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Saving Florida - Women'S Fight For The Environment In The Twentieth Century

by Leslie K. Poole

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 Florida is renowned for its beautiful beaches, natural springs, and subtropical wilderness, but it is widely joked that the official bird should be the construction crane. Dredge-and-fill projects, air pollution, and pesticides spread so uncontrollably during the twentieth century that they sparked an environmental movement within the state, and those who led the fight were very often women.
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Everyday Life Matters - Maya Farmers At Chan

by Cynthia Robin

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 Develops general methods and theories for studying the applications of everyday life in archaeology, anthropology, and a wide range of related disciplines. Examining the two-thousand-year history (800 BC - AD 1200) of the ancient farming community of Chan in Belize, Cynthia Robinâ€™s work explains why the average person should matter to archaeologists studying larger societal patterns.
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New Histories Of Pre-Columbian Florida

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 Given its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal for human habitation. Representing the next wave of southeastern archaeology, the essays in this book resoundingly argue that Florida is a crucial hub of archaeological inquiry.
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The Paradox Of Paternalism - Women And The Politics Of Authoritarianism In The Dominican Republic

by Elizabeth S. Manley

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 From the rise of dictator Rafael Trujillo in the early 1930s to the rule of his successor JoaquÃn Balaguer in the 1970s, women were frequently absent or erased from public political narratives in the Dominican Republic. Filling these silences, The Paradox of Paternalism shows that women were central to local, national, and international politics during this period.
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The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered - American Politics And Society In The Postwar Era

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 Confronting Godfrey Hodgson's long-standing theory that a ""liberal consensus"" shaped the United States after World War II, this volume finds that although elite politicians from both parties did share certain principles that gave direction to postwar America, the nation still experienced major political, cultural, and ideological conflict during this time.
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Home Front - North Carolina During World War Ii

by Julian M. Pleasants

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 Argues that World War II was the most significant event in the history of modern North Carolina, an experience that dramatically improved the lives of ordinary citizens by transforming the rural state into an urban and industrialized society. Julian Pleasants uses primary sources to explore the triumphs, hardships, and emotions of North Carolinians during this critical period.
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This Business Of Words - Reassessing Anne Sexton

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 Long overshadowed by Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton seldom features in literary criticism, despite being one of Americaâ€™s most influential women writers. Now in this much-needed volume Sexton and her poetry are reassessed for the first time in two decades. With new access to her archives, scholars and poets consider Sextonâ€™s wide range of literary production.
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Polygyny - What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands

by Debra Majeed

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 Polygyny - multiple-wife marriage - has steadily emerged as an alternative to the low numbers of marriageable African American men and the high number of female-led households in black America. This book features the voices of women who welcome polygyny, oppose it, acquiesce to it, or even negotiate power in its practices.
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Frontier Life In Ancient Peru - The Archaeology Of Cerro La Cruz

by Melissa A. Vogel

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 Offers a new perspective on ancient Peruvian life and geopolitics during a pivotal period of Andean cultural transformation between AD 900 and AD 1300. Focusing on the frontier site of Cerro la Cruz in the Chao Valley, this volume richly details the role of cross-cutting social networks and the dynamics of shifting political boundaries in prehistoric north coast Peru.
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Eating In The Side Room - Food, Archaeology, And African American Identity

by Mark S. Warner

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 Warner uses the archaeological data on food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, as the point of departure for a broader look at the centrality of material culture in the construction of African identity in America.
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Everyday Religion - An Archaeology Of Protestant Belief And Practice In The Nineteenth Century

by Hadley Kruczek-Aaron

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 In the early nineteenth century, antebellum America witnessed a Second Great Awakening led by evangelical Protestants who gathered in revivals and contributed to the blossoming of social movements throughout the country.. One such community in Smithfield, New York, led by activist Gerrit Smith, is the focus of Hadley Kruczek-Aaronâ€™s study.
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Democracy Abroad, Lynching At Home - Racial Violence In Florida

