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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Bulletin
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Close to Home
Author: Richard S. BuswellPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826352898
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
For over four decades, Richard Buswell has trained his camera on the landscape of Montana, with its abandoned and overgrown homesteads and majestic, never-ending skies. In the recent work assembled in this volume, Buswell’s fourth book, his subjects are much more than scattered remains. His black-and-white photographs frame cast-off, common things to reveal abstract patterns in the tradition of twentieth-century modernist photography. As Buswell puts it, his work is “more interpretive and abstract than it is documentary. The images explore the junction where decaying artifacts become visual echoes of the past.” To create a portfolio of images that make us look anew at the West requires a mix of courage and patience, of persistence and imagination. Richard Buswell has shown just these qualities as he has turned a youthful hobby into a powerful means for exploring the past and present of his Montana homeland.
Inside the Confederate Nation
Author: Lesley J. GordonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807147974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life -- nationalism and identity, family and gender, battlefront and home front, race, and postwar legacies and memories. Many of the volume's twenty essays focus on individuals, households, communities, and particular regions of the South, highlighting the sheer variety of circumstances southerners faced over the course of the war. Other chapters explore the public and private dilemmas faced by diplomats, policy makers, journalists, and soldiers within the new nation. All of the essays attempt to explain the place of southerners within the Confederacy, how they came to see themselves and others differently because of secession, and the disparities between their expectations and reality.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2354
Book Description
The Life-boat
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Category : Lifesaving
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Includes annual reports of the institution.
Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Years
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities
Author: A Mile Square of Chicago
Author: Marjorie Warvelle BearPublisher: TIPRAC
ISBN: 9780963399540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1994
Book Description
Spreading Protestant Modernity
Author: Harald Fischer-TinéPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824886461
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), founded in 1855, the Y movement defined its global mission in 1889. Although their agendas have been characterized as predominantly religious, both the YMCA and YWCA were also known for their new vision of a global civil society and became major agents in the worldwide dissemination of modern “Western” bodies of knowledge. The YMCA’s and YWCA’s “secular” social work was partly rooted in the Anglo-American notions of the “social gospel” that became popular during the 1890s. The Christian lay organizations’ vision of a “Protestant Modernity” increasingly globalized their “secular” social work that transformed notions of science, humanitarianism, sports, urban citizenship, agriculture, and gender relations. Spreading Protestant Modernity shows how the YMCA and YWCA became crucial in circulating various forms of knowledge and practices that were related to this vision, and how their work was co-opted by governments and rival NGOs eager to achieve similar ends. The studies assembled in this collection explore the influence of the YMCA’s and YWCA’s work on highly diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia; North America; Africa; and Eastern Europe. Focusing on two of the most prominent representative groups within the Protestant youth, social service, and missionary societies (the so-called “Protestant International”), the book provides new insights into the evolution of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for today’s world. Spreading Protestant Modernity offers a compelling read for those interested in global history, the history of colonialism and decolonization, the history of Protestant internationalism, and the trajectories of global civil society. While each study is based on rigorous scholarship, the discussion and analyses are in accessible language that allows everyone from undergraduate students to advanced academics to appreciate the Y movement’s role in social transformations across the world.