Author: Evelyn Gerking FinkePublisher:
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Category : Otoe County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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History of St. John's United Church of Christ, 1880-1980
Author: Evelyn Gerking FinkePublisher:
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Category : Otoe County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Supplement to Reference Guide to Minnesota History
Author: Australian National Bibliography
Author: The Living Church
Author: A Selective Regional Bibliography of the Architectural History of South Australia
Author: Through the Years, 1834-1988
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Category : Anglican Communion
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Each parish chapter includes a brief history, a list of clergy, and photographs.
Coral Lives
Author: Michele Currie NavakasPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691240108
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor Today, coral and the human-caused threats to coral reef ecosystems symbolize our ongoing planetary crisis. In the nineteenth century, coral represented something else; as a recurring motif in American literature and culture, it shaped popular ideas about human society and politics. In Coral Lives, Michele Currie Navakas tells the story of coral as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a cherished personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including works by such writers as Sarah Josepha Hale, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and George Washington Cable, Navakas shows how coral once helped Americans to recognize both the potential and the limits of interdependence—to imagine that their society could grow, like a coral reef, by sustaining rather than displacing others. Navakas shows how coral became deeply entwined with the histories of slavery, wage labor, and women’s reproductive and domestic work. If coral seemed to some nineteenth-century American writers to be a metaphor for a truly just collective society, it also showed them, by analogy, that society can seem most robust precisely when it is in fact most unfree for the laborers sustaining it. Navakas’s trailblazing cultural history reveals that coral has long been conceptually indispensable to humans, and its loss is more than biological. Without it, we lose some of our most complex political imaginings, recognitions, reckonings, and longings.
The Industrial Book, 1840-1880
Author: Scott E. CasperPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807830852
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
V. 1. The colonial book in the Atlantic world: This book carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. v. 2 An Extensive Republic: This volume documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic. v. 3. The industrial book 1840-1880: This volume covers the creation, distribution, and uses of print and books in the mid-nineteenth century, when a truly national book trade emerged. v. 4. Print in Motion: In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. v. 5. The Enduring Book: This volume addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from Word War II to the present.
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