in this fascinating and comprehensive account of the language writing movement. A leading language writer himself, Perelman offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. He provides detailed readings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry. A variety of issues are addressed in the following chapters: "The Marginalization of Poetry," "Language Writing and Literary History," "Here and Now on Paper," "Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice," "Write the Power," "Building a More Powerful Vocabulary: Bruce Andrews and the World (Trade Center)," "This Page Is My Page, This Page Is Your Page: Gender and Mapping," "An Alphabet of Literary Criticism," and "A False Account of Talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia."
Princeton University Press 1996-07-28 187 pages

Travels into Dalmatia; containing general observations on the natural history of that country and the neighbouring islands; in a series of letters from Abbe Alberto Fortis

Fortis, Alberto
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T139922 With a half-title. London: printed for J. Robson, 1778. [2], x,584p., plates: ill., maps; 4°
Gale ECCO, Print Editions 2010-10-20 630 pages

The Prospect of Immortality in Bilingual American English and Traditional Chinese 永生的期盼美式英文-繁體中文雙語版本

Robert C W Ettinger
THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY IN BILINGUAL AMERICAN ENGLISH AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE 永生的期盼美式英文-繁體中文雙語版本 by Robert C.W. Ettinger 羅伯艾丁格著 with a new (2010) foreword by the author 內有新原作者前言(2010年) -- Sinclair T. Wang, Translator 王振祥,翻譯者 -- is available in hardback (ISBN 978-1-934297-00-1) and paperback (ISBN 978-1-934297-01-8) editions. HERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH IN 1964): In the 1960s Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement and authored The Prospect of Immortality. Ettinger sees "discontinuity in history, with mortality and humanity on one side -- on the other immortality and transhumanity." Cryonic hibernation (experimental long-term suspended animation) of humans may provide a "door into summer" unlike any season previously known. Ettinger argues for his belief in "the possibility of limitless life for our generation." 在1960年代艾丁格創始了冰凍人 (冰凍休眠) 運動,並且著作了永生的期盼一書 。 艾丁格洞見了 "歷史上的不連續, 一邊是會死和凡人 -另一邊則是不死和超人。" 人類的冰凍休眠 (實驗性的長期活體休眠) 可能可以提供一道"進入盛夏之門", 而且是一個不像任何前所熟悉之季節。 愛丁格爲他在 "我們世代中無窮盡生命可能性" 的信念進行了辯解。 KEYWORDS: biostasis; cryonics; death; future medicine; immortality; life extension; personal identity; suspended animation; technological singularity; transhumanism. HERE IS A TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE BILINGUAL (IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH AND/OR YOUR CHINESE?) BOOK OF 552 PAGES: ((CONTENTS IN ENGLISH: )) ---Preface by the Translator ● viii ---FOREWORD 2010 BY ROBERT ETTINGER ● xxii ---Preface by Jean Rostand ● 2 ---Preface by Gerald J. Gruman ● 12 ---Chapter I. Frozen Death, Frozen Sleep, and Some Consequences ● 28 ---Chapter II. The Effects of Freezing and Cooling ● 52 ---Chapter III. Repair and Rejuvenation ● 140 ---Chapter IV. Today's Choices ● 184 ---Chapter V. Freezers and Religion ● 220 ---Chapter VI. Freezers and the Law ● 264 ---Chapter VII. The Economics of Immortality ● 302 ---Chapter VIII. The Problem of Identity ● 364 ---Chapter IX. The Uses of Immortality ● 398 ---Chapter X. Manners, Modes, and Morals of Tomorrow ● 428 ---Chapter XI. The Freezer-Centered Society ● 468 ---References ● 497 ((CONTENTS IN CHINESE: )) ---譯者前言 ● ix ---ROBERT ETTINGER 2010年前言 ● xxiii ---Jean Rostand 前言 ● 3 ---Gerald J. Gruman 前言 ● 13 --- 第一章死亡冰凍,睡眠冰凍,以及其一些後果 ● 29 --- 第二章冰凍和冷卻的一些效應 ● 53 --- 第三章修復和回春 ● 141 --- 第四章當今的選擇 ● 185 --- 第五章冰凍主義和宗教 ● 221 --- 第六章冰凍主義和法律 ● 265 --- 第七章永生的經濟學 ● 303 --- 第八章身分上的問題 ● 365 --- 第九章永生的利用 ● 399 --- 第十章明日的態度,模式和道德 ● 429 --- 第十一章以冰凍人為中心的社會 ● 469 --- 參考資料 ● 497
Ria University Press 2010-08 554 pages

The Tribes and the States

William James Sidis
The Tribes and the States is a history of the indigenous peoples of New England and the effect they exerted on the governments and civic systems that emerged in pre and post revolutionary America. Written by child prodigy William James Sidis, the book contends that American democracy has been shaped largely by the various native peoples European colonists encountered as they settled the continent. Completed in 1936, The Tribes and the States is still a unique, progressive and under-acknowledged history of the United States.---TABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER I - RED RACE PRE-HISTORY - Source of the Red Race - The Cro-Magnons - AtlantisCHAPTER II - THE RED MAN IN AMERICA - The Different Red Stocks - Tribe, Phratry, and Gens - Equality and Democracy - War and Peace - The Penacook PeoplesCHAPTER III PRE-FEDERATE EVENTS - Events in the Interior - Pre-Federate Transatlantic Communication - The Iroquois - Lines of CommunicationCHAPTER IV THE IROQUOIS FEDERATION - Dagonoweda's Plan - Formation of the Federation - Iroquois Empire and Counter-Federation - Federation as a New DepartureCHAPTER V THE GREAT WHITE INVASION - An Invading Race - Rights of Conquest and Discovery - French Invasion - British Invasions - White AdministrationsCHAPTER VI THE PENACOOK FEDERATION - The Pilgrims - Samoset's Welcome - The Iroquois Attack - Passaconaway - The Penacook Federation - Federability of the Penacook Federation - Defeat of the IroquoisCHAPTER VII PISCATAQUA AND MASADCHU - Invasion of the Piscataqua - The Paumonok Islands - Growth of the Pilgrim Colony - The Puritan Invasion - The Puritans and Their Neighbors - The Head of Massachusetts Bay - The Iroquois AllianceCHAPTER VIII THE PENACOOK PEACE - The Peace of 1634 - Elsewhere in America - Invasion of the Quinnitucket - Extension of the Bay Colony - Apostle Eliot - Narragansett Bay SettlementsCHAPTER IX THE LAST OF THE PEQUOTS - Federation on the Quinnitucket - The Pequot War - Puritan Re-Migration - Puritan Revolt in England - New HavenCHAPTER X THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION - Difficulties with the Dutch -New England Federation46 Annexation of the Piscataqua47 New Sects48 Conquest of the South49 The Middle RegionsCHAPTER XI UNDER RESTORED MONARCHY50 American Policy of the Restored Stuarts51 The Penacook Country at the Restoration52 The Duke of York's Claims53 New Settlement in Carolina54 Punishing New England55 New York's Border ConflictsCHAPTER XII METACOM'S WAR56 Bashaba Metacom57 Plymouth Resents Metacom58 Reconquest of Paumonok59 Effect of the Penacook Federation60 War Against Plymouth61 Converts and Adoptees62 The Defeat of the Tribes63 Rebellion in VirginiaCHAPTER XIII QUAKER SETTLEMENT64 The Keystone Colony65 Starting the Quaker Colony66 Massachusetts's Charter Disputes67 Extension of the Keystone TerritoryCHAPTER XIV THE ANDROS REGIME68 New York's Overlord Becomes King69 New York Annexes New England70 Witchcraft71 Rebellion Against Andros72 The Rebellion SpreadsCHAPTER XV REBEL PROVINCES73 Rebel Provinces74 Father Rasles75 The Hudson Valley Is Attacked76 The Rebel Governments77 Scalping Bounties78 Down the Mississippi79 End of the Rebel GovernmentsCHAPTER XVI INTERCOLONIAL STRUGGLES80 The Peace of 169781 Louisiana82 The English Colonies after the Partition83 The Acadian War84 Wars Against the Tribes85 A Thirteenth Colony86 Religious Reform87 The Georgian WarCHAPTER XVII THE GREAT OHIO WAR88 Canessetago and Franklin89 Expulsion of the Acadians90 The Lanapes' New Home91 French Expansion in the Interior92 Virginia's Ohio Expedition93 The Great Ohio War Starts94 Iroquois Territory Invaded95 Amherst's Smallpox96 Capture of Canada97 The Peace of 1763...
Independently Published 2021-01-06 277 pages

At the foundling hospital

Pinsky, Robert
" "Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry the way that Lowell, or before him Eliot, once did. But among the many writers who have come of age in our fin de siècle, none have succeeded more completely as poet, critic, and translator than Robert Pinsky." --James Longenbach, The Nation The poems in Robert Pinsky's At the Foundling Hospital consider personality and culture as improvised from loss: a creative effort so pervasive it is invisible. An extreme example is the abandoned newborn. At the Foundling Hospital of eighteenth-century London, in a benign and oddly bureaucratic process, each new infant was identified by a duly recorded token. A minimal, charged particle of meaning, the token might be a coin or brooch or thimble--or sometimes a poem, such as the one quoted in full in Pinsky's poem "The Foundling Tokens." A foundling may inherit less of a past than an orphan, but with a wider set of meanings. The foundling soul needs to be adopted, and it needs to be adaptive. In one poem, French and German appear as originally Creole tongues, invented by the rough needs of conquered peoples and their Roman masters. In another, creators from scorned or excluded groups--among them Irving Berlin, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, and W.E.B. Du Bois--speak, as does the Greek tragic chorus, in the first-person singular. In these poems, a sometimes desperate, perpetual reimagining of identity, on the scale of one life or of human history, is deeply related to music: The quest is lyrical, whether the subject is as specific as "the emanation of a dead star still alive" or as personal as the "pinhole iris of your mortal eye." "--
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016-10-04 63 pages

Led by language: the poetry and poetics of Susan Howe

Back, Rachel Tzvia
This first full-length study of Susan Howe illuminates the historical, autobiographical, and theoretical influences that underlie the work of this enigmatic and important contemporary American poet. In Led by Language , poet and scholar Rachel Tzvia Back offers a close and detailed reading of Susan Howe's provocative and powerful poetry. Howe's work is dense, often difficult, but always distinctive, and Back's volume explains a number of features crucial to understanding her poems. In this complete survey of Howe's major work, from 1978's Secret History of the Dividing Line to 1999's Pierce-Arrow , Back highlights the key strategies underlying Howe's work: linguistic experimentation, historical motifs, autobiographical references, and visual experimentation with types, fonts, and images. One of the book's most compelling arguments is Back's case for reading Howe's work autobiographically. An obsession with history characterizes Howe's poetry--historical figures from Mary Magdalene to Melville haunt her work--and Back deftly demonstrates the intensely personal nature of much of the historical terrain Howe traverses. This study debunks the myth of Howe's impenetrability, making her work accessible to a wide range of readers. Back has created a thorough guide to reading and understanding this important poet, and her book will be welcomed by students and scholars of contemporary poetry, American literature, literary theory, and cultural studies.
University of Alabama Press 2002 238 pages

The Versailles System and Central Europe

Ádám, Magda
The treaties concluded with defeated countries after the First World War created a new order in Europe, known as the Versailles system. The consequences for Central Europe were acute: the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ceased to exist, but could the new dispensation provide prosperity and security for the Danubian region? Did the successor states depend for their survival on the Great Powers or the untried League of Nations, or could they combine in a novel form of regional integration? Professor Magdaám's work, based on pioneering research in European and American archives, addresses this intricate set of problems. She looks at how the uneven application of self-determination, and the legacies of old European diplomacy and traditional power politics, deprived the 'lands between' of a settlement which could enjoy consensus. This is a study of states with overlapping claims to territory, rival designs for achieving economic prosperity, and, crucially, different interpretations of their past history. By examining the inception, the troubled life and the tragic unravelling of the Versailles system, these sixteen papers help us understand the dynamics that shaped this region between the world wars.
Routledge 2023-12-20 404 pages

