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Originally published in 1904. The following 'Notes' were not penned
in the presumptuous hope of adding materially to the existing
knowledge of the subjects with which they deal. The first part of
this book was the result of much reading, while the account of the
author's various experiences at the Chinese Court were undertaken
with a view to faithfully putting on record the manner of those
receptions in which, after so long and rigorous a seclusion, the
reigning Son of Heaven and his Imperial Mother at last condescended
(driven no doubt by foreign pressure) to put aside the veil which
for centuries had shrouded the faces of majesty in China.
Offering an interdisciplinary qualitative approach, this book
examines and evaluates the role and benefits of a Learning
Community (LC), a high-impact practice for student retention in
higher education. Grounded in in-depth case studies and
first-person student experiences, the authors studied four student
cohorts (sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate students) who
participated in a full immersion LC experience at an urban public
four-year college in New York. Focusing on the maturity students
develop as they progress toward their degrees, the authors evaluate
the impact of the learning community on the students' experiences,
perceptions, successes and obstacles. A powerful demonstration of
the effects of connection and comradery on learning, this account
explores how the LC helps the decision-making of those in higher
education administration regarding high impact student
interventions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists
of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the
First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and
career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an eventful period of
American history, as the country went from an agrarian republic to
an industrialized world power. In this concise, engaging book,
Susan-Mary Grant puts Holmes' life in national context, exploring
how he both shaped and reflected his changing country. She examines
the impact of the Civil War on his life and his thinking, his role
in key cases ranging from the issue of free speech in Schenck v.
United States to the infamous ruling in favor of eugenics in Buck
v. Bell, showing how behind Holmes' reputation as a liberal justice
lay a more complex approach to law that did not neatly align with
political divisions. Including a selection of key primary
documents, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. introduces students of U.S.,
Civil War, and legal history to a game-changing figure and his
times.
Offering an interdisciplinary qualitative approach, this book
examines and evaluates the role and benefits of a Learning
Community (LC), a high-impact practice for student retention in
higher education. Grounded in in-depth case studies and
first-person student experiences, the authors studied four student
cohorts (sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate students) who
participated in a full immersion LC experience at an urban public
four-year college in New York. Focusing on the maturity students
develop as they progress toward their degrees, the authors evaluate
the impact of the learning community on the students' experiences,
perceptions, successes and obstacles. A powerful demonstration of
the effects of connection and comradery on learning, this account
explores how the LC helps the decision-making of those in higher
education administration regarding high impact student
interventions.
Originally published in 1904. The following 'Notes' were not penned
in the presumptuous hope of adding materially to the existing
knowledge of the subjects with which they deal. The first part of
this book was the result of much reading, while the account of the
author's various experiences at the Chinese Court were undertaken
with a view to faithfully putting on record the manner of those
receptions in which, after so long and rigorous a seclusion, the
reigning Son of Heaven and his Imperial Mother at last condescended
(driven no doubt by foreign pressure) to put aside the veil which
for centuries had shrouded the faces of majesty in China.
Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful
guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The
volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes,
complexities, and consequences of America s most destructive
conflict to date. The essays, written by top scholars in the field,
and reworked for this new edition, explore how, and in what ways,
differing interpretations of the war have arisen, and explains
clearly why the American Civil War remains a subject of enduring
interest. It includes chapters covering four broad areas, including
The Political Front, The Military Front, The Race Front, and The
Ideological Front.
Additions to the second edition include a new introduction added
to the current introduction by James McPherson a chapter on gender,
as well as information on the remembrance of the war (historical
memory). The addition of several maps, a timeline, and an appendix
listing further reading, battlefield statistics, and
battle/regiment/general names focuses the book squarely at
undergraduates in both the US and abroad.
Written by leading historians of the mid-nineteenth century United
States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S.
Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to
understand the place of America's mid-nineteenth-century crisis in
the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies
that have pursued the Civil War's connections with Europe and the
Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly
Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the
West. As the United States went through its Civil War and
Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a
four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile,
Britain's North American colonies were in complex and contested
negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West,
indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers
seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite
this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly
ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring
elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the
history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over
sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the
fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore
these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans
fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate
privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental
perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate
of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for
grabs.
Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful
guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The
volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes,
complexities, and consequences of America s most destructive
conflict to date. The essays, written by top scholars in the field,
and reworked for this new edition, explore how, and in what ways,
differing interpretations of the war have arisen, and explains
clearly why the American Civil War remains a subject of enduring
interest. It includes chapters covering four broad areas, including
The Political Front, The Military Front, The Race Front, and The
Ideological Front.
