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available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee
Watt tells the story of the first African American French Hornist
hired by a major symphony in these United States. Today, the number
of African Americans who hold chairs in major American symphony
orchestras are few and far between, and Watt is the first in many
years to write about this uniquely exhilarating and at times
painful experience. The Black Horn chronicles the upbringing of a
young boy first fascinated by the sound of the French horn. Watt
walks readers through the many obstacles presented by the racial
climate in the United States both on and off stage in his efforts
learn and eventually master an instrument little considered in the
African American community, with even the author s own father, who
played trumpet, seeking to dissuade the young classical musician in
the making. Opposition from within the community--a middle
instrument suited only for thin-lipped white boys, Watt s father
once chided and from without, Watt document his struggles as a
student at an all-white major music conservatory as well as his
first job in a major symphony orchestra after his conservatory
canceled his scholarship. Watt subsequently chronicles his triumphs
and travails as a musician, sometimes alone when confronting the
realities of race in America and the world of classical music. This
work will surely interest any working classical musician and
student, particularly those of color, seeking to grasp firsthand
the sometimes troubled history of being the only black horn. "
During the nineteenth century Liverpool became the heart of an
international maritime network. As the 'second city' of Empire, its
merchants and shipowners operated within a transnational commercial
and financial system, while its trading connections stimulated the
development of new markets and their integration within an
increasingly global economy. This ground-breaking volume brings
together ten original contributions that reflect upon the
development of the city's business community from the
early-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War
with an emphasis on the period from 1851 to 1912. It offers the
first detailed analysis of Liverpool's merchant community within a
conceptual and historiographical framework which focuses on the
economic, social and cultural role of business elites in the
nineteenth century. It explores the extent to which business
success was predicated on the maintenance of networks of trust;
analyses the importance of business culture in structuring
commercial operations; and discusses the role of ethics, trust and
reputation within the changing framework of the business
environment. Particular attention is paid to the role of women and
the important contribution of the family to commercial success and
the maintenance of social networks. Changes in business practice
and social networks are also examined within a spatial context in
order to assess the impact of the development of a distinct
commercial centre and the clustering of commercial activity on
interaction, reputation and trust, while particular attention is
paid to the effect of suburbanization on existing associational
networks, the social cohesiveness of business culture, and the
cultural identity of the merchant community as a whole.
This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original
contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental
Europe, America and Japan which represent innovative and important
research on the relationship between cities and their hinterlands.
They discuss the factors which determined the changing nature of
port-hinterland relations in particular, and highlight the ways in
which port-cities have interacted and intersected with their
different hinterlands as a result of both in- and out-migration,
cultural exchange and the wider flow of goods, services and
information. Historically, maritime commerce was a powerful driving
force behind urbanisation and by 1850 seaports accounted for a
significant proportion of the world’s great cities. Ports acted
as nodal points for the flow of population and the dissemination of
goods and services, but their role as growth poles also affected
the economic transformation of both their hinterlands and
forelands. In fact, most ports, irrespective of their size, had a
series of overlapping hinterlands whose shifting importance
reflected changes in trading relations (political frameworks),
migration patterns, family networks and cultural exchange. Urban
historians have been criticised for being concerned primarily with
self-contained processes which operate within the boundaries of
individual towns and cities and as a result, the key relationships
between cities and their hinterlands have often been neglected. The
chapters in this work focus primarily on the determinants of
port-hinterland linkages and analyse these as distinct, but
interrelated, fields of interaction. Marking a significant
contribution to the literature in this field, Port-Cities and their
Hinterlands provides essential reading for students and scholars of
the history of economics.