by Tameka Bradley Hobbs

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 In this book, Tameka Hobbs investigates the history of racial violence and lynchings in Florida, focusing especially on a string of brutal lynchings that occurred during the 1940s. She argues that these lynchings created difficult diplomatic moments during both World War II and the Cold War period and that they forced the U.S. government to become more active in prosecuting racial violence.
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Fifty Years Of Justice - A History Of The U.S. Court For The Middle District Of Florida

by James M. Denham

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 This book looks at the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida, which represents about 1/2 of Florida's population and is one of the busiest courts in the state, interpreting and applying Supreme Court decisions in cases such as the Terry Schaivo "right to die" case.
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They Dared To Dream - Florida Women Who Shaped History

by Doris Weatherford

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 While many works chronicle the various facets of Florida's history, no book has revealed the myriad contributions of the state's pioneering women. Doris Weatherford presents the first comprehensive narrative of the leading ladies who shaped Florida, from prehistoric times to the present.
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Category 5 - The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane

by Thomas N. Knowles

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 In the midst of the Great Depression, a furious storm struck the Florida Keys with devastating force. With winds estimated at over 225 miles per hour, it was the first recorded Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the US. Thomas Knowles pieces together this dramatic story, moment by horrifying moment, providing a frightening account of the first Category 5 storm to strike the US.
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Australia Faces Southeast Asia - The Emergence Of A Foreign Policy

by Mary Belle Vandenbosch

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 Australia as a Western society in the Orient faces a unique and paradoxical challenge in her relations with her close but unfamiliar neighbors of Southeast Asia. In Australia Faces Southeast Asia, Amry and MaryBelle Vandenbosch trace Australia's attempts to reconcile her cultural heritage and her geography.
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Southeast Asia Among The World Powers

by Richard Butwell

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 First published in 1957, this classic work on the political situation in Southeast Asia at the start of the Vietnam War includes a supplement covering events up to mid-1958. Individual chapters are devoted to Indonesia, the Philippines, Indochina, Thailand, Malaya, and Burma. The concluding chapters analyse the international relations of Southeast Asia and American foreign policy.
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Schools For All - The Blacks And Public Education In The South, 1865-1877

by William Preston Vaughn

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 Provides the first in-depth study of black education in southern US public schools and universities during the twelve-year Reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. In an extensive study of records from the period, William Preston Vaughn traces the development of the early attempts of the states to promote education for African Americans and in some instances to establish integration.
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Modern Arab Art : Formation Of Arab Aesthetics - Formation Of Arab Aesthetics

by Nada M. Shabout

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 Provides a historical and theoretical overview of the subject from the 1940s through today. With particular emphasis on production, reception, and the intersection between art and politcs in Iraq and Palestine, Nada Shabout reveals the fallacy in Western fascination with Arab art as a timeless and exotic "other".
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A Paddler'S Guide To Everglades National Park

by Johnny Molloy

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 Whether forging uncharted territory or slipping along marked canoe trails, get ready to experience more than 400 miles of creeks, bays, marshes, and the Gulf of Mexico. This indispensable guide for the ultimate adventure by canoe or kayak now includes GPS coordinates and twelve new paddle routes.
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Walking St. Augustine - An Illustrated Guide And Pocket History To America'S Oldest City

by Elsbeth ""Buff"" Gordon

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Fed Up - The High Costs Of Cheap Food

by Dale F. Slongwhite

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 This book provides an intimate look at the lives of former African-American farmworkers who labored in central Florida's farms along the shores of Lake Apopka. The author familiarizes readers with the history of Lake Apopka and the social and environmental injustice centered on food production that has taken place there.
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Going Ape - Florida'S Battles Over Evolution In The Classroom

by Brandon Haught

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 In this book, Haught chronicles the war over teaching evolution in Florida's schools, from the first shouts of religious persecution and child endangerment in Tallahassee in 1923 to the forced delays and extra public hearings in state-level textbook adoptions today.
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Power And Paradise In Walt Disney'S World

by Cher Krause Knight

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 The book focuses on Disney World as a locus for understanding Walt Disney's vision and goal to transport visitors to a different world.
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