Professors, politics and pop

Wiener, Jon
“It is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university ... ”—Jacques Derrida “Wiener takes the modern university as his beat, and covers it like a police reporter ... Wiener’s mean streets are the think tank, the scholarly symposium, and the faculty lounge. And when he’s had enough of this academic low life, he listens to Elvis, Springsteen and the Beatles. He even listens to Frank Sinatra.”—John Leonard “In this book, Jon Wiener demonstrates his great skill as guerrilla sharpshooter in the forty-year war that the National Security State has been conducting against the American people. These reports from the field—the resistance—illuminate Nixon and Watergate as never before, reveal in fascinating detail the turbulence within Academe, invoke pity if not awe for that unexpected victim of state, Frank Sinatra.”—Gore Vidal “Wiener is good at spotting, and blasting, paranoid fantasy and incompetence in high (and low) places and his range of targets is impressively wide ... [his] surveys are lucid, trenchant and brief.”— Observer
Verso 1991 366 pages

Tattoo for a Slave

Hortense Calisher
A tattoo is a bugle call, a summoning that lingers in the ear. Although Hortense Calisher's family eventually migrated north to New York City, the echoes of their days as a slave-owning family in the South still resonate with this acclaimed author, who uncovers a part of history never before so strongly and tenderly revealed. Calisher traces her family's years in the South and their transformative move up north, beautifully evoking the mood and texture of the early twentieth century. Her family was an eccentric combination of traditions and tragedies. Her Virginia-born father, a perfume manufacturer, was twenty-two years older than her German-born mother. Marked by longer-than-normal gaps between the generations and conflicts between the mercantile and the scholarly, the "American" and the emigre, her family is characterized by Calisher as "volcanic to meditative to fruitfully dull, and bound to produce someone interested in character, society, and time." "
Harcourt 2005 324 pages

The Emperor's Last Victory Wagram 1809

Gunther E. Rothenberg
In early July 1809 Napoleon crossed the Danube with 187,000 men to confront the Austrian Archduke Charles and an army of 145,000 men. The fighting that followed dwarfed in intensity and scale any previous Napoleonic battlefield, perhaps any in history: casualties on each side were over 30,000. The Austrians fought with great determination, but eventually the Emperor won a narrow victory. It had not been his finest battle, however: the day was carried more by firepower (French artillery fired over 71,000 rounds) and bludgeoning than anything else.Wagram was decisive in that it compelled Austria to make peace. It also heralded a new, altogether greater order of warfare, anticipating the massed manpower and weight of fire deployed much later in the battles of the American Civil War and then at Verdun and on the Somme.This significant battle has rarely been analysed in any detail. Most of the current literature on it is French and self-serving. Gunther Rothenberg will tell for the first time the story of this immense engagement from both sides, making use of both French sources and the extensive Austrian archives.
Orion Publishing Group, Limited 2004-02 352 pages

The Jewish enigma: an enduring people

Englander, David
The survival of Jewish identity and culture is one of the great enigmas of history. Faced with persecution, dispersal, pogroms and Hitler's "Final Solution", the future of the Jewish people was far from secure. "The Jewish Enigma" seeks to discover what made survival possible. In seven chapters, scholars trace the history of the Jewish people from the first Babylonian exile to the current state of Western and American Jewry. Topics covered include Jews in Islamic lands, the Emancipation, the history of anti-Semitism, the history of East European Jewry as well as the troubled history of Zionism and the Palestinians.
Open University in association with P. Halban : Spiro Institute 1992 266 pages

Wild civility

Biespiel, David
David Biespiel's long poetic lines crackle with rhythmic energy and a jazzy, bittersweet richness of language. Rolling out across the page like darkly luminous highways, his innovative, nine-line "American sonnets" promise adventure, offering a variant on the sonnet form that is both lyric and dramatic and bringing his masterful formal inventiveness to free verse. "I've come to imagine the nine-line sonnet to be like one of those classic Thunderbirds," says Biespiel, "something distinctly American: wide, roomy, and with a robust engine." The vastly varied voices within the poems are united by a wonderfully limber diction. Using with revelatory precision the vocabularies of history, science, art, sport, philosophy, religion, literature, government, and domestic life, Biespiel has crafted a hip, melodic, elastic language that travels the registers of expression: lush and coarse, gaudy and austere, pliant and rigidly tough. The civility of the poems is the form; the wildness is the bristling energy of the language. Passionate, resilient, rich with wit and word play, these poems affirm David Biespiel's increasing stature as a poet of remarkable accomplishment and promise. David Biespiel teaches English at Oregon State University and is Writer in Residence at The Attic in Portland, Oregon. His honors include a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He is the author of Shattering Air. "Like microprocessors, the poems in Wild Civility deliver an almost incalculable amount of information instantaneously. As a result, they demonstrate the pure and powerful recombinant energy of language that is the essence of lyric poetry." - Michael Collier, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference "Wild in its imaginative thrust, civil in its formal command, this glowing new sequence represents David Biespiel's best poetry to date." - Stanley Plumly
University of Washington Press 2003 69 pages