Can it now be doubted that Native American/First Nations literary
voice has become other than an established, and hugely compelling,
compass? Native North American Authorship takes bearings, a roster
of close readings yet situated within the wider latitudes and
longitudes of timeline, place, memory. The emphasis falls
throughout upon imagination, the "breath" within given texts be
they fiction, poetry or self-writing. This is also to emphasize
Native writing as modern (and in some cases postmodern) phenomenon,
for sure rooted in tribal particularity, oral tradition, and
trickster lore, but also given to reflexivity, the writer looking
over his/her own shoulder. The authorship involved is now a
literature equally of the city and indeed of geographies
encountered beyond North America. The aim is to avoid suggesting
some Grand Synthesis or to replay battles of reservation/off
reservation ideology. The account opens with two purviews: the
scale of Native written texts from early Christian-convert witness
to contemporary verse and story by names like Tommy Pico and Eden
Robinson, and the fuller implication of a category like Native
American Renaissance. Key author portraits follow of N. Scott
Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Gerald
Vizenor, Sherman Alexie and Louis Owens. New longer fiction and
anthology stories invite their respective chapters as do the
story-collections of Diane Glancy and Stephen Graham Jones. Poetry
assumes focus in the accounts of Joy Harjo and her contemporaries
and Simon Ortiz and his contemporaries, with specific chapters on
Jim Barnes, Linda Hogan and Ralph Salisbury. The epilogue adds
further context: "Native" as cultural etymology, the role of site
and space-time, and the affinities of Native authorship with other
Native arts.
This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original
contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental
Europe, America and Japan which represent innovative and important
research on the relationship between cities and their hinterlands.
They discuss the factors which determined the changing nature of
port-hinterland relations in particular, and highlight the ways in
which port-cities have interacted and intersected with their
different hinterlands as a result of both in- and out-migration,
cultural exchange and the wider flow of goods, services and
information. Historically, maritime commerce was a powerful driving
force behind urbanisation and by 1850 seaports accounted for a
significant proportion of the world's great cities. Ports acted as
nodal points for the flow of population and the dissemination of
goods and services, but their role as growth poles also affected
the economic transformation of both their hinterlands and
forelands. In fact, most ports, irrespective of their size, had a
series of overlapping hinterlands whose shifting importance
reflected changes in trading relations (political frameworks),
migration patterns, family networks and cultural exchange. Urban
historians have been criticised for being concerned primarily with
self-contained processes which operate within the boundaries of
individual towns and cities and as a result, the key relationships
between cities and their hinterlands have often been neglected. The
chapters in this work focus primarily on the determinants of
port-hinterland linkages and analyse these as distinct, but
interrelated, fields of interaction. Marking a significant
contribution to the literature in this field, Port-Cities and their
Hinterlands provides essential reading for students and scholars of
the history of economics.
Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown
familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline
texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in
modern American literary history. On the Road serves as Homeric
journey epic. "Howl" amounts to Beat anthem, confessional outcry
against materialism and war. Naked Lunch, with its dark satiric
laughter, envisions a dystopian world of power and word virus. But
if these are all essentially America-centered, Beat has also had
quite other literary exhalations and which invite far more than
mere reception study. These are voices from across the Americas of
Canada and Mexico, the Anglophone world of England, Scotland or
Australia, the Europe of France or Italy and from the Mediterranean
of Greece and the Maghreb, and from Scandinavia and Russia,
together with the Asia of Japan and China. This anthology of essays
maps relevant other kinds of Beat voice, names, texts. The scope is
hemispheric, Atlantic and Pacific, West and East. It gives
recognition to the Beat inscribed in languages other than English
and reflective of different cultural histories. Likewise the
majority of contributors come from origins or affiliations beyond
the US, whether in a different English or languages spanning
Spanish, Danish, Turkish, Greek, or Chinese. The aim is to
recognize an enlarged Beat literary map, its creative
internationalism.
Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and
dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness
provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a
series of mappings-each literary-critical and comparative while at
the same time offering cultural and historical context. This
carefully re-edited version of the 1998 publication opens with an
estimation of earliest African American voice in the names of
Phillis Wheatley and her contemporaries. It then takes up the huge
span of autobiography from Frederick Douglass through to Maya
Angelou. "Harlem on My Mind," which follows, sets out the literary
contours of America's premier black city. Womanism, Alice Walker's
presiding term, is given full due in an analysis of fiction from
Harriet E. Wilson to Toni Morrison. Richard Wright is approached
not as some regulation "realist" but as a more inward, at times
near-surreal, author. Decadology has its risks but the 1940s has
rarely been approached as a unique era of war and peace and
especially in African American texts. Beat Generation work usually
adheres to Ginsberg and Kerouac, but black Beat writing invites its
own chapter in the names of Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob
Kaufman. The 1960s has long become a mythic change-decade, and in
few greater respects than as a black theatre both of the stage and
politics. In Leon Forrest African America had a figure of the
postmodern turn: his work is explored in its own right and for how
it takes its place in the context of other reflexive black fiction.
"African American Fictions of Passing" unpacks the whole deceptive
trope of "race" in writing from Williams Wells Brown through to
Charles Johnson. The two newly added chapters pursue African
American literary achievement into the Obama-Trump century, fiction
from Octavia Butler to Darryl Pinkney, poetry from Rita Dove to
Kevin Young.
First published in 1906, this edition of Magnyfycence aimed to
highlight the true significance of the play within both the canon
of John Skelton's work and English drama. Robert Lee Ramsay
situates Magnyfycence as a morality play which functioned as a
bridge between medieval miracle plays and the modern comedy. He
demonstrates the text's significance as the first example of a play
by an English man of letters and our first example of a secular and
literary rather than theological morality play. This edition
features an extensive scholarly introduction exploring areas such
as the staging, versification, sources and characterisation,
followed by the Middle-English text itself along with glosses.
Today's engineering and geoscience student needs to know more than
how to design a new or remedial project or facility. Questions of
law and ambiguities of terms often occur in contracts for mining,
landfills, site reclamation, waste depositories, clean up sites,
land leases, operating agreements, joint ventures, and other
projects. Work place situations arise where environmental
compliance methods are challenged by enforcement agencies. Although
the statutes, rules, and regulations may seem to be worded clearly
and specifically, there are often questions in application and
sometimes varied interpretations. Environmental Law for Engineers
and Geoscientists introduces simplified American jurisprudence
focusing on the legal system, its courts, terms, phrases,
administrative law, and regulation by the agencies that administer
environmental law. The book comprehensively covers the "big five"
environmental statutes: NEPA, CAA, CWA, CERCLA, and RCRA. With the
basic law chapter as a foundation, the book covers the practical
applications of environmental law for geo-engineers. It concludes
with a chapter on the growing area of expert witnessing and
admissible evidence in environmental litigation - an area of law
where success or failure increasingly depends on the exacting
preparation and presentation of expert scientific evidence. Written
by a professional mining and geological engineer and a practicing
attorney, Environmental Law for Engineers and Geoscientists
prepares students for the numerous environmental regulatory
encounters they can expect when dealing with various statutes,
laws, regulations, and agency rules that govern, affect, and apply
to environmental engineering projects. It provides a working
knowledge of how to judge whether or not a project is in compliance
with regulations, and how to ensure that it is.
Using just your birthdate and an ordinary deck of cards, CARDS OF
YOUR DESTINY reveals your future and even explains your past. Based
on science once used by the ancient Egyptians, this in-depth and
surprisingly simple fortune telling system is a combination of
astrology and numerology that can be mastered in a matter of hours.
First, use your birthdate to find your birth card, and learn how to
perform a reading. The interpretation charts are the key to
unlocking the mysteries of your finances, career, travel, health,
and personal relationships. Change your life for the better and
discover the answers to questions such as: When will you get
married? When will you reach the pinnacle of success at work? When
is the right time to sell your house?
