Eric Jennings: 10 books
Maximizing the One-Shot
Connecting Library Instruction with the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Designed for librarians who offer library instruction within the constraints of the hour-long one-shot, this book proposes a method for redesigning one-shot instruction that is both realistic and integrated into the larger curriculum.
Working with faculty teams from academic departments, the...
Imperial Heights
Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Intended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a colonial city that was conceived as a center...
Curing the Colonizers
Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
“Beware! Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy.” So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France’s main spas. Throughout the French empire, spas featuring water cures, often combined with “climatic” cures, thrived during the nineteenth century and the twentieth....
Escape from Vichy
The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
In the early years of World War II, thousands of political refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique in the French Caribbean, en route to what they hoped would be safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer from the colony, the exiles formed influential...
Free French Africa in World War II
The African Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Only in recent years have historians rediscovered the critical role that French colonial troops played in the twentieth century's two world wars. What is perhaps still deeply under-appreciated is how much General de Gaulle's Free France drew its strength from 1940 to the middle of 1943 from fighting...
by Eric T. Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book is a vivid history of Madagascar from the pre-colonial era to decolonization, examining a set of French colonial projects and perceptions that revolve around issues of power, vulnerability, health, conflict, control and identity. It focuses on three lines of inquiry: the relationship between...
Queering Elementary Education
Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal...
Urban Spaces
Planning and Struggles for Land and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The control and utilization of urban spaces remains a highly contested issue. Much of the debate centers on issues of economic development versus the maintenance and support of already existing communities. As a number of urban areas are in the throes of gentrification and economic development projects,...
by Walter Jennings, Eric Mittlefehldt, Phillip Stremple
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1997
Gas chromatography remains the world's most widely used analytical technique, yet the expertise of a large proportion of chromatographers lies in other fields. Many users have little real knowledge of the variablesin the chromatographic process, the interaction between those variables, how they are...
Clovis Lithic Technology
Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness....