Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 297.87092
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review An Afrocentric Study of the Intellectual Development, Leadership Praxis, and Pedagogy of Malcolm X (Black Studies, V. 13) / Edwin Mellen Press:This work presents a critical examination of Malcolm X's leadership and intellectual explorations to assess his contributions to African Americans in developing a civil society. It also provides an examination of barriers Blacks faced in their pursuit of education and addresses the importance of non-formal learning. To do this, three themes were used to identify Malcolm X as an adult educator, community activist, pre-cursor to the Afro-centric perspective (cultural advocate). This study opens the door for the examination and re-examination of various key people to our society. An subject in the context of African-Amercian history and culture.
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1996-10
Price: $17.95
Review Pagan Celtic Britain (Biography & Memoirs) / Academy Chicago Publishers:Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this comprehensive, profusely illustrated volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. Dr Anne Ross, who speaks Gaelic and Welsh, writes from wide experience of living in Celtic speaking communities where she has traced vernacular tradition. She employs archaeological and anthropological evidence, as well as folklore, to provide broad insight into the early Celtic world. She begins by examining Celtic places of worship, the shrines and sanctuaries in which sacred objects were housed and from where they could be ritually displayed with various rites and sacrifices were conducted before the people. Dr Anne Ross describes the divine warriors with their aquatic, therapeutic and fertility connection. Dr Anne Ross is truly gripping as she leads the reader through her evidence from ritual pits and cult sites, votive wells, sacred precincts and monuments. This is a brilliant piece of historical and archaeological reconstruction. For a people that at one time dominated much of Europe, very little is known of the Celts and their religion, yet many flimsy theories and fanciful relationships have grown up over the years based on the scant evidence available. In a scholarly and systematic study, Anne Ross draws on all of the available evidence-archaeological sites in Europe and the British Isles, ancient Greek and Roman writers and early British vernacular literature-to separate the grain of what we know from the chaff of accreted misinformation and loose interpretation.
Authors
- Phillis Peters
- Phillis Wheatley
Dewey code: 811.1
Price: $21.95
Review Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley, Containing Her Complete Poetical Works, Numerous Letters and a Complete Biography of This Famous Poet of a Centur / Beaufort Books:
Publication date: 2004-02
Dewey code: 305.896073
List Price: $119.95
Price: $398.77
Review African-American Sociopolitical Philosophy: Imagining Black Communities (Black Studies, V. 23) / Edwin Mellen Press:This study examines several conceptions of community drawn from both mainstream analytic philosophy and from the African-American philosophical tradition. It scrutinizes these in light of the need to provide models that are empirically adequate to African-American experiences of community and ideals capable of guiding African-Americans in the struggle to rebuild communities. Following an examination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 's 'Beloved Community,' the study analyzes Cornel West's and Lucius Outlaw's ideals for African-American political community.
Creator: Tin-Yuke Char
Publication date: 1988-09
Dewey code: 996.93004951
Price: $26.00
Review Chinese Historic Sites and Pioneer Families of Rural Oahu / Univ of Hawaii Pr:
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 759.994290899915
Price: $45.00
Review Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary / Craftsman House (AU):
Creator: Nikki L. M. Brown
Publication date: 2008-10
Price: $359.99
Review The Jim Crow Encyclopedia: Greenwood Milestones in African American History / Greenwood Press:"Jim Crow" refers to a set of laws in many states, predominantly in the South, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877 that severely restricted the rights and privileges of African Americans. As a caste system of enormous social and economic magnitude, the institutionalization of Jim Crow was the most significant element in African American life until the 1960s Civil Rights Movement led to its dismantling. Racial segregation, as well as responses to it and resistance against it, dominated the African American consciousness and continued to oppress African Americans and other minorities, while engendering some of the most important African American contributions to society. This major encyclopedia is the first devoted to the Jim Crow era. The era is encapsulated through more than 275 essay entries on such areas as law, media, business, politics, employment, religion, education, people, events, culture, the arts, protest, the military, class, housing, sports, and violence as well as through accompanying key primary documents excerpted as side bars. This set will serve as an invaluable, definitive resource for student research and general knowledge. The authoritative entries are written by a host of historians with expertise in the Jim Crow era. The quality content comes in an easy-to-access format. Readers can quickly find topics of interest, with alphabetical and topical lists of entries in the frontmatter, along with cross-references to related entries per entry. Further reading is provided per entry. [+]Dynamic sidebars throughout give added insight into the topics. A chronology, selected bibliography, and photos round out the coverage. Sample entries include Advertising, Affirmative Action, Armed Forces, Black Cabinet, Blues, Brooklyn Dodgers, Bolling v. Sharpe, Confederate Flag, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Detroit Race Riot 1943, Ralph Ellison, Eyes on the Prize,, G. I. Bill, Healthcare, Homosexuality, Intelligence Testing, Japanese Internment, Liberia, Minstrelsy, Nadir of the Negro, Poll Taxes, Rhythm and Blues, Rural Segregation, Sharecropping, Sundown Towns, Booker T. Washington, Works Project Administration, World War II.