Additions to the second edition include a new introduction added
to the current introduction by James McPherson a chapter on gender,
as well as information on the remembrance of the war (historical
memory). The addition of several maps, a timeline, and an appendix
listing further reading, battlefield statistics, and
battle/regiment/general names focuses the book squarely at
undergraduates in both the US and abroad.
"The War for a Nation" provides a brief introduction to the
American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and
civilians who participated in the conflict. Susan-Mary Grant brings
the war, its many battles, and those who fought them--male and
female, black and white--to the center of a riveting narrative that
is accessible to general readers and students of American history.
"The War for a Nation" explains, in a clear narrative structure,
the war's origins, its battles, the expansion of the Union, the
struggle for emancipation, and the following saga of
Reconstruction. By drawing its examples from primary source
documents, first-hand accounts, and scholarly research, "The War
for a Nation" introduces readers to the human-interest aspects as
well as the historiographical debates surrounding what was the most
destructive war ever fought on American soil. Also inlcludes five
maps.
"The War for a Nation" provides a brief introduction to the
American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and
civilians who participated in the conflict. Susan-Mary Grant brings
the war, its many battles, and those who fought them--male and
female, black and white--to the center of a riveting narrative that
is accessible to general readers and students of American history.
"The War for a Nation" explains, in a clear narrative structure,
the war's origins, its battles, the expansion of the Union, the
struggle for emancipation, and the following saga of
Reconstruction. By drawing its examples from primary source
documents, first-hand accounts, and scholarly research, "The War
for a Nation" introduces readers to the human-interest aspects as
well as the historiographical debates surrounding what was the most
destructive war ever fought on American soil. Also inlcludes five
maps.
A Caldecott Medal-winning bedtime classic, available in a board
book edition for the first time. Susan Marie Swanson's elegant
prose and Beth Krommes's spectacular illustrations open up a
nighttime world where ordinary objects become beautifully
illuminated. Images of a key, a toy, a bear, and a book leap from
the pages as we're reminded that even when night arrives, the sun's
warm light never truly leaves us. A spare, patterned text and
glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a
home in this bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime
things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers--a
key, a bed, the moon--this timeless book illuminates a reassuring
order to the universe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists
of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the
First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and
career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an eventful period of
American history, as the country went from an agrarian republic to
an industrialized world power. In this concise, engaging book,
Susan-Mary Grant puts Holmes' life in national context, exploring
how he both shaped and reflected his changing country. She examines
the impact of the Civil War on his life and his thinking, his role
in key cases ranging from the issue of free speech in Schenck v.
United States to the infamous ruling in favor of eugenics in Buck
v. Bell, showing how behind Holmes' reputation as a liberal justice
lay a more complex approach to law that did not neatly align with
political divisions. Including a selection of key primary
documents, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. introduces students of U.S.,
Civil War, and legal history to a game-changing figure and his
times.
Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century
United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of
the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that
seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century
crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other
studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe
and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America,
particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous
states in the West. As the United States went through its Civil War
and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged
a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile,
Britain’s North American colonies were in complex and contested
negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West,
indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers
seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite
this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly
ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring
elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the
history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over
sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the
fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore
these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans
fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate
privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental
perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate
of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for
grabs.
Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of
anthropocentricism, working with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
(1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how
posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human
species over other species. Two feminist and post-Freudian
responses, Kathy Acker's poem "Obsession" (1992) and Anne Carson's
"The Glass Essay" (1997) most strongly extend Bronte's dream
writing in this direction. Building on the trope of a ludic Cathy
ghost who refuses the containment of logic and reason, these and
other adaptations offer the gift of a radical peri-hysteria. This
emotional excess is most clearly seen in Kate Bush's music video
"Wuthering Heights" (1978) and Peter Kosminsky's film Wuthering
Heights (1992). Such disturbances make space for a moor love that
is particularly evident in Jane Urquhart's novel Changing Heaven
(1989) and, to a lesser extent Sylvia Plath's poem, "Wuthering
Heights" (1961). Bronte's Wuthering Heights and its most productive
afterings make space for co-affective relations between humans and
other animal beings. Andrea Arnold's film Wuthering Heights (2011)
and Luis Bunuel's Abismos de Pasion (1954) also highlight the
rupturing split gaze of non-acting animals in their films. In all
of these works depictions of intra-active and entangled responses
between animals show the potential for dynamic and generative
multispecies relations, where the human is one animal amongst the
kin of the world.
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