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Politics; Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Heinrich von Treitschke, Blanche Elizabeth Campbell B Dugdale
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Born in a time when ignorance and superstition permeated their
culture, Moon Flower was doomed within her isolated "Tribe with no
name." Her affliction was misunderstood, casting her into the
shadows where she was forced to live until brutal events practiced
by a rogue 'man of the cloth' set her on a trail that did not
exist, and eventually to a conditional freedom. At her side rode
the handsome Comanche warrior whose life she had saved, her young
son and the elusive wolf that became a part of her life. Across the
burning wasteland they loved as they traveled in search of the
warrior's tribe. Accepted with open arms, again she saved the life
of the "God-man with pieces of the sky for eyes." With his life
hanging in the balance her spirit wraps around him to give him
strength to live beyond the torture that befell him. Safely within
the Comanche arms, Flower finally 'became', and traveled beside her
husband on the war trail as well as into captivity. Becoming a
trusted confidant of the war chief, she enjoyed a rare position
from which she could influence the decisions made on behalf of the
entire tribe, even to the point of saving them when her belly was
swollen with her husband's seed and 'death appeared riding on a
black horse'. Having been forced to cross the border into the
hostile land of 'the home of the Redman', later to become Oklahoma,
she discovers that her greatest challenge was as yet still before
her. Flower's greatest loss becomes her greatest find when she is
blessed four-fold. Out of the clay banks of Red River she taught
the Comanche women to build houses and homes when there were no
more buffalo to feed and house them and the long promised
government supplies were evenlonger in arriving to feed the hungry
and naked Native Americans. With unbelievable strength and
perseverance the bravery of this small woman set the standard that
the pioneer woman became known for, even as the women of today
stand to
On January 9th 2014, residents across Charleston, West Virginia,
awoke to an unusual liquorice smell in the air and a similar taste
in the public drinking water. That evening residents were informed
that the tap water in tens of thousands of homes, hundred of
businesses, and dozens of schools and hospitals - the water made
available to as many as 300,00 citizens in a nine-county region -
had been contaminated with a chemical used for cleaning crushed
coal. This books tells a particular set of stories about that
chemical spill and its aftermath, an unfolding water crisis that
would lead to months, even years, of fear and distrust. It is both
oral history and collaborative ethnography, jointly conceptualised,
researched, and written by people - more than fifty in all - across
various positions in academia and local communities. I'm Afraid of
That Water foregrounds the ongoing concerns of West Virginians (and
people in comparable situations in places like Flint, Michigan)
confronted by the problem of contamination, where thresholds for
official safety may be crossed, but a genuine return to normality
is elusive.
Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi
expropriation, in both the Third Reich and occupied territories.
After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered
several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift
repositories in churches, castles, and salt mines. Well publicized
restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting
featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi
looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art
that was never returned to its rightful owners? In France, Belgium,
and the Netherlands, postwar governments appropriated the most
coveted unclaimed works for display in museums, embassies,
ministries, and other public buildings. Following cultural property
norms of the time, the governments created custodianships over the
unclaimed pieces, without using archives in their possession to
carry out thorough provenance (ownership) research. This policy
extended the dispossession of Jewish owners wrought by the Nazis
and their collaborators well into the twenty-first century. The
custodianships included more than six hundred works in Belgium,
five thousand works in the Netherlands, and some two thousand in
France. They included paintings by traditional and modern masters,
such as Rembrandt, Cranach, Rubens, Van der Weyden, Tiepolo,
Picasso, and Matisse. This appropriation of plundered assets
endured without controversy until the mid-1990s, when activists and
journalists began challenging the governments' right to hold these
items, ushering in a period of cultural property litigation that
endures to this day. Including interviews that have never before
been published, Museum Worthy deftly examines the appropriation of
Nazi art plunder by postwar governments and highlights the
increasingly successful postwar art recovery and restitution
process.
Using history, artistic practice, writing, poetry, autobiography
and collaborative ethnography, this book literally and figuratively
re-imagines a place. It is a manifesto for alternative visions of
community, located in histories and cultural reference points that
often remain unheard within the mainstream media. As such, the book
presents a `how to' for researchers interested in community
collaborative research and accessing alternative ways of knowing
and voices in marginalised communities.