Publication date: 1992-03
Dewey code: 704.9499403
List Price: $65.00
Price: $404.60
Review Images of Wartime: British Art and Artists of World War I / David&Charles:
Creator: Malcolm Hicks
Publication date: 1999-11
Review Helsinki: Daughter of the Baltic - A Short Biography / Otava Publishing,Finland:
Publication date: 2005-07-21
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $18.60
Price: $191.85
Review Queen Victoria's Youngest Son: The Untold Story of Prince Leopold / Sutton Publishing Ltd:Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-84), is acknowledged to have been the most intelligent and, in the words of one writer, 'by far and away the most interesting' of Queen Victoria's four sons. He was a strong-willed, attractive character, with an immense thirst for life. He was also, however, the first royal haemophiliac and suffered continual ill health: in addition to haemophilia, Leopold suffered from epilepsy. A compelling human story which also touches on the wider worlds of late nineteenth-century Oxford and of literature, art and politics in the Victorian period, it examines the question of haemophilia and the royal family from a new angle, at the first appearance of the condition. For example, when did the Queen and Prince Albert realise that their youngest son was ill and how much did they understand of his illness? The book also presents a full and balanced picture of Leopold's relationship with his mother, looking beyond snapshots of individual quarrels between mother and son. Finally, it examines Leopold's life at Oxford, the varied and interesting friendships he developed there with Lewis Carroll, John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde; his political views; and the importance of his work as unofficial secretary to the Queen.
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 966.903
Price: $24.95
Review Omuluabi: Ulli Beier, Yoruba Society and Culture / Africa World Press:
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 371.829956073
List Price: $119.95
Price: $398.77
Review The Schooling of Japanese American Children at Relocation Centers During World War II: Miss Mabel Jamison And Her Teaching Of Art At Rohwer, Arkansas (Studies in American History) / Edwin Mellen Press:The general story of education of Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps in this country during World War II has long been known. Little has been written, however, about the individual teachers who agreed to live and work with the students in the camps during the period of incarceration. The story of "Miss Jamison" and the education program in the prison camps at Rohwer and Jerome in Arkansas provides a fresh new view of a Caucasian teacher who came to work with a "strange" group of students, but who was herself educated in the process. Through evidence from Jamison's papers, contemporary documents, historical accounts, interviews with survivors and even from the students' art work Miss Jamison preserved, Ziegler creates a perceptive account of the wartime ordeal of the more than 110,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them American citizens, from a unique point of view. This book is a moving and significant expansion of our knowledge of the human dimensions of a wartime tragedy, ranking with Thomas James's Exile Within and Karen L. Riley's Schools Behind Barbed Wire in the top tier of books on camp education. As far as the literature pertaining to the Arkansas camps in general, Ziegler's book is in a class by itself. "Provides us with a new and fresh view of an American concentration camp, the view of a teacher who was herself educated by the experience. ".