Originally published in 1991 this book brings together 9 essays
which address a number of central issues relating to the nature of
German industrialisation, including the role of foreign competition
in fostering technological change, the importance of market
integration for economic development and the response of German
banks to industrialisation. The book also provides an important
corrective to the traditional interpretation of German
industrialisation and reassesses the economic impact of the customs
union (Zollverein). The reappraisal of some dominant themes in
German economic and business history is distinctive in its explicit
use of economic theory in historical analysis of long-term growth
processes. It also emphasises the importance of sectoral analysis
and illustrates the usefulness of a differential regional approach
for understanding the process of German industrialisation.
Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance
of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction
costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth
century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by
scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and North
America which represent important and innovative research on this
topic. They cover two broad themes. First, the role of business
culture in determining commercial success, in particular the
importance of familial, religious, ethnic and associational
connections in the working lives of merchants and the impact of
business practices on family life. Second, the wider institutional
and political framework for business operations, in particular the
relationship between the political economy of trade and the
cultural world of merchants in an era of transition from personal
to corporate structures. These key themes are developed in three
separate sections, each with four contributions. They focus, in
turn, on the role of culture in building and preserving businesses;
the interplay between institutions, networks and power in
determining commercial success or failure; and the significance of
faith and the family in influencing business strategies and the
direction of merchant enterprise. The wider historiographical
context of the individual contributions is discussed in an extended
introductory chapter which sets out the overall agenda of the book
and provides a broader comparative framework for analysing the
specific issues covered in each of the three sections. Taken
together the collection offers an important addition to the
available literature in this field and will attract a wide
readership amongst business, cultural, maritime, economic, social
and urban historians, as well as historical anthropologists,
sociologists and other social scientists whose research embraces a
longer-term perspective.
The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee
Watt tells the story of the first African American French Hornist
hired by a major symphony in the United States. Today, few African
Americans hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras, and
Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely
exhilarating-and at times painful-experience. The Black Horn
chronicles the upbringing of a young boy fascinated by the sound of
the French horn. Watt walks readers through the many obstacles of
the racial climate in the United States, both on and off stage, and
his efforts to learn and eventually master an instrument little
considered in the African American community. Even the author's own
father, who played trumpet, sought to dissuade the young classical
musician in the making. He faced opposition from within the
community-where the instrument was deemed by Watt's father a
"middle instrument suited only for thin-lipped white boys"-and from
without. Watt also documented his struggles as a student at a
nearly all-white major music conservatory, as well as his first job
in a major symphony orchestra after the conservatory canceled his
scholarship. Watt subsequently chronicles his triumphs and travails
as a musician when confronting the realities of race in America and
the world of classical music. This book will surely interest any
classical musician and student, particularly those of color,
seeking to grasp the sometimes troubled history of being the only
"black horn."
In this deliciously delightful and amusing new work,
world-traveller, writer A. Robert Lee masters a surprising form:
the weird-essay-vignette. In a series of random, yet suspiciously
linked, encyclopaedia-like entries, he revisits the bizarre, the
banal, and the absurd behaviours, events, and trivia that fuse to
create a life - from sexing ostriches, to giant fake teeth, to the
meaning of meaning. For readers who love informative comedy, or
armchair philosophers who find flipping through dictionaries a
serendipitous hoot, this will be a book never to forget, and always
to return to.
Organizations do not have goals - only people do. Furthermore,
people within the same organizations have different goals. This
book takes this as its starting point, recognizing that
organizations are a dynamic coalition of individuals and groups
competing and co-operating as they each pursue their various
objectives. Power is a fundamental part of organizational behaviour
but many previous studies failed to recognize its centrality. This
book remedies this.
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the
interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold
authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and
consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food
policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of
the late 1990s, and traces the changing relationships between three
key sets of actors: private interests, such as the corporate
retailers; public regulators, such as the EU directorates and UK
agencies; and consumer groups at EU and national levels. The
authors explore how these interests deal with the conundrum of
continuing to stimulate a corporately organised and increasingly
globalised food system at the same time as creating a public and
consumer-based legitimate framework for it. The analysis develops a
new model and synthesis of food policy and regulation which
reassesses these public/private sector responsibilities with new
evidence and theoretical insights.
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