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In Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865-2000, researchers
investigate the interplay of race and the emerging social studies
field from the time of the Emancipation of enslaved peoples in the
second half of the nineteenth century to the multicultural and
Afrocentric education initiatives of the late-twentieth century.
The chapters incorporate viewpoints from various regions and local
communities, as well as different ideas and ideals regarding
teaching about race and Black history. This volume makes a case for
considering the goals of such efforts-whether for individual
development or social justice-and views the teaching of social
studies education through the lens of race.
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Bismarck once said that God looked after drunkards, children and
the U.S. of A. Some say that baseball should be added to the list.
It must have been divine intervention that led the sport through a
series of transformative challenges from the end of World War II to
the games first expansion in 1961. During this period baseball was
forced to make a number of painful choices. From 1949 to 1954,
attendance dropped more than 30 percent, as once loyal fans turned
to other activities, started going to see more football, and began
watching television. Also, the sport had to wrestle with racial
integration, franchise shifts and unionization while trying to keep
a firm hold on the minds and emotions of the public. This work
chronicles how baseball, with imagination and some foresight,
survived postwar challenges. Some of the solutions came about
intelligently, some clumsily, but by 1960 baseball was a stronger,
healthier and better balanced institution than ever before.
Profiles thirteen musicians who achieved high honors and fame before the age of twenty-five, representing many different time periods and musical styles.
After many years of planning, scheming, and skullduggery, President
Kruger launched his invasions of British territory on 11 October 1899,
sparking the Boer War and plunging southern Africa into almost three
years of misery. Natal was front and centre of Kruger’s dreams of
carving out a vast empire in the region; despite latter-day attempts to
desperately reinvent this as a ‘defensive’ invasion, towns were looted
and renamed, great swathes of the colony were annexed to the republics,
and thousands of civilians were driven from their homes. The objective
was to grab Natal and, with it, a seaport; indeed, even Louis Botha
himself later boasted that only General Joubert’s dithering had
prevented him ‘coming to Durban in 1899 to eat bananas’.
Written in Ash’s trademark ‘no holds barred’ style, this comprehensive
history details the forces involved – republican, British, and Natalian
– and covers every aspect of the campaign. Where other accounts tend to
focus almost entirely on the British defeats at Colenso and Spion Kop,
this new work shows how they fitted into the campaign as a whole and
explores how the much-maligned General Buller broke through to relieve
Ladysmith, then drove the invaders out in a series of barely known
victories.
Fully illustrated with specially drawn maps that show both the
operational and tactical aspects of the campaign, Ash can stand back to
explain the ‘big picture’ but also take the reader into the trenches
and sangars with the Tommies and burghers. Written with verve and a
soldier’s eye, Ash’s accounts of the various battles place the reader
right in the thick of the action; one can almost hear the crack of the
Mauser bullets and the pounding of the guns. The cast of remarkable
characters who served in Natal are also explored in depth; indeed, the
extraordinary personalities involved are one of the many things that
make this account so readable and entertaining.
Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1950s Can
Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students
of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and
understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1950s in
contemporary terms. The authors explore how key books/authors from
the curriculum field of the 1950s illuminate new possibilities
forward for us as scholar educators today: How might the theories,
practices, and ideas wrapped up in curriculum texts of the 1950s
still resonate with us, allow us to see backward in time and
forward in time - all at the same time? How might these figurative
windows of insight, thought, ideas, fantasy, and fancy make us
think differently about curriculum, teaching, learning, students,
education, leadership, and schools? Further, how might they help us
see more clearly, even perhaps put us on a path to correct the
mistakes and missteps of intervening decades and of today? The
chapter authors and editors revisit and interpret several of the
most important works in the curriculum field of the 1950s. The
book's Foreword is by renowned curriculum theorist William H.
Schubert.
Volume 15 offers a series of critical articles and commentaries by
some of the leading historically-oriented social scientists writing
in academia today. Collectively, the articles examine issues
ranging from the relations between class, power and history, to the
role of states and culture in mediating those dynamics. Special
attention is paid to race, gender, citizenship and civil society in
the formation of such structures and processes. The countries or
regions under study include the United States, Brazil, Chile,
China, Mexico, Samoa and Southwest Africa.In keeping with the
journal's commitment to inter-disciplinary, as well as historical
inquiry, our nine contributors come from a variety of disciplines
(sociology, political science, anthropology and history), all
drawing on debates and themes that cut across the social sciences.
The significance of the inter-disciplinary perspective is seen not
only in the range of cases, literatures and methodologies brought
to bear on the key issues under study; it also forms the
substantive core of several contributions that call for a
rethinking of conventional disciplinary boundaries and
methodological frames.
The year 2000 marks the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of
Hitotsubashi University, one of Japan's most prestigious
universities. This official history celebrates the origins and
development of the university and its contribution both to Japan's
higher education system and her outstanding economic growth over
the last century.
