Author: Noble L. Prentis
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368505238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.

Author: Stephen Tuffnell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520975634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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The United States was made in Britain. For over a hundred years following independence, a diverse and lively crowd of emigrant Americans left the United States for Britain. From Liverpool and London, they produced Atlantic capitalism and managed transfers of goods, culture, and capital that were integral to US nation-building. In British social clubs, emigrants forged relationships with elite Britons that were essential not only to tranquil transatlantic connections, but also to fighting southern slavery. As the United States descended into Civil War, emigrant Americans decisively shaped the Atlantic-wide battle for public opinion. Equally revered as informal ambassadors and feared as anti-republican contagions, these emigrants raised troubling questions about the relationship between nationhood, nationality, and foreign connection. Blending the histories of foreign relations, capitalism, nation-formation, and transnational connection, Stephen Tuffnell compellingly demonstrates that the United States’ struggle toward independent nationhood was entangled at every step with the world’s most powerful empire of the time. With deep research and vivid detail, Made in Britain uncovers this hidden story and presents a bold new perspective on nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic relations.

Author: Floyd Timothy Cunningham
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810845640
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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This resource provides a detailed case study of an American denomination's work in Asia during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century.

Author: Allison Lockwood
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838622728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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The author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.

Author: Joseph De Sapio
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137407220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years.

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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: University of Kansas. Committee on Foreign Language Study
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: John L. Rury
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700621180
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Sitting atop Mount Oread, the University of Kansas stands as a monument to the determination of the state's earliest settlers to build for the future. As a "city on a hill," the university has also mirrored both American society's hopes and its fears—and never has this been truer than over the past five decades. Transforming the University of Kansas chronicles the many accomplishments and the daunting challenges that marked the last half-century at the University. On the eve of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the school's founding, this book reflects upon the people, politics, and developments that have transformed KU since 1965, making it the distinctive institution of higher learning that it is today. Like major universities across the country, Kansas became a global research institution in these years, a leader in academic inquiry and scholarly expertise. It also experienced a wrenching process of change following student protests demanding greater rights and recognition. The authors—all experts from KU's faculty or staff—focus on particular aspects of the era, documenting major changes that occurred and introducing key leaders. Organized in three broad categories—leadership and politics; teaching and research; and students, protest, and sports—these essays draw upon a wealth of archival material, including interviews and yearbooks, student publications, and alumni sources, to create a full and richly textured picture of growth and change over five decades. These essays detail the school's transformation from a bucolic college into a sprawling university, capturing the personalities and spirit of each of the eight chancellors who have guided KU through these challenging times. The essays describe innovations in learning, from the liberal arts through international studies and graduate research. And they reveal the changing character of student life in curricular and extra-curricular activities, in campus activism, scholarship, and athletics. Together the essays comprise a living portrait of the university, broad in scope and vivid in detail, growing and adapting to a rapidly changing world, prepared to meet the challenges of the new century.