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Marvin's Gift (Hardcover)
John Otto, Payton Otto; Illustrated by Charlotte Strickland
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R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
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Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and
antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to
the Southern agricultural frontiers before 1860. This study focuses
on agriculture, the primary economic activity and the single most
important factor in shaping the South's colonial and antebellum
frontiers. After examining the agricultural economy on the Southern
seaboard during colonial times, Otto explains the economic and
environmental forces that led to the expansion of upland and
lowland agriculturalists across the trans-Appalachian South during
the antebellum period. Although many specialized studies have dealt
with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little
attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers
before 1860. This study focuses on agriculture, the primary
economic activity and the single most important factor in shaping
the South's colonial and antebellum frontiers. After examining the
agricultural economy on the Southern seaboard during colonial
times, Otto explains the economic and environmental forces that led
to the expansion of upland and lowland agriculturalists across the
trans-Appalachian South during the antebellum period. Synthesizing
sources drawn from history, geography, anthropology, and folklife,
Otto has added an important new dimension to our knowledge of the
American South. This book is an appropriate resource for courses or
studies in Southern and American history, historical geography,
folklife, anthropology, and agricultural history.
An examination of the settlement history of the alluvial
bottomlands of the lower Mississippi Valley from 1880 to 1930, this
study details how cotton-growers transformed the swamplands of
northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, northeastern
Arkansas, and southern Missouri into cotton fields. Although these
alluvial bottomlands contained the richest cotton soils in the
American South, cotton-growers in the Southern bottomlands faced a
host of environmental problems, including dense forests, seasonal
floods, water-logged soils, poor transportation, malarial fevers
and insect pests. This interdisciplinary approach uses primary and
secondary sources from the fields of history, geography, sociology,
agronomy, and ecology to fill an important gap in our knowledge of
American environmental history.
Requiring laborers to clear and cultivate their lands,
cotton-growers recruited black and white workers from the upland
areas of the Southern states. Growers also supported the levee
districts which built imposing embankments to hold the floodwaters
in check. Canals and drainage ditches were constructed to drain the
lands, and local railways and graveled railways soon ended the
area's isolation. Finally, quinine and patent medicines would offer
some relief from the malarial fevers that afflicted bottomland
residents, and commercial poisons would combat the local pests that
attacked the cotton plants, including the boll weevils which
arrived in the early twentieth century.
An exploration of the various ways animals and their relations to
humans have been depicted throughout the ages. This volume delves
into the realm between representative images and real animals. It
is a historical inquiry into human interaction with the animals we
eat, pamper, experiment on, and imagine, as they have been
variously domesticated, slaughtered, loved, studied, and made into
icons of human invention. Common assumptions and experiences with
animals have entered into the functioning and conceptualizing of
life, yet these are historically and culturally contingent. The
essays in this volume unveil the ways in which human-animal
relationships reveal the interhuman structures of the cultures in
which they are formed. By using animals as a lens, they refocus our
awareness of the ways in which humans have allotted resources,
gathered knowledge, and structured families. The treatment of
animals is often a guide to the treatment of people within a
society, while the perceived 'stewardship' of humans over animals
has helped shape the broader environment that both human and
nonhuman animals share. The authors tackle their subject from a
variety of levels -- popular, scientific, and economic. The essays
explore the vast borderland between human ideas and physical nature
regarding animal representation. Contributors include Richard W.
Burkhardt, Jr., Jonathan Burt, Ken C. Erickson, Katherine C. Grier,
Richard C. Hoffmann, Andrew C. Isenberg, JacquelineMilliet, John
Solomon Otto, Karen A. Rader, Harriet Ritvo, Nigel Rothfels,
Kenneth J. Shapiro, and Edward I. Steinhart. Mary Henninger-Voss is
an Associate of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical
Studies, Princeton University.
This is the first book to assess the contribution of Southern
agriculture to the Confederate war effort, to describe the damage
that agriculture sustained during the war, to analyze the
transition from slavery to free labor after the war, and to recount
the slow and painful process of rebuilding Southern agriculture by
1880. Synthesizing primary and secondary historical sources,
Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 fills a
crucial gap in our knowledge about the history of the Civil War and
Reconstruction period.
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Marvin's Gift (Paperback)
John Otto, Payton Otto; Illustrated by Charlotte Strickland
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R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In Two Volumes. Volume 1, Circuits; Volume 2, Machines.
In Two Volumes. Volume 1, Circuits; Volume 2, Machines.
An Army Arising is about this moment in history, and God's secret
weapon to change the world. Today is the moment of the story, and
artists are the best equipped to seize this moment. In the past
seven years there has been an emerging renaissance movement in the
church. God is raising up arts ministries and artists in a new way.
An Army Arising includes a study of the artist in the Bible, a
review of how Christian doctrine impacts the arts, and practical
tools for artists and creative people to be warrior artists. In
2006 Christ John Otto experienced several months of extraordinary
encounters with God that became the nucleus of his ministry,
Belonging House. During that season he received a clear call from
God to "raise up an army of artists to build Jesus a throne in the
earth." For the past seven years Belonging House has prayed,
pondered, and preached those words. This book is the result of the
past seven years. An Army Arising distills all we have learned
about the call of God to the artist.
Additional Contributors Are Fred A. Miller And William G. Woods.
Foreword By J. B. Edmonson And Ralph W. Tyler.
Through the centuries, stories of popes and of the papacy from
Catholic and non-Catholic perspectives, presented as biographies or
as histories of an institution have boomed with the power of this
often controversial office.
Whether as liberating truth which comes forth from the Church or
as narrow perspective; whether as Rock of the Church" or
"stumbling-block," primacy remains a reality at the heart of many
ecclesiastical problems. Until now, a complete history of the
primacy has been missing. "Papal Primacy" fills the void by
providing a clear understanding of its history.
In this, the first complete history of the papal primacy, Schatz
traces the development of the idea of a papacy as center of
teaching and jurisdiction from its earliest Roman beginnings,
through centuries of development, the great papal schism and the
struggles over conciliarism and Galicanism, to the triumph of papal
authority at Vatican I and beyond that to Vatican II and the
growing realization that there are no "once and for al answers" to
the Church's questions. Papal primacy has grown with the Church,
and it remains a reality embedded in the Church as a living
community open to change.
Chapters focus on the development of the primacy in the first
five centuries, different functions of unity in the East and the
West; the papacy as the head of the Church and Christendom in the
Middle Ages, and the primacy as confessional mark of identity in
modern times.
An appendix includes the following texts: Irenaeus of Lyons,
"Adversus haereses; The Canons of Sardica 3, 4, 5 (343)"; Gregory
VII, "Dictatus papae (1075)"; The Council of Constance, "Decree
Haec sancta (April 6, 1415)"; The Council of Florence, "Formula of
Primacy; The Four Galican Articles, Declaration of the Church of
France (March 2,1682)"; "Papal Primacy of Jurisdiction and Papal
Infallibility According to Vatican I (1870)"; and "Episcopal
Collegiality and Papal Infallibility According to Vatican II"
(Lumen gentium "22)."
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