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A newly minted second lieutenant fresh from West Point, Hugh Lenox
Scott arrived on the northern Great Plains in the wake of the
Little Bighorn debacle. The Seventh Cavalry was seeking to subdue
the Plains tribes and confine them to reservations, and Scott
adopted the role of negotiator and advocate for the Indian
"adversaries." He thus embarked on a career unique in the history
of the U.S. military and the western frontier. Hugh Lenox Scott,
1853-1934: Reluctant Warrior is the first book to tell the full
story of this unlikely, self-avowed "soldier of peace," whose
career, stretching from Little Bighorn until after World War I,
reflected profound historical changes. The taste for adventure that
drew Scott to the military also piqued his interest in the tenacity
of Native cultures in an environment rife with danger and
uncertainty. Armand S. La Potin describes how Scott embraced the
lifeways of the Northern Plains peoples, making a study of their
cultures, their symbols, and most notably, their use of an
intertribal sign language to facilitate trade. Negotiating with
dissident bands of Indians whose lands were threatened by Anglo
settlers and commercial interests, he increasingly found himself
advocating federal responsibility for tribal welfare and assuming
the role of "Indian reformer." La Potin makes clear that "reform"
was understood within the context of Scott's own culture, which
scaled "civilization" to the so-called Anglo race. Accordingly,
Scott promoted the "civilization" of Native Americans through
assimilation into Anglo-American society-an approach he continued
in his later interactions with the Moro Muslims of the southern
Philippines, where he served as a military governor. Although he
eventually rose to the rank of army chief of staff, over time Scott
the peacemaker and Indian reformer saw his career stall as Native
tribes ceased to be seen as a military threat and military merit
was increasingly defined by battlefield experience. From these
pages the picture emerges of an uncommon figure in American
military history, at once at odds with and defined by his times.
The Story of Israel is an illuminating book that explores the
nation's history. Seventy years after Israel declared independence
on 14 May 1948, the dramatic events before and since this point
form an extraordinary period of history. From Theodor Herzl's
efforts to establish a sovereign Jewish nation in Palestine to the
21st-century roadmap for peace and beyond, The Story of Israel
brings the period to life as never before. Sir Martin Gilbert's
authoritative text is supplemented by more than 150 photographs and
maps, as well as rare documents, including pages from Herzl's
diary, identification papers of an Exodus refugee and Ben-Gurion's
copy of his Declaration of Independence speech - all of which shed
light on fascinating history of the country. This is the ultimate
guide to the turbulent history of a proud and powerful nation.
From Delicate Arch to the Zion Narrows, Utah's five national parks
and eight national monuments are home to some of America's most
amazing scenic treasures, created over long expanses of geologic
time. In Wonders of Sand and Stone, Frederick H. Swanson traces the
recent human story behind the creation of these places as part of a
protected mini-empire of public lands. Drawing on extensive
historical research, Swanson presents little-known accounts of
people who saw in these sculptured landscapes something worth
protecting. Readers are introduced to the region's early explorers,
scientists, artists, and travelers as well as the local residents
and tourism promoters who worked with the National Park Service to
build the system of parks and monuments we know today, when Utah's
national parks and monuments face multiple challenges from
increased human use and from development outside their borders. As
scientists continue to uncover the astonishing diversity of life in
these desert and mountain landscapes, and archaeologists and Native
Americans document their rich cultural resources, the management of
these federal lands remains critically important. Swanson provides
us with a detailed and timely background to advance and inform
discussions about what form that management should take.
A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced
it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel
writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor.
'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.'
EDMUND DE WAAL 'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of colourful
tales, beautifully weaving history and travel accounts.' ANDREA
WULF, author of The Invention of Nature 'A volume for our times.'
SARA WHEELER, THE SPECTATOR This is the story of three unheralded
nineteenth-century dissidents, whose lives were profoundly shaped
by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to
blow strongly today: Louise Michel, a leader of the radical
socialist government known as the Paris Commune; Dinuzulu
kaCetshwayo, an enemy of British colonialism in Zululand; and Lev
Shternberg, a militant campaigner against Russian tsarism. In
Exiles, William Atkins travels to their islands of banishment -
Michel's New Caledonia in the South Pacific, Dinuzulu's St Helena
in the South Atlantic, and Shternberg's Sakhalin off the Siberian
coast - in a bid to understand how exile shaped them and the people
among whom they were exiled. In doing so he illuminates the
solidarities that emerged between the exiled subject, on the one
hand, and the colonised subject, on the other. Rendering these
figures and the places they were forced to occupy in shimmering
detail, Atkins reveals deeply human truths about displacement,
colonialism and what it means to have and to lose a home. Occupying
the fertile zone where history, biography and travel writing meet,
Exiles is a masterpiece of imaginative empathy. 'A fascinating
study of exile and its effects.' OBSERVER '[Atkins] is humane,
humble, and empathetic . . . beautiful and moving.' ILYA KAMINSKY,
author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa 'An incredible,
brilliant act of retrieval.' PHILIP HOARE, author of Albert &
the Whale 'Thrilling.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A finely crafted and
lyrical meditation.' TLS 'Gracefully written . . . Brilliant.' THE
ECONOMIST 'Rarely has a book been more timely.' HISTORY TODAY ***
Read The Moor and The Immeasureable World for more award-winning
writing from William Atkins
Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from
mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents,
these cases provide a captivating window into marital life—and
strife—in the border South during the tumultuous years before,
during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has
brought these primary documents to light, revealing the inner
thoughts, legal hardships, and day-to-day struggles of these
average citizens. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio
County, courtrooms bore witness to men and women from various
ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds who shared shockingly
intimate details of their lives and relationships. Some tried
desperately to defend their masculinity or femininity; others hoped
to restore their reputations to the legal system and to their
community. In an era of uncertainty—when the country was torn in
two, when the Wheeling community became the capital of a new state,
and when activists across the country began to push for women’s
rights in the household and family—the divorce cases of ordinary
couples reveal changing attitudes toward marriage, gender, and
legal separation in a booming border city perched on the edge of
the South.
Along with Confederate flags, the men and women who recently
gathered before the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts carried signs
proclaiming "Heritage Not Hate." Theirs, they said, was an "open
and visible protest against those who attacked us, ours flags, our
ancestors, or our Heritage." How, Nicole Maurantonio wondered, did
"not hate" square with a "heritage" grounded in slavery? How do
so-called neo-Confederates distance themselves from the actions and
beliefs of white supremacists while clinging to the very symbols
and narratives that tether the Confederacy to the history of racism
and oppression in America? The answer, Maurantonio discovers, is
bound up in the myth of Confederate exceptionalism-a myth whose
components, proponents, and meaning this timely and provocative
book exploresThe narrative of Confederate exceptionalism, in this
analysis, updates two uniquely American mythologies-the Lost Cause
and American exceptionalism-blending their elements with discourses
of racial neoliberalism to create a seeming separation between the
Confederacy and racist systems. Incorporating several methods and
drawing from a range of sources-including ethnographic
observations, interviews, and archival documents-Maurantonio
examines the various people, objects, and rituals that contribute
to this cultural balancing act. Her investigation takes in
"official" modes of remembering the Confederacy, such as the
monuments and building names that drive the discussion today, but
it also pays attention to the more mundane and often subtle ways in
which the Confederacy is recalled. Linking the different modes of
commemoration, her work bridges the distance that believers in
Confederate exceptionalism maintain; while situated in history from
the Civil War through the civil rights era, the book brings
much-needed clarity to the constitution, persistence, and
significance of this divisive myth in the context of our time.
Davida Malo's Mo'olelo Hawai'i is the single most important
description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795,
twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawai'i,
wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts of
ancestral chiefs to religion and government to traditional
amusements. The heart of this two-volume work is a new, critically
edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript
known as the "Carter copy," handwritten by him and two helpers in
the decade before his death in 1853. Volume 1 provides images of
the original text, side by side with the new edited text. Volume 2
presents the edited Hawaiian text side by side with a new annotated
English translation. Malo's text has been edited at two levels.
First, the Hawaiian has been edited through a careful comparison of
all the extant manuscripts, attempting to restore Malo's original
text, with explanations of the editing choices given in the
footnotes. Second, the orthography of the Hawaiian text has been
modernized to help today's readers of Hawaiian by adding
diacritical marks ('okina and kahako, or glottal stop and macron,
respectively) and the punctuation has been revised to signal the
end of clauses and sentences. The new English translation attempts
to remain faithful to the edited Hawaiian text while avoiding
awkwardness in the English. Both volumes contain substantial
introductions. The introduction to Volume 1 (in Hawaiian) discusses
the manuscripts of Malo's text and their history. The introduction
to Volume 2 contains two essays that provide context to help the
reader understand Malo's Moolelo Hawaii. "Understanding Malo's
Moolelo Hawaii" describes the nature of Malo's work, showing that
it is the result of his dual Hawaiian and Western education. "The
Writing of the Moolelo Hawaii" discusses how the Carter copy was
written and preserved, its relationship to other versions of the
text, and Malo's plan for the work as a whole. The introduction is
followed by a new biography of Malo by Kanaka Maoli historian
Noelani Arista, "Davida Malo, a Hawaiian Life," describing his life
as a chiefly counselor and Hawaiian intellectual.
Bureaucratic Archaeology is a multi-faceted ethnography of
quotidian practices of archaeology, bureaucracy and science in
postcolonial India, concentrating on the workings of Archaeological
Survey of India (ASI). This book uncovers an endemic link between
micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of the ASI to the
manufacture of archaeological knowledge, wielded in the making of
political and religious identity and summoned as indelible evidence
in the juridical adjudication in the highest courts of India. This
book is a rare ethnography of the daily practice of a postcolonial
bureaucracy from within rather than from the outside. It
meticulously uncovers the social, cultural, political and
epistemological ecology of ASI archaeologists to show how
postcolonial state assembles and produces knowledge. This is the
first book length monograph on the workings of archaeology in a
non-western world, which meticulously shows how theory of
archaeological practice deviates, transforms and generates
knowledge outside the Euro-American epistemological tradition.
How the support of patriotic sentiments in Ottoman Egypt led to an
emerging Arab nationalism Arab Patriotism presents the essential
backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass
nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that
the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman
milieu, Adam Mestyan points to the patriotic sentiment that grew in
the Egyptian province of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth
century, arguing that it served as a pivotal way station on the
path to the birth of Arab nationhood. Through extensive archival
research, Mestyan examines the collusion of various Ottoman elites
in creating this nascent sense of national belonging and finds that
learned culture played a central role in this development. Mestyan
investigates the experience of community during this period,
engendered through participation in public rituals and being part
of a theater audience. He describes the embodied and textual ways
these experiences were produced through urban spaces, poetry,
performances, and journals. From the Khedivial Opera House's
staging of Verdi's Aida and the first Arabic magazine to the 'Urabi
revolution and the restoration of the authority of Ottoman viceroys
under British occupation, Mestyan illuminates the cultural dynamics
of a regime that served as the precondition for nation-building in
the Middle East. A wholly original exploration of Egypt in the
context of the Ottoman Empire, Arab Patriotism sheds fresh light on
the evolving sense of political belonging in the Arab world.
This book of genuine wanted posters distributed by law enforcement
agencies at the turn of the twentieth century will change your
perspective on the genre. Wanted in America: Posters Collected by
the Fort Worth Police Department, 1898-1903 features fifty posters
and the fascinating true crime stories behind them. While some of
the offenders are virtually unknown today, others, such as Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, remain household names. You will meet
fugitive pickpockets, embezzlers, robbers, kidnappers, murderers,
and more, along with their associates and their victims. They are a
cross-section of America-men and women of all ages, social classes,
and many races and nationalities. Though the notices were created
on a local level, they reflect national social and economic changes
in a growing population. The fifty posters published here represent
only a small sample of the hundreds available for research. The
stories behind the posters demonstrate how twentieth-century
advances in mass media distribution, law enforcement techniques,
transportation, and communication impacted the ability of lawmen to
locate the fugitives they sought and the ability of the suspects to
stay on the run. They reveal that the game of cat and mouse
continued as both hunter and hunted found ways to use technology to
their advantage. Over thirty-five professors, journalists, and
historians generously contributed their talents to research and
craft the essays that accompany these posters. The tales themselves
run the gamut from amusing to puzzling to horrific. These may not
be the wanted posters of popular imagination, but they are the real
thing-which makes them all the better.
In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of
the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a
battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the
coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the largest
labor uprising in US history. Ninety years later, the site became
embroiled in a second struggle, as activists came together to fight
the coal industry, state government, and the military- industrial
complex in a successful effort to save the battlefield-sometimes
dubbed 'labor's Gettysburg'-from destruction by mountaintop removal
mining. The Road to Blair Mountain is the moving and sometimes
harrowing story of Charles Keeney's fight to save this
irreplaceable landscape. Beginning in 2011, Keeney-a historian and
great-grandson of Frank Keeney-led a nine-year legal battle to
secure the site's placement on the National Register of Historic
Places. His book tells a David-and-Goliath tale worthy of its own
place in West Virginia history. A success story for historic
preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how
rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel
industry.
The concept of an ""honest Tammany man"" sounds like an oxymoron,
but it became a reality in the curious career of Ashbel P. Fitch,
who served New York City as a four-term congressman and a one-term
city comptroller during the late nineteenth century. Although
little known today, Fitch was well respected in his own day and
played a pivotal role on both national and local stages. In the
U.S. Congress, Fitch was a passionate advocate of New York City.
His support of tariff reform and his efforts to have New York City
chosen as the site for an 1892 World Exposition reflected his deep
interest in issues of industrialization and urbanization. An ardent
defender of immigrant rights, Fitch opposed the xenophobia of the
times and championed cosmopolitan diversity. As New York's
comptroller, he oversaw the city's finances during a time of
terrible economic distress, withstanding threats from Tammany Hall
on one side and from Mayor William L. Strong's misguided reform
administration on the other. In Ashbel P. Fitch, Remington succeeds
in illuminating the independence and integrity of this unsung hero
against the backdrop of the Gilded Age's corrupt politics and
fierce party loyalty.
This revised guide to the Canadian battlefields of the First World
War in France and Belgium offers a brief, critical history of the
war and of Canada's contribution, drawing attention to the best
recent books on the subject. It focuses on the Ypres Salient,
Passchendaele, Vimy, and the "Hundred Days" battles and considers
lesser-known battlefields as well. Battle maps, contemporary maps,
photographs, war art, and tourist information enhance the reader
experience. In addition to its new look, this second edition
features new photographs, maps, and a more-detailed history
section. A new "Walking the Battlefields" feature allows visitors
to follow the path of Canadian troops as they fought at Ypres, the
St. Eloi Craters, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and Bourlon Wood through
detailed maps and unit-level text. The tour sections and references
have also been updated to reflect recent developments in writing
about the Great War in Canada. The Laurier Centre for Military
Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS) at Wilfrid Laurier
University exists to foster research, education, and discussion of
historical and contemporary conflict. This publication was
generously funded by John and Pattie Cleghorn.
George Hara Williams was the most successful of the early leaders
of the CCF in Saskatchewan. But his role in the party was
undermined by Tommy Douglas and M. J. Coldwell, and now he is
almost forgotten. The populist who mobilized farmers of the
province to support a socialist platform, he was one of five MLAs
elected in the 1934 election, becoming Leader of the Opposition. He
firmly supported socialists participating in the struggle against
fascism, including military action, a position not held by everyone
in the party. While Williams was serving overseas, a campaign to
replace him as leader, led by Coldwell and Douglas, was successful.
The full story of Williams' role in building the CCF and bringing
it to the threshold of power, and the party machinations leading to
his defeat as leader, has until now, been never fully documented.
The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the
drought-stricken Great Plains. Prolonged drought exacerbated the
economic effects of the Great Depression to such a degree that the
prairies became the epicentre of the disaster in Canada. Between
1929 and 1932, per capita incomes fell by 49% in Manitoba, 61% in
Alberta and an astounding 72% in Saskatchewan. The result was
enormous social and political upheaval that sent shockwaves through
the rest of the country. In this sixth volume of the History of the
Prairie West series, contributors explore the cultural, political,
and economic repercussions of climate change and financial upheaval
on the region and its people.
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Covering 825,000 acres in the Coastal Plain and Brush Country of
South Texas, King Ranch, established in 1853, looms large in Texas
and American history. Its place in the popular imagination shows
through Edna Ferber's epic 1952 novel Giant, said to be based on
the story of the Kings, the Klebergs, and other founding families
of the famous ranching dynasty, and the subsequent Hollywood
blockbuster starring Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Rock
Hudson.In King Ranch: A Legacy in Art, editors William E. Reaves
and Linda J. Reaves have assembled a team of collaborators to
present a beautiful, informative account of the ranch, its human
and animal inhabitants, and its place in the artistic heritage of
the region. Pairing original paintings by artist Noe Perez with
insightful essays from curators and historians Bruce Shackelford
and Ron Tyler, this book is a visual and narrative celebration of
the many ways in which 'King Ranch culture' has enriched and, in
some cases, fostered appreciation for the decorative, practical,
and fine arts in Texas and the greater American West. Opening with
a foreword by Jamey Clement, current chair of the board for King
Ranch, Inc., and continuing with a survey by ranch historian Robert
Kinnan, King Ranch: A Legacy in Art affords readers a unique
appreciation of the natural beauty and artistic influence of this
legendary place.
Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond
traditional Inuit and Sami homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic --
from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling
and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such
as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and
beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars,
artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat,
Sapmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sami
rematriation and the revival of the ladjogahpir (a Sami woman's
headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a
workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of
Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and
beyond. Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of
the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates
its importance for the revitalization of language, social
wellbeing, and cultural identity.
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