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Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage
done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous
artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The
Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in
cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the
choirs and the music. They sold the King's art collections,
pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the
Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended
Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist
of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the
ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.
A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954)
examines the large range of political doctrines which played their
part in the English revolution - a period when modern democratic
ideas began. The political literature of the period between 1645,
when the Levellers first seized upon the revolution's wider
implications, and 1660, when Charles II restored the monarchy to
power, is here studied in detail.
Cromwell and Communism (1930) examines the English revolution
against the absolute monarchy of Charles I. It looks at the
economic and social conditions prevailing at the time, the first
beginnings of dissent and the religious and political aims of the
Parliamentarian side in the revolution and subsequent civil war.
The various sects are examined, including the Levellers and their
democratic, atheistic and communistic ideals.
Allegiance in Church and State (1928) examines the evolution of
ideas and ideals, their relation to political and economic events,
and their influence on friends and foes in seventeenth-century
England - which witnessed the beginning of both the constitutional
and the intellectual transition from the old order to the new. It
takes a careful look at the religious and particularly political
ideas of the Nonjurors, a sect that argued for the moral
foundations of a State and the sacredness of moral obligations in
public life.
Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes
issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and
influential role in the English revolution of 1642-49. This book
collects together rare pamphlets and tracts that are seldom
available, and certainly not in one place for ease of research.
For many decades, the LGBTQ+ community has been plagued by strife
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often denied a right to marriage, healthcare, and in some parts of
the world, a right to life. While these struggles are steadily
improving in recent years, disparities and discrimination still
remain from the workplace to the healthcare that this community
receives. There is still much that needs to be done globally to
achieve inclusivity and equity for the LGBTQ+ community. The
Research Anthology on Inclusivity and Equity for the LGBTQ+
Community is a comprehensive compendium that analyzes the struggles
and accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community with a focus on the
current climate around the world and the continued impact to these
individuals. Multiple settings are discussed within this dynamic
anthology such as education, healthcare, online communities, and
more. Covering topics such as gender, homophobia, and queer theory,
this text is essential for scholars of gender theory, faculty of
both K-12 and higher education, professors, pre-service teachers,
students, human rights activists, community leaders, policymakers,
researchers, and academicians.
Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably
between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and
often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit immigrants
primarily aimed to suppress Black agency and mobility. If that
failed, both planters and industrialists imagined that immigrants
might replace Blacks entirely. Thus, white officials, citizens, and
employers embraced immigrants when they acted in ways that
sustained Jim Crow. However, when they directly challenged
established political and economic power structures, immigrant
laborers found themselves ostracized, jailed, or worse, by the New
South order. Both industrial employers and union officials lauded
immigrants' hardworking and noble character when it suited their
purposes, and both denigrated and racialized them when immigrant
laborers acted independently. Jennifer E. Brooks's Resident
Strangers restores immigrant laborers to their place in the history
of the New South, considering especially how various immigrant
groups and individuals experienced their time in New South Alabama.
Brooks utilizes convict records, censuses, regional and national
newspapers, government documents, and oral histories to construct
the story of immigrants in New South Alabama. The immigrant groups
she focuses on appeared most often as laborers in the records,
including the Chinese, southern Italians, and the diverse nationals
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, along with a sprinkling of others.
Although recruitment crusades by Alabama's employers and New South
boosters typically failed to bring in the vast numbers of
immigrants they had envisioned, significant populations from around
the world arrived in industries and communities across the state,
especially in the coal- and ore-mining district of Birmingham.
Resident Strangers reveals that immigrant laborers' presence and
individual agency complicated racial categorization, disrupted
labor relations, and diversified southern communities. It also
presents a New South that was far from isolated from the forces at
work across the nation or in the rest of the world. Immigrant
laborers brought home to New South Alabama the turbulent world of
empire building, deeply embedding the region in national and global
networks of finance, trade, and labor migration.
Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan
Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the
foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs,
Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller
is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews
undertaken with him in the 1980s. Williamson tells of his birth and
upbringing in the west of Scotland, his family background as one of
Scotland's seminomadic travelling people, his varied work
experiences after setting out from home at about age fifteen, and
the challenges he later faced while raising a family of his own,
living on the road for half the year. The recordings on which the
book is based were made by John D. Niles, who was then an associate
professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Niles has
transcribed selections from his field tapes with scrupulous
accuracy, arranging them alongside commentary, photos, and other
scholarly aids, making this priceless self-portrait of a brilliant
storyteller available to the public. The result is a delight to
read. It is also a mine of information concerning a vanished way of
life and the place of singing and storytelling in Traveller
culture. In chapters that feature many colorful anecdotes and that
mirror the spontaneity of oral delivery, readers learn much about
how Williamson and other members of his persecuted minority had the
resourcefulness to make a living on the outskirts of society,
owning very little in the way of material goods but sustained by a
rich oral heritage.
Exploring Instagram’s public pedagogy at scale, this book uses
innovative digital methods to trace and analyze how publics
reinforce and resist settler colonialism as they engage with the
Trans Mountain pipeline controversy online. The book traces
opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline in so-called Canada,
where overlapping networks of concerned citizens, Indigenous land
protectors, and environmental activists have used Instagram to
document pipeline construction, policing, and land degradation;
teach using infographics; and express solidarity through artwork
and re-shared posts. These expressions constitute a form of
“public pedagogy,” where social media takes on an educative
force, influencing publics whether or not they set foot in the
classroom.
Where human communication and development is possible, folklore is
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Cyberculture and Digital Humanities focuses on the opportunities
and chances for folklore research online as well as research
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the field of folk culture and for digitization, documentation, and
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as e-learning programs, online communities, and costumes and
fashion archives, this premier reference source is a dynamic
resource for folklorists, sociologists, anthropologists,
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