The nation s longest-serving attorney general tells the story of a life that spanned two centuries and a career that helped transform consumer protection and public interest law.
Explores the American Masonic system and its strengths and failings *; Examines the history of Freemasonry in the United States from the colonial era and the Revolutionary War to the rise of the Scottish branch onward *; Investigates the racial split in American Freemasonry between black lodges and white and how, unlike French lodges, women are ineligible to become Masons in the U.
The book presents and analyses South African foreign policy, from the onset of the democratic transition of Nelson Mandela in 1994 to the contemporary period.
A revealing study of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American RevolutionRelieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British in the South during the American Revolution.
This book contributes to the increasing interest in John Adams and his political and legal thought by examining his work on the medieval British Empire.
"e;The more I read the Bible, the more evident it becomes that everything I have ever taught or written about effective leadership over the past 25 years, Jesus did to perfection.
In a polarised milieu that too often posits "e;queer"e; and "e;Christian"e; as competing realms, this book explores the complexities of identity development, religious traumatisation, and the task of creating safe faith spaces in which LGBTQA+ people can find healing, particularly in the Evangelical context.
Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War.
In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationship between big business and government.
A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century.
From the Chesapeake incident off the coast of Nova Scotia, through the St Albans Raid from Quebec into Vermont, to the reinforcing of garrisons across British North America in response to the Trent Affair, The Civil War Years ranges across the early Canadian landscape.
In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chavez was elected.
In People Must Live by Work, Steven Attewell presents the history of an ideadirect job creationthat transformed the role of government in ameliorating unemployment by hiring the unemployed en masse to prevent widespread destitution in economic crises.
"e;Has uniformly good essays on economic and political change, the policies of the great and local powers, and the prospects for building a new regional order"e;.
This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society.
A study of the economic relationships between the two countries, particularly in the years from 1900 to 1930, with the necessary consideration of the political factors involved.
On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender.
Chicagos Authentic Founder traces the life and time of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable from Haiti through Louisiana, Peoria, Chicago, and Saint-Charles, Missouri, where he died in 1818.
If countless books and movies are to be believed, Americas Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain mena mans world.
Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability.
One shining yet overlooked moment that changed the course of the Revolutionary WarIn the opening months of 1781, General George Washington feared his army would fail to survive another campaign season.
Arizona Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona's history, like the story of Pearl Hart or the ghosts that live in the Hotel Vendome.
Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons - and how it has since tried to find a way out of it.
Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race - made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late eighteenth century.
"e;Conjures the Adirondack wilderness as a vast and imposing stage on which a succession of human dramas-from the romantic to the terrifying-come alive.