This is a book that challenges contemporary images of 'place'. Too
often we are told about 'deprived neighbourhoods' but rarely do the
people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and
describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In
this unique book the process of re-imagining comes to the fore in a
fresh and contemporary look at one UK town, Rotherham. Using
history, artistic practice, writing, poetry, autobiography and
collaborative ethnography, this book literally and figuratively
re-imagines a place. It is a manifesto for alternative visions of
community, located in histories and cultural reference points that
often remain unheard within the mainstream media. As such, the book
presents a 'how to' for researchers interested in community
collaborative research and accessing alternative ways of knowing
and voices in marginalised communities.
Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the
famous community study by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd,
Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors
initiated this project to reveal the unrecorded historical and
contemporary life of Middletown, a well-known pseudonym for the
Midwestern city of Muncie, Indiana. As a collaboration of community
and campus, this book recounts the early efforts of Hurley Goodall
to develop a community history and archive that told the story of
the African American community, and rectify the representation of
small town America as exclusively white. The authors designed and
implemented a collaborative ethnographic field project that
involved intensive interviews, research, and writing between
community organizations, local experts, ethnographers, and teams of
college students. This book is a unique model for collaborative
research, easily accessible to students. It will be a valuable
resource for instructors in anthropology, creative writing,
sociology, community research, and African American studies.
This book presents the concept of ethical knowledge as it is
revealed, as it is challenged, and as it may be used in schools.
The book combines empirical expressions of teachers' beliefs and
practices with a discussion of the connections between the moral
dimensions of schooling and applied professional ethics in
teaching: Ethical knowledge relies on the teacher's awareness,
understanding, and acceptance of the demands of moral agency.
Ethical knowledge is compromised by moral dilemmas and complexities
that routinely challenge teachers. Moral tensions may be eased by
three avenues of renewal based on heightened attention to ethical
knowledge: a renewed sense of teacher professionalism, renewed
school cultures, and renewed teacher education and professional
learning. "The Ethical Teacher" is for teachers and teacher
educators and for those who conduct research about their worlds.
Stephen Bourne (1791 1868) was a British civil servant who served
as a magistrate in Jamaica between 1834 and 1841 and as Registrar
of British Guiana between 1841 and 1848. His daughter Elizabeth
Campbell left England with her father in 1834, and lived in the
West Indies for thirteen years. This volume contains two essays and
a published letter, the essays written by Elizabeth Campbell and
the letter by Stephen Bourne, discussing the effects and limits of
the Emancipation Act on the economy and society of the British West
Indies. The two essays by Campbell discuss the limited social
effects of the Emancipation Act, with the letter by Bourne
suggesting ways to improve the economic prosperity of the West
Indies. The ideology of later abolitionists, who endeavoured to
improve social and economic conditions in plantations to
demonstrate the possibility of prosperity without slavery, is fully
explored in this volume.
Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the
famous community study by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd,
Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors
initiated this project to reveal the unrecorded historical and
contemporary life of Middletown, a well-known pseudonym for the
Midwestern city of Muncie, Indiana. As a collaboration of community
and campus, this book recounts the early efforts of Hurley Goodall
to develop a community history and archive that told the story of
the African American community, and rectify the representation of
small town America as exclusively white. The authors designed and
implemented a collaborative ethnographic field project that
involved intensive interviews, research, and writing between
community organizations, local experts, ethnographers, and teams of
college students. This book is a unique model for collaborative
research, easily accessible to students. It will be a valuable
resource for instructors in anthropology, creative writing,
sociology, community research, and African American studies.
On January 9th 2014, residents across Charleston, West Virginia,
awoke to an unusual liquorice smell in the air and a similar taste
in the public drinking water. That evening residents were informed
that the tap water in tens of thousands of homes, hundred of
businesses, and dozens of schools and hospitals - the water made
available to as many as 300,00 citizens in a nine-county region -
had been contaminated with a chemical used for cleaning crushed
coal. This books tells a particular set of stories about that
chemical spill and its aftermath, an unfolding water crisis that
would lead to months, even years, of fear and distrust. It is both
oral history and collaborative ethnography, jointly conceptualised,
researched, and written by people - more than fifty in all - across
various positions in academia and local communities. I'm Afraid of
That Water foregrounds the ongoing concerns of West Virginians (and
people in comparable situations in places like Flint, Michigan)
confronted by the problem of contamination, where thresholds for
official safety may be crossed, but a genuine return to normality
is elusive.
The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is
defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches
of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of
influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern
Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location
and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway,
a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland
the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has
haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration
between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents
the first concerted exploration of the environmental history -
marine and terrestrial - of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors
tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over,
explored, and exploited. The essays' defining themes resonate in
today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they
recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility,
resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless
exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities.
Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and
across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central
place and part of North Atlantic and North American history.
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