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Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch,by Harry L.

In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations.

Alexander von Humboldts Essay über Kuba, der auf Französisch verfasste „Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba“ (1825-1826), beschreibt und vermisst die Insel sehr genau, weshalb der Verfasser in Lateinamerika als „zweiter Kolumbus“ angesehen wurde.

Seit Jahrzehnten fuhren Sozialwissenschaftler und politisch interessierte Zeitgenossen einen Streit um die Typologie des Franco-Regimes in Spanien (1936/1939-1975).

Fort des acquis de l'historiographie sur le negoce des ports europeens de la fin de l'epoque medievale au debut de la periode contemporaine, l'ambition de ce livre est de faire dialoguer l'histoire portuaire et maritime avec l'histoire des femmes et du genre.

For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of Gods intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days.

Le Belge Edouard Empain obtient en 1898 la concession du Metro de Paris, qu'il construit et exploite.

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.

The History of the SlavsFrom the forests and steppes of Eastern Europe to the rise of powerful medieval kingdoms, discover the remarkable story of the Slavic peoples.

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CHALON-SUR-SAÔNE — Two Thousand Years of History Along the WaterDiscover Chalon-sur-Saône from a different perspective.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the military welfare history ‘perspective,’ a vital yet often overlooked aspect of welfare studies.

Part of a series filled with "e;gratifying detail"e; about the ancestry of the first US President, this volume contains the tenth-generation descendants.

Part of a series filled with "e;gratifying detail"e; about the ancestry of the first US President, this volume contains the tenth-generation descendants.

Le Belge Edouard Empain obtient en 1898 la concession du Metro de Paris, qu'il construit et exploite.

Southern Cultures: The Help Special IssueVolume 20: Number 1 Spring 2014Table of ContentsFront Porch,by Harry L.

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R.

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) understood that to successfully establish an independent nation it needed to generate solidarity across the Americas with its struggle against US colonial rule.

This is the fourth volume of Dr.

Journal of the Indian Wars, or JIW was a quarterly publication on the study of the American Indian Wars.

This book presents the select contributions of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative, Sustainable materials and technologies and it provides an in-depth exploration of the most recent developments in sustainable engineering, emphasizing cutting-edge materials, techniques, and technologies that have paved the way to a more sustainable future.

Legal transplant in the Meiji Restoration gave birth to Taishinin, which is the former of today’s Supreme Court of Japan, but the objective of it was not solely for legal justice at the beginning.

The Winter 2014 Issue brings us duels and Dashboard Poets, eels and fauxvillages, a beloved television icon, interviews with liberal hero Walter Mondaleand conservative activist Jack Kershaw, Civil War battlefi eld monuments, andmore.

Cities are nothing without the streetsthe arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow.

The second edition of Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman transports students into the bohemian section of New York City known as an epicenter of rebels, artists, and seekers of personal transformation.

It is 1942, and World War II is raging.

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history.

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansh takes readers deep into the intellectual and cultural landscape of 13th-century Japan, offering a detailed translation and analysis of the Gukansh, a pivotal historical work written by the Buddhist priest Jien in 1219.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

In April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago.

'A thorough guide to just about everything worth drinking.

The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the natural world, and reason and imagination.

Since the 'cultural turn' of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on their head as concepts and categories for research have been re-thought.

Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor.

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century.

The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and deal with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor within the church and political structures.

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas.

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Historians describe the 'long 19th century' as an age of empire, characterized by expansion and industrialization.

A Cultural History of Medicine presents anauthoritative survey from ancient times to the present.

"e;Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over a city without either great wealth, size, or strategic importance.

In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the islands transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state.

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture.

Rosenfeld argues that farm women have rarely been identified as productive farm workers and that they continue to be seen only as mothers and homemakers.

This book offers a rigorous social and cultural history of the formation of medical professionals in modern Iraq and their role in shaping public health institutions.

From the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.

This book offers a rigorous social and cultural history of the formation of medical professionals in modern Iraq and their role in shaping public health institutions.

This book offers an insightful reappraisal of international broadcasting as discursive rather than 'soft' power in service of democratic statecraft.

This book offers an insightful reappraisal of international broadcasting as discursive rather than 'soft' power in service of democratic statecraft.

This book is a unique transdisciplinary study on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science, especially in such a critical era of environmental crisis today.