Author: Tiya MilesPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
The House on Diamond Hill
Author: Tiya MilesPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
The House on Diamond Hill
Author: Tiya MilesPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807868124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill's founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950s. This moving multiracial history sheds light on the various cultural communities that interacted within the plantation boundaries--from elite Cherokee slaveholders to Cherokee subsistence farmers, from black slaves of various ethnic backgrounds to free blacks from the North and South, from German-speaking Moravian missionaries to white southern skilled laborers. Moreover, the book includes rich portraits of the women of these various communities. Vividly written and extensively researched, this history illuminates gender, class, and cross-racial relationships on the southern frontier.
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Author: Ruby Hill Mine Expansion, East Archimedes Project, Battle Mountain District
Author: A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Produce Reporter Company's Blue Book of the United States, Canada and Cuba
Author: Bulletin
Author: The Oxford Handbook of Reference
Author: Jeanette GundelPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191510963
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition. In the volume's 21 chapters, international experts in the field offer a critical account of all aspects of reference from a range of theoretical perspectives. Chapters in the first part of the book are concerned with basic questions related to different types of referring expression and their interpretation. They address questions about the role of the speaker - including speaker intentions - and of the addressee, as well as the role played by the semantics of the linguistic forms themselves in establishing reference. This part also explores the nature of such concepts as definite and indefinite reference and specificity, and the conditions under which reference may fail. The second part of the volume looks at implications and applications, with chapters covering such topics as the acquisition of reference by children, the processing of reference both in the human brain and by machines. The volume will be of interest to linguists in a wide range of subfields, including semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and psycho- and neurolinguistics, as well as scholars in related fields such as philosophy and computer science.
SP016: Geologic Tours in the Las Vegas Area
Author: Joseph V. TingleyPublisher: NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
ISBN: 1888035129
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309264979
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented. The Wild Horse and Burro Program has not used scientifically rigorous methods to estimate the population sizes of horses and burros, to model the effects of management actions on the animals, or to assess the availability and use of forage on rangelands. Evidence suggests that horse populations are growing by 15 to 20 percent each year, a level that is unsustainable for maintaining healthy horse populations as well as healthy ecosystems. Promising fertility-control methods are available to help limit this population growth, however. In addition, science-based methods exist for improving population estimates, predicting the effects of management practices in order to maintain genetically diverse, healthy populations, and estimating the productivity of rangelands. Greater transparency in how science-based methods are used to inform management decisions may help increase public confidence in the Wild Horse and Burro Program.