The assassination of Hole in the Day

Treuer, Anton
On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at least twelve Ojibwe men and fatally shot. Hole in the Day's death was national news, and rumors of its cause were many: personal jealousy, retribution for his claiming to be head chief of the Ojibwe, retaliation for the attacks he fomented in 1862, or retribution for his attempts to keep mixed-blood Ojibwe off the White Earth Reservation. Still later, investigators found evidence of a more disturbing plot involving some of his closest colleagues: the business elite at Crow Wing. While most historians concentrate on the Ojibwe relationship with whites to explain this story, Anton Treuer focuses on interactions with other tribes, the role of Ojibwe culture and tradition, and interviews with more than fifty elders to further explain the events leading up to the death of Hole in the Day. The Assassination of Hole in the Day is not only the biography of a powerful leader but an extraordinarily insightful analysis of a pivotal time in the history of the Ojibwe people. " An essential study of nineteenth-century Ojibwe leadership and an important contribution to the field of American Indian Studies by an author of extraordinary knowledge and talent. Treuer's work is infused with a powerful command over Ojibwe culture and linguistics." --Ned Blackhawk, author of Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West "The Assassination of Hole in the Day is a masterful history, and more. Anton Treuer illuminates the character of a controversial and charismatic Ojibwe leader from within Ojibwe culture, and tells a powerful story of loss that reverberates in the present." --Louise Erdrich "This is more than a murder mystery. It provides insights into the evolution of clan structure, tribal governance and relations with the Dakota and other tribes since the time a century and a half ago when white pressure, the declining fur trade and other factors led to the cession of great tracts of land and the people's removal to reservations." --Star Tribune "This highly recommended work provides insights into the challenges faced by native peoples during an era when they were under intense pressure by the federal government to move to reservations." --Library Journal "Treuer explores the life and death of this brash young leader, and delves into tribal history and the intricate machinations of Ojibwa politics." --Booklist Anton Treuer, professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, is the author of Ojibwe in Minnesota and several books on the Ojibwe language. He is also the editor of Oshkaabewis Native Journal, the only academic journal of the Ojibwe language.
Borealis Books 2011 295 pages

A tough row to hoe: the 1985 Farm Bill and beyond

Galston, William A.
This book surveys the history of past agricultural policies, the sources of the current agricultural crisis, and the goals that should guide our choices in the future. It analyzes three key issues that shape the environment for agriculture) macroeconomic policy, tax policy, and farm credit. Overall, it provides an indispensible framework for understanding the bargain between agriculture and the rest of American society. A Hamilton Press book. Co-published with the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies.
Hamilton Press 1985-06-17 172 pages

Computer games and instruction

Sigmund Tobias,J. D. Fletcher
There is intense interest in computer games. A total of 65 percent of all American households play computer games, and sales of such games increased 22.9 percent last year. The average amount of game playing time was found to be 13.2 hours per week. The popularity and market success of games is evident from both the increased earnings from games, over $7 Billion in 2005, and from the fact that over 200 academic institutions worldwide now offer game related programs of study. In view of the intense interest in computer games educators and trainers, in business, industry, the government, and the military would like to use computer games to improve the delivery of instruction. Computer Games and Instruction is intended for these educators and trainers. It reviews the research evidence supporting use of computer games, for instruction, and also reviews the history of games in general, in education, and by the military. In addition chapters examine gender differences in game use, and the implications of games for use by lower socio-economic students, for students’ reading, and for contemporary theories of instruction. Finally, well known scholars of games will respond to the evidence reviewed.
State University of New York 2011-03-23 551 pages