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The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent mythin US cultural
history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as "the hero of
newadventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and
self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the
aid of his own unique andinherent resources," the figure is
discernable in the American renaissancewriters and in the imagery
of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as inthe heroes of US
action movies. Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of
masculine identity formation, this monograph examines how this
fantasy of an imaginary ideal identity has held an ideological sway
over US identityin the main. Taking in a range of cultural texts,
Jonathan Mitchell's study exploresthe complexities and
contradictions of Adam's 'real' condition of existence to showhow
the paradigm influences both masculinity and subsequently hegemonic
USidentity as represented throughout twentieth-century US culture.
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Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism
growth is not universally inclusive of the poor. Moreover our
understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on
partial and superficial analysis. Researchers from different
disciplines and practitioners with different objectives generally
work in splendid isolation from each other and from the mainstream
of development economics. Detailed economic analysis remains buried
and is rarely challenged for policy implications, let alone poverty
implications. This book provides an overview of a broad array of
analyses of how tourism affects poor people. First, it pulls these
together to identify three main pathways by which impacts on
poverty can be delivered. Second, it reviews the empirical evidence
on the scale and significance of impacts within each pathway,
exploring where comparisons can be made and where they cannot.
Finally, it considers the different methods used to gather and
collect data, and implications for how we should work in the
future. Tourism and Poverty Reduction draws on international
evidence throughout, but provides particular insights into Africa
and other less developed countries. It makes a major contribution
to a more coherent, cross-disciplinary and sensitive approach to
the tourism-poverty debate.
This book explores the place of poor people within a rich variety
of value chains, focusing upon lagging, rural regions in Africa and
Asia, and how they can 'upgrade' within such chains. Upgrading is a
key concept for value chain analysis and refers to the acquisition
of technological capabilities and market linkages that enable firms
to improve their competitiveness and move into higher-value
activities. The authors examine a range of evidence to assess
whether the 'bottom billion' people, living mainly in the rural
areas of low-income countries, can improve their position through
productive strategies and, if so, how? They propose an innovative
conceptual framework of value chain upgrading for some of the most
marginal producers in the poorest local economies. They demonstrate
how interventions can improve poverty and the environment for poor
people supplying a wide range of services and agricultural and food
products to local, regional and global markets. This analysis is
based on empirical research conducted in Senegal, Mali, Tanzania,
India, Nepal, Philippines and Vietnam. The main focus is on
poverty, environment and gender outcomes of upgrading
interventions, and represents one of the key challenges of
contemporary development economics.
Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism
growth is not universally inclusive of the poor. Moreover our
understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on
partial and superficial analysis. Researchers from different
disciplines and practitioners with different objectives generally
work in splendid isolation from each other and from the mainstream
of development economics. Detailed economic analysis remains buried
and is rarely challenged for policy implications, let alone poverty
implications. This book provides an overview of a broad array of
analyses of how tourism affects poor people. First, it pulls these
together to identify three main pathways by which impacts on
poverty can be delivered. Second, it reviews the empirical evidence
on the scale and significance of impacts within each pathway,
exploring where comparisons can be made and where they cannot.
Finally, it considers the different methods used to gather and
collect data, and implications for how we should work in the
future. Tourism and Poverty Reduction draws on international
evidence throughout, but provides particular insights into Africa
and other less developed countries. It makes a major contribution
to a more coherent, cross-disciplinary and sensitive approach to
the tourism-poverty debate.
Much of what we take to be meaningful and significant in life is
inextricably linked with our capacity to experience emotions. Here,
Jonathan Mitchell considers emotional experiences as sui generis
states; not to be modelled after other mental states such as
perceptions, judgements, or bodily feelings, but given their own
analysis and place within our mental economy. More specifically, he
proposes an original view of emotional experiences as
feelings-towards-values. Central to this view is the notion that
emotional experiences include (non-bodily) felt attitudes which
represent evaluative properties of the particular objects of those
experiences. After setting out a framework for theorising about
experiences and their contents, Mitchell argues that the content of
emotional experience is evaluative. He then explains the best way
to marry this claim with the presence of specific kinds of valenced
attitudinal components in emotional experience and critical aspects
of emotional phenomenology. Building on this, he introduces a
distinctive role for bodily feelings, by way of a somatic
enrichment of the felt valenced attitudes involved in emotional
experience. Finally, he considers issues pertaining to the
intelligibility of emotions, and shows how the
feelings-towards-values view can account for the way in which
emotional experiences often make sense in a first-person way.
Title: Nehemiah on the wall in troublesom times, or, A serious and
seasonable improvement of that great example of magistratical piety
and prudence, self-denial and tenderness, fearlesness and fidelity,
unto instruction and encouragement of present and succeeding rulers
in our Israel: as it was delivered in a sermon preached at Boston
in N.E. May 15, 1667, being the day of election there.Author:
Jonathan MitchellPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana,
Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books,
pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the
time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich
in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and
westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions,
Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and
more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the
western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on
the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first
decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in
North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this
collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs,
culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It
provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons,
political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation,
literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality
digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand,
making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent
scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02302600CollectionID:
CTRG97-B2166PublicationDate: 16710101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke
Johnson.Collation: 34 p.; 21 cm
Title: An oration, delivered at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, on the
Fourth of July, 1788: being the anniversary of American
independence.Author: Jonathan Mitchell SewallPublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03019500CollectionID:
CTRG99-B1376PublicationDate: 17880101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Attributed to Sewall by Sabin.Collation: 20 p.; 20 cm
The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent myth in US cultural
history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as "the hero of new
adventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and
self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the
aid of his own unique andinherent resources," the figure is
discernable in the American renaissance writers and in the imagery
of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as in the heroes of
US action movies. Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of
masculine identity formation, this monograph examines how this
fantasy of an imaginary ideal identity has held an ideological sway
over US identity in the main. Taking in a range of cultural texts,
Jonathan Mitchell's study exploresthe complexities and
contradictions of Adam's 'real' condition of existence to show how
the paradigm influences both masculinity and subsequently hegemonic
US identity as represented throughout twentieth-century US culture.
The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by
Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of
Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use
of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms,
Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory
Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and
Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their
Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which
is Added a Short Dispensatory
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm31682710Attributed to: Jonathan Mitchell Sewall. Cf. NUC
pre-56.Portsmouth, N.H.: Oracle Press, 1805. 47 p.; 24 cm.
It is my opinion that few persons who possess a liberal education,
but what, if they make the effort, could write some sort of a book;
but to write a book and make it interesting, at the same time have
it contain truth and common sense, is no easy task; but to write
one and let it contain nothing except plain facts, without any of
the coloring which we would give to fiction, and which adds so much
charm to the book and interest for the reader, is a greater and
much more laborious task. In writing this little book, I have
endeavored to keep it clear of all fiction and romance, and to
place only facts before the reader. I have not drawn upon my
imagination for any incident contained in the following pages.
Perhaps some of the incidents may appear unreasonable to those who
have grown up within the last decade, and know but little,
practically, of the war between the States, and nothing whatever of
the life of a prisoner of war; nevertheless, they are all stubborn
facts.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Library of
Congress<ESTCID>W032115<Notes>Half-title: Mr. Sewall's
eulogy on the late General
Washington.<imprintFull>Portsmouth, N.H.: Printed by William
Treadwell, 1800]. <collation>28 p.; 4
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artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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