For one brief period in the early 1940s, Pete Reiser was the equal
of any outfielder in baseball, even Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio,
but his penchant for running into outfield walls while playing
defense prematurely ended his journey to Cooperstown. Pitcher Herb
Score was a brilliant pitcher until a Gil McDougald line drive
shelved his career. And Thurman Munson was one of the games best
catchers in the late 1970s until a tragic plane crash ended his
life. These three players and fourteen others (Smoky Joe Wood, Vean
Gregg, Kirby Puckett, Hal Trotsky, Tony Oliva, Paul Dean, Ewell
Blackwell, David Ferris, Steve Busby, J.R. Richard, Tony
Conigliaro, Johnny Beazley, Mark Fidrych, and Lyman Bostock)
enjoyed brilliant careers--potentially worthy of the Hall of
Fame--that were cut short by injury, illness or death. Some enjoyed
several seasons of success only to see their playing days end just
short of numbers worthy of Cooperstown; others enjoyed only a
season or two of brilliance. The profiles concentrate on the
players accomplishments and speculate on how their careers might
have developed if they had continued.
Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the
Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour,
often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the
combination of various work processes we are often not aware of.
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the
world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how
did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise
the field of the global history of work - a young discipline that
is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book
discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term
perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict
labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the
textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and
motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global
labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the
profession.
A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to
public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th
centuries. It suggests that cultural capital from African American
communities may be important for closing the gap in the funding of
black schools in the 21st century.
Bats, baronets and Battle is more than just about cricket. This is
a history full of colourful characters - eccentric baronets with a
fondness for gambling, forthright women who wished to take their
role and the game beyond an excuse to wear a pretty dress, and
brothers from local villages who played the sport at the highest
levels home and abroad. If Sussex was the 'cradle' for the earliest
of cricket, the villages around Battle were there at the game's
birth. From Georgian times and the murky world of 18th century
politics, Tim Dudgeon traces Battle cricket's role from its role in
18th century Georgian gambling though the fear of 19th century
rural unrest and the dawn of the professional game to the tragic
impact of two world wars and into the modern era. The story he
uncovers is an intriguing one that has local people and communities
at its heart, but throws light on their links with events and
forces that have shaped our world today.
In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history
of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the
malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the
litigious battles of 1954-73 taught Alabama's segregationists how
to fashion a more subtle defense of white privilege, placing them
in the vanguard of a new conservatism oriented toward the Sunbelt,
not the South. Scholars have recently begun uncovering the ways in
which segregationists abandoned violent backlash and overt economic
reprisal and learned how to rearticulate their resistance and blind
others to their racial motivations. Bagley is most interested in a
creedal commitment to maintaining "law and order," which lay at the
heart of this transition. Before it was a buzz phrase meant to
conjure up fears of urban black violence, "law and order"
represented a politics that allowed self-styled white moderates to
begrudgingly accept token desegregation and to begin to stake their
own claims to constitutional rights without forcing them to
repudiate segregation or white supremacy. Federal courts have, as
recently as 2014, agreed that Alabama's property tax system is
crippling black education. Bagley argues that this is because, in
the late 1960s, the politics of law and order became a politics of
white rights, which supported not only white flight to suburbs and
private schools but also nominally color-blind changes in the
state's tax code. These changes were designed to shield white money
from the needs of increasingly black public education. Activists
and courts have been powerless to do anything about them, because
twenty years of desperate litigious combat finally taught Alabama
lawmakers how to erect constitutional bulwarks that could withstand
a legal assault.
Republican Legal Theory discusses the history, constitution and purposes of law in a free state. This is the most comprehensive study since James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and The Federalist of republican legal ideas. Sellers explains the importance of popular sovereignty, the rule of law, the separation of powers, and other essential republican checks and balances in protecting liberty and against tyranny and corruption.
Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of
alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental
dynastic politics. Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern
Europe. The creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were
tied to continental dynastic politics. This book combines cultural
definitions of politics with a wider exploration of institutional,
military, diplomatic and economic concerns with a view to providing
a more comprehensive understanding of dynastic marriage
negotiations. It covers a period from the signing of the Treaty of
London in 1604 until afterthe Anglo-French and Anglo-Spanish peace
treaties (1629-30). Stuart Marriage Diplomacy explores how the
search for a bride for Princes Henry and Charles started a long
process of protracted consultations between the key players of
Europe: Spain, Italy, France, Rome, Brussels and the United
Provinces. It shows the interconnections between these courts, thus
advancing a 'continental turn' in the analysis of Stuart politics
in the early seventeenth century, and considers how reason of state
was often considered as more crucial than religion or economic
concerns in the outcome of the Stuart-Habsburg and Stuart-Bourbon
marriage negotiations. It also reveals the extent to which the
interactions between Europe and non-European actors in both the
Atlantic and the East contributed to a redefinition of European
identity. It will engage not only scholars and students of early
modern Europe but, more generally,those interested in the history
of European courts and royalty. VALENTINA CALDARI is Departmental
Lecturer in Early Modern History at Balliol College, University of
Oxford. SARA J. WOLFSON is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History
at Canterbury Christ Church University. CONTRIBUTORS: Paul
Arblaster, Valentina Caldari, David Coast, Thomas Cogswell, Robert
Cross, Andrea De Meo, Kelsey Flynn, Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva, Melinda
J. Gough, Helmer Helmers, Jose Eloy Hortal Munoz, Adam Marks, Steve
Murdoch, Michael Questier, Manuel Rivero, Porfirio Sanz Camanes,
Edmond Smith, R. Malcolm Smuts, Peter H. Wilson, Sara J. Wolfson
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