Publication date: 1983-01
Dewey code: 730.924
Price: $25.00
Review John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome, 1800-1858 / Irish Academic Pr:
Creator: Hugh Cheape
Publication date: 1996-05-20
Price: $373.83
Review Witness to Rebellion / Tuckwell Press Ltd:
Authors
- Maria De LA Cinta Ramblado-Minero
Dewey code: 863.64
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Isabel Allende's Writing of the Self: Trespassing the Boundaries of Fiction and Autobiography (Hispanic Literature, V. 33) / Edwin Mellen Press:This volume looks at Allende's fictional narratives to date, from "The House of the Spirits" to "Portrait in Sepia", from the point of view of autobiography studies and the re-creation of self-identity that takes place throughout her works.
Publication date: 2001-09
Dewey code: 952.031092
List Price: $119.95
Price: $119.95
Review Mutsu Munemitsu and Identity Formation of the Individual and the State in Modern Japan (Japanese Studies (Edwin Mellen Press), V. 14.) / Edwin Mellen Press:This volume contains seven articles about Matsu Munemitsu, the foreign minister of Japan who led Japan into war in 1894, the same summer that he successfully negotiated the end of the Unequal Treaties with the West; and examinations of identity formation. The book examines the formation of Mutsu's identity, and then the reinvention of his character and persona in the face of ostracism and rapprochement with his feudal domain, the new Meiji government, and the political parties in Japan. Similarly, three Japanese identities are also examined: Kido Takayoshi; Furuno Inosuke, and the national press. The articles reconsider the importance of self-reference, natioanl and regional ethos, himeland and furosato, ideology and nationalism in the formation of identity.
Creator: Jenny Hearn
Publication date: 2001-01
Price: $24.00
Review Taim Bilong Misis Bilong Armi: Memories of Wives of Australian Servicemen in Papua New Guinea, 1951-1975 / University of Hawaii Press:
Creator: Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Publication date: 1989-04-20
Price: $125.00
Review The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell: With an Introduction, Notes and a Sketch of His Life Volume I 1599-1649 / Oxford University Press, USA:This, the first of four monumental volumes on Oliver Cromwell, covers the period from his birth in 1599 to the trial and execution of Charles I in January 1649. The earlier part of the book traces Cromwell's origins and his upbringing as the son of a Huntingdonshire squire, the emergence of his Puritan faith, and the apprenticeship which, as an opponent of the crown's policies, he served in parliament and in local politics. His rise to national prominence was achieved by his great victories in the civil wars, particularly those at marston Moor and Naseby, and by his leadership of the New Model Army. His conflicts with the Levellers and the army radicals in the period surrounding the Putney debates of 1647 are fully examined. Th final chapter covers his attempts to secure a post-war settlement with the king, and his eventual decision to abandon conciliation and to carry out the regicide-the event which made possible his own assumption of power.
Publication date: 2004-08-30
Dewey code: 821.1
Price: $139.95
Review A New Midrashic Reading Of Geoffrey Chaucer His Life And Works (Studies in British Literature) / Edwin Mellen Press:This book in the field of English Literature as well as Jewish and Marrano studies concerns where the arduous and painstaking heuristic methods and processes meet the interpretative field of hermeneutics.
Publication date: 2002-11-01
Dewey code: 941.069092
Price: $95.00
Review Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One / University Of Chicago Press:"It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes. "—from the preface to Volume OneJohn Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of England. Victorious in the Battles of Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and countless other campaigns, Marlborough, whose political intrigues were almost as legendary as his military skill, never fought a battle he didn't win. Although he helped James II crush the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, Marlborough later supported William of Orange against James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and brilliantly managed England's diplomatic triumphs during the War of the Spanish Succession. Marlborough also bequeathed the world another great British military strategist and diplomat—his descendant, Winston S. Churchill, who wrote this book to redeem Marlborough's reputation from Macaulay's smears. One million words long and ten years in the making, Churchill's Marlborough stands as both a literary and historical masterpiece, giving us unique insights into the Churchill of World War II, for just as Churchill's literary skill helps us understand the complexities of Marlborough's life, so too did his writing of Marlborough help Churchill master the arts of military strategy and diplomacy. This two-volume edition includes the entire text and almost all the original maps.
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