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Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go - Raymond Chandler'S Knight

by Philip Durham

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 Thematically, Chandler's work is in the mainstream of American literature that moved westward, carrying the simple problems of the extrovert who, knowing right from wrong, had only to exert a courageous individualism in order to end up a hardened but virtuous hero. Originally published in 1963.
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The Meaning Of Czech History

by T. G. Masaryk

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 Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, was a unique political leader whose speeches, lectures, newspaper articles, and historical essays greatly influenced his people. Wellek brings together for the first time an English translation of Masaryk's writings that appeared between 1895 and 1910. Originally published 1974.
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Samuel Vetch - Colonial Enterpriser

by G.M. Waller

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 Vetch's life illustrates the problems that arose in shaping a colonial policy and an imperial establishment during the distractions of war, politics, inept bureaucracies, and inexperienced leadership. His experiences help reduce the theories of empire and the abstractions of history to some semblance of practical life.
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True Tales Of The South At War - How Soldiers Fought And Families Lived, 1861-1865

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 The many faces of the Civil War in the US South can be seen through the eyes of the soldiers who did the fighting and dying at the front, the wives and slaves who kept the home fires burning, and the children and grandchildren for whom their elders' stories of the war were their most vivid recollections. Much of the book is based on first-hand accounts.
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The Action Francaise And Revolutionary Syndicalism

by Paul Mazgaj

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 Traces the interaction between the syndicalist Left and the royalist Right in France during the period between the Dreyfuss affair and the beginnings of World War I. Some royalists turned to the Left to enlist support for replacing the Third Republic with a â€œsocialâ€ monarchy; the Left community was in such disarray that some syndicalists responded to the overtures of the Right.
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Race Relations - Problems And Theory

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 A collection of nineteen essays on race relations at mid-century, written in honour of the late Robert E. Park. Park left important sociological concepts that still stand the test of time - folk or sacred versus modern or secular society, racial frontiers, the marginal man, racial conflict, and racial movement. The contributors came directly under Park's influence either as students or colleagues.
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Hoover, Blacks, And Lily-Whites - A Study Of Southern Strategies

by Donald J. Lisio

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 For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels. Lisio demonstrates that this view is both inaccurate and incomplete, that Hoover hoped to promote racial progress.
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Public Debt And Future Generations

by James M. Ferguson

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 Contains selected articles that have appeared during the 1958-63 period and two previously unpublished essays on the shifting of the burden of public expenditure onto future generations. It provides the necessary material for understanding the several positions developed in the dispute on this important issue.
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John Clayton - Pioneer Of American Botany

by Dorothy Smith Berkeley e Edmund Berkeley

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 As a plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton, it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted solely to Virginia.
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The Partisan Spirit - Kentucky Politics, 1779-1792

by Patricia Watlington

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 Although historians have assumed previously that early Kentucky was a one-party area, this title suggests that there were three active parties - the partisan, court, and country. From the land-grant maze following the 1779 migration, through a brief Tory movement, the author traces the parties' development and their struggle for power in the world of postrevolutionary Kentucky politics.
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Technology In Early America - Needs And Opportunities For Study

by Brooke Hindle

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 This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology.
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The Governor And The Rebel - A History Of Bacon'S Rebellion In Virginia

by Wilcomb E. Washburn

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 This is the definitive study of the unsuccessful rebellion in Virginia led in 1676 by the younger Nathaniel Bacon, celebrated in history as the rebel, against Sir William Berkeley, the colonial governor of Virginia and one of the lords proprietors of Carolina. Using all known English and American sources, Washburn sheds light on many misconceptions surrounding the episode.
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Hidden Spending - The Politics Of Federal Credit Programs

by Dennis S. Ippolito

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 Ippolito examines the least publicized source of our current fiscal troubles - federal credit programs. Since the 1970s these programs have grown dramatically, but neither the growth nor their costs have been reflected in the budget. The true costs are not tangible and direct, but these programs can affect investment, economic growth, and productivity. Originally published 1984.
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The House And Foreign Policy - The Irony Of Congressional Reform

by Charles Whalen Jr.

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 House and Foreign Policy: The Irony of Congressional Reform
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Community Power Succession - Atlanta'S Policy Makers Revisited

by Floyd Hunter

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 Hunter returns to Atlanta and reveals how the power structure of the 1950s has changed during the 1960s and 1970s. By combining scholarly analysis, personal reminiscences, observation, and social prescription, he provides a companion work that is as important as its predecessor.
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From Tobacco Road To Route 66 - The Southern Poor White In Fiction

by Sylvia Jenkins Cook

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 In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence; postbellum writers saw him as a quaint peasant; the 1920s transformed him into a revolutionary proletarian. Of the literary treatments discussed, Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath emerges as a skilful compromise of documentary accuracy and political daring. Originally published in 1976.
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The Southern Experience In The American Revolution

by Jeffrey J. Crow e Larry E. Tise

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 Southern Experience in the American Revolution
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Himmler'S Auxiliaries - The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle And The German National Minorities Of Europe, 1933-1945

by Valdis O. Lumans

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 Studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. Lumans shows how the Reich's racial and political interests in these German minorities between helped determine its behaviour toward neighbouring states.
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Alessandro Stradella'S Esule Dalle Sfere - A Cantata For The Souls Of Purgatory

by Eleanor Mccrickard

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 This first modern critical edition of Esule dalle sfere exhibits Stradella's architectural genius and sensitive treatment of text. Vocal instrumental forces include two soloists, a four-voice chorus, violin, and continuo. This edition contains an English translation of the libretto, historical background and commentary, and a discussion of performance problems.
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Hester Thrale Piozzi - Portrait Of A Literary Woman

by William Mccarthy

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 Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrative of her life, McCarthy draws on a large body of published and unpublished sources to map Piozzi's literary development, define her literary identity, and evaluate her achievement. Originally published in 1985.
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Colombia - A Contemporary Political Survey

by John D. Martz

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 Among Latin-American nations, Colombia offers a unique opportunity for a study in comparative governmental methods and institutions. In 1958 Colombia initiated an extraordinary political experiment in controlled democracy: the two traditional parties agreed on absolute parity of representation from national to local level. This is a study of that experiment. Originally published in 1962.
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Richmond At War - The Minutes Of The City Council, 1861-1865

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 Presents the minutes of the governing body of the capital of the Confederate States of America. For the serious student of the Civil War as well as the serious collector of Virginiana, and of course for the professional writer, the historian, and the political scientist, this edition will be a most useful and important source book. Originally published 1966.
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Public Poor Relief In North Carolina

by Roy M. Brown

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 The idea for this volume resulted from the preparation of a bulletin on poor relief in North Carolina for the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Beginning with the problems of pauperism, the author discusses the conditions of the three classes of poor: the able-bodied rogues, the impotent poor, and the children. He offers suggestions for possible solutions of the problems in poor relief.
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An Approach To Public Welfare And Social Work

by Howard W. Odum

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 Approach to Public Welfare and Social Work
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